Category Archives: Local Sports

The SIJHSAA State baseball and softball semifinals were held at the Oasis Sports Complex in Marion on Tuesday.   In Class S baseball, Patoka/Odin fell in their semifinal to St Joe Olney 9-0. St J...

The Salem Wildcats dropped their road soccer match at Murphysboro 3-2. Salem trailed 1-0 at the half and trailed 2-0 early in the 2nd. The Cats scored in the 60th minute on a goal by Eita Koamoto assi...

Centralia High School will honor legendary wrestling coach Dick Carpenter with a mat dedication ceremony on Saturday, November 28. Carpenter, a 1954 graduate of Centralia Township High School, built o...

In Salem Recreation Women's Volleyball, Free Ballin' beat Gold Diggers (25-0, 25-0), Free Ballin beat the Misfits (25-0, 25-0), That's What She Set beat You Got Served (25-12, 25-8), AND Salem Tire ov...

Senior Landen Maxey survived a 5-man playoff at the St Anthony 2a Sectional to advance as an individual for the 2a state tournament to be held at Weibring Golf Course in Bloomington starting Friday. M...

It was a heartbreaking day for the Salem Lady Cat golfers as they were in 3rd place most of the day at Belk Park in Roxana, but in the end, Alton Marquette caught Salem with both teams finishing with ...

The post season assignments for boys soccer has been released by the IHSA. The Salem Wildcats will travel to the Olney 1a Regional and will open up on October 21st at 6pm against Robinson. Top seed Ol...

The Salem JV had too many penalties and turnovers as they fell at Herrin 22-21. Ben Lux ran for a TD and threw for another, Kaiden Washington ran for a TD and a 2-point conversion and Angelo Wilkins h...

Salem dropped their first dual match of the season yesterday falling to Teutopolis 7-2 with most matches going into a 3rd set tie breaker. Allie Hustedde and Teagan Lobek won their singles matches. &n...

The Salem Lady Wildcats volleyball team is in conference play at home against Carterville.   Salem is coming off a 25-17, 25-20 win on the road at Herrin. The freshman split their 2 sets to open ...