Category Archives: Local Sports

Selmaville competed at the Jo Campbell Invite in Pinckneyville. This was their first meet of the year due to rain cancellations. Out of 17 teams, the Lady Rockets finished 5th. Medaling were Alana How...

Recently Patoka competed at the Franklin Park home meet this week. Noah Pippens - 5th discus (60'11'') River Huffman - 4th hurdles (19.17) 4th 200m (31.1) 4x200 (Kuhn, Aukamp, Burns, Huffman) - 3rd (2...

The Eastern Illinois University Panthers golf team shot the 4th best score in EIU golf history and finished 5th out of 14 teams at the Tennessee State Big Blue Intercollegiate in Nashville, Tennessee ...

Kaskaskia College soccer has signed DuQuoin's Abby Hill to play next season. Hill is the first DuQuoin girl's soccer player to play at the collegiate level. Christ Our Rock's Jada Howell signed to con...

CHICAGO (AP) - Texas shortstop Corey Seager homered twice as the Rangers avoided a sweep in Chicago, beating the Cubs 6-2 on Wednesday. The two-time World Series MVP opened the game with a solo shot t...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Joey Bart singled in the winning run with the bases loaded in the 13th inning to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 2-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday, despite six hitless ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Josh Giddey dominated with 28 points, 16 rebounds and 11 assists and the Chicago Bulls beat the Miami Heat 119-111 Wednesday night in a game with heavy seeding implications. Giddey exte...

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) - Connor Brown scored twice, Connor McDavid had three assists in his return to the lineup and the injury-riddled Edmonton Oilers moved within a hair of wrapping up a playoff spo...

The Salem Wildcats drop their Cahokia Conference opener on the road at Breese Central 3-2 in 9 innings. With the game tied at 1 in the top of the 9th, Salem would get a 2 out walk to Cooper Lobek. Cod...

The Salem Lady Wildcats make the short trip to Centralia to take on the Annies in prep softball. Salem is coming off a 12-0 win over Breese Central to open the Cahokia Conference. Bre Thurman struck o...