Author Archives: WJBD Staff

The Mt Vernon Lady Rams won their own 3a regional on Saturday beating conference rival Carbondale 64-54. It was the 5th straight regional title for Mt Vernon. They will advance to Tuesday's Bethalto S...

The KC Blue Devils fell to 13-12 with an 82-55 loss to Wabash Valley College. Myles Liddell led KC with 14 and Terrell Galbreath added 12. Sherod Dent had 24 in the win over Wabash Valley. KC will hos...

The South 7 Freshman Tournament finished up in Marion on Saturday with the host Wildcats knocking off Mt Vernon 51-49. Centralia beat Carbondale 26-23 for 3rd place.

Salem's Brody Elwood, Austin Woolridge, Liam Morris and Holden Richardson competed at the IHSA Swim Meet in Urbana. The team was 6th in the Freestyle Relay and 8th in the Medley Relay. Elwood was 20th...

The Centralia Tigers season ended with a 3rd place win at the SIJHSAA Class L State Tournament at Rend Lake College. The Tigers beat Carbondale 59-48 to win the trophy. In the championship Murphysboro...

Congratulations to Salem junior Colton Rodgers who competed in his first ever power lifting event over the weekend at McKendree University after starting his lifting journey a year ago. He lifted 953 ...

The Sc Storm 18u girls are headed home from Iowa as champions in their last Fall/Winter tourney. They lost our first game Friday night in pool play and then went 5-0 and outscored their opponents 31-4...

The Franklin Park bowlers won the Central City Tournament with the boys and girls winning the combined team event. Kai Graham and Benny Bryan was 1st and 2nd overall. Kennedi Simmons and Adri Birch we...

The South Central Lady Falcons won the Junior NTC Tournament Championship over the weekend.   Tonight, Sandoval is back in action at Ashley.

For the first time in over 20 years, the South 7 title will be shared by 3 out of the 5 teams in the league after games last night. The first domino to fall was Centralia doing what they needed to kno...