BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com It’s all about the team for Olivia Sorensen. Team is why Heritage High School’s senior setter fell in love with volleyball in sixth grade. At the age of 12, Sorensen stepped onto the court for Heritage Junior High and the Prime Time Volleyball Club. “You get […]
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Miller brings love of knitting to The Wheelhouse
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com A hand-knitted sweater, a hat made by grandma, a scarf that has been handed down through generations. At some point, wardrobes turned from the handmade to the store-bought. But here, in late 2019, there is a movement of people who want to experience the way yarn […]
Spartan Soccer to play in semi-finals, Volleyball on seven-game win streak
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com St. Joseph-Ogden Football For the second week in a row, the Spartans were held to two touchdowns and lost an Illini Prairie Conference decision. Friday’s setback at home was against unbeaten Chillicothe IVC, 33-12, and leaves SJ-O (4-3) still one win from playoff eligibility. Brady Buss, […]
Sollers to play in IHSA Regional, Soccer advances to semi-final game
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The football battle between Vermilion Valley Conference unbeatens went to Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin. The Blue Devils (6-1 overall and 4-0 in the VVC) overpowered Oakwood 35-6 Friday night in Fithian. The lone score for the Comets came on a 52-yard run by Gaven Clouse in the second quarter. […]
Heritage Volleyball wins Lincoln Prairie Conference tournament, VGH Football playoff eligible
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Heritage Volleyball Heritage players pounded 37 kills Thursday night and avenged a loss to Okaw Valley with a 25-13, 21-25, 25-17 victory in the championship match of the first Lincoln Prairie Conference tournament at Kansas. The Hawks (24-4) have won 11 matches in a row. During […]
Oakwood Junior High builds community with Empowerment Day
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com The world is filled with children and adults, peers and colleagues, athletes and musicians, students and teachers. At Oakwood Junior High School, seventh- and eighth-graders are learning that everybody is on the same team. “My word for the year is relationships,” principal Anne Burton said. “Student, […]
Feldkamps West gives back to breast cancer community throughout October
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com BY DANI TIETZ dani@mahometnews.com For every eight women in the United States, one will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. Even as Cathy Croft continues to undergo her own treatments for breast cancer, this statistic — one in eight women in the U.S. — […]
A Night to Honor Cory Abernathy: October 15 at St. Joseph-Ogden High School
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com There’s something about being part of a team. It gives an athlete something to work for and towards. It is a place to belong and to grow. Sometimes teams are a support system for a moment and other times that support system lasts a lifetime. Ogden’s […]
Buesing qualifies for IHSA Sectionals, Heritage Volleyball playing for conference championship
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Heritage Volleyball With two wins on Monday and one on Tuesday, Heritage advanced into the championship match of the Lincoln Prairie Conference Tournament at Kansas The Hawks (23-4) dispatched Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond 25-13, 25-23 behind a balanced offensive attack that featured six kills apiece from Bree Buck, Kiley […]
Spartan Volleyball on 5-game win streak, Acton and Grimsley move on to IHSA Sectionals
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com St. Joseph-Ogden Girls’ cross-country SJ-O’s girls’ cross-country team finished third in the varsity division of Tuesday’s Illini Prairie Conference meet and first in the girls’ open division. The Spartans’ top five varsity runners all completed the 3-mile course at Fairbury within 16.2 seconds of one another. […]
