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‘Don’t think it won’t happen’ Chamber hosts business security workshop

By Goldie Rapp grapp@bcrnews.com

PRINCETON — Officers from Princeton Police Department and Bureau County Sheriff’s Office gathered at a Princeton Chamber of Commerce breakfast mixer Thursday, Sept.

24, to talk with local business owners and

employees about better security in their work place.

Lt. Scott Underwood of the Princeton Police Department explained there have been three armed robberies in Princeton within the last two years. He said everyone has to get in the mindset that a robbery will happen in a small

town like Princeton.

“Don’t think it won’t happen because it will,” he said.

Princeton Investigator John Shofner reported there has been a 35 percent increase in armed robberies.

“A lot of the increase is due to the heroin epidemic we have in this county, and in any place

in this state,” he said.

Shofner confirmed robberies committed for personal financial gain are pretty much over.

He said robbers are now just asking for what’s in the cash register, which is many times not large amounts of money.

“Officers are seeing a lot more armed robberies for small amounts of money in small businesses just for the purchase of heroin,” he said. “Don’t

think because you have a small business you are exempt from armed robberies because that’s not the case.”

Shofner offered some tips a business owner could do to help in the investigation of an armed robbery.

He said the best tool to have is a video system.

“They are very cheap these days, and it’s a very good investment,” he said, adding the best

place to have video surveillance would be near the entrance of the building, inside the building and pointing out to a parking lot or street to catch a possible suspect vehicle.

Other things that help police is being able to observe as much detail of a suspect as possible.

“Everybody sees things different. So if there are

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What happened to that escaped prisoner?

Bureau County Sheriff Jim Reed releases details

By Goldie Rapp grapp@bcrnews.com

PRINCETON — At the Princeton Chamber of Commerce breakfast mixer on Thursday, Sept. 24, a member of the audience asked officers about the status of the escaped prisoner, who got away at the westbound Great Sauk Trail rest area on Wednesday, Sept. 2.

Bureau County Sheriff Jim Reed released a few more details about the case.

He said the transport company, which was earlier reported to be Inmate Services Transport Inc., had been transporting 10 prisoners in their vehicle that day. There were only two officers armed with mace and a baton.

Reed said the shackles used on the prisoners were old.

“Some they said were ancient,” he said.

Reed said with Bureau County being as rural as it is with cornfields and some woods in the area, the prisoner had a lot of places to hide.

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Evaluating our educators SVE approves new evaluation tool

By Becky K ramer news@bcrnews.com

SPRING VALLEY — The Spring Valley Elementary School Board approved the new teacher evaluation tool at Wednesday night’s meeting, held Sept.

23. The Joint Committee, which is composed equally of representatives selected by district officials and teachers, created the evaluation tool.

Teachers will be evaluated in the areas of planning and preparation, classroom

environment, instruction, and professional responsibilities. This will be a big change from the past, since the new tool is very detail oriented.

According to the Illinois State Board of Education website, “In 2010, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed the Performance Evaluation Reform Act (PERA), which changed how teachers’ and principals’ performance is measured in the state.

The new evaluation systems in Illinois school

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Bureau Valley Homecoming hoopla The communities comprising the Bureau Valley School District came out in force on the evening of Thursday, Oct. 24, as the BV Homecoming parade traveled down Main Street in Manlius. The parade was followed by Homecoming announcements, a bonfire and more. On Friday, Bureau Valley Storm took on the Amboy/LaMoille Clippers. See today’s Friday Night Blitz for game results.

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Earning their metals Illinois Valley metal-detecting club continues to grow

By Shannon Serpette sserpette@bcrnews.com

The Illinois Valley Historical Research and Recovery Association (IVHRRA) really digs its work. So much, in fact, that members of the metal-detecting club volunteer their time to help reunite people with their lost possessions whenever possible.

In one recent case, when an Ottawa woman lost her wedding rings while gardening, the club stepped in and hunted for the rings several times spanning months before finally finding them, John Mateika, vice president of IVHRRA, said.

“We found it around their anniversary,” Mateika said. “Oh, they were happy.”

Recently, the club tried to show the younger generation the ropes of metal detecting by working with 48 children at Echo Bluff camp in Bureau County.

The hands-on teaching session was followed by a club hunt for those club members in attendance.

As young children hunted for coins that had been thrown on the ground by IVHRRA members before the hunt, the metal-detecting enthusiasts explained their love for the hobby and the club.

Mateika said IVHRRA continues to grow each year, with membership currently at 136.

“We average two new members a month,” he said. “Many of our members are outside of a 50-mile radius. We have a large footprint.”

Gary Olson of Peru, a long-time detectorist, said a successful hunt involves more than just equipment

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IVHRRA member Tom Zollner of Minooka enjoys finding unusual objects with his metal detector, such as a love token he once found. and luck. He has found some great areas to search by doing his homework.

“You’re always doing research,” he said.

He encourages people to look at old plat books to find where former schoolhouses, early downtown areas, and popular gathering places were. Olson, in particular, likes hunting at the sites of old one-room schoolhouses.

“I’ve got one I can hunt in Bureau County,” he said.

“This stuff is just fascinating. You know that everything has changed so much in the last 100 years.”

Olson’s grandson, Alex Pozzi, 12, of Peru began metal detecting about three years ago, learning how by watching his grandfather.

“He goes with me everywhere,” Olson said.

Pozzi is more than just a tag-along, though; he is a capable detectorist in his own right.

“He’s holding his own on this thing,” Olson said.

People new to the hobby shouldn’t expect to get rich from it, and they should realize they’ll be pulling a lot of junk, like nails and bottle caps, from the ground, especially in the beginning.

“Frustration is a hobby killer,” Olson said.

Once in a while, though, the stars align and someone finds something of monetary value.

When asked about his most lucrative find, Olson doesn’t hesitate: “I found a pendant with three diamonds and four sapphires,” he said.

Despite his find and the valuable finds other club members have made, Olson is quick to point out those days are the exception, not the norm.

“You’re not going to get rich doing it,” he said. “You find a lot of junk before you find anything you write home about.”

But much of the joy of metal detecting isn’t measurable by dollars and cents. The real pleasure is in finding something, picturing the person who dropped it, wondering how it got there, and knowing you are the first person in decades, maybe centuries, to see it.

Many detectorists have a favorite find that isn’t necessarily valuable at all. One of Olson’s favorite finds was a 1905 Chinese coin he found in a park in Peru.

For club member Tom Zollner of Minooka, his favorite find was something that was sentimental in nature.

“The best thing I’ve found is a love token,” he said, adding it was made from an 1877 Liberty dime.

“I found it, and I didn’t know what it was.”

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• Be responsible — fill in any holes you dig.

• If you find trash when you are detecting, throw it away.

• Never dig on a property without having permission.

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The Illinois Valley Historical Research and Recovery Association Vice President John Mateika shows a boy at Echo Bluff camp in Bureau County how to find items with a metal detector. Club members salted the ground with coins and helped the children hone in on them with metal detectors.

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Gary Olson (second from right) of Peru, a long-time detectorist, enjoys searching locations with his grandson, Alex Pozzi (far right), 12, of Peru. People new to the hobby should be prepared to dig a number of nails and other junk out of the ground, especially in the beginning.

Interested in learning more about metal detecting?

Illinois Valley Historical Research and Recovery Association meets at 7 p.m. the second Monday of the month at 931 Third St., LaSalle. Non-members are welcome to attend the meeting to learn more about metal detecting.

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Shelter is down at Darius Miller Park City of Princeton working on future possibilities

By Goldie Rapp grapp@bcrnews.com

PRINCETON — City workers began tearing down the shelter in Darius Miller Park on Wednesday, Sept. 23.

Only remains of the old, brown shelter were left laying in a pile the following morning.

As previously reported, Princeton Mayor Joel Quiram was hoping to begin making improvements to the park following this year’s Homestead Festival.

Plans to renovate the park were back on the city’s agenda in August. One of Quiram’s main tasks to tackle in the park was getting rid of the shelter.

Quiram’s other ideas for the park include tearing out the fountains and sidewalks that lead between the shelter and fountains.

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Princeton city employees tear down the old, brown shelter in Darius Miller Park on Wednesday, Sept. 23. A planning committee will soon begin meeting to discuss future renovation plans to update the park’s look.

The concrete slab the shelter sat on will remain until the park’s planning committee can come up with ideas on what to do with the piece.

The planning committee will soon begin meeting to discuss other future ideas

for the park.

As previously reported, Quiram said he would like to see the ideas tie in with the train depot and north end business district.

The city council will give the planning committee a budget for the project.

In August, Quiram said the city would be able to use tourism dollars to cover the cost of renovations to the park. He said the city could also look into fundraisers and grants, if needed.

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Sunday church activities 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27, at the Christ Community German buffet and country store atChurch, 1719 S. Euclid Ave. in Princeton.

HOLLOWAYVILLE — A German buffet and country Farewell potluck planned store will be Sunday, Sept. 27, at the Hollowayville UCC, with serving from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The suggested donation is $12 for adults, $5 for children and preschoolers eat free.

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PRINCETON — The public is invited to a hymn sing

PRINCETON — Pastor Sarah Gladstone will leave her post as pastor at the Hampshire Colony Congregational Church on Sunday, Sept. 27. A potluck dinner is set for that day at noon. Participants are asked to bring a dish to pass. For more information, call Carol Fisher at 815872-5211 or Judy Topham at 815-872-5052.

Take a stroll ... on a CROP Hunger Walk PRINCETON —The Bureau County CROP Hunger Walk is set for 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11.

The five kilometer walk will begin and end at the Nelson Chapel, located at 446 Elm Place in Princeton. The First Christian Church is this year’s host church.

Organized locally, the Bureau County CROP Hunger Walk has set a goal of 100 walkers and hopes to raise $11,000 to help stop hunger here in this area and around the world through self-help development initiatives. A portion of the funds raised will go to the Walnut Community Food Pantry, the Wyanet UMC Food Pantry, the Bureau County Food Pantry, and to the Princeton and Bureau Valley Buddy Bags program.

“I doubt there is any mission in this world more important than seeing that as many people as possible are fed, clothed and sheltered,” said Janet Young, regional director of the Great River Office of Church World Service. “And I’m proud to say that is exactly the mission that Church World Services and CROP, Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty, have been working on for the past 60 years! We invite everyone to work and CROP Walk with us as we celebrate our 60th anniversary year!”

This year Bureau County and some 2,000 cities and towns nationwide are joining together in interfaith community CROP Hunger Walks around the theme, “We Walk Because They Walk.” Many CROP walkers will be wearing “We Walk Because They Walk” T-shirts, proclaiming their solidarity with the millions of neighbors around the world who have to walk to live – as well as with the millions served by local food pantries, food banks and meal sites here in the United States. These local ministries share in the funds raised by CROP Hunger Walks.

Africa is one part of the world where CROP Hunger Walks are making a big difference. And this year Africa presents special challenges, with the uprooting of millions in the Darfur region of Sudan by government-sanctioned violence, and the severe drought-induced food shortage plaguing Niger and other parts of the Sahel region.

CROP Hunger Walks are also making a big difference in communities recovering from Hurricane Katrina .

For more information about the 2015 Bureau County CROP Hunger Walk, contact Sarah Gladstone at Rev. SarahGladstone@gmail.com or Gene Vincent at Micahsixeight@frontier.com.

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Security

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Shofner said it’s important witnesses don’t talk to each other after a robbery, in order to keep their stories their own. He said a lot of times if witnesses start talking with each other if can skew what they really may have seen.

Also, if a business is robbed, the last thing police want is a hostage situation.

“The main thing to do is give them what they want; let them do what they got to do; and as soon as they get out of the building, lock the door so they can’t get back in,” Underwood said.

Once the robber leaves, hit the alarm system and call 911 immediately. Shofner and Understood both stressed sometimes it takes a few minutes for police to get a call from an alarm system, so it’s best to also dial 911.

Underwood added a business could establish one person on each shift to be the designated 911 caller, so it eliminates the possibility of numerous people trying to call 911 and flooding the system.

At the meeting, Underwood also read 2014 statistics on robberies from the FBI website.

Based on the information, there’s a wide variety of ethnicities committing robberies these days. Also, while there are more robberies committed in metropolitan areas, the number of robberies in small cities is not far behind.

He said Friday was the most common day of the week when robberies occurred, and the most common time of day was between 9 and 11 a.m.

Underwood suggested business owners and employers constantly be on the lookout for suspicious vehicles outside a business, or watch for suspicious behavior in a person.

He also suggested business owners do scenario training with their employees and practice the scenarios often. Also, it’s always a good idea to have a set policy and procedures on what to do if something occurs.

Officer Ben Atkinson of the Princeton Police Department also recommended employers practice scenarios often.

“If you practice, it will become second nature when you’re all shook up. You won’t have to think about it.

It will just be a natural reaction,” he said.

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“If you gave me a five-minute head start. I don’t care how many cops you have, you’re not going to catch me,” he said. “We don’t believe he’s in the area.”

Reed said if the prisoner was still in the area, he would have eventually needed food and water.

“We probably would have had a stolen vehicle or some other suspicious circumstance,” he said. “Every lead we had on it didn’t pan out. Chances are this was planned out.”

Reed said every agency has a photo of Joshua Drinnon. He said it may be a while until he’s found. He also provided the possibility that Drinnon’s body could be found somewhere in a field in the harvest months.

The case was turned over to the U.S. Marshal Service.

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Sarah Stuepfert (second from left), president of Buffalo Days, presents a check in the amount of $500 to Joyce Sondgeroth, director of LaMoille-Clarion Public Library. The monies raised from this year’s Buffalo Days celebration will go toward a sidewalk project the library has been wanting to do over the years. The library board hopes to build a sidewalk path behind the building leading into the back entrance of the library. Also pictured are library aides Vanessa Zimmerlein (far left) and Karen Carlson (far right).

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SVE From Page 1 dent growth and professional practice.”

Teachers and administrators will have the chance to provide “evidence” of compliance in each area if it’s not observed by the evaluator.

A student growth portion will be added in the 2016-17 school as required by law.

Board member Jack Kusek is concerned at the amount of time it will take the administrators to evaluate teachers.

Superintendent Jim Hermes explained the administrators are sharing the workload.

In other business, Principal Kim Lisanby-Barber announced current enrollment is 714 students.

She said there have been one or two new families a week registering since school started.

The board also

approved the Fiscal Year 2016 budget after a brief public hearing.

The budget shows a total deficit of $884,506.

Hermes explained this amount is misleading because a bill from FY ‘15 was paid out this year’s budget in the amount of $666,418.

The projected overall deficit would be approximately $218,000 without that large bill.

Spring Valley Elementary is entitled to $3,149,000 in state aid but will only receive a total of $2,991,560, which is a loss of $157,440 or $228 per student.

Also, Director of Curriculum Michelle Nauman said that the RTI (Response to Intervention) brochure has been sent home with students.

Students were placed in RTI groups for additional support according to their scores on the AIMS Web Assessments. Students can receive help in both language arts and math.

Nauman also said the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) groups have been busy building solar cars and wind turbines.

Jason Marquis of Marquis Energy came and talked to the STEM groups about gas versus ethanol.

He demonstrated ethanol burns clearer by burning a bowl of each type of fuel and discussed the pros and cons of each fuel type.

In regarding to the JFK building, the board discussed the final construction payment. Kusek suggested paying $25,000 of the final $30,000 that is owed. The final payment of $5,000 will be paid when all issues have been resolved.

Hermes also told the board the teachers’ union voted to keep BCBS as its insurance carrier. The deductible will be raised from $500 to $1,500. Hermes said, “It’s a good plan and a good benefit to teachers.”

In other business:

• New staff members were introduced to the board.

• The board will be hosting the Illinois Association of School Board’s fall dinner meeting on Oct. 6 at JFK School. The speaker will be the new state superintendent of schools, Tony Smith.

• The board ratified a three-year agreement with the teacher’s association.

• The board hired parttime Systems Administrator Ethan Sproul and part-time Tech Facilitator Steven Palmesano.

Katie Shevokas was hired as sixth-grade girls basketball coach, and Matt Shevokas was approved as volunteer assistant.

Theresa Case was hired as cheer sponsor, and the board approved Erica and Kenzie Ott as cheer volunteer coaches.

The next meeting of the Spring Valley Elementary School Board is at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 21.

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Obituaries Judy Forristall

Donald Turner

PRINCETON — Judy A. Forristall, 63, of Princeton passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015, at Liberty Village of Princeton.

She was born on March 5, Judy 1952, in Forristall Princeton to Max and Dorothy (Olson) Coville. She graduated from Princeton High School in 1970 and attended Midstate College for two years, studying fashion merchandising. She married Larry Forristall on June 25, 1972, at the First Lutheran Church in Princeton.

Judy worked at Guzzardo’s/Brandys Hallmark, Surroundings Floral Design and The Plant Station in Princeton.

She loved gardening, flowers and visiting with friends over tea and coffee. Judy’s number one priority was spending time with her grandchildren.

She is survived by her husband, Larry; one son, Tim (Jennifer) Forristall of Princeton; one daughter, Sara (Mike) Clark of Princeton; her father, Max (friend Babe) Coville of Walnut; one brother, Allan (Diane) Coville of Madison, Wis.; five grandchildren, Morgan, Camden, Tyler, Makya and Alexis; and one nephew, Shawn Coville.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Dorothy Coville in 2010.

The family will receive friends from 4 to 7 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 27, at Norberg Memorial Home.

Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Sept.

28 at the Norberg Memorial Home in Princeton, the Rev. Scott Schmidt officiating. Burial will follow in the Elm Lawn Memorial Park.

Memorials may be directed to the family. Online condolences may be left at www.norbergfh.com.

STILLMAN VALLEY – Donald H. Turner, 80, longtime Stillman Valley area resident, died Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015, in Swedish-American Hospital, Rockford.

