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EDWARDSVILLE – Edwardsville's boys soccer team started its 2017 season off with a match at Tiger Stadium against traditional St. Louis powerhouse Chaminade.
The Tigers battled the Red Devils to a scoreless draw.
“It wasn't an easy game,” said Tiger coach Mark Heiderscheid. “We played them well; we knew going in that it wasn't going to be easy, but we did get a result and we're happy with that.”
Tiger goalkeeper Michael Hoelting kept Chaminade at bay throughout the match to record the clean sheet for EHS, which begins the season at 0-0-1. Chaminade went to 0-1-1 on year, having opened their season with a 1-0 loss to area rival St. Louis Univeristy High Saturday afternoon. Joe Mitchell recorded the clean sheet for Chaminade.
The draw was the start of a busy opening week for the Tigers; they'll be in the Alton Round-Robin tournament at Alton's Piasa Motor Fuels Field Friday and Saturday, meeting up with Murphysboro at 4 p.m. Friday, Dunlap at 9:30 a.m. Saturday and the host Redbirds at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
Before that, EHS opens its Southwestern Conference schedule at 6:45 p.m. Thursday against Granite City at Tiger Stadium.
Dan Brannan also contributed to this story.
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Feeney, 56, is a native of Granite City and graduated from Granite City South in 1978. He was a part-time writer for the old Granite City Journal from 1979-84 before attending Eastern Illinois University in Charleston,
from which he earned his BA in journalism in 1988. He has worked for newspapers in Sikeston, Mo., Rocky Mount, N.C., Seneca, S.C. and in Charleston-Mattoon. He also worked for the old St. Clair County Suburban
Journals.
