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Chester improves to 5-0, 5-3 to secure IHSA Class 2A Football Playoff bid By Jim Beers, Contributing Writer CHESTER – Friday October 14 was Chester’s final regular-season home football game and what a game it was!  The Yellow Jackets beat Red Bud in a knock-down-drag-out game that was decided in the final 3:28 of the […]

CHESTER – Attached you will find a 2022 IHSA State Football PLAYOFF shirt order form.   With the win last Friday over Red Bud, 12-7, the Jackets have sealed the deal in making the playoffs.  It will be announced this weekend who we will play.   Coach Belton wants to get a jump on having

CARBONDALE, Ill. — On a day when teammate Javon Williams Jr. had a league season-high four rushing touchdowns, Southern Illinois quarterback Nic Baker set a school record for pass completion percentage, connecting on 25-of-28 passes — 89.3 percent — during SIU’s 30-7 win over Western Illinois on Saturday. Those marks earned Baker the league’s Player of the Week honors for the fifth

PERRYVILLE – Perryville High School’s Tegan Bishop came in first in the girls race at the JCAA Conference Cross Country meet Saturday. She ran the course in 19:53, a full minute faster than when she came in first last year at the conference meet.

JACKSON – Maggie Hillin and Abby Haley, two sophomores from Saxony Lutheran finished seventh at State in doubles tennis.

Jackets win at Murphysboro; play well at Regional to advance to Sectionals and finish well at Sectional By Jim Beers, Contributing Writer CHESTER – The Chester High School 2022 golf season is over, but the boys ended on high notes with a sweep of the competition at the Murphysboro triangular match; a great showing at

Medford and Luthy advance out of IHSA Class 1A Regional; Both compete at Sectionals By Jim Beers, Contributing Writer CHESTER–The Chester High School Lady Jacket Golf Team competed at the 2022 IHSA Class 1A Regional Golf Tournament on Thursday September 29th. The event was held at Governor’s Run in Carlyle.  There were 13 schools that

STE. GENEVIEVE – Ste. Genevieve’s Hollyn Zangaro became the first female runner from Ste. Genevieve High School to win an individual MAAA conference championship since 2016.

JACKSON – The Saxony Lutheran High School tennis team is sending two players to the state tournament in tennis doubles Friday and Saturday Saxony Lutheran Sophomores Abby Haley and Maggie Hillin  are headed to the state tennis tournament in doubles Friday and Saturday.   They defeated Lutheran South’s Lillian Soetaert and Elise Hoehner 6-2, 6-2

Chester wins at Dupo in high-scoring, 53-30 game By Jim Beers, Contributing Writer CHESTER – The Chester High School Yellow Jacket Football Team traveled to Dupo, Illinois Friday night October 7 to challenge the Tigers.  The trip was well worth it as the Jackets controlled the game from the opening kickoff and brought home a