By Fred Kroner The Heritage Hawks placed 14th in the 17-school Tuscola Cross-Country Invitational at Wimple Park on Saturday (Sept. 18). The team was led by freshman Robert Holloman, who ran the 3-mile course in 19 minutes, 5.78 seconds and ended in 46th place in the 152-runner field. Following Holloman […]
By Fred Kroner The Heritage Hawks had Toledo Cumberland on the ropes on Thursday (Sept. 16), but couldn’t secure the volleyball win, suffering a 23-25, 25-21 25-21 setback at home. Bri Struck collected a double-double for Heritage with 14 kills and 17 digs. She also had four blocks and two […]
By Fred Kroner The scenario was not set up for success. Oakwood’s football team was playing on the road on Friday (Sept. 17). The Comets were looking for their first win of the season in Week 4, but fell behind 22-0. The Oakwood players cast aside all of the potential […]
By Fred Kroner Senior setter Becca Steinbach doled out 12 assists on Thursday (Sept. 16), but the St. Joseph-Ogden volleyball team fell on the road to St. Thomas More, 25-15, 25-21, in Champaign. Steinbach also had three digs and two aces. Kennedi Burnett landed five kills to go with five […]
By Fred Kroner St. Joseph-Ogden sophomore Logan Smith captured medalist honors on Thursday (Sept. 16) in a three-school boys’ golf meet at Tri-City Country Club, in Villa Grove. Smith fired a season-low 41 to win by one shot over teammate Maddux Carter and Okaw Valley’s Trey Hall. Other SJ-O scores […]
By Fred Kroner Eight St. Joseph-Ogden athletes competed in the Richard Spring Invitational on Saturday (Sept. 18), but they were scattered among three races so the state-ranked Spartans weren’t scored as a team in any of the races. In the varsity race, featuring 63 full teams and 463 runners, SJ-O […]
By Fred Kroner The state-ranked St. Joseph-Ogden boys’ cross-country team didn’t have enough runners to be scored as a team on Saturday (Sept. 18) in the Richard Spring Invitational at Peoria’s Detweiller Park. A total of 61 schools entered full teams and there were 457 runners in the varsity division. […]
By Fred Kroner Junior Jackson Greer scored two goals and had one assist on Friday (Sept. 17) as the St. Joseph-Ogden soccer team edged Blue Ridge at home, 4-3. Greer’s first goal accounted for the only scoring in the first half. Aiden Cromwell netted a goal and teammate Brennan Haake […]
By Fred Kroner St. Joseph-Ogden’s football team broke into the win column in a big way on Friday (Sept. 17), building a 35-point halftime lead en route to a 48-7 Illini Prairie Conference triumph at home over Chillicothe IVC. Spartan coach Shawn Skinner praised the leadership of five seniors – […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com It was a little more than a year ago that a group of teen-aged girls at St. Joseph-Ogden decided to make something out of nothing. The COVID-19-ravaged fall of 2020 was a time for many sports throughout the state to be shifted to another part of […]