He was born Sept. 5, 1935, in Henry, the son of Floyd W. and Lillian (Clement) Turner. He married Janet May Dec. 27, 1959, in Kasbeer. Don was a graduate of Bradford High School, farmed at one time, and was employed as a machinist at J&L Engineering in Rockford for 32 years, retiring in 2009.

He was a member of the First Baptist Church Oregon since 1968 where he was also a deacon. Don enjoyed woodworking and was a volunteer in the wood shop at the Byron Forest Preserve.

He is survived by his wife, Janet Turner of Stillman Valley; brothers, James (Laverne) Turner of Florida and Lester (Phyllis) Turner of Kasbeer; sisters-in-law, Ruth and Ida Turner; and many nieces, nephews and great- and great-great-nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his parents; brothers, Willis, Mark and Leland; and sisters, Clara and Mae. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in Farrell-Holland-Gale Funeral Home, Oregon.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, in the First Baptist Church, Oregon with the Rev. Jared Cochran, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Daysville Cemetery, rural Oregon.

Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church, Oregon.

Online condolences may be left at www.farrellhollandgale.com.

Rolvin Streeter

SPRING VALLEY — Rolvin H. Streeter, 84, of Spring Valley, died Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015, in Manor Court of Peru. A complete obituary will be available next week. There will be no services. Barto Funeral Home, Spring Valley, is assisting the family.

Eula McGraw

JANESVILLE, WIS. — Eula McGraw, 97, of Janesville, Wis., formerly of Ohio, Ill., died Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015, at Agrace Inpatient Hospice Unit in Janesville.

Arrangements are pending at the Garland Funeral Home in Walnut.

Audrey Monier

PRINCETON – Audrey Louise Monier, 91, of Princeton died Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015, at Perry Memorial Hospital, Princeton.

Audrey was born Dec. 4, 1923, in Princeton Township to Harry G. and Ellen (Smith) Thomas. She married James P. Monier on March 22, 1947.

Survivors are her children, Jamison (Robert A.) Ginsberg of LaJolla, Calif, and David (Tricia) Monier of Princeton; six grandchildren, Matthew, Benjamin, and David Ginsberg in La Jolla, Calif., and Jill Monier (Nick McCabe) of Scottsdale, Ariz., Amy Monier of Johannesburg, South Africa, and Jonathan Monier of Princeton; two great-grandchildren, Ava and Olivia McCabe of Scottsdale, Ariz., and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her first husband, Lloyd Howard Coster of New York, a casualty of World War II; her sister, Marjorie (G. Richard) Kasbeer, and husband, James P. Monier.

Cremation rites will be accorded and private services at a later date.

Memorials may be directed to Wounded Warriors, St. Jude’ Children’s Hospital or to the donor’s choice.

Grant-Johnson Funeral Home in Princeton is handling arrangements.

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Spring Valley residents jailed for alleged drug possession SPRING VALLEY — Two Spring Valley residents were taken into custody after local law enforcement executed a search warrant and found methamphetamine and items used for the production of methamphetamine.

Jayson T. Morrison, 40, and Melanie A. Pries, 37, both of 215 W. Fifth St. were charged with unlawful possession of methamphetamine, less than five grams, with the intent to deliver. They were transported to the Bureau County Jail.

According to a press release issued by Spring Valley Police, an investigation into possible drug activity and the production of methamphetamine had been ongoing over the last week.

On Wednesday, Sept. 23, around noon, Spring Valley Police with the assistance of the Tri-DENT Task Force and the LaSalle

County Sheriff’s Department Tactical Team executed a search warrant at the home of Morrison and Pries.

During the search warrant, officers located less than five grams of methamphetamine, items used for the production of methamphetamine and several items of drug paraphernalia.

The Illinois State Police Zone 2 and Zone 4 Methamphetamine Response Team responded to the scene and removed several items of methamphetamine waste product.

While the search warrant was being executed the Spring Valley Fire Department and 10/33 ambulance were placed on stand by at the fire station for precautionary measures. The fire department and ambulance were not needed to respond to the scene and were released from the fire station at about 12:30 p.m.

Police reports Avenue at 10:30 p.m. Sept. 19.

Bureau County Sheriff Retha K. Kline, 73, of Tiskilwa struck a deer Accidents

Jeffrey M. Stocking, 44, of Buda struck a vehicle driven by Kenneth T. Warren, 28, of Rock Falls, after Warren failed to yield while turning left onto Interstate 80 from Route 40 at 4:50 p.m. Sept. 19. Warren was charged with failure to yield while turning left.

A wooden bar transported by Christopher J. Margherio, 33, of Mesa, Ariz., flew out of Margherio’s truck bed and struck a vehicle driven by Berta Hernandez, 39, of DePue at 2775 East Street near 1400 North Avenue at 12:21 p.m. Sept. 20. Hernandez was transported to St. Margaret’s Hospital in Spring Valley. Margherio was charged with spilling load on highway or load not secure.

Arrests

Justin M. Dana, 32, of Neponset was charged with unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle, theft $500 and under, motor vehicle theft, criminal damage to property, suspended or revoked driver’s license, escape and violation of classification at 206 W. Commercial St. in Neponset at 1:10 a.m.

Sept. 20.

Timothy N. Thompson, 56, of Bureau was charged with a revoked driver’s license at the intersection of Railroad and Nebraska streets in Bureau at 4:25 p.m. Sept. 21.

Deer accidents

Jeffrey A. Mangrich, 51, of Wyanet struck a deer on 1400 East Street near 1750 North

on 1900 East Street near 700 North Avenue at 10 a.m. Sept. 21.

William G. Frasure, 55, of Bradford struck a deer on 1700 East Street near Bradford Blacktop at 7:20 a.m. Sept. 22.

Princeton Police Domestic battery

Quadir B. Whitehurst, 33, of Princeton was charged with domestic battery in the 500 block of South Fifth Street at 8:52 p.m.

Sept. 19.

Spring Valley Police Theft

Mark A. Barto, 52, of Spring Valley was charged with theft in the 100 block of Saint Paul Street at 1 a.m. Sept. 15.

Battery

Charles C. Price, 31, of Spring Valley was charged with battery in the 100 block of West Iowa Street at 2:20 p.m. Sept. 20.

Accident

A two-vehicle accident involving Robert G. Anderson, 85, of Spring Valley and Kaitlyn R. Toedter, 19, of Granville occurred on Route 6 near Oak Street at 5:37 p.m. Sept. 18.

Warrant arrest

Heather L. Johnson, 35, of Spring Valley was picked up in the 600 block of East First Street at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 18 on a Will County warrant for identity theft.

RABIES CLINIC FOR DOGS & CATS THURSDAY, OCT. 1

All dogs over 4 months of age are required by law to be vaccinated for Rabies. Yearly distemper, Lyme Disease and Parvovirus boosters for dogs are recommended.

Yearly rabies and distemper boosters for cats are recommended. These will be available at the clinic.

LAKE THUNDERBIRD 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Clubhouse Shelter

PUTNAM COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL Allison Spayer, DVM • (815) 882-2000

You are invited to the F om Th he G ound Up

Farm to Table Dinner September 30 th at 6:00 PM

Tickets are $25 per person on sale at the Bureau County Metro Center • 837 Park Ave. West, Princeton, IL

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Chef Monika from Chesstnut Street Inn will be preparing a fresh, healthy, locally-grown menu!

For more information contact Joy Kauffman at 815-200-4925 or visit bchealthdepartment.org click on “From the Ground Up” to find local growers From the Ground UP! is a project lead by Bureau and Putnam County Health Department through a grant funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, FMPP. Visit us at: www.bchealthdepartment.org

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Perspective Bureau County

Republican

Serving Bureau County Since 1847

Sam R Fisher

Terri Simon

Publisher

Editor

A day in the life of ...

Being editor of this newspaper has its perks ...

Really. While there are days when I really have to dig down deep to find those assets, other days they come without notice ... dancing their way into my life unexpectedly.

Let me preface this by saying I didn’t grow up yearning to be an editor of a newspaper. Actually, I wanted to be a tight-rope walker in the circus, followed by a baton twirler, followed by a firstTerri Simon grade teacher. For reasons unknown and other reasons quite obvious, none of those things panned out. Many, many, many years later, I find myself behind this computer, looking out from my office on a newsroom filled with incredibly talented people, and torn between the concepts of how I got this lucky and why in the world did I ever accept the job of editor.

Bottom line is, though, just like I remind the staff here ... We make our living at the end of our fingertips as they press the keys on the keyboard, creating that which others will read and interpret in their own minds.

A day in the life of an editor is interesting ... to say the very least. It’s a juggling act I’ve yet to perfect, however, I’ve learned — much to my dismay — that perfection will never arrive; primarily because I work with the human spirit, and as we all know, perfection is as elusive as that perfect word we attempt to find in our own heads as we put pen to paper. It’s been said that journalists sit down at their keyboards and open a vein before pouring their own heart and soul into another’s story. In the perfect world, that is an ideal description of this job, this newsroom staff, this occupation, this career.

But there are days — occasionally weeks on end — where we muddle through notebooks of notes, listen to hours on end of meeting tapes, research subjects of which we have no interest, answer telephone calls that clearly aren’t on our busy agendas, make time for people who don’t understand looming deadlines ... I could go on and on. These are the days when I go home at night, my mind still in a whirlwind, wondering if I can do this one more day.

Please don’t misunderstand. The aforementioned paragraph sounds like gloom and doom, but nothing could be further from the truth. When I sift through all the chaos, all the mindless little things I contend with, all the (for lack of a better word) crap ... the most basic of all attributes of being an editor far outweigh the things that tend to get in the way of this job. ...

You see, I get to meet, learn about, understand and appreciate people in a manner few will ever realize. I can’t even begin to tell you the number of people who have crossed my path throughout the past 20-plus years — people whose stories have had a lifelong impact on me and whose inspirational words have affected me in a positive manner. Ironically enough, they usually weren’t those in powerful positions or those with names you’d no doubt recognize.

Instead, they have been the people whose hearts are huge; people who have learned to dig down deep into their souls for understanding; people who appreciate the world they have been offered and make the best of oftentimes adverse situations.

Forget about the deadlines. Forget about the fact that as a newspaper, we publish our mistakes for everyone to see, when the rest of the world just makes mistakes and moves on. Forget about the well-known fact there aren’t enough hours in the day. Forget about being dog tired when you finally see the lights in your own home, especially when you left for work long before the sun came up. Forget all of that. It doesn’t matter.

What matters in this job? It’s plain and simple ... people. And from that perspective ... I’m honored to sit at this desk that publishes YOUR hometown newspaper. It’s as simple ... and as complicated ... as that.

I think I can safely speak for the entire newsroom staff, when I say we care very much about the people who live, work and play in this area. They are our bread and butter, so to speak, and we are consistently honored and humbled by them.

BCR Editor Terri Simon can be reached at tsimon@ bcrnews.com.

No Free in Freedom Part 4: Mortar Shell

By Bartlett Lee Kassabaum Special to the BCR

“It happened so fast. I was moving up hill, with some of my squad, after some hard going ... where we drove them back ... after killing some. The mortar shells landed amongst us, one real near my legs. I was holding my M1 with the butt and breech down along my leg and that took the brunt of the explosion and shrapnel. The weapon was shredded, but it saved me from totally losing my legs.

“That M1 was the best damn rifle they ever made.

I was knocked out cold at first. When I came around I had bleeding holes in me everywhere. Many guys around me were dead. I was alive. I somehow kind of crawled around to check if any of the guys next to me could be alive. None were. I used all of the first aid kits from the dead, besides mine, to try and stop my bleeding. I was hit really bad in many places.

“My sergeant and close friend, Adolph Jurena, finally got to me. We were still under heavy fire. He helped patch me up, and said, ‘Get down the damn hill, even if you have to roll down.’ He had to keep firing.

“Finally, a 363rd Regimental medic, Walter Mizersky, got to me, gave me morphine and stemmed the arterial bleeding of several wounds. He helped save my life. He was from out East, Pittsburgh, Penn., I think. He and a couple other guys took me to a field hospital first. I was conscience most of the time.

“That one ... damn doctor wanted to take my one leg off. I told him to go to ... hell. Just minutes after I was moved from the field hospital and heading to Florence, 88 mm shells leveled the place. All of my luck wasn’t bad — that could’ve been me.”

Sgt. Adolph Jurena said he came off of the hill with just two men. One was my dad. Adolph told me (BLK) that “the only way I made it through the war was by putting it out of my mind immediately, when a comrade was killed right beside me. You couldn’t stop and think about it, you had to go on. I still live with it today though.”

Kassy said, “I was at Florence, Leghorn, and then Naples. I came home on the hospital ship, Mt. Vernon, to Newport News, Va., and then to the Patrick Henry Hospital there. I ended up at Mayo General Hospital, in Galesburg, Ill. I had six or seven major operations overseas and then more stateside, on my legs.”

Kassy had shrapnel wounds over much of his body, arms and legs. Most of the damage was to his right leg that would now be shorter than the left. He would wear a lift and a brace the rest of his life. He carried shrapnel in his inner ear (he always said he had a reoccurring buzz at times) and other places the rest of his life. He ended active service on July 12, 1946.

Later in life, he would lose his good leg from further complications.

The 363rd Infantry Regiment with the rest of the 91st Division continued on from Bologna (Kassy was hit east of Bologna around the Po River and the southern entrance to the Po Valley), Treviso, Udine, and ended in Trieste. Combat for the Powder River Division in the bitter Italian Campaign came to a conclusion on May 2, 1945, when General Livesay announced all German forces in Italy had surrendered.

Charles H. Kassabaum went on in life with his wife, Marilyn. He was an active member of his community, was a friend to many, honest, gave of his time and knowledge to all who asked, liked getting ribbed as much as he could dish it out, and always knew how to make lemons into lemonade. He was born June 5, 1923, and died on May 20, 2002. Marilyn, age 92, survives him. He was the son of Charles H. Kassabaum Sr. and Lottie (Bartlett) Kassabaum. His older brother, Bartlett E. Kassabaum, also a U.S. Army combat war veteran, lived in Merrillville, Ind., and died May 16, 2011. He was in the Third Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, which was part of the 4th Infantry Division that hit the beaches on D-Day, June 6, 1944, at Normandy, France. Their younger sister, Margaret “Peg” (Kassabaum) Ruppert, died at the age of 38 from breast cancer. She was my favorite aunt. I honored her with my art print of “Saving Peggy’s Kite.”

Kassy was an athlete, patriot, plumber, electrician, carpenter, accountant, husband, father, and high school Tri-County 440 record-holder. He was a graduate of Hopkins Township High School, Granville, and Brown’s Business College in Peoria. For service to his country he was awarded the Bronze Star, Pur-

ple Heart, the Combat Infantry Badge, Good Conduct Medal, and the ETO Ribbon W/Four Bronze Battle Stars. Charles and Marilyn (Kunkel) Kassabaum were the parents of nine children: Craig (U.S. Air Force), Bart (U.S. Army), Gary (U.S. Air Force), Pat, Sherry, Mark (U.S. Air Force, deceased 1977, last day of service), Carol, Kurt and Blane. He worked as an electrician and plumber for the Granville Hardware Store, was a member of the local Granville School Board, Granville Town Board, Sacred Heart Holy Name Society, Granville American Legion and Granville VFW. He was Putnam County Treasurer from 1966 to 1994 (two years as assistant with Marilyn as county treasurer).

He liked to play euchre, was a great cartoonist, could play music by ear, enjoyed a glass of beer or two, liked to take all of the backroads when he went somewhere (he knew them all and never got lost) and just plain liked people.

Some favorite quotes to his family; • “If you have a roof over your head, food on the table, family and friends – that’s all you need.”

• “When they put you in that box at the end there aren’t any pockets for your money.”

• And this one via Harry Truman, not one of Dad’s favorite people, but he liked the quote “There’s No Free In Freedom.”

I never heard my dad bemoan his lot in life from his war injuries, or ever heard him talk about his real war battle experiences until the last two years of his life when I taped conversations with him and took notes on his stories so I could put it all to paper. He had a good life. This account, that I first wrote in 2003, only a brief version of the whole story that my father and all of the 91st Division went through, was written from taped conversations, notes from other conversations with my father, conversations with Gene Bartlett, conversations with Adolph Jurena (He talked to me only after he knew I was ‘Bazooka’s son), information from the 91st Infantry Division In World War II by Major Robert A. Robbins, “History of The 363rd Infantry Regiment” by Captain Ralph E. Strootman, stories from my brother Craig Kassabaum, information from my sister Sherry (Kassabaum) Hastings, and information on the Internet.

Gene Bartlett still lives in Peru with his wife, Rose, who is originally from Mark. Walter Mizersky, the medic who helped save my father’s life, passed away Jan. 31, 1994. The rest of the “Four Horsemen,” — Edward W. Angel died March 14, 1996, Harold A. Schultz died July 20, 2002, and Adolph J. Jurena died July 20, 2010.

I’ll get back to Richard Widmark the next time. I have a story with one more classmate from Princeton High School.

Letters policy Letters to the Editor should not be more than 500 words in length. Only one person can sign a Letter to the Editor. The author of the letter must include his/her name, hometown and telephone number. The author’s name and hometown will be published, however, the telephone number is only used to verify the authenticity of the author’s signature and will not be published. Unsigned letters are never read or published. No letter will be published until The Bureau County Republican contacts the author of the letter to verify the signature. The Bureau County Republican reserves the right to edit or refuse any Letter to the Editor.

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Life&Arts

Classic guitar — Classical guitarist Peter Fletcher will perform at the Princeton Public Library. See Page 8.

Princeton ALA 125 elects new officers

Births announced Flores Antonio Flores and Marisela Cervantes of DePue are the parents of a daughter born Sept. 17 at Illinois Valley Community Hospital in Peru.

