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Mt. Olive's Alyssa Aubuschon tries to regain possession after Chloe Law of Litchfield pokes the ball away at midcourt during the Jan. 2 meeting between the two teams in Mt. Olive. Law had five steals and Litchfield had the Wildcats' lead down to four in the final two minutes before a 6-0 run gave Mt. Olive a 41-31 win.
Mt. Olive Girls Hold Off Litchfield
The Mt. Olive girls basketball team held a 19-5 advantage in free throws over Litchfield on Tuesday, Jan. 2, as the Lady Wildcats held off the Panthers 41-31 in the first game of the new year. … more
Hillsboro Gets SCC Win In Three Set Thriller
The Hillsboro High School volleyball team picked up their first South Central Conference win of the season and improved to 5-0 with a gutty three-set win over Vandalia on Thursday, Sept. 7. The … more
Eighteen athletes from the Hillsboro Junior High track program, coached by Tom Lunz and Brian Atkins, earned 14 qualifying berths for the IESA Class 3A State Finals in East Peoria on May 17-18. State qualifiers and alternates, in front, from the left, are Joe Lanter, Jackson Cunningham, Leland Armbruster, Cody Payne, Davis Tomei, Nolan Adams, Josiah Atkins, Hudson Wright and Rocco Romero. In the back are Gabriel Wells, Roman Reed, Piper Walk, Bailey Chappelear, Kaelin Cress, Aubrey Huber, Mia Wells and Alexa Compton.
Dragons Send 18 To State Meet
Eighteen Hillsboro Junior High athletes qualified for 14 events at the IESA Class 3A State Track Meet, which will be held at the Eastside Centre in East Peoria on May 17-18. The Dragons, who are … more
Tennis Toppers Beat Vandals For Third Victory
In a match characterized by good competition and some long rallies, the Hillsboro girls tennis team picked up their third victory of the season on Thursday, Sept. 7, with an 8-1 win over Vandalia at … more
Hillsboro's Zander Wells (left) locks up with Tiffin Kouzoukas of Benton during their quarterfinal match at the Vandalia Sectional on Friday, Feb. 9. Wells defeated Kouzoukas in an 11-5 decision one of three wins on the weekend as the senior went on to finish third and qualify for the IHSA Class 1A State Tournament for the first time.
Wells Far From Done With Wrestling
The COVID pandemic may keep Zander Wells from 100 wins in his prep wrestling career, but nothing was going to stop the Hillsboro High School senior from a trip to state. On Saturday, Feb. 10, … more
The Lincolnwood-Morrisonville volleyball team celebrates as senior Taryn Millburg receives the championship trophy for the Montgomery County Invitational Grace Tournament from Charley Herschelman, the sister of the tournament's namesake, the late Grace Herschelman. The Lancers won the tournament for the second year in a row, defeating Hillsboro 25-19, 23-25, 25-19 to improve to 10-0 on the season.
Lancers Repeat At Grace Tourney
What has been a banner year for Montgomery County volleyball got even better over the weekend as Lincolnwood, Hillsboro and Nokomis took the top three spots at the Montgomery County Invitational … more
Hillsboro’s Zander Wells tries to turn Cooper Miller of Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley during their preliminary match at the IHSA Class 1A State Wrestling Tournament in Champaign on Feb. 15. Wells was down 9-3 to Miller going into the third period when he took down the Falcons’ 165-pounder and earned the pin at the 4:17 mark of the match.
Wells’ Senior Season Comes To End At State
Of the 116 wrestlers who started the Class 1A postseason in the 165-pound weight class, only 16 were able to make it to state. Of those 16, half lost, with half of that number losing for a second … more
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Hillsboro's Kearstynn Davis (left) and Litchfield's Chloe Law (right) go up for a 50/50 ball during the third place game at the Panther Classic in Litchfield on Saturday, March 30. After losing to Hillsboro twice last year, the Lady Panthers scored a 2-1 victory over the Toppers, with Law scoring the go-ahead goal in the second half.
Panthers Top Hillsboro For Third
Last year, the Hillsboro and Litchfield girls soccer teams were slated to play for the championship of the 2023 Panther Classic, before Mother Nature put the kibosh on those plans. This Saturday, … more
Hillsboro’s Cheyenne Harston (#30) and Kamryn Langston look for the steal against Gillespie’s Erika Gill during the regional championship game in Virden on Feb. 16. The Miners jumped out to a seven-point first quarter lead en route to a 59-45 victory over the Lady Hiltoppers for their first regional title since 2012.
