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Over a year ago, Madie Mammoser lay writhing in pain on the floor of the Milledgeville gymnasium – not kn owing for sure if she'd ever play volleyball again. Eleven years ago, Maddie Pontius was still trying to get over the pain of having her volleyball dreams dashed by the recruiting machine known as Rockford Keith. And ten years ago, Kacy and Kaydra Wright were sitting in the bleachers, watching their older sisters playing volleyball – waiting for the day it would be their turn. Little did...
The State finals did not start out too well for the Stockton Blackhawks. Going up against Hartsburg-Emden, last year's second place team, the Blackhawks were stepping out onto the Red Bird Arena floor for the very first time ... and it showed. "We thought we might have an advantage because they had never been here before," said the coach of the Staggs. "And we were right." Coach Pontius blew through her two time outs, but nothing was working, so she brought in Ireland Mensendike to try and...
1A LeRoy 54 Aurora Christian 21 Rockford Lutheran 42 Kewanee Wethersfield 21 Ottawa Marquette 44 Rushville-Industry. 6 Galena 43 Stark County 42 Lena-Winslow 70 Clifton Central 32 Stockton 60 Princeville 30 Gibson City 38 Catlin Salt Fork 7 Sterling Newman 50 Chicago Hope 22 Belleville Althoff 60 Dupo 0 Carrollton (6-3) 44 Winchester 8 Casey Westfield 39 Jacksonville Routt 21 Mt. Sterling Brown County 18 Greenfield 16 Hardin Calhoun 38 Moweaqua Central 7 Sesser Valier 30 Bridgeport 6 Camp Point Central 34 Nokomis 6 Toledo Cumberland 28 Tuscola...
It was supposed to be close. Gibson City had size, a wide-open offense, and had won state twice in 2A. So, when the Falcons recovered a Panther fumble on the second play from scrimmage at the Panther 19, an earie silence was coming from the Panther fans. But Lena-Winslow was well prepared. Head Coach, Ric Arand, had said the goal was to make the Falcons one dimensional, and said they had a tendency to throw on anything longer than third and five. So, after stuffing the first two run attempts,...
The Eastland Cougars and Lena-Winslow Panthers opened up the Girls' Basketball season Monday night with a non-conference battle that was ... well ... typical of an opening game. For the Cougars, they are sporting a lineup of six varsity players, supported by some strong JV talent for depth. And while they were strong in the paint when senior Olivia Klinefelter was on the floor, when she wasn't ... it was a bit of a free-for-all on the boards. "Don't pick on me Dan, I'm not in basketball shape ye...
The Warren Warriors originally told people they were only planning on playing a JV girls basketball schedule. And while that changed as more freshmen came out than anticipated, the Warriors still send out a varsity squad with zero seniors, two juniors, five sophomores and six freshmen making up the roster. So, when the Warriors had to take on the powerful Galena Pirates Wednesday night at the Warren Turkey Tournament ... a blow-out was expected. But nobody told Warren's Lizzy Hartzell that. The...
All season long, Stockton volleyball coach, Maddie Pontius, had been preaching to her players the importance of being mentally tough – not letting any outside influence affect your game. But Tuesday night in Polo, that was seriously tested by a strong Newark squad, and incredibly weak line judge. "They've never played in front of this many people before," Pontius said before the match. "I've just been telling them to just go play, it's just another game." But it wasn't just another game, and t...
The scene was something you would expect from a Hollywood movie script. All season long, Galena and Stockton battled it out for volleyball supremacy. The Pirates beat Stockton in an early season tournament, but in their first conference battle in Galena – the Blackhawks swept them in two. But the victory was short-lived as Galena knocked off Stockton on their home floor in the rematch – leaving them tied for the NUIC West crown. Area coaches ranked them 1 and 2 respectively – which sent them to...
Stockton knew coming into their second round 1A playoff game against Lena-Winslow that they could not allow the Panther running game to dominate the game, so ... they gambled. "We were sending inside pressure to take away their inside power game," said head coach Sean Downey. "They were putting so much pressure up front, It was really a feast or famine kind of thing," said Panther head coach Ric Arand. On the second play from scrimmage, the Panthers faked the ball up the middle and pitched it...
Super Sectionals Stockton 25, 25 Elgin Harvest Christian 16, 21 Hartsburg-Emden 25, 25 Illini Bluffs 17, 16 Hardin Calhoun 25, 19, 25 Norris City 21, 25, 22 Cissna Park 25, 27 Windsor 23, 25 State Championship – Red Bird Arena Friday, 9:00 am Hartsburg-Emden vs Stockton Friday 10:00 am Cissna Park vs Hardin Calhoun...
