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Tiger Football . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

By BILL ROSEBERRY broseberry@edwpub.net

Considering the youth movement the Edwardsville Tiger football team encountered in 2011, the season was impressive.

After boasting a 27-man senior class in 2010 and missing the playoffs, EHS dwindled to a 12-man senior crew in 2011 and marched into the postseason with a 5-4 record before losing to O'Fallon 48-27 in the opening round.

There were a slew of underclassmen that gained valuable experience last year and head coach Matt Martin will enter 2012 with his second full season implementing his program.

Martin took over as the interim head coach in Week 2 of 2010 when Mark Bliss resigned. He was named the full-time head coach after the completion of the 2010 campaign.

Martin did admit he'll miss some key cogs from his orange and black machine from a year ago.

Defensive tackle/tight end Vincent Valentine (6-foot-3, 300 pounds) took his beefy physique to Nebraska to be a Cornhusker after racking up 19 tackles and an interception for the Tigers in 2011.

Also gone is running back/ corner back Cameron James. The speedy James is now at McKendree University where he plays football and runs for the track and field team. James led EHS with 773 yards on 130 carries and rushed for seven touchdowns while returning a kickoff for another score.

There were also a myriad of other big losses, including Garrett Jensen and Zach Maushbaugh from the offensive line.

There is also a void left in leadership duties with the 2011 class' departure.

“If you’re asking me if I would like to have those guys back the answer is yes,” Martin said. “Can they redshirt in high school?

Unfortunately that is part of the high school game and that’s why you respect those teams that build a good program because you don’t

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Above are senior members of the 2012 Edwardsville Tiger football team. In front from left to right are: Adam Hosto, Bennett Gray, Sam Mulford, Julian Harvey, Jake Vinyard, Jeremiah Blackburn and Will Collins. In back from left to right are: David Nicolay, Andrew Niebur, Sam Coyle, Robbie Clark, John Fleming, Sab Champlin, Matt Compton, Wes Grigaitis and Jake Jennings. Seniors not pictured are: Brandon Baker, Jake Batts, Isaiah Blackburn, Chandler Brown, Michael Dumas, Jacob Reser and Donte Tinin. get to hang onto them for five or 10 years. You have to reload, but we’re in a better situation than we were last year. We have a lot more experience coming back, we’re in the second year of a system and that sure helps move things further along. I’m excited.”

There is experience in key positions this season, too. Will Collins comes back at quarterback, Sam Mulford will be a stalwart at fullback and the Tigers possess a seasoned receiving corps and secondary unit.

Collins returns under center as a senior after having to miss some time due to injury last year. He threw for 509 yards, seven TDs and five interceptions while owning a 62 percent completion percentage.

“Will’s worked hard in the offseason,” said Martin. “He’s worked hard all summer and he’s a lot further along. He expects it and we expect a great year out of him.”

As for that gang of receivers, EHS gets junior Darius Crochrell (29 catches, 412 yards, 5 TDs), senior Julian Harvey (17 catches, 169 yards, TD) and junior Craig James (5 catches, 172 yards, 3 TDs) to compliment Collins among a few others like: senior Isaiah Blackburn and juniors Brian Crowe and D'Anthony Knight.

“They’re in the system, they’re getting more comfortable with it,” Martin said. “Will is getting better, they’re getting better at running routes. It should hopefully improve our perimeter game.”

Mulford was a grinder for Edwardsville last season, averaging 5.4 yards per carry. He carried the rock 118 times for 637 yards and a team-best nine TDs. “He’s heady, he’s smart, he works hard, he gets it, he understands blocking schemes, his strength is ball security, he pass blocks well, he run blocks well, so he’s a solid kid,” Martin said of

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The 5-foot-7, 180-pound Mulford will get some help in the running game where a pair of potential speedsters will fill the tailback slot.

“At the tailback position we have two guys competing in Jeremiah Blackburn, who had some experience last year, and a newcomer in Bennett Gray,” said Martin.

Gray is an intriguing player for EHS. At 5-11 and 180 pounds, Gray has the physical composition of a star in the making. He finished third in the 100-meter dash for the second-place track team in the spring with a time of 10.65 seconds, so he's definitely a guy to watch. He's just green when it comes to football, but Martin said he's learning on the fly quickly.

“He’s got a lot of physical attributes that are nice to have,” Martin said of Gray. “If you’re going to be inexperienced then you better bring something to the

table and he does bring physical attributes. He’s just trying to become a better football player and he’s learning pretty quickly. He’s doing a good job. He’s come a lot further along than I would have anticipated. Part of that is our job as coaches, to try and keep it simple and understand the situation he is in.

“We definitely enjoy having him over not having him. There’s no doubt about it.”

Unfortunately in the trenches the Tigers will be a little less experienced.

The only returning offensive linemen for EHS are seniors Sab Champlin and Jake Jennings. The pair of tackles also fill spots on the defensive line where Champlin is a defensive tackle and Jennings is a defensive end.

Martin sees the lines rounding into place pretty well though, especially on the offensive side.

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By MATTHEW KAMP mkamp.edwi@gmail.com

Do not feel sorry for the E d w a r d s v i l l e Ti g e r g i r l s ' volleyball team.

Though it is replacing the program’s most decorated senior class, Edwardsville has a hungry group of girls ready for their chance to enjoy the spotlight at Lucco-Jackson Gymnasium.

“It was an incredibly talented group of seniors. We sent four kids out of the class on to play college volleyball. It was a very talented group,” said EHS head coach Jami Parker, who enters her 11th season as head coach with a 278-103 record.

“The nice part of the team was that it was incredibly deep. We had a number of talented juniors and sophomores that rounded out the team. It was definitely a large loss to us to lose those six girls, but we have a lot of girls that have been waiting for their moment to shine. Three of those six seniors have been starting since they were freshmen.”

Last year’s senior class — Sam Epenesa (Purdue University), Lexi Gober (University of South Carolina Upstate), Hannah Frierdich (Washburn University), Tori Gusewelle, Mackenzie Collins and Taylor

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Above are senior members of the 2012 Edwardsville Tiger volleyball team. From left to right are: Aubry Dickmann, Gaylynn Jones, Maddie Werths, Sarah Parker and Nicole Allaria.

Marshall — captured 122 wins, four Southwestern Conference championships, four regional titles, three sectional titles and a third-place finish at the Class 4A state tournament in 2010 during their four seasons. In their final season at

Edwardsville, the Tigers went 34-6 — a school record for wins — and advanced to the Class 4A Normal Super Sectional. The fourth college-bound player is Alyssa Wagner, who will be at Lewis and Clark. She did not play her senior year.

Epenesa, a four-year starter, left as the program’s all-time leader in kills with 1,250, including a team-leading 346 last year. She finished second in career aces at 184, falling only behind Megan Meyers’ total of 199. Gober, meanwhile, finished

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“We’ve got two returners in Jake Jennings and Sebastian Champlin and we have a junior at center, Jarrod Kolesa, who is doing a good job and then we have two senior program guys in Robbie Clark and Adam Hosto at guards,” said Martin. “They worked hard in the offseason to put themselves in the position that they are in.”

Another key to the Tigers' success could be their solid secondary, which returns three of four starters from last year.

“We return three of the four, Cameron (James) being the one who graduated,” said Martin. “D’Anthony Knight played a little bit and he’s filling in that spot nicely.

It’s like anything, you never know until you get under the Friday night lights. You never know how kids are going to perform until you get out there, but at least some of these kids have gotten experience so you have a lot better idea of what to expect.”

There won't be quite the youth movement to the E d w a rd s v i l l e p ro g r a m this season, with only five sophomores listed on the

roster this year.

“Sometimes when you have young kids that are playing up it’s a sign of how good they are, but sometimes it’s a sign of what your varsity weakness is and kids have to play,” said Martin. “Last year it was a varsity weakness because we had such low numbers and so much inexperience you had to play some kids that maybe weren’t quite ready. This year when you see Zac Rujawitz starting it’s a sign that he’s a pretty solid football player.

He has a maturity level from a sophomore that you don’t often see and a work ethic from a sophomore that you often don’t see, so he fits in very nicely.”

Another impressive sophomore is Dan Marinko.

Marinko is listed as the backup quarterback, but could appear at other positions according to Martin.

“There’s always a shot, but right now Will’s our starter,” said Martin. “There’s no doubt about it. You might see Marinko on the field. He’s a smart enough kid, he’s a tough enough kid and he’s a good enough athlete that he might get himself on the field at special teams, wide

receiver or defensive back.”

Another ace in the hole for the Tigers will be senior kicker Brandon Baker, who as a junior booted four field goals in a 47-0 route of Alton, including a 45 yarder.

There will be two changes to the schedule for EHS this season with Hazelwood West and Soldan replacing Lincoln-Way East and Chicago Bogan as nonconference foes.

The Tigers will visit Hazelwood West at 1 p.m.

Saturday and then host Soldan on Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. for the home opener.

West was 1-9 last season while Soldan went 7-4.

As for the Southwestern Conference, everybody lost key talent so it could be an interesting season. Martin doesn't concern himself with that though. EHS opens SWC play at 7 p.m. Sept. 7 at East St. Louis.

“The conference was pretty tough last year,” he said. “I don’t know what other people have. I can’t really pay attention to them.

I’m just going to assume they will all be good and we’ll take care of what we can take care of and that is us.”

her prep career with a schoolbest and IHSA fourth-best 2,860 assists after taking over the setting duties full time midway through her freshman season.

She had 889 assists as a senior.

The seniors also shined defensively. Frierdich, who started playing volleyball as a sophomore, had a programbest 73 solo blocks last year.

Gusewelle, another four-year starter, ended her days with the Tigers with the second most digs, accumulating 925 in her four seasons.

The task of replacing the graduated players will not be easy, but the Tigers have plenty of talent coming back, including three hitters that recorded at least 128 kills.

Senior Sarah Parker had 184 kills, good for second behind Epenesa. The 6-foot middle blocker was also second in blocks, finishing behind Frierdich with 117.

Six-foot junior outside hitter Camrey Saye (158 kills) and senior right side hitter Maddie Werths (128 kills) will also be focal points of the offense.

Werths, listed at 6-1, recently committed to SEMO while the other two hitters are getting college looks as well.

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Tiger Soccer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

By MATTHEW KAMP mkamp.edwi@gmail.com

Only time will tell if the upcoming boys’ soccer season for the Edwardsville Tigers is one that is rebuilding or simply just reloading.

The Tigers, coming off of head coach Mark Heiderscheid’s eighth Southwestern Conference title in his 12-year tenure and a 14-5 record, lost 11 players, including seven starters, to graduation. In that group were a pair of All-State players, goalie Daniel Brennan (Louisville) and defender Robbie Tays (Quincy), and AllSectional forward Chris Pearson (UMSL).

There was still plenty coming back, but after U.S. Soccer Federation opted for academy to play 10 months instead of seven, Edwardsville lost another pair of starters, senior Tyler Swanner and junior Lance Ramsey.

The 13 players leaving combined for 28 of the 35 goals scored, including Pearson’s team-leading eight, five from Swanner and four from Daniel Fremont.

Edwardsville must also replace two goaltenders, Brennan and Matt Dehr, that saw a majority of the minutes last season.

“I am pretty excited,” Heiderscheid said about the upcoming year. “You would not think so considering all the people that we are missing. We are really missing a lot of people that had been there for quite a while and had locked down minutes on the varsity squad. Now, they are just

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Pictured above are senior members on the Edwardsville Tiger soccer team.

In front from left to right are: Austin Donelson, Frank Verdu, Tyler Postol and Geno Weatherly. In back from left to right are: Ryan Grimm, Ryan Hessler, Brandon Baker and Caleb Szedlar. gone. If ever there was a rebuilding year it would seem to be this one.”

The Tigers do return a slew of players that earned varsity minutes last season,

including starters Frank Verdu (two goals) and Tyler Postol (one goal). Both seniors, Postol and Verdu will anchor the defense, though Verdu also saw time at forward during the latter stages of the season.

Candidates to replace Matt Agustin, Casey Thebeau and Tays on defense are senior Geno Weatherly (one goal) and junior Josh Kowalis.

“Defending wise, Postol has been there for a couple of years and so that is a good start. Verdu, whether he plays in the back or up top, is a really solid player.

(Josh) Kowalis has really come around.

