By Fred Kroner Heritage’s Kiara Jones placed fourth on Saturday (Oct 2) in the 143-runner Monticello Invitational at Lodge Park. Her 2-mile time was 12 minutes, 52.8 seconds. On Tuesday (Oct. 4), Jones ran a season-best time of 12:29 and was second in the Paxton-Buckley-Loda Invitational. Heritage will return to […]
By Fred Kroner In a low-scoring game, the Oakwood eighth-grade girls’ basketball team suffered a narrow 11-5 loss at St. Joseph on Tuesday (Oct. 5). Mady Nicoson and Brynlie Wait each had two points for the Knights. “We could never get our offense going and that hurt us the entire […]
By Fred Kroner Tamara Blackburn-Kelley scored 10 points on Thursday as the eighth-grade St. Joseph girls’ basketball team won a low-scoring game at Paris Mayo, 14-12. The teams were tied, 9-9, after three quarters. Blackburn-Kelley and Kenzie Atwood hit baskets in the fourth quarter and Ashlynn Miller netted one free […]
By Fred Kroner St. Joseph placed eighth in the 19-team Monticello girls’ junior high cross-country invitational on Saturday (Oct. 2) at Lodge Park. The Panthers’ top five runners completed the 2-mile course within 57.6 seconds of one another. Averie Dietiker was 32nd (14:12.8), Ava Overstreet was 34th (14:16.9), Ava Gallo […]
By Fred Kroner St. Joseph bounced back from a semifinal loss on Monday (Oct. 4) in the IESA Class 2A state baseball tournament to salvage third place at the East Side Centre, in East Peoria. Unbeaten Kankakee Bishop McNamara – which went on to win the 2A state crown – […]
By Fred Kroner Prairieview-Ogden registered the highest IESA state finish in baseball in school history on Monday (Oct. 4). The Mustangs finished as the Class 1A state runners-up, dropping a 6-3 title-game decision to once-beaten Lexington in the finals. The game was delayed by 48 hours due to rain on […]
By Fred Kroner Vanessa Wright recorded six kills for Villa Grove on Thursday (Sept. 30) in a volleyball loss at home to Toledo Cumberland, 25-14, 25-19. Jobella Crafton delivered three kills. Molly Little ended with two kills and two service aces. Villa Grove (4-11) returns to action on Monday (Oct. […]
By Fred Kroner The Blue Devils placed second in the Saturday (Oct. 2) girls’ Lincoln Prairie Conference cross-country meet at Arthur. Argenta-Oreana won the team crown with 27 points. Villa Grove was next with 41 points. Junior Emma Buesing was the fifth-place finisher, completing the 3-mile course in 22 minutes, […]
By Fred Kroner Freshman Kurt Zimmerman was the lone top-10 placer for the Villa Grove boys’ cross-country team on Saturday (Oct. 2) in the Lincoln Prairie Conference meet in Arthur. Zimmerman ran to a seventh-place finish with a 3-mile time of 17 minutes, 42.35 seconds. Other teammates who competed at […]
By Fred Kroner The Blue Devils’ football team moved one step closer to becoming playoff-eligible on Friday (Oct. 1) with a 37-14 win at Niantic over Sangamon Valley. Villa Grove, which led 22-0 at halftime, is 4-2 overall ahead of the Friday (Oct. 8) Senior Night home-finale against Tri-County. “We […]
