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The Cobden High School baseball team will depend on underclassmen for success this spring.
“Once we get by our three seniors and one junior, we’ll have to count on our underclassmen,” Cobden head coach Blayne Smith said. “But I think we’ll be competitive.”
The Appleknockers finished 10-3 in the...
The Cobden High School softball team has won back- to-back state tournament titles.
Only two players graduated from last season’s 48-5 squad that will try to claim a third straight title.
“We stay healthy and we’ve got a shot to do pretty good,” Cobden head softball coach Nathan Emrick said. “We...
The Southern Illinois Baseball and Softball Association, SIBSA, is preparing for the 2010 season.
The season is scheduled to begin in late May and end around mid-July.
Meeting for Coaches
A meeting for coaches is planned at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 23, in the cafeteria at Anna Junior High School...
Area teams with a fall baseball program could be a step ahead of the others.
“Fall baseball gives us an advantage,” Shawnee baseball head coach Mike Hanson said. “I’ve already seen all my guys and what they can do.”
The majority of the bigger schools have fall football but do not have a fall...
Anna-Jonesboro High School girls’ soccer head coach Mike Mibb has something this spring on the 2010 squad that he hasn’t seen in the first six seasons of the sport at the school.
“We’ve got enough girls out to push people for playing time,” Mibb said. “Now, they have to earn a spot no matter...
Host Meridian and Cairo each won in opening-round action at the Class 1A high school boys’ basketball regional tournament Monday, Feb. 22.
Following are game summaries:
Meridian 112, Dongola 51: Darian Engram had 20 points to lead the Bobcats to the win.
Brent Kennedy and DaVante McClung had 16...
Carterville avenged an earlier loss to Anna-Jonesboro with a 56-49 win in first-round action of the Class 2A high school girls’ basketball regional at Murphysboro Tuesday, Feb. 9.
The Lady Wildcats led 19-15 after one quarter and were ahead 20-19 at the half.
A-J led 31-30 going into the final...
Daniel Heath finished in third place to lead the Anna-Jonesboro High school wrestling team at the Litchfield Tournament Saturday, Jan. 30.
Heath, wrestling in the 112-pound class, decisioned Lena Winslow’s Dustin Dapeau 6-4 before losing to Vandalia’s Justin Hill. He decisioned Chatham Glenwood’s...
Cobden High School’s Steve Draper has signed a national letter of intent to play baseball this fall at Rend Lake College near Ina.
Draper, an outfielder, had a .406 batting average during the fall with a pair of doubles and 12 RBIs. He was 7 of 8 in stolen bases.
He had a .370 batting average...
Taylor Fitzgerald won the championship in the 189-pound weight class to lead Anna-Jonesboro’s efforts in the high school wrestling regional at Murphysboro Saturday, Feb. 6.
Fitzgerald advances with six other Wildcats, two seconds- and four third-place finishes, to next week’s sectional at...
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