He is a big, strong guy. Geno Weatherly got a lot of playing time last year, but it's hard to say where he will play,” said Heiderscheid.

A pair of seniors, Brandon Baker and newcomer Ryan Hessler, will battle for time in goal. Baker, who started junior varsity last year, will miss time, because he also has kicking duties for the football team. Regardless of who is in goal, Heiderscheid said they will have big shoes to fill after Brennan guided the team to state three times.

“Baker is a really good goalkeeper.

We also have a new guy, Ryan Hessler, coming out and he has looked good. We also have Patrick England and Brendan Heaton who are going to be juniors,” said Heiderscheid. “Really, goalkeeping may not be a bad situation though Daniel Brennan was a two-time All-State player.”

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“On the right side, we are returning Maddie Werths, who is 6-foot-1. She is a tremendous hitter and great blocker. In the middle, we are returning Sarah Parker, a three-year starter. We are moving up Lynsey Wright, a junior middle blocker that is almost 6-foot. On the outside, we have Nicole Allaria, Camrey Saye and Gaylynn Jones,” Parker said. “We are quite deep on the offensive side again this year.”

Seniors Nicole Allaria (43 kills, 12 blocks) and Gaylynn Jones will compete for time at the net, along with junior Lynsey Wright, who starred for the junior varsity team last season. Parker noted that Allaria (5-9) and Jones (5-8) are excellent passers and Wright (5-11) will be a force in the middle.

Feeding the hitters will be a familiar face at

a different position. Senior Aubry Dickmann (5-6) will make the jump from being a backline defender to setter. Replacing Gober will not be easy, but Parker believes Dickmann, who had 168 digs and nine assists last year, is ready for her chance.

“Aubry has been starting defense for a couple of years, so she is very comfortable on the varsity floor. She is a tremendous setter in her own right. She was just a year behind Lexi. I’m not worried at all with her getting the ball out for our hitters,” said Parker.

Another change in position will be made

by Katie Shashack (5-6). A junior, Shashack will take over the libero duties. She finished with 167 digs last season, fifth on the team.

Juniors Clare Wasmuth (5-7) and Tessa Wagner (5-6) will make the jump from

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junior varsity to round out the defense for the varsity team.

The new group of Tigers will be looking to build on a few impressive streaks, including five consecutive SWC championships, four straight regional titles and a 19-match winning streak against league opponents.

The current players were mostly spectators to those feats, but now it is their turn and Parker said they are ready to prove themselves.

“The kids have been waiting for their time to start. I think it makes them very hungry because a number of these kids are seniors.

They are incredibly talented individuals, but they were behind a dominant senior class,” said Parker. “I think we are going to catch some people by surprise. They saw us graduate six and they think we are going to

be down. This is a talented group as well.”

EHS will again host the season-opening Tiger Classic, starting Aug. 31. Edwardsville will welcome St. Joseph’s Academy (Sept.

5), Incarnate Word (Sept. 12) and Breese Mater Dei (Oct. 15) to Lucco-Jackson Gym after meeting those teams on the road last season. Road tournaments will feature stops at the Effingham Nike Classic, St. Charles East and Lyons Township. The Tigers opted for the season-ending Lyons Township Tournament over the Quincy Notre Dame Tournament, hoping to see potential postseason opponents.

“This year will be nice after having a roadheavy schedule last year. It seemed like all our big matches were on the road,” said Parker. “It will be nice to have some of those big games in our home gym.”

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By BILL ROSEBERRY broseberry@edwpub.net

The Edwardsville Tiger girls' tennis program said its teary good byes to a pretty substantial senior class after last season, but that doesn't mean it will be a rebuilding year for the always talented team.

The Tigers return plenty of talent and experience, including seniors Morgan McGinnis and Paige Bequette who are multiple state qualifiers. Both made it in singles in 2011 while senior Casey Bonham advanced to state at No. 1 doubles with the graduated Paige Sturley.

Sturley joined Tess Severin, Jessica Burns and Maddie Cullen as the departures from last year's program.

Burns and Severin also advanced to the state tournament at No. 2 doubles.

“Tess (Severin), Jessica (Burns), Paige (Sturley) and Maddie Cullen graduated and we’ve got a new group of six seniors that are ready to step in and assume that leadership role,” said Edwardsville head coach Dave Lipe. “We’ve got a really good mix of younger players and veteran leadership, so I’m very optimistic.”

While on the outside it may look like there isn't as much experience as there has been at EHS, Lipe assures that's not the case.

“All six of our seniors are four-year players,” said Lipe. “Some have played varsity that whole time and some have not, but all six have been in the program for four years so I’m totally leaning on

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Above are senior members of the Edwardsville Tiger girls' tennis team. From left to right are: Casey Bonham, Kristin Schlueter, Sara Janulavich, Morgan McGinnis, Annabeth Carlson and Paige Bequette. them.

“I think we have a very long list of girls who played last year and worked really hard this offseason and are looking to increase their roles. We have more girls that are capable of doing well in the sectional than we have places in the sectional. We’re very deep with a lot of

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Continued from Page 4 In the midfield, sophomores Landon Paul and Andrew Mullican have the inside track to start in the middle. Senior Ryan Grimm, juniors Michael Romann, Justin Lowery and Sam Watts and sophomore Liam Burke will help fill the outside positions and could also see time in the backfield or at forward.

“Landon Paul is just a terrific player. He is only going to be a sophomore and he was great as a freshman.

He is just a very, very good player,” said Heiderscheid.

“Landon’s most likely running mate in midfield would be Andrew Mullican.

He is an exceptional player on the ball and he is only a sophomore.”

Trying to step in at forward will be returning leading scorer Bailey Winfield (three goals), Brent Heinlein, Hayden Hessler and Caleb Szedlar. Seniors Colin Dorris and Austin Donelson will also vie for time while Verdu, Weatherly and Romann may also be used up top.

“Bailey Winfield had his moments last year and he

really showed well. He had some big goals last year. I think he will be a good start up front. Brent Heinlein is now a junior and he is much more mature, stronger and confident. The same can be said for Hayden Hessler,” said Heiderscheid.

A trio of skilled freshmen will also see time. Nick H e i n e m e i e r, To m m y Giacobbe and Austin Toby will add to a long list of players that could play multiple positions, with the three able to suit up at midfield or in the backfield.

“Nick Heinemeier has really shown a lot in the midfield. He has a chance to bolster things in midfield.

Tommy Giacobbe can play in the back. He is big enough, strong enough and confident enough to where he will be fine. Austin Toby has shown a lot as well. He is very skillful and could play in the back or at midfield,” said Heiderscheid.

The Tigers were not the only SWC team to lose players to graduation.

O’Fallon, which finished 194 and second in the league, lost 14 players to graduation,

including leading scorer Tyler Collico (34 goals). The Panthers return only four from last season’s varsity roster. The subtractions from EHS and O’Fallon could open the door for another team to take the conference, including Collinsville and Granite City.

“Both of us took big hits.

It is hard to say who took the biggest, but it may have been O’Fallon. They were completely senior laden.

We still have players that played varsity ball that are back,” said Heiderscheid.

“Collinsville, if they can keep their players playing high school ball, would really be a team to beat, but that might not be the case. The team that seems to have the most players back is Granite City.

By virtue of the fact that the Warriors can reload, they can be threatening.”

Edwardsville opens the season at DeSmet at noon on Saturday. Non-conference games this season include Alton Marquette (Sept. 3) and CBC (Sept. 24). The Tigers will also enter tournaments at Morton (Sept. 14-15) and Alton (Oct. 5-6).

experience and we’ve got some new girls in there who have a lot of tournament experience, including a freshman right now who is at, or near the top in Callaghan Adams.”

Lipe is thoroughly impressed with Adams and sophomore Megan LaRose, expecting major contributions from them

this season.

“If we played today Callaghan would be up there at No. 1 probably and Megan LaRose would be No. 2,” Lipe said.

“That’s because we’re not quite sure where Morgan (McGinnis) is going to fit in.”

McGinnis is still on the road to recovery from an Ischemic Stroke which she suffered in an offseason tournament with the Tigers in Urbana on Feb. 26. Lipe admitted it's been a slow, patient process in her recovery.

“On any given day Morgan could be the best player in the lineup,” said Lipe.

“This year unlike other years putting Morgan back in the lineup I’m confident she could fit into the top six and be able to pull out one match, but at this point I’m not sure if she’d be strong enough to play three matches. We’re just taking it one day at a time. She beat Callaghan in a set recently, but that’s not a whole match. She can play as well as anybody on this team, but we just have to be able to measure her ability to sustain it. That’s where we are right now, but I’m not surprised by anything she does. She’s a warrior and I knew she would be. We just have to take it day by day with her and that’s what we’re doing."

Lipe added of McGinnis' progression, “I think it’s a little slower than daily. I think weekly I’m seeing it.”

Outside of McGinnis there are a slew of other EHS netters attempting to make their mark on the program, too.

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By MATTHEW KAMP mkamp.edwi@gmail.com

The Edwardsville Tiger girls’ golf team is all grown up.

Two years ago, EHS head coach Tresa LaBoube used a freshman and two sophomores to advance out of the Class AA Edwardsville Regional and into the Pekin Sectional. Last year, those three added three juniors to the mix and advanced to the state tournament after claiming a Southwestern Conference championship.

Now they are all grown up, with LaBoube fielding five seniors and a junior for the season-opening Madison County tournament. The Tigers claimed their fourth title in the event’s fifth year, getting solid rounds from junior Emilee Flaugher (82) and seniors Lauran Belling (85), Brie Duvall (88), Emily Briley (88) and Taylor Maggio (92). Senior Austin Gordon carded a 96 to round out the day for Edwardsville.

It was a good start for what should be a promising season according to LaBoube. The six players that suited up at Gateway National Golf Links for the Madison County Tournament were the same six that played in last season’s state meet at Decatur ’s Hickory Point Golf Club. The lone senior on last year’s team was Jordan Thompson, who did not take part.

“Everybody is coming back. We lost just the one senior, Jordan Thompson.

The ones coming back were the main core of the team. Now they are seniors and I do not really want to think about that,” smiled LaBoube. “They are a great group of girls. They are striking the ball well. They worked hard over the summer. They are much more experienced and after having them all four years in the program, they have just blossomed. They are very confident.”

The Tigers are hoping they can use that confidence for a return trip to state.

Last year ’s Springfield Regional and Mattoon Sectional have been replaced by the Alton Regional (Rolling Hills Golf Course) and Normal University

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Pictured above are members of the Edwardsville Tiger girls’ golf team. In the front row from left to right are: Taylor Maggio and Brie Duvall. In the back row from left to right are: Lauran Belling, Emily Briley, head coach Tresa LaBoube, Austin Gordon, Emilee Flaugher and Ashlea Hearn.

Sectional (Weibring Golf Club). They used third-place finishes to advance out of the regional and sectional last season.

LaBoube did not shy away from saying the girls are already talking about the state tournament, which takes place Oct. 12-13.

“They are already thinking about state. That is the goal of any team’s. It is definitely a goal of ours,” LaBoube said. “We are just taking it one match at a time and one shot at a time, because we all know you have to earn it. We definitely want to keep improving and rolling along like we are.”

Despite having five seniors in the team’s top six, it is the junior Flaugher that has taken on the leadership role and has been pushing the team to improve on last season’s 12th-place finish at state.

Last season, Flaugher finished in 45th place at state, with a 25-over 169 for the two-day event. Her stellar sophomore campaign also included medalist honors at the Southwestern Conference Tournament, a co-medalist finish at the Mattoon Sectional, second-place honors at the Gary Bair Invite and a fourthplace finish at the Springfield Regional.

“Emilee has taken a leadership role

with the girls. She is writing little notes for them and texting them reminders about what they need to do. I am just really happy with it,” said LaBoube.

Maggio, a four-year starter, enters her final season with Edwardsville. She was the No. 2 golfer behind Flaugher to start the season. Behind Flaugher and Maggio are Belling, a third-year starter and second-year starters Duvall and Briley.

Belling ended last year on a positive note, cutting 16 strokes off her first-day total at state to finish at 202, fifth best on the team. Duvall (200), Gordon (202) and Maggio (202) finished just in front of her.

LaBoube believes the experience from state, along with their time with the program, have really helped the seniors develop their games. She noted that scores have come down as their careers have progressed.

