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The Dakota Indians are a very strong basketball team – long, big, athletic, and strong shooting from the perimeter – they made the competition look foolish at the Scales Mound Turkey Tournament during Thanksgiving week, and stood at 4-0 on the season. But they had never gone up against Spiderman, Venom and the rest of the Eastland Cougars. "You can't simulate that kind of speed in practice," said head coach Mike Bartell. "I mean, there are some teams that might have two quick guards, but their e...
Every coach knows that you don't stand a chance against them unless you stop Laney Cahoon and Nadalee Doyle. Lena-Winslow, for all practical purposes, did that – holding the pair down to a combined point total of only 21 in the game. They still got blown out. Alyse Cahoon and Kaylynn O'Haver went off – each of them hitting three long range three point bombs – as the senior roll players tied with eleven points each. "They kept sitting in that zone defense," Bronco head coach Jay Doyle said. "When...
While Nadalee Doyle is a force in her own right, area coaches all agree that the biggest threat on the Orangeville Broncos is senior guard, Laney Cahoon. Similarly, the RR/SM Wildcats have a lot of talented young players who are destined for the All-Conference teams, but right now – the conversation begins and ends with senior Laiken Haas. So, when you get a chance to see those two stars play against each other ... it makes for must see girl's basketball. And Tuesday night in Orangeville – nei...
The curse of having so much football success is that you tend to be late to the game in basketball. The Lena-Winslow Panthers finally opened their season Friday night at River Ridge, and it also marked the debut of new Varsity head coach, Mark Blakely. "People asked me, but I really wasn't nervous before the game," Blakely said. "To me, it was just another basketball game, and I trust my kids." That confidence was reinforced as the Panthers scored off of the opening tip of the game, and never lo...
Dixon 57.0 Lena-Winslow/Stockton 23.0 150: Jayden Weidman (D) over Brody Crossno (LWS) (Fall 0:36) 157: Adam Staples (D) over Chance VenHuizen (LWS) (TF 19-4 5:05) 165: John Mensendike (LWS) over Konner Koehler (D) (Fall 1:30) 175: Eli Larson (LWS) over Seth Shaffer (DN) (TF 17-1 2:05) 190: Oliver McPeek (LWS) over Daniel Fordham (D) (Fall 3:56) 215: Jeremiah Luke (LWS) over Will Howell (D) (Fall 5:21) 285: Dylan Bopes (D) over Asher Acevedo (LWS) (Fall 0:47) 106: Leroy Higley (D) win by...
Practice is great, every coach will tell you that, but sometimes the lessons that sink in the quickest are the ones that take place during a game. The Warren Lady Warriors passed their test with flying colors Tuesday night with an impressive 44-37 non-conference win over Milledgeville in which they led from start to finish. At the opening tip, both teams were full court pressing each other, but Warren used their press to jump out to the early lead thanks in large part to a transition basket...
West Warren 0 - 0 6 – 1 East Dubuque 0 - 0 4 – 1 Galena 0 - 0 6 – 2 River Ridge 0 - 0 4 – 3 Stockton 0 - 0 2 – 3 Scales Mound 0 - 0 2 – 3 West Carroll 0 - 0 2 – 6 North Dakota 2 - 0 7 – 1 Pecatonica 1 - 0 2 – 0 Lena-Winslow 1 - 1 3 – 1 Pearl City 1 - 1 4 – 3 Forreston 1 - 1 3 – 2 Durand 0 - 1 3 – 6 Orangeville 0 - 2 0 – 6 South Eastland 1 - 0 4 – 0 Morrison 0 - 0 4 – 4 AFC 0 - 0 5 – 5 Polo 0 - 0 2 – 3 Fulton 0 - 0 2 – 4 Milledgeville 0 - 0 2 – 7 Amboy 0 - 1 1 – 1 Last Week’s Results Warren 70 Durand 30 River Ridge 76 Belmont 53 Stockton 56 AF...
