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Patoka remained undefeated with a 2-1 win over Rome in Patoka. The game was tied at 1 in the bottom of the sixth when Patoka would sneak across a run on Hunter Hyde's groundout scoring Blaize Murray. ...

Iuka beat Spring Garden at home 11-1 in six innings. For the Pirates, Devan Jennings went 2-3 with 2 RBI and 3 runs scored. Trygg Aaron drove in a run with Vince Krajefska. Aaron was the winning pitch...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Andre Pallante retired his last 17 of his last 18 batters over seven strong innings and Lars Nootbaar hit a tiebreaking two-run double in the fourth inning, leading the St. Louis Ca...

MIAMI (AP) - Pete Crow-Armstrong hit an inside-the-park home run and the Chicago Cubs beat the Miami Marlins 6-3 on Friday night. Ian Happ and Miguel Amaya also homered for the Cubs (64-65), who began...

The IHSA has added a pre-season week for teams to scrimmage against each other ahead of next week's opening week of the prep football season. Salem will be scrimmaging against Flora. This is closed to...

Centralia has announced that the gates will open for next week's Shrine Game on Friday night beginning at 5:30. There will be several entrances open so pre-selling of tickets will not be necessary. Ki...

Rhett and Ryan Detering were co-medalists with 39s for Salem in the tri match with Mt Vernon and Centralia. Salem finished with a team score of 166 followed by Centralia with a 169, and Mt Vernon with...

Massac County won the Nashville Girls Invitational shooting 172 with Nashville 2nd at 175 and Breese Central 3rd with their 176. Centralia was 7th as a team. The Annies were led by Olivia Johnson's 41...

Marion High School has been blessed with some great coaches, and that was never more evident then after the announcement of the Southern Illinois Coaches Association Coach of the Year awards. Marion h...

St Mary/Willow Grove got back above .500 with a 15-0 win over visiting Iuka. 10 first inning runs were the difference in the game as Iuka was unable to get a it in the 3 innings of play. Devyn Dodille...