Category Archives: Local Sports

The Salem Wildcats baseball team will hit the road and play at Roxana to finish up the Cahokia Conference. This is a makeup game from earlier in the year. Salem beat Roxana at home the first matchup 3...

Over the weekend, the Teutopolis Wooden Shoes won the Edwardsville Tigers Baseball Classic. They beat Chatham Glenwood 2-1 Saturday morning after knocking off Edwardsville and losing Friday to Highlan...

Mt Vernon Lady Rams split a pair of softball games on Saturday. They beat Belleville West 2-1. Taylor DeSmith was great in the circle surrendering 4 hits and no earned runs. She had 8 strikeouts in th...

The SIJHSAA State Track Meets were held on Saturday. The Class L meet saw Franklin Park's Emily Parrett not only break her own school record on her way to the state championship, but she blew away the...

In Class S, Central City was 8th out of 52 teams. McKhyi Laurence was 3rd in the high jump with Kade Jackson 4th. Jackson was also 8th in the long jump. Laurence 6th in the 400 in a new school record ...

The Orphans Track team traveled to the Collinsville Invitational on Saturday. The big story coming out of the event is standout hurdler Arion Hill, who has missed a lot of time this spring due to inju...

Patoka's Hailey Hassebrock and Easton Garner hit 25 straight clays during this week's high school trap shooting league. Week 3 had another good week of shooting as Patoka sits 3rd in the conference af...

NEW YORK (AP) - Francisco Lindor hit a go-ahead homer to start a four-run eighth inning and the New York Mets beat the Chicago Cubs 6-2 to avoid losing their second home series this season. Lindor sna...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Lars Nootbaar, Willson Contreras and Nolan Arenado homered, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Washington Nationals 6-1 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep. The Cardinals have...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - Kyle Larson took most of the drama out of his second straight spring victory at Kansas Speedway on Sunday. After putting his No. 5 car on the pole for Hendrick Motorsports, La...