“They are more confident in knowing what they can and can not do. They are confident in their game,” said LaBoube.

“That makes all the difference in the world. They know if they make one mistake not to compound it by making another bad shot. They have learned that.”

Looking to break into the lineup this season will be junior Ashlea Hearn. She has been dominant on the junior varsity circuit and now is looking to make the leap to the next level.

Not only will experience be in Edwardsville’s corner, but also a hunger t o s u c c e e d . D e s p i t e t e m p e r a t u re s consistently topping the century mark, LaBoube said her players were out at the golf course working on their games throughout the summer. The hard work showed in the season’s first tournament.

“A lot of them played a lot of golf and practiced on their own. They got into the Gateway program and different tournaments in the area. These girls have looked great, very consistent and confident,” said LaBoube. “I had canceled a couple of contact days because of the heat, but it does not look like it has hurt any of them. They are very excited.”

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“Megan (LaRose) is playing great, Sara Janulavich is playing great, Kristin Schlueter, Paige Bequette, Jenn Meyers, all those girls are playing great,” said Lipe. “There’s just a bunch of kids playing great.”

With all that talent and internal competition the odds should be in Edwardsville's favor to keep their stellar streak intact. The Tigers have corralled 15 consecutive sectional crowns, an impressive feat, but something Lipe waved off as utterly laughable to worry or think about this early in the season.

“Definitely not now,” Lipe said adamantly. “It’s not even anywhere in my brain at this point. Right now I’m just trying to figure out our strengths and weaknesses, trying to figure out our lineup, trying to figure out our order.

That kind of stuff is so far down the road that I’m not focused on that. My head is trying to figure out our ladder, it’s not on any streaks or anything like that.”

EHS will definitely be tested early and often. Like always, Lipe has constructed a humdinger of a schedule to challenge his team and prepare them for the postseason.

The Tigers start with Downer's Grove South today on the road and head to the New Trier Invite on Saturday. On Thursday they travel to Lafayette High School in Missouri and then host the Heather Bradshaw Invitational on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 at the EHS Tennis Center.

There will be plenty more challenges on the docket as it unfurls also, with a visit to Columbia Rockbridge in Missouri, the Loyola Academy Invitational, a match at St. Joseph's Academy, the Lockport Invite

and the Lincoln Way East Tournament to name a few.

“It’s a tough one,” Lipe said of the schedule. “We added Highland Park this year and our tournaments continue to get tougher. We’re making several trips up north. We’re defending our title at Lockport, so it will be an exciting year as far as our schedule. It’s pretty steady that our schedule is extremely difficult and this year it will be again.”

Lipe also praised the Heather Bradshaw Tournament as a perfect vehicle to show off his squad to the hometown fans early on, as well as offering some pretty stout competition for them.

“That’s a great way to start the season,” said Lipe. “We won the tournament last year and it was a big deal for us. We beat Loyola in the final. It’s our second

weekend after we play our first weekend in Chicago, so we’re really looking forward to that.”

Lipe's just ready to delve back into prep tennis after being wrapped up in the second annual Edwardsville Futures professional tournament. He said it's a great learning experience for the Tiger players, but places him slightly behind the eight ball at the beginning of the season.

“I feel like a distracted coach until that tournament ends,” said Lipe with a laugh. “I try to make sure that the girls have a quality four days, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I had them watch a lot over the (finals) weekend (of the Edwardsville Futures) because I think you can learn a lot from watching, so hopefully some of that sunk in.”

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Tiger Boys' Golf . . . . . . . . . . . . .

By BILL ROSEBERRY broseberry@edwpub.net

In 2011 the Edwardsville Tiger boys' golf team were the Class 3A Collinsville Regional champions.

Unfortunately, the Tigers then spiraled to 10th place at a challenging Class 3A Joliet Sectional and failed to send any players to the state tournament.

It was a tough way to conclude a well played season for EHS, but now that is squarely in the rearview mirror and the Tigers have a plethora of talent to send out on the links in 2012.

“The kids had a great tryout,” said EHS head coach Dene Schickedanz. “We stumbled a little bit (at the Redbird Invitational), but we’ll pick ourselves up and I think you’re going to see us play great very shortly. One of the great things about our program with the interest in our community is every year the kids have to push themselves if they want to remain on the team and be part of the top 10 varsity players. They’ve got to work really hard. You can’t take a season off.”

Edwardsville has a solid mix of savvy veteran leadership and hungry young talent.

Seniors Drew Curtis, Connor

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Above are the varsity members of the Edwardsville Tiger boys' golf team. From left to right are: Nic Bryant, Drew Curtis, Harrison Gordon, Michael Pfitzner, John Schmidtke, Connor Bradley, Chris Haas, Mike Gaumer, Jake Johnston and Ty Zeller.

Bradley, John Schmidtke and Nic Bryant earned a myriad of experience last season, as did sophomore Michael Pfitzner.

Schickedanz foresees Pfitzner

as having an excellent season for the Tigers.

“After tryouts he was our low guy,” Schickedanz said of Pfitzner.

“He certainly earned the No. 1

spot. (At the Redbird Invitational) his ball striking was off a little bit, but Michael is a great player and he’s going to continue to play post Edwardsville I think.

We’re going to see him playing real nice, so I think you’re going to see him bounce back real quick this season.”

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Tiger Boys' Cross Country. .

By MATTHEW KAMP mkamp.edwi@gmail.com

For the first time in George Patrylak’s tenure as head coach of the Edwardsville Tiger boys’ cross country team, he does not have a Sweatt in his program.

Patrylak, who took over coaching duties in 2004, had Willie Sweatt for his junior and senior seasons before his brother, Eli, ran for four years with the Tigers. The third and final Sweatt to go through the boys’ program was one of the top runners in team history, and now Garrett finds himself running for the Stanford Cardinal.

“No Sweatts on the boys’ side,” Patrylak said. “Garrett is going to continue to do great things at Stanford.

He left behind a legacy. Some of the boys are looking forward to getting a chance to step up and represent Edwardsville.”

The returning runners and newcomers will have big shoes to fill with the departure of Sweatt. In four seasons with the Tigers, he was a four-time Southwestern Conference champion, three-time All-State performer and only the second Edwardsville runner to place twice in the Top 10 at the state meet.

He wrapped up his cross country career with a fourth-place finish at last year’s state meet.

EHS not only will have to replace Sweatt, but also Joel Burroughs and Caden Cramsey that ran at last season’s state meet and placed 24th. Austin

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Pictured above are members of the Tiger boys’ cross country team. In the front row from left to right are: Andy Stratmann, Zain Pyarali, Chad Maxwell, Ben Gabel and Ethan Townzen. In the back row from left to right are: Jai Kansel, Mark O’Brien, Brydon Groves-Scott, Ryker Frohock, Logan Weshinskey, Brad Wever, Andrew Patterson, Prakash Kandula, Nick Ferrari and Wes Schoenthal.

Abegg and Brendan Colligan were key members of last year ’s team as well.

Patrylak believes the Tigers have plenty coming back to help offset the losses.

“We only had three seniors run at last year ’s state meet, so we have four athletes coming back. I think we have the ability to have a better overall team. Obviously we won’t have

the front runner like Garrett,” said Patrylak. “I have already seen quite a bit of improvement, especially with our sophomore group, including Wes Schoenthal and Brydon Groves-Scott."

Groves-Scott had the second-best day for Edwardsville at state, finishing in 159th with a time of 16:01. Schoenthal was the sixth Tiger to cross, taking 210th

with a time of 17:17. Also returning from last year’s postseaon roster are seniors Ryker Frohock and Chad Maxwell.

Frohock finished in 16:46, good for 205th, despite battling sickness while Maxwell did not complete the race.

The returning members will team with incoming freshman Ethan Townzen.

Patrylak is excited about his newest runner.

“We have possibly the next greatest distance runner behind Stephen (Pifer) and Garrett (Sweatt) in Ethan Townzen.

He will immediately start out in our varsity and could probably be in our top three by the end of the year,” said Patrylak.

Unlike the previous four years when the Tigers had Sweatt as their front runner, the team should be bunched closer together in the standings. If they can keep their times close together, Patrylak believes his squad can be very dangerous from top to bottom.

“In the past, we kind of focused on getting the team as close as we could to Garrett. Everything was about how close we could be and closing that gap. Now what happens is that gap will get smaller and having our top seven get as close as possible,” Patrylak said.

Though the season does not start until Saturday’s meet at Belleville West, Patrylak had a preview of what his team is capable of with the running of Mud Mountain at SIUE on July 28.

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Schickedanz is impressed with some of his newcomers, too.

“We’ve got a great young group with a real good freshman class,” Schickedanz said. “(Freshmen) Cale Ambuehl and Justin Hemmings were actually the low scorers on our JV team. We have three teams, varsity, JV and frehsman and you’ll probably see Ambuehl and Hemmings up on the varsity level pretty soon.”

As always, Schickedanz compiles an arduous schedule for his Tigers.

Edwardsville opened the season on Aug. 14 with a fifth place finish in the Redbird Invitational at Spencer T. Olin Golf Course.

The Tigers nabbed second place at the

Quincy Invitational on Aug. 18 at Westview Golf Course. Today, EHS is entered in the Champaign Central Invite at the University of Illinois Golf Course.

Other challenging tournaments for the Tiger linksters include: the St. Viator Invitational at Old Orchard Country Club in Chicago on Sept. 1, the Mattoon Invitational on Sept. 7 and 8 at Meadowview Golf Course on Friday and Mattoon Country Club on Saturday, the Pekin Dragon Invitational at Lick Creek Golf Course on Sept. 15, the Ryder Cup style Arnie's Cup at The Den at Fox Creek in Bloomington on Sept. 22 and EHS' very own Dick Gerber Invitational at Oak Brook Golf Course on Sept. 29.

“We go up to St. Viator for one, so we put a lot of miles on the rental cars and as a coaching staff we’re really happy to do it,” said Schickedanz. “That’s what makes the kids competitive and gets them ready for the postseason. You have to get out and take your game on the road and see if you’re able to withstand staying in hotels and still get up early and play and play outside your comfort zone. That’s the reason we do it. It makes us better and kind of toughens us up and gets us ready for the end of the season.”

And if the tournaments won't be tough enough, the Southwestern Conference will provide a tenacious test, too. At the Redbird Invitational, EHS, Alton, Belleville East and

Belleville West all finished within three strokes of each other in the team scores.

“It’s anybody’s conference right now,” Schickedanz said. “Every year it kind of changes and some people get better and some people lose some kids, but I think you’ve got four teams that have an equal chance of winning the conference. It will be a lot of fun. We love to compete and we’re looking forward to all our matchups with them.”

The Tigers open SWC action at 4 p.m.

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Tiger Girls' cross country . .

By MATTHEW KAMP mkamp.edwi@gmail.com

Edwardsville’s MiKala Thompkins is hoping she can take some of the magic from her track and field team that nabbed a state championship last spring and bring it over to the girls’ cross country team.

Thompkins, the girls’ track and field head coach, will be an assistant coach for the cross country team, working alongside head coach George Patrylak.

Her primary duty will be directing a girls’ team that fell short of a state berth, failing to qualify out of the Quincy Sectional.

“I am ecstatic to be out here with the cross country girls. They are working so hard and are putting so much effort into this. It is nice to see a different angle at the hard work that they are putting into this,” said Thompkins.

“The majority of the girls put in daily work over the summer. It was optional.

They are so serious about what they do. I am excited to see how it pays off and being a part of it.”

Prior to this past spring’s track and field season, Thompkins said she was hoping to see improvements in the long-distance runners because it had been an area of weakness. Now, she will get a chance to see what they can do first hand.

“This is really helpful to me to be able to see their foundations. I will be able to see where they start from and I’ll be able to help them transition from cross country to track. I will know how they run, their styles and what they go through out here in cross country,” said Thompkins.

Headlining the girls’ team will be junior Allie Sweatt, who qualified as

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Pictured above are members of the Tiger girls’ cross country team. From left to right are: Willow Tolly, Allie Sweatt, Sarah Smith, Lizzy Lynn, Erika Fulbright, Danielle Bohannon, Katie Edmonds and Jasmine Hyatt. an individual for last year ’s state meet.

She placed second in the Edwardsville Regional before finishing in fourth at the Quincy Sectional. Her time of 18:40 in Quincy was tops among individuals on non-advancing teams.

