Category Archives: Local Sports

In a great battle from start to finish, St Anthony held off Brownstown/St Elmo in the finals of the NTC Tournament 49-44. Dayana Haslett led BSE with 29. Ady Rios led St Anthony with 21. Tournament MV...

The Salem Wildcat Wrestlers will be back in action tonight at Centralia. Vandalia wrestlers continued to dominate dual matches as they won 3 over the weekend to run their streak to 30 straight wins. T...

The Franklin Park Lady Bobcats dominated their way in the quarterfinal of the SIJHSAA Class L tournament at Rend Lake on Saturday beating Waterloo 39-11. Lexie Malan and Kenna Benjamin led the way wit...

Central City improved to 22-3 on the season in winning the Woodlawn Tournament, beating the hosts 43-40. Kade Jackson had 18, McKhyi Laurence 10 and Kolton Cook 9. Jackson and Laurence made 1st Team A...

The SC Falcons 7th grader opened up regionals with a 29-26 upset over CHBC. Luke Doehring led SC with 12 and Jordan Smith added 10. SC will take on top seed St Anthony on Tuesday.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Kylan Boswell scored 17 points and had six rebounds to lead No. 17 Illinois over Northwestern 83-74 on Sunday. Morez Johnson Jr. had 15 points, nine rebounds and three blocked s...

The Chiefs get more Mahomes magic and advance to 3rd straight Super Bowl, beating the Bills 32-29 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Patrick Mahomes accounted for three touchdowns and the Kansas City defense mad...

CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago Cubs are finalizing a trade for Ryan Pressly, adding the right-hander to the back end of their bullpen in their second major offseason deal with the Houston Astros. Pressly ...

Centralia won the 73rd Salem Invitational Tournament over rival Mt Vernon 44-32 and in doing so picked up win #2400 in program history. Dustyn Collins had his best game of the tournament scoring 20 po...

Six of the state's top 20 bowling teams will compete in Collinsville today for only 4 spots in next week's State Tournament in O'Fallon. The 2-time defending state champion 8th ranked Salem Wildcats w...