Eastland girls knock off NUIC West-leading Stockton

Cougars make move

Text Size: AaAaAaAaAa

Eastland crept closer to the top of the Northwest Upstate Illini West standings after its 55-44 victory over Stockton on Wednesday in Lanark.

Courtney Walker hit four 3-pointers and led the Cougars (18-7, 7-2) with 14 points. Izy Todd finished with 10 points, and Hannah Hake added nine.

Brooke Beneventi paced the Blackhawks (17-5, 8-1) with 14 points, and Emily Langfield added 13.

Milledgeville 49, Warren 44: Courtney Swalve scored 25 points to lead the Missiles past the Warriors in Warren.

Also for Milledgeville (5-15), Kayleigh Leddy had 11 points. Allison Kubat had 19 points for Warren (0-17).

Wrestling

Panthers take two: Erie-Prophetstown won a pair of home matches, 45-24 against Sherrard and 41-30 against Orion.

Dylan Binion (152 pounds) was the lone double winner for the Panthers.

Swimming

Warriors finish second: DeKalb (147.5) topped Sterling (108.5) and Morris (68) in a 3-team meet at the Duis Center.

Keaton Dir and Keanu Interone led the Golden Warriors with a pair of wins apiece. Dir took the 200 (1 minute 52.32 seconds) and 500 freestyle races (4:57.96), while Interone led the way in the 100 butterfly (55.97) and 100 breaststroke (1:00.04).

Also taking first for Sterling was Tanner Morse in the 1-meter diving (168.3 points).

Wednesday's stars

Courtney Swalve, Milledgeville girls basketball, 25 points

Courtney Walker, Eastland girls basketball, 14 points

Dylan Binion, EP wrestling, 2 wins

Previous Page|1|Next Page

Comments

Blogs

» Business Bits
Business Bits

Sauk Valley Bank opens new branch

STERLING – Sauk Valley Bank newest branch is open at 3319 E. Lincolnway.
» Reciprocity
Reciprocity

Drill

It was easy to get distracted by the performance of it all. The active shooter drill held by Sterling and County Police last week at the high school. The scenario; two armed shooters in the school killing students and teachers and the police and medical technician's response. It's an unfortunate drill, but a necessary one. In the hallways a Halloween mentality took over, especially when the ketchup-blood concoction was applied on the students. Small talk and "what I'm going to do" plans were passed around freely between laughs and odors of the sickly sweet blood stand-in. It was an odd contrast between real and imaginary, one I'm sure psychologists will explain to be a type of coping mechanism. I took these "portraits" of the injured and de

Reader Poll

The federal government announced that it monitors the telephone records of millions of Americans as it tries to detect terrorist plots. Do you support this program?

Yes
No