In boys basketball action over the weekend, Coal City defeated Wilmington, 52-39, in Interstate Eight Conference action to stay undefeated at 4-0. Dec. 10, 2013 - 5:30 am
Coming off of a 32-point win Friday night over Rochelle, Morris boys basketball coach Joe Blumberg had a goal in mind for his team in Saturday night’s ...
Dec. 10, 2013 - 5:30 am
COAL CITY – After allowing Peotone to take its first lead in the fourth quarter, Coal City rallied to win, 47-39, and stay undefeated Monday in Inters ...
Dec. 10, 2013 - 5:30 am
SENECA – Bo Taylor did not resemble a future Morris Daily Herald Player of the Year for the first several years he played football. Dec. 6, 2013 - 10:38 pm
The big story for the Morris Daily Herald area in terms of football this year was, of course, Seneca making the playoff for the first time in 12 years ...
Dec. 6, 2013 - 10:37 pm
Morris split a boys-girls varsity basketball doubleheader with Rochelle Friday night on its home floor, losing 49-36 in the girls game and winning 76- ...
Dec. 9, 2013 - 10:47 pm
Morris defeated Ottawa 3,147-2,463 in its first Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference girls bowling match of the season Tuesday at Echo Lanes. Dec. 5, 2013 - 9:54 pm
I was flipping through the pages of a sporting goods flier that came in the mail. It was full of Christmas specials, cute camo pajamas, toys for the k ...
Dec. 5, 2013 - 10:10 pm
In the third bout of the night for the Morris wrestling team, Redskins’ 132-pounder Kenny Baldridge recorded a win by fall in 3:08 over Nick Mohr of Y ...
Dec. 5, 2013 - 9:57 pm
When you hear a cross country coach talk about kids benefiting from “putting in the miles in the offseason,” perhaps no two runners epitomize that tha ...
Dec. 4, 2013 - 9:57 pm
Dwight High School runner Daly Galloway had a great freshman season running for the Gardner-South Wilmington cross country team. Her personal best tim ...
Dec. 5, 2013 - 10:04 pm
Only two area boys cross country runners made it to state this past season. Seven of the eight harriers chosen for the Morris Daily Herald All-Area bo ...
Dec. 5, 2013 - 10:04 pm
In area girls basketball action on Monday, Coal City defeated Manteno in Interstate Eight conference play. Seneca defeated Dwight in River Valley conf ...
Dec. 3, 2013 - 9:58 pm
DWIGHT – Heading over to Dwight for the season opening wrestling match Tuesday, Morris coach Jon Lanning already knew approximately what the outcome w ...
Dec. 3, 2013 - 10:02 pm
MINOOKA – Well, I have to admit that my expectations were not that high for last Friday’s inaugural alumni football game between Morris and Minooka hi ...
Dec. 3, 2013 - 10:07 pm
At the Seneca Thanksgiving Turkey Tournament on Saturday, the Mendota Trojans finished off the 16th game of the event – the championship game – with a ...
Dec. 2, 2013 - 10:14 pm
COAL CITY – When a basketball team has a threat under the basket and a threat in the backcourt, it can be tough to beat. The Morris boys basketball te ...
Dec. 2, 2013 - 10:26 pm
All six local girls volleyball teams finished above .500 this season, creating some of the most heated competition for Morris Daily Herald All-Area sp ...
Nov. 29, 2013 - 9:38 pm
MINOOKA – When asked what she enjoys apart from volleyball, Minooka Community High School senior Skyler Day admitted to one other interest. One, it se ...
Nov. 29, 2013 - 9:45 pm
Per IHSA records, Harry Banks debuted as Morris girls bowling head coach in 2007-08. None of his previous teams have been as experienced as the 2013-1 ...
Nov. 28, 2013 - 9:06 pm
This last Tuesday night the community hosted a wonderful event. It was the Morris Ministerial Association’s annual community Thanksgiving service. I w ...
Nov. 28, 2013 - 9:13 pm
In girls basketball action in recent days, Morris picked up a nonconference win over Somonauk and Coal City finished off the Beecher Tournament champi ...
