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ST. LOUIS (AP) - Jordan Walker hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning and Paul Goldschmidt drove in three runs to lead the St. Louis Cardinals over the Philadelphia Phillies 6-5 on Sunday. St. L...

Delbert Hughey, 88, of Mount Vernon, Illinois, passed away at 9:21 am September 12, 2024 at his residence. He was born September 24, 1935 in Mount Vernon, Illinois to the late Fay (Red) and Margaret (...

The Salem Wildcats improved to 3-1 on the season as they opened the Cahokia Conference with a dominant 41-6 victory over East Alton Wood River. The Cats offense did anything they wanted, and their def...

Tom Robinson,70, of Centralia, passed away Monday, September 9, 2024 at his home. Tom was born in Tallahassee, Florida on January 18, 1954 to Harry T. Robinson Sr. and Irma (Klingenberg) Robinson. On ...

Big day at the Salem Country Club today as the boys and girls teams will host the Salem Match Play. The Salem JV competed at the St Anthony JV Tournament. Freshman Landen Maxey was 4th overall shootin...

The SC Cougars baseball team is in action today hosting a double header with St Anthony. The Cougars are coming off a 5-0 road win yesterday at Neoga. Callaway Smith drove in 2 runs with RBI also from...

The Lady Bobcats dropped their home game yesterday to a very good Trinity St Mary's team 9-0 as the Defenders improve to 12-1 with the win. Abigail Thompson struck out 10 in relief of Alli Thurman. Th...

PHOENIX (AP) - Left-handed batter Alek Thomas took a confident swing at a slider and hit a crucial three-run homer off one of baseball's top left-handed pitchers. It was another indication that these ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Nick Castellanos hit a three-run homer, lifting the NL wild-card leading Philadelphia Phillies to a 5-4 victory over St. Louis on Friday night to assure the Cardinals of their first l...

Regular-season NASCAR champion Martin Truex Jr. is in a slump going into Saturday night's race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee. Two bad races to open the playoffs has left him on the brink of e...