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Up, down and all around. Such was pitcher Joe Slusarski’s baseball life.It began in Springfield, blossomed in New Orleans and culminated in a 10- → Read More
TAYLORVILLE — Southeast High School’s third win of the season against archrival Lanphier was an exclamation point all by itself.But junior → Read More
JACKSONVILLE — The last time Lanphier High School played Jacksonville, it left The Bowl stinging from a last-second loss. On Friday, the Lions left → Read More
Lanphier High School’s boys basketball team decided sometime during the second quarter of Friday’s game against Rochester that it’d → Read More
JACKSONVILLE — The story is Brandon McCombs, or at least it should be.Jacksonville High School’s 6-foot-7 junior forward caught an inbounds → Read More
JACKSONVILLE — Keeping up in the Central State Eight Conference race had to be the Southeast Spartans’ top priority coming into Friday → Read More
The singing fat lady can sit her butt down. Nothing’s over until Xavier Bishop says it is.Lanphier High School’s senior guard hung another → Read More
Dave Robisch’s City Tournament scoring record stood for 50 years and three quarters. Xavier Bishop’s could stand longer, so mark it well. On → Read More
JACKSONVILLE — James Brown felt so good in 1964, he made a song about it.Jacksonville High junior James White felt so good Friday night that he → Read More
AUBURN — There was no denying the Trojans this time.In miserable weather, against a determined foe, in a semifinal round that had dumped five of → Read More
A 13-play drive to start the game? For Sacred Heart-Griffin? Against a two-win Southeast team?It happened. A week of practice that one player called “sluggish” begat an uncharacteristically clumsy opening drive for the Cyclones on Senior Night. But then one of those seniors, Sam Sergent, put his foot down.Sergent finished that opening drive with an 11-yard touchdown run, then broke off a… → Read More
JACKSONVILLE — D’Ante Cox is still learning the complex Rochester High School offense. Central State Eight defenses might never learn how to stop him once he does.On Friday at Kraushaar-Rosenberger Field, Cox had his first breakout game since coming to the CS8, scoring four touchdowns in four different ways in the Rockets’ 49-13 demolition of Jacksonville. The win kept Class 4A’s top-ranked,… → Read More
Chatham Glenwood’s Kameron Corner said a third straight loss would have “killed” him and his Titan teammates.So he made sure it didn’t happen.The senior defensive back put a pulse-pounding Central State Eight contest to bed Saturday night, intercepting Lanphier’s Joe Varela at the Glenwood 25-yard line with 43 seconds left to preserve the Titans’ 35-32 victory at Memorial Stadium.Before the… → Read More
JACKSONVILLE ― Ugly game. If this year’s Jacksonville-Springfield Central State Eight football tilt has to be remembered, it’ll be for the untidiness of it all -- the cramps, penalties and incomplete passes that dragged out the second half until lightning struck and delayed the game’s finish until Saturday morning.Then again, it could be remembered for the performance of Jacksonville senior… → Read More
JACKSONVILLE — They made it to the fourth quarter.Jacksonville was leading 33-16 Friday night, but neither the Crimsons nor Springfield High were playing particularly well. Since trading touchdown drives to begin the second half, the teams had turned the Central State Eight Conference football game into a late-summer quagmire of cramps, penalties and missed opportunities.And then lightning… → Read More
JACKSONVILLE — Over the past few summers, Sacred Heart-Griffin receiver Sam Bonansinga and Jacksonville High School coach Mark Grounds developed quite a friendship working together at the House of Speed.On Friday, Bonansinga showed off his training and turned Kraushaar-Rosenberger Stadium into the House of Sam with six catches for 160 yards and three first-half touchdowns as the visiting… → Read More
Kelly Graves begins her collegiate soccer career at Virginia Commonwealth University in two months and is leaving Illinois on Monday.She won’t take a single regret with her when she goes.Graves, who has been named The State Journal-Register's Central State Eight Conference Girls Soccer Player of the Year for the third straight season, accomplished all that a student-athlete could hope for in her… → Read More
LEWISTOWN — The Lutheran High School boys basketball team enjoyed a 2-0 lead for several minutes Friday night early in the Class 1A Lewistown Sectional championship game.It was the last lead the Crusaders would have in their banner 2014-15 campaign.Shaking off an 0-for-9 shooting start from the field, Brimfield scored the next 10 points and never looked back in a 59-37 rout that burst Lutheran’s… → Read More
CHATHAM Some shots are heard around the world as they say. But some shots quiet the noise.Like Payton Ebelherr's buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the end of the third quarter Friday night at Chatham Glenwood High School in the Central State Eight Conference Tournament that snapped a low-scoring deadlock and gave Lincoln just enough of a lead to work with over the final 8 minutes.It was all the… → Read More
ROCHESTER Playoff success is not new for Rochester High School. So it’s normal to find the Rockets practicing and playing autumn’s sport in winter’s wind. Yes, it was freezing at practice earlier this week. But glory is the greatest warmth of all.Christian Lett transferred from Pana to Rochester not only to experience the glory but help the Rockets sustain it. So he has. The junior defensive… → Read More