Baseball Kahoks drop second straight conference game, lose 5-2 to Edwardsville
The Collinsville High School baseball team (18-14 overall, 8-6 Southwestern Conference) fell 5-2 to Edwardsville Tuesday afternoon. The Tigers (27-6 overall, 11-3 SWC) started the scoring early as the second batter, Austin Werner, hit a double that drove in Collin Clayton from first base. Brock Weimer flew out to right for the first out of […]
Read More →Alvarez pleads not guilty to misdemeanor charges
Caseyville Police Chief Jose Alvarez pleaded not guilty this morning to two misdemeanor counts he faces in connection with an incident at the Feb. 19 Caseyville Village Board meeting. With Bob Romanik coming into and out of courtroom 108 in the St. Clair County Courthouse, Alvarez’s attorney, Bob Jones, and Special Prosecutor David Rands stood […]
Read More →Softball Kahoks no match for Edwardsville
Collinsville scored the first two runs against Edwardsville Tuesday afternoon. Unfortunately for the Kahok softball team, Edwardsville scored the next 20 runs to finish a 20-2 victory in five innings. Samantha Buettner’s fourth home run of the season scored Alex Holten to give Collinsville (15-16, 3-10 SWC) a 2-0 lead. The Tigers (27-3, 11-2 SWC) […]
Read More →Lady Kahoks win Regional match against Belleville East 4-0
Mikayla McCarthy started the post season where she finished the regular season, scoring. McCarthy scored her eighth goal in the past four games less than a minute into the Kahoks 4-0 Regional win over Belleville East Tuesday in a game played at Belleville West. Collinsville Head Coach Clay Smith said McCarthy is playing with a […]
Read More →Baseball Kahoks lose 4-3 in extras to Belleville East
In a preview of a Regional match-up scheduled just over a week away, the Collinsville and Belleville East high school baseball teams played their final regular season matchup. The game went to extra innings before Collinsville (18-13 overall, 8-5 Southwestern Conference) lost 4-3 in the eighth inning in Belleville. The Kahoks’ runs came not with […]
Read More →Preview: Lady Kahoks Regional match-up against Belleville East
The Collinsville High School girls’ soccer team will play Belleville East in the first game of the 2014 Regional Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. at Belleville West High School. The Lady Kahoks finished the regular season 11-5-2 overall and 6-0 in the Southwestern Conference. Collinsville outscored their last five opponents 19-4, going 3-1-1 during the stretch. The scoring outburst […]
Read More →Two CHS seniors awarded $500 scholarships from Home Federal Savings & Loan
***Submitted Content*** Home Federal Savings & Loan has awarded Collinsville High School seniors Sabrina Flohr and Graydon Baima with $500 college scholarships as local winners in the Community Bankers Association of Illinois (CBAI) Foundation scholarship essay competition. The essays, which focused on the role of community banks in their service areas, were judged by students […]
Read More →Collinsville High School Student of the Month awards announced
Students of the Month April – Courtney Hasty, Nicole Hasty and Jose Oseguera While at Kiener Plaza on the senior field trip recently, the three worked together to save the life of a man who had fallen in the fountain and couldn’t swim. May – Brayden Drum Drum placed 4th in the state of […]
Read More →SWIC Children’s Touring Theatre Co. to perform “The Three Bully Goats Griff”
***Submitted Content*** The Southwestern Illinois College Children’s Touring Theatre Company will perform “The Three Bully Goats Griff,” by Patrick Rainville Dorn, Thursday, May 22, at 6:30 p.m. in the SWIC Belleville Campus Main Complex Theatre, 2500 Carlyle Ave. “This is a great show for school-aged children and families,” said Director Tony Zeigler. “It’s fun and […]
Read More →Curtains Up Theater Company to present on stage “Cinderella or the Story of Big Foot”
***Submitted Content*** Curtain’s Up Theater Company will present an encore performance of “Cinderella or the Story of Big Foot” on the historic stage at the Wildey Theater, 252 N. Main Street, Edwardsville Saturday, June 28, at 1 p.m., for one performance only. This humorous retelling of the traditional story is a wonderful tale of how true […]
Read More →Baseball Kahoks defeat Peoria Richwoods 8-7 at Busch Stadium
The game between the Collinsville High School baseball team and Peoria Richwoods Sunday, May 18, was notable because the Kahoks had a chance to win their third game in a row. But, perhaps most notably, the game was played at Busch Stadium. Under the lights at the home of the St. Louis Cardinals, the Kahoks […]
Read More →Kayla Marshall, record-breaker, is The Metro Independent Athlete of the Week
Kayla Marshall broke two school records Friday, and earned a spot in the State Finals in the triple jump and the long jump, to earn Metro Independent Athlete of the week honors. Marshall, who signed to continue her track career at Central Michigan University, smashed the Collinsville High School long jump record by more than […]
Read More →Who was watching Caseyville’s finances from May, 2013 to April, 2014?
A three-minute video clip from the Caseyville Village Board meeting on Feb. 19, 2014 has become an internet sensation, but there is more to the video clip than yelling and finger pointing, there are questions by Mayor Leonard Black about how the village is going to pay for certain items. If someone watches the entire […]
Read More →Softball Kahoks fall 5-3 to Belleville East
Three days after the game was originally postponed due to inclement weather, the Collinsville softball team lost 5-3 to conference foe Belleville East in a preview of the first round of Regional action. The Kahoks (15-15, 3-9 Southwestern Conference) fell behind early after Belleville East (24-5, 9-3) pushed a run across in the top of […]
Read More →Collinsville city officials working for ‘Fairness for Fairmount’
Many in the Collinsville area understand the impact Senate Bill 1739, a gaming expansion bill, would have on Fairmount Park if the track were excluded from the bill. As of Wednesday, May 14, many House Executive Committee and downstate legislators understand the issue from Collinsville’s perspective. That is when the Collinsville Chamber of Commerce traveled […]
Read More →Schreiber agrees to play Volleyball at University of Evansville
Cathy Schreiber, Collinsville High School’s 6-foot-3-inch outside hitter, will continue her volleyball career at the University of Evansville in Indiana as a walk on. However, her decision was less about the chance to keep playing volleyball and more about what she will study while in college. “I got into the physical therapy program at Evansville. It’s a direct entry […]
Read More →Reeves and Peskar a winning combination for a fifth time
Collinsville defeated Granite City 7-2 Thursday in Southwestern Conference baseball action at Granite City. Zach Mathes started on the bump for the Kahoks (17-12, 8-4 SWC) and pitched four innings, before yielding to Kyle Reeves, who finished the game and earned his fifth win. Reeves (5-2) is now tied with Tanner Houck (5-3) for the […]
Read More →Caseyville struggles to pay bills on time, attorney fees up at least 269 percent
***Updated to note that Village Attorney John Gilbert was not the attorney for the Police Board when probationary officer Stephen Romanik was terminated on April 1.*** With Caseyville having difficulties paying their creditors on time, the village has incurred a steep rise in attorney fees since Mayor Leonard Black took office. “In most municipalities, if […]
Read More →Thursday Kahok softball rescheduled
The Kahok softball scheduled for Thursday, May 15 against Granite City has been rescheduled to May 22. The game will be played at the Collinsville Jaycee Sports Complex at 4:30 p.m.
Read More →Regional match-up for Kahoks softball announced
The Collinsville High School softball team will be the No. 4 seed at the Belleville East Regional, and will play Belleville East, the No. 1 seed, in the first round at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 27. The Kahoks fell 10-0 to Belleville East on April 17. The two teams will play again at 4:30 p.m. […]
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