Category Archives: Local Sports

Congratulations to Christ Our Rock head basketball coach Brent Reuter as named the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association's District 20 Coach of the Year.

UNDATED (AP) - Penn State has hired VCU's Mike Rhoades to be its men's basketball coach. The Pennsylvania native takes over a program coming off its first NCAA Tournament appearance in more than a dec...

CHICAGO (AP) - LeBron James wants to build up his stamina, and there are a couple more little things he is working on. "I think by the end of the road trip I should be pretty good," he said. He certai...

CHICAGO (AP) - All-Star outfielder Ian Happ appears poised to enter the season with an expiring contract after he and the Chicago Cubs were unable to agree on a new deal. Happ said Wednesday he had "n...

The Salem Wildcats opened up the Cahokia Conference baseball season with a nice home win over Breese Central 3-2. Trailing 2-0 in the 3rd inning, Salem sophomore Noah Nix blasted a 3-run homer to give...

The Salem Lady Cats opened up the Cahokia with a 3-1 home win over Breese Central. The win runs the Lady Cats record to 5-0 on the season. Lilly Blagoue earned the win with 10 strikeouts. Makenna Smit...

After having 2 meets rained out last week, the Christ Our Rock track team finally opened their season at the Breese Central Open. The distance runners shined for the Stallions. Elijah Gregor won the 3...

The Franklin Park Track Team held a times meet yesterday at SCHS Track. 56 total PR's were set by the Bobcats with several state standards also reached. Trey Clark threw 143'11" in the discus, Madden ...

A pair of Orphans and Rams were named to the Class 3a IBCA All South Basketball Team. Centralia's Cruz Harlan and Daryle Jones join Mount Vernon's Navontae Nesbit Jr and Rolen Adams. Class 3a: Evan No...

Breese Central defender Marli Kleiboeker signed her letter of intent to play soccer at KC. She will join fellow Central seniors Makenna Lake and Keira Veizer at KC in the fall. They were part of Centr...