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UW-W's Shelvin Garrett II runner-up in nationals; Bucs' Candis Damtse 9th
UW-Whitewater’s Shelvin Garrett II earned his overall sixth NCAA Division III All-American honor on Saturday as he claimed second in the triple jump at the 2024 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Garrett, the 2024 Indoor triple crown national champion, claimed silver at the Outdoor Nationals for the second consecutive season. The Beloit Memorial High School graduate advanced through the first round of jumps...
North Boone softball earns first trip to State with Super-Sectional win
POPLAR GROVE, Ill. (WTVO/WQRF) — A year of firsts continues for North Boone’s softball team. The Vikings followed up their first sectional championship by winning their first super-sectional championship Monday. They defeated Elmhurst IC Catholic 5-3 at the 2A Lisle Benedictine University Super-Sectional. IC Catholic had come into the game with a record of 28-5. […]
Hononegah girls win 30th game, regional softball title against Harlem
MACHESNEY PARK, Ill. – Hononegah’s lone hiccup during the NIC-10 season came against Harlem when, with the conference championship secured, head coach Denny McKinney chose not to give No. 1 pitcher Aislynn Palmer the ball. He figured, why give the Huskies another long look at his ace? Saturday, the move paid off with Palmer pitching a complete game with 13 strikeouts and the Indians capturing a 4A regional title with...
PREPS: Hononegah, North Boone boys track and field athletes compete at state
CHARLESTON, Ill. — A strong season for Hononegah hurdler Coen Lee ended at the IHSA 3A Boys State Track and Field championships in Charleston, Ill. on Friday afternoon. Lee didn’t advance to the finals after he ran a time of 15.31 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries to place 28th and finished 44th in the 300 hurdles prelims after crossing the finish line in 42.13 seconds. The Indians’ 4x400 relay...
North Boone stellar season comes to end with 5-3 loss to Newman Central Catholic in sectional finale
BYRON, Ill.—North Boone head coach Andrew Baden got the obvious out of the way by commenting that his baseball team’s 5-3 loss to Newman Central Catholic in an IHSA 2A sectional final wasn’t how it wanted the season to end. But Baden then added that there was one major reason he was proud of his Vikings’ outing on a warm and sunny Saturday at Byron High School: they never deviated from the style of play that got them this far. ...
2 marathon victories send this surprise NIC-10 team to sectional finals in boys volleyball
Hononegah boys volleyball is known for three things. Producing the only NCAA Division I recruit in NIC-10 history. Going further in the playoffs than any other conference team. And then going home with a crushing loss, barely missing out on state. Hononegah may be rewriting that third prong. Despite graduating...
PREP TRACK: Beloit Memorial's Jaslyn Gama off to state meet after taking third in 400
BEAVER DAM, Wis. — Beloit Memorial track and field’s Jaslyn Gama has been wrapping up her senior season by putting up some great times again and again in her races. The senior has run herself all the way into the WIAA Division 1 State Track and Field Championships after she finished third at the 400-meter dash in Thursday’s sectional meet in Beaver Dam. Gama finished in 1:01.66 behind the Janesville...
Brodhead/Juda wins girls sectional team title, sending six athletes to state in nine events
Six athletes from Brodhead/Juda qualified for nine events at the girls State Track & Field Championships to be held in La Crosse next weekend. Stella Arn was a two-time champion at the Division 2 Portage Sectional on Thursday with wins in the 100- and 200-meter dashes (12.27 seconds and 25.44). She was also one of four on the Cardinals’ 400-meter relay team that finished second in Portage in 50.18 to punch a state ticket. ...
Milton plays like a top seed, beats Beloit Memorial by 10-run rule in playoff opener
MILTON — Beloit Memorial found itself in Thursday’s WIAA Division 1 regional championship game against top-seeded Milton after scoring first, pitching well and playing clean defense on a windy day at Janesville Parker in the regional semifinal on Tuesday. The Red Hawks made sure that formula wouldn’t be viable against them at Schilberg Park. Milton ace Gwen Baker retired the first 10 batters she faced, and her leadoff single in...
Beloit Sky Carp finish road trip 3-9 after losing to Great Lakes Loons 9-3
MIDLAND, Mich. — At least it didn’t go 10 innings. The Beloit Sky Carp, who played four straight 10-inning games against the Great Lakes Loons heading into Sunday’s afternoon contest and lost three of them, fell 9-3 in the series finale. The Loons won the series 4-2 and Beloit ended its road trip with a 3-9 record to slip to 20-24 overall. The fourth-place Sky Carp trail Midwest League West...
Former Craig High School coach sentenced for secretly recording students
JANESVILLE — Two female victims sat side-by-side, holding hands and supporting each other, as they took turns Wednesday speaking in Rock County Circuit Court about the impact of their former Craig High School coach’s actions. The coach, Brian Kitzman, was being sentenced Wednesday on charges of secretly recording them and other female students while the girls changed in the school’s locker room. “You were my coach and I trusted you,”...
Opening Dates For Popular Public Pools In Northern Illinois
'Tis the season for summer fun, and here are the opening dates for 5 of the Rockford area's favorite public pools. It's a simple fact, I hate extreme heat and humidity, and without a pool to cool down in, I would never survive summer in Illinois. Ok, maybe that is...
Janesville Craig picks up win over Westosha Central, the top seed in their sectional, to close regular season.
Janesville Craig put its eight-game win streak on the line Saturday against Westosha Central, the top-seeded team in the sectional bracket the Cougars and Falcons share. Josh Shere’s team grabbed a 6-0 lead through its top half of the third inning and survived a Westosha comeback push in the seventh to beat the Falcons 6-5 and gain a psychological boost going into postseason play. “It’s a confidence boost for our...
Back-to-back home runs sends Hampshire baseball past Hononegah in regional championship
ROCKTON — With the score tied up at one and an impressive duel well under way between Hononegah and Hampshire, it felt like the next team to find a way to plate a run would walk away the winner. That proved to be true when the Whip-Purs’ Calen Scheider took the first pitch he saw in bottom of the fifth over the center-field fence for the go-ahead home run before Ari Fivelson followed it up with a solo homer to right field to act as...
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