There will be a new coach for the Carbondale Community High School girls basketball program this winter.
If it had been a wintery Thursday night instead of 10 a.m. on a hot Tuesday at the end of June, the fact that Carterville and Mount Vernon were matched up on a neutral court for a girls basketball game surely would've drawn a lot more attention.
Carterville’s Alecia Doyle is The Southern Illinoisan’s Girls Basketball Player of the Year.
Just as things are going really well for the Marion girls basketball team, the pandemic-shortened season has reached its end.
Although her height is only measured at 5-feet, 6 inches, Herrin freshman point guard Jersey Summers stood tall Saturday afternoon in leading the Tigers to their first win of the season, a hard-fought decision over visiting Marion.
In her third year as head coach, Katie Meador-Steffon led Centralia to its first South Seven title since 2012 with a 10-0 record and posted the Annies’ best season record of 18-10 since the 2012 team went 21-9.
The Du Quoin girls basketball team finished Thursday night's meeting against their arch rivals Pinckneyville by scoring the final seven points to post a victory in their SIRR Mississippi Division matchup at Anders Gymnasium.
In her third year as head coach, Katie Meador-Steffon led Centralia to its first South Seven title since 2012 with a 10-0 record and posted the Annies’ best season record of 18-10 since the 2012 team went 21-9.
The Du Quoin girls basketball team finished Thursday night's meeting against their arch rivals Pinckneyville by scoring the final seven points to post a victory in their SIRR Mississippi Division matchup at Anders Gymnasium.
Now that basketball is finally being played, even if it's already February and masks are being worn, Hamilton County is one of the favorites to win the Black Diamond Conference's East Division championship.
The Doyle sisters combined for 31 of their team's 38 points Saturday afternoon to lead Carterville to a win over a feisty Herrin ball club that pulled within one point of tying the game in the fourth period after trailing by as many as 12.
Very few athletes can put forth a resume as good or better than Barbie Drew of Carterville.
Two things that stuck out about Abby Horn when she was starring in three sports last decade at Herrin: She almost always wore a smile on her face, and she was almost always better than anyone else.
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Harrisburg's Lydia Miller is the 2019-20 Southern Illinoisan Girls Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She earned 10 letters in four different sports, finished as the co-valedictorian of her senior class and was a member of eight different clubs at school.
Pat Knowles, the three-time girls basketball coach of Chester who enjoyed the most successful season of his career this past winter, died Wednesday morning of cancer at 67 years old.
Carterville’s Jeniah Thompson has been the model of consistency throughout her entire high school career, according to head coach Matt Crain.
Carterville led for all but 14 seconds of a victory over Port Byron Riverdale at Redbird Arena, sending their three seniors out in style with a school-record 32nd win and their 112th against only 17 losses.
On Tuesday morning, Carterville girls basketball coach Matt Crain appeared on an IHSA teleconference to discuss his team’s appearance in the Class 2A semifinals Friday night against two-time champion Chicago Marshall.
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Marion defeated Carbondale on Thursday night to claim third place in the South Southern Conference.
Nashville defeated Pinckneyville on Thursday at the Class 2A Sesser Regional, capturing its second straight regional crown over the Panthers and its fourth consecutive regional title for fifth-year coach Doug Althoff.
Jeniah Thompson cranked up the throttle in the second half and led Carterville to a win over Massac County in a non-conference matchup of thriving girls basketball programs Saturday night.
With a victory over Herrin on Thursday night, Harrisburg won the conference outright after ending their season with four-straight wins.
Carterville seniors finish last regular season game with a conference win over Pinckneyville.