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CHICAGO (AP) - Brady House, Joey Wiemer and Jacob Young homered for Washington on opening day, and the Nationals beat Alex Bregman and the Chicago Cubs 10-4 for manager Blake Butera's first win with t...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Alec Burleson hit a two-run homer to cap off an eight-run outburst in the sixth inning as the St. Louis Cardinals rallied for a 9-7 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday. Rookie JJ ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Dylan Holloway scored with 3 seconds left in overtime to lift the St. Louis Blues to a 2-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks. Dalibor Dvorsky also scored for the Blues, who won their t...

HOUSTON (AP) - David Mirkovic had 14 points and 10 rebounds, and third-seeded Illinois flexed its defensive muscles to eliminate last year's national runner-up from the NCAA Tournament, beating Housto...

The Salem Wildcats host the Centralia Orphans at the HS Field today for baseball action. There will be no JV game at the Little League Complex. The Wildcats are 0-6 after losing their game at Charlest...

The Salem Lady Wildcats dropped a tough one to Effingham 10-9 at Tully Park. Salem overcame early 5-0 and 6-1 deficits to go ahead 8-6 before the Hearts tied it in the sixth and scored twice in the 7t...

Centralia lost to Belleville East 7-2. The Orphans earned one singles win from Reed Ashford at #1. Centralia's #1 doubles team of Ashford and Ethan Samples also were winners. The Wildcat tennis team p...

1. Back when TV was only black-and-white, 75% of Americans said they only dreamed in black-and-white. Now less than 12% of people dream in black-and-white. 2. Karl Marx had four daughters . . . and na...

The Wildcats baseball team will travel to Charleston today after losing yesterday at home to Benton 5-1 to fall to 0-5 on the season. Luke Boldt doubled down the right field line to tie the game at 1 ...

The Salem softball team is at Tully Park today hosting Effingham.   Centralia travels to Benton.   Danicah Tobin struck out 11 as Mt Vernon beat Herrin 7-2 as Tobin allowed 4 hits and 2 runs...