Thompkins is excited to work with Sweatt, who finished 132nd at state and was one of her top long-distance runners during the spring.

“It is very important to get a chance to work with Allie during the cross country season. It will give me one year to work with her. It will help her to have us both working together during the cross country season. It will give us a better understanding of one

another and we can put that towards track,” Thompkins said.

Also looking to make a big impact on the team will be sophomore Lizzy Lynn, junior Erika Fulbright and senior Sarah Smith. Smith and Lynn were part of last season’s track team, along with sophomores Erica Bailey and Willow Tolly, junior Henna Bazai and senior Jasmine Hyatt.

“Having Sarah Smith back, having Lizzy Lynn back, having those girls out here at cross country, we are able to work on some things that we did not have time to work on during our track season,” said Thompkins. “Now we can improve on some more things

out here, improve in cross country and carry that into the track season.”

Ly n n ( 2 0 : 5 2 ) a n d S m i t h ( 2 0 : 5 9 ) earned 11th and 12th, respectively, in last season’s Edwardsville Regional, helping the Tigers to a second-place finish.

There will be a little bit of a transition for Thompkins, who competed for the track team as a sprinter and hurdler w h e n s h e w a s a Ti g e r. T h e c ro s s country courses will not be nearly as flat or smooth as the track, offering hills and a variety of different paths.

“I have seen how strong the girls really are. It is awesome to know that I can take them off this flat ground and throw some hills at them. They are going to work even harder,” said Thompkins.

One thing that will not change is the dominance of O’Fallon. The Panthers are poised to be the top team in southern Illinois after winning regional and sectional titles before placing 15th in the state. They return their top runner, junior Sydney Neal, along with two sophomores and a junior that placed in their top six.

Thompkins believes the Tigers have worked hard enough over the summer to be a threat to O’Fallon’s top position in the conference. She is also hoping that hard work translates into a trip to the state meet for the first time since 2006.

“Coach Patrylak is such an excellent coach to work for. He has a vision for this team. It is getting this team to understand that they have the talent and that they work hard enough to go as a team to state,” said Thompkins.

“With all the work they have done in the summer, they should have the confidence to get the job done.”

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G ro v e s - S c o t t t o o k f i f t h o v e r a l l , finishing in 17:15. Following him were: Townzen (ninth, 17:29), Frohock (15th, 18:00) and Schoenthal (25th, 18:39). Other members of the team that competed were: Zain Pyarali, Mark O’Brien, Jay Lickert, Brad Wever and Ben and Zach Gabel.

“I was very impressed with Mud Mountain. Some of the times were scary good,” said Patrylak. “It is a good indicator where they are right now. Especially when I see a big jump, especially from our sophomores, that is usually a really good indicator.”

Edwardsville will need to be very good this season if it wants to catch O’Fallon

in the Southwestern Conference. The Panthers, who took second at last year’s state meet, again appear to be the team to beat in southern Illinois.

“Come November, O’Fallon should definitely be in the trophy hunt. They are a very good team,” Patrylak said.

The Tigers will put up a fight.

“We probably have 10 pieces that

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Tiger Football Aug. 25 at Hazelwood West, 1 p.m.

Aug. 31 vs. Soldan, 7 p.m.

Sept. 7 at East St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Sept. 14 vs. Granite City, 7 p.m.

Sept. 21 at Alton, 7 p.m.

Sept. 28 vs. Belleville West, 7 p.m.

Oct. 5 at Belleville East, 7 p.m.

Oct. 12 vs. O’Fallon, 7 p.m.

Oct. 19 at Collinsville, 7 p.m.

Aug. 24 at Downer’s Grove South, 4 p.m.

Aug. 25 at New Trier Invite, 8 a.m.

Aug. 30 at Lafayette, 4 p.m.

Aug. 31 vs. Heather Bradshaw Invite, 1 p.m.

Sept. 1 vs. Heather Bradshaw Invite, 8 a.m.

Sept. 4 vs. East St. Louis, 4 p.m.

Sept. 4 vs. Alton, 4 p.m.

Sept. 5 vs. Granite City, 4 p.m.

Sept. 7 at Rockbridge Duals, 10 a.m.

Sept. 11 at Belleville West, 4 p.m.

Sept. 13 at Belleville East, 4 p.m.

Sept. 15 at Loyola Academy Invite, 8:30 a.m.

Sept. 18 vs. Collinsville, 4 p.m.

Sept. 21 at Southern Illinois Duals at Belleville East, 1 p.m.

Sept. 22 at Southern Illinois Duals, 9 a.m.

Sept. 25 vs. O’Fallon, 4 p.m.

Sept. 27 at St. Joseph’s Academy, 4 p.m.

Sept. 28 at Lockport Invite, 4 p.m.

Sept. 29 at Lockport Invite, 8 a.m.

Sept. 29 at Lincoln Way East Tournament, 9 a.m.

O c t . 5 a t S o u t h w e s t e r n C o n f e re n c e Tournament at Granite City, 1 p.m.

O c t . 6 a t S o u t h w e s t e r n C o n f e re n c e Tournament at Granite City, 10 a.m.

Tiger Field Hockey

Tiger Boys’ Golf Aug. 24 at Champaign Central Invite, 1 p.m.

Aug. 27 at Alton/East St. Louis, 4 p.m.

Aug. 29 at Granite City, 4 p.m.

Sept. 1 at St. Viator Invite, 11 a.m.

Sept. 5 at Belleville East, 4 p.m.

Sept. 7 at Mattoon Invite, 1 p.m.

Sept. 8 at Mattoon Invite, 8 a.m.

Sept. 8 at Providence Catholic, 8 a.m.

Sept. 10 vs. Collinsville, 4 p.m.

Sept. 11 vs. Belleville West, 4 p.m.

Sept. 13 at Belleville Althoff, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 15 at Pekin Dragon Invite, 8:30 a.m.

Sept. 19 at O’Fallon, 4 p.m.

Sept. 22 at Arnie’s Cup at Bloomington, 9:30 a.m.

Sept. 25 at Southwestern Conference Tournament, 9 a.m.

Sept. 29 vs. Dick Gerber Invite, 1 p.m.

Aug. 28 vs. Parkway North, 4 p.m.

Aug. 31 at Gateway Classic, TBA Sept. 1 at Gateway Classic, TBA Sept. 2 at Gateway Classic, TBA Sept. 3 at Gateway Classic, TBA Sept. 6 vs. Whitfield, 4 p.m.

Sept. 13 vs. St. Joseph’s Academy, 4 p.m.

Sept. 14 at Eureka, 4 p.m.

Sept. 20 vs. Oakville, 4 p.m.

Sept. 21 vs. Visitation, 4 p.m.

Sept. 25 at Parkway West, 4:15 p.m.

Sept. 27 vs. Villa Duchesne, 4 p.m.

Oct. 4 vs. Ursuline, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 vs. Nerinx Hall, 10 a.m.

Oct. 9 at Cor Jesu, 4 p.m.

Oct. 11 at John Burroughs, 4 p.m.

Oct. 12 vs. Barat Academy, 4 p.m.

Oct. 16 vs. Rosati Academy, 4 p.m.

Oct. 18 vs. MICDS, 4 p.m.

Oct. 22 at Rockwood Summit, 4 p.m.

Oct. 23 vs. Lutheran South, 4 p.m.

Tiger Soccer Aug. 25 at DeSmet, noon Aug. 28 vs. Belleville East, 7 p.m.

Aug. 30 at O’Fallon, 7 p.m.

Sept. 3 vs. Alton Marquette, 7 p.m.

Sept. 5 vs. Gibault, 7 p.m.

Sept. 6 at Granite City, 7 p.m.

Sept. 8 at Urbana, 2 p.m.

Sept. 11 vs. Collinsville, 7 p.m.

Sept. 12 at Parkway South, 7 p.m.

Sept. 14 at Morton Invitational, TBA Sept. 15 at Morton Invitational, TBA Sept. 19 at Whitfield, 6:30 p.m.

Sept. 24 at CBC, 7 p.m.

Sept. 25 vs. Alton, 7 p.m.

Sept. 29 vs. Carbondale, 1 p.m.

Oct. 5 at Alton Tournament, TBA Oct. 6 at Alton Tournament, TBA Oct. 9 at Belleville West, 7 p.m.

Tiger Cross Country Aug. 25 at Belleville West/O’Fallon, 9 a.m.

Sept. 1 at Granite City Invitational, 8:30 a.m.

Sept. 5 vs. Tiger Fall Classic, 4 p.m.

Sept. 8 at Peoria Woodruff Invite, 9 a.m.

Sept. 15 vs. Edwardsville Invite, 9 a.m.

Sept. 22 at East Peoria Invite, 9 a.m.

Sept. 24 at Jerseyville Invite, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 29 at Peoria High Invite, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 2 at Madison County Meet at SIUE, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Centralia Invite, 9:30 a.m.

Oct. 12 at Southwestern Conference Tournament at East St. Louis, 4 p.m.

Oct. 15 vs. Tiger Finale, 4 p.m.

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Tiger Volleyball Aug. 28 vs. Waterloo, 7 p.m.

Aug. 31 vs. Tiger Classic Tournament, 5 p.m.

Sept. 1 vs. Tiger Classic Tournament, 8 a.m.

Sept. 5 vs. St. Joseph’s Academy, 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 7 at Crossroads Classic in Effingham, TBA Sept. 8 at Crossroads Classic in Effingham, TBA Sept. 10 at Triad, 6 p.m.

Sept. 12 vs. Incarnate Word Academy, 6:15 p.m.

Sept. 13 at Granite City, 6 p.m.

Sept. 18 vs. Belleville Althoff, 6 p.m.

Sept. 20 vs. East St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Sept. 24 at Highland, 6 p.m.

Sept. 27 at Collinsville, 6 p.m.

Oct. 2 vs. O’Fallon, 6 p.m.

Oct. 4 at Belleville East, 6 p.m.

Oct. 5 at Mizuno Tournament, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Mizuno Tournament, 8:30 a.m.

Oct. 10 vs. Civic Memorial, 6 p.m.

Oct. 11 vs. Alton, 6 p.m.

Oct. 15 vs. Breese Mater Dei, 6 p.m.

Oct. 16 at Belleville West, 6 p.m.

Oct. 19 at Lyons Township Tournament, 5 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Lyons Township Tournament, 9 a.m.

Tiger Girls’ Golf Aug. 30 at Mascoutah/Sparta, 4 p.m.

Sept. 5 vs. Alton, 4 p.m.

Sept. 6 at Alton Marquette/Belleville Althoff/Highland, 4 p.m.

Sept. 8 at Alton Invitational, 1 p.m.

Sept. 11 at Highland/Salem/Waterloo, 4 p.m.

Sept. 12 vs. Triad/Sacred Heart-Griffin, 4 p.m.

Sept. 17 vs. O’Fallon, 4 p.m.

Sept. 18 vs. Granite City, 4 p.m.

Sept. 19 vs. Belleville West, 4 p.m.

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Sept. 8 at Arizona State, 9:30 p.m.

Sept. 15 vs. Charleston Southern, 11 a.m.

Sept. 22 vs. Louisiana Tech, 7 p.m.

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Fall Sports Schedules

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San Francisco at Green Bay, 3:25 p.m.

Carolina at Tampa Bay, 3:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Denver, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 10 Cincinnati at Baltimore, 6 p.m.

San Diego at Oakland, 9:15 p.m.

Week 2 Thursday, Sept. 13 Chicago at Green Bay, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 16 Kansas City at Buffalo, noon New Orleans at Carolina, noon Cleveland at Cincinnati, noon Minnesota at Indianapolis, noon Houston at Jacksonville, noon Arizona at New England, noon Tampa Bay at N.Y. Giants, noon Baltimore at Philadelphia, noon Oakland at Miami, noon Washington at St. Louis, 3:05 p.m.

Dallas at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh, 3:25 p.m.

Tennessee at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

Detroit at San Francisco, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 17 Denver at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Week 3 Thursday, Sept. 20 N.Y. Giants at Carolina, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 23 St. Louis at Chicago, noon Buffalo at Cleveland, noon Tampa Bay at Dallas, noon Jacksonville at Indianapolis, noon N.Y. Jets at Miami, noon San Francisco at Minnesota, noon Kansas City at New Orleans, noon Detroit at Tennessee, noon Cincinnati at Washington, noon Philadelphia at Arizona, 3:05 p.m.

