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The Oil Belt Conference track meet was held at Jim Finks Field on Friday. Many conference and school records fell on the day. Selmaville won the boys team title with Central City 2nd and Raccoon 3rd. ...

The Salem Varsity Boys delivered an electrifying performance in Saturday's doubleheader at Pinckneyville, walking away with two impressive victories. In the opener, Salem dominated Pinckneyville in a ...

Salem Wins 3rd Game of the Week The Salem Wildcats won their 3rd game of the week yesterday as they beat visiting Fairfield 8-2. Carter Lowe, Brenden Smith and Owen Tennyson combined for 4 of the Cats...

Annies Nip Woodlawn In Dual Both teams were strong in the circle, but Centralia nipped Woodlawn 2-1. Addyson Dukes was the winning pitcher allowing 4 hits and no earned runs in the complete game win. ...

The Franklin Park Bowling Awards were handed out yesterday. Wyett Follett and Weston Crouse were Co-Most Improved, Alayna Golden was Most Improved, Dakota Gregg had the highest average at 179, and Lil...

The 2026 Salem Community High School Sports Hall of Fame inductees have been announced. They Stephanie (Carpenter) Aldridge, Class of 2010. She was a true scoring machine at every level with 1000 poin...

Lowe's Grand Slam Keys Big 1st Inning In Salem Rout of Wood River Carter Lowe hit a grand slam as Salem was scoring 12 runs in the opening inning and they beat visiting Wood River 14-0. The Cats didn'...

Honerkamp 1 Strike Away From No Hitter Morgan Honerkamp was one strike away from a no-hitter, but a line drive up the middle ended that big, but Salem still beat Wood River at Tully Park 4-0. Honerkam...

The Lady Wildcats competed in the rain shortened Lady Rams Invitational at Mt Vernon on Wednesday. Only a few events were completed prior to the meet being called for weather. Finley Puricelli finishe...

Mt Vernon High School hired 3 new coaches at their School Board meeting last night. 2019 Mt Vernon grad Lucas Cooper will take over his alma mater after coaching the past few years at Woodlawn. The 25...