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The South Central 16u Storm Chasers traveled to Diamond Sports Promotion's Top Collegiate Invitational at Illinois State University. They went 3-1 on the weekend and missed bracket play by just 2 runs...

The Pinto 8u World Championship was held in Marion over the weekend. Bonaire won the Gold Bracket championship beating Carterville in the finals 8-1. Royalton won the Gold Consolation bracket beating ...

Salem Strength Team's Monty Murphy and Tim Crawford are competing this weekend at the USA Powerlifting Bench Nationals in Greenville, South Carolina. Monty was 1st in Masters-1 90kg class. Tim won the...

Sandoval Junior High Softball Tryouts will be on July 22-24 from 5-7pm at the Jr/Sr HS Field for incoming 6-8th graders.

Salem's Greg Malan had to PR in the shot put to take Bronze at the World Championship PanAm Master's Games in Cleveland on Saturday. Then on Sunday he took Gold in the Discus .

Mount Vernon soccer's Lily Houle and Evie Jetton have been selected for the Southern Illinois Coaches Association All-South team! Congratulations to all the athletes selected.

Bartelso moved to 6-3 in the Clinton County Baseball League with a 3-0 win over Beckemeyer. Tony Schaeffer allowed no runs on two hits with 14 strikeouts in eight innings pitched for Bartelso. Beckeme...

The District 23 Senior Legion baseball tournament will open up at Aviston City Park on Wednesday. Trenton will take on the Aviston Conductors at 8pm. The winner will play Friday at 6 against the Avist...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Pete Crow-Armstrong and Christopher Morel each homered twice to lead the Chicago Cubs to an 8-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Tomas Nido and Ian Happ also homered fo...

Breese won the Junior Legion District 23 Tournament, coming back to beat Patoka Post 543 in the "If Necessary" game 12-11 scoring 5 runs in the bottom of the sixth inning when they were down 11-7 to t...