Flowers

Tyler Flowers and Morgan Powers of Walnut are the parents of a son, Phoenix Hunter-Milo, born Aug. 21 at CGH Medical Center in Sterling. He weighed 8 pounds, 12 ounces and measured 20 inches in length. His siblings are Zoie Burcham and the late Hunter Burcham.

Maternal grandparents are Dawn and Todd Powers of Spirit Lake, Iowa. Paternal grandparents are Julie Klein of Sheffield and Phillip Flowers and Amber Flowers of Missouri. Great-grandparents are Dora and David Drowns of Sheffield, Cynthia Bright-Gomes of Toulon, Barb and Greg Simmons of Lacon and Verda Flowers of Texas.

Gillin

John Gillin and Krystle Sanders of Princeton are the parents of a son, Michael Anthony, born Sept. 15 at St. Margaret’s

Hospital in Spring Valley. He weighed 9 pounds, 7 ounces and measured 20 inches in length. He was welcomed home by one brother, Gabriel, and three sisters, Eliza, Aniya and Sophia. Maternal grandparents are Jeri Sanders of Bloomington and Mike Sanders of Princeton.

The paternal grandmother is Kathy Gillin of Ohio. Great-grandparents are Sonja Richards of Spring Valley, and Gerald and Vi Ratajczak of Sterling.

Jason

Derek and Katherine (Nieslawski) Jason of Lacon are the parents of a son born on Sept. 17 at Illinois Valley Community Hospital in Peru.

Larios

John and Katherine (Wiesbrock) Larios of Ladd are the parents of a son born Sept. 19 at Illinois Valley Community Hospital in Peru.

Longbein

Sherokee Faith Longbein of Seatonville is the parent of a son born Sept. 19 at Illinois Valley Community Hospital in Peru.

Perry Memorial sponsors ‘Pink Night’ at DePue High School DEPUE — Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton is sponsoring a “Pack the Place Pink Night” on Tuesday, Sept. 29, at DePue High School’s girls’ volleyball game. In recognition of breast cancer awareness, Perry Memorial and DePue High School are teaming together to show support for both the DePue Lady Little Giants and breast cancer survivors. Students/staff at the DePue will sell T-shirts and 50/50 raffle tickets to support the cause. All proceeds will be donated

Reunion time — The Princeton High School Class of 1956 held its class reunion during the Bureau County Homestead Festival. See Page 10.

to Perry Memorial Hospital’s breast cancer awareness educational fund.

This “Pack the Place Pink Night” event will begin with the freshman/sophomore game at 6 p.m. and the varsity game to follow around 7 p.m. Those who wear pink to the game will have the opportunity to register for a door prize. In addition, Perry will be giving out educational materials regarding breast cancer and the importance of selfbreast exams.

PRINCETON — American Legion Auxiliary Post 125, Princeton, installed new officers at its August meeting. The officers were elected in May. The officers were installed by Clara Pease, past president. They are: Mariele Fisher, president; Clara Pease, vice president; Agnes Dunn, treasurer; and Judy Nelson, sergeant of arms. Appointed seats were: Sherry DeSalle, historian/secretary; Clara Pease, VA&R; Lydia Foehring, chaplain; Mariele Fisher,

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membership chairman; Clara Pease, poppy chair-

man; and Judy Nelson, children and family services.

Community Briefs month from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. For New Agent Training for each more information, call the church at 815-872-2821.

Mission Possible Kids PRINCETON — Princeton First UnitDAR meeting ed Methodist Church invites children in first through fifth grades to New Agent Training for Mission Possible Kids at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30.

At this event, children will register for the program, learn how to become secret agents, play fun games and have a snack. At Mission Possible Kids, children become special agents and change the world through local and global mission projects. The program runs from October to April and meets on the first and third Wednesday of

PRINCETON — The Princeton Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution will meet at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, at the Prouty Building. Members are asked to bring a number of food pantry items as the chapter tries to collect 125 items to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the NSDAR, founded on Oct. 11, 1890.

The program will be comprised of 125 memories of DAR, based on members’ remembrances.

Send press releases to news@bcrnews.com.

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Guitarist at Princeton Public Library

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Participants in the breast bartending event were Jill Gillan Lusietto (from left), Alison Victor Bryant, Nadine Lower, Trica Jones, Glen Brandner, Shelly Merkel, Tom Heittman, Elizabeth Zemanek, Rosemary Carrico, Cindy Giachetto Dalzot and Geri Manning Miller.

Breast bartending event hosted in Ladd

LADD — On Aug. 8, eight Illinois Valley families who have been affected by breast cancer, with the help of Dick’s and North Central Bank in Ladd, hosted a breast bartending event. The fourhour event was full of support, fun, love and laughter, while offering education and awareness.

Participating individuals included: Alison Victor Bryant, survivor; Nadine Lower, survivor; Cindy Giachetto

Dalzot, survivor; Jill Gillan Lusietto, survivor; Rosemary Carrico, survivor; the Heitmann family; the Carolyn Brandner family; and Geri Manning Miller, survivor. Together they raised $17,600.

Each “family” chose a cancer charity as a beneficiary of one-eighth of the proceeds. The following charities were recipients: American Cancer Society Research, Cops 4 Cancer and Northwestern University Cancer Research.

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PRINCETON — New York classical guitarist Peter Fletcher will perform selections from his latest CD “Christmas Music for Guitar” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, at the Princeton Public Library. Fletcher has played at Carnegie Hall multiple times to a packed house and has been widely broadcast on radio and television.

The concert will include Bach’s “Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring,” “Simple Gifts” (a traditional Shaker hymn), Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,” and three pieces from Michael Praetorius’s “Terpsichore.” He will also play songs he performed at his recent Carnegie Hall concert.

His CDs will be on sale after his concert.

This concert is free to the public. More information about Peter Fletcher is available online at www.peterfletcher.com. For more information on upcoming programs and on Princeton Public Library services, go to www.theprincetonlibrary.org or call 815-875-1331.

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Peter Fletcher

Honor Those Who Wh h Served Our Country Help us recognize area veterans by submitting a photo and the following information to be included in our “Salute to Veterans” special edition November 10, 2015.

New Submissions Send or drop off a photo and information to Shannon Serpette, Bureau County Republican, 800 Ace Road, P.O. Box 340, Princeton, IL 61356

by Friday, October 9, 2015.

Already y submitted a photo?

If you submitted a photo last year and would like it included in this year’s “Salute to Veterans,” call Shannon Serpette at 815-875-4461 ext. 6332 or e-mail news@bcrnews.com and give your name, phone number and the veteran’s name.

Beat the FLU BUG

(We do not put in last year’s photo automatically. You need to contact us

by Friday, October 9, 2015.)

St. Margaret’s Hospital will offer flu vaccinations at the following locations: Salute to Veterans - New Submission

Oct. 7th

8am-9:30am

Granville Bank

Oct. 7th

4pm-6pm

St. Margaret’s 1st Floor Presentation Room

Oct. 10th

9am-11am

St. Margaret’s 1st Floor Presentation Room

Oct. 15th

8:30am-10am

Selby Township Library, DePue

Dates of Service_______________________________

Liberty Village, Peru

Date of Death or MIA IA__________________________ (if applicable)

Must be submitted by Friday, October 9, 2015

Veteran’s name________________________________ Hometown___________________________________

Oct. 22nd 8am - 10am

St. Margaret’s Health St. Margaret’s Hospital SMP Health System

Registration is NOT required.

Walk-ins are welcome. Fee $30.

Medicare accepted. Participants must be 18 or older.

Military Branch_______________________________

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–– SAMPLE –––– –– For more information, contact Health Promotions at St. Margaret’s Hospital 815.664.1440

Submitted by_________________________________ Phone_______________________________________ ((Y Your name and number will not be published) Pictures will be returned if submitted with a self-addressed, stamped envelope or may be picked up at our office after November 10, 2015.

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Education news

5k run-walk fundraiser

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PHS Class of 1956 has reunion The Princeton High School class of 1956 held its 59th class reunion on Sept. 12 in the hospitality room at the AmericInn in Princeton. There were 42 people in attendance; 27 were classmates. Those in attendance included Dennis Keleher (front, from left), Judy (Brown) Nordstrom, Bob Carlson, Carol (Ackerman) Norton, Nancy (Sutcliffe) Wolter, Jan (Brown) Schuster, Ruth (Bell) Hanna, Carolyn (Fiste) Barkley, Kay (Conner) Pliszka, Sandee (Johnstone) Halberg and Glen “Red” Allicks; Maggie (Smith) Bohn (second row, from left), Dixie (Pomeroy) Utter, Mary (Helper) Carloye, Sandy (Johnson) Vickrey, Mary Lynn (Stamm) Kelly and Curt Hulteen; and Charles “Buzz” Kuehl (back row, from left), Jim Wright, Dan McDonald, Dick Coddington, Nancy (Hodkins) Bloomstrand, Nancy (Kaufman) Capron, Linda (Crabbs) Edminister, Brad Pihl, Bill Tornow and Gordon Vickrey. Classmates gathered throughout the weekend for dinner at Prime Quarter, golf outings and lunch at Wise Guys. The class has held a reunion every year since their 50th reunion. Plans are in the works for their 60th reunion.

Make Someone Happy

Clothing drive in Seatonville

• Happy anniversary on Sunday, Sept. 27, to Derek and Angie Whited. From your friends at Princeton Rotary.

• Happy 72nd birthday to Lorelle Burcham on Monday, Sept. 28.

• Happy 53rd anniversary to Lorelle and Don Burcham on Tuesday, Sept. 29.

SEATONVILLE — During the month of September, the Seatonville Congregational Church, Independent will hold its annual clothing drive to benefit people in need. They are in need of either new or slightly worn clothing to be distributed at the annual Clothing Closet set for 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 10. Clothes must be washed and clean and can be dropped off at the church during service times or call the church office at 815-894-2697 to make an appointment for a drop-off.

Send your community/lifestyle news to news@bcrnews.com.

OGLESBY — The first Connie Dzierzynski Skerston scholarship fundraiser 5k run/walk will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Illinois Valley Community College campus.

The event honors the memory of Skerston, who died of a brain aneurysm in March at the age of 45. She was a 16-year leader in IVCC’s Student Services office. All proceeds will help fund a scholarship in her memory.

“The scholarship will preserve her educational legacy and passion for working with and helping young minds in the Illinois Valley,” Skerston’s daughter, Amber Dzierzynski, said.

The entry fee is $25 if received by Saturday, Oct. 3, and $30 after. Early packet pick-up will be available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, near the college’s main entrance.

Race day registration will be from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Participants will receive a T-shirt, water and light snacks. IVCC’s therapeutic massage program will provide free massages. Music will be provided by Hit Squad Disc Jockeys. There will be several age divisions for men and women. For information, call 815-664-2236 or email b.dzier@comcast.net.

Scholarship open to high school seniors MOLINE — Midwest Technical Institute and the mikeroweWORKS Foundation announced the third annual mrWF/MTI scholarship program for graduating high school seniors beginning Sept. 14.

The 2015-16 program will award seven graduating high school seniors with a 100 percent tuition-paid scholarship for any of MTI’s workforce training programs. Winners will have the opportunity to select from a number of in-demand vocational courses and programs including welding, HVAC, medical assisting, dental assisting, truck driving and more.

Each year, approximately $800,000 in scholarship funds are awarded to help high school students gain the skills and experience necessary to secure meaningful employment in today’s competitive workforce and develop into industry-leading professionals.

To be eligible, students must be graduating seniors during the 2015-16 academic year and submit a brief essay and video detailing why they should be selected as a scholarship winner. Submitted videos will be uploaded to MTI’s website for a period of public voting.

Submissions opened Sept. 14 and will be accepted through March 25, 2016. Public voting on student videos will run from April 1 to May 1, 2016, and winners will be announced on or about May 6, 2016.

For more information about the scholarship program, including previous winners, visit www.midwesttech.edu.

Illinois Valley Living’s

of WOMEN distinction Awards Luncheon Save the Date Order Your Tickets Today!

Date: Time: Location: Ticket Price:

Keynote Speaker: Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan

Thursday, October 15, 2015 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

The Barn at Hornbaker Gardens, Princeton $30 per person

Tickets are available for purchase at the Bureau County Republican office at 800 Ace Road, Princeton, IL 61356 or by calling 815-875-4461, EXT. 6320. Seats are limited. Tickets are non-refundable.

This year’s winners are:

• Dr. Linda C. Gustafson of Princeton • Kathy Jo Lindner of LaSalle • Betty Jean Pappas of LaSalle

• Sen. Sue Rezin of Morris • Denise Etscheid Sabotta of LaSalle • Janice Wamhoff of Princeton

Presenting Sponsor: Heartland Bank & Trust Co. Keynote Sponsor: Perry Memorial Hospital Major Sponsors: St. Margaret’s Health, Illinois Valley Community College, Illinois Valley Community Hospital, Liberty Village, Flowers by Julia, The Barn at Hornbaker Gardens

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Business&Ag

Do you have a new business? Has someone from your company received an award? Is your ag operation doing something different or unique? — Contact BCR Staff Writer Lyle Ganther at 815-875-4461, ext. 6360, or email him at lganther@bcrnews.com with your story ideas or press releases.

New corn disease found in Illinois Harvest season is slowly getting underway in Northern Illinois, but the growing season that has thrown so many things at area farmers had one more surprise.

A disease that previously had not been found on the continental U.S. was verified first in Indiana, and then confirmed in Northern Illinois. Corn leaf samples from three Northern Illinois counties have been confirmed positive for the fungus Phyllachora maydis by Megan Romby, National Plant Pathologist with the USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service in Beltsville, Md. Positive counties in Illinois are LaSalle, DeKalb and Bureau. In her Illinois Bulletin article Dr. Suzanne Bissonnette from the University of Illinois Plant Clinic shared that the samples were collected from commercial fields by Monsanto breeders and pathologists and sent to Dr. Kiersten Wise in response to her inquiry for samples and distribution information of the Tar spot pathogen.

Dr. Wise and Purdue Plant Clinic Director Gail Ruhl initially identified the pathogen which is new to the U.S. one and one-half weeks ago and submitted confirmation samples to the USDA. Upon receipt of the Illinois samples, they diagnosed the fungus, contacted the University of Illinois Plant Clinic and submitted the Illinois samples to the USDA for confirmation at their request.

Scouting for the disease has been active in Illinois. Jennifer Chaky, Pioneer Plant Diagnostic Clinic, also has samples from Bureau County diagnosed with Tar Spot as has University of Illinois Extension Agronomist Russ Higgins with samples collected in LaSalle County.

Tar Spot has distinctive symptoms.

The fungal fruiting body, called an ascomata, really does look like a spot of tar on the leaf. Lesions are black, sunken oval to circular.

They can be small flecks of about 1/64 of an inch up to about 5/64 of an inch. The lesions can merge together to produce an affected area up to 3/8 of an inch. If you run your finger across the leaf you will feel tiny bumps.

Prior to the Indiana finding, Tar Spot was known to occur only in cool

Russ Higgins COMMENTARY

Samples from Bureau County have been diagnosed with Tar Spot, as well as samples from LaSalle County. humid areas at high elevations in Latin America. There are actually two fungi that cause Tar Spot disease on corn, Phyllachora maydis and Monographella maydis.

While Monographella maydis is known to be able to cause economic yield losses in Latin America, Phyllachora maydis is not known to significantly reduce yield. Other pathogens may be confused with Tar Spot, especially the overwintering teliospore (black) phase of corn rust. Also, there are many fungi, called saprophytes that feed on dead corn tissue and form black splotches on the leaves.

To date only one of the pathogens, Phyllachora maydis, has been found in Indiana and Illinois If you are scouting your fields prior to harvest and suspect Tar Spot please submit a sample to the University of Illinois Plant Clinic. They are interested in getting a comprehensive idea of distribution of the disease in the state.

For more information on Tar Spot of corn, please see the USDA-ARS Diagnostic Fact Sheet: http://nt.arsgrin.gov/taxadescriptions/factsheets/ index.cfm?thisapp=Phyllachoramaydis.

Until next time, wishing all farmers a safe and productive harvest.

Russ Higgins is from the University of Illinois Extension, Northern Illinois Agronomy Research Center.

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Area roundup

Volleyball: Kewanee def. SBA 26-24, 25-22

All-conference mettle Hicks, Scheri shoot for TRAC honors

Lady Bruins can’t overcome Boilermakers

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KEWANEE — The Three Rivers Athletic Conference contest between the St. Bede Lady Bruins and victorious Kewanee Boilermakers was a lot closer than even the final score (2624, 25-22) showed Thursday, Sept. 24, in H.F. Brockman gymnasium in Kewanee.

Kewanee played from behind in the first game of the night and was able to grab a comeback win, and they used that momentum to jump out 4-0 in the second game but had to stave off a late comeback attempt from the Bruins.

St. Bede controlled the first game early on, outscoring their opponent 14-8 as Kewanee had trouble dealing with the Bruins’ attack until mental mistakes began to allow the Boilermakers to build some steam on an 8-2 run that tied the first game at 16-16.

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Princeton senior Arraia Hicks secured her second straight all-conference finish, placing eighth in Wednesday’s Three Rivers Meet at Highland Springs Golf Course in Rock Island.

The Princeton senior shot a 98.

She was joined on the all-conference podium by Hall senior Amanda Scheri, who was one stroke back at 10th. Scheri has returned to comArraia petition this year Hicks after missing her junior season with a knee injury.

PHS senior Audra Reidner finished 11th overall, missing out on first team honors by one stroke.

The Tigresses placed fourth in the eight-team field. St. Amanda Bede was fifth (448).

Scheri “Arraia struggled a bit out there but was able to control her emotions and stay focused on her game plan and goals,” PHS coach Will Gross said. “The course was playing extremely difficult, and she was striking the ball solid, but the greens were getting the best of her. It was great to see that she rebounded well after tough holes for her and really demonstrated how a player at her level can accomplish her goals even when she is not playing at her best.”

