1 1 • Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019 - The Scoop Today/Shopper’s Guide LAW OFFICES OF • Car Accidents Serving the communities in Jo Daviess County Rosenberg, Eisenberg & Associates, LLC • Slip / Trip & Fall • Medical Malpractice Personal Injury Workers Compensation • Wrongful Death Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect the • Personal Injury • Job Accidents No Charge Unless Recovery is Made • Product Injuries 841 E. North Ave. 815-947-3445 Hwy 20 East Stockton, IL Scoop Today WWW.RICHARDROSENBERGLAW.COM 220357 VOL. 85 • NO. 49 YOUR FREE HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4, 2019 Blackhawks cover All Conference awards By Trenten Scheidegger led by a group of solid players along for his guys as he was rewarded with another First Team All-Conference lection, Winston McPeek earning a SPORTSWRITER their offensive and defensive line, as a First Team All-Conference Center selection for his defensive line play. Second Team selection, and Andrew The Stockton Blackhawks put in well as the running talents of Jason award. A solid year for Schultz, who can Haas earning an honorable mention. another solid football season in their Hermann. With such a solid offensive line now call himself a two-way First With a grand total of twelve 2019 campaign. Stockton finished Nearly the entire Stockton offen- it’s no wonder how Jason Hermann Team All-Conference player. Bryant All-Conference awards including with a 7-4 overall record after a sec- sive line was rewarded for their solid was able to run all over defenses this Keefer was an honorable mention for honorable mentions, to a total of ond-round loss in the playoffs to an 2019 play as Cody Schultz earned a season. He exploited the big holes the defensive line group. nine players the Blackhawks came impressive Aquin Catholic squad. unanimous First Team All-Confer- every game and did enough to get a At linebacker, both Harmston and in with the second most players to They outscored their opponents ence award. Case Harmston earned unanimous First Team All-Confer- Drew McGovern were First Team se- earn an all-conference award. Sec- 252-136 and were much more im- a Second Team All-Conference ence Running Back award. lections. The Junior duo will be a lot ond to only the state champion Le- pressive on their home turf where award, and Drew McGovern grabbed To wrap up the offensive awards, of fun to watch as they cover the field na-Winslow Panthers. they went 4-1 on the season. an Honorable Mention. The guy in Gavin Keefer was given an Honor- in their senior campaign next year. With a good number of the award Jessy Snyder’s Blackhawks were the middle, Zach Cook, led the way able Mention for his tight end play. At defensive back, the Black- winners being juniors, the 2020 On the other side of the ball, hawks had three players listed with Stockton Blackhawks team will be a Lady Wildcats Schultz was just as solid as he earned Jaden Rice getting a First Team se- lot of fun to watch. begin 2019 campaign By Trenten Scheidegger could provide a solid core for the Wild- SPORTSWRITER cats to continue their success from last The River Ridge-Scales Mound season despite the loss of so much tal- Wildcats have begun their 2019 girls’ ent. basketball season. Under the helm of The Wildcats opened up their season Coach David Weigel, who came into with an impressive win over Benton. the season with a career coaching re- They held the Zephyrs to just 26 points cord of 101-95, the Wildcats will have while putting up 43 of their own in a to find their new identity. Following route of Benton. their 18-8 2018 season, the Wildcats The Wildcats then entered play in lost a few key components to their suc- the Dakota tournament. They were set cess in Tabria Thomas, Reese Miller, up with a tough opponent in the Aquin and Maddi Frey. Coach Weigel was re- Bulldogs, who had the Wildcats num- turned just one of his starters from 2018 ber all game long. The Bulldogs out- in Claire Wienen, who is now a senior. scored RRSM 17-5 in the first quarter The team will have to focus on and they ran away with things after Wienen for leadership, as coach Weigel that. With a 37-9 lead at halftime, this said, “We will rely on our lone return- was one the Wildcats and Weigel just ing starter from last year’s team, Claire wanted to forget about. Wienen, both offensively and defen- RRSM was much improved in the sively to help lead us throughout the second half, but it wouldn’t be enough season.” to climb their way back into this one. “Lack of experience will be a huge Kari Conklin and Sydney Driscoll factor in this season’s success early, but found their rhythm as they put up five we hope through hard work, to be com- points each in the half. Sarah Pratt hit petitive as we progress.” David said of a three pointer and the Wildcats were the team’s weaknesses. able to put up twenty points in the sec- TONY CARTON PHOTO The Scoop Today On the plus side, Weigel believes his ond half. team should not have too much trouble The Bulldogs were simply too much, working together and establishing their however, as they walked away with a Stockton Festival of Lights identity as a team. “Team chemistry 75-29 victory over River Ridge-Scales Children of all ages came to downtown Stockton for a visit with the jolly old elf at Hartig Drug. will be a huge strength of this year’s Mound. Driscoll and Conklin both led squad. This group of kids really works the team in scoring with seven. Emma hard and gets along well.” Weigel said. Kloss was next up with five points. The Hornets have a very strong Ju- Wiegel and the Wildcats will look to nior class coming on this year. 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Senior With a team bowing out of the tour- Goaltender Brooke Teubert stopped ney, three teams participated with 16 shots while the Fury had 43 shots Fury and Arrowhead squaring off on Brookfield’s goaltender. Arrow- first. The Fury lost 2-0 in a slow- head narrowly defeated Brookfield paced first game. 4-2 in the next game.