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Storm tosses Tigers
SIDELL — With swirling winds and chilly temperatures ruling the day, Saturday’s Class 1A second-round matchup between Greenfield and Sidell (Jamaica) Salt Fork promised to be a low-scoring affair. The brisk conditions certainly favored the...
Failure to launch
At least this time the Rockets saw it coming. After ending its season with close losses in the playoffs in each of the past two years, Routt’s 2008 season was over by about halftime Saturday. Tuscola took control of the game early and handed the...
Make it work
Pittsfield/Griggsville-Perry football coach Don Bigley promised himself he wouldn’t play an injured Devon Johnson in Saturday’s playoff game against Fairfield. But in the end, Bigley had to break that promise. Johnson had only six carries...
Dodgin' bullets
GREENFIELD — Another playoff game against Virden, another nail-biter for the Greenfield-Northwestern football team. Greenfield dodged two potential game-winning field goals, a bad snap that could have cost the team a safety, and two key penalties...
A commanding performance
As the Jacksonville High football program nailed down its fifth playoff berth in six years Saturday, it came facemask-to-facemask with the ghost of its once-dismal past. That ghost was the Crimsons’ Senior Day opponent: Centralia. The white-on-red...
Twist 'em up
NEW BERLIN — The Pretzels put it all together Friday, exactly when they had to. In danger of missing the postseason for the fourth straight year, the Waverly/Franklin-New Berlin football squad flattened playoff-bound Pawnee, 26-0, in front of a...
Bring on Bouillon
VIRGINIA — On a rainy night during their final road game of the regular season, the Greenfield-Northwestern Tigers dominated the Virginia/A-C Redbirds on both offense and defense. “Other than a little shaky at the end, I though we played...
Rockets rack up big yards in win
A healthy quarterback and a defense tailored to stop Carrollton’s spread formation helped the Routt football team handily beat the Hawks Friday night at Kraushaar-Rosenberger Field. Routt racked up 500 yards of total offense, mostly on the ground,...
Homecoming heroes
GREENFIELD — In a week where the Greenfield-Northwestern Tigers got to celebrate their homecoming, they used a 31-14 victory over the Calhoun Warriors to bring on a second celebration after the win. The Tigers (6-1, 5-0 WIVC) scored first midway...
Crimsons twist up Taylorville
Usually, even a homecoming king is nothing more than a figure head. Not so for Jacksonville High’s Braxton Stewart, who was quite the hands-on sort of ruler Saturday afternoon in the Crimsons’ rousing 42-7 victory over Taylorville. As in,...
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