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Prep sports recap for Feb. 23, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Cooper Koch scored 19 points as defending state champ Metamora beat Peoria High, 69-33, to win the class 3A Geneseo regional on Friday night. The win is number 600 in the career of head coach Danny Grieves. Other boys basketball regional winners included Richwoods, Notre Dame, Manual, Illini Bluffs, Peoria Heights, […]
Prep sports recap for Feb. 22, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Annabelle Fortin scored 20 points and hit a key three-point shot late in the game to lead Illini Bluffs past Abingdon-Avon, 44-37, in the title game of the class 1A Bushnell Sectional championship game. The Tigers advance to play Galena at Monday’s super-sectional at Brimfield High School for the right to […]
Extra Effort: Bailey Lusch growing her sport, teams at East Peoria
EAST PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — As she gets ready to wrestle at state for a third straight year, Bailey Lusch realizes she is a trailblazer at East Peoria. “As a young girl that didn’t have any role models,” Lusch said. “I just strive to do that.” The senior is growing the wrestling program at her […]
Prep sports recap for Feb. 21, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Richwoods scored the first 20 points of the game and beat East Peoria, 69-40, in the semifinals of the class 3A Limestone regional on Wednesday. Richwoods will play Morton in Friday’s regional championship in Bartonville. The Potters advanced with a 57-49 win over Washington in the other semifinal. Other regional semifinal […]
Longtime sportswriter Dave Kindred finds home, hope writing about Morton Lady Potters
MORTON, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — He thought it might be a one-time trip to a Morton High School girls basketball game. But Dave Kindred was wrong. “It’s gone about 13-and-a-half years longer than I thought it would,” said Kindred. He is an award-winning former national sports writer for big newspapers in Louisville, Washington and Atlanta. Kindred […]
Prep sports recap for Feb. 20, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Olivia Corson scored 23 points and Ali Ince added 17 to lead Normal Community to a 70-50 win over United Township in the class 4A girls basketball sectional semifinals at Normal West High School on Tuesday. Normal will play Alton in Thursday night’s sectional championship. Elsewhere, Morton beat Washington, 40-34, to […]
Dunlap celebrates state champ, Morton athletes commit to colleges
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — It was a day of celebration at a pair of Mid-Illini Conference schools on Tuesday. Dunlap honored Nick Mueller, the first state wrestling champ in school history with a rally in the school gym. The senior won the class 2A state title at 165 pounds on Saturday in Champaign. “I worked […]
Prep sports recap for Feb. 19, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Senior Eoin Dillon scored 33 points to lead Notre Dame to a 67-46 win over visiting Eureka in a class 2A regional quarterfinal. The Irish, who hos the regional, advance to play U-High on Wednesday. Tremont, which beat IVC 72-49 in a regional quarterfinal, advanced to play El Paso-Gridley in the […]
Extra Effort: Cate Uhren making an impact at Central Catholic, in community
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Central Catholic senior Cate Uhren is a perfect example of someone who packs a big punch despite her not-so-big stature. “Knowing I’m the smallest on the floor most of the time, I just have to go into the game with my strengths,” Uhren said. “Shooting, for example. I practice so much […]
Prep sports recap for Feb. 15, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Senior Isabella Hutchinson scored 15 points to lead Morton to a 41-29 win over host Galesburg in a class 3A girls basketball regional championship game on Thursday. Other winners in girls basketball regional championship games included Normal Community, Washington, Lincoln, Canton, Deer Creek-Mackinaw, LeRoy and Illini Bluffs.
Bradley douses UIC Flames, 85-73
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Darius Hannah scored 21 points and Malevy Leons added 18 as Bradley beat visiting UIC, 85-73, in Missouri Valley Conference play on Wednesday night. The win snapped a two-game losing streak for Bradley (18-8, 10-5 in MVC). The Flames (10-16, 3-12 in MVC) were led by Isaiah Rivera’s 27 points. Bradley […]
Pekin’s Tessa Donaldson a state bound wrestler despite kidney stone
PEKIN, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Tessa Donaldson loves her role as a cheerleader at Pekin High School but she also loves another role she has in high school. A wrestler. And a good one who says she started wrestling at the Pekin Boys and Girls club when she was in second grade. Now she’s a state […]
ISU stuns No. 23 Indiana State, 80-67
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Illinois State pulled off perhaps the most stunning win in the Missouri Valley Conference this season. Freshman Johnny Kinziger scored a career high 31 points to lead the Redbirds past No. 23 Indiana State, 80-67, at the Hulman Center on Tuesday. The Redbirds (12-14, 6-9 in MVC) also got 19 […]
Prep sports recap for Feb. 13, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Wes Gudeman scored 16 points to lead Morton to a 51-39 win over host Washington on Tuesday to clinch at least a share of the Mid-Illini Conference title. The Potters finish the conference season with a 13-1 mark. Metamora improved to 12-1 in the Mid-Illini with a 69-50 win at Dunlap […]
Versatile Connor Hickman having best season at Bradley
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Connor Hickman avoided a potentially-serious injury Saturday. He’s glad. He’s already missed time with a foot injury this season when he was sidelined in December with an ankle injury. “When you’re hurt, no matter what role you have, it puts a strain on others,” Hickman said. “They get more reps in […]
Prep sports recap for Feb. 12, 2024
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Kaitlin Cassidy scored 20 points and Julia Mingus added 19 as top-ranked Notre Dame beat Kewanee, 89-26, in the semifinals of the class 2A Chillicothe regional. The Irish will play Sherrard for the regional title Friday. Sherrard beat host IVC, 51-25, in the other semifinal. In class 4A, Normal Community and […]
Wes Gudeman plays starring role for young Morton fan who sought his autograph
MORTON, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Wes Gudeman has blossomed into a major scoring threat for Morton. He credits his big junior season to long nights in the driveway with his dad. “We’d go out every night on our basketball hoop and work on post moves,” Gudeman said. “Some nights I thought it was silly but now […]
Grigsby set to enter MVC Hall of Fame
ST. LOUIS (WMBD/WYZZ) — The jury was still out on Boomer Grigsby when he came to Illinois State as a college football player. “He was in our first recruiting class,” said Denver Johnson, Grigsby’s coach at ISU. “Boomer was not highly-recruited coming out of high school, to my surprise. I thought he was a diamond […]
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