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The Salem Wildcats will honor 100 years of Wildcats Football tonight when they host the Freeburg Midgets to finish up play in the Cahokia Conference. 4th place is on the line as both teams enter with ...

The Salem Wildcats soccer team will open up regional play today when they host Olney to FCC Field. Kickoff is at 3:30 this afternoon. The winner advances to Tuesday's semifinal in Olney to take on Tri...

Salem grad and University of Southern Indiana freshman golfer Jairen Stroud made his college debut competing with his team at the Battle of the Expressway. The team was beat by Evansville, however Str...

The National Trail Conference released their All Conference Baseball Team and league champion St Anthony's Brock Fearday was named MVP. He was joined on the first team by Callaway Smith of South Centr...

Franklin Park & SCMS Get Basketball Wins The Franklin Park Lady Bobcats opened their basketball season with a home win over Effingham 33-24. Lexie Malan led all scorers with 7. Brynn Kessler had 6...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Joel Hofer made 34 saves and assisted on Jake Neighbours' goal at 2:04 of overtime in the St. Louis Blues' 1-0 victory over the New York Islanders on Thursday night. Hofer had his sec...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Michigan and Illinois will try to get back on track Saturday in the first ranked-vs-ranked game at Memorial Stadium since 2000. No. 24 Michigan (4-2, 2-1 Big Ten) had a school-r...

Class 8A Rank School Total Points Previous 1. Lincoln-Way East (11) (7-0) 110 1 2. Naperville Central (7-0) 86 2 3. Oswego (7-0) 79 3 4. Lyons (7-0) 75 T6 5. Chicago (Marist) (6-1) 71 5 6. Loyola (5-2...

Selmaville Girls Win OBC The Oil Belt Conference cross country meet was held at Field yesterday. The Varsity Running Rocket girls of Selmaville won the conference meet with the varsity boys 2nd. The J...

Eastern Illinois men's golf took advantage of good scoring conditions on Tuesday as the Panthers wrapped up their fall schedule with a team round of 290 to place 11th at The Buddy Championship hosted ...