Also for Princeton, Rachel Jensen had a 120, Jaimee Ciesielski a 124 and Brooke Hieronymus and Kelly VanDenBussche a 126.

Sherrard won the team title, beating out Rockridge 375-385. Erie took third (415).

Jillian Stone of Rockridge was medalist at 78.

At Chapel Hill: Reidner capped her final home meet in style Thursday, taking medalist honors at 46 to lead the Tigresses (198) to a Senior

little slow or flat tonight,” St. Bede coach Karrie Damerell said. “The first game we came out strong, but then mistakes kind of took the wind out of us and we committed a lot of mental errors tonight that you just can’t have this late in the season.”

Five ties and four lead changes occurred after the 16-16 tie before Kewanee claimed the first game on a ball that SBA tipped out of bounds.

“Kewanee made some great plays and picked each other up when they needed to, and we just couldn’t capitalize on our opportunities,” Damerell said.

Kewanee controlled the second game for the most part and built a 21-15 lead, but a timeout by Damerell seemed to rally the Bruins led by junior middle hitter Chase Ludford. She came out and dropped a thunderous kill that started a 6-0 St. Bede run that included back-to-back

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Audra Reidner admires her tee shot at Chapel Hill Golf Course Thursday. The PHS senior celebrated Senior Night with medalist honors. She brought out her old checkered skirt for the occasion.

Night victory over Putnam County (213).

Hicks added a 47, Jensen a 53, Ciesielski a 53, VanDenBussche a 56 and Hieronymus a 59.

PC was led by Olivia Holmes at 49.

DePue’s Dakota Mitchell shot a 49.

Boys’ golf

At Emerald Hills: Princeton (180) swept a TRAC triangular, defeating Erie (186) and host Newman (198) Thursday. Colby Robbins (42) and Dillon Wright (43) paced Princeton (10-9, 7-5). Also scoring for the Tigers were Bryce Nyman at 46 and Josh Eggers and Conner Alter with 49s. Jake Farraher added a 50.

Medalist Billy Carr (45) and the Princeton JV (203) swept its match

as well. Seth Torchia had a 47, Auystin Briddick a 55, Braden Murfin a 56, Hunter Culjan a 57 and Grant Reed a 66.

At Bloomington: Adam Lenkaitis had a 45 and Peyton Pyszka a 46 for St. Bede (198), who lost to host Central Catholic (168) and Normal West (186) Thursday at Highland Golf Course.

Boys’ soccer

Somonauk 3, Princeton 0: It’s been a tough week for the Princeton Tiger soccer team, ending with Thursday’s loss at Somonauk. The Bobcats scored twice in the first half and again early in the second.

“We have been flat this week.

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Chase Ludford makes a play for St. Bede Thursday night at Kewanee.

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Lady Lions capture Senior Night win

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Paige Conner takes a hit for LaMoille/Ohio against Indian Creek on Senior Night at LaMoille.

The script could not have been written any better for Senior Night for the LaMoille/Ohio volleyball team Thursday, Sept. 24.

The Lady Lions varsity claimed a 25-21, 14-25, 25-20 win over visiting Indian Creek in Little Ten Conference play. L/O made it a clean sweep by also winning freshmen (25-22, 25-22) and sophomore (26-24, 25-20) matches.

points, 2 aces, 7 kills, 7 I was just so proud of the digs), Riley Johnson (25 team effort to get the win digs) and Jordyn Pinter at home and send our four (15 digs). seniors off with a memoraRiverdale 2, Princble night,” L/O coach Halli eton 1: The Tigresses May said. “It was an exciting posted a 25-21 win in night and a big conference the first set, but were win.” unable to carry over Senior Erika Zimmerlein that momentum. The shined for 16 kills, nine digs, Erika Rams rallied in the secfour points and three aces.

Other leading contribu- Zimmerlein ond and third sets (2513, 25-16) to take the tors were Paige Conner (8 digs, 16 assists), Rae Schultz (9 points, 8 assists), Lexi Loftus (6 Volleyball Page 12

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Running

Jenkins, 11, wins Homestead 5K

From Page 11 “Some of the boys are battling illness, some have injuries. With our low numbers it is difficult to replace, and substitute for boys that need to rest. With that being said, we have to play better,” PHS coach David Gray said.

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Cross country

At Granville: Putnam County’s Noe Flores (18:12) and Jon Sobbotta (18:31) ran 1-2 in Thursday’s meet at the Putnam County Conservation District. Hall’s Ethan Cattani (18:36) and Westley Schmidt (18:40) followed in the next two spots.

The Hall girls had their own 1-2 punch with Jenna Parente (23:07) and Kaylee Olivares (24:20).

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Princeton senior Jaimee Ciesielski (above) chips to the green on the No. 10 hole Thursday at Chapel Hill Golf Course. Classmate Brooke Hieronymus (below) takes an iron shot.

Volleyball From Page 11 Three Rivers Conference match.

Courtney Oeder, Haley Schultz and Tieg Sisler each had six kills and Anna Murray added five for PHS (12-7, 6-3). Oeder also added four blocks. The setting duties were split between Jenna Grimmer (8), Madison (8) and Ellise Piper (7), who combined for 23 assists. Menzel and Sarah Murray each had six points.

PHS won the freshmen match 25-8, 21-25, 15-13, but Riverdale won the sophomore match 25-13, 25-8.

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The Seneca runner raced off with the Underground Railroad 5K race during Homestead weekend. She had a winning time of 19:58.6. Kelly Dzierzynski, 37, of Cherry was second in 20:48.

Michael Novak, 21, of Streator was the first male finisher in 17:08.

First Princeton finishers were Brent Loftus, 16, who was second overall (19:03) and DeeAnn Underwood, 53, in 22:36.

Age division winners and Top 5 local finishers (Princeton runners not shown by city) were: 13 and under: Kevin Stokes, 13, Dyer, 21:02; Riley Reuter, 13, Henry, 25:17.

14-19: 1. Eli Grundman, 14, Princeton, 21:04; Rebecca Prushinski, 16, Princeton, 35:38.

20-24: 1. Kyle Novak, 24, Streator, 21:15; - 1. Brianna Kamphuis, 22, Princeton, 29:41.

25-29: 1. Keith Varland, 29, Princeton, 21:42; Jessica Johnston, 28, Tiskilwa, 22:59.

30-34: Brian Taylor, 32, Princeton, 20:07; Courtney Bayer, 33, Sheffield, 28:04.

35-39: Harvey Holocker, 35, Lacon, 19:23; Kelly Dzierzynski, Cherry, 29:48.

40-44: Male - 1. JD Orwig, 40, Ohio, 21:29; Carrie Ketter, 41, St. Charles, 27:31.

45-49: Male - 1. Timothy Novak, 49, Streator, 22:35; Michelle Gaeta, 47, Peru, 26:29.

50-44: Dennis Nink, 54, Princeton, 22:00; Julie Dimmig, 52, 26:43.

55-59: 1. Tom McDonald, 58, Rock Falls, 22:04; Brenda Roggy, 55, Wyanet, 22:56.

60-64: Jim McDonald, Normal, 61, 22:42; Barbara Harte, 62, Ottawa, 25:15.

65-69: Bob Jeffery, 67, Wyanet, 34:40; Lynn Lulay, 67, Dunlap, 31:23.

70 and over: Dean Rowe, 72, 27:46, Princeton; Mary Jane Pratt, 76, Granville, 30:45.

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Sports Shorts Bowling sign-ups PRINCETON — Junior bowling sign-ups for the Princeton league will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 at Crown Lanes. The junior league will start at 10 a.m.

Saturday, Oct. 3. For more information, call Sherry Allen at 815-878-1230 or Carol Walker at 815-7935027.

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PRINCETON — Tryouts for the Princeton Soccer Academy’s 2015-16 indoor season will be held Oct. 3.

There will be teams for 10 and under coed, 12 and

Scoreboard Girls basketball

At Princeton 7th grade: Princeton Logan 22, Streator Northlawn 15. Logan: A. Jensen 6, A. Grove 4. G. May 2, E. Sorenson 3, T. Quiram 4, E. Zelenik 3.

8th grade: Streator won.

Boys golf

At Valley View Club Orion 159, Princeton 175, Hall 191.

Front 9, Par 36. Medalist: Grafton, Orion 36. Hall: Hoscheid 38, Marenda 46, Nielsen 52, Scheri 55. PHS: Robbins 41, Alter 43, Eggers 45, Wright 46, Nyman 48.

At Emerald Hills Princeton 180, Erie 186, Newman 198.

Back 9. Medalist: Rude (N) 41. PHS: Robbins 42, Wright 43, Nyman 46, Alter 49, Eggers 49, Farraher 50.

JV: Princeton 203, Erie 218, Newman 243. Medalist: Carr (P) 45. PHS: Torchia 47, Briddick 55, Murfin 56, Culjan 57, Reed 66 TRAC JV Invite at Hidden Lake Team scores: Riverdale 395, Kewanee 382, St. Bede 395, Rockridge 399, Erie 403, BV 411, Princeton 412, AnnawanWethersfield 422, Stark County 468.

BV: Law 91, Novotney 91 Hanson 108, Paul 118, Massa 118, Lind 127.

PHS: Carr 99 Culjan 101, Briddick 106, Murfin 109, Torchia 117.

SBA: Cook 88, Legner 97, Luddford 97, Thresfeld, Grammer 119, Boehm 141.

Girls golf

Three Rivers Conference Meet at Highland Springs, Milan Team scores: 1. Sherrard 375, 2.

Rockridge 383, 3. Erie 415, 4. Princeton 442, 5. St. Bede 448, 6. Orion 462, 7.

Riverdale 458, 8. Prophetstown 481 Top 10 individuals: Par 72 - 1.

Stone (RR) 78; 2. Workman (Morrison) 80; 3. Schmidt (Sherrard) 81; 4. Munson (F) 87; 5. Bebon (E) 88; 6. Abella (S) 93; 7. Schmidt (S) 94; 8. Hicks (P) 98; 9.

Newton (Erie) 99; 10. Scheri (Hall) 99.

Other PHS scores: Reidner 100, Jensen 120, Ciesielski 124, Hieronymus 124, VanDenBussche 124.

At Emerald Hills Princeton 227, Freeport 236, Sterling

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LAMOILLE — Allen Junior High School in LaMoille will host the 2015 BVEC Conference volleyball tournament from Sept. 26 to Oct. 1. There will be a Dig Pink theme, sponsored by Perry Memorial Hospital, with 50/50 raffles, T-shirt sales and basket raffles with all proceeds going to benefit local cancer research.

Participating teams include Bradford, Bureau Valley North. Bureau Valley South, DePue, Ladd, Malden, Neponset and LaMoille.

246. Medalist: Nesemier (F) 46. PHS: Jensen 53, Reidner 53, Hicks 57, Hieronymus 64, VanDenBussche 64.

At Chapel Hill Princeton 198, Putnam County 2123.

Medalist: Reidner (Pr) 46. PHS: Hicks 47, Jensen 52, Ciesielski 53, VanDenBussche 56, Hieronymus 59. JV: Loftus 58, Leopold 72.

PC: Holmes 49, Schem 53, Bauer 55, Hundley 56, Lindstrom 57, Cimsi 61.

DePue: Mitchell 53.

Rec golf

Wyaton Hills Ladies Day PLAY OF DAY (9-22): Best Poker Hand - 1. Beth Bickerman, 2. (tie) Karen Towns, Judy Farley, 4. (tie) Carolyn Barkley, Peg Carr, Phyliss Miller, 7. Dorothy Oaks, 8.

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High school girls At Princeton Riverdale def. Princeton 21-25, 25-13, 25-16. PHS (12-7, 6-3): A. Murray (5 kills), Gimmer (1 kill, 8 assists), Menzel 6 (8 assists, 3 digs, 1 ace), Oeder 1 (6 kills, 1 ace, 4 blocks), Piper (7 assists), S. Murray 6 (3 digs), Schultz 3 (6 kills) Sisler 3 (6 kills, 1 block), Way (4 digs).

SOPHS: Riverdale 25-13, 25-8.

FRESHMEN: PHS 25-8, 21-25, 15-13.

At Kewanee Kewanee def. St. Bede 26-24, 25-22.

SBA (8-10, 4-4): Pohar 7 (2 aces, 12 digs), Ludford (8 kills, 6 assists, 2 blocks), Knecht (5 kills), Bima (3 blocks), Long (5 assists).

SOPHS: Riverdale 25-13, 25-8.

FRESHMEN: PHS 25-8, 21-25, 15-13.

At Spring Valley Orion def. Hall 25-13, 25-20. Hall (6-12, 2-5): Keegan (2 kills, 14 assists, 7 digs), Hoscheid (6 kills, 4 digs), Lusietto (2 kills), Coble (3 kills), Cai. Jablonski (4 kills), Soldati (10 digs).

SOPHS: Orion 25-15, 25-20.

FRESHMEN: Orion 25-10, 25-14.

Junior college At Dixon Sauk def. IVCC 25-20, 25-27, 25-18, 25-14. IVCC: Johnson (12 kills), Erjavsek (8 kills), Bates (24 digs), Bennett (5 digs), E. Herrmann (2 digs), Olivares (8 digs).

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St. Bede’s Thea Mauck makes a hit at Kewanee Thursday night in TRAC play.

aces from sophomore outside hitter Kaelyn Condon.

The comeback fell just short as Kewanee squeaked away with its second win of the night to take the match.

The Lady Bruins combo of Ludford and outside hitter Kourtney Knecht proved troublesome for the Boilers as Ludford finished with (8 kills) and Knecht contributed with (5 kills). Pohar served for seven points and two aces.

Kewanee sophomore middle hitter Mitrese Smith put a lot of pressure on the Lady Bruins as they had trouble finding a way around the length that she brought to the net that resulted in six kills and three blocks.

“A lot of fixing those mental errors is just repetition. They need to be put into that position and the situations where they have pressure on them and they are forced to make a play,” Damerell said. “We try to do that in practice as much as possible but the type of intensity and pressure an actual game brings is something that you can’t really get while in practice.”

The Lady Bruins (8-10, 4-4) will have a chance for repetitions as they enter tournament play at the Reed-Custer Lady Comet Classic held this Saturday in Braidwood.

“We’re seeing improvements on the court in our decision making and mental play. We just need to keep working in practice and continuing to play hard on game nights,” Damerell said.

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Visit www.oneok.com/careers to view additional details about the position which is listed under 2015-4353.

PRINCETON PLAZA Restaurant is looking for LINE COOKS & SERVERS. Apply within: 2839 North Main Street, Princeton, IL HENRY-SENACHWINE High School is seeking a PARAPROFESSIONAL Who is knowledgeable, organized, committed to student success, maintains a high degree of professionalism, has well-developed interpersonal skills, and a high energy level.

Interested candidates need to send a letter of application and credentials to: Mr. Wes Wolven, Principal, Henry-Senachwine High School, 1023 College Avenue, Henry, IL 61537.

Application deadline is Friday, September 25th, 2015 Ag View FS, Inc., a Retail Agricultural business, is accepting applications for part-time SEASONAL DRIVERS as well as NONDRIVING positions.

Class B CDL HazMat qualifications preferred.

Send resume or apply at: Ag View FS, 22069 US Hwy 34, Princeton, IL 61356. 815-875-2808 SNOW REMOVAL BID SHEETS can be picked up at First United Methodist Church, 316 South Church, Princeton.

Bids due October 8th

HARD TO FIND THAT RIGHT PERSON FOR THAT JOB OPENING? The Bureau County Republican Classified can reach just the right person you are looking for to fill that job opening.

229 • Professional/ Clerical Part-Time TREASURER The Village of Walnut is currently accepting applications for a part-time Treasurer. All applicants must have bookkeeping skills, knowledge of doing payroll and filing payroll taxes and knowledge of the Quick Books program would also be a plus.

Please come into the Walnut Village Office at: 114 Jackson Street between the hours of 8am to 4pm, Monday through Friday to obtain an application. Completed applications will be accepted until October 16, 2015 at 4pm

229 • Professional/ Clerical Full-Time POLICE OFFICER The Village of Walnut Police Department is accepting applications for the position of Full-Time Police Officer. Minimum qualifications: Must be at least 21 years of age, a U.S. citizen, and successful completion of high school diploma or equivalent. Applicant must also be currently enrolled, and attending a two-year college seeking an Associate's Degree in Law Enforcement, with a minimum of 15 certifiable credit hours in Law Enforcement. Preferred qualifications: Current valid State of Illinois Law Enforcement Officer Certification. Applications are available at: Walnut Village Office, 114 Jackson Street, Walnut, IL 61376, Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm. Completed applications will be accepted until end of business day October 16, 2015. The Village of Walnut is an EOE employer PART-TIME POLICE OFFICER The Village of Walnut Police Department is accepting applications for PartTime Police Officer. A current valid State of Illinois Law Enforcement Officer Certification is required.

Applicants must be able to work variable hours, shift work, holidays, and weekends as the schedule indicates. Applicants must conform to the Police Code of Ethics.

Applications available at: Village Office, 114 Jackson Street, Walnut, IL 61376, Monday-Friday 8am-4pm. Completed applications will be accepted until end of business day October 16, 2015

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232 • Business Opportunities ********** THE CLASSIFIED Advertising Department of the Bureau County Republican Does not have the opportunity to fully investigate the credibility of each advertiser appearing within these columns. If an offer sounds “too good to be true” it probably is.

Proceed with caution if you are asked to send money or to give a credit card number.

Proceed with caution in calling 900 phone numbers. All phone numbers prefixed by ”900” are charged to the CALLER. Charges may be assessed on a “per minute” basis rather than a “per call” basis.

The Bureau County Republican Classifieds makes every effort to qualify these charges for the reader.

