By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Trevan Garrett’s basketball season continued on Sunday. The Oakwood High School senior was one of the selections for the east central Illinois team in the ninth -annual boys’ Battle of the Border all-star contest. Garrett was in the starting lineup for the victorious Illinois team, which outscored […]
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 […]
