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Prep sports recap for Feb. 8, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Lexi Baer scored 26 points to lead Notre Dame to an 87-45 win over visiting Manual in girls basketball on Thursday. The win completes Notre Dame’s first ever undefeated conference season in the Big 12. Other girls basketball winners Thursday included Washington, Normal Community, Central Catholic, Fieldcrest Elmwood and Peoria Heights. […]
Extra Effort: Brimfield’s CJ Troxell brings family cancer fight to school, raising $5,500
BRIMFIELD, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Senior CJ Troxell had an idea. “I love the sports of basketball,” Troxell said. “It’s not really what I’m pursuing after high school so I knew I could go out with a bang with something like this.” Troxell is a multi-sport athlete at Brimfield, a standout in softball and basketball. She […]
Coaches say Peoria High’s rising star Leshawn Stowers needs ‘to be more selfish’
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Leshawn Stowers stock is rising. The Peoria High guard holds a couple of Division I college offers and he’s getting attention from other coaches who are seeing the 6-5 junior improve throughout the season. Stowers says the college attention is rewarding. “It’s a fun process grinding everything out. To hear those […]
College signings in central Illinois for Feb. 7, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Some area high school student-athletes made their college sports commitments official on the first day of the NCAA’s February signing period on Wednesday. Three Central Catholic football players announced their college choices at a school ceremony. Colin Hayes is headed to Valparaiso, Dominic McKibbin to Drake and Jackson Metzdorf signed with […]
Prep sports recap for Feb. 6, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Senior Hank Alvey scored the first 18 points of the game for Illini Bluffs and finished with 33 points and 16 rebounds in leading the Tigers past visiting Farmington, 62-37, in boys basketball on Tuesday. Other boys winners included: Normal Community, Metamora, Normal West, Fieldcrest, El Paso-Gridley, Dee-Mack, Tremont, Peoria Christian […]
Prep sports recap for Feb. 5, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — It was a history-making night for Eureka’s Tyler Heffren on Monday in Champaign. The senior scored 19 points at St. Thomas More and became his school’s all-time scoring leader in a 53-46 loss to the Sabres. Heffren, who now has 1,749 points in his high school career, passed former EHS and […]
Rivermen players bring hockey to Morton school
MORTON, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — The Peoria Rivermen went back to school on Monday. Some of the players from the SPHL team helped students at Lincoln Elementary School learn the ins-and-outs of hockey. Students in PE classes at the school are starting a unit on floor hockey and the minor league hockey players helped kick it […]
Prep sports recap for Feb. 2, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Normal Community tuned up for its Saturday showdown with Metamora on Saturday with a home win Friday. The Ironmen beat Danville, 73-50. Normal Community plays defending state champ Metamora at 7:30 in the Midwest Crossroads Classic at Normal West Saturday night. Other boys basketball winners on Friday included: Manual, Peoria High, […]
Prep sports recap for Feb. 1, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Senior Gus Rugaard scored 24 points to lead visiting Morton past Limestone, 54-38, in Mid-Illini Conference boys basketball on Thursday. The win moves Morton to 10-1 in the conference, a half-game ahead of Metamora (9-1 in Mid-Illini). Girls basketball winners on Thursday included Notre Dame, Peoria High, Eureka, Tri-Valley, Lexington, LeRoy, […]
Extra Effort: Keauntrey Barnes a big example for little fans in Farmington
FARMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — He is one of the most exciting football and basketball players in central Illinois. Even if Farmington’s Keauntrey Barnes isn’t trying to be. “I’m looking at dunking but that’s not the first thing on my mind,” Barnes admitted. “But I’m focused on defense and doing everything else right. But when the […]
Bradley beats UNI for tenth win in 11 games
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Time to start a new win streak. Connor Hickman scored 22 points and Malevy Leons added 18 to lead Bradley past Northern Iowa, 85-69, in Missouri Valley Conference basketball at Carver Arena on Wednesday. The Braves (16-6, 8-3 in MVC) won for the tenth time in eleven games. Bradley had its […]
Prep sports recap for Jan. 31, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Matthew Zobrist scored 14 points to lead Mid-Illini Conference co-leader Metamora to a win at Pekin, 45-42, on Wednesday. Other boys basketball winners Wednesday included Dunlap, East Peoria, Notre Dame and IVC.
Canton’s thousand-point scorer says cookies compliment basketball
CANTON, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Canton’s Allison Wheeler has a sweet jump shot. She also has a sweet tooth. And a cure for it. “I bake anything, I love sweet treats. It’s kind of something that takes my mind off basketball,” said Wheeler. “I like to stay balanced and do other things. Baking has helped me. […]
Prep sports recap for Jan. 30, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Amare Breedlove scored 16 points to lead Manual past host Morton, 42-34, in a battle of state-ranked teams on Tuesday. Other boys basketball winners Tuesday included Normal Community, Peoria High, IVC, Dee-Mack, Elmwood, Eureka, Illini Bluffs and Heyworth. Lily Luczkowiak scored 25 points to lead Illini Bluffs to win 43-39 win […]
Prep sports recap for Jan. 29, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Ava Heinz scored 23 points and Olivia Kabbes added 18 to lift Brimfield past visiting Elmwood, 66-59, in double overtime in girls basketball on Monday. Other girls basketball winners included Normal Community, Deer Creek-Mackinaw, Eureka, Tri-Valley, Lewistown and Princeville. Dunlap and Peoria Christian won boys basketball games on Monday. Enjoy the […]
New ISU soccer coach credits former Bradley coach for career path
NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — It has come full circle. Illinois State introduced Raleigh DeRose as its new women’s soccer coach Monday. The Peoria native spent the past eights years on the coaching staff at Brown University. Raleigh DeRose is also the daughter of former Bradley men’s soccer coach Jim DeRose, who retired after the 2023 […]
Prep sports recap for Jan. 26, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Lathan Sommerville scored 31 points to lead Richwoods past visiting Champaign Centennial in Big 12 Conference boys basketball on Friday. Other boys basketball winners on Friday included Normal Community, Metamora, Morton, Washington, Manual, Normal West, East Peoria, IVC, Tremont, Brimfield, Central Catholic, Peoria Christian, and Illini Bluffs. Girls basketball winners Friday […]
Extra Effort: Addy Engel quietly leading Morton on the court, in classroom
MORTON, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Addy Engel didn’t realize the hardest part about being a team leader this year might be taking up the coaching staff’s challenge to be louder. “It was really hard. It doesn’t sound hard but it takes some getting used to,” said the somewhat shy Engel. “When I’m playing, that’s not what […]
Prep sports recap for Jan. 24, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMD/WYZZ) — Stephen Braun scored 26 points to lead IVC past visiting East Peoria, 64-57, in boys basketball on Wednesday night. The score was incorrectly reported on Wednesday night’s sportscast, a corrected set of video highlights is below. Before the game, longtime boys basketball coach Jim Thornton was inducted into the IVC Hall […]
Bradley stops Murray State for ninth straight win
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Malevy Leons scored 17 points and added seven rebounds as Bradley beat Murray State, 71-63, in Missouri Valley Conference play at Carver Arena. Guard Duke Deen chipped in 13 for Bradley (15-5, 7-2 in MVC) which has won nine straight as it heads into a game at conference-leading Indiana State on […]
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