If you have a concern about an advertiser, please contact: Better Business Bureau 330 North Wabash Chicago, IL 60611 312-832-0500 ADVERTISE YOUR SERVICES RIGHT HERE! The Bureau County Republican can promote your services and let people know you are out there wanting there business. Just call (815) 875-4461 and let us help.

448 • Pets & Livestock DONATE NOW! “The animals are crying” Tri-County Humane Society. LaSalle, Bureau, Putnam Counties.

Call 815-875-6145 or 815-872-9781 or send donation to: PO Box 1601, LaSalle, IL 61301

450 • Under $1000 3 piece white bedroom furniture: 3 drawer dresser $25; nightstand $15; twin headboard $10; or all for $40. 815-222-7946 4 piece wicker set $250; 2 drawer filing cabinet $10; classical record sets $3 each.

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450 • Under $1000 ************ HAVE SOMETHING TO SELL? Put your ad in for FREE Items $1,000 or less can run FREE for 1 week. Limit of 5 lines.

Up to 3 items with price and price totaling under $1,000. 1 ad per household per week.

No commercial ads, firearms or animal sales.

Go to: bcrnews.com, to place an ad. Use category merchandise and then bargains or E-mail information to: classified@ bcrnews.com (include your name, address & phone number) No Phone Calls!

Cornet with case, mute, and music holder. $300.

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Very nice dining table, 4 arm chairs and 2 dining chairs, 4 extra leafs for table. Good condition. $300. Call 815-872-0058

Elephants- all sizes $2 each; ice machine, works great, $50; 2 curio cabinets $60 each.

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Yamaha digital piano, 88 note, like new. Model #YDP101, with bench, $400. Call 815-454-2073, leave message

Ethan Allen armoire, TV area, 7' tall with doors and shelves, includes 37” flat screen television $350. 815-879-8104

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460 • Garage Sales GRANVILLE 12763 IL Hwy 71 (South side by railroad tracks- between BP & Caseys). Friday, Saturday, September 25, 26; 8am5pm; Sunday, September 27, 9am-2pm.

MULTI-FAMILY SALE. Boys clothes, toys collectibles, furniture, misc.

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James Hardie® Building Products, Inc. James Hardie Building Products, a recognized leader in the fiber cement industry, is currently recruiting for

PRODUCTION MACHINE OPERATORS If you are self-motivated, want a long lasting career and have the following qualifications, we encourage you to apply: • Machine operator experience in a manufacturing environment.

• Forklift experience is a plus.

• Basic math skills.

• Available to work day or night 12 hr shifts, including weekends.

• Candidates must have solid work history, ability to pass a physical, drug screen and criminal background check.

• Ability to lift 50 lbs Pay & Benefits The starting rate is $15.19, with a $.45 shift differential. We offer excellent 1st day benefits including health, dental, prescription and vision insurance; paid vacations; paid holidays; and an optional 401(k) savings plan with a dollar for dollar company match up to 6%.

Drug Free Workplace, EOE, M/F/D/V Interested applicants should apply online at: www.jameshardie.apply2jobs.com Please apply to Req#1830 You must complete an online profile and application for consideration.

You may also apply in person at: 17 Unytite Drive Peru, IL 61354 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

INDEPENDENT CONTRACT BUNDLE HAULER The Bureau County Republican is looking for a driver to deliver carrier, store and news rack bundles. Late night/early morning delivery Monday, Wednesday & Friday nights.

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LOSTANT 108 Seigel Street. Saturday, October 3 & Saturday, October 10; 8am-3pm.

MOVING SALE Husqvarna 20hp 42" cut riding mower, washer/ dryer, garage tools & all household items

SHEFFIELD TOWN-WIDE GARAGE SALES Saturday, September 26, 8am - 2pm.

Garage and yard sales featuring crafts, antiques, clothes, & food stand.

Maps available at the grocery store. Lots of sales

2 Story, 2 Bedroom with 2 car unattached garage & machine shed on 3+ acres in Bureau Valley School District. 309-368-0902

LAKE THUNDERBIRD 12 Hemlock Drive. Small 2 bedroom A Frame. 2 car detached garage. Stove & fridge. $600 a month. $1,600 moves you in.

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MAGNOLIA 2600 Evans Road. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, September 24, 25, 26; 8am-6pm.

MOVING/GARAGE SALE. Tools, household, furniture. Watch for signs on Wenona blacktop and Rt. 18 MANLIUS 20694-1000 E Street. Friday & Saturday, September 25 & 26; 8am-2pm.

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Commission of the City of Princeton, Illinois, on Tuesday, October 13, 2015, at 5:30 p.m., The hearing will be held at the City Hall Council Chambers located at 2 South Main Street, Princeton, Illinois. For information on this petition prior to the hearing; please contact Brian Gift, Director of Planning at 815-8793381.

Dated: September 26, 2015, 2015 By: Brian Gift Director of Planning City of Princeton Published in the Bureau County Republican Sept. 26, 2015.

as Princeton Family Therapeutic Massage located at 682 E. Peru Street, Princeton, IL 61356.

Dated this 22nd day of September, 2015. /s/Kamala S. Hieronymus Bureau County Clerk Published in the Bureau County Republican Sept. 26, Oct. 3 and 10, 2015.

NOTICE OF INTENTION OF LA MOILLE COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 303, BUREAU AND LEE COUNTIES, ILLINOIS TO ISSUE $716,000 WORKING CASH FUND BONDS (QUALIFIED ZONE ACADEMY BONDS QZABS) PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that on the 21st day of September, 2015, the Board of Education (the “Board”) of La Moille Community Unit School District Number 303, Bureau and Lee Counties, Illinois (the “District”), adopted a resolution declaring its intention and determination to issue bonds in the aggregate amount of $716,000 for the purpose of increasing the Working Cash Fund of the District, and it is the intention of the Board to avail of the provisions of Article 20 of the School Code of the State of Illinois, and all laws amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, and to issue said bonds for the purpose of increasing said Working Cash Fund. Said Working Cash Fund is to be maintained in accordance with the provisions of said Article and shall be used for the purpose of enabling the District to have in its treasury at all time sufficient money to meet demands thereon for expenditures for corporate purposes.

A petition may be filed with the Secretary of the Board (the “Secretary”) within thirty (30) days after the date of publication of this notice, signed by not less than 122 voters of the District, said number of voters being equal to ten percent (10%) of the registered voters of the District, requesting that the proposition to issue said bonds as authorized by the provisions of said Article 20 be submitted to the voters of the District. If such petition is filed with the Secretary within thirty (30) days after the date of publication of this notice, an election on the proposition to issue said bonds shall be held on the 15th day of March, 2016. The Circuit Court may declare that an emergency referendum should be held prior to said election date pursuant to the provisions of Section 2A 1.4 of the Election Code of the State of Illinois, as amended. If no such petition is filed within said thirty (30) day period, then the District shall thereafter be authorized to issue said bonds for the purpose hereinabove provided.

By order of the Board of Education of La Moille Community Unit School District Number 303, Bureau and Lee Counties, Illinois.

DATED this 21st day of September, 2015.

Nick Pinter Secretary, Board of Education, Continued on page 16

HUGE 5 FAMILY INDOOR GARAGE SALE. PRINCETON 1009 North Maple. Saturday Sept. 26, 7am-2pm.

MULTI-FAMILY Toys, tools, clothes, Fifth plate for hauling a trailer and miscellaneous PRINCETON 1207 North Beech Street.

Friday, September 25, 9am-4pm; Saturday, September 26, 9am -??

MULTI-FAMILY SALE. Household items, baby/ children's clothes and toys, holiday decorations, women's clothing, some antiques and jewelry PRINCETON 19212-1900 N Avenue (cross Red Covered Bridge, turn left on 1900 N Avenue, brick house on south side). Friday, Saturday, September 25, 26; 8am-3pm.

Furniture, antiques, treadmill, file cabinets, typewriters, wicker dressing table, sleeping bags, fruit jars & much more!

PRINCETON 620 North Chestnut. Friday, September 25, 8am-4pm; Saturday, September 25, 8am12pm. Clothes (all sizes), maternity clothes, (boy's: NB-3months & 18-24month, & 2T). Stroller, furniture, computer desk, trailer, engines, exercise machine & much more PRINCETON 707 Bryant Circle Drive. Thursday, September 24, 3pm-7pm; Friday, September 25, 9am-6pm; Saturday, September 26, 9am-Noon.

MULTI-FAMILY SALE. Boy's clothes & toys NB2T. Baby equipment, girl clothes 12mth-girls' 10, women clothes. Some furniture & misc.

PRINCETON 830 Bruce Lane. Friday & Saturday, September 25, 26; 9am6pm.

ESTATE SALE 5 piece bedroom set, Precious Moments, patio set, furniture, Lund boat, riding mower, tools, bunk beds. Many misc. items PRINCETON 9 North Euclid. Friday, September 25, 11am-5pm; Saturday, September 26, 11am3pm.

Holiday décor, gaming, home items, lots more

614 • Car Sales ******* $$ CASH PAID $$ We pay top dollar for junk (cars, machinery, etc.)

Call 815-878-9353 1991 MUSTANG Convertible, 5.0, auto, new top, tires, etc. $5,500. Take motorcycle/cash trade.

Call 815-872-1906 2000 Chevy Cavalier 4 door, front end alignment & new tires, new exhaust & radiator. 93,000 miles.

Red. Call 815-866-2429 2008 CHEVY MALIBU, Chrome wheels, remote start. On Star equipped.

Needs brakes. $5,000 or best offer. 815-878-3650

WANTING TO SELL YOUR CAR? Call 815-875-4461

- 700 Real Estate For Sale 767 • Mobile Home Sales **************** PUBLISHER'S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.”

Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

To complain of discrimination call, HUD tollfree at 800 669-9777.

The toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 800 927-9275

PRINCETON 3 bedroom, 2 bath, attached 3 car garage on 1 acre. 1904 Freedom Lane. Thomas J. Swan, managing broker.

Call 815-437-2087

774 • Lots for Sale BUILDING LOT 75'x150' zoned R3, includes 1 car garage. $26,500.

Call 815-875-1923

PRINCETON Large 4 bedroom. Older 2 story home.

Large yard. Central air. 2 car attached garage. $950 a month.

Call 815-875-1923 SHEFFIELD 3 Bedroom home for rent. Detached garage, 1.5 bath, with appliances. Central air. No smoking. 815-866-8587

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PRINCETON Coachlight Apartments has a 1 bedroom for $460 a month.

On-site laundry, 1st floor.

Call 815-878-7965

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Edward Browne owner of the real estate hereafter described, and has filed a Petition requesting a two lot subdivision of said real estate, pursuant to the provisions of City of Princeton Land Development Code.

The subject property of this Petition is legally described as follows: Lot No. 9 in Bureau Producers Supplies Industrial Subdivision, being a subdivision of the East OneHalf of Section 9, Township 16 North, Range 9 East of the Fourth Principal Meridian, in the County of Bureau, and State of Illinois.

Permanent Index No.: 16-09-252-002 Said real estate is commonly known as 1225 N. Euclid in the City of Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois NOTICE IS FURTHER HEREBY given that a public hearing on said Petition will be held before the Plan

1 BEDROOM downstairs apartment available now. $625 a month plus deposit. No pets or smoking. All utilities furnished, 1 garage stall, laundry in basement. New carpeting, painting. 1 year lease required. 815-228-7350 2 BEDROOM Apartment on 1st floor of apartment building. All utilities furnished. No pets or smoking. 1 garage stall, laundry in basement. 1 year lease required. Available now. $675 a month rent.

Call 815-228-7350 PRINCETON large 1 bedroom, $575. Also large 2 bedroom, $685.

Heat & utilities included.

No pets. Deposit.

Call 815-303-7066/ 815-303-7621 PRINCETON 2 Bedroom.

Modern apartment with hardwood floors, garage, all appliances included, laundry facility on site. $695/month + utilities. No pets, no smoking.

Call 815-878-1984 PRINCETON 3 bedroom, upstairs on Park Avenue. $640 per month.

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Call 815-878-3800 PRINCETON 441 East Marion. 2 bedroom. $560.

Heat, water, garbage.

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NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on September 17, 2015, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Bureau County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as All-American Academy of Martial Arts a/k/a Combat-Do Competition Team located at 413 S. Main Street, Princeton, IL 61356.

Dated this 17th day of September, 2015. /s/Kamala S. Hieronymus Bureau County Clerk Published in the Bureau County Republican Sept. 19, 26 and Oct. 3, 2015.

NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on September 22, 2015, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Bureau County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known

NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on September 15, 2015, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Bureau County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as Grassroots Cloud Services located at 23280 2650 E Street, Princeton, IL 61356 Dated this 15th day of September, 2015. /s/Kamala S. Hieronymus Bureau County Clerk Published in the Bureau County Republican Sept. 19, 26 and Oct. 3, 2015.

NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on September 9, 2015, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Bureau County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as Valley Bar & Grill located at 107 St. Paul Street, Spring Valley, IL 61362.

Dated this 9th day of September, 2015. /s/Kamala S. Hieronymus Bureau County Clerk Published in the Bureau County Republican Sept. 12, 19 and 26, 2015.

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Continued from page 15 La Moille Community Unit School District Number 303, Bureau and Lee Counties, Illinois Jeff Pinter President, Board of Education, La Moille Community Unit School District Number 303, Bureau and Lee Counties, Illinois Published in the Bureau County Republican Sept.

26, 2015.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE (735 ILCS 5/2-206,5/2-207,5/2-413, 5/15-1501(c), 5/15-1502 and 5/15-1503) The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants in the above captioned action, pursuant to the provisions of 735 ILCS 5/2-206, 5/2-207,5/15-1502 and 5/15-1503 , that the above captioned action has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Bureau County, Illinois, seeking to foreclose mortgage covering the following described real estate situated in Bureau County, Illinois, to wit: 1. Legal description: The west half of lot Six (6) and all of lots Seven (7) and Eight (8) in Second North Addition to the Village of Sheffield, Bureau County, Illinois.

2. Common address or location of mortgaged premises: 221 E North St. Sheffield, IL 61361 And for such other and further relief. Summons were duly issued by the Court as provided by law

and this action is now pending.

Unless you file your answer to the Complaint in this action or otherwise make your appearance in the Circuit Court of Bureau County, Illinois on or before November 2, 2015, default may be entered against you.

1. The names of all Plaintiffs and the case number are identified above.

2. The Court in which said action was brought is identified above.

3. The name of the titleholder of record is Amanda Crowe and Ralf Crowe.

4. The legal description of the real estate sufficient to identify it with reasonable certainty is as follows: The west half of lot Six (6) and all of lots Seven (7) and Eight (8) in Second North Addition to the Village of Sheffield, Bureau County, Illinois.

5. Common address or location of mortgaged premises: 221 E North Street Sheffield, IL 61361 6. Identification of the mortgage sought to be

foreclosed is as follows: a. Name of Mortgagor: Amanda Crowe and Ralf Crowe b. Name of Mortgagee: DHCU Community Credit Union nka Vibrant Credit Union c. Date of the Mortgage: March 12,2014 d. Date of Recording: March 13, 2014 e. County where recorded: Bureau County, lllinois f. Recording Document Identification: Document No. 2014R00840-18 Dated: September 14, 2015. /s/ Mary C. Dremann Clerk of the Circuit Court Attorney for Plaintiff: Eric J. Long, ARDC #6298521 1900 52nd Avenue Moline , Illinois 61265 Ph. 309.796.7554 Fax. 309-405.2868 Published in the Bureau County Republican Sept.

19, 26 and Oct. 3, 2015.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT BUREAU COUNTY, ILLINOIS Vibrant Credit Union, f/k/a ) DHCU Community Credit Union, ) Plaintiff, ) vs. ) Amanda Crowe, Ralf Crowe, Unknown ) Owners, and Non-Record Claimants. ) Defendants. ) Case No. 15 CH 61 NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION-

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ABOVE: Dixon’s Nate Gascoigne slips the tackle of Mendota defender during Friday’s game at A.C. Bowers Field. The Dukes pulled away for a 35-14 win. – Alex T. Paschal/apaschal@saukvalley.com

The bottom line LaSalle-Peru Sterling

22 Oregon 49 Lutheran

0 Fulton 60 Princeton

20 Amboy 24 Bureau Valley

30 AFC 54 Durand

28 Eastland-P.C. 13 Galena

16 49

Rochelle Geneseo

0 Stillman Valley 26 Byron

40 Hall 41 Sherrard

72 Morrison 39 Riverdale

22 Milledgeville 7 River Ridge

35 West Carroll 0 Forreston

22 28

Mendota Dixon

14 Winnebago 35 Rock Falls

43 Kewanee 16 St. Bede

24 Rockridge 33 Orion

6 Erie-P’town 50 Newman

4 p.m. today

0 Warren 7 Polo

SATURDAY, September 26, 2015

• Sterling rumbles past Cavaliers, FB5.

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• Princeton rallies for late win over Fulton, FB9.

WEEK 5

Dixon pulls away from Trojans for homecoming victory at A.C. Bowers, FB3.

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Around the state

How they stand NIB-12 West Geneseo Ottawa Sterling LaSalle-Peru Rochelle

Conf.

2-0 1-0 1-0 0-2 0-2

All 5-0 4-1 4-1 2-3 2-3

Friday’s results • Sterling 49, LaSalle-Peru 22 • Sycamore 35, Ottawa 0 • Geneseo 26, Rochelle 0

All 5-0 4-1 4-1 2-3 2-3 2-3 0-5 0-5

All 5-0 2-3 2-3 1-4 1-4 2-3 0-5

Friday’s results • Bureau Valley 54, Amboy 30 • Princeton 24, Fulton 20 • Morrison 22, Riverdale 7 • Orion 7, Rockridge 0 Friday, Oct. 2 • Bureau Valley at Sherrard, 7:30 • Fulton at Morrison, 7:30 • Orion at Amboy, 7:30 • Riverdale at Rockridge, 7:30

Lena-Winslow Dakota Forreston Galena West Carroll East Dubuque Pecatonica Eastland-P.C. South Beloit

Princeton Newman Erie-P’town Hall St. Bede Kewanee Sherrard

Conf.