Atlanta at San Diego, 3:05 p.m.

Houston at Denver, 3:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Oakland, 3:25 p.m.

New England at Baltimore, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 24 Green Bay at Seattle, 7:30 p.m.

Week 4 (Byes: Indianapolis, Pittsburgh) Thursday, Sept. 27 Cleveland at Baltimore, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 30 Carolina at Atlanta, noon New England at Buffalo, noon Minnesota at Detroit, noon Tennessee at Houston, noon San Diego at Kansas City, noon San Francisco at N.Y. Jets, noon Seattle at St. Louis, noon Miami at Arizona, 3:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Jacksonville, 3:05 p.m.

Oakland at Denver, 3:05 p.m.

New Orleans at Green Bay, 3:25 p.m.

Washington at Tampa Bay, 3:25 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 1 Chicago at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

NFL Schedules Week 5

(Byes: Dallas, Detroit, Oakland, Tampa Bay) Thursday, Oct. 4 Arizona at St. Louis, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 7 Miami at Cincinnati, noon Green Bay at Indianapolis, noon Baltimore at Kansas City, noon Tennessee at Minnesota, noon Cleveland at N.Y. Giants, noon Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, noon Atlanta at Washington, noon Seattle at Carolina, 3:05 p.m.

Chicago at Jacksonville, 3:05 p.m.

Denver at New England, 3:25 p.m.

Buffalo at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.

San Diego at New Orleans, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 8 Houston at N.Y. Jets, 7:30 p.m.

Week 6 (Byes: Carolina, Chicago, Jacksonville, New Orleans) Thursday, Oct. 11 Pittsburgh at Tennessee, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 14 Oakland at Atlanta, noon Dallas at Baltimore, noon Cincinnati at Cleveland, noon St. Louis at Miami, noon Indianapolis at N.Y. Jets, noon Detroit at Philadelphia, noon Kansas City at Tampa Bay, noon Buffalo at Arizona, 3:05 p.m.

New England at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 3:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Houston, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 15 Denver at San Diego, 7:30 p.m.

Week 9

(Byes: New England, N.Y. Jets, St. Louis, San Francisco) Thursday, Nov. 1 Kansas City at San Diego, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 4 Denver at Cincinnati, noon Baltimore at Cleveland, noon Arizona at Green Bay, noon Buffalo at Houston, noon Miami at Indianapolis, noon Detroit at Jacksonville, noon Chicago at Tennessee, noon Carolina at Washington, noon Tampa Bay at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at N.Y. Giants, 3:25 p.m.

Dallas at Atlanta, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 5 Philadelphia at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m.

Week 10 (Byes: Arizona, Cleveland, Green Bay, Washington) Thursday, Nov. 8 Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 11 Oakland at Baltimore, noon Denver at Carolina, noon N.Y. Giants at Cincinnati, noon Tennessee at Miami, noon Detroit at Minnesota, noon Buffalo at New England, noon Atlanta at New Orleans, noon San Diego at Tampa Bay, noon N.Y. Jets at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.

Dallas at Philadelphia, 3:25 p.m.

St. Louis at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.

Houston at Chicago, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 12 Kansas City at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.

Week 11 (Byes: Minnesota, N.Y. Giants, Seattle, Tennessee) Thursday, Nov. 15 Miami at Buffalo, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 18 Arizona at Atlanta, noon Tampa Bay at Carolina, noon Cleveland at Dallas, noon Green Bay at Detroit, noon Jacksonville at Houston, noon Cincinnati at Kansas City, noon Indianapolis at New England, noon N.Y. Jets at St. Louis, noon Philadelphia at Washington, noon New Orleans at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

San Diego at Denver, 3:25 p.m.

Baltimore at Pittsburgh-x, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 19 Chicago at San Francisco, 7:30 p.m.

Week 12 Thursday, Nov. 22 Houston at Detroit 11:30 a.m.

Washington at Dallas, 3:25 p.m.

New England at N.Y. Jets, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 25 Minnesota at Chicago, noon Oakland at Cincinnati, noon Pittsburgh at Cleveland, noon Buffalo at Indianapolis, noon Tennessee at Jacksonville, noon Denver at Kansas City, noon

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Week 7 (Byes: Atlanta, Denver, Kansas City, Miami, Philadelphia, San Diego) Thursday, Oct. 18 Seattle at San Francisco, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 21 Tennessee at Buffalo, noon Dallas at Carolina, noon Baltimore at Houston, noon Cleveland at Indianapolis, noon Arizona at Minnesota, noon Washington at N.Y. Giants, noon Green Bay at St. Louis, noon New Orleans at Tampa Bay, noon N.Y. Jets at New England, 3:25 p.m.

Jacksonville at Oakland, 3:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 22 Detroit at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Week 8 (Byes: Baltimore, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Houston) Thursday, Oct. 25 Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 28 Carolina at Chicago, noon San Diego at Cleveland, noon Seattle at Detroit, noon Jacksonville at Green Bay, noon Miami at N.Y. Jets, noon Atlanta at Philadelphia, noon Washington at Pittsburgh, noon New England at St. Louis (at London), noon Indianapolis at Tennessee, noon Oakland at Kansas City, 3:05 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 3:25 p.m.

New Orleans at Denver, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 29 San Francisco at Arizona, 7:30 p.m.

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Tiger field hockey . . . . . . . . .

By MATTHEW KAMP mkamp.edwi@gmail.com

First-year field hockey head coach Abby Bohnenstiehl will have her work cut out with the Edwardsville Tigers.

Bohnenstiehl, who also coaches the girls’ soccer team in the spring, must replace eight players, including their top two goal scorers. Not only are Morgan Burton and Madison Knezik-Smith gone, but the Tigers must also shore up a defense that lost top defender Amanda Harrison.

Couple the losses with a new coach and the field hockey season could be challenging for EHS, but Bohnenstiehl is ready for it. “It is exciting to do something different.

I have been doing basketball at the middle school and now being able to stay at the same building all day is really nice.

The girls are great and you can see them throughout the whole day. It is nice being here,� said Bohnenstiehl.

Making the transition easier for Bohnenstiehl will be an experienced coaching staff that includes assistant coach Brie Hatton, who is the head coach of the junior varsity team, and Ellen Shaw.

Their familiarity with the girls and the system they played in should be an added advantage for Bohnenstiehl. “Both of the assistants played in high school. I did not, but I do have a background in it. It is very similar to soccer,� said Bohnenstiehl. “It is going pretty well so far.�

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Pictured above are senior members of the Edwardsville Tiger field hockey team. From left to right are: Kelsey Beimfohr, Tori Carrow, Sara Duft, Annie Nickrent, Val Blandina and Megan Pranger.

Hatton has kept in touch with Katie Horvath, who had coached the team since 2006 before stepping down at the end of last season. The Tigers finished 3-15 in Horvath’s final season.

Bohnenstiehl will need to find a goal scorer in her first season. Burton (six goals) and Knezik-Smith (four) were the top scorers from last season, but they both graduated. The leading returning scorer is

junior Abby Urbanek, who completed her sophomore campaign with three goals and an assist. Urbanek took part in the U.S. Futures program during the summer.

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St. Louis Rams preseason

Associated Press

Clockwise from top to bottom are photos of the St. Louis Rams from their 2012 preseason game against the Kansas City Chiefs at the Edwards Jones Dome on Aug. 18. Rams running back Steven Jackson, right, runs for an 18-yard gain as Chiefs defensive back Kendrick Lewis defends during the first quarter in St. Louis. St. Louis wide receiver Brian Quick (83) looks to the sidelines during the fourth quarter against the Chiefs. Quarterback Sam Bradford warms up before the start of the preseason game between the Rams and the Chiefs in St. Louis. Rams tight end Lance Kendricks, left, is congratulated by teammate Danny Amendola after catching a 23-yard touchdown pass during the first quarter vs. the Chiefs in St. Louis. St. Louis head coach Jeff Fisher stands on the sidelines during the fourth quarter against the Chiefs.

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Tiger field hockey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Continued from Page 13

Also returning are juniors Taylor Lybarger (two goals, one assist) and Sadie Pinnell (two goals). Bohnenstiehl believes the three juniors will be able to help fill the scoring void left by Burton and Knezik-Smith.

“We have been scrimmaging the past few days and they have been doing pretty well. They have been putting the ball in the back of the net,” said Bohnenstiehl, who is returning players that accounted for 10 of the 21 goals scored.

Defensively, the Tigers will rely on seniors Annie Nickrent, Megan Pranger and Sara Duft, along with junior Meagann Martin.

Last season the defense allowed over 40 goals, facing tough competition each game with the St. Louis private schools dominating their schedule.

Edwardsville will lean on sophomore Eliza Pauk in goal, though the team does have a couple of other options with junior Ashley Bergman and an incoming freshman. Last season, Pauk saw a majority of the minutes and faced a large number of shots. Her goals against average stayed below three and she was part of three shutouts last season.

“We have two returning goalies. We also have an incoming freshman. With

three goalies we are doing pretty good,” Bohnenstiehl said.

The schedule is again unforgiving. With zero field hockey teams in southern Illinois and the sport not associated with the Illinois High School Association, the Tigers must field a majority of their games against the St. Louis private schools.

Home games on the schedule this year will include powerhouses St. Joseph’s Academy (Sept. 13), Visitation (Sept. 21), Villa Duchesne (Sept. 27), Ursuline (Oct. 4), Nerinx Hall (Oct. 6) and MICDS (Oct. 18). Road contests will send EHS to Eureka (Sept. 14), Cor Jesu (Oct. 9) and John

Burroughs (Oct. 11).

After beginning the season hosting Parkway North on Tuesday, the Tigers will enter the challenging Gateway Classic. The 48-team tournament will have four 12-team pools, with Edwardsville playing against Oklahoma City Heritage Hall, Louisville Mercy and Lake Forest Academy.

“It is a very difficult schedule, but we are looking forward to it. We get to go over there and play, and some of them are on turf. They get to come over here for a different change of pace and play on our grass. It is always a difficult schedule,” said Bohnenstiel.

NFL Schedules Continued from Page 12

Week 12 Seattle at Miami, noon Atlanta at Tampa Bay, noon Baltimore at San Diego, 3:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.

San Francisco at New Orleans, 3:25 p.m.

Green Bay at N.Y. Giants-x, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 26 Carolina at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

Week 13 Thursday, Nov. 29 New Orleans at Atlanta, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 2 Jacksonville at Buffalo, noon Seattle at Chicago, noon Indianapolis at Detroit, noon Minnesota at Green Bay, noon Carolina at Kansas City, noon New England at Miami, noon

Arizona at N.Y. Jets, noon San Francisco at St. Louis, noon Houston at Tennessee, noon Tampa Bay at Denver, 3:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 3:25 p.m.

Cleveland at Oakland, 3:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas-x, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 3 N.Y. Giants at Washington, 7:30 p.m.

Week 14 Thursday, Dec. 6 Denver at Oakland, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 9 St. Louis at Buffalo, noon Atlanta at Carolina, noon Dallas at Cincinnati, noon Kansas City at Cleveland, noon Tennessee at Indianapolis, noon N.Y. Jets at Jacksonville, noon Chicago at Minnesota, noon San Diego at Pittsburgh, noon

Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, noon Baltimore at Washington, noon Miami at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.

New Orleans at N.Y. Giants, 3:25 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.

Detroit at Green Bay-x, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 10 Houston at New England, 7:30 p.m.

Week 15 Thursday, Dec. 13 Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 16 N.Y. Giants at Atlanta, noon Denver at Baltimore, noon Green Bay at Chicago, noon Washington at Cleveland, noon Indianapolis at Houston, noon Jacksonville at Miami, noon Tampa Bay at New Orleans, noon Minnesota at St. Louis, noon Detroit at Arizona, 3:05 p.m.

Seattle at Buffalo (at Toronto), 3:05 p.m.

Carolina at San Diego, 3:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Dallas, 3:25 p.m.

Kansas City at Oakland, 3:25 p.m.

San Francisco at New England-x, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 17 N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, 7:30 p.m.

