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Throughout the entire Girl's Basketball season, the Galena Pirates had been ranked #1 in 1A ... and for a reason. On Tuesday, at the Lena-Winslow Sectional, the Pirates flexed some muscles early in the second half to make what had been a major contest, into a controlled win against an Aquin team that was good ... really good ... just not good enough. Throughout the first half, it was anybody's ballgame as both teams played solid defense – forcing some turnovers – while struggling against the...
Neither team was supposed to be there, but for different reasons. Rockford Lutheran is a 2A school, but due to the convoluted IHSA rules, failure to win at the 2A level allows them to drop down into the 1A tournament – much to the chagrin of teams like Orangeville, who deserved far better to end their season. And then you had the RR/SM Wildcats. A team that had struggled mightily during the season – losing at home to Stockton at one point, and getting run off their own floor by the Eastland Cou...
The Lena-Winslow 1-3-1 zone defense has given several teams fits this season, but in the Regional semi-final at East Dubuque Wednesday night the opponent was none other than the Scales Mound Hornets. The state ranked, been to the state finals for two years in a row, Hornets, put up one hell of a fight, before seeing their magical post season run come finally to an end 52-51. Early on, Scales Mound was picking the zone apart with sharp passes into the interior where a dump pass to the block...
With 5:00 to play in the second quarter, the South Beloit Sobos threw a pass down low to their star big man, Ross Robertson, who had sealed off Jaylen Rakowska on the block and put up the inside layup. As Cobryn Lynch went to in-bounds the ball he looked at Rakowska who simply said, "He's 6'8", what am I supposed to do?" Lena-Winslow played their hearts out against the Sobos, and fought back from a 39-31 deficit to claim the lead at 40-39 with 4:05 left in the game. But every time the Sobos had...
Lena-Winslow Sectional Tue., Feb. 20 Galena 49 Aquin 34 Rockford Lutheran 45 RR/SM 29 Thu., Feb. 22 Galena 46 Rockford Lutheran 30 West Carroll Regional Sat., Feb. 10 Sterling Newman 57 Fulton 28 River Ridge/SM 58 Milledgeville 33 Polo 62 West Carroll 21 Mon., Feb. 12 Eastland 41 Sterling Newman 39 RR/SM 58 Polo 33 Fri., Feb. 16 RR/SM 48 Eastland 39 Rockford Lutheran Regional Sat., Feb. 10 Alden-Hebron 55. Kirkland Hiawatha 18 Christian Life 51 Sacred Heart 14 Tue., Feb. 13 Orangeville 72 Alden-Hebron 32 Rockford Lutheran 92 Christian Life 43...
River Ridge Sectional Eastland 50 South Beloit 35 Wed., Feb. 28 Pecatonica 64 Fulton 46 Fri., Mar. 1 Pecatonica 60 Eastland 50 East Dubuque Regional Mon., Feb. 19 Lena-Winslow 55 River Ridge 44 South Beloit 58 Stockton 28 East Dubuque 61 Warren 44 Wed., Feb. 21 Lena-Winslow 52 Scales Mound 51 South Beloit 32 East Dubuque 31 Fri., Feb. 23 South Beloit 48 Lena-Winslow 44 Pecatonica Regional Mon., Feb. 19 Pecatonica 58 Alden-Hebron 24 Pearl City 50 Dakota 44 Galena 60 Orangeville/Aquin 27 Rockford Christian Life 54 Durand 43 Wed., Feb. 21...
Final results for the four Pantherhawk wrestlers who were able to advance to the State finals in wrestling were: 1A 175: Eli Larson (Lena-Winslow/Stockton) - 2nd Champ. Round 1 - Eli Larson (LWS) over Joey Barrow (Auburn) (Fall 3:52) Quarterfinals - Eli Larson (LWS) over Thayden Root (Tolono Unity) (Dec 6-3) Semifinals - Eli Larson (LWS) over Ty Carter (Red Bud) (Dec 7-5) 1st Place Match - Carter Watkins (Manteno) over Eli Larson (LWS) (Dec 7-2) 1A 190: Jeremiah Luke (Lena-Winslow/Stockton) - DNP Champ. Round 1 - Jeremiah Luke (LWS) over Logan...
