By Cole Daily, Assistant Sports Editor
• July 22, 2022
The Salukis have hired former Towson athletic director Tim Leonard to lead SIU sports for the coming years. Leonard spent eight years at Towson (from 2013-2021) before joining Southern Illinois.
The...
Coming off their conference championship in the 2021 season, the Saluki softball team looked to continue that type of success with many of the original starters returning as well as bringing in a lot of...
The SIUC Baseball team (28-11, 6-3 MVC) traveled over to Dallas this weekend for a three game set against Dallas Baptist University (24-15, 5-4 conference). The Salukis took games 1 and 2 of the series...
SIU Softball (20-16-1, 9-8 MVC) battled to the end against the Murray State Racers (30-11-1, 14-3 conference) today, ending in a 6-6 tie after going into an extra inning.
Sophomore Madi Eberle got the...
Metropolis native J.T. Weber is on pace to shatter several school records as the fifth-year baseball player enters the back half of his final season. But with his team 10-3 in the month of April, Weber...
Southern Illinois currently sits at 26-10 on the season, 4-2 against Missouri Valley Conference opponents. Junior Cody Cleveland said SIU has a real chance to win the conference and contend for a bid in...
After being down by 5 runs entering the bottom of the eighth, the Salukis rallied back from a 6-1 in the eighth inning to force extras and beat SEMO in the 11th inning off junior Jack Rigoni’s walk-off home run for the 7-6 win.
The Salukis were highlighted by offensive performances from Rigoni, who went a team-high 4/5 at the plate on the night, including his walk-off homer. Rigoni went around the base-path three times to score as well and was walked once too. Senior J.T Weber had himself a night too, with the game-tying 3-run homer in the eighth to help the Saluki's efforts. Weber went 2/5 at the plate with four RBI’s on the night.
The Salukis battled the Bears of Missouri State on Wednesday, April 27, where they would lose 1-0. That made the series one game to two for MSU.
This was a grueling battle for SIU, neither team could gain an edge.
Kelly Bond-White had big shoes to fill when she decided to take the job with Southern Illinois University’s (SIU) women’s basketball program. Just last season, the Salukis won the regular-season conference...
The Southern Illinois Pharaohs are back in Carbondale after being absent since the 2017 season, bringing a professional minor league basketball team back to the area.
The Pharaohs started their season...
The Slugging Salukis crossed the plate 14 times each on Friday and Sunday to clinch a series victory over the Evansville Purple Aces, improving to 23-9 on the season and 4-2 in Valley play.
The series...
The SIUC Baseball team (28-11, 6-3 MVC) traveled over to Dallas this weekend for a three game set against Dallas Baptist University (24-15, 5-4 conference). The Salukis took games 1 and 2 of the series on Friday and Saturday with final scores of 7-6 and 10-9, while they dropped the final game of the series on Sunday with a score of 2-10.