West RR/SM 0 – 0 8 – 2 East Dubuque 0 – 0 5 – 3 Stockton 0 – 0 6 – 4 Galena 0 – 0 3 – 3 Warren 0 – 0 2 – 3 West Carroll 0 – 0 1 – 3 North Orangeville 1 – 0 8 – 1 Pecatonica 1 – 0 7 – 1 Forreston 1 – 0 2 – 6 Lena-Winslow 1 – 1 4 – 7 Pearl City 1 – 1 2 – 9 Dakota 0 – 1 2 – 4 Durand 0 – 2 3 – 6 South Amboy 2 – 0 4 – 4 Polo 1 – 1 3 – 2 AFC 1 – 1 6 – 7 Milledgeville 1 – 1 2 – 5 Eastland 1 – 1 3 – 7 Fulton 0 – 0 1 – 2 Morrison 0 – 2 0 – 8 Last Week’s Results Orangeville 48 Eastland 30 Lena-Winslow 33 Fulton 22 Stockton 68 Benton 18 East D...
The Pearl City Lady Wolves had a slow start to their season. There were some early injuries that limited the roster, and according to coach Brock Musser – they just finally got to full strength last Saturday. But Wednesday night in Pearl City, the Wolves showed what they are capable of doing as they completely dismantled the AFC Raiders 46-29. The game really wasn't that close. In the first quarter, AFC only took five shots in the entire period, while they committed 14 turnovers. The Wolves w...
The Stockton Blackhawks and Polo Marcos were locked into a very competitive one point affair at halftime of their non-conference match up. But ... in spite of three time outs and every attempt to inspire his players, Stockton fell flat in the second half as Polo ran away with the 57-34 victory. In the first quarter, Stockton was playing a 3-2 zone defense, but Polo effectively shot them out of it as Mercer and Gus Mumford both drained three point bombs in jumping the Marcos to a 17-10 lead....
The Lena-Winslow Panthers and Dakota Indians got their basketball rivalry off to a strong start Friday night in Dakota as the only NUIC game on the schedule due to the opening of tournament play the next day. And it is a safe bet that there will be more than one meeting between these two area powers this season – another conference battle in Lena, and then the chance of meeting in the Forreston Tournament or even post-season play. But Friday night belonged to the Indians. Dakota caught the P...
I've always loved our area athletes. I really enjoy watching the maturation as they will go from timid freshman who are scared to be interviewed by me, up to the self-confident juniors who sometimes say more than they should so I have to cover for them, and finally culminate in the impressive young adult seniors who have a bright future lying ahead of them. It's impossible not to respect kids who work their butts off trying to be the best at something they love – whether it's sports, or t...
They were badly overmatched, and on the third play of scrimmage they got to see first-hand the talent of Oregon recruit, Dierre Hill Jr, as he broke off a long touchdown run behind his massive 300 pound plus line. But in spite of the final outcome, there were several things worthy of merit that Lena-Winslow pulled off in the IHSA Class 1A State Championship game. On their very first drive, Lena-Winslow proved that they could move the ball against the much bigger, stronger and faster Crusaders....
There are a lot of area Boy's Basketball teams that won't even tip off their season until later this week, so trying to do a pre-season ranking or preview is a tad on the difficult side. Still, after sitting in on the Scales Mound Tournament, there are a couple of early observations that can be made. Everyone knows that Pecatonica and Eastland are expected to be the top two teams in the region. Most give a slight edge to the Indians, but ... we like Adam Awender a lot, and with Parker Krogman,...
West Galena 0 – 0 3 – 1 RR/SM 0 – 0 5 – 2 East Dubuque 0 – 0 3 – 3 Stockton 0 – 0 2 – 4 Warren 0 – 0 1 – 3 West Carroll 0 – 0 1 – 3 North Pecatonica 1 – 0 6 – 1 Orangeville 1 – 0 7 – 1 Forreston 1 – 0 1 – 5 Lena-Winslow 1 – 1 3 – 4 Pearl City 1 – 1 1 – 7 Dakota 0 – 1 2 – 3 Durand 0 – 2 3 – 4 South Amboy 2 – 0 4 – 4 Milledgeville 1 – 0 2 – 1 Eastland 1 – 1 3 – 5 AFC 1 – 1 4 – 6 Fulton 0 – 0 1 – 2 Polo 0 – 1 1 – 2 Morrison 0 – 2 0 – 6 Last Week’s Results Orangeville 37 Stockton 32 Amboy 45 Polo 25 Pecatonica 57 Pearl City 20 Lena-Wins...
