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Brentwood takes advantage of opportunities to pull off upset

Joe Harris — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:06:59 +0000

Opportunity knocked and the Brentwood football team answered during its Class 2 semifinal at Centralia.

Brentwood, unranked in the Class 2, made and took advantage of several breaks in its 28-27 upset of No. 1 Centralia.

Fate started smiling on Brentwood (12-1…

Turnovers end Flyers season

Ken Roberts — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:47:50 +0000

WHEATON, ILL. _ Three second-half interceptions thrown by East St. Louis quarterback Detchauz Wray allowed Warrenville South to score 21 points as the Tigers stopped the Flyers 34-15 in the semifinals of the Illinois Class 7A state football playoffs.

South, No.…

Warrenville South 13, East St. Louis 6–Halftime

Ken Roberts — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:03:38 +0000

The Tigers got a 3-year touchdown run by Julian Banuelos with 3 minutes 9 seconds to go in the first half as for a 13-7 lead after 24 minutes in the semifinals of the Illinois Class 7A state playoffs at…

East St. Louis up 7-0

Ken Roberts — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:21:36 +0000

WHEATON, ILL. _ East St. Louis needed only 77 seconds to score Saturday afternoon in its Illinois Class 7A semifinal game at Wheaton Warrenville South.

Courtney Molton scored on a 15-yard touchdown run off the right side with 10 minutes 43 seconds…

Greg Nasello steps down as boys soccer coach at Alton

Ken Roberts — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:19:42 +0000

Greg Nasello has resigned as the boys soccer coach at Alton High School, the school announced Wednesday. Nasello’s resignation was accepted at the school board’s monthly meeting on Tuesday.

The Redbirds were 4-12-5 in the recently-completed season and Nasello was 107-124-31…

Illinois semifinal football times are set

Ken Roberts — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:50:11 +0000

Defending Class 7A champion East St. Louis (10-2) will travel to Wheaton on Saturday to face Warrenville South (11-1) at 1 p.m. in the Illinois Class 7A state football semifinals. The Flyers are the top-ranked team in the Post-Dispatch large-schools and in…

Area basketball signings recap

Nate Latsch — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:40:27 +0000

Southern Illinois-Edwardsville coach Lennox Forrester has been recruiting the St. Louis area heavily since he took the job and that work paid off last week when he signed two area players.

The Cougars, who currently have two area players on their…

Miracle at Moss Field

Mike Smith — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:34:37 +0000

YouTube’s got it, thanks to videographer Tim Nordmann of Nordmann Photography. Here’s the final Chaminade TD … the onside kick … the 48-yard field goal by Mason Hutson that gave Chaminade a 29-28 lead with 6.9 seconds left . .…

Mater Dei second in Class 3A volleyball

Ken Roberts — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:24:54 +0000

NORMAL, ILL. _ Wisconsin-bound outside hitter Annemarie Hickey had a match-high 13 kills to help Joliet Catholic win back-to-back state championship as it defeated Mater Dei 25-20, 25-23 in the finals of the Illinois Class 3A state volleyball tournament at Redbird Arena…

Freeburg repeats as Class 2A volleyball champs

Ken Roberts — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:12:45 +0000

NORMAL, ILL. _ Freeburg needed three games to do it, but the Midgets became back-to-back Illinois Class 2A state girls volleyball champions Saturday as they defeated Chicago Christian of Palos Heights 25-19, 24-26, 25-17 at Redbird Arena.

Freeburg senior outside hitter…