Category Archives: Local Sports

St. Mary's hosted their Year End Sports Banquet on Tuesday night. Award winners include: Cross Country: Outstanding Male Runner - Kayson Waters Outstanding Female Runner - MadaLynn Wethington Golden C...

Marion knocked off Centralia 6-2 on the Orphans Senior Day. Aiden Endres singled home a run to tie the game at 1 in the first. Marion would take a 2-1 lead in the fourth and would break the game open ...

The Salem Lady Wildcats improved to 18-2 overall and remained undefeated in the in the Conference with a 17-0, five inning win at home over Roxana. Bre Thurman allowed 1 hit and struck out 14. Salem h...

The Salem Wildcats tennis team honored their seniors and then earned a hard fought win over Marion. After Marion took 4 of the 6 singles matches with three of them going to a 3rd set tie break. Salem ...

The Salem Wildcats were 2nd at the Cahokia Conference Track Championships in the large school Mississippi Division. Freeburg won the event with 177 points but Salem was 2nd with 135 and Roxana 3rd wit...

Franklin Park's Brynn Kessler and Kinsley Gansauer competed at Kokopelli Golf Course in the SIJHSAA State Tournament this week in Marion. Kessler finished 33rd out of a field of around 80. Gansauer wa...

In Salem Recreation Women's Volleyball it was Free Ballin' beating Toss & Wash (25-13, 25-14), Serving Sassy beat Scared Hitless in three sets (25-20, 17-25, 18-16) and The Sharks earned a forfeit...

In Little League Majors, Schmidt Ford beat Rotary 6-3. Nolan Krutsinger had 2 doubles and scored 3 runs. Kash Hall and Ethan Parrett each doubled in the win. On the mound, Krutsinger went 5 innings al...

This week the Christ Our Rock Lutheran High School Track and Field team competed at the Ellis Invitational at Altamont High School. The meet was interrupted by intermittent rain throughout the evening...

Illinois has locked in its football and men's basketball coaches for the long term, agreeing to six-year contracts with Bret Bielema and Brad Underwood. Illinois rewarded Bielema for turning around it...