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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. […]
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. ...
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...
Sterling Newman pitcher Brendan Tunink slams the door on North Boone’s season
BYRON, Ill. (WTVO/WQRF) — North Boone’s baseball team looked like it might be headed for its first sectional championship Saturday at the 1A Byron Sectional. The Vikings took a 3-1 lead into the top of the fifth inning, but the Comets scored single runs in the fifth and sixth innings, and then two more in […]
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...
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...
Auburn, North Boone secure first postseason softball titles in program history, and want more
Led by senior pitcher Ally Lowery, Auburn won its first regional title in softball on Saturday, pounding out an 8-4 win over Hampshire. And the Knights danced on the diamond when it was all done. More area softball: Cami Carter and North Boone stroll into softball program's first sectional championship ...
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...
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...
From 0 to 2? How North Boone can win first sectional titles in any traditional sport
North Boone has never won a sectional title in any sport except cheerleading and bass fishing (once each) in school history. It could win two in one day this week. The baseball team rolled over Port Byron Riverdale 8-3 in Wednesday’s Class 2A Byron Sectional semifinals. The Vikings will now play Sterling Newman (24-4) for the title at 11 a.m. Saturday. Also Wednesday, the softball team beat Manlius Bureau Valley 12-0 and will now play Richmond-Burton for...
Ian Blankenship mows down Harlem; Hononegah advances to regional championship game
ROCKTON, Ill. (WTVO/WQRF) — Hononegah’s postseason journey is off to a good start thanks to a strong pitching outing by junior righthander Ian Blankenship. He went all seven innings Thursday afternoon leading the Indians past NIC-10 rival Harlem 4-1 in a class 4A regional semifinal game at Hononegah. Blankenship surrendered five hits while showing good […]
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