Author Archives: WJBD Staff

The Salem Wildcats cheerleaders are headed to state after winning both the Game Day and Routine in competition held at Pinckneyville High School. They were 1st out of 15 teams in their division as 6 q...

The Wrestling Wildcats went 4-1 to take home 3rd place at the Benton Duels. Salem opened with a 57-19 loss to Benton before winning 4 straight over Goreville 72-4, Chicago Institute 65-12, Harrisburg ...

Huge weekend for our Salem Wrestlers!! Our future Wildcats, wrestling with our PSF family were busy at the Edwardsville Girls/Beginners tournament, S.I. Bulldogs Tots Bash and a big tournament in Beth...

Tonight is the start of the OBC boys basketball tournament hosted by Willow Grove. At 5pm, Willow Grove/St Mary takes on Iuka with the winner getting Raccoon in a semifinal tomorrow. At 6:15 tonight, ...

The KC Blue Devils fell at their Shootout in St Louis to Missouri State University-West Plains 92-84.   Keyon Garrett-Miller had 21 in the loss, Jerrod Mackey added 20 and Myles Liddell 18. Ace E...

Olney Central traveled to Centralia and knocked off the women from Kaskaskia College 72-59 on Saturday. Lanie Lipps had 29 in the win, Mt Vernon grad Melaina Zedalis finished with 21. Sandoval grad Am...

The Salem boys were 5th overall behind Morton, Highland, Collinsville and O'Fallon. Salem's Dylan Kuhns was 7th overall with a 1295 total. He was 112 off 1st place. Carter Shanafelt was 18th with his ...

Breese Central came out shooting last night, playing in front of their home crowd for the only time before January, the Cougars made 13 three pointers on their way to a 59-35 win over Salem to open th...

The trophy games are set for the Kaskaskian Classic in Carlyle today. At 3pm the 7th place game will see Riverview Gardens taking on Hillsboro, then Greenville and Flora for 5th place at 4:30, Okawvil...

Today is the SSM Health/WMIX Shootout in Mt Vernon. Casey and Nashville junior high will lay a girls and then boys game to start the day at 11 and 12:30 followed at 2 by the Mt Vernon Lady Rams and Mt...