West Galena 0 - 0 4 – 1 Warren 0 - 0 4 – 1 East Dubuque 0 - 0 2 – 1 Scales Mound 0 - 0 2 – 2 River Ridge 0 - 0 2 – 3 West Carroll 0 - 0 2 – 3 Stockton 0 - 0 1 – 1 North Dakota 0 - 0 4 – 1 Pearl City 0 - 0 2 – 2 Forreston 0 - 0 1 – 1 Pecatonica 0 - 0 1 – 0 Lena-Winslow 0 - 0 1 – 0 Durand 0 - 0 2 – 4 Orangeville 0 - 0 0 – 4 South Eastland 1 - 0 2 – 0 AFC 0 - 0 3 – 3 Fulton 0 - 0 2 – 2 Morrison 0 - 0 3 – 2 Amboy 0 - 1 1 – 1 Polo 0 - 0 0 – 2 Milledgeville 0 - 0 1 – 6 Last Week’s Results Dakota 61 Stockton 29 Eastland 56 Amboy 21 Scales Mou...
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...
The LeRoy Panthers offense was averaging over 400 yards rushing a game. Averaging! So confident in their offense were they that when they won the coin toss, they did the unorthodox – they wanted the ball right away. (Normally teams defer in order to get the second half kickoff and have a chance at back-to-back scores – but more on that later) "Yeah, it surprised me when they wanted the ball," said Lena-Winslow head coach Ric Arand. "That made the first possession really important." Three times t...
West RR/SM 0 – 0 3 – 0 Galena 0 – 0 3 – 1 East Dubuque 0 – 0 2 – 2 Stockton 0 – 0 2 – 3 Warren 0 – 0 1 – 3 West Carroll 0 – 0 0 – 3 North Pecatonica 0 – 0 5 – 1 Orangeville 0 – 0 4 – 1 Dakota 0 – 0 1 – 1 Lena-Winslow 0 – 0 2 – 3 Durand 0 – 0 1 – 2 Pearl City 0 – 0 0 – 2 Forreston 0 – 0 0 – 5 South Polo 0 – 0 1 – 1 Milledgeville 0 – 0 1 – 1 Eastland 0 – 0 2 – 4 AFC 0 – 0 2 – 4 Amboy 0 – 0 0 – 0 Fulton 0 – 0 0 – 1 Morrison 0 – 0 0 – 4 Last Week’s Results South Beloit 37 Durand 36 Pecatonica 60 Polo 31 Sterling Newman 58 Fulton 27 AFC 41 OLS...
West Galena 0 - 0 1 – 0 Scales Mound 0 - 0 1 – 0 East Dubuque 0 - 0 1 – 0 River Ridge 0 - 0 0 – 1 Warren 0 - 0 0 – 1 Stockton 0 - 0 0 – 0 West Carroll 0 - 0 0 – 0 North Dakota 0 - 0 1 – 0 Pecatonica 0 - 0 0 – 0 Forreston 0 - 0 0 – 0 Lena-Winslow 0 - 0 0 – 0 Durand 0 - 0 0 – 1 Pearl City 0 - 0 0 – 1 Orangeville 0 - 0 0 – 1 South AFC 0 - 0 2 – 0 Eastland 0 - 0 0 – 0 Fulton 0 - 0 0 – 1 Polo 0 - 0 0 – 0 Morrison 0 - 0 0 – 1 Milledgeville 0 - 0 0 – 0 Amboy 0 - 0 0 – 0 Last Week’s Results Mendota 79 Morrison 59 Mercer County 50 Fulton 30 AFC...
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,...
