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Illini Bluffs softball headed back to IHSA state finals after home run in final inning
ATHENS — Illini Bluffs is making that familiar spring trip — to the Illinois High School Association softball state finals. The top-ranked Tigers (24-1) used a late-inning home run to beat No. 4 Carrollton, 2-1 on Monday, claiming the Class 1A Athens Supersectional. IB's next stop is its fifth successive trip to the...
Elmwood/Brimfield runner wins elusive track and field state championship
Isaiah Hill finally got his gold. The Elmwood/Brimfield runner won his first career track and field state championship on Saturday, winning the Class 1A 1600-meter run in a personal-best 4 minutes, 17.02 seconds. Hill now has six career IHSA state medals — including three runner-up finishes. He finished second in...
Prep sports recap for May 27, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Sophomore Sara Finn hit a tie-breaking homer in the top of the seventh and Illini Bluffs held on to beat Carrollton, 2-1, in the class 1A softball super-sectional at Athens on Monday. The wins sends the Tigers (24-1) to their fifth consecutive trip to state. Ilini Bluffs will face Trico (23-5) […]
High five: Illini Bluffs softball heads to the 2024 IHSA supers after dramatic final at-bat
GLASFORD — Illini Bluffs waited until its last at-bat to finally come alive. The top-ranked Tigers softball team broke up a perfect game and walked off a 1-0 winner over Pleasant Hill in Saturday's Class 1A Glasford sectional title game. Illini Bluffs (23-1) heads to the Elite Eight for...
2024 IHSA boys track and field finals recap: Morton, Elmwood, Dee-Mack athletes win titles
The high school track and field season is officially over. Boys athletes from across the state competed Saturday in the 2024 Illinois High School Association track and field state finals at O'Brien Field at Eastern Illinois University — one week after the girls completed their season in Charleston. ...
IB seniors may be ‘chill’ but have a chance for red hot finish to careers
GLASFORD, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Illini Bluffs is right where it wants to be. Playing important softball games in the month of May. The Tigers are used to this. Seniors Annabelle Fortin and Morgan Lowe have learned a thing or two about playing meaningful games late in the season from past team leaders. “I think Annabelle […]
The 2 Peoria-area Class 1A and 2A softball teams playing for 2024 IHSA sectional titles
The Illinois High School Association softball Sweet Sixteen is here. Class 1A and 2A sectional semifinals set the field of 16 in the two smallest classes on Tuesday. Illini Bluffs is looking for its fifth consecutive Class 1A Elite Eight appearance, while Olympia looks for a sectional title in Class 2A. IHSA softball: 2024...
'Amazing': Illinois State recruit has Illini Bluffs softball near fifth straight trip to state finals
GLASFORD — Windy conditions or not, Lexi Brinkman continued to do what she’s done all season — hit home runs. The Illini Bluffs junior blasted her team-best 11th homer during Tuesday’s very blustery Class 1A sectional semifinal, helping lift the top-ranked host Tigers to a 6-1 win over Payson Seymour.
State records, gold medals and Olympic dreams: How Peoria-area athletes fared at the IHSA girls state track meet
CHARLESTON — Winning a state championship wasn’t quite enough for Mya Strahm. The Elmwood/Brimfield pole vaulter secured her second consecutive Class 1A pole vault state title in record-setting fashion at the Illinois High School Association girls track and field state meet on Saturday. Strahm passed until the bar...
Elmwood/Brimfield pole vaulter sets IHSA record on way to state championship
CHARLESTON — Elmwood/Brimfield junior Mya Strahm had a record-setting day at the Illinois High School Association girls track and field state finals. Strahm cleared 14 feet, 1.25 inches (4.3 meters) to win the Class 1A state championship, setting the state mark for all classes and topping her own all-time Peoria-area record. ...
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