Jim Ruppert
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Springfield, IL, United States
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Jim Ruppert's 3 CS8 questions: We start with the league's two Big Ten players
What are the biggest questions in Central State Eight football? → Read More
Springfield High, Sacred Heart-Griffin, UIS, Lincoln Land continue rich baseball tradition
A baseball season that was in jeopardy just six short months ago turned out pretty well for the Springfield area. → Read More
Left field A-OK for Williamsville's Roscetti as he robs Sliders
Joe Roscetti found out early Friday afternoon that he would be making his first start ever in left field as he was boarding the Hannibal Hoots' bus for a → Read More
No manager, no problem for Sliders against Terre Haute
Dustin Wilson's resume now contains a Prospect League victory thanks to the bat of Kevin Raisbeck and the arm of Ben Stephens.Raisbeck's second home run → Read More
No manager, no problem for Sliders against Terre Haute
Dustin Wilson's resume now contains a Prospect League victory thanks to the bat of Kevin Raisbeck and the arm of Ben Stephens.Raisbeck's second home run → Read More
Suffocating defense gives Lanphier regional title win over Lincoln
ROCHESTER -- The basketball tradition at Lanphier High School is rich. One look in the trophy case tells a visitor that.That tradition is based on high- → Read More
Glenwood holds on to beat Springfield High
Chatham Glenwood High School built a 13-point lead with 3 minutes 15 seconds left in Friday night’s Central State Eight Conference boys basketball game at Springfield High’s Willard Duey Gymnasium.But the youthful Senators, behind freshmen Bennie Slater and Shane Miller, made things interesting in those final minutes before the Titans slipped out of town with a 51-48 victory.“There’s no moral… → Read More
Team effort leads Southeast past Decatur MacArthur
Southeast High School got the usual results from the usual suspects Friday night in a 68-62 Central State Eight Conference victory over Decatur MacArthur → Read More
Familiar foes: Rochester, Belleville Althoff continue to build football rivalry
The gold helmets are coming Saturday to Rochester High School for the annual rivalry football game. Kickoff is scheduled for 5 p.m.No, it’s not Sacred Heart-Griffin vs. the Rockets in the Leonard Bowl revisited. They did that last month.This is 9-1 Belleville Althoff that will be calling on Rocket Booster Stadium for a second-round Class 4A playoff matchup with 10-0 Rochester. It marks the third… → Read More
U-High finds way past Lanphier for 500th win
The bus carrying the Normal University High School football team to Friday night's Central State Eight Conference game against Lanphier got lost on the → Read More
Commentary: Jim Ruppert bids farewell after 40 years at the SJ-R
A few years back one of the part-time sportswriters on The State Journal-Register sports staff was perplexed because he had been assigned to cover a → Read More
Springfield High shoots for first sectional baseball title since 1985
This Springfield High School baseball team has gone where no Senators’ team has gone since 1985: a sectional championship game.After tying the school record with its 31st win of the season Thursday in walk-off fashion 4-3 over Champaign Central, the Senators face Champaign Centennial Saturday at 10 a.m. for the Springfield Sectional title. The game will be played at Claude Kracik Field on the… → Read More
Sliders romp to win over Gems in home opener
To say Ben Hecht was primed for his role as the Springfield Sliders’ starting pitcher in Friday’s Prospect League home opener at Robin → Read More
New owner has big plans for Springfield Sliders
Todd Miller doesn’t jump into things feet first. That’s why he changed colleges five times. That’s why the one-time “accounting prodigy” has put his mechanical pencil into dry dock. And it’s why, at the robust age 28, the Pittsburgh native is the newest owner of the Prospect League’s Springfield Sliders baseball team.He once worked for Feld Entertainment Inc., the live show production company… → Read More
Lanphier basketball coach suspended one game for IHSA rules violation
Lanphier High School will play without coach Blake Turner in Friday night’s Class 3A Jacksonville Regional title game against Jacksonville.Turner → Read More
Williams leads SE past Lanphier for share of CS8 title
While the Southeast High School basketball program has not been blessed with a plethora of size over the past decade, the Spartans have a list of → Read More
Glenwood hangs on to beat Southeast
CHATHAM — Coach Todd Blakeman alerted his Chatham Glenwood High School boys basketball team beforehand that Friday night’s Central State → Read More
Southeast uses defense to beat Rochester
ROCHESTER — The Southeast High School basketball program has a reputation for playing a fast-paced game with a lot of shots and a fair amount of points.But these Spartans play some hellacious defense, both in full-court and half-court situations, as Rochester found out Friday night in a 58-34 Spartans victory at the Rochester Athletic Complex.The Southeast pressure forced 15 turnovers and held… → Read More
SHG overcomes errors to rout Palos Heights Shepard
Eight years ago this weekend, the Sacred Heart-Griffin High School football team opened the Class 6A playoffs against a school from the Chicago suburbs → Read More
Eisenhower fights off determined SHS
Decatur Eisenhower High School is going to the playoffs for the first time since 2004. Springfield High is going into the offseason on a high note. → Read More