Area Sports

by Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — Just days after falling to Gateway Metro Conference champ Belleville Althoff in three sets, the Collinsville boys volleyball team enacted their revenge in the opening game of the Belleville West Regional. The Kahoks took a two-set win over the Crusaders 27-25, 25-23. “The Kahoks were very focused and excited to…

by Mark Jurgena With the unofficial start of summer, things are heating up on the pro sports scene in St. Louis with the BattleHawks, Cardinals and STL City all heating up. The BattleHawks were tripped up over the weekend at the Arlington Renegades 36-22. That coupled with San Antonio’s upset win over Birmingham dropped the…

​​by Mark Jurgena Last weekend’s boys state track meets looked strikingly similar to the Southwestern Conference championship track meet. Both Edwardsville and East St. Louis won state track championships at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Belleville West took fifth place and O’Fallon took seventh in Class 3A. Class 3A The Tigers ended the meet tied…

by Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — The Collinsville boys track team qualified four athletes for the IHSA Class 3A state track meet over the weekend at O’Brien Stadium in Charleston. It was the final meet for longtime Collinsville coach Darryl Frerker who has retired from coaching and teaching as of the conclusion of the meet. “Illinois…

by Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — In the first season of their Illinois Elementary School Association membership, the Collinsville Middle School track & field team had several qualifiers for the Class 4A state track meet at the Eastside Centre in East Peoria May 17-18. As a team, the 7th grade Trailblazers boys team scored seven points…

by Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — The Collinsville softball season came to a close on May 22 in the Class 4A Belleville East Regional quarterfinals. CHS fell to Quincy 11-0 in five innings.  Lexi Rafalowski, Bailey Demick, Carsyn Moad and Aubrey Mason had the hits for the Kahoks.  Marissa Thomas was in the circle for Collinsville.…

by Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — To say the least this game was a pitcher’s duel. Kahok senior Ethan Bagwell and Edwardsville sophomore Chase Milburn matched one another virtually pitch-for-pitch the entire contest. Unfortunately for Collinsville, Edwardsville took advantage of their one golden opportunity while the Kahoks did not. The two-time defending Class 4A state champion…

by Mark Jurgena One year makes a huge difference. Last season a 7-3 record got the St. Louis BattleHawks a third place finish in the XFL North Division. This season the B-Hawks are in the United Football League, have a 6-2 record and are tied atop the XFL conference. The San Antonio Brahmas have an…

by Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — Kahok track gets four qualifiers to state Four qualifiers, five events one 55-year-old school record broken. That’s a pretty solid day for the Collinsville boys track & field team at the Class 3A Danville Sectional on May 15. Kahok Devin Habermehl won both the discus and the shot put at…

By Anthony Jones [email protected] TROY — Three Triad Knights have earned spots on the IHSA State Finals for boys tennis starting on May 23. Two of the Knights to do so, Joe Cass and Ethan Stewart, punched their tickets by winning the doubles bracket during last week’s Triad Sectional meet. The duo’s path to the…