Posts Tagged ‘waterloo’
Boys Basketball Midwinter Tournament Central
Next week is full of boys basketball tournaments taking place throughout the area. Columbia begins play in the Litchfield invite Saturday, while Gibault begins play in the Nashville Tournament Tuesday.…
Read MoreCoaching legend Eilbracht dies
Baseball legend and Waterloo native, Lee Paul “Coach” Eilbracht, 88, passed on into the baseball heavens Jan. 2. A 1942 graduate of Waterloo High School, Eilbracht went on to become…
Read MoreWaterloo & Columbia Cheerleaders | Teams of the Week
As of this past Sunday, three area cheerleading squads have now qualified to compete in the ICCA Championships or “state” in Springfield Feb. 9. Therefore, the Waterloo and Columbia High…
Read MoreColumbia sweeps ‘Pack the Place’ event
The second annual “Pack the Place” event held at Columbia High School gave its fans two close games between rivals Waterloo and Columbia on Tuesday night. The girls basketball teams…
Read MoreGarcia put heart, soul into promoting Waterloo
During a visit to her Hanover Road home for an interview a few years ago, this editor had the distinct pleasure of sitting with one of Waterloo’s true stalwarts, Eleanor…
Read MoreGibault tops Mater Dei in thrilling fashion
They did it again. For the third game in a row and now several times this season, the Hawks (13-2) pulled one through in the last few seconds of the…
Read MoreA decade of Bourgeois brothers
Ten years ago, the first Bourgeois wandered into the Waterloo football program, new to the town and the school district. “I was late to the locker room, I didn’t know…
Read MoreGibault beats Waterloo, advances to tourney finals
Crosstown rivals Gibault and Waterloo fought a back-and-forth contest in the semifinals of the Freeburg/Columbia Holiday Basketball Tournament at Freeburg Friday night before the Hawks finally downed the Bulldogs, 38-36.…
Read MorePolice Blotter 12/19/12
Columbia Police Dec. 14 Stefanie D. Gould (McClelland), 27, of Dupo, was arrested on a Monroe County warrant and for defective windshield and no insurance on S. Main at Jefferson.…
Read MoreMan charged with aggravated domestic battery near Paderborn
A 24-year-old man has been charged in St. Clair County with felony aggravated domestic battery and reckless discharge of a firearm following a Dec. 23 incident that started at a…
Read MoreFreeburg Holiday Tournament Brackets
The Freeburg/Columbia Holiday boys basketball tournament is broken up into three pools. The winners and losers of each pool are then broken up into three brackets after the second day…
Read MoreMeyer hits buzzer beater, Gibault defeats CM in OT
The annual Freeburg/Columbia Holiday Tournament kicked off with a bang on Wednesday. The Gibault High School boys basketball team (11-1) took on Civic Memorial (5-6) for the second time in…
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