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Gillespie's Jesse Berry 'happy' and 'lucky' to be back on the field after two ACL tears
He entered the week hitting .442 and batting cleanup for a 22-7 Gillespie baseball team favored to go far again in the Class 2A state tournament. He’s headed for Lewis & Clark Community College in Godfrey this fall, already sure of what he wants to do in the future. Life for 17-year-old Jesse Berry right now is good. Unlike the fall of 2022, when, as a junior, the same right knee he’d rehabbed for six months because...
Baseball Game Preview: Bunker Hill Leaves Home
The Bunker Hill Minutemen will head out on the road to take on the Tri-City Tornadoes at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'. Bunker Hill lost 16-5 to Pawnee on Thursday. Meanwhile, Tri-City...
Softball Recap: Dynamic duo of Ella Kadell and Josie Hagen lead Southwestern to victory
Southwestern won the last time they faced North Mac, and things went their way on Thursday too. The Southwestern Piasa Birds walked away with a 5-1 win over the North Mac Panthers. Grace Strohbeck spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: she surrendered only one earned...
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