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Last Friday afternoon, Belleville West senior running back Sedrick Spillers was sitting in art class talking with offensive tackle Gerald Bradford.
With their impressive 29-21 win last Friday over Triad, the Collinsville Kahoks are 2-0 for the first time under coach Mike Liljegren. The Kahoks last started 2-0 in 2002, the year before Liljegren took over the program, and have enjoyed only two winning seasons since 1974.
Because of the use of two ineligible players, the Belleville East Lancers have forfeited two games and have given up the championship of the Belleville East Soccer Tournament.
On a night when the Granite City Warriors could have come up short, they simply found a way to get it done on Tuesday against the Belleville West Maroons.
If Edwardsville senior Sam Fink wanted to make a statement he did on Tuesday at the Edwardsville Sports Complex.
The Belleville East Lancers enter the 2010 season as the two-time defending Southwestern Conference golf champions with sophomore Miranda Lidisk as one of the dominant players in the metro-east.
After a regular season of near perfection, the Althoff Crusaders came up just short of a first-ever trip to the Class AA Girls State Golf Tournament last fall.
As a new era in the Belleville West girls golf program began last week, first-year head coach Elaine Souders already had one major worry out of the way.
After four years and three trips to the Class 3A state cross country meet, the changing of the guard within the Belleville West girls cross country program has begun.
The days of hoping to have enough quality athletes be competitive at the varsity level apparently are over for coach Gary Calhoun and the Althoff cross country program.
Veteran Belleville East cross country coach Bryan Mitchell heads into the 2010 season with what again should be one of the top girls teams in the area.