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Collin Fosler, a senior at Scales Mound High School, competed in the High Jump Saturday June 4th in La Crosse for the Wisconsin State Track Meet. Out of 16 jumpers Collin won the WIAA D3 High Jump...

The Jim Shaw Classic All Star Basketball games were held at Eastland High School on Tuesday last week, and the very next day the first ever Volleyball All Star game was played at Eastland as well....

NUIC North Player of the Year: Cheyenne Handsaker First Team Cheyenne Handsacker, Sr. Pearl City Tessa Janecke, Sr. Orangeville-Aquin Hannah Bowers, Sr. Dakota Jenna Damon, Sr. Durand Brianna Stager...

Recently, the Eastland JH track team has been competing in East Peoria at the IESA State Track Meet. They had an exceptional weekend which included four State Champions and a second place overall...

NUIC North Player of the Year: Ethan Fye First Team Ethan Fye, Sr. Lena-Winslow Nathan Brinkmeier, JR Pearl City Jake Zeal, Jr. Lena-Winslow Adam Thompson, Sr. Dakota Evan Broge, Sr. Aquin Clay Luedek...

Boys NUIC Co-MVPS Matt Beltran, Forreston/Polo Dawson Feyen, Galena/RR/ED Amboy Brock Loftus, Kyle McNinch and Ian Sundberg Dakota Camden Foesch, Kaleb Morris, Tyler Kauffman, Tug Dornink, Adrain...

South Beloit Sectional Tue., May 24 Forreston 2 Pearl City 1 (12) Fri., May 27 Dakota 7 Orangeville 6 Sat., May 28 Forreston 8 Dakota 7 Lena-Winslow Regional Mon., May 16 Scales Mound/RR 14 Galena 4...

Lena-Winslow Sectional Fri., May 27 Sterling Newman 15 Lena-Winslow 2 Warren/Stockton 4 Fulton 1 Sat., May 28 Sterling Newman 12 Warren/Stockton 5 Aquin Regional Mon., May 16 Alden-Hebron 8 Kirkland...

Pearl City deserved better. The Lady Wolves didn't just fix their defensive problems, they perfected them. What had been the Achilles heel for the Wolves all season, was erased as they didn't just...

The baseball season came to a bitter end for the Lena-Winslow Panthers in the Sectional semi-finals at the hands of a very strong Sterling Newman Comet squad. Jake Zeal threw an excellent game, and...

There is an old sports axiom that points out how hard it is to beat a team three times in the same season ... especially when they are good. But the Warren/Stockton Warhawks played the villain role...

Coming into the Sectional Championship game, Warhawk head coach Jim Nielsen knew that the keys would be solid defense, and making sure they didn't leave too many runs on base. "We left a lot of runs...

While the Jim Shaw Classic has celebrated area basketball seniors for years, and Highland College hosts senior baseball players each summer, until now there had never been an All Star Volleyball Game....

The Northwest Illinois Sports Hall of Fame would like to invite all senior basketball players listed below to participate in the 2022 Jim Shaw All-Star Classic. It will be held on June 7th at...

In the first inning of their Regional opener at home against Milledgeville, the Stockton/Warren Warhawks were, well ... not in sync. A soft floater over second fell for a hit, a shot to left was misju...

The Lena-Winslow Panthers will always remember their Regional semi-final game against Eastland as "One that Got Away", while the Cougars will forever think of it as "The Cougar Come Back." But no matt...

Lena-Winslow head coach Nick Werhane had plenty of worries going into the Panther's Regional semi-final against Alden-Hebron, but all of them proved to be pointless as his squad played an excellent...

Both the Galena Pirates and Aquin Bulldogs came into their Regional semi-final with the same plan – save your ace pitcher to take on Lena-Winslow in the championship. But that meant that they both...

The Lena-Winslow Panthers were awarded the Regional title with their 3-2 victory and will compete in the Sectional Tournament, but anybody and everybody who witnessed the game against the Galena...

North Pearl City 8 – 2 21 – 5 Orangeville 7 – 3 17 – 5 Durand 6 – 3 11 – 5 Dakota 5 – 4 12 – 5 Lena-Winslow 3 – 7 9 – 13 Pecatonica 0 – 10 3 – 16 South Forreston 8 – 1 15...

I don't think we've ever had to suffer through a Spring season that was as uncooperative – in terms of weather – as this year. Whether it was the constant rain, the cold, or now the sudden heat...

Team Scores 1. Galena/ED/RR 126 2. Forreston 95 3. Lena-Winslow 80 4. Dakota 62 5. Durand/Pecatonica 56 6. Amboy 49 7. Milledgeville/East 33 8. Stockton/Warren 25 9. Fulton 19 10. West Carroll 6...

North Lena-Winslow 10 – 0 17 – 5 Dakota 5 – 3 5 – 5 Pearl City 5 – 5 10 – 11 Pec/Durand 4 – 4 6 – 8 Aquin 4 – 6 6 – 9 Orangeville 0 – 10 0 – 16 South Eastland 9 – 1 12 – 8...

North Pearl City 8 – 2 20 – 5 Durand 6 – 2 11 – 4 Orangeville 7 – 3 15 – 5 Dakota 2 – 3 8 – 4 Lena-Winslow 2 – 7 6 – 13 Pecatonica 0 – 8 3 – 12 South Forreston 7 – 1 13 ...

Baseball Pearl City 4 Eastland 2 A back and forth ball game was tied at 2-2 going into the bottom of the sixth inning when the Wolves got the key hits they needed to score two runs and take control....