- Cahokia Conference
The Cahokia Conference is a
high school athletic organization in SouthwesternIllinois , near St. Louis. The conference consists of 12 schools that are located in the St. Clair, Randolph, Monroe, and Clinton counties. Two schools, Valmeyer and Steelville, were added in the 2006-2007 season. The addition split the conference into two divisions, the Mississippi and the Kaskaskia.Each year a conference champion is determined in each division for volleyball, boy's and girl's basketball, baseball, and softball by each division member playing round-robin home and away. The team with the best win-loss record is the champion. For football, boy's and girl's golf and boy's soccer one champion is determined by round-robin play once for each participating school. Cross country and track for boys and girls each have one champion determined by the winner of each sport's conference meet. The scholastic bowl champion is the winner of the conference tournament.
Under the current IHSA 2 class system all are class A, except for Freeburg, which became class AA in 2005-06. Under the IHSA 4 Class system, which begins in 2007-08 for volleyball, basketball, baseball, and softball, the Kaskaskia division will all be in class 1A and the Mississippi division will be in class 2A, except for Freeburg which will be in class 3A. The proposed 3 class system for cross country and track would include Freeburg in class 2A and all others in class 1A.
Seven of these schools field football teams. The entire Mississippi division as well as Dupo make up these schools.
List of member schools
Mississippi Division
# Breese (Central) Cougars
# Carlyle Indians
# Columbia Eagles
# Freeburg Midgets
# Red Bud Musketeers
# Trenton (Wesclin) WarriorsKaskaskia Division
# Dupo Tigers
# Lebanon Greyhounds
# Marissa Meteors
# New Athens Yellow Jackets
# Steeleville Warriors
# Valmeyer PiratesEnrollment Figures for 2007-08
tate Championships
Breese (Central)
* 1989 Scholastic Bowl Runner-Up
* 1992 Volleyball Third Place
* 1996 Volleyball Champions
* 1999 Volleyball Third Place
* 2005 Volleyball Champions
* 2006 Volleyball Runner-Up
* 2007 Girl's Basketball Champions
* 2007 Volleyball ChampionsCarlyle
* 1981 Boy's Baseball Champions
* 1988 Football Champions
* 1989 Boy's Basketball Champions
* 1995 Girl's Basketball Runner-Up
* 1996 Girl's Basketball Champions
* 1997 Girl's Basketball ChampionsColumbia
* 1987 Baseball Champions
* 2005 Volleyball Runner-Up
* 2006 Girl's Soccer Runner-Up
* 2006 Baseball Fourth Place
* 2007 Scholastic Bowl Runner-Up
* 2007 Baseball Champions
* 2007 Football Runner-Up
* 2008 Girl's Soccer Third PlaceDupo
* 1990 Baseball Runner-Up
* 1996 Baseball ChampionsFreeburg
* 1956 Baseball Runner-Up
* 1977 Volleyball Third Place
* 1979 Volleyball Champions
* 1981 Volleyball Fourth Place
* 1982 Volleyball Champions
* 1985 Softball Champions
* 1989 Baseball Champions
* 2002 Baseball Runner-Up
* 2003 Girl's Track Champions
* 2004 Girl's Track Champions
* 2005 Girl's Track Third PlaceLebanon
* 1976 Boy's Cross Country Champions
* 1977 Boy's Track Runner-Up
* 1997 Softball Runner-UpMarissa
* 1986 Baseball Champions
New Athens
* 1948 Baseball Runner-Up
* 1978 Baseball Runner-Up
* 1979 Baseball ChampionsRed Bud
*1974 Volleyball Third Place
*2002 Volleyball Third Placeteeleville
* 1993 Baseball Runner-Up
Trenton (Wesclin)
* 1981 Boy's Cross Country Runner-Up
* 1982 Boy's Cross Country Champions
* 1990 Boy's Basketball Champions
* 2006 Baseball Runner-UpMiscellaneous Facts
Baseball Achievements
No other small school athletic conference in the state of Illinois has claimed as many state baseball championships as the Cahokia Conference. The list of championships by current member teams includes 7 years (1979, 1981, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1996, and 2007), as well as 7 runner-up performances (1948, 1956, 1978, 1990, 1993, 2002, and 2006), and one fourth place (2006).
2005 Volleyball Championship
In the 2005 state volleyball tournament Breese Central defeated Columbia in the championship match. This was the first time in IHSA Volleyball history that two teams from the same conference met in the title match. Ironically, the conference champion of 2005 was Freeburg, which had moved to class AA and won the first ever AA regional for a school from this conference.
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