PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) β The Peoria Rivermen won 5-0 at Carver Arena Saturday night for Teddy Bear Toss night.
Fans braved the sub-zero wind chill and six inches of snow that fell hours before puck drop to participate in the toss.
Garrett Devine scored a short-handed goal roughly eight minutes into the game and the Rivermen never looked back. Thousands of teddy bears were dropped onto the ice after the win.
It was Devineβs first of two goals on the night.
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ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO/WQRF) β The Harlem Huskies nearly pulled off the first major upset of the season Friday night in NIC-10 boys basketball.
The Huskies had a lead on the three-time defending champion Guilford Vikings in the fourth quarter before it got away from them, and Guilford escaped with a 61-57 win.
Guilford improves its record to 4-2 overall and 3-0 in the conference. Harlem is 2-5, 0-3. For highlights watch the media player above.
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DAKOTA, Ill. (WTVO/WQRF) β The Dakota Indians have been in the shadow of some outstanding Pecatonica teams the last couple years in the NUIC North. This year Dakota might be casting a shadow on everyone else.
With a very strong returning nucleus, Dakota is off to a 5-0 start this season. Friday night the Indians got their latest win overpower Durand 63-20.
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FREEPORT, Ill. (WTVO/WQRF) β Freeport takes round one of the season series from Freeport knocking off the Pretzels Friday night 64-50.
In a matchup of what could be the two best teams in the conference, Freeport pounced early outscoring Hononegah 21-10 in the first quarter despite not shooting the ball particularly well. The Pretzels used their size advantage to dominate the glass and score points inside. Hononegah badly missed one of its best players in the post Mikayla Mowers. She was in street clothes because of a minor injury she suffered in Hononegahβs previous game Wednesday.
Freeport continued to lead 35-22 at halftime. Paityn London took over from there in the third quarter. She scored nine points in that frame for Freeport. She finished the game with 24 points and a bunch of steals.
Freeport continued to lead 49-35 after the third quarter. Hononegah got the difference down to single digits in the final quarter but couldnβt get over the hump.
Keagan Huggins scored 11 points and Aailyah Martin ten for Freeport. Hononegah was led by Ainsley Hughes with 18 points. Kylie Simpson and Addison Beilfuss each scored ten.
Freeport is now 9-1, 4-0. Hononegah is 5-3, 3-1. The two teams will meet again in Rockton February 3.
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MARRERO, La. (WGNO) β Archbishop Shaw has reached consecutive state championship games for the first time since 2008 thanks to Ethan Lentz. During the Eagles semi-finals matchup against Vandebilt Catholic, Lentz recorded 12 tackles, one sack and two interceptions, including a pick six, to punch Shawβs ticket back to the title game.
βWe needed to play together to get the job done and make it back to the dome. We did practice hard, play hard all together as one,β Lentz said.
Lentzβs performance was no fluke though. The linebacker has six interceptions on the year, and head coach Hank Tierney has seen a ballhawk star manning the second level of his defense.
βHe finds the ball. Heβs very physical, and heβs gotten better each year. He has good hands, and heβs got six and probably had a chance to get 2 or 3 more. Heβs been a big playmaker for us the whole year,β Tierney added.
While Lentz has been finishing his third year on the westbank, the linebacker gew up modeling his game after John Ehret alums DeβJon βScootaβ Harris and former LSU Tiger MIchael Divinity.
βI wanted to be like them in every way. They were like my idols. Itβs a great feeling: Trying to chase the same success they had and also trying to make my own path,β the junior explained.
Lentzβs path began with his father who not only coached at John Ehret but has been on Shawβs staff, since before Tierneyβs return to the westbank.
βHe played football his whole life. His dad play football at De La Salle. He came up in a football family, and we knew about him because the dad was on the staff, when I came here. Weβre happy to have him: Tough kid that makes a lot of plays,β Tierney finished.
Archbishop Shawβs Ethan Lentz is our Friday Night Football Best Chevrolet Best Player of the Week.
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FRUITA, Colo (KREX) β Fruita Monument uses a huge fourth quarter to beat Frederick. The Wildcats scored 21 in the final frame to take down the undefeated Golden Eagles.
Fruita came out firing and led 31-17 at the half. Alivia Hopkins was one of the reasons why. The freshman scored 10 points in the first half. She had a game-high 16 in the game.
The Golden Eagles showed why they entered the game without a loss. Frederick scored 18 in the third quarter and chopped the lead to one late in the third.
With seconds ticking away, Hailee Wagner hit a deep three to put Fruita up four heading into the fourth quarter.
It was all Wildcats in the last frame. Wagner hit a corner three to start the 21-6 run that Fruita used to win.
Maggie Meyer worked alongside Wagner in the fourth. She had eight of her 11 points and hit five of six free throws in the quarter.
Fruita used that fourth quarter to win 60-41. Fruita is back Saturday when they play Denver North at 2. Frederick plays Grand Junction at 11:00 a.m.
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NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) β No. 5 Dunham faced No. 6 Calvary Baptist in the Division III Select title game at Caesars Superdome on Thursday, Dec. 11.
The Tigers captured the Division III Select title after winning a convincing 34-17 game over the Cavaliers.
You can catch more high school football action on Season 34 of WGNOβs Friday Night Football, a program founded by Ed Daniels and always presented by the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
You can catch the shows on Friday at 11 p.m. on Nola 38, the CW.
The show replays at midnight on WGNO.
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CARTHAGE, MO β The Carthage Tigers fell in the opening round of the 79th Carthage Invitational 64-38 to the Link Academy Lions.
The visitors were able to piece together a 17-6 first quarter performance led by Chase Brown with back-to-back three-point makes to close the period.
In the midst of its early struggles, Landon Roy was able to knock down a three-pointer of his own to give the Tigers their first made field goal of the evening.
Carthageβs Jonah Barret would follow with another deep three in the corner to start the second quarter for the Tigers to spark some offensive momentum.
However down the stretch, Link was able to hold on to its early advantage in a 64-38 finish after a 24-11 lead at the half.
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