NUIC North First Team * = Unanimous Selection *Whitney Sullivan, Sr – Orangeville *Paityn London, Fr – Aquin *Grace Groezinger, Sr – Lena-Winslow *Laney Cahoon, Jr – Orangeville *Elaina Rager, Jr – Pecatonica Nadalee Doyle, So – Orangeville Kianna Degner, Jr – Pecatonica Second Team Hanna Broge, Sr – Aquin Megan Holder, Sr – Aquin Rachael Setterstrom, Jr – Lena-Winslow Alyssa Daughenbaugh, Jr – Lena-Winslow Fallyn Endress, Jr – Pearl City Lauren Mellentine, Sr – Pecatonica Honorable Mention Meghan Carlisle, Sr – Aquin Jasmyn London, Sr – A...
It wasn't supposed to be that close, but there again, Eastland wasn't supposed to turn the ball over more than 40 times in the game either. But the Cougars found themselves trailing to a fast and slappy Sterling Newman squad twice in the waning minutes of the fourth quarter. With 2:05 to play, the Cougars were down one 37-36 and needed an answer – they found it in the form of senior guard Lily Mullen who drove in and made a running short floater to give the lead back to Eastland at 38-37. But N...
The RR/SM Wildcats have used a full court press all season to help propel their offense. And Monday night in Mount Carroll, Polo was the latest team to witness first hand how the constant pressure never lets up – just always hustling, waiting for you to make a mistake which allows them to go on a defensive mini-run. The first strike hit at the 3:12 mark of the first period with the score 3-2 in Polo's favor. Laiken Haas hit a free throw to tie it, then a quick steal got the ball to Gwen M...
Twice before the Lena-Winslow Panthers had charged out to an 8-0 lead against the Pecatonica Indians, only to see the Indians charge back and claim the win. So, when once again Lena-Winslow opened the game with a quick 8-0 run, there was more than a few Rolaids being consumed as Pecatonica followed the same script. Elaina Rager is a star, anybody trying to deny that knows nothing about basketball, and with her team trailing 8-0, she put them on her back – tying the game at 13-13 on a three p...
Aquin had little trouble in blowing past the host Dakota Indians in the Regional semi-finals. To be fair, Dakota is incredibly young, with only one senior on the roster, while the Bulldogs start four of them. The end result, was a game that was over early. Aquin held a quick 8-0 lead before Dakota was even able to take a shot. The score climbed to 15-0 before Dakota finally scored. And if not for a last second floater at the end of the first quarter by Dakota's Finley Banks, it would have been...
The beauty of the IHSA post season is the excitement of winning a championship and battling for a chance to play at State. But the very painful element of the post season is that at some point ... every team but one is going to lose. The Aquin Bulldogs and Lena-Winslow Panthers are both very class acts – strong coaching of some excellent kids both on and off the court. So, when they squared off in the championship of the Dakota Regional ... someone was going to be heartbroken, but it took a l...
Wildcat fans were nervous. After all their RR/SM squad had just played the entire second quarter and only scored two points on a pair of free throws by Laiken Haas. They had not scored a single basket. In fact, they had turned the ball over more times than they actually shot the ball. "Well, they had picked up their defensive intensity and it was giving us some problems," said head coach David Wiegel. "But we were still playing well, I honestly wasn't concerned. I don't want to sound arrogant,...
The IHSA Board of Directors recently approved the formation of an IHSA State Series in the sport of Girls Flag Football, beginning in the fall of 2024! The IHSA was proud to partner with the Chicago Bears today in making a formal announcement at a press event at Halas Hall. It is also worth noting that you can now add a Girls Flag Football Coach to your school directory in the IHSA Schools Center. Adding that information will be very helpful, as it will help us provide direct communication/seek...
West East Dubuque 11 - 1 19 – 11 Galena 9 - 3 20 – 11 Scales Mound 8 - 4 23 – 8 River Ridge 5 - 7 16 – 13 Warren 5 - 7 15 – 17 Stockton 4 - 8 8 – 19 West Carroll 0 - 12 1 – 29 North Pecatonica 10 - 0 25 – 5 Lena-Winslow 7 - 3 21 – 8 Dakota 6 - 4 14 – 15 Durand 3 - 7 15 – 13 Pearl City 2 - 8 13 – 17 Oville/Aquin 2 - 8 8 – 20 South Eastland 11 - 1 22 – 9 Fulton 11 - 1 22 – 11 Polo 7 - 5 15 – 13 Forreston 6 - 6 12 – 16 Milledgeville 5 - 7 11 – 16 AFC 2 - 10 5 – 25 Amboy 0 - 12 2 – 21 Last Week’s Results Pecatonica 80 Rockford Christ 65 Fulton 5...
