Author Archives: WJBD Staff

The National Trail Conference boys basketball tournament continued last night. Altamont knocked off top-seed Cumberland 54-50 to advance to the tournament championship tomorrow night at 7:30. They wil...

The Salem Lady Wildcats dropped their home conference game to Columbia 65-59 in overtime. Salem trailed late but made clutch plays to extend the game but couldn't finish those shots in the extra sessi...

The latest Associated Press prep polls are out.   In boys 3a, East St Louis is #1, Centralia 4 and Mt Vernon 9.   In 2a, TTown is 2 with Staunton 5 and Nashville 6, Carterville 9. Columbia a...

The IHSA State Bowling tournament begins today at St Clair Lanes in O'Fallon. Competing for the team title will be defending champion Harrisburg along with Mt Vernon, Breese Central, Waterloo, Alton a...

The Salem Cheerleaders will compete at Edwardsville on Saturday fighting for a top 5 spot in their division to advance to IHSA State. Salem will compete at 12:50 tomorrow in the Varsity 1a Division.

The SIJHSAA Class S state quarterfinals at Rend Lake College are today. At 3:30, Albers-Damiansville plays New Simpson Hill, Meridian and New Hope at 4:45, Holy Childhood Mascoutah and St Peter & ...

The KC Blue Devils blew out Olney Central College 91-78. Six Blue Devils were in double figures led by Myles Liddell with 19 and 15 each from AJ Tillman and Keyon Garrett-Miller. KC is 11-9 on the sea...

Ben Lux went off as the Franklin Park Bobcats beat Flora on 8th grade night at the Den in Salem 55-25. Lux finished with 28 points. Dakota Wiggins added 7 along with Kaiden Washington.   The Sale...

The boys regionals started across the southern part of Illinois as well. North Wamac/Irvington/Grand Prairie opened Region 13 with a win over Ashley 49-39. Zander Gunter had 20 and Levi Newcomb 15 in ...

Franklin Park has released their 1st annual 6th Grade Lady Bobcat Round Robin that will be played on Wednesday of next week. Salem and Patoka open the day at 4pm followed by Selmaville and Patoka at 5...