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Winning legacy: Plains baseball coach reaches historic milestone — with more still to come
PLEASANT PLAINS — The Pleasant Plains baseball team celebrated coach Dave Greer’s 800th career victory and a key Sangamo Conference win all in a span of 24 hours. “You can’t ask for anything more,” Plains junior Taylor Brewer said. Greer became the 10th coach in IHSA...
Senior standout in the classroom, on the football field is SJ-R's Student of the Week
In a close vote, a Rochester High School standout is The State Journal-Register's latest Student of the Week. Senior Canon Bruce won out in an online poll at sj-r.com from Monday to Thursday. He captured 48% of the 1,079 votes cast. Also nominated were JT Alexander of North Mac and...
Baseball roundup: Plains coach reaches 800 career wins, and other Wednesday resuts
Here are the high school baseball results around Springfield from Wednesday: Day of tribute: Springfield area schools remember Tim Kratochvil, Ray Ramsey Stock rising: How Carlinville softball has ascended among the area’s best in 2A Pawnee's man: Meet the new head football coach at Pawnee: Josh Talley Wednesday's results ...
'Game of inches' separates Glenwood from Rochester in baseball win
ROCHESTER — Rochester finally broke through to score a run and had the bases loaded with two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning. Rochester’s Eli Carlson hit a scorcher of a line drive to deep left field. The Rockets fans stood up in anticipation. The Glenwood faithful held its collective breath. ...
Illinois quick hits: Bears' plan includes taxpayer assistance; buyers looking into Oberweis
Bears' plan includes taxpayer assistance The Chicago Bears are expected to unveil a multi-billion-dollar plan for a new lakefront stadium in the city of Chicago on Wednesday, and according to a new report in the Chicago Tribune, that plan will ask taxpayers to kick in about half of the costs to build the new stadium. Taxpayers would be charged with paying for the proposed infrastructure improvements to the new stadium,...
Kevin Warren downplays Gov. J.B. Pritzker's absence from Bears' presentation for a new lakefront stadium, believes opposition from Springfield can be overcome
Bears president Kevin Warren on Thursday downplayed Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s absence from the organization’s presentation Wednesday in which it unveiled a vision to build a new stadium along the lakefront and asked taxpayers for public funding.
Prep spotlight: Rochester, Glenwood softball rally late, and other results from Wednesday
Here are the high school softball results around Springfield from Wednesday:. Day of tribute:Springfield area schools remember Tim Kratochvil, Ray Ramsey. Stock rising:How Carlinville softball has ascended among the area’s best in 2A. Pawnee's man:Meet the new head football coach at Pawnee: Josh Talley. Wednesday's results. SOFTBALL. ROCHESTER 4,...
Former Arrowhead offensive lineman is transferring to Wisconsin from Illinois
MADISON – Joey Okla didn't need long to make his decision. Four days after capping off a visit to Wisconsin to attend meetings and practice, the graduate of Arrowhead High School announced that he plans to transfer to UW from Illinois. ...
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