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The Salem Lady Cats were 2nd at the Cahokia Golf Championships. Columbia shot 343 to Salem's 367 with Breese Central 3rd with a 376 and Freeburg shot 412 for 4th. Individually, Columbia's Avery Arende...

Franklin Park Wins Class L Region 8 Title The Franklin Park Bobcats are regional champions following yesterday's 5-3 win over Wesclin in the Class L Region 8 championship played at Rotary Field in Cen...

Franklin Park Wins 1st Softball Regional In 19 Years For the first time in 19 years the Franklin Park Lady Bobcats won their softball regional title as they beat Centralia at Rotary Field 11-1. They w...

The South Central Lady Falcons open up IESA State quarterfinal play today at Champions Field in Normal. They will be the final of four games played on the day. At 3:30, the 19-5 Lady Falcons will batt...

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The Salem Bobcats Soccer will start their weekend at 9am tomorrow when the 1st/2nd graders travel to Mascoutah. The 3rd/4th boys and girls had both their games canceled this weekend. So they will have...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Chase Brown became the first Illinois running back to rush for 100-plus yards in five straight games, Tommy DeVito passed for 329 yards and three touchdowns and the Fighting Ill...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Rookie Hayden Wesneski had an immaculate inning in his second major league start to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 3-2 victory over the skidding Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday night. Wes...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Lars Nootbaar provided St. Louis' first run in four games with a solo homer, and then rookie Brendan Donovan gave the NL Central leaders an even bigger lift. Donovan hit his first car...

Central City won their Class M regional game over Rome in dramatic fashion on an Archie Goewey bases loaded walk to bring in the winning run 6-5. Rome scored three times in the third, but the Citians ...