Author Archives: WJBD Staff

The Wildcats tennis team is at TTown. Salem is coming off a 6-3 win over Charleston. Singles winners were Jarret Rushing, Juan Diez, Kyler Sapp and Jackson Green as well as the doubles teams of Rushin...

Congrats to the McKendree University Powerlifting teams for their outstanding work at Nationals! The men's raw team is coming home with a 2nd place finish and the women's raw team is coming back with ...

The Centralia Junior Wrestling Club is working on raising money for new wrestling mats and they are on their stretch drive to finish up. They will be hosting Live Pro Wrestling with Power House 2 on S...

In the City of Salem Recreation Women's Volleyball action last night, You Got Served beat Sets on the Beach (25-14, 25-20), Toss & Wash in three sets over Sets on the Beach (25-15, 18-25, 15-9), S...

In 3a, Honorable Mention went to Centralia's Dustyn Collins and Archie Goewey, Dave Barnes of Mt Vernon, Ethan Simmons of Marion. In 1a, Benton's Docker Tedeschi is on the 1st team along with Sam Dona...

Congratulations to Franklin Park 8th grader Maci Susmena for winning the Region 9 SIJHSAA Jim Burnes Leadership Award. They will be honore d with a luncheon tomorrow in Sesser.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Joey Bart, Andrew McCutchen and Isiah Kiner-Falefa each drove in two runs, and the Pittsburgh Pirates handed St. Louis its fourth consecutive loss with an 8-4 victory over the Cardin...

CHICAGO (AP) - Justin Steele tossed three-hit ball over seven innings, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Texas Rangers 7-0 on a frigid Monday night. Michael Busch doubled and scored in the second. He also...

DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) - Denny Hamlin took his last lead out of the pits right before an overtime finish and then held off William Byron to win the Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway on Sunday. Hamlin ...

The South Central High School Board of Education this week hired their 6th head boy's basketball coach in the program's history. He is Landon Zurliene from Fairfield. Landon is a senior at McKendree U...