Salem Cubs Win Weekend Middle School Tournament


Former IU/Pro player will provide color and stats for game broadcast on WSLM
Salem, IN – Undefeated will meet undefeated this Thursday night at the Salem Middle School. The undefeated Salem Cubs 8th grade boys’ basketball team will meet former IU player, Kent Benson, who played on the undefeated 1975 Indiana University Championship team.
WSLM will be broadcasting for the first time a 7th and 8th grade basketball game from Salem Middle School on Thursday, January 17. The Cubs will be hosting Mitchell. And the game will be announced by Melvin Hardin and Benson. Hardin said he would be providing the play by play coverage and Benson will be providing color and stats.
The 7th grade team takes the court at 6p and the 8th grade undefeated team plays at 7p.
WSLM will be broadcasting the game on FM 97.9 and AM 1220 as well as streaming live on wslmradio.com
“WSLM is working hard to continue community broadcasting in Southern Indiana,” said Becky White, station owner. “I want to reach more people in our coverage area and that means keeping our content fresh and new. We’ve added broadcasts of boys’ soccer, girls’ basketball and softball, and now middle school sports. I hope to continue adding more items that are of interest to the community, which is what we’re all about.”
Currently, WSLM is the exclusive broadcaster of Washington County sports, IU and Purdue Sports, NASCAR and Indy racing and is the home of the Cincinnati Reds.
West Washington High School will host the Regional high school football tournament this Friday night at Art Sanders Field.
The Senators will host undefeated Linton for a game kicking off at 8p.
Tune in on WSLM 1220 AM for the action with Larry Jones and Gary Chastain.
Unnofficial results — 21 Precincts Reporting In
Election results are unnofficial at this point. WSLM will have full results in the morning along with some analysis and percentages. 10,916 voters turned out to vote in this election. 55.44 percent were Republicans – 41.71 percent were Democrats and 2.85 percent were Libertarians.
US President R – Romney/Ryan – 6527 – WINNER D – Obma/Biden – 3904 Washington County total only
State Representative District 73 R – Steve Davisson – 6562 – WINNER D – Sandra Blanton – 4045 Washington County total only
US Representative – 9th District R – Todd Young – 5652 – WINNER D – Shelli Yoder – 4991 Washington County totals only
West Washington School Board
Madison Township – Ernest Crowder – 749
Madison Township – Bill VanCleave – 888 – WINNER
Vernon Township – Tim Barksdale – 431
Vernon Township – Matt Deaton – 691 – WINNER
Vernon Township – Darrell Myers – 654
Salem School Board
Bubba Abbott – 2811 – WINNER
Diana Armstrong Apple – 2584 – WINNER
Erika Garloch – 2372 – WINNER
Heather Minton – 2234
Steve Motsinger – 3056 – WINNER
East Washington School Board
Polk Township – Eric Albertson – 1055
Polk Township – David Churchman – 1716 – WINNER
Washington County Commissioner – District 3
R – David Brown – 5372 – WINNER
D – Byron Green – 3833
Washington County Commissioner – District 1
R – Phillip Marshall – 5690 – WINNER
D – Bobby Martin – 4051
Washington County Clerk
R – Jay Davisson – 4693
D – Shirley Batt – 5892 – WINNER
Washington County Council – Member At Large
R – Randall Bills – 5768 – WINNER
R – Gerald Fleming Sr – 5865 – WINNER
R – Eric Worley – 3563
D – Joe Keith – 4056
D – Jonathan Spaulding – 4844 WINNER
tune in at wslmradio.com for live streaming results from the Washington County 2012 Election as well as listen to WSLM 97.9 FM and 1220 AM.
Watch the returns being read from the Washington County Courthouse at www.ustream.tv/whantv
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Tune in and listen as well as to the live stream on wslmradio.com.
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Last nigh, Salem and Eastern both dropped scoreless games, while West Washington will go to sectional play next Friday night with a win.
At Art Sanders Field in Campbellsburg, the Salem Lions took the first possession but after a fumble, the Senators put the first score on the board — and kept going to a 42-0 win.
Eastern Musketeers were outmatched by the undefeated Charlestown Pirates who scored 28, 13 and 21 un-answered points each of the first three quarters. Eastern put a TD on the board in the last quarter, leaving the final 62-7.
Eastern will host Clarksville next Friday in the first game of the sectional.
Salem will travel to North Harrison next Friday night and West Washington will host Indianapolis Lutheran.
If West Washington wins, they will host Decatur for the second game at Art Sanders Field.
Around the region, other scores last night were:
At halftime of the Salem Lions – West Washington Senators High School Football game, two of WSLM’s sports broadcasters were honored for their service to the community.
Larry Jones and Gary Chastain broadcast their last regular season game on WSLM 1220 AM.
Jones has been a sportscaster for WSLM 1220 AM for the past 12 years and Chastain has participated for 10 years.
The Senators’ first football coach, Art Sanders help present plaques to the pair of former Senator players as well as replica jerseys with their old numbers. Jones as number 17 and Chastain was number 33.
Becky White, President and owner of Salem Media LLC, presented the pair with plaques in honor of their service.

Watch the WSLM Political Forum from Tuesday, October 9
WSLM RADIO held its first Political Forum at Salem City Hall Tuesday October 9 at 7p.
Candidates for Washington County Clerk, County Commissioner, County Council – At Large and School Board candidates attended, as well as members of the public and local city and county officials.
The program was broadcast live on WSLM 97.9 FM, WSLM 1220 AM. The audio was streamed live on WSLMRADIO.COM and video was streamed through WHAN TV’s LIVE VIDEO STREAM.
Links to the video and audio will be up soon.
WSLM plans to have additional Political Forums in the future.