Category Archives: Local Sports

MLB: The Cardinals play the Pirates at 6:05, the Cubs battle the Brewers at 7:10, same time for the White Sox and Tigers Volleyball: EIU is at Western Illinois, Mattoon hosts Urbana, Charleston plays ...

Arcola- 47 Tri-County- 12 (Final)

The Mattoon High School volleyball team defeated Sullivan and Pana in straight sets to open tournament play. Lady Wave head coach Mark Jackley talked about his team's start to the season and the invit...

Flora and Robinson continued Conference play on Friday night after both teams lost their season openers against Little Illini Conference teams last week. It was all Flora from the start over Robinson ...

Conference play starts early for the Little Illini Conference as Newton and Casey-Westfield matchup in week 2. Casey already played one Conference game, beating Paris last week. Newton drew first bloo...

Cumberland and Sullivan met up on Friday night in a nonconference matchup in Toledo. Cumberland took the early lead with a touchdown and a two point conversion in the first quarter. That was before Su...

Mt. Zion hit the road on Friday night to take on a tough Highland team on the road. The Braves stuck first but only held the lead for a few minutes. Highland got into the endzone before the end of the...

Tuscola scored early and scored a lot against Villa Grove on Friday night. They went up by a touchdown early in the first and continued scoring throughout the night. The Warriors found the endzone thr...

Mattoon football hit the road on Friday night to take on a team that has lost 12 straight games coming into friday night, that team was Mascoutah. After a scoreless first quarter, Mattoon found the en...

The Charleston High School football team picked up their first win in two seasons last week against Rantoul, who was the last team they beat before this season's start. Friday night they traveled to M...