2-0 1-0 1-0 2-1 2-1 0-3 0-3

All 5-0 4-0 3-1 4-1 3-2 2-3 0-5

Friday, Oct. 2 • Bureau Valley at Sherrard, 7:30 • Hall at Kewanee, 7:30 • Princeton at Newman, 7:30 Saturday, Oct. 3 • Erie-Prophetstown at St. Bede, 7:30

NUIC Northwest Conf.

4-0 4-1 3-1 3-2 3-2 2-2 1-3 0-4 0-5

Three Rivers Mississippi

Friday’s results • Princeton 24, Fulton 20 • Hall 72, Sherrard 39 • St. Bede 33, Kewanee 24 Today’s game • Erie-Prophetstown at Newman, 4

Friday, Oct. 2 • Dixon at Winnebago, 7 • Lutheran at Mendota, 7 • Oregon at Byron, 7 • Rock Falls at Stillman Valley, 7

Three Rivers Rock Orion Rockridge Amboy Fulton Morrison Bureau Valley Riverdale

Rkfd. Lutheran Byron Dixon Stillman Valley Oregon Winnebago Mendota Rock Falls

Conf.

3-0 3-0 2-1 2-1 1-2 1-2 0-3 0-3

Friday’s results • Dixon 35, Mendota 14 • Lutheran 60, Oregon 0 • Byron 41, Stillman Valley 40 • Winnebago 43, Rock Falls 16

Friday, Oct. 2 • Geneseo at Yorkville, 7:30 • LaSalle-Peru at Rochelle, 7:30 • Sterling at Ottawa, 7:30

Conf.

3-0 2-1 1-1 1-1 1-1 1-2 0-3

Big Northern West

All 5-0 4-1 4-1 3-2 3-2 3-2 1-4 0-5 0-5

September 26, 2015

NUIC Upstate Polo Milledgeville Stockton Aquin Warren AFC Durand Orangeville River Ridge

Conf.

4-0 4-1 3-1 3-2 3-2 2-2 1-4 0-4 0-4

Friday’s results • East Dubuque 34, South Beloit 15 • Lena-Winslow 14, Dakota 13 • Galena 49, Eastland-P.C. 16 • Stockton 59, Pecatonica 24 • Forreston 28, West Carroll 22

Friday’s results • Aquin 55, Orangeville 6 • AFC 28, Durand 13 • Milledgeville 35, River Ridge 0 • Stockton 59, Pecatonica 24 • Polo 50, Warren 6

Friday, Oct. 2 • Dakota at Eastland-Pearl City, 7:30 • Durand at West Carroll, 7:30 • East Dubuque at Forreston, 7:30 • Galena at Pecatonica, 7:30 • Lena-Winslow at South Beloit, 7:30

Friday, Oct. 2 • Orangeville at AFC, 7 • Polo at Milledgeville, 7 • Durand at West Carroll, 7:30 • River Ridge at Aquin, 7:30 • Stockton at Warren, 7:30

All 5-0 4-1 4-1 3-2 3-2 2-3 1-4 0-5 0-5

Addison Trail 14, Leyden 13 Algonquin (Jacobs) 49, Dundee-Crown 17 Annawan/Wethersfield (FB Coop) 35, Monmouth United 14 Ashton-Franklin Center 28, Durand 13 Auburn 44, Riverton 6 Ballard Memorial, Ky. 61, Vienna 22 Barrington 35, Schaumburg 28 Belleville (Althoff Catholic) 59, Centralia 26 Bethalto Civic Memorial 54, Mascoutah 14 Bismarck-Henning 64, Fithian Oakwood 0 Bloomington Central Catholic 38, Pontiac 21 Blue Island Eisenhower 53, Hillcrest 6 Breese Mater Dei 34, Breese Central 14 Byron 41, Stillman Valley 40 Cahokia 22, Carbondale 13 Carlinville 59, Staunton 12 Carterville 27, Anna-Jonesboro 25 Champaign Central 55, Peoria Manual 6 Chester 34, Johnston City 21 Chicago (Back of the Yards) def. Tilden, forfeit Coal City 36, Sandwich 14 Collinsville 33, Granite City 7 Columbia 33, Carlyle 21 Crete-Monee 80, Rich South 6 Crystal Lake Central 14, Woodstock North 7 Crystal Lake South 24, McHenry 21 Cumberland 47, Tri-County 13 Decatur Lutheran (LSA) 48, ArgentaOreana 28 Dixon 35, Mendota 14 Downs Tri-Valley 62, Deer Creek-Mackinaw 21 Dunbar 20, Taft 18 Dunlap 40, Morton 35 DuQuoin 40, Pinckneyville 24 Effingham 42, Salem 19 Eisenhower 54, Jacksonville 22 El Paso-Gridley 41, Flanagan-CornellWoodland (FCW) 13 Eldorado 48, Hamilton County 0 Elmwood-Brimfield 48, Bushnell (B.Prairie City) 8 Eureka-Roanoke-Benson 24, Stanford Olympia 21 Evergreen Park 35, Oak Lawn Community 6 Fairfield 48, Carmi White County 17 Farmington 68, Havana 6 Fenwick 38, DePaul College Prep (Gordon) 19 Fieldcrest 56, Colfax Ridgeview 23 Freeport (Aquin) 55, Orangeville 6 Galena 49,Eastland-Pearl City 16 Galesburg 49, East Moline United 0 Geneseo 26, Rochelle 0 Genoa (Genoa-Kingston) 42, Burlington Central 14 Glenbard East 44, West Chicago 14 Glenbard North 46, Naperville North 6 Glenbard South 56, Fenton 6 Glenbrook North 41, Highland Park 17 Grayslake Central 14, Woodstock 7 Greenfield-Northwestern 40, North Greene 12 Harrisburg 34, Massac County 30 Herscher 56, Reed-Custer 14 Highland 35, Waterloo 24 Homewood-Flossmoor 48, Lockport 0

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Polo quarterback Wyatt Patterson throws a pass in the face of pressure from two Warren defenders during Friday’s 50-6 win in Polo.

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Huntley 29, Cary-Grove 8 Jacksonville Routt 27, Beardstown 6 Joliet Catholic 41, Woodstock Marian 3 Kankakee (McNamara) 46, Aurora Christian 6 Knoxville def. River Valley, forfeit Lake Forest 61, Mundelein 28 Lake Zurich 70, Round Lake 0 Lawrenceville 54, Casey-Westfield 0 LeRoy 28, Athens 14 Libertyville 35, Stevenson 7 Lincoln Way North 28, Bradley-Bourbonnais 14 Lincoln-Way East 28, Bolingbrook 0 Lisle 44, Seneca 14 Lisle (Benet Academy) 29, Marist 25 Litchfield 12, Vandalia 7 Macomb 28, Illini West (Carthage) 8 Maine West 51, Maine East 6 Manteno 41, Peotone 21 Marmion def. Chicago (Legal Prep Charter) High School, forfeit Maroa-Forsyth 34, Tolono Unity 0 Marshall 57, Paris 0 Metamora 30, Canton 15 Metea Valley 19, Waubonsie Valley 7 Milledgeville 35, River Ridge 0 Momence 41, Watseka 13 Montini 41, Leo 0 Morrison 22, Riverdale 7 Mt. Carmel 42, Washington, Ind. 13 Mt. Sterling (Brown County) 20, Concord (Triopia) 16 Murphysboro 41, Herrin 20 Naperville Central 20, Wheaton Warrenville South 8 Naperville Neuqua Valley 21, Bartlett 7 Nashville 40, Sparta 20 Nazareth 49, Marian Catholic (Chicago Heights) 7 Newton 49, Robinson 24 Normal Community 49, Bloomington 14 Normal University 28, Fairbury Prairie Central 14 Normal West 49, Richwoods 18 North Boone 31, Rockford Christian 0 O’Fallon 42, Alton 7 Oak Forest 56, Thornton Fractional

North 20 Olney East Richland 38, Flora 14 Orion 41, Rockridge 32 Oswego 50, Romeoville 14 Ottawa Marquette 28, Alden-Hebron 6 Pana 28, Piasa Southwestern 0 Pekin 48, East Peoria 0 Peoria Heights 41, Lewistown 33 Peoria Notre Dame 44, Danville 37 Pittsfield-Griggsville-Perry 55, Petersburg PORTA 29 Plainfield North 31, Plainfield East 20 Plano 51, Streator 10 Prairie Ridge 65, Grayslake North 27 Princeville 46, Biggsville West Central 0 Prosser 20, Senn 12 Providence 28, St. Rita 0 Quincy 56, Rock Island Alleman 13 Raby 28, Chicago (Solorio Academy) 6 Red Bud 42, Freeburg 41 Red Hill 41, Edwards County 14 Richmond-Burton 29, Johnsburg 22 Rockford Lutheran 60, Oregon 0 Roxana 49, Greenville 36 Schurz 13, Foreman 6 Sesser-Valier-Waltonville-Woodlawn 53, Christopher-Ziegler-Royalton 12 Shelbyville 54, Warrensburg-Latham 36 Sidell (Jamaica)-Salt Fork 49, Hoopeston 21 St. Charles East 44, Streamwood 12 St. Joseph-Ogden 26, Monticello 7 Stark County 42, Mercer County 6 Sycamore 35, Ottawa 0 Taylorville 31, Mt. Zion 6 Thornton Fractional South 35, Bremen 16 Tremont 21, Heyworth 14 Trenton Wesclin 48, Dupo 8 Triad 55, Jerseyville Jersey 14 Tuscola 42, Moweaqua Central A&M 7 Unity-Payson 35, Camp Point Central 20 Villa Grove 58, Oblong 20 Washington 49, Bartonville (Limestone) 28 Westville 34, Gilman Iroquois West 12 Whitney Young 34, Mather 6 Wilmington 46, Westmont 6 Winchester-West Central 42, Calhoun 6 Yorkville 14, Morris 0

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DIXON 35, MENDOTA 14

Dukes cash in on check Dixon audibles to right play in homecoming win over Trojans

BY TY REYNOLDS treynolds@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5554 @STyReynolds

DIXON – As the wide receiver closest to the Dixon sideline, Kandras Martin heard coach Dave Smith yell “CHECK!” early in the fourth quarter Friday night against Mendota.

So, Martin looked at his wristband to see what the play call was being checked to. Then he looked up – and saw tailback Nyrel Sullivan running right at him.

The ball had already been snapped, the play call stayed the same, and the Dukes are sure glad it did. Thanks to Martin’s block on the cornerback, Sullivan turned the corner and outran the safety 57 yards for the final touchdown of Dixon’s 35-14 homecoming win.

“I heard Coach yell ‘check’ right when I got the ball, so I knew I had to make a big play,” Sullivan said. “I got the ball, and I saw a lot of green grass in front of me, so I just turned it upfield and sprinted down the sideline.”

That was a recurring theme for Sullivan. The sophomore speedster ran for 204 yards and four touchdowns on 16 carries, and that included TD runs of 54, 5 and 28 yards before his final long

scoring scamper.

After the teams went into halftime tied at 14, the Dukes (4-1, 2-1 Big Northern West) found another gear in the second half. They scored on their first three possessions after the break, the most impressive drive being a 93-yard march in 10 plays, highlighted by two long runs by quarterback Nate Gascoigne, who scored from 6 yards out three plays after breaking a 31-yarder to the Mendota 9-yard line.

“I don’t usually do that, but they were leaving things open for me,” said Gascoigne, who ran for 61 yards and threw for 61 more. “One long run was a broken play, and the other one was a pass play where I just took off up the middle.

“I didn’t see the defender comAlex T. Paschal/apaschal@saukvalley.com ing who caught me from behind, but we scored after that, so it Dixon’s defense swarms a Mendota runner during Friday’s game at A.C. Bowers Field. The Dukes picked up a 35-14 Big Northern West win. wasn’t a big deal.”

Dixon ran for 175 yards after the break, and Gascoigne threw only The Red Zone two passes. He completed both, Player of the game: Nyrel Sullivan, Dixon, 16 rushes, 204 yards, 4 TDs; TD runs including a 20-yarder to Benny of 54, 5, 28 & 57 yards Mayes on third-and-15 from his He said it: “We knew their backs were really fast, and we knew what plays they own 15-yard line on the drive durwere running, but we just couldn’t mimic that speed in practice. It’s tough to preing which he eventually scored. pare for game speed when your scout-team offense doesn’t have anyone who The defense also stepped up in can match that look.” – Mendota coach Brock Sondgeroth the final two quarters, as Dixon Nyrel gave up just 59 yards on the Up next: Dixon at Winnebago, 7 p.m. Friday Sullivan ground and 49 through the air.

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September 26, 2015

WINNEBAGO 43, ROCK FALLS 16

Looking for answers Rockets trying to find intensity after latest loss to Winnebago

BY CODY CUTTER ccutter@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5552 @CodyCutter35

ROCK FALLS – On a night when everything needed to go right for Rock Falls, hardly anything could go right.

Dropped catches slipping through the wrists against tough perimeter blocking, missing multiple second- and thirdchance tacking opportunities, and bad breaks on a pair of punts doomed the Rockets in a 43-16 loss to Winnebago at Hinders Field.

The two touchdowns for the Rockets (0-5, 0-3 BNC West) came after the 40-point running clock started, and both came on passes from Logan Pillars to Michael Berentes.

“I just don’t know” was a phrase that Rockets head coach Rich Montgomery softly repeated after the postgame huddle – a sign of a promising season of improvement so far struggling to click.

“I got to find a better way of coaching,” Montgomery lamented. “I try to convince them that what we’re doing is right. I think we just need to bring the intensity. We got to figure out how to develop intensity.”

The Rockets’ loss turned out to be Winnebago’s gain in a season which had high hopes but has been a struggle. The Indians (2-3, 1-2) tallied eight tackles for loss or no gain. Aside from a 31-yard rush from Braeden Westfall, the Rockets averaged just under 1 yard per rush in 24 chances.

Winnebago senior Michael Booth ended Rock Falls’ best chance at a score in the first half with 7 minutes left, with his 10-yard fourth-down sack at the Indians’ 17-yard line.

“We were in a hole, and we needed to dig out of it,” Winnebago coach Mark Helm said. “This was an opportunity, and I felt like we came ready to play tonight.”

Austin Leitzinger scored three of the Indians’ six touchdowns, all on short-yardage plays, and Alex T. Paschal/apaschal@saukvalley.com rushed for 86 yards on 12 carries.

Kenzell Jones also came up big Rock Falls’ Michael Berentes looks for space after fielding the opening kickoff against Winfor the Indians, scoring on the nebago on Friday at Hinders Field. Winnebago won 43-16. receiving end of an 88-yard pass, and nabbing an interception The Red Zone leading to a Nathan Aldritt score Player of the game: Austin Leitzinger, Winnebago, 12 rushes, 86 yards, 3 TDs late in the first half.

He said it: “We got to get a bond. We got to be together. We got to have each “They had more intensity,” other’s backs. Without having each other’s backs together, the wins won’t come.”

Berentes said of Winnebago.

- Rockets senior Michael Berentes “That’s what we got to figure out with our team. We got to do the Up next: Rock Falls (0-5, 0-3 BNC West) at Stillman Valley, 7 p.m. Friday; Dixon Michael little things to get to that next (4-1, 2-1) at Winnebago (2-3, 1-2), 7 p.m. Friday Berentes step.”

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STERLING 49, LASALLE-PERU 22

Sterling gives Cavs slip Thornton hits milestone as Warriors crush LaSalle-Peru

BY BRIAN WEIDMAN bweidman@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5551 @BrianWeidman

STERLING – The only question seemed to be which LaSalle-Peru defender, Kayne Jenkins or Jake Doyle, was going to register a sack.

One small problem – they were trying to bring down Sterling quarterback Sterling Thornton.

Thornton somehow slipped that tackle on his way to the game’s first touchdown, and the Golden Warriors rolled to a 49-22 victory against the Cavaliers before a homecoming crowd at Roscoe Eades Stadium.

Thornton accounted for 318 yards of total offense – 149 on the ground and 169 through the air. His career rushing total now stands at an unofficial 2,016 yards.

Only two Sterling players have rushed for more, Rod Anderson (2,862) and Pete Eshleman (2,757).

The milestone was not what was on Thornton’s mind as he basked among teammates on Sterling Chevrolet Field.

“Right now, I’m just happy that we’re winning,” Thornton said. “I’m more focused on the team right now. I’m sure down the road I’ll look back and be happy about it, and I am right now, but I just want to keep moving forward, and I just want this team to go as far as we can.”

Thornton scored four times, the most spectacular being the first. On a third-and-16 play from the L-P 39, he

sliced his way between two potential sackers in Jenkins and Doyle. After that, it was off to the races, and he didn’t stop until reaching the end zone.

“I think I got a little help from above,” Thornton said. “They told me that a guy was coming from behind, and I just saw the guy in front. Thankfully that guy didn’t hit me in the back, because I think I probably would have broke all my ribs.

“I got a little help from above, and I got a good block from Jordan [Asbury] on the end, and the rest is history.”

Thornton was far from a one-man show for Sterling (4-1, 1-0 NIB-12 West).

Asbury hauled in four passes for 117 yards, while Tony Diaz was perfect in the kicking department, with field goals of 20 and 28 yards, and five extra-point conversions without a miss.

The Sterling defense also did its part with three first-half takeaways – interceptions by Trevor King and Grant Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com Jacoby, and a fumble recovery by Kurt Sterling quarterback Sterling Thornton avoids a pair of LaSalle-Peru tacklers Anderson.

