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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...

CINCINNATI (AP) - After enduring the franchise's second-worst start on the road, the St. Louis Cardinals broke out on Wednesday, belting six homers and outscoring the Cincinnati Reds 15-1 in a doubleh...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A man fell from the 21-foot-high Clemente Wall in right field at PNC Park during Wednesday night's game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs. Right after Andrew McCutchen ...