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With 19.9 seconds remaining in the game, the Warren Warriors called time out with possession of the ball and the score tied at 36-36. Junior guard, Treyton Pafford had been hot, and led the Warriors on a furious rally back to knot up the score, and now they had a chance to take their first lead of the game – at the very end of it. "The play was for Trey to penetrate their zone and see if he could get to the basket," said head coach Troy Pafford. "Then I told everyone to crash the boards." After...
The Lena-Winslow Lady Panthers jumped out to a quick lead over the Pecatonica Indians as two different tactics were implemented. On defense, the Panthers ran a diamond and one, with four girls in a diamond zone, while Janessa Esser played straight man defense against Pecatonica's biggest three point shooting threat – Lauren Mellentine. "I am sick of the box and one defense," Mellentine admitted. "But I guess it does allow my teammates to get good looks, so ... I deal with it." On offense, the Pa...
It was a big night in High School Basketball Tuesday, as several marks were achieved throughout the region. In Girl's Basketball, Orangeville head coach, Jay Doyle, got his 100th win as the Broncos edged past AFC 48-42. While in Boy's Basketball, it is a rare sight to see a player reach the 1000 point mark for their career ... but what are the odds of seeing two kids do it in the same game?!? Aquin transfer, Adam Awender, needed 12 points in action for his new team – the Eastland Cougars – and...
The first time the Eastland Cougars beat Fulton 45-40, Fulton big man, Baylen Damhoff didn't play in the game. Thursday night in Lanark, he did .... And it made a huge difference. Damhoff dominated the contest – taking over in the second half when he drilled three straight long range bombs on back-to-back-to-back possessions that turned what had been a low scoring contest, into a Fulton run away 50-34. "I thought we did a good job on him defensively in the first half," said Eastland head c...
First Semester High Honor Roll (All A’s) Grade 12: Dominick Bilich, Bennett Graves, Carson McPeek, Gracie Raab, Ashlyn Schubert, Leah Warner, Mavrick Winters Grade 11: Masyn Cahill, Jacob Harbach, Ava Hess, Madalyn Mammoser, Landon Warner Grade 10: Emma Aurand, Kiegan Jones, Jake Marek, Oliver McPeek, Sadie Vanderheyden, Hailey Weipert Grade 9: Arianna Arand, Alexis Bennett, Payton Goswick First Semester Honor Roll (3.0 Semester Standard GPA & No D’s) Grade 12: Kristian Adleman, Lily Baker, Anthony Bilich, Abby Chumbler, Jared Dvorak, Add...
While many people might consider the Lena-Winslow football team as the area's biggest "dynasty", and Scales Mound Boys Basketball might be in the conversation – all of the region's sports programs pale in comparison to the dominance displayed by the Freeport Speech Team that won the Regional title for the 23rd time in 24 years. Unlike a regular meet, where points are awarded for how kids do in the preliminary rounds, at the Regional, the IHSA only awards team points for how well a student places...
Several years ago, I read a book authored by a man named David Hansen, titled The Art of Pastoring. The story-line in the book is his day to day routine as he pastored two rural churches in Montana. The theme he threads through each chapter is how to be a parable of Jesus Christ every day. One particular pastime this pastor enjoyed was trout fishing when he had a day off. He would travel up into the mountains and walk a mile or so into the back country to his favorite fishing spot and throw his...
Undoubtedly, the best comment about food that tastes bad came from George W. Bush when he said,” I don’t like broccoli, I’ve never liked broccoli, I’m President of the United States and I don’t have to eat broccoli ever again!” It was direct, to the point, and carried a ton of weight behind hit. Unfortunately, I’ve never held that kind of power - although I have uttered many comments about the food people have tried to force down my throat. My first one as a kid, or so I have been told, was whe...
