MLB

Chicago Cubs def Chicago White Sox 5-4

San Diego Padres def St. Louis Cardinals 9-2

 

E.I. Baseball

Sunday results

Royal Giants beat the Danville Dirtbags 8 to 1 and 11 to zero

The Paxton Swedes took a pair from the Arcola High Power 10 to nothing in game one and 20-2 in game two. The Buckley Dutchmasters had Sunday off.

The Royal Giants are champions of the regular season with a 12 and 3 record. The Paxton Swedes finished 2nd in the standings.

The Post season E. I. Baseball tournament starts this coming Sunday. 

 

NASCAR

It took two rain delays and two overtimes but Bubba Wallace won his third career NASCAR Cup race and first race since 2022. He was able to beat Kyle Larson off the restart in overtime, preventing him from becoming the Indianapolis 500’s fourth back-to-back winner. 

 

(Paxton–jc)  The Central Illinois Swim Conference held their conference meet on Saturday in Paxton. Milford won the girls title with 221 points. Rantoul was second with 149 and Paxton finished 3rd with 140 points. 

On the boys side. Milford won the meet with 252 points. Rantoul was second with 165 points . Gibson City boys placed third with 86 points. The Paxton Pirates boys team had 47 points, in 4th place.

 

 

(Las Vegas–jc)  It was media days in Las Vegas last week for all the Big 10 football programs. The University of Illinois is projected to finish 4th in the Big 10 this year. The Illini are coming off a 10 win season and pre season projections in the top 25. University of Illinois Football Coach Bret Bielema says as a head coach, media days are all about relationships…

   

University of Illinois Football Coach Bret Bielema

The Illini take on Western Illinois on Friday August 29th. All the Illini football games can be heard live on WPXN, again this year. 

MLB

6-40pm Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee Brewers

6-45pm Miami Marlins at St Louis Cardinals

6-40pm Chicago White Sox versus Philadelphia Phillies