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The Salem girls track team competed at the 25 team Nashville Invitational on Thursday. The Lady Cats finished 4th overall. The highlight of the day was the 4X100 team of Kinsey Jarrett, Eden Gallia, C...

Franklin Park Results - 5/1/25 REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Salem, Flora, Olney, Centralia, Carlyle, Mt Carmel, Wesclin, Breese Girls Salem 141 Breese 101 Olney 84 Boys Salem 167 Flora 110 Mt Carmel 80 Perso...

The Salem Lady Wildcats honored their seniors and then lost their first match on the new pitch at the Salem Soccer Complex with a 2-1 loss to Mt Vernon. Shelby Johnson scored the Salem goal. The Annie...

Annies/Marion Locked In Scoreless Extra Inning Game Centralia postponed their game with Marion in the bottom of the 8th with no score in a battle of the conference's best teams. The game will be finis...

Bazile's Gem Lifts Stallions over Althoff Jayden Bazile struck out 10 leading Christ Our Rock to a 2-0 win over Althoff. He allowed just 5 hits and didn't walk anyone. Evan Beal, Brayden Albert, Noah ...

Salem and Olney had their tennis match rained out in the middle of a 2-2 match where Jarrett Rushing had a huge 3rd set tiebreak win over Olney's Aiden Weidner and Juan Diez with a great 2 set win ove...

Believe It or DON'T On this day in 1967, 32-year-old Elvis Presley married 21-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. They separated in 1971 and Elvis filed for divorce in 1973....

Yesterday the Salem Wildcats traveled to the Carmi-White County Invitational with 11 events finished before lightning cancelled the remaining portion of the meet. For the Wildcats, Robbie Shober won t...

Centralia competed at the Marion Fresh/Soph Invitational and was 4th as a team with 91 points behind a strong 128 point performance by Carbondale. 1st place finishes for the Orphans were Jackson Mikes...

The IHSA 1a/2a State Baseball finals will have a new home for this year only. Due to a scheduling conflict with the Peoria Chiefs at Dozer Park, this year's state finals will be played at Illinois Fie...