Area Sports

By Times Tribune Staff TROY — On Tuesday Feb. 6 at McKendree Rec Plex five Triad Hockey players have the honor to play for the Red JV All Star team. Players are chosen by coaches of all of the MVCH A hockey league. For Triad, juniors Kyle Rogers and Jason LaRue and Alessio Saracino, sophomore…

By Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — The Collinsville girls bowling team traveled to Northern Illinois over the weekend to take part in the Viking Girls Invite at The Cherry Bowl in Rockford hosted by Guilford High School. CHS brought home a second place finish at the event. They finished behind tourney champ Machesney Park (Harlem). “We…

By Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE —The SSM Health Belleville East Winter Classic. Well, it’s complicated. This year’s tourney featured six teams with SWC rivals Belleville East, Belleville West and Collinsville not playing one another. Instead they took on Belleville Althoff, Florissant, Mo. (McCluer Senior) and St. Louis (Lift for Life). Further complicating matters was the cancellation…

By Anthony Jones [email protected] TROY — As the postseason continues to draw near, Triad wrestling marched through a full slate last week. Starting on Jan. 17, when the Knights traveled to Alton. There, they competed in duals against the hosting Redbirds and the Springfield Senators. In action against the home team, Triad scored a 48-24…

By Anthony Jones [email protected] TROY — After being knocked into the consolation bracket from a 58-36 loss to Nashville on Jan. 13, Triad continued play at the Highland Girls Tournament last week. The Lady Knight first foe in the consolation bracket, Hillsboro, entered the consolation bracket after a 77-38 loss to O’Fallon. Entering their matchup,…

By Anthony Jones [email protected] TROY — For the second year running, Triad has claimed the championship at Litchfield’s Rick McGraw Memorial tournament. Their title game victory came against Civic Memorial, who the Knights defeated 42-30 earlier in the year. But their second meeting was a vastly different game. “They came to play basketball. Last time,…

By Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — The Collinsville girls wrestling team took a pair of second-place finishes at tournaments last week as they wrapped up their regular season. CHS will compete in the West Frankfort Regional on Saturday. Edwardsville Invite Three champions and a second place. That’s a pretty good night for the Collinsville girls wrestling…

By Mark Jurgena COLLINSVILLE — The Collinsville girls basketball team dropped their consolation bracket quarterfinal to Waterloo on Jan. 16. CHS was defeated 54-51 by Waterloo. It was the second loss at the tourney for the Kahoks and ended their tournament. They lost to Highland on Jan. 13. Against Waterloo, Collinsville junior Talesha Gilmore had…

Article Submitted by the Triad Girls Bowling program TROY — The Triad Varsity girls kicked off January with several tournaments. First, they bowled Jan. 3 in the Jerseyville Invite held at Bowl Haven Lanes in Alton.  The team finished fourth with a total pinfall of 4,410 for six games and a high team game of…

By Mark Jurgena We are hitting the home stretch so far as the high school basketball season is concerned but before we do let’s take a look back at last week’s January tournament action throughout South Central and Southern Illinois Boys results At the 72nd Salem Invitational East St. Louis, who got a few votes…