Category Archives: Local Sports

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Tage Thompson and Jeff Skinner each had a goal and two assists as the Buffalo Sabres beat the St. Louis Blues 5-3 on Tuesday night. Thompson extended his point streak to five games, h...

CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) - Lance Jones had 19 points in Southern Illinois' 68-64 win over Murray State on Tuesday night. Jones added five rebounds for the Salukis (17-5, 9-2 Missouri Valley Conference). ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Bennedict Mathurin looked at the Indiana Pacers' 21-point first-half deficit and saw an opportunity. He kept urging his teammates to play hard, to follow the game plan and insisted...

NEW YORK (AP) - Scott Rolen sat with his son in the parking lot outside Indiana's Bloomington South High School in 2018, waiting to coach grade schoolers in basketball and listening on the radio for r...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Terrence Shannon Jr. scored 12 of his 17 points in the first half, Jayden Epps added 14 points in his second career start and Illinois beat Ohio State 69-60 on Tuesday night. Il...

Wildcats Head To Wesclin Tonight Fresh off their win over Madison to close down their Salem Invitational Tournament, the Wildcats will head to Trenton to take on Wesclin tonight. Game time on WJBD sta...

Lady Cats Beat Centralia On Pink Out Night The Salem Lady Cats hosted Centralia last night in their annual Pink Out game. Salem earned a 51-33 varsity win taking a 31-12 lead after 2 quarters. Emma Gr...

The Franklin Park Bobcats honored their 8th grade boys basketball team along with the cheer and dance teams last night. Following that, Salem dominated becoming the first Bobcats varsity basketball te...

NWI Indian Eagles Varsity finished up the regular season tonight grabbing their 16th win over 67-40 the Bethel-McCllean Bulldogs! Coach Tim Koch told WJBD/WSIQ Sports, "Proud of the unselfish play I s...

The SC Storm 16u won the Ice Breaker Indoor Softball Tournament held in DuQuoin this past weekend. SC finished 5-0 on the weekend winning the title game over a solid Beecher Lady Cats team from the so...