SJO Daily

By Fred Kroner In a first-round Class 1A regional softball game, Salt Fork eliminated Heritage, 13-3, on Monday (May 16) at Catlin. Paige George had two of the Hawks’ hits. Heritage finishes with an 0-18 season record.

By Fred Kroner Villa Grove dealt Heritage a season-ending 13-3 loss on Monday (May 16) in a Class 1A regional tournament baseball game in Villa Grove. The Hawks were held to four hits, singles by Sam Gilbert, Kamble Pearman, Robert Holloman and Jullyan Gray. Holloman delivered two RBI. Gilbert, Pearman […]

By Fred Kroner Heritage produced top-eight finishers in two events on Wednesday (May 18) at the Tuscola boys’ Class 1A track and field sectional. The Hawks had no state-qualifiers. Individually, Zach Ruwe was seventh in the 800 meters (2 minutes, 8.32 seconds). The Hawks’ 3,200-meter relay ended in sixth place. […]

By Fred Kroner Luke Zimmerman and Brady Clodfelder stroked two hits apiece for Villa Grove, which knocked off Heritage, 13-3, on Monday in a first-round Class 1A regional baseball tournament game at home. Zimmerman tallied three runs. Crossing home plate two times each were Nolan Morse, Jake Gilles and Cooper […]

By Fred Kroner Villa Grove athletes lined up eight top-10 placements on Wednesday (May 18) in the Tuscola Class 1A boys’ sectional track and field meet. None of the Blue Devils qualified for state. Three VG competitors finished sixth in their individual events: Layne Rund (400 meters in 54.18), Kurt […]

By Fred Kroner Villa Grove opened the softball postseason on Tuesday (May 17) with a resounding 15-4 victory at home over Georgetown-Ridge Farm in a Class 1A semifinal game at home. The Blue Devils pounded 20 hits, seven going for extra bases. Logan Lillard led the way with four hits. […]

By Fred Kroner Villa Grove totaled five state-qualifiers in the girls’ IESA postseason series in track and field. Three were eighth-graders and two were seventh-graders. Advancing out of the Central A&M Class 2A Sectional among the eighth-graders were three field-event participants. Ryan Lillard was second at sectionals in the discus […]

By Fred Kroner Seventh-grader Jacob Golightly was the lone Villa Grove athlete to qualify for the IESA boys’ Class 2A junior high state track and field meet. In the sectional at Central A&M, he placed fifth in the long jump, but advanced with a leap of 16 feet, 1 inch. […]

By Fred Kroner Eighth-grader Kiara Jones was the lone Heritage athlete to place among the top eight in the girls’ Class 1A junior high sectional track and field meet. Jones placed third in the 800 meters in 2 minutes, 52.0 seconds in the sectional held at Champaign’s Field of Dreams […]

By Fred Kroner Three Heritage seventh-graders qualified for the boys’ Class 1A state track and field meet. In the eighth-grade meet, Heritage advanced entries in two events from a sectional meet at Champaign’s Field of Dreams on Saturday (May 7). Seventh-grader Clark Roland advanced in two events after winning both […]