Category Archives: Local Sports

POTOMAC, Md. (AP) - Jason Day shot a 7-under 63 to take the first-round lead at the Wells Fargo Championship. Day has been tinkering with his swing in an effort to end a four-year victory drought on t...

The following are the list of state qualifiers from Wednesday afternoon's Region 6 Class L Meet held at Salem Community High School. Girls....Team Results: Salem Franklin Park 164 Olney 122 Casey Mt V...

Anthony Buonaura hit a solo home run and Spencer Johannes drove in 3 runs as South Central shutout Salem 4-0. Aidan Dodson was the winning pitcher for the defending 1a state champs as the right-hander...

Breese Central scored 3 runs in the top of the sixth inning to nip North Clay 3-2 in a battle of 2 of the best small schools in the state of Illinois. The Cardinals held a 2-0 lead after scoring a pai...

The Salem Lady Cats added a game on the road at Vandalia yesterday and earned an 8-1 win. Bre Thurman was the winning pitcher striking out 7. Lauren Burge hit her first varsity home run and also had 9...

Odin/Patoka/Sandoval advanced to the MTC Tournament championship with a 4-1 win over Christ Our Rock. Makayla Gebke went 3-3 with an RBI. Lauren Robb, Hailey Lane, Trista Moore and Carmen Wilderman al...

Franklin Park hosted the Class L Region 6 Track Meet at SCHS yesterday. The Bobcats won the boys event with 187 points followed by Olney with 149 and Centralia 78. Trey Clark won the 7th grade 100, Pa...

Earlier at the Class S regional meet held at Salem on Monday, Devin Konhorst advanced to state finishing 2nd in the 100 as well as the 200. Selmaville's Carter Lowe was 2nd in the 400m with teammate K...

The Salem Wildcats track team competed at the Mt Vernon Invitational on Monday. The first place finish for Salem came from the Fresh/Soph 4x100 team of Hopkins, Lang, Ettress and Thorton. Salem got 2n...

The Salem Lady Cats were 4th in the Cahokia Conference Track Meet. Breese Central was first followed by Freeburg and Roxana. The Lady Cats top finisher was Mollie Walker who won the shot put and was 3...