Sports
American Legion baseball will return to the area next year.
The Anna American Legion team, which was slated to begin again this year after several years absence, will not hit the playing field until next season.
Head A-J baseball coach Aaron Roberts, who is also the Anna American Legion coach,...
The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School football team was well represented at the 18th annual Southern Illinois All-Star football game at Pinckneyville, Friday, June 8.
A-J’s Bryce Osman, Jayce Turner, Arieh Hart and Noah Smith were on the winning Blue Team, which posted a 38-28 victory over the...
Registration is due by June 8 for Anna-Jonesboro Community High School Lady Wildcats youth volleyball camps which are scheduled June 13-15.
Sessions are planned for student athletes who are entering 2nd through 4th grades and 5th through 8th grades.
The camp for grades 2 through 4 is planned from 8...
Only the bottom-line number was disappointing, as almost 100 former high school coaches, administrators, referees and other Southern Illinoisans involved in the area sports scene enjoyed a day of visiting recently at Frank Bleyer’s hide-a-way west of Carbondale. Seems some are no longer around...
The Goreville High School softball team led the way among area teams with a second place finish in the Illinois High School Association Class 1A state championship at Peoria Saturday, June 2.
Goreville lost 8-5 to Windsor-Stewardson-Strasburg in the championship game. Goreville finished 24-11...
Anna-Jonesboro Community High School student athletes have been named to the 2018 Southern Illinois River-to-River Conference Mississippi Division baseball and softball teams.
A-J players who earned first-team selections in baseball both were seniors: outfielder Bryce Osman and pitcher Hunter Ralls...
To say the Anna-Jonesboro Community High School boys’ athletic program had a banner year in sports would be an understatement.
The A-J baseball team just finished with a Class 2A regional championship title. The team, while claiming a regional crown, finished with a 17-14 overall record after a 3-1...
The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School boys’ track team did not advance anyone to the state meet at the Class 2A sectional at Salem last week.
Noah Craig led the way with a 6th place finish in the discus with a 136-0 effort.
Eighth place finishes for the Wildcats were recorded by Jaryt Tripp in...
Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary statewide total of 13,500 wild turkeys during the 2018 spring turkey season, including the youth season, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, IDNR, reported.
The 2018 total compared with the statewide turkey harvest of 15,720 in 2017.
The...
The Cobden High School baseball team advanced to sectional competition after winning a regional title last week.
Cobden 7, Egyptian 5: The Appleknockers won the Egyptian Class 1A regional in a game moved to the Southern Illinois University Carbondale baseball diamond because of wet field ...
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