Week 16 Saturday, Dec. 22 Atlanta at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 23 N.Y. Giants at Baltimore, noon Oakland at Carolina, noon New Orleans at Dallas, noon Tennessee at Green Bay, noon Minnesota at Houston, noon New England at Jacksonville, noon Indianapolis at Kansas City, noon Buffalo at Miami, noon Washington at Philadelphia, noon Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, noon St. Louis at Tampa Bay, noon Cleveland at Denver, 3:05 p.m.

Chicago at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.

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Knight Football . . . . . . . . . . .

By BILL ROSEBERRY broseberry@edwpub.net

The first goal Andy Kohler had when he took over the reins of the Metro-East Lutheran football program in 2011 was getting the numbers up.

He did that.

Unfortunately it translated into a winless season for MELHS in his first year where his gridders were undersized and under experienced. Now they’ve had the chance to take their lumps, learn the football basics and can get down and dirty in the trenches.

The Knights will still be fairly young, but Kohler believes it will be a better brand in 2012.

“There’s a lot to learn, especially when the kids have never played before,” Kohler said. “A lot of these kids coming in as freshman have never played before in the Little Tigers or their junior high schools because most of the Lutheran programs don’t have that. They come here and say what’s a tight end? Can we punt on fourth down on defense? Things that some of the upperclassmen still didn’t know much about. We started at ground zero last year and I knew we were going to take some lumps for it, but we built the foundation, now we’re starting to build the house.”

One thing that will greatly benefit Metro is the joining of the Prairie State Conference. It marks the first ever conference for football at MELHS and offers a world of enticing dividends to be paid such as, new rivalries, personal accolades for players, easier scheduling and more even competition.

Last year the Knights played four teams from outside Illinois and only one team, Carlyle, from the metro-east area. They traveled a total distance of 1,070 miles.

This season, MELHS plays only one team from outside Illinois, Trinity LutheranSeymour in Indiana in Week 4, and will travel a combined distance of 748 miles, only 465 if you subtract the Indiana trip.

Local teams like East Alton-Wood River, Bunker Hill, Dupo, Mount Olive and Alton Marquette stuff the schedule.

The PSC will be comprised of: MELHS, Bunker Hill, Mount Olive, Marquette, Nokomis, (South Fork) Kincaid and Decatur Lutheran for football only.

“Not only the driving distance, but having the familiarity with the same teams in a conference, having the kids get the opportunity to have all-conference honors, there’s things like that, that were never afforded to them before,” said Kohler.

“We’re going to build rivalries. Yeah, Marquette’s more experienced and they’re going to dominate this conference for at least a year, maybe two, but we’re working our way to get to that point.

“The difference from last year and playing the Palastines and the big schools like that, is Mount Olive, Bunker Hill, South Fork Kincaid — Nokomis is going to be up there with Marquette — but the rest of us are trying to see where we’re at.

Playing against teams our own size and our own capabilities as opposed to playing up against all those big teams on the nonconference schedule we’ve had in the past is what I’m looking forward to.”

While the conference is definitely

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Above are senior members of the Metro-East Lutheran Knight football team. From left to right are: Tyler Sandy, Alex Micnheimer, Jordan Dupy, Josh Shimkus and Caleb Braasch. something to look forward to for the Metro gridders, Kohler thinks just simply getting back on the gridiron has them excited this season.

“I think they’re just excited football started,” Kohler said. “That’s the good thing, anticipating football instead of dreading it. Last year I did lay off of them a little bit, but now they’re back and we’re going harder, but we’re still making it fun too and having them want to come to practice. Practice makes the games and they’re out here working hard.”

The nicest thing for Kohler is practically everyone from his large squad last year is back. It was a small senior class so there wasn't much turnover.

Nick Hoff headlined the departed Knights.

“Nick Hoff was an all purpose everything,” Kohler said. “He was a punter, a receiver, our best defensive back, he was pretty much all everything. You look and we lost three seniors, so I’ve got all of the rest back, plus I have a group of nine to 12 freshmen in here, too. Now we’re teaching them, but we’re teaching them at a faster pace than we did last year.”

Just like last season, the focal point of the MELHS football team will be running back Jordan Dupy. Dupy, now a senior, has been a key component to the program for the last three seasons and looks to continue that in 2012.

Unfortunately in 2011 he suffered an injury and was only able to contribute at running back for three games.

Kohler admitted he's back at full strength.

“Our offense, if we can get blocking for Jordan Dupy, we’re going to score some points,” said Kohler. “All the other teams

know it already, but yeah, he will be the focal point.

“Jordan’s been here four years and even as a freshman he got a lot of playing time, back when we had a lot of experienced players. He still dominated for his size and speed back then. Of course his sophomore year he ran for almost 1,000 yards and last year he pulled his hamstring after three games and couldn’t play running back the rest of the year. In three games he ran for 340 yards on 40 carries, so do the math and you know you’ve got a pretty talented kid there. We lost that for our last six games, so that was a big loss. He’s back, 100 percent.”

Dupy will get a little assistance in the back field from Will Rankin, who will also contribute at wide receiver along with a slew of others.

“At receiver Josh Eberhart has made vast improvements,” said Kohler. “He’s going to be a junior this year and he started at receiver last year. He’s catching the ball better and he’s got so much quickness and speed. He’s playing football instead of thinking about football. We also have Will Rankin, Zeke Jezek, Logan Anson, Ethan Compagna and Josh Shimkus who played receiver for us last year. A couple of freshmen are putting their names in for us, so it’s good that we’ve got a lot of guys vying for those spots.”

It will be a couple of sophomores under center trying to get the ball to those receivers. Kohler has been greatly impressed by both Colton Masters and Drew Kohler at quarterback.

“Right now Drew Kohler is 1A and Colton Masters is 1B,” Kohler said.

“They’ve been battling it out in a really good competition. They’re both sophomores so they’re young and a little

undersized, but they’ll grow into that.

One throws a little better, the other runs a little better, so as of today it’s Drew, but tomorrow it could be Colton. They’ll both see time at quarterback.”

The offensive line sees the return of Austin Grant who should help fortify the line for the Knights.

On defense, Kohler said the linebackers will be the emphasis, but the line could be a nice surprise of talent for Metro. He likes the experienced secondary, too.

“We’re going to be linebacker intensive, but I like our line,” said Kohler. “Everything starts up front and if we can get a good push from our line to free our linebackers, I think our defensive backs are experienced.

Everybody’s back this year on defense for the most part other than Nick Hoff.”

Defensively, MELHS gave up way too many points last season, so the defense has been an emphasis of improvement, but for now goal No. 1 will be the game at 7 p.m. tonight at Bunker Hill.

Kohler said the Minutemen will be bigger, but will give up a lot of speed to the Knights so it's size vs. quickness tonight.

Winning Game 1 would put a smile on the second year coach's face that's for sure.

“The biggest goal right now is winning Bunker Hill,” said Kohler. “I don’t want to make our whole season based on that first game, but that first game to us is a big game just to set the tempo and change the attitude around here of, ‘Here’s Metro again.’ I don’t know the last time they won a first game, not since I’ve been here in six years. We could falter that first game and come back strong, but the importance of that first game is if we’re out there competitive and battling, then it sets up the whole season.”

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Knight Volleyball . . . . . . . . . .

By MATTHEW KAMP mkamp.edwi@gmail.com

It may not seem like a large graduating class from last season, but the two players that left the Metro-East Lutheran volleyball team were program-defining athletes.

Molly Scharnhorst and Mackenzie Gottlob leave as two of the best, with Scharnhorst the school’s all-time leader in digs and service points while Gottlob accumulated the most assists. In their final season with the Knights, Scharnhorst and Gottlob helped the team to a 16-20 record and the program’s ninth regional title. They also took a game away from Breese Central in the sectional semifinals, before falling in three games. It was the first time MELHS had won a game in sectional play.

Metro-East Lutheran head coach Jon Giordano, who is 228-234 in 14 seasons, said it will not be easy replacing the two.

“When people ask me how many people we lost last year, I say, ‘Well, we lost two seniors, but the two we lost are as irreplaceable as you can get,’” said Giordano. “It definitely is weird not to have either of them in practice or on the roster.”

But the Knights do have a lot coming back, including five of their top six hitters.

Junior Anna Kellar was second on the team with 173 kills, falling behind only Scharnhorst’s total of 176. Three more juniors, Mackenzie Gocal (122 kills), Jessica Green (113) and McKenna Judge

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Pictured above are the returning members of the Metro-East Lutheran Knight volleyball team. In the front row from left to right are: Jessica Green, Mackenzie Gocal, Courtney Williams and McKenna Judge. In the back row from right to left are: Lauren Daniels, Sara Poletti, Anna Kellar and Johanna Johnson.

(98) will also be focal points of the offense.

They will try to help senior Johanna Johnson, who was fifth on the team with 108 kills.

Senior Lauren Daniels (393 digs), Judge (393) and Kellar (346) will anchor the serve-receive defense. At the net, the

Knights return their top three blockers, Green (38), Kellar (37) and Gocal (20).

“Considering what we lost, we still have just so much experience. We have some people that have been on varsity the past couple of years. We do have a lot of experience coming back, which is

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nice also,” Giordano said. “Obviously, Molly was our best hitter last year, but we return all of our other hitters. We had five that had at least 100 kills last year. We have a wide variety at different positions, which will give us some flexibility.”

A couple options have emerged to try and replace Gottlob at the setter position.

Gocal and Judge have the inside track on the job, but they will have a tough task trying to match Gottlob’s 701 assists from last year.

“We will probably go with a setter by committee, but we do have a couple of options. Mackenzie Gocal and McKenna Judge are both really good at that,” said Giordano. “But they both also like to hit, so there is just some balancing that we have to do.”

Giordano said it will be different seeing his offense run through someone other than Gottlob, but believes he has the right pieces in place to make it a smooth transition.

“It will definitely be an unique year, because we had the same setter for three years. With us now not always having the same thing is going to be the biggest adjustment, not necessarily if one person is going to be better than the other. That is a big transition after having the same person do it for three years. We have good hitters, so I am not too worried,” said Giordano.

Courtney Williams and Sara Poletti should see an increase in playing time with the team’s departures.

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Knight soccer . . . . . . . . . . . . .

By MATTHEW KAMP mkamp.edwi@gmail.com

The Metro-East Lutheran Knight boys’ soccer team is not only losing 10 seniors from last year ’s squad, but also their would-be returning leading scorer and head coach of 10 years.

Gone to graduation is Matt Shaffer, who led the Knights with 17 goals and 10 assists. Jon Babcock, who would have been the returning leading goal scorer with 12, opted to play academy ball, leaving a massive scoring void up to. MELHS even suffered a loss off the field, when head coach Tim Reeb stepped down to focus on his boys’ basketball team. Reeb guided the Knights to two regional championships, including last year’s team that finished the season 13-9-2.

Replacing the architect of the MetroEast boys’ soccer program will not be an easy task, but new head coach Kevin Wudtke said he is up for the challenge. His experience should help a Knight squad that features just six seniors, including three starters.

“I helped out with the girls’ team last season and I have coached 10 seasons in different places. Six of that has been as a head coach and a couple for junior varsity,” said Wudtke, who had stops in Green Bay, Wis., and Lutheran South in St. Louis.

Wudtke has his work cut out, with the Knights losing a lot of depth from last season. Every position was hit hard by graduation with eight starters now gone, including defenders Jon Gocal, Jacob Fanshier, Jonathon Flaherty, Matthew Babcock and Matt Rankin. In the midfield and up top, MELHS lost Shaffer, Zac Meador, Tyler Ahring, Daniel Pietz, Nathan Nehrt and Cody Lee. Throw in the loss of Jon Babcock, and the Knights have a lot of pieces missing.

Wudtke said it is a very young group

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Pictured above are senior members of the Knight soccer team. From left to right are: Bryce Stabenow, Evan Winenger, Josh Wudtke, Micah Lance, Tanner Engelke and Harry Garner. returning, with three of the six seniors not playing last season. Evan Winenger, Josh Wudtke and Micah Lance are the lone seniors listed on last season’s roster.

“We lost 10 seniors from last year plus one that would have been a senior starter to the academy team,” Wudtke said. “We have three returning starters. We have been trying to recruit a few others. We have six seniors total, but three of those did not play soccer last year and two of them only had a little bit of varsity time.”

Junior Derek Benning and sophomore Jacob Roggow will be asked to lead the offense. Benning netted five goals and had 12 assists last season while Roggow scored

four goals. Freshman Joe Babcock could also become a focal point of an offense that lost 35 of its 47 goals scored.