The Cavaliers (2-2, 0-2 NIB-12 West) during Friday night’s homecoming game at Roscoe Eades Stadium. Thornton hung around thanks in large part to junior accounted for 318 total yards and four touchdowns in Sterling’s 49-22 win. quarterback Kennedy Carey and senior split end Doyle. Carey completed 18 of 24 The Red Zone passes for 221 yards. Seven of those recepPlayer of the game: Sterling Thornton, Sterling, 149 rushing tions went to Doyle for 125 yards, includyards, 169 passing yards, 318 yards total offense, 4 TDs ing a 46-yard TD pass early in the fourth He said it: “We came out soft and flat last week in Morris, and quarter to bring the Cavs within 42-22. we’ve been preaching all week that we have to come out stronger.

On the Warriors’ ensuing possession, We know that we’re a good team, and we just have to come out freshman Alek Duran got loose for an and play like it.” – Sterling QB Sterling Thornton Sterling 11-yard run on a fake punt to keep the Thornton Up next: Sterling at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Friday drive alive, setting up Thornton’s final TD.

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September 26, 2015

POLO 50, WARREN 6

Marcos can take punch Warren scores first, but Polo answers with 50 straight after that

BY ROB LAIRD Special to SVM

POLO — With a handful of tall, burly linemen, Warren isn’t exactly the type of a team by whom you would want to get punched in the mouth.

But the Polo Marcos proved their jaw is not made of glass, pouring on 50 unanswered points after weathering an early flurry of punches thrown by their visiting opponent in a 50-6 NUIC Upstate victory.

Midway through the first quarter, Warren handed Polo its first deficit of the season on an eight-play touchdown drive that followed a game-opening three-and-out by the Marcos.

It wasn’t exactly a grand sequence of events for the fifth-ranked team in the 1A AP Poll, but the Marcos responded in typical lightning-quick fashion – 25 seconds later to be exact – with a 45-yard touchdown pass from Wyatt Patterson to Jesse Ditzler. Polo eventually pulled away to a 22-6 halftime lead.

Nevertheless, with starting quarterback Brody Grobe out with an injury, the Marcos were hoping to utilize a power formation quite a bit

on offense in the first half. It didn’t work as well as coach Andrew Hofer would’ve liked, and if not for an illadvised fake punt by Warren in its own territory, the game would’ve been even closer at the break.

“That’s something we’re not accustomed to. We usually jump right out on people,” Hofer said. “We’ve got to handle the adversity a little better, but I thought we did a nice job of making some adjustments.”

Indeed, the Marcos (5-0) turned the table on the Warriors (3-2) to start the second half, forcing an initial three-and-out before proceeding on a downyour-throat, 10-play, 66-yard touchdown drive consisting exclusively of running plays.

“It was certainly a challenge we gave to the team.

We had a nice discussion at halftime,” Hofer said. “We came out at halftime and played more to our pace.”

Brad Cavanaugh had 117 yards rushing for the Marcos, with Brooks Grobe adding 80, and Dylan Beers scoring three second-half touchdowns to blow the game open. Patterson threw for 131 yards.

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Polo’s Brad Cavanaugh fights his way through a trio of Warren defenders during Friday’s NUIC Upstate game in Polo. Cavanaugh rushed for 117 yards in the 50-6 win.

The Red Zone

Dylan Beers

Player of the game: Dylan Beers, Polo, three second-half touchdowns He said it: “It was certainly a challenge we gave to the team. We had a nice discussion at halftime. We came out at halftime and played more to our pace.”

– Polo coach Andrew Hofer Records: Polo 5-0, 4-0 NUIC Upstate; Warren 3-2, 3-2 Up next: Polo at Milledgeville, 7 p.m. Friday

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September 26, 2015

COMMENTARY | TURNAROUND SEASONS

Times change football Fortunes can flip quickly with good system, more players

M

ike Papoccia started Thursday’s football practice probably the same way he has 1,000 times before by walking among his players as they went through stretches.

He preached about everybody working hard, and each player being ready for when their number was called.

It’s probably a message each player has heard a million times, and will hear a few hundred more before the Comets’ season ends either during the playoffs or on the turf at Northern Illinois University.

Consistency is a difficult thing in high school football, especially at small schools.

It’s not a stretch to say that Papoccia and his staff do it as well as anyone in Illinois. He has 302 wins and five state titles to attest to that.

For pretty much everyone else, it’s about riding the roller coaster of athletic talent, and just hav-

danWOESSNER Sports Editor Reach him at dwoessner@ saukvalley. com or 800798-4085, ext. 5555.

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West Carroll’s Austin Mallow celebrates a touchdown Friday against Forreston.

The Thunder lost 28-22 in Forreston, but at 3-2 they are still off to one of their best starts in the past decade. ing the system in place when the exceptional groups of players come through.

Papoccia knows that well. Last week the Comets were pushed to the brink by Kewanee, a program with two playoff appearances in the past 15 years.

“People dwell too much on the past,” Papoccia said. “Some people thought we’d win by 40

points, but we knew that wasn’t going to happen.

Kewanee has some very good athletes, and their coach is putting in a very good system.

“That’s the thing. You look around, and there are a lot of teams that are turning things around this year.”

The Three Rivers has plenty of examples, including Princeton, which remains undefeated after

defeating Fulton on Friday.

The Tigers and Comets will tangle in Week 6.

Newman’s game today against Erie-Prophetstown features a Panther program that has turned a corner under coach Chuck Milem.

The Panthers are ranked No. 9 in 3A, and seem poised for their fourth playoff appearance in a row. Before that, the co-op suffered through a

decade of losing seasons.

But that’s the past.

The same goes for a team like Milledgeville, which is 4-1 after Friday’s win over River Ridge The Missiles haven’t been to the playoffs since 2008, but they have been known to strike when the iron is hot, with semifinal appearances in 1998, 1999 and 2008.

It’s just that the iron hasn’t been hot in the off years, thanks mostly to low numbers.

For other programs like Morrison and EastlandPearl City, both of which have recent 2A state titles in the case, the systems are still in place to win, there

just aren’t enough players to do it consistently.

But you can believe that when the cavalry arrives, whether it is next season, in five seasons or in 10 seasons, both the Mustangs and Wildcatz will be ready to make some big noise again.

So the lesson seems to be that things change.

For teams looking to hop conferences because it seems impossible that they’ll ever win in football against their current foes, that’s simply not true.

Remember that Rockford Lutheran was once the doormat in the Big Northern West.

For programs with dwindling or disappearing playoff hopes after Week 5, the consolation for those returning in 2016 is that things can change.

For those fighting for their playoff lives, take Papoccia’s advice and don’t dwell in the past, because you can miss a lot of the present and ruin the future worrying too much about the past.

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September 26, 2015

HALL 72, SHERRARD 39

Dominating Devils Hammonds leads Hall to rout over Sherrard

BY DAN DWYER sports@bcrnews.com

SHERRARD — The Hall Red Devils were primed for a dominating performance against foe Sherrard and the 72-39 score doesn’t begin to show just how dominating the Red Devils were in every aspect of Friday night’s win in Sherrard.

The Red Devils jumped all over their opponent early, capping off a 39-0 first half run on a 44-yard scamper from senior running back Chris Hammonds as he made defenders miss at first and then kicked it into high gear and outran the Tiger secondary.

“I was happy the way we came out in the first half. It was 39-0 in the final moments of the first half when we still had all of our first teams in and I’m happy with the way we played. I’m just glad to get out of here with another victory,” Hall coach Randy Tieman said.

After jumping all over Sherrard, the Devils tried to lighten their attack offensive and defensive attacks but the Sherrard Tigers refused to take out their starting squad, forcing Tieman to play his first team offense for most of the way.

The starting Red Devils defense didn’t allow a single point while

the starting offense rattled off nine touchdowns while special teams also added two scores.

Senior Matt Krolak was moved from the line last week and settled in nicely in only his second week at the position with two touchdowns and 135 yards rushing on 15 attempts to create a two-headed monster with Hammonds.

“Last week was the first week we tried Matt (Krolak) at running back and he can run the ball as he showed tonight but he’s just a great compliment to Chris (Hammonds) in the back field. Those two back there will be fine together and will help our offense in the future,” Tieman said.

Hammonds absolutely dominated the Sherrard defense as he rattled off five touchdowns on runs of 43, 9, 60, 59, and a 49-yard TD reception for 315 yards total offense. He BCR photo/Dan Dwyer had a 19.5 yards per carry average Chris Hammonds takes off for the races Friday at Sherrard out of the backfield for 254 yards on the ground and also had a 69 yard touchdown called back on quesThe Red Zone tionable penalty.

Player of the game: Chris Hammonds, Hall, 315 rushing yards, 5 TDs “It was good to get them back He said it: “I was happy the way we came out in the first half. It was 39-0 in the in the groove of things after havfinal moments of the first half when we still had all of our first teams in and I’m ing four tough weeks in a row to happy with the way we played. I’m just glad to get out of here with another victory.” start the season. Kewanee is a – Hall coach Randy Tieman good team and we’ll have our kids Chris ready for them next week,” TieUp next: Hall (4-1, 2-1) at Kewanee (0-3, 2-3), 7:30 p.m. Friday.

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PRINCETON 24, FULTON 20

Tigers never give up Princeton uses Bryant Field magic to catch the Steamers

BY KEVIN HIERONYMUS khieronymus@bcrnews.com

PRINCETON — It looked like it was all over Friday night, the Princeton Tigers’ win streak coming to an end at four.

But after dropping a game-winning touchdown pass in the end zone, the Tigers found some Bryant Field magic.

Derek DeBruhl recovered his second fumble of the night at the Fulton 33 when the Steamers were trying to run the clock out.

Three plays later, Bret “Boom” Emmerson bulldozed his way into the end zone with 50.2 left to play to rally the Tigers to a stunning 24-20 come from behind win.

“We were feeling down, but we couldn’t give up. That’s not what this team’s about. That’s what the old Princeton Tigers would have done,” said DeBruhl said. “We’ve all battled our butts this year, we’re ready to go.”

About his second fumble recovery of the game, DeBruhl, who also had an interception, said he was just lucky.

“It was surreal. It felt awesome. I was glad to give my team another chance,” said DeBruhl, who is a product from neighbor Ohio in the Tiger co-op.

Emmerson knew what to do when he got the ball in his hands, lowering the boom at the goal line to drive in for the winning scored from three yards out.

“I tried to strive every inch I could. When the arms went up on the ref, I just went crazy,” said Emmerson, who also scored a 3-yard TD in the first quarter.

“When we were given a second chance, it was amazing.”

The Tiger football team was stormed by the PHS student section and pep band as they escaped with their fifth straight win. They are the first PHS team to start the year 5-0 since the 2002 state semifinalists.

Princeton took a 20-17 lead on the foot of Tanner Kuhne, who connected for a 30-yard field goal with 10:16 left to play.

Fulton’s Trey Simmons is not BCR photo/Mike Vaughn named trey for nothing. He Bret “Boom” Emmerson scores the game-winning touchdown for PHS late in fourth quarter. scored his third touchdown of the night on the next play, a 65-yard romp that lifted the Steamers The Red Zone back in front 20-17 with 9:54 left Player of the game: Derek DeBruhl, Princeton, 2 fumble recoveries, interception. in the game.

He said it: “We were feeling down, but we couldn’t give up. That’s not what this Jacob Smith scored on a 11-yard team’s about. That’s what the old Princeton Tigers would have done.” – Princeton’s pass late in the third quarter to Derek DeBruhl. give the Tigers a 13-7 lead.

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DIXON 35, MENDOTA 14 First downs Total yards Rushes-yards Passing yards Passing (C-A-I) Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Punts-average Mendota Dixon

M 13 242 57-173 69 3-7-1 3-0 4-39 5-27.4 7 7 0 14 0 14

D 16 359 35-298 61 8-17-2 1-0 9-78 2-32.5 0 — 14 7 — 35

First quarter D – Nyrel Sullivan 54 run (Kaylon Westmorland kick), 11:16 M – Jake Temple 3 run (Jesus Quintana kick), 6:04 D – Sullivan 5 run (Westmorland kick), :22 Second quarter M – Benjamin Bokus 5 run (Quintana kick), 7:10 Third quarter D – Sullivan 28 run (Westmorland kick), 7:51 D – Nate Gascoigne 6 run (Westmorland kick), 1:44 Fourth quarter D – Sullivan 57 run (Westmorland kick), 9:57 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING – Mendota: Garet Zinke 12-73, Bokus 13-41, Donovan Doughty 12-34, Temple 8-20, Bryson Prusator 12-5. Dixon: Sullivan 16-204, Gascoigne 8-61, Arthur Cox 11-33.

PASSING – Mendota: Prusator 3-5-1-69 yards, Zinke 0-1-0-0 yards, Bokus 0-1-0-0 yards. Dixon: Gascoigne 8-17-2-61 yards.

RECEIVING – Mendota: Bokus 2-38, Paxton Kennedy 1-31. Dixon: Benny Mayes 2-28, Kandras Martin 2-22, Kyle LeBlanc 2-10, Bryce Stanley 1-3, Cox 1-(minus-2).

Records: Dixon 4-1 (2-1 BNC West), Mendota 0-5 (0-3) at Roscoe Eades Stadium, Sterling

STERLING 49, LASALLE-PERU 22 LP S First downs 16 28 Total yards 253 418 Rushes-yards 25-31 54-249 Passing yards 222 169 Passing (C-A-I) 18-24-2 8-11-0 Fumbles-lost 2-1 1-0 Penalties-yards 10-56 9-57 Punts-ave.

3-37 0-0 L-P 0 6 8 8 – 22 Sterling 10 22 10 7 – 49 First quarter S - Tony Diaz 20 FG 7:10 S – Sterling Thornton 39 run (Diaz kick) 3:42 Second quarter LP – Kennedy Carey 1 run (pass failed) 11:08 S – Latrell Vaughn 5 run (Diaz kick) 6:59 S – Thornton 8 run (Diaz kick) 4:13 S – Thornton 12 run (Andrew Spaulding run) 2:04

Third quarter S – Diaz 28 FG LP – Max Uranich 13 pass from Carey (Jake Doyle pass from Carey) 4:22 S – Vaughn 4 run (Diaz kick) 1:09 Fourth quarter LP – Doyle 46 pass from Carey (Doyle pass from Carey) 11:03 S – Thornton 1 run (Diaz kick) 3:14 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING – LaSalle-Peru: Ethan Waters 15-56, Trestyn Larrarotto 3-9, Damarie Martin 1-(-5), Carey 6-(-29). Sterling: Thornton 21-149, Spaulding 19-52, Vaughn 12-33, Alek Duran 1-11, Turner Morse 1-4 PASSING – LaSalle-Peru: Carey 18-24-2, 222 yards. Sterling: Thornton 8-11-0, 169 yards.

RECEIVING – LaSalle-Peru: Doyle 7-125, Uranich 6-51, Ryan McManus 4-32, Waters 1-11. Sterling: Asbury 4-117, Morse 1-19, Jacob Heffelfinger 1-15, Trevor King 1-9, Brayden Garza 1-9. at Forreston

FORRESTON 28, WEST CARROLL 22 West Carroll Forreston

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INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING – West Carroll: Jake Miller 9-28, Ethan Mangler 16-32, Logan Barker 6-22.

Forreston: Akins 23-160, Christensen 7-90, Rogers 13-58.

PASSING – West Carroll: Kody Plattenberger 5-12-2, 104 yards.

RECEIVING – West Carroll: Austin Mallow 7-97.

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PRINCETON 24, FULTON 20 Fulton Princeton

7 6 0 7 — 20 7 0 7 10 — 24 First quarter P – Bret Emmerson 3 run (Kuhne kick), 8:00.

F – Trey Simmons 17 pass from Jack Lemke (Lemke kick), 4:10.

Second quarter F – Simmons 4 run (kick failed), 11:10 Third quarter P – Smith 11 pass from Reinhardt (Kuhne kick) 2:02 Fourth quarter P – Kuhne 30 field goal 10:16 F – Simmons 65 run (Lemke kick) 9:54 P – Emmerson 3 run (Kuhne kick) 50.2 at Sherrard

HALL 72, SHERRARD 39 Hall Sherrard

20 19 6 27 — 72 0 7 14 18 — 39 First quarter H - Krolack 2 (Krolak PAT good) 9:14 H - Merkel 50 punt return (PAT good) 7:39 H - Einhaus 31 pass from Pullam (PAT no

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Second quarter H - Hammonds 49 pass from Pullam (PAT good) 7:03 H - Smith 2 (PAT no good) 5:11 H - Hammonds 44 run (PAT no good) 3:32 S - McAtee 34 pass from Isaac Borasas (PAT good) 7.4 Third quarter S - McAtee 59 Keaton Helm (PAT no good) 11:23 H - Hammonds 9 (Krolak PAT good) 2:58 S - Sam Ryner 11 (PAT good) 2:02 Fourth quarter H - Krolak 24 (PAT no good) 7:52 S - Ryner 29 (PAT blocked) 5:41 H - Hammonds 60 run (PAT blocked) 5:29 S - Baraas 76 yards to Blake Lampo Roling (PAT no good) 5:10 H - Hammonds 61 run (PAT good) 4:52 S - Baraas 52 pass to Dylan Bradley (PAT no good) 3:07 H - Einhaus 79 kick return (PAT good) 2:49 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING – Hall: Hammonds 13-254, Krolak 15-138. Hall 43-401.

PASSING – Hall: Pullam 8-11 169.

RECEIVING – Hall: Hammonds 2-61, Merkel 2-21, Einhaus 3-78.

