By Fred Kroner Oakwood’s girls’ track and field team produced top-10 finishes in four individual events and two relays on Friday (April 19) in the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley Invitational. Aubri Elliott was a two-event individual placer. She took fifth in the 100 meters (14.15 seconds) and seventh in the 100 hurdles […]
By Fred Kroner Oakwood’s softball team lost its second extra-inning game of the week on Friday (April 19) when Salt Fork secured an 11-7 win in eight innings in Fithian. Caydence Vermillion homered in the fourth inning and Samantha Dunavan socked a homer in the sixth inning for the Comets. […]
By Fred Kroner Alec Harrison pitched Oakwood to a 5-4 victory over Salt Fork on Friday (April 19), snapping the Comets’ four-game losing streak. In the Vermilion Valley Conference game at Fithian, Harrison yielded five hits and three walks. He struck out 11 batters. Carsen Dudley, Derek Drews, Chase Harrison, […]
By Fred Kroner St. Joseph-Ogden’s 1,600-meter relay was victorious on Friday (April 19) in the 15-school Unity High School boys track and field invitational. The Spartans’ relay foursome of Colin Wayland, Logan Smith, Spencer Wilson and Tim Blackburn-Kelly was timed in 3:32.87. SJ-O placed third in the team standings with […]
By Fred Kroner Payton Carter won two events and Ally Schmitz was victorious in one event on Friday for St. Joseph-Ogden in the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley girls’ track and field invitational. Carter was triumphant in the 200-meter dash (personal-best 26.83 seconds) as well as in the pole vault (3.38). Schmitz was […]
By Fred Kroner Addy Martinie belted a double, a triple and a three-run home run on Saturday (April 20) as the St. Joseph-Ogden softball team dispatched Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond, 13-1, at Randy Wolken Field. Martinie, who scored two runs, drove in six runs for the day. Hayden Dahl and Grace Osterbur also […]
By FRED KRONER Fred@mahometnews.com Braxton Waller continued his torrid hitting and Luke Landrus maintained his lockdown pitching on Saturday (April 20) as the St. Joseph-Ogden baseball team swept Chillicothe IVC at home and reached the 20-win mark for the 12th consecutive season (excluding 2020 when COVID-19 canceled all spring sports). […]
Halle Brazelton knocked a two-run home run and Grace Osterbur also drove in two runs on Wednesday (April 17) as the St. Joseph-Ogden softball team became the first one to defeat Mount Zion this spring, collecting a 6-3 non-conference triumph. Hayden Dahl and Addy Martinie both laced two hits. Martinie […]
By FRED KRONER Fred@mahometnews.com In an Illini Prairie Conference baseball game where each team managed just two hits, St. Joseph-Ogden pushed across enough runs to beat Prairie Central, 3-1, in Fairbury on Monday (April 15). The SJ-O hits were doubles by Logan Rosenthal and Braxton Waller. Garrett Denhart – who […]
By Fred Kroner Heritage’s Loran Tate won an event and helped two relays to first-place finishes on Monday (April 15) in a four-school girls’ track and field meet at Georgetown-Ridge Farm. Tate was the champion in the triple jump (33 feet, 5 inches). She helped the Hawks to victory in […]
