Category Archives: Local Sports

The Centralia Orphans bounced back from their only loss to date on Friday to Althoff with a running clock road win at Mattoon Saturday 65-36. The game was close at the half, but the Orphans exploded i...

At the Mount Vernon Shootout, the host Rams improved to 3-1 with a 57-51 win over Alton. Also Wesclin over Gateway Legacy 44-39, Peoria nipped East St Louis 47-46. Belleville Althoff looked good Satur...

Carlyle snapped Pinckneyville's streak of 6 straight Kaskaskian Tournament titles when they beat the 5th ranked Panthers Saturday 67-55. It's the first Kaskaskian title won by the hosts since 2013. Ca...

The Franklin Park Bobcats are in basketball action tonight when they travel to Carlyle. On Saturday, Nashville beat Mt Vernon 64-27 and NCOE remained undefeated with their overtime win over Woodlawn 5...

The KC Blue Devils dropped their first game of the year to St Louis Community College 76-70. The Devils were just 11-of-23 from the free throw line. They were led by Lyonel Hodges with 27, Anthoni San...

The Salem Wildcats were down over 100 pins heading into the final game at the Abe Lincoln Invitational in Springfield....needing to shoot over 1084 the final game to pull out the win, Salem shot 1138 ...

It was a grueling day of Wrestling but the kids responded to the challenge fearlessly. They limped into the consultation finals with forfeits at 215 and heavyweight but came up with two unexpected vic...

Salem Youth Wrestling had a great weekend of youth wrestling to get the first tournaments of the year in the books. Lots of improvement from last year, lots of firsts, and a lot of hard work paying of...

UNDATED (AP) - SMU captured the last open spot in the 12-team College Football Playoff, bumping Alabama to land in a bracket that placed undefeated Oregon at No. 1. The selection committee preferred t...

The Salem Wildcats dropped to 1-5 on the season with a home loss to Breese Central 58-47. The Cats offense outscored the Cougars 21-16 in the fourth quarter cutting into their double-digit deficit for...