By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com St. Joseph-Ogden and Mahomet-Seymour settled for a 2-2 draw on Monday in a non-conference baseball game at St. Joseph called by darkness after eight innings. SJ-O’s six-hit attack was led by Sam Wesley with two hits. Crayton Burnett drove in both SJ-O runs with a second-inning single […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Melanie Smithenry had three extra-base hits and Aliya Holloman had two extra-base hits on Monday as the Heritage Hawks won a softball game at home against Hutsonville/Palestine, 10-6. Gracyn Allen picked up the pitching win, allowing one run and striking out six in six innings. Holloman had […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Salt Fork snapped a 1-1 tie with a seven-run fourth inning on Wednesday and went on to dispatch the Comets 9-3 in a Vermilion Valley Conference baseball game in Fithian. Oakwood (3-5) was led by Elijah Harden with two hits. Harden, Brady Howard and Josh Young all […]
By Fred Kronerfred@sjodaily.com The Comets snapped a three-game losing streak on Thursday, winning at Villa Grove/Heritage, 3-1. Isaiah Ruch hit a home run for the second consecutive game and also struck out six in 6 1/3 innings pitched to pick up the win. Josh Young recorded the last two outs […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Drew Coursey pitched three scoreless innings and drove in two runs with sacrifice flies on Thursday as the St. Joseph-Ogden Spartans topped visiting Westville, 9-4, in a non-conference baseball game. Coursey was credited with the win. He struck out two and permitted two hits. Keegan McCarty had […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com A men’s basketball tournament is scheduled for this weekend at Oakwood Grade School. Nine teams will compete, starting Friday at 6:30 p.m. All will be chasing the top prize. “A lot of ‘attaboys’ “ tournament director Harlan Freeman, from Oakwood, said. There are no trophies or plaques […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Hannah Dukeman drove in five runs, four on a grand slam and one on a solo homer, and Raegen Crippen had four hits on Wednesday as unbeaten St. Joseph-Ogden pounded visiting Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin, 18-8, in a high school softball game. Ashtyn Cromwell (3-0) pitched four innings and earned […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Mike Mennenga shares just two things in common with the person he was eight years ago: his name and an undying passion for basketball. In 2011-12, the Rantoul native was on hiatus from his dream job as a men’s college basketball coach. He had spent the three […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com *photo by Cindy Berry Rajlich All eight of St. Joseph-Ogden’s entries in the girls’ Class 1A division of the Illinois Prep Top Times indoor state meet at Illinois Wesleyan University registered season-best performances on Friday. Included in that was a drop of nearly 29 seconds by the […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com St. Joseph-Ogden qualified all three of its girls’ relay teams for Friday’s running of the unofficial state indoor track and field meet at Illinois Wesleyan University’s Shirk Center, in Bloomington. The Spartans will also have three representatives in the Class 1A 1,600-meter race: Hannah Rajlich, Jillian Plotner […]
