Category Archives: Local Sports

The Wildcat golf season got underway at the Hickory Stick Invitational in East Alton and finished 5th out of 18 teams. Kyler Sapp was 4th overall shooting 77 that included an Eagle on Hole 4 at Belk P...

St Mary Centralia/Willow Grove won the Oil Belt Conference softball tournament at the Little League Complex beating Selmaville in the championship 5-1. Devyn Dodillet had 18 strikeouts and allowed onl...

Yesterday, South Central fell to Windsor/Stew-Stras 7-6 on the road. In the loss, Rylan Williams and Skylar Webster both drove in 2 runs each with Bella McDowell added an RBI. Webster went 3-4 and Jay...

South Central knocked off CHBC 16-5. Ben Skibinksi had 3 hits and drove in 3, Dexten Lotz drove in 4, Kash Hall added 2 RBI with runs driven in from Jayden Gullion, Rubin Roberts and Nate Knutt. The F...

The Franklin Park couldn't keep up with Newton in middle school baseball Saturday morning in Salem falling 11-5. Newton got on the board with 4 runs in the top of the first inning. Salem tied the game...

Centralia grad Jeremy Dalton placed first in the 15th annual Discraft Ledgestone Open in Peoria this weekend. He finished 3 under in the MA4 division. This was his first tournament with SUIE and his f...

The SIJHSAA State baseball and softball tournaments will have a new home starting this year. The newly construction Oasis Sports Complex in Marion will host the Class L & S softball and Baseball t...

The Elks Soccer Shoot was held at the Salem Soccer Complex on Sunday afternoon. A boy and girl champion was crowned in each age division. Advancing to Olney for the next round in September will be... ...

Iuka beat Central City 11-3 in the semifinals of the Oil Belt Conference baseball tournament semifinals. Zach Jones, Trygg Aaron and Eli Bookout drove in 3 runs each. The Pirates took 11 walks in the ...

In middle school softball, South Central beat Neoga on the road 15-2. Claire Chasteen and Bella McDowell had 3 RBI each, 2 from Lexy Garrett and Alexa Gile. SC also got runs driven in by Skylar Webste...