Category Archives: Local Sports

The Salem duo of Jarret Rushing and Juan Diez qualified for the IHSA State Tennis Tournament with a pair of doubles wins at the Herrin Sectional. The duo beat the team from Mascoutah 6-0, 6-2 and then...

The Christ Our Rock Lutheran High School Boys Track and Field team placed 5th today out of 20 schools at a very tough Chester Class 1A IHSA sectional with only 10 athletes competing! The Stallions wil...

In Little League Majors, Schmidt Ford wins a pitching duel over Rotary 2-1. Zach Jones hit the go ahead 2-run single in the fifth scoring Nolan Krutsinger and Kash Hall to give Schmidt the lead. Hall ...

The Cahokia Conference released a statement saying at a joint meeting of the 18 member school principals and AD's, the conference made a motion and voted to suspend the conference membership of Roxana...

In Salem Recreation Men's Softball, Eliminators shutout El Rancherito 19-0 and then nipped Landers 10-9.

The Salem Wildcats scored twice in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a 1-1 tie and go on to beat visiting Mt Vernon 3-1. It's the 2nd win over the Rams this year for the Wildcats who opened the ...

The small school regionals continued last night. At Lions Field in Kinmundy, the SC Cougars eliminated Red Hill 10-3. Zane Montes homered going 2-4 with a double as well and he drove in 3 runs. Evan H...

The Salem Lady Wildcats hosted Mattoon and honored their 3 seniors before the game. Bre Thurman, Lilly Blagoue and Nat Lee were announced before Salem beat the Wave 9-2. Thurman threw an inning striki...

The IHSA Girls State Track meet opens today and runs through Saturday. Salem will be represented by Carly Veach in the 100m hurdles, Hannah Smith in the discus and Findley Puricelli in the high jump. ...

The Salem Wildcats will send a pair of athletes to the state track meet after competing at the Tolono Unity 2a Sectionals yesterday. Sophomore Trey Clark finished 3rd overall with a throw of 44.93 met...