The Guilford Vikings beat East, 3-2, Tuesday night to knock the E-Rabs out of first place in the NIC-10 soccer race and to put themselves back in contention for a second straight NIC-10 title. The Vikings are the defending NIC-10 champions, but they dropped their conference opener to Hononegah, 2-0. Since then, Guilford has knocked […]
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 […]
Brad Benjamin, the three-time NIC-10 golf champion from Guilford who went on to qualify for the Masters and the U.S. Open, is taking another step in his pro golfing career. Benjamin qualified for this weekend’s $650,000 Rex Hospital Open in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the Web.com Tour. That tour is a step below the PGA […]
The Guilford Vikings won its first baseball regional title since 2007, winning a 2-1 thriller behind another stellar pitching performance. Jake Klekamp through a complete game, three-hitter for the Vikings, striking out eight, leading Guilford over DeKalb Saturday morning. The win improved Klekamp to 5-2 on the year and the Vikings to 14-11 overall. It […]
In baseball, a famous saying is momentum is your next starting pitcher and there was a perfect example Thursday afternoon. The East E-Rabs ended a 22-year NIC-10 baseball title drought by going 17-1 in conference play this year. They’ll keep that honor forever. Thursday though, East ran into Rockford Guilford’s Max Klein, who signed a […]
Max Klein, a left-handed pitcher for Guilford, on Monday signed a scholarship to play for Indiana State, an NCAA Division 1 program. Klein led the Vikings to a 9-9 conference record and 12-11 overall. The Vikings play Rockford East in the IHSA regionals on Thursday. The Sycamores are 29-22 this season.
MACHESNEY PARK – Rockford Public Schools tennis players dominated the IHSA Class 2A Machesney Park Harlem sectional, taking the top two spots in singles and doubles. In singles, it was an all-Auburn final. Junior Quinten Nevenhoven knocked off freshman Chris Park, 6-0, 6-1. Nevenhoven won the NIC-10 tennis title last weekend, while Park won No. […]
Jenny Spangler, the Guilford distance runner who went to to excel at Iowa and then make the U.S. Olympic team as a marathoner, will be in Rockford on May 26 as a special guest for the fifth annual 2.05 Run to benefit Rockford Public Schools’ physical education programs. Spangler was inducted into the RPS Athletic […]
Denny Diduch, who coached Forreston High School to two IHSA state football titles, will join Bruce Bazsali’s staff as an assistant coach for the 2018 season. Bazsali, who was inducted into the Illinois Football Coaches Association in 2006, took over Guilford in 2017 and the Vikings jumped from 1-8 to 4-5. In Diduch, Bazsali is […]
DEKALB – Two Rockford Public Schools athletes earned one more track meet at the IHSA Class 3A DeKalb girls track & field sectional. Auburn senior Elle Maculan qualified for the IHSA Class 3A state meet in the 300-meter low hurdles by taking second in a time of :45.77. Maculan, who was second in the event […]
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