Galen Shelton

A strong Carterville Lions team flexed their muscles last Friday night, Oct. 11, against an out-manned Massac County team in a 50-18 conference win.

The Lady Patriots volleyball team is cruising into the tail end of the season and getting ready for the IHSA Class 2A state tournament to begin.

Metropolis streets were filled with game pieces Friday, Oct. 18, as the Massac County High School Homecoming parade marched through. The parade's theme was “Homecoming Game Night” with depections of Rock'Em, Sock'Em Robots, Candyland, Monopoly, Operation, Uno!, Sorry!, Scrabble, Jumanji, Guess Who?, Mouse Trap and Super Mario Bros. The parade's 59 entries featured the classes, sports teams, clubs and bands of the high school and Massac Junior High, along with students from the five elementary schools, and area businesses and organizations. A tradition of the 1950s and '60s, the Homecoming parade returned to MCHS in 2007.

The Salukis of Red Hill didn't streak past Massac County last Friday night, like the name might imply, instead they played what you might call “Woody Hayes” football. A tough, grinding running game chewed up yardage and ran down the clock as Red Hill just outmuscled the Patriots in a 32-0 whitewashing. The Salukis ran the ball over forty times and mixed in just enough pass attempts to keep Massac off balance and more importantly ate up a bunch of clock in the win. With the win, Red Hill improves to 5-3 and faces Carlyle in their season finale. Massac's record slips to 1-7 and the Pats will finish things off this Friday at Pinckneyville. The Panthers also look to improve on a 1-7 season ledger.

After Massac County cruised by Mt. Carmel 9-0 on Saturday in the first round of the IHSA [Metropolis] Class 2A soccer regional tournament and Murphy shut out Pinckneyville 5-0, the

Although the season finale at Decatur was a “downer” for Massac County's girls golf team, finishing tenth in the twelve team field and missing “the cut,” we need a little perspective here.

With a win over Carterville the Massac County volleyball team wrapped up their fourth straight SIRR-Ohio conference crown. The win marked an unbeaten Ohio division conference season and kept an

Anna-Jonesboro's Wildcats ran wild through the historic terrain of Fort Massac State Park Saturday morning as the boys team took first place with a solid performance and the girls team completely swept aside their competition.

Last Friday's matchup of Pinckneyville and Massac County pitted two teams with identical 1-7 records against each other in a game that had to be “for bragging rights” if nothing else.

In their final tuneup[s] before Tuesday night's regional tournament opener at Harrisburg, Massac County's lady Patriots turned away West Frankfort in straight sets last Thursday on Senior Night.