Hot Shooting Ladue Puts the Chill on Affton on Chili Supper Night

Rams role to 18th win of the season with 80-58 pounding of the Cougars.

The crazed Ladue student cheering section knew “it” was coming. They counted “it” down like the launch of a space ship at the Cape in Florida. The “it” was junior point guard Cornell Johnson getting his 1,000 point in a Rams basketball suit. The “it” came with 6:00 left in the game when Johnson drove the middle and tossed in a little floater from 15 feet out. The crowd roared with approval. Coach Chad Anderson called time out and hugged his top scoring performer. But Johnston and Anderson will be glad to tell you Ladue basketball is a team game. “We were glad to get this over. We’re really happy he could get that 1,000th point at home,” said his coach. Actually, Ladue has had 5 or 6 players reached that hallowed 1,000 career point mark.  …

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Hoerr's Earns Four Golds as Affton Girls Take Second At State Track Meet

One of the day's biggest winners, senior Cheyenne Hoerr won the 100- and 300-meter hurdles and the 100- and 200-meter dashes, while teammate Hali Ford made it back-to-back state titles in the triple jump.

If one athlete could win a whole track meet by herself, Affton High senior Cheyenne Hoerr might be the one. At least that’s the impression Hoerr made in the sweltering heat Saturday afternoon at the 86th Annual MSHSAA State Track Championships at Lincoln University’s Dwight T. Reed Stadium, when she won all four events she competed in, and helped Affton take second overall in the team competition despite having just three athletes qualify for the state meet. “It hasn’t been too bad,” Hoerr said of the heat, which reached the high 90s by the time she won her fourth gold medal of the day in the girls 200 meter dash. “I feel OK. I’m just trying to do my best.” On Saturday, Hoerr’s best was better than just about everybody else’s, as she also …

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Affton Hoops Star Benedict Leading With 'Element Of Surprise'

Senior power forward is averaging 15 points and 11 rebounds a game and is just one of a dozen St. Louis-area players with those kinds of numbers this season.

Affton senior basketball star Sean Benedict has seen the look on people’s faces before. It happens almost every time he plays in a place for the first time, and it’s always the same. People are surprised, shocked and awed by the 17-year-old Affton native’s remarkable leaping and dunking ability, which they never seem to expect from a gangly white kid from South County. But Benedict’s been surprising people almost his entire high school career. And that continued last week at the Lanny Hradek Invitational Tournament at Orchard Farm High School in St. Charles, when Benedict dropped three exhilarating monster dunks that turned a packed house of Orchard Farm fans into screaming Sean Benedict fans begging for him to do another 360 or reverse …

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Cougars Get First Tourney Win Since 2005

Sophomore twin brothers Kohl and Reid Siebert shine in Affton's 68-52 championship game win over St. Pius X.

AFFTON HIGH SCHOOL – One of Mike Fitzgerald’s favorite things to do as coach of the Affton High boys basketball is keep track of his teams’ hustle plays. So after every game, the third-year Affton coach takes a look at which player had the most rebounds, blocked shots, deflections, and dives on the floor for loose balls – all of which are plays that according to Fitzgerald signify how much extra effort his guys are willing to give to help the team win. And as a reward, Fitzgerald will give whichever player had the most hustle plays a special WWE-style championship belt he had made, as a way of recognizing that player as the Cougars’ reigning champion of hustle. “The kids love it,” Fitzgerald said. “Probably the first thing they’ll ask me …

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Bayless Solves Affton’s Pressure, Pulls Away Late For Big Basketball Win

Bronchos layups, Cougars cold shooting prove the difference in 71-48 Bayless win over Affton.

A big, raucous crowd filled the Kuhn Gymnasium Friday night at Affton High School for a huge night of neighborhood rivalry basketball between the boys and girls teams from Bayless and Affton high schools. The Affton girls cruised to a 57-14 win over the Bayless girls in the opener. But the nightcap was the matchup everyone came to see—a true heavyweight showdown between the 5-1 Bayless and 5-2 Affton boys teams. And even though both teams certainly delivered their share of thrills and chills, it was the boys from Bayless that proved superior Friday night, after pulling away from Affton in the third and fourth quarters, for a truly impressive 71-48 victory. “That was a damn good win,” Bayless coach Pat Triplett said. “I always tell them …

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Affton Boys Hoops Looking to Bounce Back After Growing Pains

Youthful Cougars were 7-18 last season, but hope to get back on winning track, beginning with Tuesday night season opener at Valmeyer (IL).

Affton High School boys basketball coach Mike Fitzgerald can’t wait for his team’s first game of the new season to tip off Tuesday at Valmeyer High School in Illinois. The Cougars suffered through a difficult 2010-11 season, going just 7-18 with a team some thought might make some noise once the district playoffs rolled around. Instead, Affton dropped separate eight-game and five-game losing streaks along the way, before finally ending the year with a first-round district loss against neighborhood rival Lutheran South High Schol. “It was a rough year for sure,” Fitzgerald said, after a recent Cougar preseason practice. “We were undersized. We didn’t have a whole lot of guys with a lot of experience, and teams kind of took advantage of that…

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Lutheran South Advances To Volleyball District Final, Affton Bows Out In Semifinals

Lancers beat Notre Dame in straight sets, while errors prove too much for Cougars to overcome against DuBourg.

SOUTH CITY – The two South County teams left in the Missouri Class 3 District 3 volleyball playoffs suffered different fates in the tournament’s semifinals Tuesday night at Bishop DuBourg High School in St. Louis. Top-seeded Lutheran South played a shaky first set, but then performed magnificently in the second set of a two-games-to-none win over Notre Dame High, while Affton just made too many errors in a straight-set loss to second-seeded DuBourg.   “The first game was a slow start, but the second game was much better,” Lutheran South head coach Corol Reinitz said. “We saw a lot of improvement in several different areas.” Most of which was at the net, where the Lancers, who defeated the Rebels by scores of 25-21 and 25-15, truly …

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Lutheran South Wins Walkoff Thriller Over Affton, Headed to Championship

Sophomore Leigh Wayman’s bases-loaded hit wins it in the bottom of the seventh. Lutheran South will advance to the district championship game.

When the girls softball season began in August, the plan at Lutheran South was to have separate varsity and junior varsity teams this season. Coach Linda McQueen wanted to have a varsity unit made up of mostly juniors and seniors, and a JV team consisting mostly of freshmen and sophomores. One player McQueen expected to play on JV was sophomore infielder Leigh Wayman, a talented player who figured to come off the bench this year, because there were older girls at her position. But in the biggest game of the year and biggest moment of the year, it was Wayman who was in the lineup, and she found herself at the plate with the bases loaded and the game tied in the bottom of the seventh inning. And the 5-foot-6-inch dynamo delivered, smacking a…

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Lindbergh, Affton Students Compete at State Meet

Several local athletes took part in Saturday's state track meet at Lincoln University in Jefferson City.

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