Category Archives: Local Sports

The Selmaville Running Rockets Girls Varsity team placed 3rd at the SIJHSAA Class S State Cross Country Meet at DuQuoin. Gabby Harper 3rd, Karmen Murray 5th, McKenzie Mulvany 24th, Kailey Meredith 32n...

Kolton Cook from Central City School has completed his grade school class S Cross Country career with an outstanding finish of 9th place at the state meet! Kolton has qualified for state 4 years in a ...

The South Central Lady Cougars took the Consolation Championship at the NTC Tournament last week. They lost to Altamont in 3 sets in the first round of bracket play (25-27, 25-21, 22-25) and had 2 set...

Salem Bobcats 74 St. Clare O'Fallon 59. The Bobcats were led in scoring by Kaiden Washington 18, Dakota Wiggins and Grant Squibb both with 11. Dakota Gregg, Ben Lux, Emit Gibson, and Tanner Purintun e...

The Salem Bobcats 1/2 Red team officially ends their season 6-2, with an early morning cancellation today by Germantown resulting in their last season game being a win by forfeit. They will play next ...

The Patoka Trap Shooting team continued with competition this week. Haley Hassebrock shot a 25 straight with a 49 total in week 4. The team is currently in 3rd place in the conference with two tough t...

TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) - Chase Briscoe has secured a spot in NASCAR's championship finale with his first superspeedway win at Talladega. This victory guarantees Joe Gibbs Racing two spots in the season-...

Salem Tennis got third place overall at sectionals last night and three girls qualified for state!! The doubles team of Maddie Keserauskis and Ella Robinson qualified for state and won third place ove...

Freeburg's Gentry Brentlinger took the opening kickoff 79 yards for a touchdown and the Midgets would never trail as they would hand Salem their 6th loss of the year, 45-18. Freeburg would also get 4 ...

The Centralia Orphans trailed arch rival Mt Vernon 44-20 at the halftime break at Evers Field. Those who left at halftime, missed one of the best comeback's you'll see as the Orphans defense held the ...