Editor’s Note: The SJO Daily will highlight the 2021 St. Joseph-Ogden Hall of Fame Inductees this week. Gary Garrison, Greg Knott, Amy Scharlau Lewis and Ron White were selected to be honored.Inductees will be honored at the St. Joseph-Ogden High School football game on August 27. By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com In the past […]
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Just a small-town girl writing for the world
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Amy Markstahler is a small-town girl with big-time aspirations and ambitions. She is confident that folks who live in large metropolitan areas don’t have a monopoly on elaborate dreams. “I’ve dreamt of writing a book since I can remember,” said the former Amy Rothermel, a 1994 […]
St. Joseph-Ogden Hall of Fame: Gary Garrison honored for his time on and off the track
Editor’s Note: The SJO Daily will highlight the 2021 St. Joseph-Ogden Hall of Fame Inductees this week. Gary Garrison, Greg Knott, Amy Scharlau Lewis and Ron White were selected to be honored. Inductees will be honored at the St. Joseph-Ogden High School football game on August 27. By FRED KRONER […]
Chahine, Behrens pick up doubles win for SJ-O
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Angie Chahine and Abby Behrens teamed up for a win in doubles for the St. Joseph-Ogden girls’ tennis team, which opened the season on Thursday (Aug. 19) with an 8-1 loss at Maroa-Forsyth. Chahine and Behrens were playing at No. 3 doubles. The Spartans return to […]
St. Joseph-Ogden names football field after Dick Duval
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Twenty eight years. Three hundred and twenty six games. Those are some of the numbers in Dick Duval’s football coaching career at St. Joseph-Ogden. His tenure, which ended with his retirement following the 2015 season, included spending approximately 2,600 days at the football field, whether for […]
Kern leads Spartans at Urbana Kickoff Classic, defeats Oakwood
By Fred Kroner Jacob Kern posted the top score for the St. Joseph-Ogden boys’ golf team in their season-opening meet on Monday (Aug. 16) at Urbana. Kern fired an 87 in the 15-school Tiger Kickoff Classic at Urbana Country Club. Other SJ-O participants were: McGwire Atwood (101), Logan Smith (107), […]
McFarland leads Comets at Urbana Kickoff Classic
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com On Monday (Aug. 16), the Comets finished 15th in the Urbana Tiger Kickoff Classic at Urbana Country Club. Oakwood had a team composite score of 465. Kyle McFarland’s 98 was the team’s top score. Other Oakwood leaders were Case Kopacz (101), Mason Goodner (121), Lily Harden […]
Armstrong-Potomac edges out Heritage Baseball
By Fred Kroner The junior high Homer Heritage Hawks baseball team dropped a narrow 9-8 decision at Armstrong-Potomac on Tuesday (Aug. 17). Destin Nickle and Anthony Happ stroked three hits apiece for Heritage. They each had an extra-base hit and knocked in three runs. Kale McComas also belted a double […]
Jones places second in four-school meet
By Fred Kroner Kiara Jones was the runner-up for Homer Heritage on Tuesday (Aug. 17) in the school’s first girls’ cross-country meet of the season. Jones, an eighth-grader, was second in the 2-mile race at the Edgar County Fairgrounds, in Paris, with a time of 15 minutes and 9 seconds. […]
PV-O baseball picks up two wins
By Fred Kroner Prairieview Ogden bounced back from a first-game loss to post two consecutive wins by the 10-run rule. The Mustangs dispatched Homer Heritage 12-0 on Monday (Aug. 16) after overpowering Salt Fork 13-2 on Saturday (Aug. 14). Dalton York fired a one-hitter against Homer, walking no one and […]