By Fred Kroner St. Joseph eighth-grader Lance Retz placed 10th on Saturday (Oct. 16) in the IESA Class 2A boys’ cross-country state finals at Maxwell Park, in Normal. There were 234 runners in his race. Retz completed the 2-mile course in 11 minutes, 30.7 seconds. A total of 27 teams […]
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 St. Joseph-Ogden’s top-ranked Class 1A boys’ cross-country team (according to milesplit.com) ran to team honors on Saturday (Oct. 16) in the 39-school Peoria Heights Invitational at Detweiller Park. All six SJ-O runners finished among the top 40 in a race with 297 competitors. The top five scoring […]
By Fred Kroner The St. Joseph Junior High boys’ cross-country team qualified for state as did one runner from the Panthers’ girls’ team. In an IESA Class 2A sectional hosted by St. Joseph on Saturday (Oct. 9), St. Joseph was second to Tolono Unity in the boys’ race and earned […]
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 St. Joseph placed eighth in the 19-team Monticello girls’ junior high cross-country invitational on Saturday (Oct. 2) at Lodge Park. The Panthers’ top five runners completed the 2-mile course within 57.6 seconds of one another. Averie Dietiker was 32nd (14:12.8), Ava Overstreet was 34th (14:16.9), Ava Gallo […]
By Fred Kroner Senior Ava Knap was the front-runner for the St. Joseph-Ogden girls’ cross-country team on Saturday (Oct. 2) in Indiana’s Nike XC Town Twilight Meet. She ran the 5,000-meter course in 19 minutes, 25.6 seconds and ended 17th in a field of 149 competitors. Rounding out the Spartans’ […]
By Fred Kroner The top four runners on the St. Joseph-Ogden boys’ cross-country team finished within 27 seconds of one another on Saturday (Oct. 2) in Indiana at the Nike XC Town Twilight Meet. In a field of 239 runners, SJ-O senior Luke Stegall was 83rd (17 minutes, 22.7 seconds […]
By Fred Kroner Hannah Mock and Sydney Steinbach were the St. Joseph leaders on Friday (Sept. 24) in the junior high girls’ Spartan Classic cross-country meet. Mock placed eighth with a 2-mile time of 14 minutes, 23.6 seconds. Steinbach was 12th in 14:36.5. The Panthers’ other runners in the race […]
By Fred Kroner Lance Retz was the individual winner on Friday (Sept. 24) in the junior high school boys’ Spartan Classic. His 2-mile time was 11 minutes, 18.5 seconds and Retz finished 36.4 seconds ahead of his closest pursuer in the race for seventh- and eighth-graders. Other St. Joseph runners […]