ST. BEDE 33, KEWANEE 24 Kewanee St. Bede

12 0 6 6 — 24 13 14 6 0 — 33 First quarter SB - Baylee Hopps 3 run (Hopps PAT no good)l 11:04 K - Zach Brown 83 pass from Nick Sheets. (kick failed) 10:48 SB - Hopps 43 run (Nathan Bartley kick) 9:19 K - Sheets 1 run (Alejandro kick missed) 1:33 Second quarter SB - Hopps 35 pass from Bryant Eustice (Bartley kick) 6:59 SB - Hopps 3 run (Bartley kick) 1:28 Third quarter K - Mabalcon 67 pass from Sheets. (PAT pass failed) 5:46 SB - Brady Booker 4 run (PAT run failed) 1:46 Fourth quarter K - Donovan Oliver 12 pass from Sheets (PAT kick failed) 12.5 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING – St. Bede: Hopps 32-249, Booker 5-24, Eustice 6-13, Senica 6-20, Sczepanak 2-18, Darnell 3-8. Kewanee:

Brown 4-5, Sheets 7-12, Charlett 5-53.

PASSING – St. Bede: Eustice 8-15 125.

Kewanee: Sheets: 14-29 319.

RECEIVING – St. Bede: Shipp 7-90, Hopps 1-35. Kewanee: Brown 4-119, Mabelcon 5-123, Charlett 1-2, Johnson 3-42, Oliver 2-35. at Manlius

BUREAU VALLEY 54, AMBOY 30 A BV First Downs 8 12 Total Yards 307 527 Rushes-Yards 45-217 31-211 Passing (C-A-I) 5-10-3 15-23-0 Passing Yards 90 316 Fumbles-Lost 2-2 1-0 Penalties-Yards 7-77 10-120 Punts-Average 3-25 3-47 Amboy 0 16 6 8 — 30 Bureau Valley 0 0 0 0 — 54 First quarter BV – Drake Davis 66-yard pass to Bryan Herr (run fail), 11:18 BV – Will Konneck 2-yard run (run fail), 7:07 Second quarter BV – Davis 80-yard pass to Konneck (Davis to Konneck), 7:27 BV – Konneck 2-yard run (kick blocked),

2:41 A – Dallas Appleman 2-yard run (Ryon Richardson run), 1:07 BV – Davis 62-yard pass to Herr (run fail), 0:50 A – Richardson 6-yard run (Richardson run), 0:19 Third quarter BV – Konneck 8-yard run (Davis pass to Herr), 8:01 A – Drake Barlow 28-yard run (run fail), 6:40 BV – Konneck 85-yard kickoff return (Herr kick), 6:28 Fourth quarter A – Barlow 35-yard run (run good), 9:28 BV – Davis 35-yard interception (Herr kick), 7:09 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING – Amboy: Richardson 18-140, Appleman 9-78, Barlow 14-91; Bureau Valley: Gailen Gibson 6-23, Konneck 13-94, Davis 14-94.

PASSING – Amboy: Jordan Hochstatter 5-10-3-90; Bureau Valley: Davis 15-23-0317.

RECEIVING – Amboy: Barlow 2-35, Richardson 2-43, Cain Powers 1-12; Bureau Valley: Jay Edlefson 6-73, Herr 6-159, Konneck 1-80, Gibson 1-5.

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ST. BEDE 33, KEWANEE 24

Pound by pound Bruins pound the ball against Boilermakers

BY BRENT JAMISON sports@bcrnews.com

PERU — St. Bede coach Jim Eustice has preached to his team since the first day he got the job that they need to run the ball to be successful.

On Friday night, the Bruins made their coach happy with a big night pounding the ball on the ground.

Led by senior running back Baylee Hopps and physical offensive line play, the Bruins ran over the Kewanee Boilermakers 33-24 in Three-Rivers Mississippi action at the Academy.

Hopps was a workhorse, carrying the ball 32 times for 249 yards and three touchdowns. He also added a 35-yard touchdown reception.

All four of his scores came in the first half.

“I felt great coming into tonight,” Hopps said. “The linemen did a great job up front opening holes and I got as many yards as I could get every play.”

As a team, the Bruins (3-2, 2-1) totaled 324 yards rushing on 52 carries.

“We need to run the football,” coach Eustice said. “Our offensive line has worked hard. Hopps is a senior, he’s been starting here for three years and he’s paid his dues.

He made a lot of people miss with his speed to the outside.”

Hopps had a highlight reel run in the first quarter when he was met at the line of scrimmage, spinned away from the traffic and then darted 43 yards for a touchdown.

He also had a pair of three-yard touchdown runs in the first half.

Kewanee (2-3, 0-3) kept within striking distance in the game behind their passing attack. An 83-yard strike from quarterback Nick Sheets to Zach Brown got the Boilers on the board. In the third quarter, Sheets threw a quick pass to Desean Mabalcon who used his speed to outrace the Bruins for a 67-yard score.

Sheets finished with 319 yards passing and three touchdowns through the air. However, he threw three interceptions in the game, including two critical picks

by Hopps and Nick Sczcepaniak in the fourth quarter.

“All of our defensive backs know our responsibilities and the coaches have coached us up,” Hopps said. “We just played hard, reacted to the ball and made some big picks.”

Brady Booker had the other touchdown run for the Bruins, a four-yard plunge in the third quarter.

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BUREAU VALLEY 54, AMBOY 30

Storm surge past Amboy Bureau Valley’s big plays sink Clippers in Manlius

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MANLIUS – Will Konneck and Drake Davis traded big plays as the Storm breezed to a 54-30 Three Rivers Rock division win over Amboy.

The running back-quarterback combo accounted for four Bureau Valley (2-3) touchdowns before Amboy managed an answer. Even though the Clippers kept pace from the 2:40 mark of the second quarter on, big Storm plays continued to pour down.

Storm coach Spencer Davis said the homecoming win should propel a “finally healthy” young Storm squad.

“The last couple of weeks, we’ve been down with injuries,” he said. “We finally got our full team back.”

Bureau Valley outgained Amboy 527-307 in total yards. Davis had 316 passing yards; 80 of them came on the Storm’s first drive of the third quarter, a catch-andrun to Konneck, who skirted untouched around Clipper defenders.

That was only the second-

longest play of the game.

A touchdown run from Amboy’s Drake Barlow made the score 40-22 in the third quarter when Konneck took the ensuing kickoff return 85 yards, untouched, to pay dirt.

At 47-22, the big lead forced the Clippers to put the ball in the air, where the Storm forced three interceptions out of Clippers quarterback Jordan Hochstatter. The second fell into the hands of Davis, who returned it 35 yards for a pick-6, the nail in Amboy’s coffin.

Coach Davis praised both Konneck and Drake Davis. He said his team had a solid week of practice heading into the matchup.

Ryon Richardson led the Amboy ground game with 140 yards rushing and a touchdown.

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FRIDAY ROUNDUP

FORRESTON 28, WEST CARROLL 22

All but four

Mustangs earn first victory AFC, Milledgeville both pick up wins on road

By SVM Sports Staff

The wait for win No. 1 is over for the Morrison football team as it beat Riverdale 22-7 in a Three Rivers Rock game in Port Byron.

Andy Bird scored twice and Justin Jensen added another score to lead the Mustangs (1-4, 1-1 TRAC Rock).

Jensen opened the scoring with a 25-yard touchdown reception from quarterback Dylan Keller with 1:36 remaining in the first quarter. Riverdale (0-5, 0-2) cut the deficit to 8-7 on a Braydon Pridemore 3-yard TD run, but that was all it would get.

Bird ran for a 10-yard score in the third, and ran a punt back for a 65-yard touchdown to cap the scoring.

Riverdale was eliminated from playoff contention with its fifth loss.

Rockford Lutheran 60, Oregon 0:

The Hawks couldn’t keep pace in a Big Northern West loss in Rockford.

Terry Page led Oregon (2-3, 0-2 BNC West) with 19 rushing yards on eight carries, while Brayton Finch and Caleb Mennen had matching rushing totals – 17 yards on 10 carries. The Hawks were out-gained 502-80.

Lutheran’s James Robinson used 12 carries to gain 305 yards and six touchdowns, all on runs of 20 yards or more. He scored three times in the first quarter, twice in the second

and once again in the third.

Milledgeville 35, River Ridge 0: The Missiles

posted a shutout in a road NUIC Upstate win.

Milledgeville quarAndy terback Troy Litwiller Bird Morrison opened the scoring with a 48-yard touchsenior down run with 8:58 left in the second quarter. Nick Devito added a 1-yard run later on in the second, as the Missiles took a 14-0 lead into halftime.

Josh Walker added two secondhalf touchdown runs, and Brexton Flynn added another. Milledgeville improves to 4-1 overall and 4-1 in the NUIC Upstate.

AFC 28, Durand 13: Three different Raiders scored in their road NUIC Upstate win.

Jake Hageman led AFC (2-3, 2-2 NUIC Upstate) with 96 yards on the ground, including his 14-yard TD run. Jacob Hilliker and Kaywan Palmer each added touchdown runs, while David Zinke caught a 69-yard touchdown pass from Hilliker.

Durand led 7-0 after the first quarter before the Raiders poured it on.

AFC out-gained the Bulldogs 353240.

Forreston sneaks past Thunder

BY ANDY COLBERT Shaw Media

FORRESTON – West Carroll coach Matt Leitzen lamented on a small fraction of Friday’s 28-22 loss to Forreston.

“Four minutes,” Leitzen said. “We played smash mouth football for four quarters for the first time in years, but they out-executed us for 4 minutes.”

With 5 seconds left in the first half, Thunder quarterback Kody Plattenberger connected with Austin Mallow for a 9-yard touchdown pass. Jake Miller tacked on a conversion and the upset-minded Thunder had an 8-6 lead.

Midway through the third quarter, though, Forreston had a commanding 28-8 lead on its way to a 4-1 record.

Logan Rogers returned the second-half kickoff 50 yards, and one play later fullback Matt Akins burst up the middle for a 30-yard touchdown.

After a three-and-out for West Carroll, linebacker Noah Gipe stunted and blocked the punt. Taking over at the 25-yard line,

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West Carroll’s Jake Miller avoids a Forreston tackle during Friday’s 28-22 loss in Forreston.

Forreston was quickly into the end zone again, this time on a 1-yard plunge by quarterback Caleb Poffenberger, making it 20-8 with less than 4 minutes gone in the quarter.

“The kickoff return and blocked punt were what hurt us most,” Leitzen said.

“That was huge momentum for them.”

The Cardinals got the ball right back on an interception by Cade Kuelling, on a misread by Plattenberger.

Seven running plays later, it

was 28-8, as Rogers scored from 5 yards out on the counter.

“I like how we came out in the second half,” Rogers said. “We made some mistakes and had big spurts, so we need to work on our consistency.”

Plattenberger drove his team 65 yards to pull West Carroll within 28-14 on a 1-yard sneak. With 5 minutes left in the game and facing fourth down, Plattenberger scored again from a yard out to make it 28-22.

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Numbers game: Friday night boxscores INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING – Winnebago: Leitzinger 10-86, Justin Whitehouse 6-27, Warkentein 6-27, Aldritt 5-37, Smith 4-50, Jared Roberts 4-4, Braden Hanners 2-(minus 2). RF: Westfall 11-49, Pillars 8-7, Blake Wind 3-9, Isaiah Harris 2-(minus 1), Gaige Fortune 1-(minus 2).

PASSING – Winnebago: Smith 2-5-0, 96 yards. RF: Pillars 5-17-1, 139 yards.

RECEIVING – Winnebago: Kenzell Jones 1-88, Justin Spickler 1-8. RF: Wind 2-19, Berentes 3-120.

at Durand

AFC 28, DURAND 13 AFC D First downs 17 16 Total yards 353 240 Rushes-yards 44-227 44-164 Passing (C-A-I) 4-6-0 5-8-1 Passing yards 126 76 Fumbles-lost 0-0 4-2 Penalties-yards 8-80 5-55 Punts-average 2-39 3-32 AFC 0 14 6 8 — 28 Durand 7 0 0 6 — 13 First quarter D – Jake Starnes 1 run (Aldair Alvarez kick), 3:51 Second quarter AFC – Jake Hageman 14 run (kick failed), 10:50 AFC – David Zinke 69 pass from Jacob Hilliker (Kaywan Palmer pass from Hilliker), :43 Third quarter AFC – Hilliker 2 run (pass failed), :03 Fourth quarter AFC – Palmer 3 run (Zinke run), 9:25 D – Brad Meiners 28 pass from Easton Demus (pass failed), 6:09 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING – AFC: Jake Hageman 19-96, Jacob Hilliker 16-46, Kaywan Palmer 4-44, David Zinke 3-37, Luke Hageman 1-4. Durand: Dennis Lunde 20-112, Aldair Alvarez 11-48, Jake Starnes 6-21, Jeremy Buckner 2-5, Colton Manning 1-1, Easton Demus 4-(minus 23).

PASSING – AFC: Hilliker 4-6-0 126 yards.

Durand: Demus 5-8-1, 76 yards.

RECEIVING – AFC: Zinke 1-69, Palmer 3-57. Durand: Brad Meiners 2-47, Alvarez 3-29.

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WINNEBAGO 43, ROCK FALLS 16 W RF First downs 20 6 Total yards 342 201 Rushes-yards 40-246 25-62 Passing yards 96 139 C-A-I 2-5-0 5-17-1 Fumbles-lost 5-1 1-0 Penalties-yards 15-120 6-45 Punts-avg.

1-53 5-33.4 Winnebago 16 13 14 0 – 43 Rock Falls 0 0 0 16 – 16 First quarter W – Austin Leitzinger 4 run (Jake Goluszka pass from Jess Smith), 5:11 W – Jace Warkentein 1 run (Smith run), 0:53 Second quarter W – Kenzell Jones 88 pass from Smith (run failed), 7:00 W – Leitzinger 1 run (Leitzinger kick), 3:14 Third quarter W – Nathan Aldritt 4 run (Leitzinger kick), 6:17 W – Leitzinger 5 run (Leitzinger kick), 2:55 Fourth quarter RF – Michael Berentes 18 pass from Logan Pillars (Noah Junis pass from Pillars), 11:34 RF – Berentes 84 pass from Pillars (Braeden Westfall run), 1:13

W P First downs 9 22 Total yards 156 284 Rushes-yards 26-35 43-332 Passing yards 121 131 Passing (C-A-I) 12-18-0 6-10-0 Fumbles-lost 2-0 1-0 Penalties-yards 5-27 5-40 Warren 6 0 0 0 – 6 Polo 8 14 14 14 – 50 First quarter W – Kyle Wolff, 2 run (run failed) 5:39 P – Jesse Ditzler, 45 pass from Wyatt Patterson (Brooks Grobe run) 5:14 Second quarter P – Grobe, 7 run (pass failed) 4:21 P – Patterson, 5 run (Brad Cavanaugh run) :46 Third quarter P – Beers, 1 run (Cavanaugh run) 7:12 P – Beers, 3 run (pass failed) 1:11 Fourth quarter P – Beers, 25 run (run failed) 8:15 P – Tristen Aguilar, 53 run (Ditzler run) 4:49 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING – Warren: Payton Calow 5-12, Wolff 11-11, Patrick Bageanis 4-12, Jared Brinkmeier 1-3, Jake Sigafus 1-1, Brian Holland 1-(-1), Andrew Kaiser 3-(-3). Polo: Cavanaugh 10-116, Grobe 13-80, Patterson 4-15, Beers 9-51, Aguilar 1-53, Ditzler 4-25, Braxton Samm 1-4, Ritchie Barnick 1-(-12).

PASSING – Warren: Calow 12-18-0 121.

Polo: Patterson 6-10-0 131 RECEIVING – Warren: Ben Hicks 3-57, Brian Marcure 3-15, Wolff 4-22, Andrew Kaiser 2-27. Polo: Ditzler 2-49, Bartnick 2-20, Grobe 1-11 Mathew Cheeseman 1-51 at Port Byron

MORRISON 22, RIVERDALE 7 Morrison Riverdale

8 0 6 8 — 22 0 7 0 0 — 7 First quarter M – Justin Jensen 25 pass from Dylan Keller (Merik Kennedy run), 1:36 Second quarter R – Braydon Pridemore 3 run (Noah Sanquist kick), 7:13 Third quarter M – Andy Bird 10 run (pass failed) Fourth quarter M – Bird 65 punt return (Bird run)

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LUTHERAN 60, OREGON 0 O RL First downs 5 7 Total yards 80 502 Rushes-yards 80 421 Passing (C-A-I) 0-1-0 2-3-0 Passing yards 0 81 Fumbles-lost 1-0 0-0 Penalties-yards 2-20 6-45 Punts-average 6-34.2 0-0 Oreogn 0 0 0 0 — 0 Lutheran 26 21 7 6 — 60 First quarter L – James Robinson 65 run (kick failed), 11:50 L – Marcus Hayes 90 punt return (John Anderson kick), 9:20 L – Robinson 20 run (Anderson kick), 6:26 L – Robinson 38 run (kick failed), 2:20 Second quarter L – Robinson 42 run (Anderson kick), 11:50 L – Payton Womack 43 run (Anderson kick), 9:07 L – Robinson 48 run (Anderson kick), 6:24 Third quarter L – Robinson 26 run (Anderson kick), 6:24 Fourth quarter L – Jameson DeCarlo 13 run (kick failed), 4:28 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING – Oregon: Terry Page 8-19, Brayton Finch 10-17, Caleb Mennen 10-17. Lutheran: James Robinson 12-305, Payton Womack 1-48.

PASSING – Oregon: Jerrick Orsted 0-1-0 0 yards. Lutheran: Womack 2-3-0 81 yards.

RECEIVING – Lutheran: Marcus Hayes 1-51.

Sophomore scoreboard • Dixon 52, Mendota 0 • Sterling 28, LaSallePeru 6 • Rock Falls 34, Winnebago 20 • Amboy 32, Bureau Valley 28 • Hall 42, Sherrard 16 • St. Bede 8, Kewanee 3 • Fulton 40, Princeton 8 • Milledgeville 26, River Ridge 6 • West Carroll 32, Forreston 0

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