Preps coordinator Colin Likas breaks down the local high school sports season that was, shining a spotlight on some of the best and brightest from fall, winter and spring athletics.
A handful of Unity athletes — some of them 2021 graduates — represented the school Thursday during its second consecutive victory in The News-Gazette's Program of the Year chase.
Whitman, Virgin remember former Illini coaching legend who died Thursday
The 2017 Bulldogs graduate set a personal-best time in the 1,500-meter run.
Brian Brooks coached the last area high school boys' basketball team to win a state title, and the St. Joseph-Ogden Superintendent is hopeful high school athletics will return this school year: 'Let's try to do as much as we can for these kids'
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It can be confusing to figure out what the latest announcements about high school sports actually mean for athletes.
On the last day of a forgettable year, particularly from a sports perspective, The News-Gazette sports staff offers up 10 noteworthy stories on the local scene from 2020
Oscar Hicks, whose name adorns Unity's football field, died last week. The former Unity football coach was 93 years old.
The Paxton-Buckley-Loda junior is close with several other distance-running standouts, both locally and beyond, and he relishes those relationships amid the strain of cross-country.
Dorjahn directed the Knights to their second consecutive regional title and first-ever sectional crown, and ALAH's club team placed second at unsanctioned state.
Get to know a little bit more about the area's top seven boys' cross-country athletes of 2020.
Check out our 2020 All-Area boys' cross-country first team, second team and honorable mention team.
The Monticello sophomore led the area all season long, finishing a 3-mile course in fewer than 18 minutes on seven different occasions.
The repeat girls' Coach of the Year oversaw a pandemic-condensed schedule in which his athletes didn't finish atop the team leaderboard just one time.
With no high school athletics likely to occur in Illinois for the rest of the calendar year, Colin Likas begins taking a look back at how the preps scene appeared just one year ago.
Check out our 2020 All-Area girls' cross-country first team, second team and honorable mention team.
Get to know a little bit more about the area's top seven girls' cross-country athletes of 2020.
The Bulldogs were the lone area boys' and girls' representative's in Saturday's unsanctioned Division II state showcase.
The unsanctioned small-school cross-country state races transpired Friday at Three Sisters Park, and numerous locals came away with strong performances.
The Friday-Saturday-Sunday format is not IHSA-sanctioned, but it will give athletes in one fall sport a chance to close their season with state action.
No IHSA state races are being held this school year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bulldogs pace 2A field during IHSA finale
Four high school newcomers will toe the line for coach Kara Leaman's Rockets at Saturday's Class 1A St. Teresa Sectional in Forsyth.
Unity's girls and Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond's boys also topped their respective regional fields.
The freshman and junior emerged as top local finishers at the recent Big 12 Conference Meet, which preempted Saturday's Class 2A Taylorville Regional.
In girls’ tennis
PEKIN — Danville and Centennial on Friday combined to qualify three doubles teams for the Class 2A Pekin Sectional semifinals, keeping those athletes' respective seasons going one more day.
Each week through the rest of the school year, we’ll highlight especially outstanding performances from area athletes and show them with their biggest supporters — their family.
A Clinton boys' cross-country runner won his conference meet as well.
Champaign Central girls' golfer ends season in Class 2A sectional tournament.
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