Category Archives: Local Sports

The Salem Wildcats dropped their last regular-season game last night to Roxana. The final score was Roxana 57, Salem 51. Salem was only outscored in the first quarter 15 to 4, but was never able to cl...

Centralia comes back in the 4th quarter and overtime to beat Mt. Vernon and advance to play Marion in the Regional Final on Thursday night. The Annies pulled to a first quarter lead of 13-11 before be...

The Centralia Orphans continued to play well improving to a remarkable 28-1 on the season with a home win Saturday over Paducah Tilghman 83-41. Archie Goewey and Jaxson Hancock each had 21 points. Mik...

4a Quarterfinals: Granite City 34 Belleville West 20 4a Monday Semifinals: Granite City v. Belleville West (at West) Pekin v. O'Fallon (at West) Collinsville v. Alton (at Edwardsville) Edwardsville v....

Teutopolis Shootout: Goreville 61 Casey Westfield 37 Nashville 68 Effingham 54 Cumberland 70 Okaw Valley 55 Mahomet Seymour 61 Triad 58 Alton 56 Normal 51 Teutopolis 61 Rochester 59 Riverton Shootout:...

The Salem Wildcats wrestling season came to an end as their individual sectional qualifiers were eliminated at the 1a Vandalia Sectional on Saturday. At 175 pounds, Kyler King's season ends with a rec...

The KC Blue Devils overcame a halftime deficit on the road to beat Lake Land College 82-81. Myles Liddell had a big day with 24 points for KC. Allen Myers added 19, Keyon Garrett-Miller 15, Antwon Til...

Four teams punched their ticket to next weekend's IHSA State Girls Bowling Tournament in Rockford after sectional play at St. Clare Bowl in O'Fallon on Saturday. Mascoutah (5944) took home the team ti...

Salem grad and SEMO freshman Lilly Blagoue had a monster day against Marist University. She went 4-5 that included her first collegiate hit and first home run and she walked it off with a blast. Centr...

The Franklin Park Bobcats battled till the very end, but ultimately fell to Belleville Whiteside in the opening round of the SIJHSAA Class L state tournament held at Rend Lake College 45-39. Ben Lux l...