By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Four St. Joseph-Ogden athletes earned medals in Saturday’s finals of the boys’ IHSA Class 1A state track and field meet at Charleston. The four teamed up for a seventh-place finish in the 400-meter sprint relay. Sophomore Brady Buss was joined by three seniors, Kaleb Harshbarger, Dwight Colvin […]
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Steffen: “The last four years are a credit to the girls and our wonderful coaching staff”
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com No girls’ track and field program in the state – regardless of class – has been more successful during the past four years than St. Joseph-Ogden in Class 1A. Coach Kelly Steffen’s Spartans secured a fourth consecutive top three finish in state meets on Saturday by scoring […]
Spartan state qualifiers head to IHSA boys’ track and field State meet next weekend
BY FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Three individuals and three relays will represent St. Joseph-Ogden in the Class 1A state meet. The Spartans scored 55 points in the sectional meet they hosted on Friday and finished fourth in the 15-team field. The meet champion, Salt Fork, amassed 111 points. The SJ-O individual qualifiers […]
Big Weekend for SJ-O Sports: Track and Field Sectional Champs, Dowling ties State record, Burnett wins fifth consecutive game
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com St. Joseph-Ogden cruised to team honors on Friday in its own 17-school Class 1A girls’ sectional track and field meet. The Spartans qualified individuals for state in seven events, along with all four relays. The state meet, for Class 1A, starts on Thursday at Eastern Illinois University, […]
Herbrandt qualifies for State in long jump
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Villa Grove/Heritage’s Meike Herbrandt qualified for state in the Class 1A long jump on Friday after placing third in the St. Joseph-Ogden Girls’ Track and Field Sectional. She had a leap of 16 feet, 11 inches. Herbrandt also placed seventh in the 400 meters (1:05.06), but did […]
SJ-O Baseball defeats Urbana for the second time, Track and Field wins eight events at Unity
By FRED KRONERfred@sjodaily.com Adam Rose and Nicholas Boggs drove in runs on Tuesday to support the two-hit pitching of Crayton Burnett, who shut out Urbana, 2-0, for the second time this baseball season. Rose also stole two bases. SJ-O was limited to four hits. Burnett struck out 10 and walked […]