Category Archives: Local Sports

NEW YORK (AP) - Pete Alonso homered in consecutive at-bats and tied a career high with six RBIs as the New York Mets withstood a long rain delay and snapped a six-game losing streak Monday night with ...

The Salem Youth Football Wildcats opened up their season and new conference on Saturday with a sweep of visiting Centralia Red Storm. The varsity won 40-14. Troy Keele, Kyler King and Rylan Lawson all...

The Middle School softball season continues today as South Central takes their 2-0 record to Webster Field in Kinmundy to take on Dieterich. The Lady Falcons beat Dieterich in a tri-match over the wee...

The Clinton County League championship is set after semifinal games played on Sunday. Trenton knocked off Aviston 17-1 to advance to the finals. Mason Barnes went 7 strong innings for the win. Jonatha...

The Salem Bobcats soccer had a great crowd to cheer on the St Louis City 2, the reserve MLS squad for St Louis FC, as they won at home 4-0. The Bobcats had the opportunity for the players to be Benchw...

Right hand pitcher and Effingham grad Chad Green is working his way back from Tommy John surgery, which he underwent in May of 2022. He made a rehab appearance with Triple A Buffalo on Saturday, tossi...

After arriving in Spain on Saturday, the Illini men's basketball team took the court yesterday for its opening game against the Madrid All Stars. Following an expected slow start and despite an off-sh...

CHICAGO (AP) - Cody Bellinger had his third straight multi-hit game, scored twice and drove in a run as the Chicago Cubs beat the MLB-leading Atlanta Braves 6-4 on Sunday for their sixth straight seri...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Austin Gomber pitched out of trouble for six innings against his former team and Ezequiel Tovar had a sacrifice fly to lift the Colorado Rockies over the St. Louis Cardinals 1-0 on Su...

CLEVELAND (AP) - A bench-clearing melee that began with Tim Anderson of the White Sox and Jos Ramrez of the Guardians exchanging punches at second base in the sixth inning led to six ejections during ...