Sports
The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School boys’ basketball team couldn’t hold a first quarter lead in a 70-66 loss to visiting Du Quoin to spoil Senior Night festivities for the Wildcats Saturday, Feb. 11.
The Wildcats built a 26-15 first quarter lead around three, 3-pointers by Jacob Zimmerman....
Snow goose hunting is special to a certain group of hunters.
“This is a like a bucket list hunt,” said Staff Sgt. Jonathan Thomas. “I’ve got some very great memories here.”
Thomas was one of six soldiers from the Wounded Warriors Project out of Kentucky and Tennessee who went snow goose hunting in...
Union County resident Lance Meisenheimer has returned from the racking horse industry’s winter meeting in Huntsville, Ala., where the riders and horses are honored for high point awards for showing the past year at racking horse shows.
Meisenheimer Stables of Union County was very surprised to...
The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School girls’ basketball team split in action last week.
Sparta 46, A-J 31: The visiting Lady Wildcats couldn’t recover from sickness in the Southern Illinois River-to-River Conference Mississippi Division loss Thursday, Feb. 2.
A-J coach Matt Denny said several of...
Cobden won and Shawnee lost in first-round action at the Goreville Class 1A regional high school girls’ basketball tournament Monday, Feb. 6.
Anna-Jonesboro Class 2A regional tournament play also got underway Monday.
Cobden 35, Hardin County 21: Alaina Hartline scored 15 points to lead the...
The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School boys’ basketball team lost two games last week.
Carmi-White County 63, A-J 45: The Wildcats let a first quarter lead slip away in the loss at the Benton Shootout Saturday, Feb. 4.
A-J was ahead 15-11 after one quarter. The Bulldogs tied the game at 24-24 at...
CARTERVILLE – Fortunately, for John A. Logan College, the apple (knocker) doesn’t fall far from the tree.
On Feb. 10, Taylor Orsburn, who recently joined John A. Logan College as its head softball coach, will be inducted into the Cobden High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
Orsburn, a 2010 graduate of...
Chelsea Reinier to McKendree University
Anna-Jonesboro Community High School’s Chelsea Reinier signed a national letter of intent last week at the high school to play soccer at McKendree University in Lebanon next season.
A posting on McKendree University’s website about Reinier’s signing noted...
Between practices on Jan. 31, the A-J Junior Wildcats Wrestling Club made a $500 donation to the Anna-Jonesboro Community High School wrestling team.
The donation was made in return for the high school team’s assistance at the club’s annual On The Prowl wrestling tournament, which was held at the...
The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School wrestling team captured its first Class 1A regional title at West Frankfort Saturday, Feb. 4.
“It’s the first regional title in school history,”A-J wrestling coach Eric Massey said. “I’m very proud of this team and what they have accomplished.”
The Wildcats...
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