By Fred Kroner Thanks to placing three runners among the top four finishers, the Comets edged Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin for team supremacy on Tuesday (Oct. 13) in the Vermilion Valley Conference girls’ cross-country meet at Kickapoo State Park. Oakwood/Salt Fork finished with a composite score of 27 points. Runner-up B-H/R-A had 30 […]
By Fred Kroner The Comets placed second on Tuesday (Oct. 13) in the Vermilion Valley Conference boys’ cross-country meet at Kickapoo State Park. Meet champion Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin ended with 17 points. Oakwood/Salt Fork had a final score of 38. They were the only programs to field full teams. The top seven […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Sophomore Jacob Kern carded rounds of 47 and 51 for an 18-hole total of 98 on Tuesday (Oct. 13) to finish in a tie for 61st in the Class 1A IHSA Tuscola Sectional boys’ golf tournament at Ironwood Golf Course. He started the tournament on the […]
By Fred Kroner Heritage’s Kiara Jones posted a 30-second victory on Thursday (Oct. 8) in a girls’ junior high cross-country dual meet at Casey. Jones’ 2-mile time was 13 minutes and 27 seconds. Casey captured a narrow team win, 23-32. Heritage’s other participants were Kamryn Soard (fifth in 14:54), Madisyn […]
By Fred Kroner Heritage had the individual winner, but Casey wound up with the team win on Thursday (Oct. 8) in a junior high boys’ cross-country meet at Casey. Hunter Montgomery clocked a time of 12 minutes and 10 seconds to secure a three-second victory in the individual chase. The […]
St. Joseph eighth-grader Savanna Franzen was the individual champion on Saturday (Oct. 10) in the girls’ Class 2A IESA sectional cross-country meet at the St. Joseph Community Park. Franzen’s winning 2-mile time was 12 minutes, 24.4 seconds. Her margin of victory was 21 seconds. Four of her teammates turned in […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The St. Joseph Panthers earned an IESA Class 2A sectional championship on Saturday (Oct. 10) in a boys’ cross-country postseason meet they hosted at the St. Joseph Community Park. St. Joseph had a final composite score of 28 points. Runner-up Tolono Unity had 50 points and […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Kelly Steffen is a mathematics teacher at St. Joseph-Ogden High School. Her life has been – and will continue to be – impacted more by former SJ-O students than the ones she is currently teaching. A Bloomington native, who attended college at Indiana State University, in […]
By Fred Kroner Five of the seven Villa Grove/Heritage runners who competed in a four-school boys’ cross-country meet at Sullivan’s Tabor Park on Monday (Oct. 6) registered their best 3-mile times of the season. Zach Ruwe placed fourth overall, finishing with his high school-best time of 16 minutes and 53 […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Claire Huffman posted the lone win for St. Joseph-Ogden on Friday (Oct. 9) in an 8-1 girls’ tennis dual-meet loss at Watseka. Huffman was victorious at No. 2 singles, 8-5. Abbey Dow (No. 5 singles) dropped an 8-4 decision and teammates Hope Rajlich (No. 1 singles) […]
