Author Archives: WJBD Staff

In Salem Recreation's Women's Volleyball League, Ball Busters beat United Medical (25-10, 25-17), EPOC over Penny Lee Photography (25-8, 25-20), Rickell Sages Fitness over The Texas Corner Tavern (25-...

The Franklin Park Lady Bobcats will add a Class L state volleyball championship to their trophy case as they pulled off a three-set thriller at Pinckneyville High School to beat Wolf Branch in the fin...

It's always tough at the Class S volleyball tournament, with 16 regions compacted into southern Illinois, the state champion needs to win 4 matches in one day to take on the title. This year Holy Chil...

Okawville won the Class M SIJHSAA State Volleyball Tournament on Saturday at Nashville High School. They beat Trico in the finals 25-16, 25-15 to claim the big trophy. Okawville opened the tournament ...

Parrett Finishes 5th and Veach runs a PR at the Illinois Top Times Meet. On her third throw, Freshman Emily Parrett got the distance she needed to get in the Top 8. Emily's throw of 37-01.25 earned he...

The Mt Vernon Rams battled state ranked Effingham but came up short 5-4. Cale Maurer went 2-3 with an RBI, Grant Holloway had 2 hits and Bronx Hefner assed an RBI and run scored. Maurer struck out 8 i...

The Salem Lady Wildcats dropped a pair of games at DuQuoin on Saturday. Lady Cats fall in game 1 to Du Quoin 9-4. Morgan Honerkamp was good striking out 6. At the plate Katee Sellers, Marah Johnson an...

The Centralia Annies moved to 5-0 on Saturday with an impressive 4-0 shutout of Nashville. Emrie Quick struck out 13 for the Annie allowing just 2 hits in her complete game win. Centralia would get a ...

They fell to Mater Dei 13-1. The Knights would take command with a 6-0 lead in the top of the 2nd. Ryker Dodson and Kaiden Harell each had a hit and Sebastian Kruger drove in a run. It wasn't any bett...

The Mt Vernon Lady Rams dropped their first softball game of the spring, losing to a really tough Freeburg squad 3-0. Both teams were strong in the circle, but Freeburg was just a little stronger at t...