Nov. 28, 2013 - 9:05 pm
After Wednesday night’s 54-44 win by Mendota over Seneca at the Seneca Turkey Tournament, both Trojans coach Jan Thompson and Fighting Irish coach Rus ...
Nov. 28, 2013 - 9:06 pm
JOLIET – After finishing 14th at the girls bowling state tournament in 2013 – a year after taking second place – Minooka has two early areas of specia ...
Nov. 26, 2013 - 10:06 pm
In area girls basketball action Monday night, Gardner-South Wilmington picked up its first win of the season when the Panthers defeated Peoria Heights ...
Nov. 26, 2013 - 10:06 pm
COAL CITY – For the Morris basketball team, seven different players scored in the season opener at the Coal City Turkey Tournament. In the last 6:31 o ...
Nov. 29, 2013 - 9:44 pm
COAL CITY – With 13 points in the first half from Nick Peters and eight more from Segal Arias in the first 16 minutes, the Coal City Coalers had built ...
Nov. 28, 2013 - 9:11 pm
Newark made a Class 1A boys basketball super-sectional for the fourth time in five seasons in 2012-13. The Norsemen have won 20-plus games five straig ...
Nov. 25, 2013 - 9:49 pm
Now in his fifth year as head coach of the Morris wrestling team, Jon Lanning is realistic on what he thinks he can expect out of his team this winter ...
Nov. 25, 2013 - 9:48 pm
The Morris girls basketball team finished up its play at the Prairie Central Holiday Tournament by splitting its last two games. Morris beat Flanagan ...
Nov. 25, 2013 - 9:49 pm
JOLIET – In its first quarter of the season, Minooka had more turnovers – eight – than shots – six – and it made only one field-goal attempt. Nov. 26, 2013 - 10:07 pm
It was something of a historic soccer season for the local teams. For Morris and Minooka that was a good thing. For Coal City it wasn’t the kind of hi ...
Nov. 22, 2013 - 9:54 pm
SENECA – Graduating four starters would leave most basketball teams in a hole. Seneca boys coach Russell Witte has reason to believe his replacements ...
Nov. 22, 2013 - 9:54 pm
Last year the Gardner-South Wilmington boys basketball team set the kind of school record no team wants to be known for – fewest wins in a single seas ...
Nov. 25, 2013 - 9:52 pm
Minooka, which was the area’s only team sectional qualifier in girls golf this season, earned half the spots on the 2013 Morris Daily Herald All-Area ...
Nov. 21, 2013 - 9:33 pm
It is really amazing at what we can notice when we step back and try to look at things with fresh eyes. Sometimes we are so busy living in the world t ...
Nov. 21, 2013 - 9:44 pm
CHANNAHON – Minooka last won a boys basketball regional in 1977. Players are reminded of the drought every time they step into the gymnasium. Nov. 20, 2013 - 9:58 pm
The Southwest Prairie Conference announced the All-Conference volleyball and soccer teams with Minooka garnering three spikers to the team and two soc ...
Nov. 20, 2013 - 9:41 pm
SOMONAUK – Seneca senior Danielle Hauch was in a groove. Leading the Lady Irish with 15 points, Hauch was a steady force in the second half in leading ...
Nov. 20, 2013 - 9:44 pm
COAL CITY – With eight returning letter winners from a 23-7 girls basketball team, including 2013 Morris Daily Herald Player of the Year Emily Hallida ...
Nov. 19, 2013 - 9:49 pm
COAL CITY – For the people of Coal City and Diamond, basketball may not rank particularly high on their list of priorities right now. Especially in th ...
Nov. 20, 2013 - 9:58 pm
MINOOKA – The Minooka Indians are 3-for-3 in winning regional championships in girls basketball since Erin Heide entered high school. She has contribu ...
Nov. 19, 2013 - 9:49 pm
The Little Ten Conference soccer coaches met in recent days to select the 2013 Little Ten All-Conference Soccer Team. Here are the 18 players recogniz ...
