In high school baseball, Pontiac fell to Herscher, 12-4. The loss drops the Indians to 3-4 on the season. GCMS clipped Lexington, 7-6. Heyworth routed Fieldcrest, 16-2. Dee-Mack bested El Paso-Gridley, 6-3.

In softball, Pontiac got 17 strikeouts from the tandem of Regan Krause and Amanda Fox in a 9-1 win over Tolono Unity. Dwight topped Herscher, 10-3. EPG ran past Dee-Mack, 13-5. Woodland-Flanagan-Cornell blanked Low Point-Washburn, 13-0. GCMS turned back Lexington, 11-5.

Javier Baez homered twice for the second straight game to lift the Chicago Cubs to a 13-5 rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The St. Louis Cardinals wrapped up their first homestand losing to Milwaukee, 3-2.

The Chicago White Sox earn their first home win of the season as Matt Davidson belted a two-run homer in the eighth for a 2-1 win over Tampa bay.

The Central Illinois Flying Aces fell to Madison, 6-3. The Aces have announced half of the proceeds from the end-of-season jersey auction and all of the 50-50 proceeds this Saturday night will be donated to the Humboldt Broncos, the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League team involved in a bus crash last Friday in which 16 people died.

Former Illinois State standout Carmeron Meredith is no longer a Chicago Bear. He’s headed to New Orleans after the Bears declined to match a 2-year 10 million dollar offer.

Illinois State men’s basketball has signed junior college transfer Josh Jefferson to a letter of intent. Jefferson is a 6-3 guard who played the last two seasons at Lake Land College. During the past season, he averaged 22.8 points per game while shooting 49 percent from the field, including 44.8 percent from three-point range.

The Chicago Bulls end the season with a 119-87 loss to the Detroit Pistons. The Bulls end the season 27-55, tie for the sixth-worst record in the NBA.

The Bloomington Edge will play an all-star team from the Elite Indoor Football League on July 21 at Grossinger Motors Arena.