By Fred Kroner Senior Ty Pence – who set the St. Joseph-Ogden record for three-pointers made – hit another trifecta on Wednesday (March 8) without even taking the court. For the third consecutive year, the 6-foot-6 Pence was named to the five-player Class 2A Associated Press All-State boys’ basketball first […]
By Fred Kroner Travis Tiernan was often in attendance when his older brother, Cole Fauver, played in a baseball game. Tiernan wasn’t there as a spectator. “Every time he had a game,” Tiernan said, “I was throwing a ball around or hitting baseballs on the other fields.” There was a […]
By Fred Kroner Prairieview Ogden’s seventh-grade volleyball team, the No. 3 seed in the regional tournament, hit its peak during the postseason and has qualified for the IESA Class 1A state tournament, which starts on Friday (March 10) at Clinton. The Mustangs clinched the school’s 11th appearance in the seventh-grade […]
By Fred Kroner The seventh-grade St. Joseph volleyball team won an IESA Class 3A regional championship on its own home court on Wednesday (March 1), but didn’t stop there. On Monday (March 6), the Panthers qualified for the state tournament by virtue of a 26-24, 19-25, 25-20 triumph over Macon […]
By NIKA SCHOONOVERCapitol News Illinoisnschoonover@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday highlighted a proposed grant program that would direct $70 million per year over the next three years to school districts facing the greatest teacher shortages. The Teacher Pipeline Grant Program, which Pritzker included in his budget proposal to […]
The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that Interstate 74 in bothdirections just west of St. Joseph in Champaign County will close overnight for four nightsstarting today, March 6. The closures are necessary for the removal of beams on the County Road 2000E bridge over I-74and will be from 10 p.m. […]
By Fred Kroner Two St. Joseph-Ogden wrestlers were headliners on the Illini Prairie Conference all-league first team by earning unanimous selections in voting by the IPC coaches. In all, eight wrestlers were chosen unanimously. The honored Spartans were sophomore Holden Brazelton, at 132 pounds, and junior Emmitt Holt, at 113 […]
By Fred Kroner Oakwood’s 23-win boys’ basketball team earned one first-team berth in voting by coaches for the Vermilion All-County honor squad. Senior Dalton Hobick was one of the 10 first-team selections. Another senior, Tanner Pichon, was picked for the five-player special mention unit. Also receiving recognition was junior Brody […]
By Fred Kroner Eight of the 14 first-team selections for the Vermilion All-County wrestling team represented the Oakwood/Salt Fork program, which placed fourth in the Class 1A IHSA team-dual series. The Comets’ first-teamers (by weight class) were: sophomore Brayden Edwards (106), freshman Tyler Huchel (113), freshman Jack Ajster (120), sophomore […]
By Fred Kroner Oakwood senior Addie Wright and junior Jaydah Arrowsmith were two of the 10 first-team selections for the Vermilion All-County girls’ basketball team. Wright scored in double figures in 20 games for the 17-16 Comets and averaged a team-best 13.0 points per game. Arrowsmith was the team’s top […]
