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 […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com The message and the messenger often get confused. And blurred. And misunderstood. One of the tenants of good journalism is to be impartial. Plus, present both sides of an issue. Plus, be factually accurate. It can be understandable that the message gets mixed. There are exceptions, just […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com St. Joseph-Ogden’s boys’ track and field team placed fourth in the Class 1A division of the 34-team Charleston Indoor Invitational on Saturday at Eastern Illinois University. The Spartans totaled 36 points. Meet champion Pleasant Plains had 45 points. SJ-O won the 800-meter relay (1 minute, 35.93 seconds) […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com St. Joseph-Ogden’s girls’ track and field team placed second on Saturday in the 34-team Eastern Illinois University Indoor Invitational. Meet champion Arthur scored 43 points. SJ-O had 38 points. Three Spartans placed individually and three of the school’s relays also earned points. Jillian Plotner took third in […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Since graduating from college, I have continued my education in the biggest and most elaborate classroom that exists: Life. Much of the time, I learned in silence by listening. I’ve also had years to reflect. Doing so created an awakening that should have been obvious decades ago. […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com I’m generally not a fan of cliches and popular expressions, but there’s one that I believe has merit. “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.” It’s with that mindset that I offer a solution to the referee shortage crisis that has reached […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Against an opponent who had more than doubled the score on Oakwood in a previous boys’ basketball game, the Comets had a buzzer-beating shot Friday night to force overtime, but fell short to Paxton-Buckley-Loda. PBL (20-9) survived, 58-55, in a Class 2A regional championship game on the […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com NORMAL — St. Joseph-Ogden’s girls’ basketball team didn’t go out as champions, but they ended up as winners Saturday night. The Spartans closed the most successful season in school history by sprinting past Hillsboro, 68-53, in the Class 2A third-place game at Illinois State University’s Redbird Arena. […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com NORMAL — The numbers didn’t favor the St. Joseph-Ogden girls’ basketball team Friday night. The scoreboard atop Redbird Arena, at Illinois State University, showed a 50-31 triumph for Teutopolis over the Spartans in a semifinal game of the IHSA Class 2A state tournament. Those who watched, either […]
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Hannah Dukeman has been there before. So has Bree Trimble. And so have Maclayne Taylor and Atleigh Hamilton. They have all played in a state finals game or participated in an IHSA championship event. In the past, that time in the limelight for the St. Joseph-Ogden athletes […]
