Category Archives: Local Sports

The Salem cross country was at the Freeburg Invitational on Saturday. Top finisher for the girls was Breanna Thurman finishing 35th out of 137 runners in a time of 20:34, her best time of the season. ...

The Franklin Park Cross Country team competed at the Pre-State Meet for Class L held in DuQuoin. The varsity boys remained undefeated on the season with a dominating win scoring 48 points to 2nd place...

The Class L state baseball tournament is set. The first round will be Saturday at Centralia with Marion taking on Carterville, DuQuoin plays Flora, Waterloo takes on Mascoutah and Triad will play Wesc...

The Salem 9u came back to beat Flora on Sunday 15-12. Salem trailed 12-11 in the top of the sixth when Izac Holsapple doubled home 2 runs to take the lead. In the opening inning Isaac Knapp drew a bas...

Salem's 1st/2nd grade team hosted Germantown on Saturday. Grayson Purintun scored for Salem. Stevie Nix, Hadley Michel and Aspen Morris had some close chances at scoring. Kaysen Findley and Ethan Petr...

CHICAGO (AP) - Make it a very sweet 16 for the St. Louis Cardinals. Andrew Knizner scored the go-ahead run on Codi Heuer's wild pitch in the ninth inning, and the Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 f...

CLEVELAND (AP) - Myles Garrett made a franchise record 4 1/2 sacks on Justin Fields and Cleveland brought down Chicago's rookie quarterback nine times while harassing him throughout his first NFL star...

UNDATED (AP) - Justin Tucker bailed out the Baltimore Ravens after they had wasted a nine-point, fourth-quarter lead. Tucker set an NFL record with a 66-yard field goal, bouncing it past the crossbar ...

UNDATED (AP) - The Milwaukee Brewers are the latest major league team to wrap up a playoff berth. The Brewers clinched their second NL Central title in four years, beating the Mets, 8-4 behind Willy A...

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) - The young guns from the U.S. Ryder Cup team have completed the most lopsided win since Europe became part of the event in 1979. Daniel Berger won the final hole in the final mat...