Category Archives: Local Sports

The Salem Wildcat golfers were 4th out of the 10 team field at the Orphan Invitational on Saturday. The team of Jairen Stroud and Logan Lockhart finished 5th shooting a 71. The team of Cale Harris and...

The Salem Fresh/Soph volleyball team won the Salem Fresh/Soph Tournament title on Saturday. Salem started the day beating Flora (25-10, 25-11). They then beat Centralia (25-9, 25-20) and Woodlawn (25-...

The CORLHS Silver Stallions CC team took to the course at The Freeburg Inv. this morning at Smithton Village Park. In the Boys Varsity Race Jr. Elijah Lyons had a fantastic race finishing 10th overall...

Led by Ty Reynolds and Nick Fehr, the Blue Devils rebounded from the previous meet with a great team effort. Reynold finished the 8k race in 27 minutes and 26 seconds followed by Fehr in 27:53. Christ...

The Franklin Park cross country team competed at the Pre-State Meet in DuQuoin on Saturday. Alex Spencer continued his undefeated streak as he won the varsity boys race coming in first out of 157 runn...

Central City also ran in DuQuoin in the Class S race. Out of 31 teams the boys were 11th. There were 230 runners with Kolton Cook finishing 54th, Preston Feig 87, Dayton Oller 90, Kruz Jackson 91, Jar...

The Salem 7th/8th grade SYFL Jr Wildcats finished their season undefeated as they routed visiting Olney on 8th grade night 48-14 to finish the year 6-0 and finish as Jr NEC champions. The 5th/6th grad...

Salem Soccer's weekend started off with the 1st/2nd graders traveling for an early game at Mascoutah. They came out with a 4-1 win. Goals were scored by Libby Gozia, Gavin Purcell, Jonah Findley and H...

Salem grad Riley Martin was part of the South Bend Cubs Midwest League Championship won on Wednesday. The left hander was told during the celebration that he would be promoted to AA Tennessee who was ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Will Smith had two hits and Michael Grove pitched five solid innings to pick up his first career victory as the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched the No. 1 overall seed in the National L...