By Fred Kroner St. Joseph’s eighth-grade girls’ basketball team had its best defensive performance of the season on Saturday (Oct. 14), overpowering Westville in a road game, 29-2. Vivian Smith hit a game-high eight points. Both Ainsley Dirksmeyer and Megan Kearney netted five points. Ava Alexander and Lyla Patton tallied […]
By Fred Kroner All-state runner Tessa Walker helped the St. Joseph Middle School girls’ cross-country team to a sixth-place state finish on Saturday (Oct. 14) in the IESA Class 2A state meet at Normal Parkside. Walker, an eighth-grader, finished 11th in the 199-runner race with a 2-mile time of 12:27.30. […]
By FRED KRONER fred@Mahometnews.com The St. Joseph Panthers Middle School boys’ cross-country team placed fourth out of the 24 schools that qualified for the IESA Class 2A state meet at Normal Parkside. St. Joseph had a team score of 168 points. The top three teams in 2A were El Paso/Gridley […]
By Fred Kroner In the final home meet of her prep career, Heritage senior Lillian Montgomery was the individual winner on Thursday (Oct. 12) in a three-school girls’ cross-country meet. Montgomery, the lone Heritage runner, toured the 3-mile course in Broadlands in 22 minutes and 24 seconds. She beat the […]
By Fred Kroner Playing short-handed, the Heritage volleyball team suffered a 25-14, 25-20 loss on Thursday (Oct. 12) at Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond. Mary Roland handed out a team-best 16 assists. Gracie Tate smashed six kills. The Hawks were playing without defensive specialist Lilli Montgomery, who was at her Senior Night cross-country meet, […]
By Fred Kroner The Oakwood Comets split their two volleyball matches on Saturday (Oct. 14) in the Vermilion County Tournament at Danville Area Community College and moved into the third-place match. Oakwood dropped a three-set decision to top-seeded defending champion Westville, 22-25, 25-19, 15-11, before avenging a loss to Salt […]
By Fred Kroner Ethan Merritt scored a hat trick and broke the single-season scoring record for the Oakwood/Salt Fork soccer team on Saturday (Oct. 14) in the semifinals of the Class 1A regional at St. Anne. Merritt’s three goals in a 7-0 win over St. Anne raised his season totals […]
By Fred Kroner Oakwood’s football team enters its regular-season finale facing a must-win in order to become playoff-eligible. The Comets dropped a 20-8 loss at home on rain-drenched Marty McFarland Field on Friday (Oct. 13) to Salt Fork. The loss was the team’s second this season by two touchdowns, or […]
By Fred Kroner St. Joseph-Ogden’s eighth shutout of the soccer season came on Saturday (Oct. 14) in the semifinals of the St. Anne Class 1A Regional, a 9-0 verdict over Clifton Central. Alex Acosta’s fourth hat trick of the season sparked the Spartans. It was the 14th hat trick of […]
By Fred Kroner St. Joseph-Ogden junior Savanna Franzen ran 15th on Saturday (Oct. 14) in the 26-school Patroit Invitational girls’ cross-country meet at Peoria’s Detweiller Park. Franzen’s 3-mile time was 19:00.70. SJ-O didn’t have enough runners to be scored as a team. The Spartans’ other competitors in a 255-runner race […]
