Published in the Interest of the Staunton Community for Over 143 Years
Published in the Interest of the Staunton Community for Over 143 Years
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On Tuesday, May 7, 2024 Staunton and Gillespie’s Men Varsity Track and Field teams competed in the Gillespie Quad Track meet at GHS. Here are the following standings and results for said event: 1.) Staunton, 123; 2.) Carlinville, 121; 3.) Pana, 89; 4.) Gillespie, 87; 5.) Piasa, 66; 6.) Greenville, 65. 100 Meters Second place, Staunton’s Nathan Oller, 11.60a Tenth place, Gillespie’s Logan Bethard, 12.89a Fifteenth place, Gillespie’s Jack Bulla, 13.15a Seventeenth place, Gillespie’s Clayton Bethard, 13.36a PR Twentieth place, Staunton’s Joseph Sm...
On Thursday, May 9, 2024 Virden (North Mac) hosted the IHSA Class 1A TRG Track and Field Sectional for women’s varsity. Here are the following standing’s and results for said event. 1. Glen Carbon (Father McGivney), 140.5; 2.) Virden (North Mac), 110; 3.) Carlinville, 70; 4.) Litchfield, 68; 5.) Alton (Marquette), 59; 6.) Gillespie, 44; 7.) Carrollton, 33; T8.) Piasa (Southwestern), 29; T8.) Staunton, 29; 10.) Auburn, 22; 11.) Mt. Olive, 20; 12.) Waverly, 17; 13.) Bunker Hill, 15; 14.) Gre...
Class of 1957 Football Fred Brenzel’s third year as coach of the Bulldogs saw dramatic improvement in the program in 1956. The Bulldogs played .500 football, finishing the year 5-5 overall, including a 3-3 mark in the South Central Conference. The turnaround was led by seniors Noel Bond; Tom Coyne; Bernard Gaudi; Ted Hancock; Wayne Helm; Ralph Jacobs; John Lesich; Wayne Masinelli; Russ Schuette; and Marlin Valent. All-Conference members include Gaudi and Masinelli, as well as juniors Chuck Frey; Leroy Luketich; Jim Oettel; and Wayne Zude. J...
Men's 100 Meters Varsity Finals: First place, Staunton's Ethan Rantanen, 11.56; Second place, Staunton's Trace Trettenero, 11.92; Fifteenth place, Gillespie's Logan Bethard, 13.03; Eighteenth place, Gillespie's Deshaunta Cooper-Jackson, 13.39. Men's 200 Meters Varsity Finals: First place, Staunton's Ethan Rantanen, 23.56, P.R.; Fifth place, Staunton's Trace Trettenero, 24.60; Eighteenth place, Gillespie's A.J. Reisinger, 27.27; Twentieth place, Gillespie's Jack Bulla, 29.71. Men's 400 Meters...
Pleasant Plains Sectional (22T) Sub-Sectional A 1. Piasa (Southwestern) 2. Gillespie 3. Litchfield [Coop] 4. Auburn 5. Shelbyville 6. Pana 7. Virden (North Mac) 8. Sullivan 9. Hillsboro 10. Carlinville 11. Macon (Meridian) Sub-Sectional B 1. Pleasant Plains 2. Springfield (Sacred Heart-Griffin) 3. Williamsville 4. New Berlin [Coop] 5. Pittsfield 6. Petersburg (Porta) [Coop] 7. Quincy (Notre Dame) 8. Athens 9. Beardstown 10. Riverton 11. Buffalo (Tri-City) [Coop] Greenville Sectional (22T) Sub-Sectional A 1. Effingham (St. Anthony) 2....
Brittany Shooting Park, is currently participating under their Spring Team Schedule of 2024, for trap and skeet. The organization funding and running these teams is Staunton High School Trapshooting Club, Inc. All practices begin at 11 a.m. If competing members must wear their jersey to every practice and events when representing the team. No one is allowed on the fields without their jersey. Competition weeks moving forward the fourth week is May 12 and the fifth week for competitions is May 19. May 26 is an off week before State tournament,...