“Derek (Benning) is back and Jacob Roggow is back. We look to those two for goals. We also have Joe Babcock coming in as a freshman, so we will also be looking to him for goals,” said Wudtke.

Winenger, who had three goals and four assists last season, will make the move to sweeper. He will try and become the defensive stopper that Metro-East is missing after the loss of a senior class that limited the opposition to 32 goals in 24 games.

“I did not mention Evan scoring, because he is going to be sweeper. Somehow we

have to keep the other team from scoring,” chuckled Wudtke.

Junior Brendan McDaniel will take over in goal. He replaces Ryan Schwartzkoph, who was 12-9-2 as a senior. He was part of eight shutouts and had a goals against average of 1.39. McDaniel did see action for 165 minutes. He went 1-0 with a 0.97 GAA. He shared three shutouts with Schwartzkoph and made 19 saves. Wudtke is expecting big things from McDaniel this year.

“We have a junior, Brendan McDaniel, who has really been coming along for us. He can be a really good shot stopper.

With some help from our assistant Noah Enke, he is going to really become a good goalkeeper and not just a shot stopper,” said Wudtke.

With all the new faces, the early-season practices are pivotal to the Knights’ success in the upcoming season. Progress has already been made and the commitment level is there for a promising season.

“These practices are huge. The two-adays until school started have been huge.

They have come a long way,” said Wudtke.

A couple of changes will take place on the schedule, with the Knights not participating in the Metro Cup. It was moved to Columbia because of the size of the event, and MELHS opted to stay out of it. Also, Metro-East has dropped Southwestern Conference teams O’Fallon and Collinsville from the school, instead playing Althoff and Alton Marquette. The idea is to play teams that could be seen down the road in the postseason or to play in competitive games with the possibility of learning from them.

“In some ways the schedule is a little easier but also tougher. We do not have O’Fallon and Collinsville like we did last year. We have added Althoff and Marquette on to the regular season. Those will be tough for us and a lot more useful,” said Wudtke.

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Another change this season for MetroEast will be the move into the Prairie State Conference. It is the first time in nearly 12 years that the Knights have been in a conference, and Giordano is looking forward to the recognition his players may earn with stellar seasons.

“It will be a nice extra thing to work for

with the conference title and possibly the all-conference teams. It will be nice to be able to get that recognition, because we have not had that for a long time,” said Giordano.

The volleyball conference will consist of MELHS, Bunker Hill, Alton Marquette, Mount Olive and Nokomis. The Knights will open league play at home against

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Even with the addition of a league schedule, the non-conference matches will remain tough. Metro-East will play in the Springfield (Aug. 31-Sept. 1), Mascoutah (Sept. 8), Pumpkin Smash (Oct. 12-13) and Quincy Notre Dame (Oct. 19-20) tournaments. The Knights will also travel to East St. Louis (Aug. 27) and host

Collinsville (Oct. 2).

“It did not change that much with our schedule. It only meant like three changes. We still have plenty of meat on it between East St. Louis, Collinsville, Columbia and of course the tournaments,” said Giordano. “We will have plenty of opportunities to be challenged.”

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Knight boys' golf . . . . . . . . . . .

By BILL ROSEBERRY broseberry@edwpub.net

The boys' golf program was the star of the sports landscape at Metro-East Lutheran for a long time.

But due to dwindling numbers the program fizzled out and folded in 2010.

It was a solemn time in MELHS sports, the first team ever to represent the school on the state stage in 2007 was no more.

The Knights' golf program enjoyed five straight regional titles from 2004-08.

Enter Tim Lorenz.

Lorenz came to MELHS from Racine Lutheran High School in Wisconsin where he had been a golf coach for eight years, the majority of that time as the varsity coach.

Lorenz was able to assemble a fourman team in 2011 that flew under the radar, seeing two or three matches at the JV level in an attempt to revitalize the once healthy golf tradition at Metro.

This season that number has soared from four to 17 and the Knights are back in the mix on the links.

It's going to be a rebuilding process to get back to the standard the Knights were once at, but Lorenz is ready for the challenge.

“We got the program back up and running last year. We played a couple of matches, but now I have enough kids where I'm looking at some of the scores and I’m liking them,” said Lorenz.

“Being not from around here I’m not

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Pictured above are members of the Knight boys’ golf team. In the front row from left to right are: Josh Gass, Chase Langendorf, Jake Scheibal, Lucas Hackmann, Sam Whitmore and Zac Shewmake. In the back row from left to right are: Brad Boivin, Ethan Borchers, John Scheibal, Kory Loew and Ryan Keck. Not pictured are: Jeremy Ackerman, Austin Schillinger, Manny Heupel, Jacob Harding, Jeff Caringer and Jordan Brown. quite sure what the level is I need to hit, but in terms of legitimacy I don’t know where we’ll be on the competitive scale. I do know that I’ll be satisfied of where a lot of them are at. Half of them are in pretty good shape and we’ll see

where we can get them and half of them are developing for next year and those are the ones that will shave strokes the fastest. My goal is to by the end of the season they’re down close to bogey golf. I think that’s an attainable goal for

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Currently Lorenz is the lone coach on the staff, but with the sudden inflation in numbers he is scrambling to find some help. He hadn't expected such an influx in players.

“From four to 17 is the best of worlds and the worst of worlds all at the same time,” Lorenz said. “Seventeen guys is at least four groups if you’re willing to put five in one and you get them spread out on a golf course during practice it’s hard to keep track of those guys. It’s hard to get one on one with some kids. It’s great because of the numbers you can pull from and build the team. We’re hoping to build some personnel to help with the coaching ratio to players.”

Two of the four from a year ago are back. Zac Shewmake and Austin Schillinger, now sophomores, look to be solid performers for MELHS. Lorenz also sees sophomore Sam Whitmore, freshmen Luke Hackmann and Jordan Brown and senior Jeremy Ackerman as key contributors this season.

Currently Lorenz is just focusing on the golfing basics to get his linksters acclimated to the gentleman's game.

“Rules are an important one for me, because as much as it’s important to enforce them and penalize yourself when you need to, knowing them can give you an advantage at various times,” Lorenz said. “Etiquette and rules are just important as play.

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Knight tennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

By BILL ROSEBERRY broseberry@edwpub.net

Matt Gehrke is quickly becoming one of the longest tenured coaches at Metro-East Lutheran High School.

“This is my fifth season,” Gehrke said with a chuckle of his time at the helm of the MELHS boys' and girls' tennis programs. “Time flies when you’re having fun.”

Gehrke will have some fun this season with his girls' program with a new look team. Only one player returns with more than one year of experience on the courts and he doesn't have a senior on his entire roster.

“Erica (Winter) is the only multiple year player,” said Gehrke. “She’s a junior, she played No. 2 the last two years and now she’ll be playing No. 1.

“We have four girls that have some varsity experience from last year. (Junior) Gabbie Mitchell was hurt the first half of the year and she joined us late. She’s probably going to be No. 2 and then we have Hannah Wudtke (sophomore) and Lydia Walther (sophomore) and Lydia Fenton (sophomore), so we have five girls returning but most of our major experience graduated last year as seniors.

We’re starting fresh and we have at least three more players that haven’t played before.”

Gehrke also foresees sophomore Amanda Schack as being a top six contributor for the Knights.

One plan Gehrke has implemented that has helped the program is his summer tennis camps. Many netters come to MELHS with no previous experience which puts them behind the eight ball.

He's trying to change that.

“I think it’s really huge,” Gehrke said.

“If you really want to have success at the

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Above are members from the Metro-East Lutheran girls' tennis program. In front from left to right Annie Keirn, Alex Carney and Hannah Wudtke. In back from left to right are: Lydia Walther, Kasey Harvey, Lydia Fenton, Gabbie Mitchell and Erica Winter. Not pictured is Amanda Schack. varsity level then you have to get these kids playing a lot younger. If not you’re setting them up for failure if they have no experience and then they have to go play varsity matches against girls that have been playing for a long time. It’s hard to explain that to the girls when they work hard and they lose. ‘Why did I lose coach? Well, because you’re not as good as them. Why am I not as good as them?

Probably because you haven’t played as much tennis as they have. Well why is that? Because you started as a freshman.’

The more tennis we get in the summer and the more we get them before they get here, the better off we’ll be.”

The schedule remains practically the same for the Knights, who play their fourth match of the season at 4:30 p.m.

Monday in Jerseyville. Their next home match is at 4:30 p.m. Thursday vs. Roxana.

Gehrke is trying to round the squad into shape and believes there will be a lot of positives by season's end.

“The person that has impressed me the most is Alex (Carney), she’s really coming

along,” said Gehrke. “Hannah Wudtke had to play a lot of No. 6 last year and that was tough for her because she wasn’t at that level, but she’s really improved a lot since the beginning of last year. I’m still kind of up in the air and doubles is really up in the air, because lack of experience means there’s no doubles experience.

“It should be a fun year. The girls are a good group and they’re going to play hard no matter who they play and that’s all I can ask.”

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“I coached up in Wisconsin eight years.

Etiquette is a big one. It says a lot about the character of the individuals and it does a lot to help with composure and your ability to continue. You can see it on a football field, you can see it on a basketball court, sometimes when a kid gets too emotional, you can’t execute the way you’re supposed

to and on a golf course that can get real ugly, real fast.”

Unfortunately the Knights missed their opportunity to see some of the major players on the southern Illinois golf scene from schools like Edwardsville, Alton and Collinsville when the Madison County Tournament was rained out on Aug. 16.

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Next up for the Knights is Valmeyer and Gibault at Acorns Golf Links in Waterloo on Aug. 28.

Their first home match at Oak Brook Golf Club is at 4 p.m. on Sept. 18 against Christ Our Rock.

With its addition into the Prairie State

Conference, MELHS will also get to partake in a conference tournament which is on the docket for Sept. 29 in Mount Olive.

Lorenz hopes to get Metro back to where it was on the golfing scene, but only time will tell.

“Depending on how hard they’re willing to work, I’d like to see us get back to where we were,” Lorenz said.

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Knight cross country . . . . .

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Pictured left are members of the Knight boys’ cross country team. From left to right are: Andrew Hull, Matt Morrissey, Micah Lance, Alex Engelbrecht, Paul Klarich, Evan Winenger and Jacob Roggow. Pictured right are members of the Knight girls’ cross country team. From left to right are: Karly Schley, Gretchen Engelbrecht, Jessica Jump, Katlynn Stegall, Amanda Schack, Danielle Anderson and Annie Redden.

By MATTHEW KAMP mkamp.edwi@gmail.com

The Metro-East Lutheran Knights are returning a majority of their runners from their state-qualifying boys’ and girls’ cross country teams.

The Knights will have some new competition if they want to make a return trip to East Peoria’s Detweiller Park, where the state finals are conducted. Mater Dei, which qualified its girls’ team for the Class 2A state meet last year, has dropped down to Class A. Salem will make things tougher on the boys’ side. The Wildcats have also dropped down to Class A and will compete with the Knights in the Metro-East Lutheran Sectional. “ We h a v e s o m e a d d i t i o n a l competition with the changes to the multiplier. We have Mater Dei and Salem in our sectional now. That could be a little different, especially with Mater Dei on the girls’ side and Salem on the boys’ side,” said Redden. “I was given word that we are hosting the sectional, which is a nice thing. We always do well on our home course. I tell my kids that it is a huge advantage.”

Metro-East will open the season with the Metro-East Invitational, which has expanded to 50 teams.

The meet will be conducted at SIUE on Saturday, and Redden noted that it is an early benchmark for his two teams.

ON THE BOYS’ SIDE — MetroEast lost four runners from last season’s team that finished 19th in state. Gone are Aaron Winenger, Chase Keirn, Dan Dixon and Matt Horton from a team that captured the school’s best-ever finish.

The Knights do have a lot coming

back, including senior captains Alex Engelbrecht and Evan Winenger, along with juniors Jace Dumont and Derek Benning. The four ran for MELHS at state last season, with Dumont finishing 93rd with a time of 16:29. Following Dumont among the returning runners were: Benning (168th, 17:31), Engelbrecht (177th, 17:52) and Winenger (178th, 17:53).

Redden is really excited to see the progress that Engelbrecht has made after putting in a lot of work during the offseason.

“Alex is my captain and he probably has the most mileage in this summer. You can tell with the way he has been running,” said Redden.

