Braidwood Journal

GSWB baseball team wins regional championship

Published by admin on Mon, 09/30/2024 - 12:38pm

The Gardner-South Wilmington Braceville A baseball team won the Regional Championship over Grant Park in five innings, 12-2.
The Lions claim their 2nd straight regional championship and advanced to Monday’s Sectional Championship against St. Anne sporting an 18-9 record.
Hosting their own regional, Lions south-paw Grady Phillips was the starting pitcher for GSWB. Phillips held the Dragons in his 2 innings of work allowing 2 walks and 2 strikeouts on 0 hits.

RC Boys basketball camp starts Monday

Published by admin on Tue, 07/09/2024 - 4:21pm

There is still time to join in the summer boys basketball camp at Reed-Custer Elementary School which starts on Monday.
RCHS head coach Tyler Schoonover said walk-ins are welcome on July 15 when future Comets will be split into three different sessions.
The camp for boys in first and second grades will be held from 8 a.m. to 9:15 a.m., followed by third-fifth grade from 9:30 to 10:45; and sixth-eighth graders from 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
The camp will run from Monday, July 15 through Thursday, July 18.

Area middle school wrestlers will compete in state meet

Published by admin on Tue, 03/05/2024 - 4:31pm

Fourteen middle school wrestlers from the three area schools have qualified for the IESA Class A State tournament which will be held Friday and Saturday in DeKalb.
Coal City will be sending eight qualifiers after finishing second overall (194.5 points) to Tremont (196) in the East Peoria Central Sectional held Saturday.
The Coalers had six wrestlers finish in second place and will now take the mat during the finals on Friday in the Convocation Center on the Northern Illinois University campus in DeKalb.

Coal City to wrestle for championship!

Published by admin on Sat, 02/24/2024 - 11:19am

Back-to-back victories for the Coal City wrestlers means they'll get their shot at defending the 2023 Class 1A state dual team title at 6 p.m. tonight (Saturday).

On Friday they upended Riverdale 54-13 in the quarterfinal round and this morning they took care of Vandalia 42-22 to advance to the championship match at Grossinger Auto Arena in Bloomington.

FRIDAY UPDATE: Eight Coalers still wrestling

Published by admin on Fri, 02/16/2024 - 4:28pm

Two Coal City wrestlers still have a shot at becoming state champions after winning during the quarterfinal round of the IHSA Individual State wrestling tournament on Friday.

Brody Widlowski (126) and Landin Benson (165) advance to the semifinals Saturday where they need to win in order to wrestle for the Class 1A championship starting at 6 p.m. Saturday night.

Eight area wrestlers survive first round at state

Published by admin on Thu, 02/15/2024 - 4:17pm

Eight of 16 area wrestlers won today during the preliminary round of the IHSA state wrestling finals.

All eight are from Coal City with five taking their opponents out by pin. Advancing to Friday's quarterfinal round will be Coalers Owen Peterson (106) who won by 4-0 decision, Cooper Morris (113) who won by 6:00 fall, Culan Lindemuth (120) by 6-0 decision, Brody Widlowski (126) fall in 3:40, Mason Garner (138) by major dec. 13-0, Brant Widlowski (150) 1:00 fall, Landin Benson (165) with 3:39 pin and Cade Poyner (190) with a 3:26 fall.

Girls flag football league being planned

Published by admin on Wed, 02/14/2024 - 12:29pm

The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) is proud to announce that Girls Flag Football will be the latest sport to debut an IHSA State Series, as the IHSA will conduct its inaugural postseason, culminating with an IHSA Girls Flag Football State Champion being crowned, in the fall of 2024.

RC vs. Wilmington in girls Regional opener

Published by admin on Wed, 02/07/2024 - 3:37pm

Regional play for the high school girls basketball teams begins Saturday at 1 p.m. in Braidwood when Reed-Custer hosts Wilmington.
The Lady Coalers will be the #2 seed in the Manteno Regional which will include Momence (9), Beecher (7), Reed-Custer (6), Manteno (3) and Wilmington (10).
Momence will play Beecher. At the same time Wilmington will play at Reed-Custer.
On Monday, Feb. 12, Coal City will play the winner of Momence vs. Beecher at 6 p.m. in Manteno. At 7:30 p.m. Manteno will play either Wilmington or Reed-Custer.

Begler leads R-C grapplers with an ICE championship

Published by admin on Tue, 01/23/2024 - 4:47pm

The Reed-Custer wrestling team finished fifth in the ICE Conference tournament on Saturday in Coal City. As expected, the Coalers won the team title with 248.5 points, beating Wilmington (128), Streator (90.5), Peotone (77.5) and the Comets with 71 points.

Panthers advance to Final Four in state

Published by admin on Sat, 09/30/2023 - 10:15am

The Reed-Custer Middle School A baseball team shutout Mossville 10-0 to advance to the Final Four of the Class 2A state baeball tournament.

The Panthers (17-4-1) got a another stellar performance on the mound by pitcher Matthew Kuban who three a no-hitter over five innings. He struck out nine batters and walked just two while holding Mossville scoreless.

Reed-Custer scored three runs their first turn at bat and added five more in the third before finishing Mossville (13-10) off with two runs in the fifth to end early by mercy rule.