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Selection Saturday for the IHSA football playoffs was held. In 8a, Edwardsville will play at O'Fallon in the opening round. In 6a, East St Louis hosts Oak Lawn Richards. In 5a, Mahomet Seymour hosts O...

The Salem girls and boys cross country teams both qualified for this Saturday's sectionals at Dodds Park in Champaign. The girls were 5th as a team led by Breanna Thurman who was 16th overall. Macey T...

The Stallion boys were ranked 9th going in and only 7 teams advance so they knew everyone would have to have a great race to get out. In the end The Stallion boys snagged the 7th and final spot! The p...

The Salem Lady Wildcats finished their regular volleyball season on Saturday with a trip to the Fairfield Tournament. In pool play, Salem lost to Hamilton County (20-25, 17-25) and Staunton 25-23, 16-...

The girls state tennis tournaments finished up this weekend. Hinsdale Central won the 2a team title with New Trier 2nd and Lincolnshire Stevenson 3rd. Belleville East and O'Fallon tied for 42nd as a t...

The soccer post season continued over the weekend. In 2a at Harrisburg, Waterloo beat Marion 7-1, Mascoutah got goals from Nathan Hippard and Nico Byeer in their 2-1 win over Carbondale in Mascoutah. ...

Bobcats Fall To Talented Woodlawn At Rome Shootout The Franklin Park Bobcats opened up their basketball season in the final game of the Rome Shootout Saturday evening. In a fun, physical ball game, Sa...

The 1st/2nd graders hosted Albers for their last league game on Saturday. The came out with a 4-0 victory to finish their league season 5-3. Jonah Findley and Gavin Purcell scored two goals each. Hadl...

It has been an eventful stretch for Chase Brown. The Illinois star became the season's first 1,000-yard rusher in the Football Bowl Subdivision on Oct. 15 and only the third player in program history ...

The Salem Wildcats football season ended at 2-7 after their 2-point conversion with just over 20 seconds left in the game was tipped for an incompletion and they fell to visiting Charleston 14-13. Sal...