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Throughout the first half of Wednesday night's conference battle in Stockton, the Blackhawks and Warren Warriors traded leads, fouls, turnovers and momentum, but nobody could take control of the game as it stood deadlocked at 17-17 going into halftime. But halftime is where adjustments are made. "They started using a triangle and two defense on us in the second quarter," said Stockton head coach John Hammann. "They were denying Ian (Broshous) the ball, and he usually creates for everybody else....
Ask any basketball coach familiar with IHSA post season play, and they will admit that the post season games tend to be much more physical than the regular season because the officials want to "let them play". So, fouls are not called, and it can get more than a little rough. Well, Thursday night in Scales Mound, the Lady Wildcats and Cougars could have played "Call your own" fouls and everything would have been a LOT better. Players were getting slapped on a regular basis, or shoved out of...
On paper, the game shouldn't have been close. But games aren't played on paper. The Lena-Winslow Panthers did just about everything they could to give a game away to the Dakota Indians Friday night, and Dakota finally accepted the gift in the fourth quarter to claim a huge 38-33 victory that made their season. How did it happen? Well, when your two leading scorers, who both average double figures are held to a grand total of four points in the game ... (two points each) you don't need to look ve...
Lena-Winslow/Stockton 43.0 Sterling Newman 28.0 145: Garrett Luke (LWS) over Brendan Tunick (SN) (MD 15-1) 152: Jared Dvorak (LWS) over Mason Glaudel (SN) (Dec 5-3) 160: Marey Roby (LWS) over Thomas Powers (SN) (Fall 2:39) 170: Griffin Luke (LWS) over Hunter Luyando (SN) (Fall 2:42) 182: Connor Vincent (LWS) over Dylan Garland (SN) (Fall 0:42) 195: Drew Mensendike (LWS) win by forfeit 220: Henry Engel (LWS) over Nick Nardini (SN) (Fall 0:19) 285: Mike Haas (LWS) over Hayden Witt (SN) (Fall 1:15) 106: Double Forfeit 113: Briar Ivey (SN) win by f...
As good as the Scales Mound Hornets are, there was still a major hurdle they had not cleared ... ever. Never in their varsity careers had any of the starting five seniors ever beaten East Dubuque, and although heavily favored when they met in the championship game of the Pecatonica MLK Tournament Monday night, the intensity to open the game was obvious. The Hornets took little time in grabbing the lead, then never let it go. East Dubuque had no answer for how to stop Ben Vandigo, and the...
The Eastland Cougars took on the Galena Pirates in the third place game of the Pecatonica MLK Tournament, but based on what we had seen out of the Pirates and Cougars ... we honestly thought it would be a Pirate win. A nice close one, but still a win. The Pirates had given the Hornets their closest challenge this season, while the Cougars had dropped two thirty point games to Scales Mound, and Galena also made the finals of the Eastland Holiday Tournament. With Hefel, Glasgow and a talented...
Several times throughout the season, members of the Lena-Winslow Lady Panthers, would ask if I thought they could win a certain game, and my answer was always the same. "When you guys are hitting your shots, you can beat anybody." But all too often the Panthers would be plagued by sub-par shooting – especially from behind the three point line. But in their showdown for second place in the North behind Orangeville Wednesday night in Lena against the Aquin Bulldogs, the Panthers put all the p...
Strange things can happen in sports – any sport – but it might be several years before anybody sees anything as crazy as what took place in Lena-Winslow's 55-53 victory over Aquin in Lena Thursday night. Perhaps the best example took place in the second quarter, when a ball was tipped by an Aquin defender off of Lena-Winslow's Kam Klever. As it headed out of bounds, everyone knew it was either going out of bounds, or would be tipped back to Evan Broge who was in perfect position to make the ste...
Anybody, and everybody, who knows RR/SM Girls Basketball coach David Wiegel would be the first to tell you ... he is a really nice guy. You could tease him, joke around, and never worry about offending his sensibilities because he simply was not the type of man to get mad. He was more along the lines of a man who bought you a pop and candy bar just because you were at his school to cover his kids. But at the 5:21 mark of the second period of their conference basketball game against the East...
Lena-Winslow/Stockton 61.0 Clinton 11.0 220: Henry Engel (LWS) over Mike Rausenberger (C) (Fall 2:13) 285: Tanner Kempel (LWS) win by forfeit 106: Double Forfeit 113: Drew Steiner (C) win by forfeit 120: Owen Sander-Welzien (C) over Brody Crossno (LWS) (Fall 3:03) 126: Brady Haas (LWS) over Sam Hoffman (C) (Fall 1:21) 132: Carson McPeek (LWS) over Riley Mercado (C) (Dec 9-5) 138: Zach White (LWS) over Brady Jennings (C) (Fall 4:13) 145: Garrett Luke (LWS) over Luke Jennings (C) (TF 16-0 3:06)...
Lena-Winslow knew that their contest at home Monday night against Forreston would not see the Cardinals at full strength. Stuck in the midst of a rebuilding year to begin with, Forreston was further depleted due to missing some players because of Covid. But the game was very much in doubt early on as Forreston had a knack for stripping the ball away before the Panthers were able to even put up a shot. At the first mask time out, Lena-Winslow was up 9-6, but the entire game changed over the next...
Most students aren't old enough to remember this, but it wasn't that long ago when there was no three point line in High School basketball. Every basket was worth two points – no matter how far away you shot from – which made the game pretty easy ... you got it inside as much as possible. Tuesday night's conference battle for first place in the north between Orangeville and Lena-Winslow took fans back to those long forgotten days ... not by choice, but because nobody could hit anything from the...
