IHSA Baseball

PBL def Hoopeston Area 12-8

Kayden Snelling had 3 hits and 6 RBI

 

St. Joe Ogden def Rantoul 28-0

Hayden Brazelton had 2 hits and 3 RBI

 

IHSA Softball

Urbana def PBL 10-3

 

St. Joe Ogden def Rantoul 11-0

Addy Martinie hit a homerun and had 3 RBI

 

Danville def Armstrong Potomac 13-5

 

Prairie Central def St. Thomas More 19-1

 

Mahomet Seymour def Heritage 25-0

Karley Yergler hit a homerun

 

MLB

Chicago Cubs def Milwaukee Brewers 5-4

St. Louis Cardinals def Pittsburgh Pirates 9-0

 

NHL

Seattle Kraken def Chicago Blackhawks 2-0

(Champaign-jm) – Illinois running back Chase Brown is one of five finalists for the Jon Cornish Trophy, awarded to the top NCAA football player from Canada. The award is in its fifth year and is presented by Football Canada. Brown was an All-Big Ten third team running back in 2021 after leading Illinois with 1,005 rushing yards and five rushing touchdowns. He was third in the Big Ten in rushing yards per game, fifth in yards per carry, and won two Big Ten Player of the Week awards.

 

(Champaign–jc) The University of Illinois Fighting Illini basketball program has another top prospect coming to Champaign-Urbana.  Skyy Clark committed to the Illini program on Thursday. Clark is a 6 foot three inch guard,  from Nashville Tennessee. Clark is considered a five star recruit.

 

(Nascar-tr) – The next Nascar Series Cup Race is set for this Saturday from Martinsville Speedway with the Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500. Nascar Cup Series Driver Alex Bowman shares his outlook for the next few tracks on the Nascar schedule… 

 

 

Nascar Cup Series Driver Alex Bowman. You can hear that race this Saturday with coverage set to begin at 5:30pm right here on WPXN.

 

MLB Today

Chicago White Sox (Lucas Giolito) @ Detroit Tigers (Eduardo Rodriguez) - 12:10

Milwaukee Brewers (Brandon Woodruff) @ Chicago Cubs (Justin Steele) - 1:20

St. Louis Cardinals off today; resume series at home against Pittsburgh Pirates this weekend

 

NBA Tonight

Charlotte Hornets @ Chicago Bulls

 

NBA Sunday

Chicago Bulls @ Minnesota Timberwolves

 

NHL Sunday

Dallas Stars @ Chicago Blackhawks

 

Races at the Farmer City Raceway are canceled for tonight.

 

Tonight on WPXN its Xfinity Racing with the “Call 811 Before You Dig 250 from Martinsville Speedway with a start time.

 

Saturday on WPXN its the NASCAR Cup series Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 from Martinsville speedway with a 5:30pm start time

 

Sunday on WPXN its INDY Car racing with the Acura Grand Prix of Long beach with a 2pm start time.