The Prairie Fire Soccer Club will host Spring Soccer sign-ups at Heritage Elementary School the following dates: Saturday 2/15/2020 from 8:30 – 10:00 Saturday 2/22/2020 from 8:30 – 10:00 A table will be set up in the west hallway. Please use the west doors for entry.
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Oakwood Youth Summer Baseball/Softball/T-ball Sign-ups
2020 Spring Baseball in-person sign-ups will be at Oakwood Grade School on: Saturday, February 22 9am-12pm Wednesday, February 26 6-8pm Saturday, February 29 9am-12pm Please note that birthdates have changed. It will be the age your child is as of April 30th of this year. Come get your kids registered […]
Eversole and Howard help Hawks to defeat Cumberland
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com In a rematch between teams that played on Saturday, the Hawks gained revenge for the earlier two-point defeat by edging Cumberland 55-53 on Tuesday at Heritage High School. Jake Eversole tallied a team-high 21 points. Carson Howard made 15 points, Logan Nohren added 10 points and […]
Holloman leads Blue Devils over Judah Christian and Toledo Cumberland
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Aliya Holloman led the Blue Devils in scoring for the 20th time this season on Tuesday, firing in a team-high 26 points in a 65-20 triumph over Judah Christian in Champaign. Holloman scored 12 points in the first quarter as VG/H opened up a 22-4 lead. […]
Comets fall short to Hoopeston Area
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Comets couldn’t hang onto a lead they held after each of the first three quarters on Tuesday and suffered a 57-53 Vermilion Valley Conference loss at Hoopeston Area. Josh Young led Oakwood with 20 points. Jayden Cox hit 10 points and teammates Elijah Harden and […]
Young and Wells lead Comets in Senior Night win
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Senior Katelyn Young scored all of her game-high 27 points in the first half on Monday as the Comets dispatched visiting Georgetown-Ridge Farm 54-11 in a Senior Night Vermilion Valley Conference game. Young hit 17 points in the opening quarter as Oakwood opened up a 25-5 […]
Mattoon tops St. Joseph-Ogden
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Katie Cramer hit a three-pointer for the 14th consecutive game, but St. Joseph-Ogden girls’ basketball dropped a 47-29 decision at Mattoon on Tuesday in a makeup game. Mattoon built a 34-16 halftime lead and kept SJ-O off the free-throw line. The Spartans attempted just two free […]
Pence scores 25 in win over Monticello
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Ty Pence scored a career-high 25 points on Tuesday, leading the Spartans to their sixth consecutive Illini Prairie Conference win. Pence nailed four three-point shots in SJ-O’s 57-52 win at home over Monticello. The game marked the fourth time in the past six games that the […]
Dade Allinger doing what he can to help Spartans
Moving into a new school for your senior year is not something many kids look forward to. But Dade Allinger, a transfer from Mahomet-Seymour High School, has embraced the opportunity to be at St. Joseph-Ogden High School this year. “At first, I thought it was going to be tough, but […]
Schools look to tackle teen vaping with staff and student education
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com At the time current administrators and teachers were preparing to work with students, vaping was not something they were expecting to face. At the time parents of today’s teenagers had their children, “juuling” wasn’t a term. In fact, while many of those educators were working towards […]











