Sports
The Anna-Jonesboro Community High School football team has finished its first week of practice and will have a completely different look this fall.
“It’s a unique situation,” A-J coach Brett Detering said. “We return zero starters from last year. We’ve never had that happen before. We’ve had teams...
The Anna Blue Dolphins wrapped up their 35-year anniversary season in July.
The team competed in the SISL Championship Meet held at Carbondale on July 27.
The meet included swimmers from all seven SISL teams which qualified and were selected to attend the meet.
This year’s Blue Dolphins...
The Southern Illinois University Department of Athletics has announced its 2019 Saluki Hall of Fame class.
The distinguished, eight-person class will be formally inducted in a ceremony which is scheduled on Friday, Oct. 18, and then make public appearances during SIU homecoming festivities on...
The 16th annual Cobden Peach Festival 5K run/walk and 1-mile fun run are planned Saturday morning, Aug. 3.
The run/walk and fun run are sponsored by the Cobden Runners’/Walkers’ Club.
The events begin and end on Locust Street near the Cobden Community Park, between old U.S. Route 51 and...
Madi Hawk, a young bowler from Union County, qualified for this year’s Junior Gold Championships in Detroit, Mich.
The Junior Gold Championships are an annual national tournament for the top male and female youth bowlers in the United States.
The tournament has eight divisions: U12 boys, U12...
The Blue Dolphins competed on Saturday at the Marion Swim-Your-Own-Age Invitational.
The meet consisted of each age competing all four swim strokes.
The top 3 winners in each event won bobblehead trophies, while the 4th through 8th place winners were awarded medals.
The Blue Dolphins...
The Anna Blue Dolphins competed at the Carbondale Invitational.
The meet was Saturday, June 28, at the Splash Park in Carbondale.
The meet consisted of individual swim strokes and a fun relay, which included two swimmers, a parent and a coach. The swimmers could be entered into four individual...
Emma Ray, Kamryn Glasco, Carson Reynolds and Chloe Gamber are recipients of the Brian S. Tucker Memorial Golf Scholarship for the 2018-2019 academic year.
Ray, Glasco, Reynolds and Gamber all are recent graduates of Anna-Jonesboro Community High School.
Each of the students received a scholarship...
The Anna Blue Dolphins swim team competed at the Larry Jukes Memorial Invitational in Mt. Vernon on June 15.
The invitational was an all-freestyle event. Each swimmer competed in various distance freestyle events.
Blue Dolphin swimmers who attended the meet included:
Sophie Barnhart, Callysta...
Coach Ron’s Basketball 101 and Sports Speed Development Camp was held June 17-20 at the Jonesboro Grade School gymnasium.
On June 17, more than 75 athletes met for a four-day camp on the fundamentals of speed development and basketball.
The groups met in three sessions designed to meet the needs...
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