Quarterbacks First Team *Cooper Hoffman, Sr – Du/Pec Dom Kramer, Sr – Fulton Second Team Roman Romer, Jr – Galena Adam Awender, Sr – EPC Running backs First Team *Alec Schlichting, Jr – Lena-Winslow *Myles Schumacher, Sr – Galena Aiden Wild, Jr – Lena-Winslow Mark Detwiler, Jr – Stockton Draven Zier, Jr – EPC Second Team Dermot Dolan, Jr – Du/Pec Evan Boettner, Sr – Forreston Honorable Mention Lukas Rossow, Jr – Du/Pec Jaxsyn Kempel, Sr – EPC Dane Setterstrom, Sr – Forreston Donny Reavy, Sr – Morrison Offensive Line First Team *Gannon Dunke...
1A LeRoy 54 Aurora Christian 21 Rockford Lutheran 42 Kewanee Wethersfield 21 Ottawa Marquette 44 Rushville-Industry. 6 Galena 43 Stark County 42 Lena-Winslow 70 Clifton Central 32 Stockton 60 Princeville 30 Gibson City 38 Catlin Salt Fork 7 Sterling Newman 50 Chicago Hope 22 Belleville Althoff 60 Dupo 0 Carrollton (6-3) 44 Winchester 8 Casey Westfield 39 Jacksonville Routt 21 Mt. Sterling Brown County 18 Greenfield 16 Hardin Calhoun 38 Moweaqua Central 7 Sesser Valier 30 Bridgeport 6 Camp Point Central 34 Nokomis 6 Toledo Cumberland 28 Tuscola...
NUIC North MVP – Alyssa Daughenbaugh, Lena-Winslow First Team (*Unanimous Selection) *Alyssa Daughenbaugh, Sr – Lena-Winslow *Lola Robertson, So – Durand *Jaiden Schneiderman, Sr – Forreston *Elaina Rager, Sr – Pecatonica Rachael Setterstrom, Sr – Lena-Winslow Laney Cahoon, Sr – Orangeville Kianna Degner, Sr – Pecatonica Second Team Finley Banks, Jr – Dakota Emily Quine, Jr – Durand Eden Dietz, Sr – Lena-Winslow Kaylynn O’Haver, Sr – Orangeville Emma Frautschy, Sr – Orangeville Fallyn Endress, Sr – Pearl City Payton Thomas, Sr – Pecatonic...
Forreston Regional Mon., Oct. 28 Stockton 25, 25 Dakota 16, 13 Pecatonica 25, 25 Pearl City 16, 22 Tue., Oct. 29 Lena-Winslow 25, 25 Forreston 14, 18 Durand 25, 25 Orangeville 22, 21 Wed., Oct. 30 Stockton 25, 25 Pecatonica 18, 20 Durand 27, 25. Lena-Winslow 25, 17 Thu., Oct. 31 Stockton 25, 25 Durand 23, 26 Serena Regional Mon., Oct. 28 Parkview Christ Acad 25, 25 Earlville 20, 14 Tue., Oct. 29 Aurora Christian 25, 25 Leland 22, 16 Serena 25, 25 Somonauk 18, 19 Wed., Oct. 30 Newark 25, 23, 25...
Pearl City was coming into their Regional opener as an underdog to begin with, but then players started dropping. Sophomore sensation, Danica Sager, came down on a player's foot in practice on Friday – severely twisting it. And Serving, and outside hitting stud, Maya Boyer, was home in bed with a fever over a hundred. "We had to make a lot of changes on the fly," said head coach Tammy Stephan. "We never even had a chance to practice the new rotation." That alone would make playing well d...
There are two ways to score in volleyball. You either earn a point on an ace serve, a kill, or a mean stuff block ... or, your opponent hands you a point on an unforced error like a call for being in the net, or hitting the ball out of bounds, etc. In their opening round match against Forreston in the Class 1A Regional, the Lena-Winslow Panthers were below their normal kill statistics ... but it didn't matter because Forreston was handing them points in droves. "They did that the last time we...
Pecatonica brought their 'A' game to the Regional semi-finals against Stockton, and pushed the top seeded Blackhawks with strong offensive numbers. But, in the end, Stockton never flinched, remained calm, and let the game speak for itself as they pulled out the 25-18, 25-20 victory to advance on to the Regional Championship. The Blackhawks were actually the first team to call a time out in game one after a lengthy rally cut their lead to only one at 15-14. But the time out was not for reasons...
