Category Archives: Local Sports

Kessler's Late Bucket Lifts Salem To Regional Semifinals Tonight On WJBD The Salem Lady Cats got a bucket with under 10 seconds from Freshman Jordan Kessler to give them the lead, and senior Alesia Ke...

Congratulations to Centralia senior Julyiah Rudder Williams on signing to play at Kaskaskia College next season.

The Woodlawn Warriors finished off their season at 30-1 and champions of Class S as they defeated a very good Central City Citians team 44-37 in a game heard on WJBD. The Citians led 21-20 at half and...

The Selmaville Lady Rockets won the Trinity Invitational on Saturday. They beat Odin (25-11, 25-15) Irvington/North Wamac (25-18, 25-17 and Trinity/St Mary in the championship 25-16, 25-16. Alana Finn...

The KC Blue Angels fell to 15-11 overall and 7-7 in the Region with their 108-71 loss to 12th ranked Wabash Valley. Taylor Austin led KC with 25, Courtney Lumpkins finished with 17 and Mackenzie Russe...

The Salem Lady Cats bowling season came to an end at the Belleville East Sectionals as they finished 10th as a team. No Salem bowler advanced to this weekend's state tournament either. Mascoutah won t...

Congratulations to Franklin Park 7th grader Quinn Wolfe as she was runner up at the Elks Hoop Shoot State Competition. Centralia's Hanleigh Schmidt was 3rd in her division as well!

BOYS PREP BASKETBALL= Alton 74, Belleville (Althoff Catholic) 64 Carterville 93, Vandalia 65 Centralia Christ Our Rock 85, Red Hill 41 Effingham 66, Jerseyville Jersey 44 Eisenhower 63, Mt. Zion 56 Hi...

PHOENIX (AP) - The all-star cast of players in the trenches should decide the Super Bowl champion. Sure, Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts will make their share of plays. But Sunday's game will come dow...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Calle Rosen had two goals and Ryan O'Reilly scored in overtime to lift the St. Louis Blues over the Arizona Coyotes 6-5 on Saturday night. Brandon Saad, Sammy Blais and Robert Thomas ...