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On Monday night in Warren, the Orangeville Broncos swept past the Warriors by a pair of 25-13, 25-13 scores. As far as the game was concerned the story was an obvious one. The Broncos attacked Warren...

When Lena-Winslow and Eastland get together in volleyball, it really doesn't matter what their respective records are. That lesson was driven home hard as the underdog Cougars took the Panthers to...

In their first meeting earlier this season the Pearl City Wolves blew past River Ridge without breaking much of a sweat. So when they met up Wednesday for their conference battle, it wasn't too big...

It was only a conference game, and there is a lot of season yet to be played. And while it does put the Lena-Winslow Panthers in the driver's seat for the NUIC West title, few people remember who won...

It was a historic homecoming for the Warren Warriors last Friday night. To begin with, their contest against the Benton/Scales Mound/Shullsburg Knights incorporated fans from no less than ten...

Any team that has the Lena-Winslow Panthers on their schedule has to have their coaches wondering how they could possibly beat them. Big, strong, fast...if there's an attribute or skill that can help...

Forgive the Aquin Bulldogs if they seemed a little unsettled early in their game Friday, but they found themselves in an unfamiliar place. Like they have the past three weeks, the Bulldogs threw an...

Very rarely does an athletic event take place where both teams walked out of the gym feeling good about themselves, but that's exactly what happened Monday night when the Warren Lady Warriors paid a...

If you ran into Forreston senior outside hitter, Alexus Houston on the street, you would be convinced she was a popular girl who probably was in the running for prom queen. But her 5'7" frame would...

If one needs to wonder why volleyball coaches tend to pull out their hair and suffer from premature aging, one look at Wednesday's battle between Stockton and Eastland in Lanark might explain it. In g...

Let's be honest, ever since their victory over Dakota at home, the Lena-Winslow Panthers had not been playing up to their potential ... in fact, opposing teams were hoping to play them now – before...

With most of the local teams either being covered, or not having a quality match up, this past Friday I was going to stop off in Warren to see the new Blackhawk/Warren Warrior co-op take on Waterloo....

When the River Ridge Wildcats hosted the Lake Forest Academy Caxys (Ancient Greek for the word "ribbit"- seriously), there wasn't a whole lot of drama. In fact, about the only question to be answered...

With just over three minutes remaining in the game, the Orangeville Broncos still held on to their precarious 6-0 lead over the Galena Pirates, but faced a fourth and three at the Pirate 15. "People p...

The Eastland Cougars had competed in local Cross Country meets in recent years, but they always had to do so as individual runners because they simply did not have enough to comprise a team. In Cross...

The non-conference volleyball battle between Lena-Winslow and Dakota had just about everything in it with the exception of a third game. But while Dakota was wailing away with Tabytha Toelke, Kaylyn...

What a difference a week makes. In Aquin's opener against the Lena-Winslow Panthers, the Bulldogs struggled to stay in the game as they were blown off the floor in two games. But in their second...

So where do you start? Do we highlight the final two point conversion run that came up short in EPC's 36-34 loss to Du/Pec last Friday? Or do we comment on the officials who proved to be human as they...

That is what some may call an "attention getter." If they hadn't done so already after last week's win, the Aquin Bulldogs Friday night made the rest of the NUIC conference sit up a little straighter...