The Lady Bulldogs kicked off last week at home on Wednesday May 1. The Lady Dogs faced off with the Lady Cavaliers of Carlinville. The Lady Dogs needed to win this match to help push them towards a 2nd place finish in the SCC. The Lady Dogs came into the match in 5th place in the SCC at 10-7, while the Lady Cavaliers came into the match at 9-7-2 The spring weather had not been cooperating, the field was messy and both teams would be wet and muddy by the end of the match. The Lady Dogs had played the Cavies earlier in the year in the Route 66...
The information in this column is provided by the book “The History of Staunton High School Sports (1908-2012)” which was researched and written by local resident and School Board member, Steven F. Moore. “Covering over 100-years of multiple sporting events of a local area is quite a daunting task,” and it is important to note that Moore acknowledges that he could not find everything that he wanted to include in the book. The Star-Times releasing and publishing the information as a weekly news column is intended to educate, connect, and pot...
Gillespie High School Cross Country would like to invite Gillespie High School students to join one of their fitness models. The “Multi-Sport Athlete” Model is designed to make you faster and more powerful, while improving endurance in other sports. This model only meets two or three times per week over summer and fall season. It is coordinated and adaptable to other sport schedules. There will be no crazy long runs, and its focus is on speed and speed endurance. This model is directly usable and beneficial to other sports. The “Be...
Mt. Olive School District #5 will be conducting Jr. High Cheer Tryouts. Practices will be April 30 to May 2 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Parent meeting is at 6 p.m. on May 3, 2024, Practices and meeting will all be conducted the Junior High gym....
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Men's 100 Meters Finals: First place, Staunton's Nathan Oller, 11.2 P.R.; Fourth place, Staunton's Ty Simpson, 11.7 P.R.; Tenth place, Litchfield's John Stanley, 12.7; Fifteenth place, Litchfield's Devon Chew, 13.0 S.R. Men's 200 Meters Finals: First place, Staunton's Nathan Oller, 23.5 P.R.; Third place, Staunton's Ty Simpson, 24.9 P.R.; Sixth place, Litchfield's John Stanley, 26.2 P.R.; Fifteenth place, Litchfield's Braxton Kieffer, 28.7. Men's 400 Meters Finals: First place, Staunton's Nathan Oller, 54.8; Second place, Gillespie's Chaz...
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BHHS is proud to have representation on IHSA's Student Advisory Committee! Brennan Fulton was nominated and went through an interview process to get selected for the committee. Sunday he spent the day in Bloomington at the IHSA office with other SAC members from across the state working on different projects and initiatives to help IHSA activities....
The First annual South Central Conference bass tournament at Coffeen Lake. There were 15 teams from seven schools that showed up. First place, Litchfield's Zach Hansel and Riley Ayress with 11.22 pounds. Second place, Staunton's Vercoglio, Fleming, Miersch, and Machota with 9.13 pounds. Third place, Hillsboro's Dettman and Gifford with 8.46 pounds. The award of the Biggest Bass went to Litchfield's Connor Favre with 3.83 pounds....
Brittany Shooting Park, is currently participating under their Spring Team Schedule of 2024, for trap and skeet. The organization funding and running these teams is Staunton High School Trapshooting Club, Inc. All practices begin at 11 a.m. If competing members must wear their jersey to every practice and events when representing the team. No one is allowed on the fields without their jersey. Competition weeks began on April 21, the second week competition is April 28, the third week is May 5, the forth week is May 12 and the fifth week for...
SCC Women’s Golf League has had a great start to the golf season. Refreshments were enjoyed and received updates prior to teeing off. Sue Stiegemeier and Karen Crosslin had a low gross of 39. Stiegemeier also had a birdie on the second hole. The low net was the team of Deb McNaughton and Kathryn Young with a net of 16. Low putts were a tie between the team of Stiegemeier and Crosslin, and Kim Meyer and Linda Best (12). Tee-off time is 9 a.m....
