Sports

CARDINALS-TIGERS DOUBLEHEADER POSTPONED

Tuesday, August 11 by WROY/WRUL Staff

Major League Baseball has announced that Thursday’s scheduled doubleheader between the St. Louis Cardinals and the host Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park has been postponed. MLB and the Club believe it is prudent to continue additional testing while players and staff are quarantined before... Read More.

CARDINALS-PIRATES SERIES POSTPONED

Monday, August 10 by WROY/WRUL Staff

Major League Baseball announced today that the upcoming three-game series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates, scheduled for Monday through Wednesday at Busch Stadium in St. Louis,has been postponed. In light of the most recent positive test results, MLB and the... Read More.

NJCAA names 33 RLC athletes, 4 teams as Academic All-Americans

Wednesday, August 5 by WROY/WRUL Staff

First-Team Academic Excellence Award (4.0 GPA)Madelyn Britton — Softball Lindsey Seidel — Softball Jalynn Morgan — Women’s Basketball Grace Coleman — Women’s Golf Dawson Brown — Men’s Golf Weston Brockhouse — Baseball Michael Di Legge Kokoszka — Baseball Jase Felder — Baseball Mac... Read More.

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TIGERS-CARDINALS SERIES POSTPONED

Tuesday, August 4 by WROY/WRUL Staff

The four-game series between the Detroit Tigers and the St. Louis Cardinals at Comerica Park from Tuesday, August 4th through Thursday, August 6th has been postponed. The Cardinals have had 13 members of the organization test positive for COVID-19 in the last week, including seven players and... Read More.

IHSA Makes Major Changes to the High School Sports Schedule; Football Moved to Spring

Thursday, July 30 by WROY/WRUL Staff

(Bloomington, IL) -- The Illinois High School Association is planning to restructure its sports calendar for the upcoming school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All sports will be played over truncated fall, winter, spring, and summer seasons. The IHSA has placed golf, girls... Read More.

RLC Searches for its Next Baseball, Softball Head Coach

Friday, July 24 by WROY/WRUL Staff

INA, Ill. (July 23, 2020) — Rend Lake College is in the market for a couple of new coaches as vacancies have opened for the baseball and softball teams.Earlier this month, longtime head softball coach Dave Ellingsworth announced he would be retiring after 27... Read More.

Will We Have High School Football This Fall? IHSA Exec Dir Weighs In

Tuesday, July 21 by Jc Tinsley

Special to WROY/WRUL News from the Illinois Radio Network...Cole Lauterbach reportsFourth of July parties may have hurt the chances for high school football and other contact sports this fall. After the Independence Day holiday, a few schools reported an uptick in COVID-19 cases among... Read More.

After 949 Wins, RLC’s Ellingsworth Retires From Softball Program

Wednesday, July 15 by WROY/WRUL Staff

INA, Ill. (July 14, 2020) — Many things have changed since Dave Ellingsworth took over the Rend Lake College softball program nearly three decades ago.Google didn’t exist yet, Timothy Dalton was James Bond, and Illinois’ minimum wage was $4.25. Even RLC had only just... Read More.

FCHS Cancels Athletic Workouts

Friday, July 10 by WROY/WRUL Staff

Fairfield Community High School has announced the cancelation of all athletic workouts due to a “potential COVID-19 cross-contamination situation.”The high school made the announcement on Thursday on its Facebook page.According to the post, all athletic workouts at the school will be suspended until Monday,... Read More.

IHSA RULES

Friday, July 10 by WROY/WRUL Staff

The Illinois High School Association released regulations for the next stage of high school athletics amid the COVID-19 pandemic. There can’t be any contact drills or physical contact between athletes and everyone must wear masks, but they’re still determining if that includes those outside... Read More.