By Fred Kroner St. Joseph-Ogden’s top-ranked Class 1A boys’ cross-country team sprinted to victory on Tuesday (Oct. 5) in the 11-school Illini Prairie Conference meet at Stanford Olympia. In a field of 75 runners, six Spartans placed among the top 16, leading SJ-O to the conference championship. SJ-O’s composite point […]
By Fred Kroner The state-ranked St. Joseph-Ogden boys’ cross-country team turned in a solid showing on Saturday (Sept. 25) while dominating their own Spartan Classic cross-country invitational. The Spartans’ top five runners all entered the finish chute within 32 seconds of one another, leading SJ-O to the team championship. SJ-O’s […]
By Fred Kroner The state-ranked St. Joseph-Ogden boys’ cross-country team didn’t have enough runners to be scored as a team on Saturday (Sept. 18) in the Richard Spring Invitational at Peoria’s Detweiller Park. A total of 61 schools entered full teams and there were 457 runners in the varsity division. […]
By Fred Kroner Led by the first- and second-place finishers, Holden Jones and Mason Guido, St. Joseph-Ogden’s boys’ cross-country team ran past Monticello, 24-33, on Tuesday (Sept. 14) in a dual meet at Lodge Park. In a 2-mile race, Jones was timed in 12 minutes and 4 seconds. Guido’s final […]
By Fred Kroner The St. Joseph-Ogden boys’ cross-country team stepped up its challenge on Saturday in the First to the Finish cross-country meet at Peoria’s Detweiller Park. The Spartans are ranked second in Class 1A in the latest poll by milesplit.com, trailing only Chicago Latin. The First to Finish meet […]
By Fred Kroner St. Joseph-Ogden was the runaway winner on Saturday (Sept. 4) in the Chrisman Cowchip Classic cross-country invitational. The 26-school event was a flighted race where the No. 1 runners from each school ran only against each other, with other races held for the second through seventh runners […]
By Fred Kroner Three seniors led the way as St. Joseph-Ogden outstepped the field on Saturday (Aug. 28) to capture team honors in the 10-school Doc Acklin Memorial boys’ cross-country invitational in Paris. The senior leaders entered the finish chute within 6.3 seconds of one another. Luke Stegall was fourth […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com What are your goals and where can they take you? Although they may not realize it yet, runners on the St. Joseph Middle School cross-country team are realizing the answer to this question as they prepare to compete at the IESA State level on Saturday. For […]
