WATSEKA – The Cissna Park High School boys basketball team lost 71-43 to Kankakee Bishop McNamara in the Watseka Holiday Tournament on Saturday. Dierks Neukomm led Cissna Park with 23 points while Seth Walder also scored in double figures with 15 points and Joe Ivers and Wyatt Marcott had three and two points, respectively. Cissna Park (3-6) won 55-45 over […]
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GCMS/Fisher girls wrestlers earn medals at Pontiac Invite
PONTIAC – McKenzie Miller of the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School girls’ wrestling team earned a first-place finish in the 145-pound bracket at “The Munch” Pontiac Invitational on Saturday. Miller pinned Olympia’s Leah Brammeier in 4:57 in the championship match after pinning Geneseo’s Anabella Kelley in 52 seconds, Canton’s Kennedy Smith in 4:57 and Mahomet-Seymour’s Kaisley Shotkoski in 1:49. Charity Miguel […]
GCMS/Fisher wrestling wins Reaper Classic
PLANO – The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley/Fisher High School wrestling team won the Reaper Classic on Saturday. The Falcons finished with a score of 261 ½ while Chicago St. Rita finished second with a score of 218 ½. Bentley Fields won the individual championship at 113 pounds, winning via 15-0 and 17-2 technical falls over Sandwich’s Aiden Sinetos and LaSalle-Peru’s Gianni Verucchi […]
GCMS boys basketball loses 61-51 to LeRoy
GIBSON CITY – Nine months after meeting in the IHSA Class 1A sectional finals, the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley and LeRoy boys basketball teams met again on Friday. Just like on March 7, LeRoy got the upper hand in a battle of two teams starting their 2025-26 campaign with unblemished records, beating GCMS 61-51 in Friday’s contest. “They’re a very experienced team, […]
PBL boys basketball loses 54-33 to Westville
WESTVILLE – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda varsity boys basketball team lost 54-33 to Westville on Friday. Tyler Cole led PBL (4-3) with 18 points while Dylan Vance and Carson Goss each had four points, Anthony Rodriguez had three points and Mason Vaughan and Ethan Williams each had two points. Westville 54, PBL 33 PBL 5 16 3 9 — 33 WEST 13 […]
Photo gallery: GCMS boys basketball vs. LeRoy
Here are some sights from Friday’s game, which LeRoy won 61-51 …
PBL 7th-grade boys basketball finishes fourth in TCC Tournament
PIPER CITY – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda seventh-grade boys basketball team finished fourth in the Twin County Conference Tournament. On Monday, Dec. 8, PBL lost 33-24 to Tri-Point in the tournament semifinals, getting outscored 17-10 in the second half after going into halftime trailing 16-14. Landry Waugh had 10 points for PBL while Tomasi Suaava had five points, Pierce Kingren had three […]
Cissna Park boys basketball wins 48-44 over St. Anne
MILFORD – The Cissna Park High School boys basketball team won 48-44 over St. Anne in its first game of the Watseka Holiday Tournament on Thursday. Dierks Neukomm led Cissna Park (2-5) with 26 points while Seth Walder had seven points, Jream Renteria and Aiden Richards each had five points, Ayden Schaffer had three points and Skyler Estay had two […]
GCMS adds shotput, discus rings to track renovation project
GIBSON CITY — The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley school board on Wednesday, Dec. 10, approved adding new shotput and discus rings — at a cost of $90,000 — to next summer’s renovation of the high school’s track facilities. “Currently, we have one shotput ring and one discus ring, so what we’re doing is we’re adding a second discus launching place and we’re […]
PBL 8th-grade girls basketball ends season in sectional round
FORREST – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda eighth-grade girls basketball team lost 34-10 to Manteno in the IESA Class 3A Prairie Central Sectional game on Wednesday. With the loss, PBL ended its season with a record of 14-6. “We had a great season. We can’t look back at one game that defines the whole season,” PBL eighth-grade coach Andrea Fuoss said. “That’s not […]
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