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‘Grandma’ Langholf has sweet relationship with Notre Dame’s girls basketball team
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Notre Dame’s most loyal fan drives 150 miles one-way to see the girls basketball team play. She’s been doing it for years. She’s coach Layne Langholf’s mother Jean and is known as the team’s grandmother. “I’ve been a grandma for probably 28 years of kids on different teams I think that’s […]
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 […]
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, […]
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