Category Archives: Local Sports

The Salem Wildcats punched their ticket to Friday's SIT semifinals with an impressive 57-39 opening round win over Champaign Central last night in the final game of the evening. Gavin Zimmermann hit 5...

MTC: Tonight is championship semifinal night at the Midland Trail Tournament with top seed Waltonville taking on Woodlawn at 6 followed by the 2/3 matchup of Webber and Grayville. Last night in consol...

The Salem Lady Cats fell to top-seed Effingham in the Vandalia semifinals 61-39. Emma Gregg had 12 and Kayla Felgenhauer added 11. Salem will play Saturday at 1pm in the 3rd place game while Effingham...

The KC Blue Devils improved to 14-2 overall and 3-2 in the Region with a 80-74 win over Lincoln Trail. Caleb Jenkins, Will Vasser and Isaiah Tolbert each finished with 15, Lyonel Hodges 13 and Kamari ...

The Salem boys and girls both won the Cahokia Bowling Championships held at Bel-Air Bowl hosted by Columbia. The boys were led by Silas Moats, the junior was the individual conference champion shootin...

The Franklin Park Bobcats advanced to the consolation finals of the Greenville Tournament with a 28-15 win over Staunton last night. Kyler King led Salem with 14. They will play Friday night at 5pm to...

The City of Salem Recreation Department/YMCA is now registering for the 2024 Spring Soccer season for ages 3 all the way up to 10 years old. Contact Jed Casburn at the YMCA for further information on ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) - Duke Deen, Darius Hannah and Connor Hickman each scored 15 points and Bradley rallied from a 23-point, second-half deficit to beat Southern Illinois 70-69 on Wednesday night fo...

Illinois High School Boys Basketball Top 10 Poll Here are the boys prep basketball polls with rank, team, first-place votes, record and total points. Class 4A School W-L Pts Prv 1. Homewood-Flossmoor ...

The Salem Invitational Tournament tips off tonight with a pair of games on WJBD. First at 6pm, to top-seed Centralia Orphans take their 19-1 record against Effingham who limps in at 2-19. Then in the ...