BY DANI TIETZ dani@mahometnews.com Being able to play basketball has been a means to something bigger for St. Joseph-Ogden‘s Payton Cain: building connections. Cain started playing sports as a young boy with his dad and brother. “(My dad) passed that love for all sports down to me and my brother,” […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Spartans zipped into an 18-1 lead after one quarter and doubled up Olympia 61-30 on Friday night in Stanford. Ty Pence tallied a team-high 15 points and knocked down three three-point shots. Chance Izard followed with a 13-point performance. Jordan Kelly scored nine points and […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Spartans went 4-4 in the Illini Prairie Conference dual-meet series, which ended on Saturday at Pontiac, and placed fifth in the nine-team event. Individually, two SJ-O athletes compiled 7-1 records during the two-day competition. A.J. Wagner (113 pounds) won all but one of his bouts, […]
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 FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com There was a time in the late 1980s that St. Joseph-Ogden had a leg up on the competition and it had nothing to do with the quality of the boys’ basketball program. The advantage was the timing for the school’s annual holiday tournament. It came after […]
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 […]
