By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Villa Grove/Heritage, which trailed 2-0 after one inning on Monday at Oblong, took command with an eight-run fifth-inning en route to a 9-4 baseball triumph. The Hawks did not yield an earned run. Evan Wilson worked the first four innings and registered the pitching victory. He struck […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Against a baseball opponent it lost to by the 10-run rule at home, Oakwood dropped a nine-inning, 6-5 decision at Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin on Monday. The Blue Devils scored a run in the bottom of the eighth to recover from a 5-4 deficit and then produced the walk-off win […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com In a two-game baseball sweep on Saturday at Hoopeston, the Comets pounded 14 of 30 total hits for extra bases. In the first game, Oakwood topped Cissna Park 6-1. In the second game, the Comets blasted the host Cornjerkers, 15-6, in a Vermilion Valley Conference game. Isaiah […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Thanks to champions in four events and runner-up performances in six events, SJ-O captured team honors on Friday in its own 15-school Lady Spartan Classic. SJ-O amassed 133 ½ points. Runner-up Monticello ended with 120 points. Three individuals and one relay led the way for the Spartans. […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Villa Grove/Heritage baseball improved to 7-1 in conference play with Monday’s 11-0 victory at Tri-County. The shutout was the Hawks’ fifth of the spring. Pitchers Keagan Patterson and Evan Wilson teamed up on a one-hitter. Patterson walked two and struck out two in four innings. Wilson retired […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaiy.com After falling behind by one run in the top of the seventh inning, Oakwood tallied two runs in the bottom of the frame to pull out a walk-off 10-9 triumph on Wednesday over visiting Westville. Josh Young was 4-for-4 to lead the Comets’ attack. Young knocked in […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Atleigh Hamilton participated in both events that St. Joseph-Ogden won in the Illini Prairie Conference track and field meet this week. The 10-school event was held at Bloomington Central Catholic. It started on Tuesday and, due to weather issues, concluded on Wednesday. Hamilton was the individual winner […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com St. Joseph-Ogden had the winner in four events on Friday and placed third as a team in the 17-school Monticello Sages Girls’ Track and Field Invitational. Monticello won the meet with 102 points and was followed by Clinton (87) and SJ-O (67). The Spartans’ individual winners were […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Paris needed 11 innings on Saturday to dispatch visiting Oakwood and register a 4-2 non-conference baseball triumph. The Tigers scored the winning runs on a one-out, walk-off home run in the bottom of the 11th. Isaiah Ruch had three of Oakwood’s hits and scored a run. Jacob […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Michele Guido was never That Girl. There’s no chance her high school senior prophecy would have listed her as Most Likely To Run A Marathon by Age 40. No, Guido was This Girl: “I was one of the girls trying to get out of P.E., not participate […]
