Category Archives: Local Sports

The Franklin Park cross country team finished up their regular season meets at Olney on Tuesday.   In the girls race, the top finishers were: Kendall Zimmermann - 1st Kinsley Gansauer - 8th Nora ...

The Wildcats soccer team will finish up their regular season on Thursday with a trip to Newton before opening up the 2a post season a week from Friday at Olney. Salem is coming off a 7-4 home win over...

The Salem Lady Cats volleyball team fell at home to Centralia in 3 sets last night. Salem lost the opening set 10-25, but bounced back to win 25-21 in set 2 to setup a 3rd and decisive game that was w...

The SIJHSAA State Semifinals were held yesterday. At Coulterville in Class S, Trinity St Mary's fell to New Hope 8-2. TSM led 2-0 heading into the 5th but couldn't hold on to the lead. Emrie Quick had...

The KC Blue Angels volleyball team is riding a 6-game winning streak and are 14-4 on the season overall and 8-1 in the GRAC. They will host John A Logan tonight at 6:30. The Blue Angels soccer team is...

The Salem Recreation/YMCA had a big night last night. In women's volleyball B League at the Community Center, it was Bull Hitters beating You Got Served 25-11, 25-22. Pennington Chevy over Plumbers &a...

UNDATED (AP) - The Big Ten built its reputation by playing rough-and-tough football. And the training ground doesn't appear to be changing any time soon. After having 26 defensive players from the con...

Class 8A School W-L Pts Prv 1. Loyola (11) (6-0) 128 1 2. Lincoln-Way East (2) (6-0) 119 2 3. York (6-0) 104 3 4. Barrington (6-0) 84 4 5. Maine South (5-1) 82 5 6. Naperville Central (5-1) 50 9 7. Pa...

CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago Cubs took a big step toward contending for a championship and changed the outlook for a franchise coming off back-to-back losing seasons. It didn't end the way President of ...

Wheeler strikes out 8, Castellanos tells Phillies to put a ring on it in 4-1 win over Marlins PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Zack Wheeler struck out eight and pitched into the seventh inning to lead the Philadel...