Karly Johnston, a 2008 Galva High School graduate, was honored Friday night for her efforts in track and field - for being the only GHS girl to qualify for the IHSA State Track Meet all four years of high school and for being the first GHS girl to win a medal at the state track meet.
 

March 1 is the final date to register to participate in the Galva Youth Soccer program this spring. Late signups won’t be possible.
 

This weekend’s Ridgewood girls state tournament basketball games will be broadcast live on the IHSA TV Network and several other outlets.

The looks on the benches at the Class 1A Oneida Regional told the story.

Second-seeded ROWVA, with hopes of capturing the school’s first regional title since 1983, was upset by Lincoln Trail Conference foe West Central 54-40 on Tuesday in the quarterfinals.

In the second game at Oneida, third-seeded Kewanee Wethersfield (15-14) had to battle to the end to hold off the upset bid from sixth-seeded Galva (6-21) in a 47-37 victory for the Flying Geese.

 

When Bryan Brooks heard the final tally of the third-quarter blitzkrieg by his Ridgewood girls basketball team, the coach was rendered speechless momentarily.  “Once one hits one, it’s really contagious with us,” Brooks said, once the smile finally disappeared from his face. 

Third-ranked Ridgewood earned an appearance at Redbird Arena after dispatching ninth-rated Colfax Ridgeview 70-58 in the Class 1A Bloomington Supersectional, a rout prompted by a 19-2 run early in the third quarter.
 

The Galva junior high girls basketball program picked up four wins in six contests this past week, with both teams winning two games.


 

An unscripted exit by their coach just minutes before tipoff had the ROWVA Tigers concerned after their 57-39 victory over United on Monday. Shortly before the starting lineups were to be announced, ROWVA coach Jason Lydic received word that his wife, Becca – who’s pregnant with the couple’s first child – sister, Amy Lydic, and mother, Carole Phipps, were involved in a car accident on U.S. Highway 34, just outside of Oneida, as they rode together to the game.
 

The third-ranked Ridgewood Spartans (28-2) lost a late double-digit advantage, retook the lead, watched Knoxville’s 6-foot-3 center drill a game-tying 3-pointer to send the game to overtime and eventually pulled ahead in the extra session for a 41-39 victory over the sixth-ranked Blue Bullets (24-8) and championship of the AlWood Regional on Feb. 11. In short, this much-anticipated game lived up to expectations. And more.

 

Galva defeated visiting West Central 65-52 in a Lincoln Trail Conference boys basketball game on Feb. 10 in Galva. It was one of four games the Cats have played in the last week.

 

The Galva fifth- and sixth-grade basketball team picked up its first victory of the season, 31-20 over Wethersfield, on Jan. 31 at Woodhull.
 

The Galva Bobcats seventh grade boys basketball team’s year came to a close on high note with a four-point win in a make-up game at Visitation in Kewanee on Jan. 27.

 

Ella Teel sank two free throws with 3.5 seconds left to give Ridgewood a 58-56 win over Princeville on Wednesday, Feb. 3 and help the Spartans clinch an outright Lincoln Trail Conference regular season title.


 

The Ridgewood boys basketball team held a commanding 17-point lead entering the fourth quarter against Princeville in the Lincoln Trail Conference Tournament on Feb. 4. It wasn’t enough.
 

Mercer County's Brett Anderson, along with a host of fleet-footed teammates, zipped past the ROWVA boys basketball team 55-41 on Saturday, Feb. 6 in the Lincoln Trail Conference Tournament championship game at Wethersfield.
 

Keyed by eight points by guard Kelsey Kovacik, ROWVA jumpet out to a 16-4 first quarter lead and never looked back, downing Galva 60-23 in opening-round action of the AlWood Regional in Class 1A girls high school basketball action in Woodhull on Monday night.