Overall, Men's Varsity completed 15 out of 15 Events. Staunton placed Second with a total of 53. Roxana finished in First with a total of 79, while Maryville (M. Christian) took Third (or Last) with a total of 15. Men's 100 Meters Varsity Finals: First place, Staunton's Ethan Rantanen, 11.1 P.R.; Eighth place, Staunton's Zach Mathis, 12.0 P.R. Men's 200 Meters Varsity Finals: First place, Staunton's Trace Trettenero, 23.6 S.R.; Sixth place, Staunton's Cody Kapp, 26.5 S.R. Men's 400 Meters Varsity Finals: Fourth place, Staunton's Ethan...
Illinois youth turkey hunters harvested a preliminary total of 2,006 birds during the 2024 youth turkey season, breaking the previous harvest record of 1,733 set in 2020. The dates for this year’s season were March 30 through March 31 and April 6 through April 7. A total of 6,001 youth turkey permits were issued this year, compared to 5,283 in 2023. In 2023, a total of 1,297 turkeys were taken. Macoupin County recorded a total of 28 turkey's harvest during the 2023 youth turkey season and in 2024, Macoupin County almost doubled its total, c...
Class of 1952 Basketball (Boys) The 1951-52 basketball season is considered one of the best in school history, as the squad finished with an outstanding 23-4 record, including 7-1 in the South Central Conference. The 7-1 mark in the SCC was good for a league title for the first time in seventeen years, and the group also captured the championship at Macoupin County Tournament that same season. The year started out with eleven straight wins, but unfortunately Gillespie ended the winning streak and eventually the season for SHS. While the Dogs...
The Cardinals began the home portion of their 2024 season on Thursday April 4, 2024 at Busch Stadium against the Miami Marlins. The Cardinals won this game (8-5). The season continues with games this week. Wed, Apr 10 against Philadelphia at 12:15 p.m. April 12 at 8:40 p.m., April 13 at 7:10 p.m., and April 14 at 3:10 p.m. the Cardinals will be in Arizona. April 15 at 8:40 p.m., April 16 at 8:40 p.m., and April 17 at 2:37 p.m. the Cardinals will be in Oakland....
Tryouts will be held Monday, May 6 through May 9 from 3:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Friday, May 10, starting at 3:30 p.m. until done. Any fifth through seventh grade student interested in trying out for the 2024-2025 SJHS Cheerleading team, should attend the informational meeting on Wednesday, April 3 at 2:45 p.m. in Mrs. Klein's fifth grade classroom. Tryout practices will be on Monday, May 6 through Thursday, May 9 in the Community Room from 3:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tryouts will be on Friday, May 10 beginning at 3:30 p.m. It requested that all...
Class of 1946 Baseball For the first time in history of the school, Staunton played host to a Sectional Tournament in 19446. Unfortunately, SHS did not advance to its own even, as the Bulldogs lost to Benld (6-1) in the District Tournament action Baskeball (Boy) The 1945-46 basketball program had another successful season under head coach B.H. Gibbons. The squad finished the season 17-11 overall, including 4-4 in the South Central Conference. Furthermore, the Bulldogs won the Macoupin County Tournament for the first time in eleven years behind...
The SCC Women’s Thursday Ladies League will begin on April 18, 2024. We will meet at the clubhouse at 9 a.m. for refreshments and tee off at 9:30 a.m. All members are invited. If you need additional information please contact Rosemarie at (618) 459-3382 or Martha at (217)370-2388....
The camp will be held July 8 thru July 11 for grades Kindergarten all the way up to eighth grade. It will be held at the Staunton Soccer complex, which is located at 1631 Tubular Steel Road, in Staunton, Ill., 62088, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.. For more information in regards to Staunton's Soccer Club and the Youth Soccer Camp, visit their Facebook page or email [email protected]....