SPORTS

NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) — Sid Edwards has been boxing since he was five years old. “I didn’t get the opportunity to go pro. But I had a lot of amateur fights and I had a huge amateur career,” he said. He’s no stranger to the sport thanks...

In this week's Open for Business, Kyreon Lee introduces us to Sid Edwards, the owner of Kingdom City Boxing in Normal. He is teaching faith, discipline and accountability to people from age 8 and up.

(25News Now) - In Baseball, Morton, Washington, East Peoria, Peoria Notre Dame, Lexington, and Normal Community all picked up important wins going into the homestretch. And in Softball, Metamora won big on their Senior Night. You can watch 25News - any newscast, anywhere - streaming LIVE on 25NewsNow.com, our 25News...

The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley Falcons will head out on the road to square off against the Tri-Valley Vikings at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley's hitters might be in the hot seat on Wednesday considering what happened against Westville on Tuesday. They took a 4-0 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Tigers. The contest marked the first time this season in which Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley was not able to get on the board.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — He says it’s the only “big boy” job he’s ever had. And it turned out to be the only job Dennis Martel wanted. He came to central Illinois in the in 1984 to go to grad school and he never left. “My goal was to come out here, get my Masters, […]

Illinois State softball earned six All-Conference selections the Missouri Valley Conference league office announced on Wednesday. Bella Wilkerson, Delainey Bryant and Adisyn Hopkins were named First-Team All-Conference by the MVC. Wilkerson had a strong season behind home plate with 11 runners caught stealing and recorded just one error all season....

BELVIDERE, Ill. (WTVO/WQRF) — Illinois State is about to get one heck of a track and field athlete from the Rockford area. Tuesday afternoon Belvidere North senior Braeden Brown signed with ISU. Brown holds North’s school record in the 400 meter run having recently been clocked in a blazing time of 49.30 seconds. Brown is […]

After losing to Normal Community the last time they met, Moline decided to demonstrate that turnabout is fair play. The Moline Maroons narrowly escaped with a victory as the squad sidled past the Normal Community Ironmen 2-1. For Normal Community's part, Ava Prevo was a force to be reckoned with...

Want to purchase today’s print edition? Here’s a map of single-copy locations. The votes are in. Powered by Copper Creek Contractors, D’Mario Jackson of the Danville boys’ track and field team and Mallory Rosendahl of the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley softball team are this week’s winners. Here they are, in their own words, with their biggest supporters — their teammates:

The 2nd night of the Lentz Paving Racesavers season had 19 entries at the Red Clay of Bloomington. This would setup a 3 heat format all cars transferring. The 3 drivers that were the fast times in each of their groups were Ethan Barrow, Jordan Welch and Dillan Baldwin. The invert wheel for the heats was a 3. Heat race 1 Riverway Plumbing winner would be Carson Dillion who held off Ethan for the win with John Wolfarth finishing 3rd. Riverway Plumbing Heat race 2 winner would be Ashton Thompson with the big win looking really strong over Keith Langley and Dustin Clark. The final heat Riverway Plumbing winner would be Rod Henning who would hold off Bradley Sterrett and Dillan Baldwin. All 3 heats set really fast times around the red clay in the 11 second per lap times. This would setup the A main with an invert of 2 and that put Ashton and Carson on the front row. This 20 lap A main would be wild as Ashton showed her speed and really smooth laps for the first half of the race. The lapped traffic would then be part of the wild 2nd half. Ashton while leading had a problem and I am not sure if it was contact or something else but her night was over as she pulled to the infield. This gave the lead to Ethan Barrow but as the lapped traffic kept getting heavier here came the 21A of Bradley Sterrett to take the top spot. Bradley would hold on the closing laps for the Brawley Group Feature win. Finishing behind Bradley at the checkers it was Ethan Barrow, Dustin Clark, Jordan Welch and Dillan Baldwin. Thanks to all the teams who put on another awesome show. The Bridlewood Consulting Hard Charger was Jordan Welch as he came from 11th to 4th. Next weekend is a double header with Bloomington and LPS for the Lentz Paving Indiana Racesavers.

(WAND) -- We are entering the last two weeks of the regular season for high school softball. All teams getting in the last of their regular season games.