Author Archives: WJBD Staff

The Wildcat cross country team competed at the Freeburg Invitational on Saturday. With 158 boys and 131 girls this was the biggest race of the year. Leading the way for the girls was Kendall Zimmerman...

Franklin Park is headed back to the Class L state tournament held this year at the Oasis Sports Complex in Marion following Saturday's 8-0 win at home over Wesclin in the regional title game. Ben Lux ...

A big regional title game today at the Salem Little League Complex in Class S featuring 2 of the better pitchers in the area. Selmaville and Gabby Goostree will take on Mabree Phelps and Patoka at 4:3...

DOUBLEHEADER DOMINANCE! The Centralia SuperSonics 11U came out swinging this Saturday with two exciting wins over the Cumberland Vets 11U. Game 1: Comeback Victory - 8-7 Final After trailing 7-2 in th...

The junior high trap shooting season got underway last week. Patoka was 3rd with a week 1 score of 421. Collinsville and Dieterich was 1-2. Haley Hassebrock led Patoka hitting 48 out of 50, Kru Cain h...

Michael Brown rushed for 93 yards and Will Stanton added 56 yards and 2 touchdowns as the Orphans beat Carbondale 35-23. Centralia got on the board first with a 1 yard touchdown reception from Archie ...

The Roxana Shells ran 15 first-half plays, and scored 33 points on their way to a 33-0 halftime lead and ultimately a 46-7. The Shells tailback duo of Shorter and Crumb combined for 14 carries for 236...

The Salem Wildcats remained undefeated at the Salem Soccer Complex as they short-gamed Carlyle 9-0 in front of a good crowd Friday afternoon. Eli Baker scored 4 goals for the Cats. Avery Gullion got h...

Colton Tockstein hit a walk-off sac-fly in the bottom of the 8th inning as SC knocked off visiting Neoga 3-2. He was also the winning pitcher allowing no hits and no runs over 2 innings. North Clay be...

Iuka won their Class S baseball regional knocking off host Patoka/Odin 7-5. The Pirates flipped the game in the top of the sixth trailing 4-2 as they would score 5 runs in the inning. The biggest blow...