By Fred Kroner The Blue Devils had two top-10 placers in the Friday (Oct. 2) Lincoln Prairie Conference girls’ cross-country meet at Bethany. Three squad members registered their best times. The VG/Heritage leaders were freshman Lilli Montgomery and sophomore Emma Buesing. Montgomery captured all-conference laurels after finishing in fifth place […]
By Fred Kroner Freshman Zach Ruwe placed seventh and earned all-conference honors on Friday (Oct. 2) in the Lincoln Prairie Conference boys’ cross-country meet at Bethany. Ruwe’s 3-mile time was 17 minutes and 38 seconds. Two of his teammates recorded their top times. Sophomore Rowan Denmark-Collins ran 19th in a […]
By Fred Kroner Two Comets received all-conference honors for their performance on Thursday (Oct. 1) in the Vermilion Valley meet at Harrison Park, in Danville. Senior Travis Goodner was fifth with an 89. Sophomore Case Kopacz tied for sixth with a 90. Other Oakwood scores were: Kyle McFarland (101), Reed […]
The Comets had three top-10 individual placers in the Saturday (Oct. 3) Oakwood Invitational at Kickapoo State Park. Macie Russell was the program’s top runner, finishing in third place with a 3-mile time of 20 minutes, 38.06 seconds. Other team leaders were Allie Morris (ninth in 22:13.32) and Mackenzie Russell […]
By Fred Kroner The Comets’ top five runners finished within 61 seconds of one another on Saturday (Oct. 3) in the annual Oakwood Invitational at Kickapoo State Park. Eli Ronk led Oakwood, taking 21st in the 3-mile race with a clocking of 19 minutes, 24.43 seconds. Following him were Aidan […]
By Fred Kroner Three SJ-O entries dropped narrow 8-6 losses in a Friday (Oct. 2) girls’ tennis dual-meet loss to Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley. The Falcons defeated the Spartans 5-0. Both singles matches ended with 8-6 scores in favor of GCMS. At No. 1, SJ-O’s Hope Rajlich lost to Katie Steidinger. At […]
By Fred Kroner St. Joseph-Ogden placed third, behind two state-ranked girls’ cross-country teams, on Saturday (Oct. 3) in a four-school meet at the St. Joseph Community Park. Mount Zion, ranked 19th in Class 2A in the latest milesplit.com state poll, was the meet winner with 25 points. Shelbyville, ranked 12th […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The state-ranked Spartans’ boys’ cross-country team emerged victorious on Saturday (Oct. 3) in a four-school meet at home. SJ-O, ranked ninth in Class 1A in the latest milesplit.com state poll, totaled 32 points. Following the Spartans were Mount Zion (47), Decatur St. Teresa (73) and Shelbyville […]
School administration and staff have been searching for a sense of normalcy for their students since March 2020. Almost all have conceded that “normal” has to be redefined. Oakwood High School’s Principal Tim Lee and Student Council Advisor Teresa Cooper knew a lot would be lost, though, without Oakwood’s long-standing […]
The Museum of the Grand Prairie announces its fourteenth annual and its first virtual Lincoln Speaker series. This year speakers will highlight the influential and complicated role of women in the fight for the abolition of slavery as well as their own struggle for the vote. All of the speakers […]
