Bradley Piros

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BELLEVILLE – The Father McGivney Catholic High School girls soccer team ran into its Achilles heel of the 2025 season, the Columbia Eagles, Tuesday night, battling it out for the Belleville (Althoff Catholic) Sectional championship. Columbia, McGivney’s lone regular-season loss back on May 5, completed the double over their newly cemented Metro-East rivals, getting a goal with 8:47 left in the game, securing the 1-0 victory.

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ROXANA – The Roxana High School baseball team played in its third straight IHSA Class 2A regional championship game, and this time around, the Shells hosted. The two-seeded Shells hosted three-seeded Columbia Saturday afternoon and fell 3-0, denying back-to-back regional titles. Instead, the Eagles won their fifth straight. “We knew it would be tight, going to come down to one or two plays, and that’s what it came down to,” Roxana head coach Jerry Wheaton said. One of those big plays came early.

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BETHALTO – A little over a month ago, the Civic Memorial High School girls soccer team had a record of 2-11. But a 2-0 loss to the defending IHSA Class 1A state champions, Althoff Catholic, was the turning point back on April 18. “We had a really good showing at the Althoff game, even though it was a 2-0 loss, we thought we had our chances. And then we just got on a roll that following Monday and rattled off six out of seven wins,” CM head coach Eric Zyung said.

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BETHALTO – The Triad Knights went to a familiar spot Wednesday afternoon, Civic Memorial’s Hauser Field, to take part in an IHSA Class 2A Boys Track and Field Sectional. The Knights qualified athletes in a slew of events for next weekend’s state track meet at Eastern Illinois University and finished third at the sectional with 79 points. They were only behind East St. Louis (127) and Cahokia (93).

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BETHALTO – The East St. Louis Flyers are sectional champions in impressive fashion. They competed in the IHSA Class 2A Bethalto (Civic Memorial) Boys Track and Field Sectional on Wednesday afternoon at Hauser Field and won the event with a team score of 127 points. The next closest teams were Cahokia (93) and Triad (79). In doing so, East Side qualified many athletes for next week’s state track meet at Eastern Illinois University.