On Tuesday, Sept. 17, The Space, a local restaurant and venue in downtown Champaign, will celebrate the one-year anniversary of its Tuesday night Open Mic Night. The event also marks 23 years of host Mike Ingram bringing open mic opportunities to performers in Champaign-Urbana. Ingram has been a fixture in […]
The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that construction at the Interstate 72/57 interchange in Champaign begins Sept. 9. This work involves building crossover pavement to be used during next year’s reconstruction of the I-72 bridges over I-57 and will require closures of the left lane in both directions of I-72. […]
By Fred Kroner St. Joseph-Ogden’s fifth shutout of the soccer season came in the Saturday (Sept. 7) championship match of the Argenta-Oreana Tournament and was a 4-0 triumph over Decatur St. Teresa. The Spartans’ diversified scoring attack featured one goal apiece from Alex Acosta, Yadi Acosta, Zach Harper and Logan […]
By Fred Kroner In four of the five matches played by the St. Joseph-Ogden volleyball team on Saturday (Sept. 7) in the Pana/Mattoon Tournament three sets were required to determine the winner. SJ-O dropped three of those matches and finished 1-4 in the event. For the season, seven of the […]
by Fred Kroner St. Joseph-Ogden won two matches in singles and two matches in doubles on Thursday (Sept. 5) and garnered a 4-3 team win at Watseka. Samantha Kelso scored a 6-4, 6-0 victory at No. 2 singles over Marisa Clark. At No. 4 singles, Madison Farber survived a three-set […]
By Fred Kroner Four St. Joseph-Ogden athletes were victorious in their flighted races on Saturday (Sept. 7) at the 26-school Chrisman Cowchip boys’ cross-country invitational. Beating all pursuers in their individual 3-mile races were Colin Burnett (race for No. 3 runners, 17 minutes, 10.3 seconds), Eli Franklin (race for No. […]
By Fred Kroner Two St. Joseph-Ogden runners won their flighted races on Saturday (Sept. 7) in the 26-school Chrisman Cowchip girls’ cross-country invitational. In the race for No. 3 runners, SJ-O’s Tessa Walker was the winner in the 3-mile race (19 minutes, 42.2 seconds). In the race for No. 4 […]
By Fred Kroner Devan Swisher fired a 41 on Thursday (Sept. 5) for St. Joseph-Ogden’s golf team, which dropped a 166-179 decision to Rantoul/Paxton-Buckley-Loda at Brookhill Golf Course. Swisher placed second individually. Other SJ-O scorers were Garrett Loschen (44), Asher Pruemer (45), Graham (Ray (49), Wade Clark (51) and Trevor […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometdaily.com If you followed the progression of St. Joseph-Ogen’s football home-opener on Friday (Sept. 6) against Unity at Dick Duval Field, it went like this: SJ-O scored. Unity scored 1:12 later to create a 7-7 tie. SJ-O scored. Unity scored 3:10 later to create a 14-14 tie. […]
This photo album of the Oakwood Junior High Softball team is brought to you by Christie Clinic. The photos were taken by Amanda Sullivan Wells. To view the entire album visit: https://sjodaily.smugmug.com/St-Joseph-Junior-High-Softball-2024.