The Knights, who are also expecting big things out of Dumont, Benning and Winenger, will get help from a pair of transfers. Paul Klarich and Matt Morrissey are using the cross country season to get into shape for other sports. Morrissey will compete in wrestling and Klarich will play basketball in the winter.

“We are really fortunate to have a couple of transfer students, with basketball player Paul Klarich and wrestler Matt Morrissey. They both can be top five on the team.

I am really excited to have them.

They are doing it to get ready for other sports,” said Redden. “I did not expect a lot because of our lack of depth, but now with those two, we have some depth. Now I am expecting something.”

Senior Micah Lance and sophomores Jacob Roggow and Hugo Soto will add much-needed depth to the squad.

ON THE GIRLS’ SIDE — Senior Jessica Jump headlines one of Redden’s

strongest girls’ teams ever at MetroEast Lutheran. Jump, a state champion in the 200 meter dash last spring, missed out on the sectional and state meet in cross country after breaking her ankle following the regional.

But Jump is back and hungry to help her teammates improve on last season’s 25th-place finish at state.

“Jessica will be a marquee person this year. We are trying to keep the expectations down, but she is a huge competitor and has a strong desire to be up there with some of the top people in the state. She has really come a long way from last season. She is already way ahead of where she was last year,” said Redden.

Gone from the state-qualifying team are Abby Edwards and Beth S m a l l , b u t t h e K n i g h t s re t u r n their top five runners from last season’s state meet. Engelbrecht, a sophomore, had the top finish.

She finished in 164th with a time of 20:48. Another sophomore, Amanda Schack, was 178th, crossing at 21:19,

while senior Katlynn Stegall, who battled injuries last year, finished a spot behind her at 21:22. Also back is junior Lauren Moehle (187th, 22:10).

“I have my top five performers back from last year and have added a couple to that. We will be able to go a lot deeper this year and it should make for a pretty good season. Of course times tell and injuries tell,” said Redden. “For the girls’ side, this will probably be my best team ever.

They have the potential to be that.

They have a strong mentality and the potential to go with it.”

Adding depth to the squad will be juniors Kelsey Stegall and Danielle Anderson, a transfer, along with sophomore Annie Redden and freshman Karly Schley. With consistency throughout the lineup, Redden expects the team to make their fourth overall trip to state.

“They should go back to state again this year and finish in the top 20. That is our goal this year,” said Redden.

Go Knights!

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2012 MELHS Fall Sports Schedules Continued from Page 15

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Knight Volleyball Knight Football Aug. 24 at Bunker Hill, 7 p.m.

Aug. 31 vs. East Alton-Wood River, 7 p.m.

Sept. 7 at Decatur Lutheran, 7 p.m.

Sept. 15 at Lutheran Seymour 3 p.m.

Sept. 21 vs. Kincaid-South Fork, 7 p.m.

Sept. 28 at Dupo, 7 p.m.

Oct. 5 at Nokomis, 7 p.m.

Oct. 12 vs. Mt. Olive, 7 p.m.

Oct. 19 vs. Alton Marquette, 7 p.m.

Aug. 27 at East St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Aug. 31 at Springfield Tournament, TBA Sept. 1 at Springfield Tournament, TBA Sept. 4 vs. Nokomis, 7 p.m.

Sept. 5 vs. Granite City, 7 p.m.

Sept. 8 at Mascoutah Tournament, TBA Sept. 12 vs. Gibault, 7 p.m.

Sept. 17 at Litchfield, 7 p.m.

Sept. 18 vs. Southwestern, 7 p.m.

Sept. 20 vs. Bunker Hill, 7 p.m.

Oct. 1 at Alton Marquette, 7 p.m.

Oct. 2 vs. Collinsville, 7 p.m.

Oct. 4 at Civic Memorial, 7 p.m.

Oct. 9 vs. Greenville, 7 p.m.

Oct. 12 at Pumpkin Smash Tournament, TBA Oct. 13 at Pumpkin Smash Tournament, TBA Oct. 16 vs. Mt. Olive, 7 p.m.

Oct. 17 at Roxana, 7 p.m.

Oct. 19 at Quincy Notre Dame Tournament, TBA Oct. 20 at Quincy Notre Dame Tournament, TBA

Knight Soccer Aug. 28 vs. Christ Our Rock, 5:30 p.m.

Aug. 30 vs. Breese Central, 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 4 vs. Roxana, 4 p.m.

Sept. 6 at Freeburg, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 10 at Belleville Althoff, 7 p.m.

Sept. 11 at East Alton-Wood River, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 17 at Christ Our Rock, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 18 at Wesclin, 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 22 vs. Teutopolis, 10 a.m.

Sept. 24 vs. Litchfield, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 26 vs. Valmeyer, 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 29 at Alton Marquette, 11 a.m.

Oct. 3 at Columbia, 5 p.m.

Oct. 4 vs. Staunton 5:30 p.m.

Knight Cross Country Aug. 25 vs. Metro-East Lutheran Cross Country Invite, 10 a.m.

Aug. 28 at Columbia Cross Country Relay, 4 p.m.

Sept. 1 at Concordia-Mequon Classic, 9:30 a.m.

Sept. 5 at Tiger Classic, 4 p.m.

Sept. 8 at Peoria Woodruff Invite, 9 a.m.

Sept. 13 at Carrollton Invite, 5 p.m.

Sept. 15 at Tiger Invitational, 9 a.m.

Sept. 27 at Chester Invite, 4 p.m.

Oct. 2 at Madison County Meet at SIUE, 4 p.m.

Oct. 9 at Carlinville Invite, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Patriot Invite, 1 p.m.

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Knight Tennis Aug. 27 at Jerseyville, 4:30 p.m.

Aug. 30 vs. Roxana, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 4 at East Alton-Wood River, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 6 vs. Belleville Althoff, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 13 vs. Civic Memorial, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 18 at Mascoutah, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 20 vs. Waterloo, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 1 vs. East St. Louis, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 2 at Hillsboro, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 4 vs. East Alton-Wood River, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 9 vs. Gibault, 4:30 p.m.

Aug. 28 at Valmeyer/Gibault, 4 p.m.

Sept. 12 at Staunton/Civic Memorial, 4 p.m.

Sept. 18 vs. Christ Our Rock, 4 p.m.

Sept. 19 vs. Valmeyer, 4 p.m.

Sept. 20 vs. Triad, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 29 at Prairie State Conference Tournament at Mt. Olive, 9 a.m.

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2012 COLLINSVILLE Fall Sports Schedules Kahok Soccer Aug. 25 vs. McCluer North, 1 p.m.

Aug. 28 at Belleville West, 6:45 p.m.

Aug. 29 at Highland, 4:15 p.m.

Sept. 4 vs. O’Fallon, 6:45 p.m.

Sept. 8 vs. Triad, 4:45 p.m.

Sept. 11 at Edwardsville, 6:45 p.m.

Sept. 12 at Chaminade, 6 p.m.

Sept. 18 vs. Alton, 6:45 p.m.

Sept. 21 at Chatham Invite, 5 p.m.

Sept. 22 at Chatham Invite, 10 a.m.

Sept. 25 vs. Granite City, 6:45 p.m.

Sept. 28 at Gateway City Classic, TBA Sept. 29 at Gateway City Classic, TBA Oct. 1 at Gibault, 6:45 p.m.

Oct. 2 at Vianney, 7 p.m.

Oct. 4 vs. Windsor, 6:45 p.m.

Oct. 9 at Belleville East, 6:45 p.m.

Kahok Boys’ Golf Kahok Football Aug. 24 vs. Belleville Althoff, 7 p.m.

Aug. 31 at Triad, 7 p.m.

Sept. 7 at Alton, 7 p.m.

Sept. 14 vs. Belleville West, 7 p.m.

Sept. 21 at East St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Sept. 28 vs. Granite City, 7 p.m.

Oct. 5 at O’Fallon, 7 p.m.

Oct. 12 vs. Belleville East, 7 p.m.

Oct. 19 vs. Edwardsville, 7 p.m.

Kahok Volleyball Aug. 27 vs. Carlyle, 7:15 p.m.

Aug. 28 at Freeburg, 7:15 p.m.

Aug. 31 at Tiger Classic, TBA Sept. 1 at Tiger Classic, TBA Sept. 5 at East St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Sept. 6 vs. Granite City, 6:15 p.m.

Sept. 10 at Highland, 7 p.m.

Sept. 13 vs. Belleville East, 6:15 p.m.

Sept. 18 at Alton, 6:15 p.m.

Sept. 25 at O’Fallon, 6:15 p.m.

Sept. 27 vs. Edwardsville, 6:15 p.m.

Sept. 29 at Triad Tournament, 9 a.m.

Oct. 2 at Metro-East Lutheran, 7 p.m.

Oct. 8 vs. Columbia, 6:15 p.m.

Oct. 11 vs. Belleville West, 6:15 p.m.

Oct. 12 at Pumpkin Smash Tournament, TBA Oct. 13 at Pumpkin Smash Tournament, TBA Oct. 18 at Waterloo, 6:15 p.m.

Oct. 19 at Quincy Notre Dame Tournament, TBA Oct. 20 at Quincy Notre Dame Tournament, TBA

Kahok Tennis Aug. 28 at Mascoutah, 4 p.m.

Aug. 30 vs. Jerseyville, 4 p.m.

Aug. 31 at Heather Bradshaw Invite, 1 p.m.

Sept. 1 at Heather Bradshaw Invite, 1 p.m.

Sept. 4 vs. Civic Memorial, 4 p.m.

Sept. 6 vs. Granite City, 4 p.m.

Sept. 10 vs. Belleville Althoff, 4 p.m.

Sept. 11 at Highland, 4 p.m.

Sept. 12 at O’Fallon, 4 p.m.

Sept. 15 at Riverbend Tournament, 9 a.m.

Sept. 18 vs. Edwardsville, 4 p.m.

Sept. 20 at Triad, 4 p.m.

Sept. 24 vs. Alton, 4 p.m.

Sept.. 25 at Waterloo, 4 p.m.

Sept. 26 vs. East St. Louis, 4 p.m.

Oct. 1 at Belleville East, 4 p.m.

Oct. 3 vs. Gibault, 4 p.m.

Oct. 5 at SWC Tournament at Granite City, 1 p.m.

Oct. 6 at SWC Tournament at Granite City, 10 a.m.

Kahok Cross Country Aug. 28 at Highland Quadrangular, 4 p.m.

Sept. 1 at Granite City Invite, 8:30 a.m.

Sept. 5 at Tiger Fall Classic, 4 p.m.

Sept. 8 at Belleville West Invite, 9 a.m.

Sept. 15 at Edwardsville Invite, 9 a.m.

Sept. 19 at Alton Invite, 4 p.m.

Sept. 26 at Triad Invite, 4 p.m.

Sept. 29 at Jacksonville Invite, 9:30 a.m.

Oct. 2 at Madison Count Meet at SIUE, 4 p.m.

Oct. 12 at SWC Tournament at East St. Louis, 4 p.m.

Oct. 15 at Tiger Finale, 4 p.m.

Sept. 4 vs. Civic Memorial/Triad, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 5 vs. East St. Louis/Althoff, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 6 vs. O’Fallon, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 8 at Carbondale Invite, 9 a.m.

Sept. 10 at Edwardsville, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 11 vs. Belleville East, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 12 at Belleville West, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 14 at O’Fallon Panther Classic, 1 p.m.

Sept. 19 vs. Highland, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 24 at Granite City, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 25 at SWC Tournament, 9 a.m.

Sept. 26 vs. Roxana, 3:30 p.m.

Kahok Girls’ Golf Aug. 29 vs. Highland/Civic Memorial, 3:30 p.m.

Aug. 30 at O’Fallon, 3:30 p.m.

Aug. 31 at O’Fallon Tournament, 1 p.m.

Sept. 4 at Highland/Civic Memorial/Granite City, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 5 at Roxana, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 8 at Alton Tournament, 1 p.m.

Sept.. 10 vs. Alton, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 11 at Belleville East, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 13 at Yorktown Tournament, 1 p.m.

Sept. 17 vs. Belleville West/Belleville East/ Granite City, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 18 vs. Belleville West, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 24 at SWC Tournament, 10 a.m.

Sept. 28 at Gary Bair Invite, 1 p.m.

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