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You can call it the miracle team. It has only been accomplished one other time by Illinois High School Association sports teams.
The amazing Cobden High School softball team captured its third consecutive Class 1A state championship with a thrilling 2-0 win over Lebanon in East Peoria Saturday,...
A Union County slow pitch co-ed softball league is planned this summer.
Organizers are looking for individual players and teams.
The league is scheduled to start play on July 3.
Entry fee is $250 per team, which covers insurance. Individuals pay $30 each.
Entry fees are due by June 9.
Players...
Anna-Jonesboro High School had six baseball players and six softball players selected to the 2010 Southern Illinois River-to-River Mississippi Division Conference teams.
Wildcats selected to the first team in baseball were infielder Jordan Chamness, outfielder Cody Livesay and pitcher Brady...
Former Anna-Jonesboro Community High School standout athlete Lucas Hileman finished with a .337 batting average for the John A. Logan Community College baseball team this spring.
The graduated sophomore had 13 doubles, 2 triples, 4 home runs and 22 RBIs for the Volunteers.
He had a .506 slugging...
Southern Illinois lost to Western Kentucky 29-16 in an annual high school all-star football game which was played at Murray, Ky., Saturday, June 12.
“They had a little more depth than we had,” said Anna-Jonesboro high school football head coach Brett Detering, who was one of the coaches of the...
Hunters in Illinois bagged a preliminary statewide total of 16,565 wild turkeys during the 2010 spring turkey season.
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources, IDNR, reported that the 2010 total compares with the statewide turkey harvest of 15,490 in 2009.
Hunters took a state-record 16,605...
Goreville eliminated Shawnee in a 3-0 win in the semifinals of the Class 1A high school baseball sectional at Marissa, Wednesday, May 26.
The Blackcats scored all their runs in the 4th inning.
Winning pitcher Alex Stout fired a three-hitter in the win, striking out 6.
Losing Redskin hurler Greg...
Cobden won sectional and super sectional softball tournaments to advance to the state 1A tourney for the third consecutive year.
<strong>Cobden 3, Marissa 2</strong>
Taylor Orsburn was 1-for-1 with a homerun and 2 RBI's to lead Cobden against Marissa in Class 1A Sectional Semi-finals...
Anna-Jonesboro’s J.R. Woodward finished in sixth place in the 300-meter hurdles at the Class A state high school boys’ track meet at Charleston Saturday, May 29.
Woodward qualified in the preliminaries with a 40.45 effort in the 300-meter hurdles before finishing in sixth place in 39.94.
“It was...
Jessica Deitch, Aidan Frick and Ethan Dillman of the Blue Dolphins swim team from Union County all scored triple first place finishes to lead the scoring at the first dual meet of the Southern Illinois Swim League season. The locals fell a few points short of host Mt. Vernon King City Flippers....
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