Category Archives: Local Sports

The Salem Jr Legion evened up their record at 2-2 on the season with a pair of wins at Newton last night. Salem opened with an 11-4 victory. Brody Collier was the winning pitcher with relief help from...

In Little League Majors, Rotary beat Security Alarm 14-0 behind a 2-hit shutout from Jared Crompton. He struck out 9. At the plate, Zane Applegate had 3 hits including 2 doubles, Kai Graham singled tw...

In YMCA men's softball, Eliminators doubled up ABC Pub 20-10 and then beat Wild Stallions 18-12. Pennington Chevrolet beat the Wild Stallions 26-13.

CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago Cubs turned one little mistake into another big win against Tampa Bay. A sharp, all-around performance was enough. Nico Hoerner homered and Chicago made the most of a rare g...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Miles Mikolas pitched eight shutout innings, Nolan Arenado hit an RBI double and Nolan Gorman drove in a run with a sacrifice fly as the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Kansas City R...

Going into the DI NJCAA Softball World Series many did not expect much from the Kaskaskia College Blue Angels. The team was ranked at 14 of 16 teams that made the World Series and while other schools ...

The small school baseball final fours are set after Super Sectional games played yesterday. In Class 1a at SIU-Carbondale, Goreville held on to beat St Anthony at Itchy Jones Stadium 6-5. That came a ...

The Goreville Lady Blackcats will play their state semifinal at Louisville Slugger Stadium in Peoria and take on Peru St Bede who won the Sterling Super over Orangeville 6-1. The other semifinal will ...

The Salem 12u Wildcats won the Effingham Memorial Day Wood Bat Tournament beating Jasper County 4-2 on a walk-off homer from Zane Applegate. Jared Crompton doubled in the win. Bentley Bryan and Jax Sc...

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) - Ryan Blaney pulled away late to win the rescheduled Coca-Cola 600 on Monday at Charlotte Speedway, giving team owner Roger Penske a sweep of the Memorial Day weekend's top races i...