John Homan

18 hours ago | thesouthern.com | John Homan

NASHVILLE — It was another solid week of baseball for the Nashville Hornets as they added three more wins to their spring total since our last poll, defeating Okawville, Althoff Catholic of Belleville, and Waterloo. Now 25-1 on the season, the Hornets remain at No. 1 in our weekly poll. To show just how dominant the boys from Washington County have been, they have outscored the opposition, 220-60. The lone loss all season was to a Class 4A school in Belleville West.

1 day ago | thesouthern.com | John Homan

JOHNSTON CITY — Two pitchers combined for six shutout innings Tuesday to lead the Johnston City Indians baseball team to a 3-0 nonconference win over visiting Crab Orchard. The game was called off in the top of the seventh inning by the umpires with Crab Orchard batting when a torrential downpour soaked the field and quickly made it unplayable. kAm(:E9 E96 H:?[ E96 %C:36 :>AC@G6D E@ `h\e @? E96 DAC:?8 H:E9 2 DE2886C:?8 `` C2:?@FED] rC23 ~C492C5 72==D E@ e\`c]k^AmkAm“%@52J H2D @FC 7:CDE =:G6 24E:@?

2 days ago | bnd.com | John Homan

MARION -Graduating Marion High School senior Ethan Simmons became the third local athlete to accept a scholarship offer to play Men's Basketball at John A. Logan College next school year. Both Drew Barrington of Carterville and Kyrese Lukens of Herrin signed letters of intent last week. Today (Monday), it was Simmons's turn. A 6-foot-4 forward for the Wildcats, Simmons transferred to Marion from Crab Orchard after his sophomore year. He helped lead Marion to a 22-6 record this past season.

2 days ago | bnd.com | John Homan |Matt Cagle

Softball Poll 5CARTERVILLE - The Carterville Lions softball team (22-4 overall) won two and lost two this past week, but will certainly not drop in The Southern's rankings this week, not when taking into account the level of competition. Early last week, the Lions shut out Pinckneyville, 3-0, at home and followed up Friday with a 3-0 road win at Rochester before dropping a pair of games at Chatham-Glenwood Saturday.

2 days ago | bvmsports.com | John Homan |Matt Cagle

By JOHN HOMAN AND MATT CAGLE [email protected] [email protected] CARTERVILLE - The Carterville Lions softball team (22-4 overall) won two and lost two this past week, but will certainly not drop in The Southern's rankings this week, not when taking into account the level of competition. Early last week, the Lions shut out Pinckneyville, 3-0, at home and followed up Friday with a 3-0 road win at Rochester before dropping a pair of games at Chatham-Glenwood Saturday.