Category Archives: Local Sports

MOLINE, Ill. (AP) - Here are the Illinois Associated Press Class 1A-4A All-State girls' basketball teams as voted on by a statewide panel of newspaper sports writers/editors, TV/radio broadcasters, an...

Roderick Gatewood Jr recently scored his 2000th career point at Meridian High School. The 3 biggest points of his career came last night as he hit a three in the corner as time expired while being tri...

The 1a/2a girls final four semifinals will be held today at Redbird Arena in Normal. First at 10, the Okawville Lady Rockets take their 32-4 record to the court against Gelena who is 34-1. The Lady Pi...

The Winter Athletic Awards were handed out at SCHS this week. In boys basketball, Seth Bailey had high free throw percentage and Most Valuable, Connor Tennyson was the rebounding award winner and offe...

The Franklin Park Lady Bobcats take their 13-3 record on the road at Wesclin tonight. The JV will try to improve on their 13-0 record. Raccoon won their varsity match with Casey Mount Vernon 25-27, 25...

Antoine Davis is on the verge of breaking a scoring record once considered untouchable - and, in some ways, remains so. Detroit Mercy's star guard needs just 26 points to surpass Pete Maravich as the ...

DETROIT (AP) - Zach LaVine scored 41 points and the Detroit Pistons called one too many timeouts, helping the Chicago Bulls hold on for a 117-115 win Wednesday night. The Pistons were trailing by two ...

The Altamont Indians rallied from a 20-point deficit in the 2nd half to beat Casey 61-59 in the 1a Sectional semifinal at Altamont. For the Indians, it's their first sectional victory in the school's ...

In 2a sectionals at Newton, Lawrenceville held off Greenville 73-64. Bryant Jenkins led Lawrenceville with 34 points. Kaleb Gardner had 21 for Greenville. They will play the winner of TTown and Marque...

In 3a, Centralia hosted East St Louis, and the Flyers hit free throws late and the Orphans never got it closer than 7 points in the 2nd half of the 53-39 final. The Flyers are 23-8 and will play in Fr...