Nov. 19, 2013 - 9:49 pm
The Morris boys basketball team announced Tuesday its annual preseason scrimmage game – which will be at 6 p.m. Friday – will help support victims of ...
Nov. 19, 2013 - 9:48 pm
SENECA – Each team had two dominant quarters in which it scored a pair of touchdowns. Each finished with more than 350, but fewer than 400, total yard ...
Nov. 18, 2013 - 9:54 pm
FAIRBURY – Morris began its girls basketball season, and the Kate Carey era, Monday with a 64-48 win over Decatur MacArthur at the Prairie Central Tha ...
Nov. 18, 2013 - 9:55 pm
SENECA – Aurora Christian could turn around and get blown out by Stillman Valley next week. In the prep football playoffs, you never quite know what w ...
Nov. 18, 2013 - 10:01 pm
GARDNER – When the Gardner-South Wilmington Lady Panthers needed a basket, or someone to handle the ball in 2012-13, they almost always turned to Chel ...
Nov. 15, 2013 - 10:51 pm
The Minooka boys bowling team opened up the season with a win over Hinsdale South, claiming a 499-pin victory. The Indians won by a final of 3,388-2,8 ...
Nov. 15, 2013 - 10:51 pm
It’s fairly safe to say that Morris tennis doubles partners Monica Davy and Leah Lines are well on their way to making Redskins history. Especially no ...
Nov. 15, 2013 - 10:53 pm
SENECA – Of his seven assistants on the Seneca football staff, only one, Phil Conner, was much more than a stranger to head coach Ted O’Boyle three ye ...
Nov. 14, 2013 - 9:39 pm
SENECA – Though it was always at the Class 1A and 2A levels, Ted O’Boyle got his teams ready to face playoff opponents in nine different seasons at Fl ...
Nov. 14, 2013 - 9:39 pm
SENECA – The Tim Humes Breakout Tournament, hosted by Somonauk, will give Seneca the chance to play four varsity girls basketball games in five days t ...
Nov. 14, 2013 - 9:39 pm
In one sense, the 2013-14 Morris varsity girls basketball team will very much resemble the team that produced a 6-21 overall record last winter. Nov. 13, 2013 - 9:53 pm
When the final whistle blows at the end of the game between the Seneca Fighting Irish football alums and the Pontiac Indians alums in the “Battle of t ...
Nov. 13, 2013 - 10:10 pm
NEWARK – Last season, Newark had the best girls basketball record, 28-2, in its history. The Lady Norsemen won the Little Ten Conference season and to ...
Nov. 13, 2013 - 10:08 pm
One of the things that makes covering any IHSA state final event a challenge is the seeming overflow of information that comes out of it. Last weekend ...
Nov. 13, 2013 - 10:09 pm
Southwest Prairie Conference champion Minooka was the dominant boys golf team in the area this season, as evidenced by its players having the four low ...
Nov. 12, 2013 - 10:35 pm
CHANNAHON – Although the storybook ending is missing, Jason Chobar’s prep golf career will go down as one of the greatest in Minooka – and Morris Dail ...
Nov. 12, 2013 - 10:34 pm
CHICAGO – Moments after Seneca advanced to the third round of the Class 3A football playoffs with a blowout of Robeson, coach Ted O’Boyle asked his pl ...
Nov. 12, 2013 - 10:44 pm
The Morris girls swimming team placed second, with 309 points to Bradley-Bourbonnais’s 377, at the four-team Bradley-Bourbonnais Boiler Tune-Up this w ...
Nov. 11, 2013 - 9:52 pm
CHICAGO – Throughout its history, Seneca has won 15 games in the football playoffs, including five in 1990 when it captured the Class 2A state champio ...
Nov. 11, 2013 - 9:52 pm
PEORIA – Heading down to Detweiller Park on Saturday, veteran cross country coach Larry Lane thought freshman sensation Daly Galloway had the chance t ...
Nov. 11, 2013 - 9:51 pm
