By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Brayden Weaver is an advocate of second chances. If he didn’t believe in the concept, then his collegiate future would look drastically different. A senior at St. Joseph-Ogden High School, Weaver started playing football as a 6-year-old. “It was very difficult for me, and for lack […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com St. Joseph-Ogden boys’ basketball took a double-digit lead in the first quarter of Wednesday’s Class 2A regional semifinal game in their gym and then had to hang on in the final period to collect a victory. SJ-O opened up a 17-4 first-quarter lead and never lost […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com Getting injured is something that every athlete thinks about, but the majority go through their entire careers without suffering from one. Unfortunately, for Brayden Weaver, the injury he suffered on Senior Night when St. Joseph-Ogden’s football team faced Olympia, will put him on the sidelines for […]
2019-2020 St. Joseph Ogden Boys Basketball Roster Dade Allinger 6’2″ 2020 Andrew Beyers 5’11” 2022 Payton Cain 6’0″ 2020 Drew Coursey 6’0″ 2020 Payton Grimsley 5’9″ 2020 Conner Hodge 6’3″ 2020 Lukas Hutcherson 5’9″ 2021 Evan Ingram 5’10” 2022 Chance Izard 5’10” 2020 Jordan Kelly 5’9″ 2020 Ty Pence 6’4″ […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Spartans had two players eclipse the 100-yard mark in rushing on Friday and continued their unbeaten start to the season with an 18-7 conquest of visiting Bloomington Central Catholic. One highlight for SJ-O was the play of the defense, which head coach Shawn Skinner said […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@sjodaily.com Spartan football bounced back from a first-quarter deficit on Friday in its football home-opener and rallied to defeat St. Thomas More, 36-8. The visiting Sabers led, 8-0, after one quarter, but SJ-O built a 16-8 lead at halftime. SJ-O needed to make some in-game adjustments. “We […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com St. Joseph, Ill. – St. Joseph-Ogden High School football captains went through a type of on-the-job training this summer. As has been the Spartans’ custom for nearly a decade, long-time assistant coach Marshall Schacht coordinates a series of summer team-bonding and team-building activities. From within the […]
By FRED KRONER fred@sjodaily.com Dwight Colvin scored three first-half touchdowns as St. Joseph-Ogden overpowered visiting Unity 38-14 Friday night in an Illini Prairie Conference game. Colvin rushed for a game-high 191 yards on 22 carries. SJ-O is 4-0 for the season. Unity is 0-4. Colvin scored the game’s first three […]