I stopped understanding math when the alphabet got involved. MATH – the only place where people buy 64 watermelons, and nobody wonders why. How to do math. 1. Write down the problem, 2. Cry Advanced math should not intimidate you. It’s as easy as pi Math is hard … so is life, get over it. Old Math teachers never die … they just lose some of their functions. 4 out of 3 people struggle with math. The bad news is your son is cheating. The good news is that he’s cheating at a sixth grade level. As a math teacher, I can’t ask my students to...
Lena-Winslow Sectional Tue., Feb. 20 Winner Warren Regional vs. Winner Dakota Regional – 6:00 pm Winner Lutheran Regional vs. Winner West Carroll Regional – 7:30 pm Thu., Feb. 22 Championship – 6:00 pm West Carroll Regional Sat., Feb. 10 (11) Fulton at (8) Sterling Newman - TBA (13) Milledgeville at (3) River Ridge/SM - TBA (12) West Carroll at (6) Polo - TBA Mon., Feb. 12 (2) Eastland vs. Winner Game 1 – 6:00 pm Winner Game 2 vs. Winner Game 3 – 7:30 pm Fri., Feb. 16 Championship – 7:00 pm Rockford Lutheran Regional Sat., Feb. 10 (11) Kirkland...
West Galena 10 - 0 27 – 1 East Dubuque 7 - 3 13 – 13 RR/SM 7 - 3 22 – 7 Stockton 4 - 6 13 – 16 Warren 2 - 8 12 – 18 West Carroll 0 - 10 4 – 26 North Orangeville 11 - 1 29 – 2 Pecatonica 9 - 3 25 – 6 Aquin 9 - 3 22 – 6 Lena-Winslow 7 - 5 20 – 9 Dakota 4 - 8 12 – 18 Pearl City 2 - 10 5 – 24 Durand 0 - 12 5 – 18 South Eastland 12 - 0 18 – 12 AFC 9 - 2 20 – 9 Amboy 5 - 5 12 – 7 Polo 5 - 6 13 – 13 Forreston 5 - 7 7 – 20 Fulton 1 - 8 3 – 19 Milledgeville 1 - 10 1 – 21 Last Week’s Results Orangeville 53 Warren 31 Pearl City 42 Durand 38 RR/SM 5...
San Francisco 49ers or Kansas City Chiefs. Kansas City Chiefs and San Fransico 49ers. This is a question on many people’s minds as we move into the weekend of the “Big Game”. No matter which team you are rooting for it’s hard to deny the important role that farmers and agriculture play in this weekends’ festivities. Let us imagine a game without agriculture. That would include no tickets as tickets are printed on paper from trees and often use soy ink from soybeans. Some paper is even made of c...
With the Dakota Indians having a down season, nobody expected anybody to seriously challenge the Pantherhawks for the Regional crown at Stillman Valley last Saturday. But when Byron won the heavyweight division by a pin, suddenly the Tigers had leaped over the Pantherhawks – edging them out by one point to claim the Regional title 196-195. Final team scores for the Stillman Valley Regional were: 1. Byron 196 2. Lena-Winslow/Stockton 195 3. Oregon 126 4. Dakota 110.5 5. Stillman Valley 104.5 6...
West East Dubuque 9 - 1 17 – 11 Galena 8 - 2 19 – 10 Scales Mound 6 - 4 21 – 8 Warren 5 - 5 14 – 14 River Ridge 4 - 6 15 – 12 Stockton 3 - 7 7 – 18 West Carroll 0 - 10 1 – 27 North Pecatonica 9 - 0 24 – 4 Lena-Winslow 7 - 3 19 – 8 Dakota 5 - 4 13 – 15 Durand 3 - 6 15 – 11 Pearl City 2 - 8 13 – 16 Oville/Aquin 2 - 7 7 – 19 South Eastland 10 - 1 21 – 8 Fulton 7 - 1 18 – 9 Polo 6 - 3 14 – 11 Forreston 4 - 6 9 – 16 Milledgeville 4 - 5 10 – 14 AFC 1 - 8 4 – 23 Amboy 0 - 8 2 – 17 Last Week’s Results Pecatonica 74 Lena-Winslow 69 Scales Moun...
