WAKO Sports

It was a tough trip to Florida for the Chicago Cubs. The Miami Marlins pushed across a run in the bottom of the 8th inning on a sacrifice fly by Luis Arraez to edge them 4-3 Sunday in the finale of

Jean Segura hit a walkoff single in the bottom of the 9th inning to give the Miami Marlins a 3-2 come from behind win over the Chicago Cubs Friday night in their series opener in Miami. Nelson

The Waltonville Spartans pushed across a run in the top of the 8th inning on a fielders choice groundout and made that stand up as they beat the Red Hill Baseball Salukis 6-5 in 8 innings Friday at

The Lawrenceville Baseball Indians closed out the week Friday with a 19-1 4 inning win over the Martinsville Blue Streaks at Martinsville. The Tribe had no problems as they scored 13 runs in the

The Lawrence County Sheriffs Department (LCSD) Friday night arrested 31 year old Courtney Malone of Lawrenceville on charges of Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine, Bringing Contraband into a

Dansby Swanson hit his first homer as a Chicago Cub and Eric Hosmer and Nelson Velasquez hit back to back homers to power the Cubs to a 5-2 win over the San Diego Padres Thursday afternoon at

The Red Hill Lady Track and Field Salukis finished third in the team standings at the 11 team Fairfield Lady Mules Invitational meet Thursday at Fairfield. Newton won the meet with 165 points with

The Lawrenceville Baseball Indians got solid pitching from freshman Emery Ivers on a rainy day and made the most of only 4 hits as they beat the Richland County (Olney) Tigers 6-2 in 5 innings at

The Lawrenceville Lady Softball Indians dropped a slugfest Thursday on the road at Olney. They lost to the Richland County (Olney) Lady Tigers 9-7 in Little Illini Conference play. With the loss,