Area Sports

By Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — With the beginning of the spring sports scene, the postseason awards for the winter teams have begun to be announced. Last week the Southwestern Conference announced their all-conference teams. Boys basketball Three Collinsville senior boys players made the All-SWC team for their performance this past season. Nick Horras and Jamorie…

By Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — It’s already the third season of varsity volleyball at Collinsville High School and coach Mike Nichols is ready to get the season started. “We’re very young this year, we graduated a lot of seniors last year but almost every single player that played last year has come back freshman and…

By Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — Collinsville coach Jodie Munoz welcomes a young team to the pitch this spring as the Kahoks look to improve from last year’s results. One season ago the girls were finishing strong with a win and a pair of ties as the season wound down before falling to a very good…

By Anthony Jones [email protected] Triad boys track and field produced several impressive results at the Tiger Invitational on Mar. 8 at Principia College. Louis Yohannes, who won the 60 meter hurdles with a time of 8.31 supplied one of the Knights’ top showings on the day. Not only did the junior’s time best the second…

By Mark Jurgena The final winter championship for the IHSA wrapped up last weekend just in time for spring sports to begin this week. Boys basketball Southern Illinois was represented well in the two smaller classes with Benton and Mounds (Meridian) competing in the final four. In Class 2A, Benton faced a couple of powerhouse…

By Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — Collinsville softball coach Jess Schmittling welcomes back her entire lineup from one year ago to the diamond this spring as they look to improve on last year’s six win campaign. “We have a lot of kids returning, we only had one senior last year,” she said. “We felt pretty young…

By Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — During Collinsville’s 58-56 double overtime loss to Belleville West in the Class 4A Granite City Regional championship game on Feb. 23 another major milestone was reached by a Kahok boys basketball player. Senior Jamorie Wysinger reached the 1,000-point barrier for his career during Collinsville’s 15-3 run to start the game. …

By Anthony Jones [email protected] TROY — Triad’s girls track and field squad has recorded another top-ten showing of the young season. Their most recent outing came on Mar. 1, when the Lady Knights trekked up to Eastern Illinois University for the Charleston Indoor Invitational. There, they finished seventh out of 32 squads with 29 points.…

By Anthony Jones [email protected] TROY — Fifty-nine teams competed at the Charleston Boys Track Indoor Invitational on Mar. 3. After wrapping up the day’s 15 events, the Triad Knights earned the meet championship with a tally of 51 team points. With a first place finish in the shot put, Zack Van Tieghem earned ten of…

By Anthony Jones [email protected] Triad senior Bradley Weber has officially found a collegiate baseball home. The recent signee discussed picking Greenville, “Their coach reached out to me. The program was amazing and it is exciting to get to be a part of it.” Greenville competes at the Division III level of the NCAA and is…