By Fred Kroner Despite having two of the first four finishers, the St. Joseph-Ogden girls’ cross-country squad was edged out for team honors by Tolono Unity on Saturday (Oct. 16) in the 28-team Peoria Heights Invitational at Detweiller Park. Tolono Unity had a team composite score of 81 points. SJ-O, […]
By Fred Kroner Freshman Savanna Franzen and senior Ava Knap were the individual leaders on Tuesday (Oct. 5) in the Illini Prairie Conference girls’ cross-country meet at Stanford Olympia. Franzen was the individual champion in the 58-runner field, completing the 3-mile course in 18 minutes, 16.4 seconds. Knap was the […]
By Fred Kroner Three of the state’s top six-ranked Class 1A cross-country teams competed in the Saturday (Sept. 25) Spartan Classic at St. Joseph, with team honors going to third-ranked Unity (56 points), ahead of No. 2 Monticello (66 points) and the sixth-ranked SJ-O squad (87 points). Nineteen schools entered […]
By Fred Kroner Eight St. Joseph-Ogden athletes competed in the Richard Spring Invitational on Saturday (Sept. 18), but they were scattered among three races so the state-ranked Spartans weren’t scored as a team in any of the races. In the varsity race, featuring 63 full teams and 463 runners, SJ-O […]
By Fred Kroner In a Tuesday (Sept. 14) dual meet at Lodge Park, in Monticello, the top seven St. Joseph-Ogden runners crossed the finish line within 15 seconds of one another in the girls’ 2-mile race. Leading the way was Kaytlyn Baker, who was third overall in 15 minutes and […]
By Fred Kroner St. Joseph-Ogden’s state-ranked girls’ cross-country team had two runners place among the top 30 individuals on Saturday (Sept. 11) in the First to the Finish Invitational at Peoria’s Detweiller Park. Ranked seventh in Class 1A by milesplit.com, SJ-O elected to compete in the Class 3A race at […]
By Fred Kroner A St. Joseph-Ogden senior and a freshman from the school were the top two runners on Saturday (Aug. 28), helping the Spartans to the team title in the girls’ division of the Doc Acklin Memorial cross-country invitational in Paris. The meet is named in honor of the […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@sjodaily.com St. Joseph Middle School Girls’ cross-country The St. Joseph Middle School girls’ cross-country team captured team honors on Thursday (Aug. 29) in a six-team meet at Paxton-Buckley-Loda. St. Joseph’s team scored was 18. Runner-up Pontiac had a score of 80. Heritage was fifth was a score […]
