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Two Anna-Jonesboro Community High School high school athletes have been named to the 2009 Southern Illinois Coaches Association All-South track team.
J.R. Woodward and Sully Edwards from A-JCHS earned the postseason honors.
Woodward, a junior, had a season-best 300-meter hurdle time of 40.5 and...
Four Union County area high school athletes are playing this summer on the Cape Girardeau American Legion baseball squad.
Results from some of the Cape Girardeau team’s recent games follow:
Cape Giradeau 5, Paducah 0: Tyler Glidewell pitched the 6th and 7th inning and recorded 2 strikeouts in...
Robbie Wright has been hired as Anna-Jonesboro Community High School’s boys’ basketball coach for the 2009-2010 season.
Wright was hired at last week’s regular meeting of the A-JCHS District 81 Board of Education.
“I’ve watched them play two or three times,” Wright said about the Wildcats. “...
The 7th grade 4x200 and 8th grade 4x200 meter relay teams finished in second place to lead Jonesboro’s efforts at the Class S state junior high school boys’ track meet at Salem Saturday, May 9.
Team members Zeb Goes-sman, Jacob Sadler, Logan Tweedy and Derreck Harvel finished in 1:47.55 in the...
Anna-Jonesboro High School’s Luke Partridge has signed a national letter of intent to play baseball next season at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
“I definitely think he can play there,” A-J coach Jake Alley said. “They just turned Division I last year.”
Partridge, a senior four-year...
The Cobden High School softball team won a regional championship last Saturday afternoon.
Cobden defeated Century 10-0 to win a Class 1A regional title. The game was played in Cobden.
Taylor Orsburn was 3-for-4 with 3 RBIs and pitched a no-hitter to lead host Cobden to the win over Century....
Members of the award-winning Lick Creek School girls' track team are, from left, Chandra Parr, Rebecca Mitchell, Amanda Conaway, Ron Fulenwider, Nina Mattingly and Alexis Schaefer. Kimberly Mixen could not be present for the picture.
Two Marion golfers won top honors in the Sheenie Elkins Open played last weekend at Union County Country Club in Anna.
Jordan Lewis, who plays golf for Rollins College, won the championship division with a 139 in the two-day event. He shot a hot 66 on Saturday, and his 73 in cool and windy...
Clay Murphy was 2-for-4 with 3 RBIs to lead Shawnee to a 9-1 win over visiting Carrier Mills in a game dedicated to player Skyler Law.
Law, a freshman on the Shawnee baseball team, lost his life in a single-vehicle accident last Saturday.
Tyler Glidewell and Eric Lambdin were 2-for-4 with an RBI...
Weather was no problem for Forrest Blakley of Cobden last weekend.
He overcame rainy conditions to win the junior male recurve division at the Junior World Team Trials archery competition staged at Parrish Park in Carbondale.
“Some people are not used to that kind of weather,” Forrest said. “You...
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