Category Archives: Local Sports

A shoulder injury midway through the second quarter of this afternoon's Patriots/Dolphins game leaves Patriots QB Jimmy Garoppolo ruled out going into the second half. Jacoby Brissett has been at quar...

Mattoon Middle School softball versus Effingham has been postponed due to the weather. It will now be played on Monday at 4:30 in Paris versus Effingham.

A battle between 2-1 teams in the Central Illinois Conference took place Friday night as Warrensburg-Latham and Sullivan/Okaw Valley met up. It was not much of a battle in the second half, but a lot o...

Tuscola and Shelbyville have combined to win five out of six total games to open up the season and the two met Friday night to open up Central Illinois Conference play. Tuscola, whose lowest scoring g...

Arcola met Argenta-Oreana Friday night in a battle of top 20 rated teams in class 1A. The game was tight from the very start as both teams put up some points in the first. Argenta-Oreana started the s...

Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond hosted Decatur LSA/Decatur Christian in their homecoming game on Friday night in hopes of giving Decatur their first loss of the season. Decatur, though, had other plan...

A battle of winless teams took place at Villa Grove Friday night as Villa Grove took on Tri-County. Both teams came in 0-3 and both teams opened up Little Okaw Valley play on Friday. Two early touchdo...

Two struggling Little Okaw Valley teams matched up Friday night in Cumberland. Cumberland came in 0-3 and played their fourth straight home game to open up the season against 1-2 Martinsville who won ...

Taylorville hosted Salem on Friday night to open Apollo Conference play for both teams. Taylorville came in undefeated on the year at 3-0 with a dominating win over Rantoul last week. Salem came into ...

The Mattoon Green Wave football team hit the road to take on Mt. Zion in the Apollo Conference opener on a very damp Friday night of football. The Green Wave picked up their first win of the season la...