MACHESNEY PARK – Auburn’s golf team put in a solid showing Saturday, taking fourth out of 13 teams at the annual J-Hawk Invitational at Atwood Homestead Golf Course. The J-Hawk invitational is a fun kick-off to the season, featuring a best ball format where schools enter three two-golfer teams. The coaches also square off in a […]

At Atwood School Score Freeport 68-82-78-228 Rockton Hononegah 72-88-85-245 Woodstock 76-81-89-246 Rockford Auburn 78-82-93-253 Belvidere North 76-84-93-253 Stockton 76-84-93-253 Hoffman Estates Conant 83-89-86-258 Genoa-Kingston 87-87-93-267 Rockford East 84-96-98-278 Rockford Guilford 84-90-105-279 Poplar Grove North Boone 102-105-90-297 Harvard 93-102-104-299 Dixon 94-96-120-310

This year’s 205 Tip-Off Classic will have a couple of firsts in its fifth year. A team the West Coast, California, will be in the field this year, along with a squad from Toronto, Canada. Launched in 2015, the Rockford Public Schools basketball tournament played the week of Thanksgiving, continues to spread its wings. Twenty-three […]

Rockford Public Schools will hold its 7th annual RPS Champions Ball and Hall of Fame on Feb. 23 at the Radisson Hotel & Conference Center. The event highlights the best and brightest athletes, coaches and contributors from District 205’s storied past. Since its beginning in 2013, RPS has honored nine teams, six coaches, five contributors […]

Rockford Public Schools football and girls soccer players will be a part of a study on head injuries being led by Brandie Messer of OSF Saint Anthony College of Nursing. The district received a grant from the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois to pay for OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center athletic trainers to do baseline […]

Denny Diduch, who joined Guilford this May as an assistant football coach after coaching the Forreston Cardinals to two Class 1A state championships, is taking over the program this week at the request of last year’s coach, Bruce Bazsali. Bazsali told Guilford administration and his coaching staff last week that he was having some health […]

East’s Noah Friske, the reigning NIC-10 cross country champion, showed he’s still the one to beat by winning the State Street Mile’s K-12 division Saturday. Friske ran the speedy course – it’s downhill most of the way – in 4:28.1, beating Hononegah’s Spencer Hielkema by nearly three seconds. Friske’s time would have been good enough […]

Date Opponent Aug. 20 South Beloit Aug. 22 at Antioch Aug. 24-25 Knights Invitational Aug. 28 East Aug. 29 at Freeport Aug. 30 Huntley Quad Sept. 1 Huntley Quad Sept. 4 Boylan Sept. 6 at Crystal Lake South Sept. 11 at Belvidere North Sept. 14-15 at Hononegah Invitational Sept. 18 Belvidere Sept. 25 Jefferson Oct. […]

The University of Illinois took its lumps under Lovie Smith last season, finishing 2-10. There’s much more optimism this year largely because the Illini started 22 true freshman over the course of the year. Three of the 22 started on the offensive line, including former Auburn great Vederian Lowe. If that group grows into a […]

Date Opponent 2017 Record August 24 at Harlem 5-5 August 31 Bel. North 7-5 September 7 Guilford 4-5 September 14 at Belvidere 1-8 September 21 Freeport 3-6 September 28 Auburn 8-2 October 5 at East 6-4 October 12 at Hononegah 10-1 October 19 Boylan 4-5