Author Archives: WJBD Staff

Over the weekend the Lady Bobcats were 3rd at the St Peter Tournament. Their only loss was in their first game of pool play to the eventual champion host Lady Saints (18-21, 16-21). Salem then beat Ce...

Salem Cats 10u Softball team Rushing traveled to Cape Girardeau, MO for an indoor softball tournament this weekend. They played three games and went 3-0. In the first game, Julianna Rushing struck out...

The Salem Wildcats are on the road tonight at Freeburg in Cahokia play. Salem will then host Centralia for Mega Day on Saturday. The day begins at 3pm with the JV girls followed by the 4:30 varsity gi...

The Salem Lady Wildcats dropped their conference road game at Freeburg 44-31. Salem had opportunities but couldn't score consistently and also put the Midgets on the free throw line too many times as ...

The 2024-25 IHSA Officials of the Year have been announced. Locally, Dale McConnell of Centralia was named Softball Official of the Year, Jeffrey Crow of Mt Vernon for Volleyball and Amber Cruser of W...

Centralia won the Class L Salem Regional last night knocking off the host Bobcats 63-31 to advance to next weekend's opening round of the SIJHSAA State Tournament at Rend Lake College. Also in Class L...

The Class S state tournament opens tomorrow with 8 opening round games. It starts at 9:30 with Rome and OBR, Patoka will play Pinckneyville 204 at noon and the final game of the day at 6:15 will be Wa...

The St Peter Lutheran Volleyball Tournament opens tonight. St Peter and Franklin Park open the night at 5 followed by Centralia and Sandoval, then Franklin Park and Centralia and then Sandoval and St ...

Apostolic Christian Academy held the 2nd Quarter Awards Day Ceremony on Tuesday, February 4. Awards were given for Highest Grade Average, Most 100's, No Homework, Perfect Attendance, Scripture Memoriz...

The Webber Township Trojans improved to 19-4 on the season with their biggest win of the year knocking off 3rd ranked Waltonville 78-75. The Spartans made a run late down 6 getting a foul and bucket a...