PAXTON -- The Paxton Swedes entered Sunday's doubleheader with a 2 1/2 game deficit to Game Seven Legacy for the No. 4 spot in the Eastern Illinois Baseball League standings.
BUCKLEY -- Josh Krumwiede has noticed at least one difference between last year and this year for the Buckley Dutchmasters.
PAXTON -- The Post 432 Indians Junior Legion baseball team won 11-1 over Urbana on Wednesday.
GIFFORD -- Over a span of two days, the Paxton Swedes lost three games.
PAXTON -- The Buckley Dutchmasters and Paxton Swedes each put together, in Dutchmasters manager Ryne Scheiwe's words, a "skeleton squad" for Saturday's make-up game.
PAXTON -- Dustin Franckey was the top male finisher of Thursday's Paxton-Buckley-Loda Booster Club's Do or Dye Color Run 5K.
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DANVILLE -- Katie Piatt finished first in the 25-meter breaststroke with a time of 38.96 while Hadley Gerdes finished second with a time of 46.57 seconds for the Paxton Aquatic Wildcats in a meet at Danville on Saturday.
PAXTON — Perhaps the most famous of the many quotes said by the late Ernie Banks, a former player for the Chicago Cubs, was, “It’s a great day for a ball game; let’s play two.”
BUCKLEY -- The Post 432 Indians Junior Legion baseball team won two games on Saturday to improve its pool record in a tournament at Scheiwe Field in Buckley to 3-0.
BUCKLEY -- The Junior Legion Post 432 Indians age 17-and-under baseball team won 11-2 Friday over Urbana.
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LAKE IROQUOIS — The Lake Escape 2019 races held at 7 a.m. Saturday, June 22, are in their second year as 5K, 10K, and kid runs around Lake Iroquois and Bayles Lakes.
PAXTON -- As a team, the Paxton Aquatic Wildcats finished with a combined team score of 195 while Rantoul had a score of 310 in the Wildcats' first meet of the 2019 season on Saturday.
PAXTON -- The Ford-Iroquois Indians Senior Legion baseball team won 10-7 Sunday over Piatt County.
BUCKLEY -- Connor Gross had his second start on the mound for the Buckley Dutchmasters in game one of Sunday's scheduled doubleheader against Game Seven Legacy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Paxton native Jennifer Rheeling will receive a couple of honors on Wednesday at an athletic training convention on Wednesday in Las Vegas.
GIBSON CITY -- The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley Falcons age 14-and-under baseball team won 16-4 Tuesday over DeLand-Weldon.
GIBSON CITY — The Gibson Area Hospital Foundation hosted the second annual Dr. George Bark Golf Outing last Friday.
BUCKLEY -- The Buckley Dutchmasters earned a split in Sunday's Eastern Illinois Baseball League doubleheader against the Gifford-Flatville Giflats.
PAXTON -- Paxton Swedes manager Mark Prina had a reason to be optimistic on Sunday.
In at least one way, the St. Louis Blues' run toward the Stanley Cup was inspirational.
LEXINGTON -- The Paxton Swedes split an Eastern Illinois Baseball League doubleheader with Game Seven Legacy on Sunday.
GIFFORD -- For the Buckley Dutchmasters' Nathan Walker, his second RBI hit of game one of Sunday's doubleheader against the Royal Giants did not come without adversity.
LINCOLN -- The Ford-Iroquois Indians Senior Legion baseball team won 6-5 in extra innings Saturday over Danville.
GIBSON CITY -- Softball is a year-round sport, according to Brea Walker.
COLFAX -- The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley Falcons age 14-and-under baseball team won 20-13 Thursday over Ridgeview.
GIBSON CITY — Bryce Barnes questioned himself Tuesday afternoon, less than 24 hours before he was set to leave for the University of Illinois.
PAXTON -- The Paxton-Buckley-Loda track and field program hosted its first Street Meet of the summer on Wednesday.
EL PASO -- The Buckley Dutchmasters and El Paso Warriors split an Eastern Illlinois Baseball League doubleheader on Sunday.
PAXTON -- Sunday's Eastern Illinois Baseball League action included a rematch of last year's league tournament championship series.
BUCKLEY -- About 10 miles separate Paxton from Buckley.
PAXTON -- Four days after graduating from Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School, Keyn Humes signed his letter of intent on Tuesday to play football for Knox College.
Brandon Wilkerson -- The former Tri-Point boys track and field standout finished seventh in the 3,000-meter steeplechase for Augustana College with a time of 9:12.72. Wilkerson ran a 9:15.08 steeplechase in Thursday's prelims to finish fifth in the second heat and ninth overall.
CHARLESTON -- Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley's 4x200 relay team earned a third-place medal at the iHSA Class 1A state meet on Saturday.
CHARLESTON -- Ryder James of the Paxton-Buckley-Loda boys track and field team earned a state medal in the IHSA Class 2A state meet.
CHARLESTON -- Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley's 4x400 relay team had the fastest preliminary time in the IHSA Class 1A boys' state track and field meet on Thursday.
STANFORD -- The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley softball team's season came to an end on Tuesday with a 5-4 loss to Tolono Unity in the semifinals of the IHSA Class 2A Stanford Olympia Sectional.
Brandon Wilkerson -- The former Tri-Point boys track and field standout finished first in the 1,600-meter run for Augustana College in Thursday's Augustana Midwest Twilight meet.
EAST PEORIA -- Paxton-Buckley-Loda finished fourth in the seventh-grade boys' 4x100 relay with a time of 48.87 seconds at the IESA Class AA state meet held Friday and Saturday.
CHARLESTON -- Delanie Dykes of the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School girls track and field team finished third in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:19.66 in Saturday's final round of the IHSA Class 1A state meet.
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GCMS softball wins its first regional title since 2014 and will face Unity in the IHSA Class 2A Stanford Olympia Sectional semifinals at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
GIBSON CITY — In a close game with multiple opportunities to take advantage, Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley couldn’t take advantage, as the Falcons fell to Central Catholic 1-0 in the class 2A regional championship game.
WATSEKA -- For the second time in two weeks, the Paxton-Buckley-Loda baseball team could not hold onto a one-run lead against Clifton Central.
WATSEKA -- Aidan Laughery of the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School boys track and field team will have a busy weekend at the IHSA Class 1A state meet.
CHARLESTON -- In the IHSA Class 2A girls' state track and field meet, Paxton-Buckley-Loda's Emily Graves finished her pole vault season with a preliminary height of 9-6 on Friday.
MONTICELLO -- Two Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School boys track and field athletes qualified for the IHSA Class 2A state meet.
CHARLESTON -- Delanie Dykes of the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School girls track and field team qualified for the final round of the 400-meter dash at the IHSA Class 1A state meet.
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PAXTON -- When Josh Pritchard applied for the job as Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School head football coach, what impressed him the most was the football program's tradition.
GIBSON CITY -- With a top seed and home field advantage, the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley baseball team has a chance to win a regional championship for the first time since 2006.