About a month ago, following a Lena-Winslow victory over Durand on their home floor, Durand head coach, Molly Kelsey, pointed out how many players were still missing from her lineup. "I really wish I could play them when I had my whole team," she said at the time. Wednesday night, after stunning the Panthers with a 27-25, 25-17 victory in the Regional semi-finals, coach Kelsey was quick to remind us of that comment. "I told you I wanted to play them with my whole team, Dan. Well tonight, we had...
Exactly eleven years ago on Halloween night, Stockton head coach Maddie Pontius was on the Blackhawk team that won the Regional title under coach Colleen Fox. But it had been eleven years since the Blackhawks won the Regional crown. So, on this past Halloween, as they squared off against a very strong Durand squad ... yeah, they were motivated. It became obvious from early on that Durand was not the world killer's they had shown in their semi-final win against Lena-Winslow. Stockton charged out...
The typical advantage of going into the IHSA playoffs with a 9-0 record is that your first round opponent is often a tad on the weaker side. That was pretty evident before the game started when overhearing the Clifton Central head coach's "pep talk". "No matter what happens today, we play as hard as we can," he told his kids. The Comets came in with a 5-4 record, but had only beaten one team with a winning record (Salt Fork) and that was in a squeaker 28-27. So, yeah, the Panthers were a bit out...
1A LeRoy 54 Aurora Christian 21 Rockford Lutheran 42 Kewanee Wethersfield 21 Ottawa Marquette 44 Rushville-Industry. 6 Galena 43 Stark County 42 Lena-Winslow 70 Clifton Central 32 Stockton 60 Princeville 30 Gibson City 38 Catlin Salt Fork 7 Sterling Newman 50 Chicago Hope 22 Belleville Althoff 60 Dupo 0 Carrollton (6-3) 44 Winchester 8 Casey Westfield 39 Jacksonville Routt 21 Mt. Sterling Brown County 18 Greenfield 16 Hardin Calhoun 38 Moweaqua Central 7 Sesser Valier 30 Bridgeport 6 Camp Point Central 34 Nokomis 6 Toledo Cumberland 28 Tuscola...
It’s been an exciting volleyball season, with some special marks being set that most people don’t know about. Lena-Winslow’s Alyssa Daughenbaugh reached 2000 assists for her career early in the season, and was close to 2500 the last time we checked. Meanwhile, Jaiden Schneiderman of Forreston set a new school record for kills in a match with the 28 she recorded against Orangeville, and also broke the school record for career kills. The old record was 1313 set by Katie Erdmann in 2018, but Jaide...
NUIC Boys Golf West Division All-Conference Selections West Division Champs- Fulton West Division Sportsmanship Award- Stockton 1st Team (Unanimous) Owen VanZuiden (So.) Fulton (Unanimous) Zach Winkel (Sr.) Fulton (Unanimous) Jacob Voss (Jr.) Fulton (Unanimous) Sam Rife (Jr .) River Ridge/Scales Mound (Unanimous) Camden Flack (Sr.) River Ridge/Scales Mound Joe Winter (Sr.) River Ridge/Scales Mound 2nd Team Casey Kettering (Sr.) East Dubuque Ethan Schulting (Jr.) East Dubuque Dawson Price (Jr.) Fulton Braeden Brennan (Sr.) Fulton Blake Zink (Jr....
NUIC *Lena-Winslow 8 - 0 9 – 0 *Du/Pec 7 - 1 8 – 1 *EPC 6 - 2 7 – 2 *Stockton 5 - 3 6 – 3 Galena 4 - 4 5 – 4 Fulton 3 - 5 4 – 5 Morrison 2 - 6 3 – 6 Forreston 1 - 7 2 – 7 Dakota 0 - 8 0 – 9 8-Man *Polo 9 – 0 *Milledgeville 8 – 1 *West Carroll 7 – 2 *South Beloit 6 – 3 *Alden-Hebron 5 – 4 Orangeville 4 – 5 River Ridge 3 – 6 Kirkland-Hiaw 2 – 7 Christian Life 1 – 8 AFC 0 – 9 Last Week’s Results Lena-Winslow 58 Forreston 30 Stockton 34 Galena 0 EPC 42 Dakota 12 Fulton 41 Morrison 7 Du/Pec 33 Seneca 22 West Carroll 36 South Beloit 26 Polo 52 Oran...
While Stockton, Galena, Lena-Winslow, Eastland and several other teams are getting pumped up and primed for next week's Volleyball Regionals, there are others who are not nearly as excited about them. The Warren Warriors got a very low seed, and are not expected to advance out of the opening day of competition. So, while they will show up, and do their best, a much more important game – for them – took place Tuesday night in Warren when they faced off against West Carroll. To begin with, it was...
