By Fred Kroner For the second game in a row, the St. Joseph-Ogden football team got on the scoreboard early and held an 8-0 first-quarter lead. Also for the second game in a row, that turned out to be the team’s final point total as SJ-O dropped a 33-8 decision […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Twenty eight years. Three hundred and twenty six games. Those are some of the numbers in Dick Duval’s football coaching career at St. Joseph-Ogden. His tenure, which ended with his retirement following the 2015 season, included spending approximately 2,600 days at the football field, whether for […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The tradition continues with the St. Joseph-Ogden girls’ cross-country program. By placing third in Saturday’s Effingham St. Anthony Class 1A Sectional, SJ-O advanced its entire girls’ team to state for the 13th consecutive year and for the 25th time in school history. They did it by […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com St. Joseph-Ogden Volleyball SJ-O is heading into the postseason with a 16-match winning streak and a school-record-tying 31 victories this season. The Spartans won all five matches on Saturday to emerge triumphant in the Mount Pulaski Tournament. SJ-O lost its opening game to Mount Zion, then […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com St. Joseph-Ogden Football St. Joseph-Ogden moved a step closer to the playoffs on Friday with a 41-21 victory over visiting Olympia. SJ-O is playoff-eligible after reaching the five-win mark. Olympia (3-5) was officially eliminated from playoff consideration. Head coach Shawn Skinner considers the Week 8 performance […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com St. Joseph-Ogden Football For the second week in a row, the Spartans were held to two touchdowns and lost an Illini Prairie Conference decision. Friday’s setback at home was against unbeaten Chillicothe IVC, 33-12, and leaves SJ-O (4-3) still one win from playoff eligibility. Brady Buss, […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Freshman receiver Ty Pence scored his first varsity touchdown on Friday at Fairbury, but it wasn’t enough for the Spartans, who suffered a 33-13 loss to Illini Prairie Conference rival Prairie Central. Pence hauled in a 3-yard pass from Crayton Burnett for the points that trimmed […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Spartans (4-1) rebounded from a shutout loss the previous week to hold Pontiac scoreless on Friday in a 19-0 homecoming triumph in St. Joseph. Coach Shawn Skinner sees a pattern in the team’s 4-1 season record. “We are 4-0 in games when we win the […]
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com SJ-O Football The gains made by St. Joseph-Ogden’s football team Friday night were not enough. The Spartans’ offense was stymied by Unity’s defense and the Rockets made SJ-O its third successive shutout victim with a 20-0 win for homecoming at Hicks Field. “Their defensive players are […]
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 […]
