IHSA Moving Boys’ State Tourney Back to Champaign
By Benjamin Cox on June 15, 2020 at 2:40pm
The Illinois High School Association announced the winners of bids for State Finals in basketball and in other sports today. In a video conference call, the IHSA issued a joint resolution in support of Black Lives Matter. The statement said that IHSA will work to further incorporate the message around the state and continue to […]
IHSA Boys’ Tournament back to Champaign
By Gary Scott on June 15, 2020 at 1:44pm
The Illinois High School Association board today voted to return the boys’ basketball tournament to Champaign. The board approved a bid from the city of Champaign, the county and the tourism bureau there. That would include an in-arena area for parents and their children. The 2021 boys’ tournament goes to a one weekend format next […]
IHSA Announces Return To Play Guidelines
By Benjamin Cox on June 6, 2020 at 9:17am
Illinois High School athletes got good news yesterday. The Illinois High School Association Board of Directors has approved Return to Play Guidelines developed within the current structure of Govenor J.B. Pritzker’s Restore Illinois plan. The Return to Play Guidelines were developed by the IHSA Sports Medicine Advisory Committee and have been approved by the Illinois […]
Triopia FB Title game from 1975
By Gary Scott on June 1, 2020 at 10:02am
Football takes center stage for the classic broadcast planned for this Friday on WEAI. We head back to 1975, and the state title football game between Triopia, and Princeville for the Class 1A crown. It was a record setting day for Triopia senior running back Jay Wessler. Triopia had finished second in […]
McKea in as NG Girls’ BB Coach
By Gary Scott on May 21, 2020 at 12:37pm
North Greene has named a new girls’ head basketball coach. She is McKea Jones, a 2009 graduate of Winchester High School, and a 2012 graduate of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Jones replaces Jim Roesch, who announced his retirement this spring. Jones has coached the junior high girls’ track and field squad […]
Rhoades Head BB Coach at Carrollton
By Gary Scott on May 21, 2020 at 7:08am
The Carrollton school board has named its new head boys’ basketball coach. Hearst newspapers reports Tony Rhoades has been hired at Carrollton to lead the Hawks next season. Rhoades becomes the third Carrollton’s Boys’ coach in the last four years, since Jeff Krumwiede retired in 2017. Rhoades was head football coach at […]
Flores, Hyde Win All-American Honors For Track & Field
By Benjamin Cox on May 20, 2020 at 9:43am
Illinois College has two track & field seniors receiving All-American honors for this year. Senior Anthony Flores and Andrea Hyde were awarded the honors by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association yesterday afternoon. Normal policies dictate that All-American honors are awarded to student-athletes who score any portion of a team […]
IBCA Area Coaches Honored
By Gary Scott on May 7, 2020 at 10:33am
Several coaches in the area, including one in Jacksonville, have been honored by the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association. Eleven coaches were named coaches of the year in their respective districts. The list includes Routt Catholic girl’s head coach Joe Eilering. The other girls’ coaches are TJ Fraase of Pleasant Plains, Blain Hartwick of […]
Roesch Retires at North Greene
By Gary Scott on May 5, 2020 at 1:43pm
A long time teacher and coach in the North Greene school system is stepping down. Jim Roesch has announced his retirement from the North Greene school district. Roesch is a long time coach for girls’ high school basketball, and high school baseball. He has also been a high school history and English teacher […]
Chris Douglas to Lyon College
By Gary Scott on April 24, 2020 at 9:36am
The outgoing football coach at MacMurray College is headed to a school in Arkansas. Chris Douglas has been named head coach of the Lyon College Scots in Batesville, Arkansas. The announcement was made by the administration at Lyon College. Douglas has been head coach at MacMurray since June of 2011. His teams […]