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The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School wrestling team lost 51-26 to Auburn at the Litchfield dual team sectionals Saturday, Feb. 25.
The Wildcats finished 17-5 in dual meet competition this season.
A-J sent three wrestlers to the IHSA state tournament at Champaign this season, with Arieh Hart...
Major improvements are underway at Kiwanis Field at the Anna City Park in Anna.
Anna-Jonesboro Community High School’s baseball team plays its home games at the field. The project is being spearheaded by the baseball team.
New dugouts along the first- and third-base lines are among the improvements...
Cobden hosted an Illinois High School Association Class 1A boys’ regional basketball tournament last week.
The host Appleknockers faced Egyptian High School from Tamms Monday night, Feb. 20, in tournament play. Cobden won the game.
John Russell scored 15 points and had 2 rebounds to lead Cobden to a 67-53 win over Egyptian in first-round action at the Class 1A high school boys’ basketball regional tournament hosted by the Appleknockers Monday, Feb. 20.
Clayton Eck added 14 points and 9 rebounds for the winners. Austin Lewey...
The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School boys’ basketball team pulled ahead early in a 54-45 win over host Sparta in the final Southern Illinois River-to-River Conference Mississippi Division regular season game Friday, Feb. 17.
“We got a road win and that’s always good,” A-J boys’ basketball coach...
Former Anna-Jonesboro Community High School softball player Chandra Parr begins her final season with the University of Evansville softball team this spring.
Parr, a senior, was a starter in all of Evansville’s 47 games last season. She had a .300 batting average with 6 home runs, 23 RBIs and...
The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School boys’ basketball team couldn’t hold a first half lead in a 71-68 loss to Vienna in the first round of the Class 2A regional tournament at Trico Monday, Feb. 20.
With Jake Parr and Jacob Zimmerman leading the way with a 3-pointer apiece, the Wildcats pulled...
Cobden hosted an Illinois High School Association Class 1A boys’ regional basketball tournament this week.
The host Appleknockers faced Egyptian High School from Tamms Monday night in tournament play. Cobden won the game.
The regional tournament championship game was set for 7 p.m. this Friday.
Anna-Jonesboro Community High School wrestler Arieh Hart, 152 pounds, finished in second place in the Class 1A state wrestling championship at Assembly Hall in Champaign Saturday, Feb. 18.
Hart, 42-4, lost to undefeated and No. 1 state-ranked Belleville Althoff’s Danny Braunagel, 47-0, by a 10-4...
Meridian rolled to a 52-26 win over Dongola in an elimination game at the Lady Bobcats regional tournament in girls’ high school basketball Tuesday, Feb. 7.
Makenzie Prout had 17 points to lead the Lady Demons. Tiffany Shirkey added 14 points, Barb Gorst and Kylie Flores 3 apiece and Delaney...
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