Area Sports

By Anthony Jones [email protected] TROY — As another fall sports season looms near, Triad teams aim to pick up where they left off in 2023. The football Knights are following up on a 7-4 campaign, which ended in the second round of the Class 5A playoffs. Triad’s postseason run featured a 20-19 road victory over…

by Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — Adam Blair has been the girls track coach at Collinsville High School for several seasons. This fall he adds the head coaching duties for the boys and girls cross country teams. He has been an assistant cross country coach since the 2018 season and takes over after the retirement of…

by Mark Jurgena Class of 2024 Collinsville High School graduate Ella Guerrero will return to the basketball court this coming winter for Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield. She leaves Collinsville after starting all four of her years at the varsity level.  She broke both the single season and career records for made three-pointers during…

by Mark Jurgena Collinsville’s Kiley Belobraydic, a Class of 2024 graduate, will continue her academic and athletic career at McKendree University in Lebanon beginning this fall.  Belobraydic was a Class 2A state qualifier a season ago taking 23rd place overall at Hickory Point Golf Course in Decatur. “Kiley did phenomenal at Collinsville,” said Collinsville coach…

by Mark Jurgena Back in my day… Well, that probably wasn’t the best way to begin an article because most of the 35 and younger crowd just stopped reading, but anyway. Back in my day the Olympics were only for amateur athletes. Well except for the communist countries who made athletics their job in that…

by Mark Jurgena As with so many other graduated seniors from the Collinsville Class of 2024 the boys track and field team has athletes going on to compete at the intercollegiate level. Two Kahoks will move on to the next level of track and field competition. KJ Thorps-Watt will attend Midland University in Freemont, Neb.…

by Mark Jurgena Last year was another banner year for the Collinsville High School boys basketball team and the three main cogs on last year’s squad are all about to enter their freshman year of college to play basketball. Class of 2024 Kahok basketball alums Zach Chambers, Nick Horras and Jamorie Wysinger are all headed…

by Mark Jurgena With the fall sports season about to begin, it seems appropriate to look at the Collinsville High School football alumni that have chosen to go on to college and play football. Collinsville football coach Colton Rhodes indicated the Kahoks have five players headed for intercollegiate gridirons this fall. Darren Pennell will head…

by Mark Jurgena Olympic games performances continue to amaze “That’s unbelievable! When you see it, you will or did think the same thing! In their bronze medal match one week ago the USA women’s Rugby Sevens team pulled off an almost impossible victory. With world powerhouse Australia leading 12-7 and the USA getting one final…

by Mark Jurgena A last lap pass gave Dean Hoffman of Troy the win Saturday night at the World Famous Highland Speedway. Hoffman took down Rick Conoyer of Wentzville, Mo. and former NASCAR driver Kenny Wallace of Imperial, Mo. to win the feature race in the O’Reilly Auto Parts Modified Division. “Conoyer led much of…