Coles County Sports

06/10/2025

The Mattoon Pickleball League will kick off its first ladder league tournament, starting next Tuesday, June 17. The league runs through Aug. 19. More than 40 people have already registered in five days. The league will be capped at 60. If interested, send an email to the address cited in the flyer below.

Pickleball continues to explode. Won't be a surprise to see it become a high school sports sooner than later.

03/11/2025

Lake Land College (26-7) is seeded No. 7 in the NJCAA women's national basketball tournament, which is set to start next week. The Lakers will face No. 10 Mid Michigan College at 6 p.m. on March 18 in Joplin, Missouri.

Three other Illinois schools advanced to the tourney – No. 4 Lincoln Land, No. 12 Illinois Central and No. 17 Rock Valley, which has a play-in game set for March 17.

01/16/2025

Daily Eastern News columnist Gabe Newman writes that Mahomet-Seymour has outgrown the Apollo Conference.

Mahomet-Seymour High School needs a new athletic conference. As the village of Mahomet continues to grow, so does the school system. A couple of years ago, the junior high school building had over 200 more students than it had been built for, forcing the school district to get creative to accommodat...

12/11/2024

The Charleston High School boys basketball team is putting up some mileage, yet, reports Daily Eastern News reporter Gabe Newman, the vibes are still positive.

The Charleston High School Boys' Basketball team is putting up some mileage, yet the report says the vibes are still positive. Shoutout to Gabe Newman and Br...

12/11/2024

The Daily Eastern News wrote a feature on CHS three-sport athlete Luke Bonnstetter.

At 5:50 in the morning, Charleston High School senior Luke Bonnstetter’s morning alarm sounds. Typically, Bonnstetter would still be asleep until his usual wake up time of 7:30, when it’s time to get ready for school like any other student. Not today though; Bonnstetter has basketball practice i...

11/18/2024

EIU's student-run Daily Eastern News just published this season preview of Charleston High girls basketball

Basketball is bigger than the game played on the court for senior guard Brie Tomlinson and senior forward Blair Ritchey. The people around the game are considered family to them. “I’ve grown close to so many girls and with coaches as well,” Tomlinson said. “They’ve taught me a lot of life ...

10/06/2024

Senior running back Trysten Sewell rushed for 127 yards and two touchdowns, leading Mattoon to a 20-17 win over Charleston in the 2024 Coles County Clash Friday night at O’Brien Field.

Senior running back Trysten Sewell rushed for 127 yards and two touchdowns, leading Mattoon to a 20-17 win over Charleston in the 2024 Coles County Clash Friday night at O’Brien Field. The game, which was played in front of 6,915 in attendance, was sloppy in the first half, with both teams combini...

09/28/2024

Weldon Dunston IV’s scored four touchdowns and rushed for 258 yards in a 30-20 win for Effingham over Charleston on Friday night at Washington Savings Bank Stadium.

Sometimes mother nature forces a football game to revert to its roots: smash mouth football and a strong ground game. With the weather conditions as extreme as they were, with wind gusts as high as 56 miles per hour, moving the football through the air was nearly impossible. Ultimately, it came down...

09/27/2024

Charleston High football seeks its second straight game against their conference rival, Effingham, on Friday night.

It’s Effingham week for Charleston High School football, which is a big week for head coach Brian Halsey. “Going back to [the year of] 2000, it’s just always been a rivalry for me,” Halsey said. Halsey is 7-11 against the Flaming Hearts during both his stints as head coach of the Trojans. La...

09/21/2024

The Charleston Trojans lost their Apollo Conference opener to the Mahomet-Seymour Bulldogs Friday night 56-3 at Frank Dutton Field in Mahomet.

Check out the story by the Daily Eastern News below for more.

The Charleston Trojans lost their Apollo Conference opener to the Mahomet-Seymour Bulldogs Friday night 56-3 at Frank Dutton Field in Mahomet. The game got away from the Trojans (3-1) with the first kick of the game, when Mahomet senior returner Brock VanDeveer fielded a squib kick at his own 12-yar...

09/20/2024

Charleston High football (3-0) is currently two wins from being a playoff eligible football team for the second consecutive season as it rolls into an Apollo Conference game against Mahomet on Friday night.

After an intriguing first three weeks of the high school football season, only one team is still undefeated going into Apollo Conference play: Charleston High School. The Trojans (3-0) are currently two wins away from being a playoff eligible football team for the second consecutive season, but seni...

09/14/2024

Charleston’s Treylin Couch ran for 170 yards and scored four times to lead the Trojans past Jersey, 45-34, in high school football Friday night. Check out the story in the Daily Eastern News.

The Charleston Trojans beat the Jersey Panthers 45-34 at home Friday. Running back Treylin Couch exploded on the ground as he had four total touchdowns. Jersey high could do nothing to stop Couch as he ran for 170 yards. He also caught one catch by senior quarterback Luke Bonnstetter for 42 yards an...