Kahoks hockey one win from championship
The Collinsville High School hockey team blanked East Alton-Wood River Monday night 3-0 to take a 1-0 lead in the best of three championship series. Cory Sperry’s goal with 3 minutes 48 seconds remaining in the first put the Kahoks (13-5-4) up 1-0. Jason Sperry and Jacob Scrum notched assists on the goal. The score […]
Read More →Kahoks hockey playing for championship
The Collinsville High School hockey team plays the first game tonight in a best of three series for the championship of the Mississippi Valley Club Hockey Association. When the Kahoks lace up their skates and prepare to do battle against East Alton-Wood River High School, they will be attempting to take the first step towards […]
Read More →Kahoks’ Regional game moved to Tuesday
***Updated*** If Collinsville wins Tuesday against Belleville West, they will play O’Fallon at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The game will be played at Belleville West. —– original story — The Collinsville High School boys basketball Regional game against Belleville West has been moved from 7 p.m. Monday to 7 p.m. Tuesday. The game will be played […]
Read More →Flyers roll over Kahoks
East St. Louis – East St. Louis answered a Collinsville basket to open the game with a 17-0 run and never looked back on its way to a 91-50 victory in Southwestern Conference play. The Kahoks (4-10 SWC, 12-16) answered with a 7-0 run before the Flyers (10-4 SWC, 17-7) reeled off the next 14 […]
Read More →“Big wins” and sectional qualifiers highlight Kahoks wrestling season
By Brittany Weaver – Collinsville High School senior The Collinsville High School wrestling season ended with a third-place conference finish and two Sectional qualifiers, and Head Coach Tom Blaha thinks better things are to come. The Kahoks finished 13-4 in the Southwestern Conference, which Blaha noted is a “tough conference.” “To place third is pretty […]
Read More →Adams recognized for 20 years of devotion to the Kahoks
If, in the past 20 years, if you have been to almost all Collinsville High School girls and boys basketball games – varsity and junior varsity – as well as boys and girls soccer, softball, and sprinkled in as many volleyball matches as possible, your name is probably Pat Adams. The 1956 CHS graduate was […]
Read More →Kahoks suffer another difficult defeat
Collinsville – Collinsville entered the fourth quarter Tuesday with a two-point lead against the second place team in the Southwestern Conference, but could not overcome an 8-0 run halfway through the quarter, losing 60-56. Sean Davis’ tip-in basket as the third-quarter buzzer sounded stopped a Belleville East 7-0 run and gave the Kahoks (4-9 SWC, […]
Read More →Freshman leads Lady Kahok Bowlers to 4th place State finish
Freshman Katelynn Wirtel rolled the only perfect game of the 2014 Illinois State Tournament to lead Collinsville to a 4th place finish. Wirtel rolled the perfect 300 gem in the middle game of the first round on Friday. Her 787 pin round was the best round of the tournament by 30 pins. Senior Courtney Otradovec’s […]
Read More →Rickman powers Kahoks past Belleville West
By Phil Knapper – Metro Independent Contributor BELLEVILLE — The healthier Emondre Rickman gets, the better the Collinsville Kahoks will be. That statement was backed up brilliantly by Rickman Friday night at Belleville West, as he scored 19 points and pulled down 9 boards in a 66-59 Kahoks win. “That was his best performance,” Collinsville […]
Read More →Freshmen Lady Kahoks are conference champions
The freshmen Lady Kahoks basketball team knocked off Belleville East Monday to claim the championship of the Southwestern Conference Tournament. Head Coach Colin Moore said the team was fun to coach. “They truly didn’t care who scored, they just wanted to win,” Moore said. Four players scored more than 100 points on the year for […]
Read More →Kahok dancer signs national letter of intent
Collinsville High School senior Lauren Hostetter signed a national letter of intent Tuesday to continue her dance career at McKendree University. Hostetter is a four-year member of the Kahok Dance Team and three-year letter winner. The Kahok Dance Team qualified for the state tournament this year. Michael, Hostetter’s father, said getting the dance scholarship was […]
Read More →Collinsville falls short in upset bid of #5 Edwardsville
After losing by one point to Illinois’ 10th ranked team four days prior, Collinsville gave the fifth ranked team all it could handle Tuesday at Fletcher Gym, before succumbing to Edwardsville 49-39. The Kahoks trailed Edwardsville by four points at halftime and 37-35 entering the fourth quarter, but managed only four points in the final […]
Read More →“It broke the team’s hearts,” Lady Kahoks’ season ends with one-point loss
By Phil Knapper – Metro Independent Contributor Collinsville looked primed to throw a monkey wrench into the Class 4A girls regional at Belleville East Tuesday night when it had top-seed Belleville West on the ropes. But Shallaya Fluker heated up in the fourth quarter, scoring 10 of her game-high 14 points, to allow the Lady […]
Read More →Collinsville advances in Regional play
The Collinsville Lady Kahoks outscored O’Fallon 32-16 in the second half of their regional battle Monday to turn a six-point halftime deficit into a 48-38 win. The Lady Kahoks’ faithful who traveled to Belleville East to watch the game probably did not anticipate the ending after their team was outscored 10-0 over the opening 3 […]
Read More →Kahoks wrestlers bow out at Sectional
Collinsville High School senior Dylan Johnson won his first match of the Normal West Sectional this past weekend, but could not get the final win he needed to qualify for the State Tournament. Johnson lost his second match 2-1in overtime to Dontrell Bryant, of Plainfield, in the 160-pound class. Johnson lost on a penalty point […]
Read More →Lady Kahoks bowlers qualify for State
The Collinsville High School girls bowling team took 2nd place at the Alton Sectional Saturday to qualify for the State Tournament. The Lady Kahoks will be looking to better their 8th place finish in the State Tournament last year. The team will travel to Rockford for the two-day tournament, starting Friday, Feb. 21. The competition […]
Read More →Game stolen, Alton defeats Lady Kahoks by one
Collinsville had the ball and a one-point lead with 25 seconds remaining Saturday, when an Alton player fell down along the baseline. The lead official looked back at the girl on the floor and Lajarvia Brown muscled into the Lady Kahoks’ Aubreeney Brady near midcourt, snatched the ball, and sprinted in for an uncontested layup […]
Read More →Kahoks fall by one to #10 Alton
Trailing by one point with 12 seconds remaining in the Kahok’s Friday night game against Alton, the state’s 10th ranked team, Collinsville Head Coach Darin Lee opted not to call a timeout. Collinsville had already turned the ball over 20 times at that point, which did not instill its coach with confidence. “You call time […]
Read More →Late surge pushes Belleville West past Lady Kahoks
Collinsville had committed 20 turnovers and shot a meager 5 of 13 from the free throw line entering the fourth quarter Thursday, but trailed by only four in a Southwestern Conference matchup against Belleville West. And then things went terribly wrong. When Lexi Thompson drained a 3-pointer to start the quarter, it appeared the fans […]
Read More →kahoksports.com provides direct link for Thursday’s girls basketball broadcast
Due to software issues caused by a recent upgrade, kahoksports.com has provided a direct link to their Thursday broadcast of Lady Kahoks basketball. Viewers can access the broadcast using this link, http://www.nfhsnetwork.com/events/87836, or copying and pasting the URL into a browser. The Senior Night broadcast begins with the pre-game show at 7:15. Game time is 7:30 […]
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