Category Archives: Local Sports

The junior high trap shooting season got underway last week. Patoka was 3rd with a week 1 score of 421. Collinsville and Dieterich was 1-2. Haley Hassebrock led Patoka hitting 48 out of 50, Kru Cain h...

Michael Brown rushed for 93 yards and Will Stanton added 56 yards and 2 touchdowns as the Orphans beat Carbondale 35-23. Centralia got on the board first with a 1 yard touchdown reception from Archie ...

The Roxana Shells ran 15 first-half plays, and scored 33 points on their way to a 33-0 halftime lead and ultimately a 46-7. The Shells tailback duo of Shorter and Crumb combined for 14 carries for 236...

The Salem Wildcats remained undefeated at the Salem Soccer Complex as they short-gamed Carlyle 9-0 in front of a good crowd Friday afternoon. Eli Baker scored 4 goals for the Cats. Avery Gullion got h...

Colton Tockstein hit a walk-off sac-fly in the bottom of the 8th inning as SC knocked off visiting Neoga 3-2. He was also the winning pitcher allowing no hits and no runs over 2 innings. North Clay be...

Iuka won their Class S baseball regional knocking off host Patoka/Odin 7-5. The Pirates flipped the game in the top of the sixth trailing 4-2 as they would score 5 runs in the inning. The biggest blow...

In Class S, Iuka fell to Cisne in their semifinal 7-4 despite outhitting Cisne 8-4. Iuka's lone 8th grader Kenzie Collier reached 211 strikeouts this season. Briella Wodkta added 2 hits along with Col...

Mabree Phelps was dominant in the circle ringing up14 strikeouts as Patoka advanced to the regional finals with a 10-4 win over Rome. Trailing 3-1 in the bottom of the 4th, Patoka scored five runs on ...

The KC cross country teams traveled to Maxwell Park located in Normal, IL for the Heartland Hawks Invitational meet. The meet consisted of community colleges (except for Illinois Wesleyan University's...

The Salem Wildcats will host Roxana for Homecoming tonight starting at 7pm at Jim Finks Field. Salem is riding a 2-game win streak, as they schedule toughens up from here. Roxana is 3-1 coming off the...