Category Archives: Local Sports

Salem Earns Momentum Win Heading Into Post Season The Salem Wildcats finished their regular season with 19 wins after beating visiting Flora yesterday 10-0 in five innings. Gavin Zimmermann was the wi...

The Salem Wildcats are the 3-seed in the 2a sectional complex coming up as they will open up the Greenville Regional on Thursday afternoon at 4:30 against the host Comets. The tournament's first game ...

The KC Blue Angels will play their 2nd round Region 24 playoff game today at SWIC against John A Logan. A win puts them into the winner's bracket at 2pm, a loss and they would play an elimination game...

In Junior League play at the Little League Complex last night, Salem IGA beat Peoples National Bank 8-4 scoring 7 runs in the 2nd inning. IGA got 2 RBI from Wyatt McCarty and Damon Jennings. Peyton Ba...

Congratulations to Salem Franklin Park 8th grader Mya Russell on being named the Region 9 Jim Burnes Leadership Award recipient.

The Salem Wildcats fell at state ranked Altamont 4-2 yesterday. Salem could only muster 1 hit against senior Mason Robinson. He would strike out 10 and walk 4 allowing 1 earned run. Salem's hit came o...

The Salem Lady Cats will get their final tune up this regular season when they host Flora before opening up their 2a Regional also in Greenville next week opening up Tuesday afternoon. South Central k...

The Salem girls track team competed at the Mascoutah 2a Sectional yesterday. Freshman Finley Puricelli is heading to state. She finished 2nd in the 400m in a time of 1:01.06 to punch her ticket to nex...

The Christ Our Rock Lady Stallions competed at the IHSA Sectional Track and Field meet today at Chester High School and I'm proud to announce we have two girls that are State Bound in the 3200 meter r...

Salem's Alek Bandy vaulted the Salem Wildcats into 3rd place at the Cahokia Championships with his 2nd place finish in the pole vault held at Breese Central on Wednesday afternoon. Those points moved ...