Category Archives: Local Sports

It was an exciting week of bowling for area athletes at the Jr Gold Bowling National Championships held in Indianapolis. Shobonier native and Vandalia Lady Vandal Macy Jones finished runner up in the ...

The Salem 15u Wildcats finished up their summer of baseball in with an exciting walk-off win over Gaetti's Sports Academy in the consolation game of the Breese 15u Tournament. Playing their 3rd game i...

Congrats to the South Central Storm 07 softball team on winning the USFA 16u Championship in Panama City Beach defeating the South Georgia Dirt Dawgs 11-5 in a 3 hour 7 inning marathon game. Storm led...

The St Louis Scott Gallagher 16u boys premier soccer team competed at the National Tournament held in Colorado last week. The team includes Salem sophomore to be Eli Baker who had a pair of goals to h...

Kaskaskia College grad and softball player Ivy Smart who was a big part of the run they made to the national tournament this past year, has signed with Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri to contin...

Kaskaskia College Women's Basketball Coach Jay Jenkins has left the Blue Angels and has been hired as the new head coach for Southwestern Michigan College. The Roadrunners are a 2-year school based ou...

CHICAGO (AP) - Cody Bellinger homered and drove in three runs, Jameson Taillon pitched into the sixth inning and the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-2. Dansby Swanson had two hits and Yan ...

CHICAGO (AP) - St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Adam Wainwright is expected to come off the injured list to start Monday at Arizona. The 41-year-old Wainwright was placed on the 15-day IL on July 5 be...

CHICAGO (AP) - Cody Bellinger drove in four runs and Nico Hoerner had three of Chicago's 15 hits, helping the Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 8-6 in a wet and wild matchup of NL Central rivals. Chic...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) - Sophia Smith is among 14 players on the U.S. national team who are playing in their first Women's World Cup. She made a splash with a pair of goals and an assist in the Am...