With three 20-win teams and one of the closest championship races one could imagine, the 2023-24 girls basketball season was another great one in the South Central Conference. And with just four …
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2/29/24
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Three players from the co-conference champion Litchfield boys basketball team and two players from Hillsboro were among the 18 players honored as all-conference selections by the South Central …
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2/29/24
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Players and coaches for the Hillsboro High School boys soccer team accepted a $1,000 donation from the Hillsboro Lions Club on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 12, at the Hillsboro Sports Complex. With the …
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9/21/23
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The temperatures may be going up and down outside, but the Hillsboro High School track team will be heating things up indoors on Saturday, March 2, as they open up their season at Illinois College in …
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2/29/24
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The Hillsboro High School softball team picked up their eighth win of the season as they opened up South Central Conference play with a 6-3 victory over Southwestern on Friday, April 5. The Toppers …
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4/8/24
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The Hillsboro High School boys golf team started off the 2023 season with a pair of tournaments on Aug. 10 and 11 in Taylorville and Fillmore. The team returns four starters from last year and showed …
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8/14/23
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While Hillsboro’s opening wins over Taylorville and Southeast on Nov. 28 gave the wrestling program some momentum to start the season, their next match on Wednesday, Nov. 29, showed the Toppers …
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12/4/23
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A few hours before the Grace Cup on Monday, Lincolnwood boys basketball coach Matt Millburg texted me, “Enjoy your evening! Grace wins!” I don’t think either of us thought that …
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by Kyle Herschelman
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9/21/23
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After back-to-back losses to conference foes in non-conference games, the Hillsboro girls soccer team rebounded to start South Central Conference play with a 2-0 record. After beating Southwestern on …
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4/8/24
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Brayden Fowler, Tanner Clayton and Blaze Helton knew their track season was going to come to an end last week, but the question for the three Hillsboro High School seniors was whether it would be the …
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by Kyle Herschelman
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5/30/23
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The Hillsboro boys golf team took the top four spots individually on Monday, Sept. 11, as the Toppers defeated Pana 175-228 at the Hillsboro Country Club. Tycen Thacker finished with a 5-over-par 41 …
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9/14/23
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It was senior night for the Hillsboro High School golf program as the Toppers took a moment before their match on Sept. 19, to honor it’s three soon-to-be graduates. Austin Loskot, Carson …
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9/21/23
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Hillsboro wrestling has only three home meets this season, so the Toppers made sure to give their fans a show on Friday, Dec. 1, when they hosted Belleville Althoff and Carlyle. The Hiltoppers …
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12/4/23
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When a team in any sport on any level wins only 10% of their games, multiple reasons come together, and all are hard to separate. The physical, statistical reasons are easier to sniff out than the …
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by Ron Deabenderfer
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5/30/23
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The Hillsboro girls basketball team held Southwestern to just five points in the second and third quarter as they beat the Piasa Birds 44-26 in the South Central Conference opener for both teams. The …
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12/4/23
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The Vandalia boys golf team handed Hillsboro their first loss of the season on Monday, Sept. 18, but the Toppers did manage to earn a share of medalist honors for the match. Shooting a 163, the …
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9/21/23
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Perhaps because it was the earliest game on the last day of the Kaskaskian Classic in Carlyle on Saturday, Dec. 2, the crowd was more like a small gathering, but three firsts occured during the …
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by Ron Deabenderfer
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12/4/23
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Questions abound before the Hillsboro at Litchfield varsity football game tomorrow, Sept. 22; known answers aren’t as obvious.
The weatherman Wednesday afternoon said rain was probable …
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by Ron Deabenderfer
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9/21/23
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After a busy weekend at the Montgomery County Invitational Grace Tournament, the Hillsboro volleyball team was back at home on Monday, Sept. 11. Following their first loss of the season, the Toppers …
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9/14/23
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A word of advice to Topper football fans heading to Sawyer Field tomorrow night – Come early. The parking situation is the same as three weeks ago because of construction. Those with handicap …
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by Ron Deabenderfer
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9/14/23
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