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Several Union County area high school players are members of the Cape Girardeau American Legion baseball team this summer.
Through recent action, Anna-Jonesboro’s Brady James had a .250 batting average. Teammate Adam Kelley was hitting .167.
Shawnee’s Tyler Brant was hitting .231. Teammate Tyler...
Former Anna-Jonesboro High School softball pitcher Kasee Wood was one of three athletes at John A. Logan Community College in Carterville to earn honors as a NJCAA Distinguished Academic All-American.
All-American honors are awarded for achieving a grade-point average of 3.8 and have above 45...
Bethany Village, a nonprofit family crisis center in Anna, is planning to host a benefit softball game.
Bethany Village is requesting teams made up of public safety officials to include law enforcement personnel and firefighters.
“Home Runs for the Homeless” will feature teams from Union County...
Any girl in the 6th through 8th grade who is interested in playing softball at Shawnee Junior-Senior High School this fall is asked to meet at the Wolf Lake school at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 28.
Players, parents and guardians are asked to be present. For further information, call 618-713-0475.
Luke Partridge was 9-for-21 at the plate for the Cherokees Baseball East club as the team won the Great Plains Tournament of Champions in Wichita, Kan., Sunday, July 19.
The Cherokees East club, which finished the tournament with a 7-0 mark, is for boys 18 year old and under.
In the championship...
With the scored tied 1-1, Cody Wheaton drove in the winning run with a base hit in the bottom of the 5th inning to lead host Murphysboro to a 4-1 win over Sparta in American Legion baseball action Monday, June 29.
Wheaton, 3-0, was the winning pitcher with a three-hitter. He struck out 13...
Several Union County area high school athletes have been selected to the Southern Illinois Coaches Association All-South prep softball team.
Players from Cobden, Anna-Jonesboro and Shawnee earned postseason honors.
Cobden
Four players from the Class 1A state championship Cobden squad were...
Bethany Village, a nonprofit family crisis center in Anna, is planning to host a benefit softball game.
The game will feature teams made up of public safety officials, including law enforcement personnel and firefighters.
“Home Runs for the Homeless” will feature teams from Union County and...
Cobden School junior high softball tryouts are scheduled Monday, Aug. 3.
Tryouts will be from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the softball field behind Cobden High School.
Girls in grades 6 through 8 can attend the tryouts. Girls will need to have proof of a physical exam in order to participate.
For more...
Hard work and many hours of practice continue to pay off for two young rodeo competitors from Union County.
Kade Corzine and Tristin Garner are planning to compete in the National High School Finals Rodeo scheduled Sunday through Saturday, July 19-25, in Farmington, N.M.
Both are recent...
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