Let's be honest, at the beginning of the Girls' Basketball season almost everyone had written off the Eastland Cougars as far as being considered a post season threat. After losing their star talent to graduation, the Cougars simply had no offense as they were blown out early and often at the Forreston Tournament. "Oh yeah, we've come a long way," said head coach Nicole Brinker. "We knew we could play good defense, and we did. There were games where we held people to only 30 points, but we...
Invitations for the very first Northwest Illinois Volleyball All Star Game which is scheduled for June 8th of this year, were sent out over the last two weeks. Only seniors who will be graduating this Spring are allowed to participate by the IHSA, and we didn't want to limit it to only kids from the nine schools we cover in our circulation area, so the parameters for getting an invitation were as follows: For athletes in our coverage area (From one of the nine schools we cover) a senior had to...
Pecatonica High School had no way of knowing last summer when tournament invitations went out that they would be so lucky, but the High School Boys' Basketball teams that participated in their annual MLK Tournament over the weekend made up quite an impressive field. Opening round games featured: Undefeated Scales Mound against Durand Eastland against Chicago Intrinsic Pecatonica against Galena East Dubuque against Polo In short, there were no "weak sisters" in the field, and only one team had a...
Halfway through their annual showdown with rival Dakota, the Pantherhawks were on the wrong end of a 18-9 team score. But then everything began to turn as Jared Dvorak got the party started with a hard fought 7-4 decision over Case Rockey of Dakota to close the margin. The big swing came when Griffin Luke pinned Adrian Arellona at the 2:34 mark to make the score 19-18. With both teams knowing they would be trading forfeits later in the match, everything ultimately came down to the heavyweight bo...
Rhett Barkau was not in the best of moods at the Virginia International Raceway last summer when his car wrecked midway through the race, but that mood quickly changed when he got some exciting news. "The guy who was right behind me in the points race for Rookie of the Year didn't finish the race either," Rhett explained. "So that left me with a 40 point lead over him with only one race to go." Competing in the Trans Am 2 class last summer, points were awarded for the Rookie of the Year honor ba...
Before their non-conference pre-Christmas battle in Lena, some un-named Panthers asked the question, "Do you think we can stay close to them (RR/SM)?" But when asked about their pre-game concerns, the Wildcats had a quick answer, "I was worried about us doing what got us to 12-0," said Mickayla Bass. "We know everyone is gunning for us." "But is there anything about Lena-Winslow that makes you nervous?" Without any hesitation, every single starter on the RR/SM team had the same answer, "No."...
The Pearl City Lady Wolves were never challenged by South Beloit in their non-conference basketball game Monday night in Pearl City. In fact, if they had wanted to, the Wolves could have dropped eighty on the Sobos who were out-manned at every position. But PC head coach, Brock Musser, had bigger plans in mind. From the first quarter on, Musser was subbing his entire starting lineup out, and putting in an entirely new team. Not because the starters were not executing, but instead he saw the...
The Lena-Winslow/Stockton Pantherhawks always compete in the huge holiday wrestling tournament – Abe's Rumble. And even though it is a challenging 64 team field they have to square off against, the Pantherhawks have won the prestigious tournament, and are seen as a major competitor. Well, over the holiday break, head Coach Kevin Milder claimed his 500th victory as the Pantherhawks brought home the Championship trophy from Abe's Rumble yet again! The championship bout was against Coal City – a m...
When people see that Scales Mound only beat Galena Thursday night by five points on their home floor in a 67-62 contest, they might have some doubts as to whether the Hornets were over-rated, or maybe the Pirates are that good. The truth, would be somewhere in between. Make no mistake, the game was over in the third quarter. The Hornets, who struggled early in the game, had found their rhythm and had the gym rocking when Ben Vandigo slammed home a dunk before the end of the third quarter with...
The Orangeville Broncos were sitting pretty with a record of 13-3, but Friday night they had to make a trip that – for them – typically came up empty. The Broncos paid a visit to Freeport to take on the Aquin Bulldogs. And while, yes, these were some of the same girls they play softball with and are friends, this is also a team that none of them had ever beaten. Ever. "No, as long as Kylie and I have been playing, we've never beaten Aquin in basketball," said senior Ella Doyle. But after wit...
The Warren Lady Warriors came into their Pearl City Tournament battle against East Dubuque with a couple of decided disadvantages. To begin with, Warren hadn't beaten East Dubuque in several years, but the "biggest" difference was in the respective height of each team. The Warriors might have had one girl taller than 5'6" on the floor, but if they did, she was only 5'7". But East Dubuque listed three girls at 5'11", another at 5'10", and three more at 5'9". "Well on defense we tried to squeeze t...
On paper, the Lena-Winslow Lady Panthers should have had little trouble knocking off the host Pearl City Wolves at their holiday tournament. But the thing about "paper" is that it can't measure motivation or pure hustle. "That's a lot better team than their record," said Panther coach Dennis Huttenlocher following the Panthers hard fought 47-39 victory. "They've gotten a lot better since the last time I saw them too." Lena-Winslow had a size advantage, and used it early and often to jump out to...
The Eastland Cougars arguably have the best Basketball player in the region on their team in the form of Kellen Henze. The senior guard is amazing at how adept he is at shooting from the perimeter, but his specialty is driving into the heart of a defense and typically weaving his way or contorting his body in order to make the highlight real layup or baby jumper. With an average of more than 20 points per game already this season, it was supposed to be a strong test to see just how good are the...
