Author Archives: WJBD Staff

The Franklin Park Lady Bobcats dropped their regular season finale at home to Nashville on Saturday 17-0. Jayla Tabor got a strikeout in her first varsity action. Emma Hawley and Skylar Gaston had hit...

The Region 6 Class S baseball regional at Patoka continues today with the game times changed. The first semifinal will be at 4:30 featuring Rome and Iuka with the second game at 7pm with Patoka/Odin t...

Franklin Park finishes their regular season at 14-6-1 following a 12-2 win over Nashville Saturday. The game was scoreless until the third when Salem would plate 6 runs. They outhit Nashville 17-3 in ...

The KC Cross Country team competed at the Bradley Intercollegiate Invite, the biggest meet of the year. There were just under 30 colleges from throughout the Midwest. The Blue Devils were 19th out of ...

It was another busy weekend for the Salem Bobcats Soccer program. The 7/8 grade fell to New Baden on a rainy day 6-4. Kayne Rhynes had all 4 goals for Salem. The U14 tied with Metro Alliance FC Red. J...

The Salem Wildcats got back to .500 on the season as they opened their final year in the Cahokia Conference with a dominant 56-0 win over East Alton Wood River at Jim Finks Field. The Wildcats had a h...

Kruz Jackson had 3 touchdowns in the first two quarters leading Centralia to a 42-6 win at Granite City to improve CHS to 3-1 on the year. Kenny Bratton opened the game taking the kickoff 97 yards for...

Today is the Salem Match Play for boys and girls prep golf at the Salem Country Club. They will tee off at 9am. The boys tournament includes Salem, Centralia, Mt Vernon and Carlyle. The girls event wi...

lost to Windsor/Stew-Stras yesterday 5-0. Carter Verdeyen was the winning pitcher giving up just one hit and striking out 10. SC only had 1 hit on the night, Colton Tockstein singled. Garret Shumate w...

The SIJHSAA baseball regionals opened up yesterday. In Region 6, The Citians knocked off Selmaville in their first round game 9-4 at the Little League Complex. The Citians scored 6 unearned runs takin...