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ROCKTON—It was the days of leg warmers and parachute pants the last time that the Hononegah track and field team wasn’t represented at the state championship. The Indians’ 4x400 relay and hurdler Coen Lee ensured that the tradition would be upheld for at least another season as both will compete at the IHSA 3A Track and Field Championships on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Ill. beginning on Friday. ...

St. Anthony athletes heading to State are, left to right, Elliott Frisbie, Noah Flaig, Julius Ramos, Calvin Sudkamp and Isaac Fallert. Altamont, Brownstown/St. Elmo, Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City, Cumberland, Dieterich, Effingham St. Anthony, Newton and Teutopolis will be sending athletes to the Class 1A Boys State Track Meet while Effingham will send five boys to the Class 2A State Track Meet.

One of the busiest spring postseason Saturdays is here. From morning to afternoon and into the early evening, Peoria-area teams and individuals will compete for regional, sectional and state championships. Boys track and field athletes across all three classes are in Charleston for the finals in the state meet. Baseball...

Twelve I70Sports.com area athletes will begin competition at the IHSA 1A Boys State Track Meet today at O’Brien Stadium at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Field events will get underway at 10:00am this morning to get things kicked off for Thursday’s Preliminary rounds meet. Altamont junior Ben Roedl will represent the Indians in three jumping events with long jump and high jump both starting at 10:00am and the triple jump following the completion of the long jump. Altamont sophomore pole vaulter Jacob Veteto begins competition at 11:00am as will Brownstown-St. Elmo’s Trenten Monnet and Altamont’s Brock Wendling in the Shot Put. Altamont’s Derrick Bauer and BSE’s Monnet will compete in the Discus, with that event expected to begin at 1:00pm. Running events will get underway at Noon but the first area runner will not run until 1:05pm as Vandalia freshman Sam Bowers will compete in the 110m High Hurdles and the Altamont 4×200 relay team competes at 1:59pm and at 2:51pm, Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City’s August Cosart will compete in the 1600m Run. The final runner to qualify for State will compete on Saturday as CHBC’s Griffin Vaugh will compete in the 3200m, but that event runs a Finals only with all those heats competing on Saturday morning to kick off the full day of Finals. In the field events, the top 12 finishers in the Long Jump, Triple Jump, Shot Put and Discus as well as those reaching the qualifying height for Pole Vault and High Jump will advance to Saturday’s Finals. In the running events, the 4 heat winners in the hurdles, plus the next five fastest times advances to Finals. In the 4×200 relay, the 5 heat winners plus the next four fastest times advances to Finals while the 3 heat winners plus the next 9 fastest times will advance to Finals in the 1600m Run.

CHARLESTON, Ill. (WCIA) — WCIA’s Matthew White sat down with Laura Bollan with Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center to promote Races for All Paces in Charleston. The date for Races for All Paces is June 1, 2024. A 10K Run/Walk, 5K Run/Walk, and 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk are all offered. All proceeds from the day […]

The Salem Wildcats are scheduled to open up their 3a regional today at home when they host Mattoon. Salem fell 12-11 in a wild road game at Mattoon in the season’s final week. Game time today is at 4:30 and can be heard on WSIQ Radio. The winner advances to Saturday’s 11:00 a.m. final against Effingham who eliminated Charleston yesterday at Salem 4-0.

The class 3a Regionals open up at Salem today with the first semifinal featuring the Effingham Hearts taking on fellow Apollo foe Charleston. The winner will take on tomorrow’s winner between Salem and Mattoon in Saturday’s championship. Also today in 3a regional semifinal, Mt Zion plays Springfield at...

Glenwood High junior Katelyn Lehnen pulls away from the rest of the field to win the girls 3A 400 meters for the second of her two gold medals at Saturday’s IHSA State Finals at Charleston. Lehnen, who later finished fourth in the 200, shattered her own school record in the 400 of 55.66 set earlier this season with a 54.81 […]

Larregui Lopez, a senior volleyball player at Eastern Illinois, has been named the Ohio Valley Conference Female Athlete of the Year for the 2023-24 season, after securing her second consecutive OVC Player of the Year award. She played a crucial role in Eastern Illinois' successful season, contributing to their OVC regular season championship and OVC Tournament Title, the first tournament victory since 2001.

The Lake Land College Lakers are the 16th seed at the NJCAA D1 Softball National Tournament held in Oxford, Alabama. Lake Land dropped their opener to 17th seed Iowa Western 3-1. Lake Land then beat 15th seed Hutchinson in their elimination game yesterday 5-2. In the win, Christ Our Rock...

CHARLESTON (WCIA) — The Panthers will be in search of a new head coach for the 2024-25 season. Matt Bollant has been announced as the new head coach of the Bryan College women’s basketball program. He spent five years with the Lions from 2002-07, making four NAIA nationals appearances. Bollant amassed a 96-111 record in […]

(CHARLESTON) In Boys High School Track & Field – The Class 2A State Meet begins today at Eastern Illinois University, it’s the Preliminaries on tap today up at O’Brien Stadium in Charleston, the Olney Tigers have five young men taking part in six separate events. Gavyn Cothern /...

Teutopolis High School's Colin Habing and Josh Habing came up with their second loss at the State Boys Tennis Tournament Friday to exit the meet. The duo claimed three victories and suffered one loss in Thursday action. Then in Friday fourth round consolation play, the T-town duo fought but fell...

CHARLESTON, Illinois (WMBD) – Track maybe more than any other sport is a competition with yourself as much as it is against your opponents. Henry-Senachwine sophomore Daniella Bumber on Saturday epitomized that in the 1A 400 meter finals, where she finally beat her PR time. All season, she struggled to crack 57 seconds in the 400. But at state, Daniella ran the race of her life. She finished in 55.8 seconds, breaking her best time by a full 1.5 seconds.

(CHARLESTON) In Boys High School Track & Field – The Class 1A State Meet begins today at Eastern Illinois University, it’s the Preliminaries on tap today up at O’Brien Stadium in Charleston. The best of luck to six Newton athletes competing in six separate events. Parker Wolf /...

Effingham High School's Jude Traub collected three hits in four at-bats as Effingham handed Centralia a 9-4 baseball loss Monday. Traub hit a solo homer to left field in the second inning, singled in the sixth and doubled in the seventh as the Hearts stepped out to an early lead. EHS held a 3-0 opening inning lead then added on single runs in the second, fifth and seventh and three in the sixth.