ONARGA – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda varsity softball team ended its 2025 season with a 12-5 loss in the IHSA Class 2A regional quarterfinals to Iroquois West on Monday. Hallee Johnson hit 2-for-3 with a triple, a double, an RBI and two runs scored. On the mound, Aubrey Busboom allowed 12 runs – six earned – with 11 hits and two walks […]
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PBL baseball wins 7-2 over St. Thomas More in regional quarterfinals
PAXTON – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda varsity baseball team survived and advanced through the first round of the IHSA Class 2A regionals on Monday. The Panthers won 7-2 over St. Thomas More in the regional quarterfinals. “At this time of year, it doesn’t matter how. It’s just a matter of finding a way to get it done,” PBL head coach Brock Niebuhr […]
Photo gallery: PBL baseball vs. St. Thomas More (2025)
Here are some sights from Monday’s IHSA Class 2A regional quarterfinal game in Paxton, which PBL won 7-2 …
GCMS boys track places fourth at El Paso-Gridley
EL PASO – The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School boys track and field team finished fourth in a meet held at El Paso-Gridley High School on Saturday. The Falcons finished Saturday’s meet with a score of 53 ½ behind Prairie Central (132), Mahomet-Seymour (75) and EPG (65). Sixteen teams notched a final score. Keegan DeWall finished first in the 1,600-meter run […]
PBL High School boys track competes at St. Teresa Invitational
DECATUR – Mason Vaughan of the Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School boys track and field team finished fifth in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.54 seconds in the St. Teresa Invitational on Friday. Brady Young finished ninth in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:04.02. Samuel Hall finished 13th in the high jump with a leap of 1.77 meters. […]
Elliott goes out with bang in last baseball game on GCMS home field
BLOOMINGTON – This past week provided a bit of a glimpse of both Brayden Elliott’s present and future. On Saturday, the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley senior played in the Heart of Illinois Conference Showcase at Jack Horenberger Field, the future collegiate ballpark for the Illinois Wesleyan-bound Elliott. It was not the first time he played at Horenberger Field as that was the […]
GCMS baseball loses 2-0 to Tri-Valley in HOIC Showcase
BLOOMINGTON — In its final game of the 2025 regular season, the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley varsity baseball team lost 2-0 to Tri-Valley in the Heart of Illinois Conference Showcase on Saturday. “I’m not disappointed with the way the game played today,” White said. “We played defense really well and pitched really well. We just couldn’t get enough hits. Hopefully, that’ll change […]
Photo gallery: GCMS baseball vs. Tri-Valley
Here are some sights from Saturday’s HOIC Showcase game, which Tri-Valley won 1-0 …
PBL, GCMS track athletes qualify for IESA Class 3A state meet
WATSEKA – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda eighth-grade boys track and field team finished third with a score of 38 at the IESA Class 3A Watseka Sectional on Friday while Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley finished fifth with a score of 35. The PBL seventh-grade girls finished sixth with a score of 32 while GCMS finished 11th with a score of five. The GCMS eighth-grade girls […]
GCMS girls track competes in IHSA Class 1A sectional
TUSCOLA SECTIONAL Team scores 1. Tuscola, 119; 2. Shelbyville, 92; 3. Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond, 81; 4. Sullivan, 61; 5. Marshall, 57; 6. Casey-Westfield, 49; 7. Bethany Okaw Valley, 45; 8. St. Thomas More, 37; 9. Arcola, 34; 10. Fisher, 33; 11. Hume Shiloh, 26; 12. Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley, 20; 13. Villa Grove, 14; 14. Cerro Gordo-Bement, 12; 15. Urbana University, 9. 100-meter dash […]
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