Season Ends In Regional Championship
A strong start in both the first and second halves helped Gillespie score their first regional championship since 2012 on Friday, Feb. 16, as the Miners defeated Hillsboro 59-45 in the title game at … more
It was senior night for the Hillsboro girls basketball team as the Lady Hiltoppers took time to honor Sophia Blankenship and Aubrey Evans, on Thursday, Feb. 8. Pictured above, from the left, are Blankenship, with parents Cody Hodges and Gabe Blankenship, and Evans, with parents Katie McDonald and Reginald Evans.
Comets Battle Back To Beat Toppers
The regular season finale between Hillsboro and Greenville on Thursday, Feb. 8, is a pretty good example of what the South Central Conference has been in girls basketball any year. With four teams … more
Toppers End March With Busy Stretch
Hillsboro’s baseball team played a pitching-staff-testing five games in four days as Easter approached ( a sixth game was played on Monday, March 25; it was a win over Staunton reported in … more
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Cavies Spoil Diveley's Big Game On Senior Night
Litchfield may not have won on senior night, Thursday, Feb. 8, but it wasn’t due to a lack of effort or the performance of their lone senior. Emma Diveley, daughter of Charles and Shannon … more
Comets Get Hillsboro 44-33 In Season Finale
Prior to the start of the Hillsboro at Greenville end-of-the-regular-season basketball game, the odds seemed stacked in the Comets’ favor. They had defeated the Toppers 51-39 in the Kaskaskian … more
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Rochester Holds Off Lady Toppers
The Hillsboro girls basketball team nearly picked up their first win of the season on Saturday morning, Nov. 18, in the Toppers’ second game of the Taylorville Thanksgiving Tournament. … more
Panthers' Greff Delivers Victory Over Hiltoppers
If one likes a close athletic contest, the place to be on   Friday night, Feb. 9, was in the North Mac Junior High gym (the Girard High School gym before Virden and Girard merged to form the … more
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Litchfield senior Anthony Bader earned first team all-conference honors this past year, his second straight selection after being a second team pick last year as a junior.
Panthers, Toppers Get Seven Each On All-SCC
A round of penalty kicks was the only difference between the Litchfield and Hillsboro boys soccer teams in conference play so it was fitting that the two teams tied for the most players on this … more
Soccer Toppers Continue To Grind
The Hillsboro High School boys soccer team kicked off their seemingly endless week of soccer Monday, Aug. 28, at Highland for a non-conference regular season tilt against the Bulldogs, before … more
The Hillsboro boys golf team of, from the left, Austin Loskot, Colton Weiss, Tycen Thacker and Carson Walker shot a 168 on Tuesday, Aug. 29, to pick up their first two wins of the season. Weiss and Thacker both shot 39s at Oak Terrace Resort in Pana to take medalist honors for the match.
Hillsboro Boys Get Opening Win
The Hillsboro boys golf team picked up a pair of wins in their first dual meet of the season as they knocked off Altamont and Pana at Oak Terrace Resort in Pana. The Toppers shot a 168 on the day to … more
In front, from the left, are Emoree Shepard, Hanna Hughes, Reagan Lentz, Kennady Clayton, Maycie Fuller, Leah Satterlee and Amya Greenwood. In the back are Tyler Beard, Tatum Christian, Addison Lowe, Kearstynn Davis, Ellie Miller, Sophia Blankenship and Coach Emily Zimmerman.
Lady Hiltoppers Third At Vandalia Tourney
After losing a three-set heartbreaker at home to Carlinville on Thursday, the Hillsboro High School volleyball team was looking to rebound with a strong performance at the Vandalia Tournament on … more
Hillsboro's Aubrey Evans (right) goes up for two of her eight points in the Toppers' regional semifinal against Auburn on Tuesday, Feb. 13, in Virden. Hillsboro won 45-38 to beat Auburn for the third time this year and advance to Friday's regional championship at North Mac against Gillespie.
Hiltoppers Stop Auburn In Regional Again
The Auburn girls basketball program has had a fair amount of success in the past, including three 20-win seasons in the last seven years with an average of 18-wins per season (not including the COVID … more
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