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Over the weekend Salem competed at the Panther Team Challenge in O'Fallon. Harrisburg won the qualifying round followed by Breese Central and Mt Vernon. Salem was 10th. Breese Central Purple won the t...

The Wrestling Wildcats competed in Carbondale's Murdale Tournament over the weekend. Alana Finney was 2nd, Kade Orrell 3rd, Rylan Moore 4th, Keven Moore and Kyler King 6th and Killian Merrell 8th. &nb...

PSF Wrestlers competed at the Belleville Little Devils Gauntlet. Salem's Myles Donoho won his first ever championship belt. Also Baylee Nix was 1st.  

It was a great weekend for Salem Cheerleading. On Saturday, the High School team competed at the ICCA State Competition. They were 19th out of 28 teams in Small 1a Full Routine. This was the first tim...

Congratulations to Mt Vernon bowler Travin Elliott who has signed to bowl for McKendree University next year. He intends to major in Criminal Justice and has been a big part of the Rams success over t...

The Franklin Park Lady Bobcats lost to Nashville on Saturday 49-31. Kenna Benjamin scored 15 in the loss, Lexie Malan added 6. The JV lost 40-19. Lyla Beyers had 12 for Salem. The Franklin Park Bobcat...

Patoka won the North Clay 5th grade tournament beating Sigel St Michaels in the finals 38-18. Grant Eddy led Patoka with 17 points and Knox Kuhn added 9. They beat Cisne in the opening game 33-18 with...

The Salem 3rd grade Bobcats won the St Mary's Carlyle Tournament. On Saturday they won a pair of pool play games beating Nashville 22-16 in the opener. Kalan Heinzmann led Salem with 8. Nolan Crouse a...

The Salem Wildcats only trailed by 4 several times in the 2nd half, but Roxana hit enough shots to knock off Salem 59-47. Logan Butts had a break out game offensively for the Cats as the big man score...

Centralia improved to 16-1 on the season with a win over Carbondale 51-37. The Orphans only led by 5, 32-27 after three quarters but outscored the Terriers 19-10 in the fourth to pull away. Centralia ...