Mascoutah hires new girls basketball coach
After spending the past three seasons as the girls freshman basketball coach at Mascoutah High School, Dan Underwood has been promoted to varsity head coach.
After spending the past three seasons as the girls freshman basketball coach at Mascoutah High School, Dan Underwood has been promoted to varsity head coach.
Prep Softball
Edwardsville at Belleville West, 4:15 p.m.Althoff at Carbondale (DH), 4 p.m.Former Highland and Petersburg Porta head coach and longtime Collinsville assistant Steve Roustio has been hired as the new boys basketball coach at Granite City High School.
In another shocking development in this rainy spring, more wet weather sent area athletic directors scurrying to reschedule much of the region's prep baseball, softball and girls soccer playoff games.
Jason Bay's first pinch-hit homer delivered the latest jolt of anguish to Jason Isringhausen.
After offseason surgery on both shoulders, St. Louis Rams fullback Brian Leonard will be bigger, and expects to be better, in 2008.
Prep Baseball
Centralia at Highland, 4:15 p.m.Mount Vernon at Mater Dei, 4:15 p.m.Former Highland High boys basketball coach Steve Roustio has been hired as the new coach at Granite City. He replaces Carl Luehmann, who resigned in April.
Right-hander Todd Wellemeyer allowed one run on two hits in seven-plus innings and the St. Louis Cardinals pounded out 15 hits in a 5-1 victory over Pittsburgh on Wednesday night at Busch Stadium.
Jim Edmonds insisted he's healthy and can perform at a high level. The Chicago Cubs are giving him a chance to prove it, and his first opportunity came against his former team, the San Diego Padres.
Prep Baseball O'Fallon 14, Waterloo 3 Belleville West 10, Granite City 4
Prep Baseball
Centralia at Highland, 4:15 p.m.Mount Vernon at Mater Dei, 4:15 p.m.Ronny Paulino had a go-ahead single in the 10th inning and Adam LaRoche followed with a three-run double two batters later as Pittsburgh defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 8-4 on Monday night at Busch Stadium.
Prep Baseball Mascoutah 1, Waterloo 0 Belleville West 13, Edwardsville 9
St. Louis Cardinals left-handed reliever Tyler Johnson, sidelined since spring training with a rotator cuff strain, will undergo arthroscopic shoulder surgery today in Los Angeles.
All signs point to the St. Louis Rams holding training camp next year at Concordia University in Mequon, Wis.
Former No. 1 draft picks T.J. Oshie and Lars Eller were signed to three-year contracts on Tuesday by the St. Louis Blues.
College Baseball
St. Louis U. vs. SIU-Carbondale at GCS Ballpark in Sauget, 7 p.m.Prep BaseballO’Fallon at Belleville East, 4:15 p.m.Belleville West at Edwardsville, 4:15 p.m.Prep Baseball Wesclin 8, Pinckneyville 3 O'Fallon 13, Mater Dei 4
Prep Baseball Wesclin 8, Pinckneyville 3 O'Fallon 13, Mater Dei 4