Category Archives: Local Sports

The Salem Wildcats enter the season finale at 10-20 on the season. They will finish up with the Roxana Shells tonight and will honor their seniors as well. Brenan Richardson, Kam Wilkins, Jairen Strou...

B.E. Gum was the site last night for the 3a IHSA regional semifinals in prep girls basketball. The sectionals top-seed Effingham looked the part last night as they eliminated Triad easily 55-34. They ...

Tonight is the SIJHSAA Class L State basketball semifinals. The first game at 6pm will feature Casey Mount Vernon taking on Trico followed by the Centralia Tigers and Carbondale at 7:15 at Rend Lake C...

Tonight is the opening round of the Woodlawn 7th Grade Tournament. The Salem Bobcats are the 5th seed and open at 5pm tonight in the Old Gym against 4th seed Waltonville at the same time top-seed Nash...

The North Wamac 7th Grade Tournament opened up last night. Central City beat Willow Grove 38-18 behind 15 points from Colton Cook. Kaiden Jackson added 9. Jimmy Gaston led Willow Grove with 8. North W...

The Franklin Park volleyball team is in action at home tonight against Kell. Last night, Selmaville beat Trinity St Mary's 18-25, 25-19, 15-11. The JV lost 17-25, 20-25. Selmaville hosts Irvington/Nor...

This coming Saturday will be softball evaluations at the Salem Little League as well as the annual draft. If you have not registered with the Little League yet, this is your last week to do so. Softba...

In City of Salem/YMCA winter coed volleyball A League.....Bierman's General Store beat Coryell Investment Group (25-17, 25-22); Meskil Cleaning Services beat ABC Pub (25-19, 25-13) and Meskil's also b...

ATLANTA (AP) - Ayo Dosunmu had a career-high 29 points and added seven assists to help the Chicago Bulls post a season-high score and beat the Atlanta Hawks 136-126 on Monday night. DeMar DeRozan also...

Although no Salem wrestlers advanced out of either the Vandalia boys or Peoria Richwoods Girls sectionals over the weekend, it was still a big step for the program that just finished its 2nd year of e...