The Pearl City Wolves held a 12 point lead with 4:16 to play in the game, and looked like they were in complete control against the Oville/Aquin Broncos Wednesday night. The odds of a Bronco comeback were about as long as the odds of winning the Queen of Hearts drawing at Little John's Tap ... But then ... a perfect storm of events, some that seemed to defy logic, all combined to make what looked like a solid conference win, turn into an epic tragedy that the Wolves would rather forget. Credit h...
The Basketball game between the Lena-Winslow Panthers and Stockton Blackhawks was over pretty quickly. Stockton struggled against an aggressive 1-3-1 zone defense – turning the ball over repeatedly throughout the night which led to Panther transition baskets on a regular basis in a 66-28 blow out. What was a contest at halftime, with the Panthers only up 28-18, quickly got out of hand in the second half as Stockton only score ten points in the entire second half. Early on, Lena-Winslow made four...
River Ridge Sectional Tue., Feb. 27 Winner Forreston Regional vs. Winner East Dubuque Regional – 7:00 pm Wed., Feb. 28 Winner Pecatonica Regional vs. Winner Wethersfield Regional – 7:00 pm Fri., Mar. 1 Championship – 7:00 pm East Dubuque Regional Mon., Feb. 19 (7) River Ridge at (6) Lena-Winslow – 7:00 pm (13) Stockton at (3) South Beloit – 7:00 pm (12) Warren at (5) East Dubuque – 7:00 pm Wed., Feb. 21 (2) Scales Mound vs. Winner Game 1 – 6:00 pm Winner Game 2 vs. Winner Game 3 – 7:30 pm Fri., Feb. 23 Championship – 7:00 pm Pecatonica Region...
Lena-Winslow Sectional Tue., Feb. 20 Galena vs. Aquin – 6:00 pm Rockford Lutheran vs. RR/SM – 7:30 pm Thu., Feb. 22 Championship – 6:00 pm West Carroll Regional Sat., Feb. 10 Sterling Newman 57 Fulton 28 River Ridge/SM 58 Milledgeville 33 Polo 62 West Carroll 21 Mon., Feb. 12 Eastland 41 Sterling Newman 39 RR/SM 58 Polo 33 Fri., Feb. 16 RR/SM 48 Eastland 39 Rockford Lutheran Regional Sat., Feb. 10 Alden-Hebron 55. Kirkland Hiawatha 18 Christian Life 51 Sacred Heart 14 Tue., Feb. 13 Orangeville 72 Alden-Hebron 32 Rockford Lutheran 92 Chris...
Last week completed the Girl's Basketball regular season. And while Galena, Orangeville and Eastland all locked up their respective conference titles, some major upsets have thrown the post season outlook – that appeared set in stone a week ago – into some serious doubt. The biggest news was that the Orangeville Broncos, who had not lost to a 1A team all season, were not only beaten at Pecatonica by the Indians, but hammered 54-35 as Lauren Mellentine went off from behind the three point line an...
West East Dubuque 11 - 1 19 – 11 Galena 9 - 3 20 – 11 Scales Mound 8 - 4 23 – 8 River Ridge 5 - 7 16 – 13 Warren 5 - 7 15 – 17 Stockton 4 - 8 8 – 19 West Carroll 0 - 12 1 – 29 North Pecatonica 10 - 0 25 – 5 Lena-Winslow 7 - 3 21 – 8 Dakota 6 - 4 14 – 15 Durand 3 - 7 15 – 13 Pearl City 2 - 8 13 – 17 Oville/Aquin 2 - 8 8 – 20 South Eastland 11 - 1 22 – 9 Fulton 11 - 1 22 – 11 Polo 7 - 5 15 – 13 Forreston 6 - 6 12 – 16 Milledgeville 5 - 7 11 – 16 AFC 2 - 10 5 – 25 Amboy 0 - 12 2 – 21 Last Week’s Results Pecatonica 80 Rockford Christ 65 Fulton 5...
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...
