By Fred Kroner St. Joseph-Ogden’s girls’ tennis team was 12-for-12 in its Tuesday (Oct. 12) regular-season finale against Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley at the UI Atkins Center. All 12 Spartans who took the court were seniors, the total number of seniors on the roster of the second-year program. SJ-O swept the three […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Bob Glazier had been a member of the St. Joseph-Ogden football staff for about a month in 1988 when he began to wonder what he had gotten himself into. He was hired as an assistant coach. The St. Joseph and Ogden areas were appealing. After relocating […]
By Fred Kroner The cross-country season for Villa Grove Junior High ended on Saturday (Oct. 9) at the Class 1A IESA St. Thomas More Sectional. The school had three girls who participated. Lilly-Lynn Davis was 34th in a 58-runner field. Her 2-mile time was 17 minutes and 31 seconds. Teaghan […]
By Fred Kroner Oakwood’s seventh-grade girls’ basketball team won its third successive game on Tuesday (Oct. 12), topping Rossville-Alvin at home, 12-7. Brooklyn Myers tallied all of her game-high 10 points in the second half. Avery Trimmell added two points. On Thursday (Oct. 7), also at home, Oakwood topped Prairieview […]
By Fred Kroner Ally Schmitz’s layup in the final 10 seconds sent Prairieview Ogden past Oakwood, 21-19, on Thursday (Oct. 7) in an eighth-grade girls’ basketball game. Caroline Aden led PVO with nine points. In the seventh-grade game, Oakwood topped the Mustangs, 18-14. PVO trimmed its deficit to two points […]
By Fred Kroner The Hawks have struggled in the early portion of the junior high girls’ basketball season. The Heritage seventh-graders have a 1-4 overall record, with a 26-6 win at home against Rossville-Alvin. The losses were to Schlarman (42-16), Armstrong-Ellis (39-10), Westville (18-11) and Georgetown-Ridge Farm (20-11). The eighth-grade […]
By Fred Kroner One boy and one girl from Heritage Junior High secured berths in the IESA Class 1A state cross-country meets. Eighth-grader Kiara Jones left no doubt about her advancement by winning the junior high sectional race on Saturday (Oct. 9) at St. Thomas More, in Champaign. Her 2-mile […]
By Fred Kroner The St. Joseph Junior High eighth-grade girls’ basketball team improved its season record to 4-1 on Tuesday (Oct. 12) with a 28-15 triumph at Champaign Franklin. Timera Blackburn-Kelley scored seven of her game-high 13 points in the opening quarter as the Panthers pushed into a 9-2 lead. […]
By Fred Kroner The St. Joseph Junior High boys’ cross-country team qualified for state as did one runner from the Panthers’ girls’ team. In an IESA Class 2A sectional hosted by St. Joseph on Saturday (Oct. 9), St. Joseph was second to Tolono Unity in the boys’ race and earned […]
The Villa Grove girls placed sixth and the Blue Devil boys were 12th on Saturday (Oct. 9) in the Cumberland Invitational. Junior Emma Buesing was the first Villa Grove finisher in the girls’ race. She ran 29th with a 3-mile time of 24 minutes, 7.27 seconds. Teammates trailing her were […]
