Category Archives: Local Sports

By Greg Halbleib The CornBelters were rained out at Washington, Pennsylvania to end their road trip. The Belters host the Lake Erie Crushers in a weekend series starting at 6:35 tonight at the Co...

By Greg Halbleib The CornBelters broke open a tie game with a four-run seventh inning and beat the host Washington Wild Things 6-2. Charlie Gillies registered 10 strikeouts over 6 2/3 innings for...

By Greg Halbleib The Pontiac Basketball Skills Camp run by the Shaun Livingston Foundation and Pride of Peoria Basketball is set for Wednesday at Pontiac Township High School. Livingston will be ...

By Greg Halbleib The Cardinals tied the game in the eighth and walked off with a 6-5 win in the ninth over the Padres on a single by Aledmys Diaz. The Cardinals host the Dodgers tonight with righ...

By Greg Halbleib The Cardinals slammed the Padres 10-2. St. Louis starter Mike Leake became the 10th pitcher in MLB history to strike out 10 or more hitters without a walk and one run or less in ...

By Greg Halbleib More than half of the Cardinals’ outs were strikeouts–15 in all–in a 6-3 loss to the Marlins. That’s a season high for the Cardinals. Miami’s Ichiro...

By Greg Halbleib The American League has captured Major League Baseball bragging rights with a 4-2 win over the National League in the All-Star Game in San Diego. The Nationals struck first in an...

By Greg Halbleib University of Illinois men’s basketball coach John Groce has reportedly landed a big recruit in 6-10 center Jeremiah Tilmon, rated as the Number 19 recruit in the country. ...

By Greg Halbleib The Cardinals lost their third straight contest by coughing up a four-run lead in a 7-5 defeat to the Pirates. Jung Ho Kang drove in the deciding two runs with a double in the ei...

By Greg Halbleib The Pirates beat the Cardinals 5-2 behind offense from two former St. Louis players. Eric Fryer collected two hits and three RBIs and David Freese drove in the deciding run in th...