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The Odin Lady Eagles advance to their 1a regional championship with an upset of 2 seed South Central 18-7 in Kinmundy in five innings. Odin used a 9-run fifth inning and 18 hits to win. Hailey Lane ha...

Salem hosted the 2a track and field sectional yesterday. Mascoutah won the event dominating with 120 points followed by Cahokia with 67 and Marion 64.5. Finishing top 10were Aliyah Sanders of Centrali...

The Salem Wildcats Tennis Team will compete at the Carbondale 1a Sectional today and tomorrow. Salem will join the hosts along with Centralia, Mt Vernon, Carmi, Fairfield, Herrin, Marion and Mt Carmel...

In prep soccer postseason the 1a Sectionals continue with quarterfinals today. Alton Marquette hosts Father McGivney, Althoff welcomes Gibault, Carlinville at Hillsboro, Staunton goes to Litchfield, M...

At the Little League Complex in boys Majors, IGA defeated Lions behind a no-hitter from Landon Tennyson 8-1. LT needed just 77 pitches in 6 innings in the win. Titus Thompson had 2 hits, Alex Spencer ...

In Marion County YMCA/Salem Recreation Men's Softball it's BSI over Misfits 17-3, B&J Logging beat Misfits 20-14 and also beat Odd Fellows 23-8.

Cincinnati Reds (25-29, fourth in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (31-26, second in the NL Central) St. Louis; Friday, 8:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Luis Castillo (1-8, 7.22 ERA, 1.7...

Chicago Cubs (32-24, first in the NL Central) vs. San Francisco Giants (35-21, first in the NL West) San Francisco; Friday, 9:45 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Jake Arrieta (5-5, 4.41 ERA, 1.37 WH...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Brandon Crawford homered and drove in four runs, Anthony DeSclafani pitched six solid innings and hit an RBI double, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs 7-2. Buster...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Jesse Winker hit a two-run homer, Vladimir Gutirrez earned his first career win and the Cincinnati Reds beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2. Gutirrez pitched five innings of two-run ball...