By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Unbeaten and top-ranked Paris ended the girls’ basketball season for St. Joseph-Ogden on Monday with a 62-35 win in a Class 2A sectional semifinal game at Paris. The Tigers scored all 62 of their points in the first three quarters. Paris led 18-13 after one quarter […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Spartans continue to play teams close, salvaging a 34-32 win in Tuesday’s Class 2A regional semifinal game at home against Tuscola (17-10). Seventeen of SJ-O’s 30 games have been settled by nine points, or less. The Spartans are 12-5 in those games. SJ-O’s Ella Armstrong […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Spartans’ four-game winning streak came to an end on Wednesday as visiting Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin posted a 47-31 non-conference victory. In a game where SJ-O made 7-of-7 free throws, senior Hannah Dukeman made her first appearance of the season and scored two points. In her return from […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Taylor Barnes scored a season-high 18 points on Monday and teammate Payton Vallee grabbed 13 rebounds to lead St. Joseph-Ogden past visiting Monticello 47-39 in a girls’ Illini Prairie Conference basketball game. SJ-O held a slim 21-20 halftime lead, but built its advantage to 34-27 after […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Three players scored in double figures on Thursday as the St. Joseph-Ogden girls’ basketball team denied Prairie Central its 20th victory of the season with a 51-44 conquest at home. Payton Jacob hit a team-high 14 points. Teammates totaling 12 points apiece were Taylor Barnes and […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com St. Joseph-Ogden was held to one third-quarter field goal on Monday and suffered a 49-40 Illini Prairie Conference girls’ basketball loss at Unity. Alyssa Hamilton hit the lone Spartan basket in the third quarter. Teammate Ashlyn Lannert’s two free throws accounted for the other SJ-O points […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com What can a team that only returns one starter from its third-place state finish do in the followup year? St. Joseph-Ogden’s Taylor Barnes believes the Spartans’ girls’ basketball team can do a lot. And from the beginning of the season, Barnes has had her actions set […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Spartans (7-1) continue to flourish in close games. SJ-O followed up on a seven-point Thursday win at Danville (52-45) with a one-point triumph (41-40) on Saturday at Oakwood. For the season, five of the team’s seven wins have been by margins of seven points, or […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com St. Joseph-Ogden’s boys’ basketball team opened its season with a win on Tuesday, despite missing 9 of 17 free throws in the opening round of the 31st Spartan Classic. SJ-O upended Georgetown-Ridge Farm, 65-37. Chance Izard scored 19 points and Jordan Kelly added 12 points for […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Spartans (4-1) dropped their home-opener on Tuesday, 65-44, to Paris. Taylor Barnes scored a team-high nine points. Finishing with six points apiece were Alyssa Hamilton, Payton Jacob and Ashlyn Lannert. Paris jumped into a 14-6 lead after one quarter. Lannert and Katie Cramer were picked […]
