Sports
Anna-Jonesboro Community High School opened practice for the 2017 football season on Monday.
The A-J varsity football team is scheduled to open the season Friday night, Aug. 25, at Frankfort Community High School in West Frankfort.
A-J opens its 2017 home season Friday night, Sept. 1, against...
Shawnee Community College plans to host the annual Saints Challenge golf tournament Friday, Sept. 8, at the Union County Country Club course in Anna.
Proceeds will benefit the college’s athletic department.
The four-person, 18-hole scramble is scheduled to have a 1 p.m. shotgun start.
Lunch will...
Members of the Anna-Jonesboro Community High School Marching Wildcats band’s color guard were practicing last week during a band camp at the Union County school.
The camp ran last week and was slated to continue this week.
An Illinois Department of Natural Resources, IDNR, hunter safety education course is planned Aug. 4-5 at the First Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Anna. The church is located at 315 South St.
Hours for the course are from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Aug. 4 and from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 5. Students must...
The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School Athletic Department will once again be offering reserved parking/tailgating spaces for all home varsity games.
The procedure will be the same as has been followed in previous years.
Fans will be able to submit sealed bids, with payment included, for the 56...
Anna-Jonesboro Community High School has released its fall sports schedules.
The A-J boys’ golf team is scheduled to open the fall season by hosting the A-J Invitational on Monday, Aug. 21.
The A-J girls’ golf team begins its season at Notre Dame High School in Cape Girardeau on Tuesday, Aug. 22....
Cobden was edged by Salem 4-3 for its second loss in the double elimination 5th Division junior baseball tournament at Pinckneyville Saturday, July 22.
“It was a good season,” Cobden baseball coach Dana Pearson said. “Cobden proved it could play with the good teams.”
In its final game, Cobden was...
Fall – and football – may seem like they are a long way off during the sweltering heat and humidity of a Southern Illinois summer. But football took center stage during the Wildcat Youth Football League’s annual camp.
The camp was held July 17-20 on Anna-Jonesboro Community High School’s practice...
A junior PGA golf tournament was played at the Union County Country Club course in Anna Tuesday, July 18.
Two teams from the Union County Country Club and two teams from Kimberland Country Club in Jackson, Mo., competed in the tournament.
The accompanying pictures feature some of the action from...
An annual Wildcat Youth Football League’s football camp was held last week on Anna-Jonesboro Community High School’s practice field.
Around 50 to 60 young people participated in the week-long camp.
On Tuesday evening, July 18, campers gathered in a circle on the practice field for stretching and...
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