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North Pecatonica 5 – 0 18 – 6 Aquin 4 – 1 11 – 7 Lena-Winslow 3 – 1 9 – 8 Orangeville 3 – 2 6 – 6 Durand 2 – 4 10 – 12 Dakota 1 – 4 4 – 7 Pearl City 0 – 6 1 – 13 South...

North Orangeville 7 – 1 23 – 4 Lena-Winslow 7 – 1 15 – 9 Pecatonica 6 – 3 16 – 7 Aquin 4 – 3 13 – 9 Dakota 1 – 7 4 – 20 Pearl City 1 – 5 6 – 15 Durand 0 – 6 3 – 11 South...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Most people know that the Scales Mound Hornets are a really strong basketball team and ranked #2 in the state in 1A. But few people outside of the small town of Scales Mound realize how truly impressi...

The Orangeville Lady Broncos were faced with a bit of a dilemma. Their JV team had been exposed to covid when they played RR/SM, and several of those players also suit up for varsity. But due to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 har...

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....

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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, bu...