Sports
A youth football camp is scheduled July 16-19 at Anna-Jonesboro Community High School.
The camp is planned from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the football practice field at A-JCHS.
Young people in 1st through 8th grades are invited to attend.
Registration is scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, July...
Anna Junior High School has scheduled baseball and softball tryouts.
Tryouts are planned from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday through Wednesday, July 23-25.
Baseball tryouts are scheduled at Kiwanis Field at the Anna City Park.
Softball tryouts are planned at Denny Field at the Anna City Park.
Tryouts are...
Cody Livesay was 2-for-3 at the plate with an RBI in the visiting Gateway Grizzlies 4-3 loss to the Southern Illinois Miners in Frontier League baseball action at Rent One Park in Marion Saturday, June 30.
On Friday, June 29, Livesay didn’t get a hit in a 6-5 loss for the visiting Grizzlies, but...
Several area girls who recently graduated from high school will continue playing sports with athletic scholarships at the junior college level this fall.
Former Anna-Jonesboro Community High School softball players Payton Alsip and Alexa Macy will both play softball.
Alsip will be at Shawnee...
Coach Ron’s Basketball 101 and Sports Speed Development Camp was held recently at the Jonesboro Grade School gymnasium.
On June 18, more than 75 student athletes met for a four-day camp on the fundamentals of basketball and speed development related to most all sports.
The groups met in three...
Two players from the Anna-Jonesboro Community High School baseball team have been selected as members of the Southern Illinois Coaches Association All-South high school baseball team.
The Wildcat players were graduating seniors Hunter Ralls and Bryce Osman.
Both have received baseball scholarships...
Open practice sessions for the Anna-Jonesboro Community High School golf teams are scheduled in July at the Union County Country Club course in Anna.
The first girls’ open practice is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 11.
Open practice for boys is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m...
Hunter Ralls, Levi Hall, Connar Hadley and Britni Helton are recipients of the Brian S. Tucker Memorial Golf Scholarship.
Ralls, Hall, Hadley and Helton are recent graduates of Anna-Jonesboro Community High School and were members of the school’s golf team.
Each of the students received a...
The Southern Illinois University Department of Athletics on June 13 announced its 2018 Saluki Hall of Fame class.
The seven-person class will be formally inducted in a ceremony which is planned Friday, Oct. 19, and then make public appearances during SIU homecoming festivities on Saturday, Oct. 20...
Anna-Jonesboro Community High School’s Bryce Osman has been named to the Class 2A Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association all-state team.
Osman, who will attend Millikin University in Decatur on a baseball scholarship, was selected as a center fielder.
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