By FRED KRONER fred@sjodaily.com Six athletes from St. Joseph-Ogden received All-Area first-team accolades on spring-sport honor teams chosen by The News-Gazette in recent weeks. Oakwood had one All-Area first-team representative. Villa Grove/Heritage had spring-sport athletes earn recognition, but none on an All-Area first team. St. Joseph-Ogden softball For the third […]
By FRED KRONER fred@sjodaily.com Gary Lewis has an idea of what to expect as he prepares to take over as regional superintendent of schools for Champaign and Ford counties. He will need to deal with people who possess a wide-ranging assortment of ideas and interests, goals and expectations. It’s not […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com High school athletes have a four-year window of opportunity to participate in an IHSA state tournament. Karl Black is thankful that those same standards aren’t applied to officials. The long-time St. Joseph resident got the call last week to serve as an umpire at the Class 1A […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com A pitcher’s duel on Saturday ended when Tuscola scored a run with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning at Illinois Wesleyan University to edge St. Joseph-Ogden 1-0 in a Class 2A sectional baseball tournament game. SJ-O, which had a 10-game winning streak ended by […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Four St. Joseph-Ogden athletes earned medals in Saturday’s finals of the boys’ IHSA Class 1A state track and field meet at Charleston. The four teamed up for a seventh-place finish in the 400-meter sprint relay. Sophomore Brady Buss was joined by three seniors, Kaleb Harshbarger, Dwight Colvin […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Playing its 37th game of the season on Wednesday, St. Joseph-Ogden’s baseball team scored its highest number of runs since the second game of the year. SJ-O crushed Bloomington Central Catholic, 16-8, in a Class 2A sectional semifinal game on the Saints’ field at McGraw Park. BCC […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Missed opportunities were the main story of St. Joseph-Ogden’s sectional softball semifinal game on Wednesday. Against an opponent it had beaten earlier in the season, SJ-O left the bases loaded in three different innings and dropped a 4-2 decision to Stanford Olympia in the Olympia Class 2A […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com No girls’ track and field program in the state – regardless of class – has been more successful during the past four years than St. Joseph-Ogden in Class 1A. Coach Kelly Steffen’s Spartans secured a fourth consecutive top three finish in state meets on Saturday by scoring […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Three individuals and three relays will represent St. Joseph-Ogden in the Class 1A state meet. The Spartans scored 55 points in the sectional meet they hosted on Friday and finished fourth in the 15-team field. The meet champion, Salt Fork, amassed 111 points. The SJ-O individual qualifiers […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com St. Joseph-Ogden’s reward for beating Maroa-Forsyth on its softball field on Saturday is the opportunity to play Stanford Olympia on its field next. Zoey Witruk pitched a complete-game two-hitter on Saturday, striking out 15 and walking two as the Spartans earned their 11th consecutive softball regional crown, […]
