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Crim: Growth of QTown Tournaments is ‘win-win across the board’ for youth baseball, softball and Quincy

June 27, 2022 — by Don Crim, Senior Columnist

QUINCY — Youth baseball had a different look when Darin Dodd was a player. “Traveling” for competition then meant driving from the family home in the Hickory Grove subdivision on the eastern edge of Quincy to play Little League games at Maranatha Park on Einhaus Lane, just west of North 12th Street. Fast forward to […]

Filed Under: Don Crim, Pressbox, Sports Spotlight Tagged With: Don Crim, QTown Tournaments, Youth baseball

Crim: Hornets’ season to remember caps school year filled with success from start to finish

June 6, 2022 — by Don Crim, Senior Columnist

It was nearly the perfect ending to a magical high school sports season. Brown County was the sixth team in the Muddy River Sports area to play for a state championship during the 2021-22 school year when it took the field Saturday against Louisville North Clay in the Illinois Class 1A baseball state finals in […]

Filed Under: Don Crim, Pressbox Tagged With: Don Crim, Girls soccer, Prep baseball, Prep basketball

Crim: Downtown Quincy’s quiet Memorial Day weekend echoes with memories of Gus Macker

May 30, 2022 — by Don Crim, Senior Columnist

QUINCY — It was a sunny, calm morning on the final Saturday in May in downtown Quincy. A row of pickup trucks and tents were stationed in the shade along Hampshire on the north side of Washington Park between Fourth and Fifth streets for the Farmer’s Market. Maine Street was barricaded between Fourth and Fifth […]

Filed Under: Don Crim, Pressbox, Sports Spotlight Tagged With: Don Crim, Gus Macker, Memorial Day

Crim: Obert’s feat of aces in back-to-back rounds defies golf’s already long odds

May 23, 2022 — by Don Crim, Senior Columnist

QUINCY — Tom Obert continues to defy the odds on the golf course. The 66-year-old Quincy man scored holes-in-one in back-to-back rounds May 8 and 10 at Westview Golf Course and narrowly missed a third a day later. They were the sixth and seventh aces he has recorded in the last dozen years, which, in […]

Filed Under: Don Crim, Pressbox Tagged With: Don Crim, Hole-in-one, Tom Obert, Westview Golf Course

Crim: Mizzou continues swimming around in transfer portal in search for quarterback

May 16, 2022 — by Don Crim, Senior Columnist

Quarterback remains an unsettled position at Missouri. Coach Eli Drinkwitz continues to be in the market for a veteran transfer as he prepares for his third season in Columbia with hopes of improving on his 11-12 overall record there. Various media outlets reported he hosted former Southern Miss and Mississippi State quarterback Jack Abraham for […]

Filed Under: Don Crim, Pressbox Tagged With: Don Crim, Mizzou football, Transfer portal

Crim: Basketball Museum of Illinois inches closer to becoming reality with home found in Bedford Park

May 9, 2022 — by Don Crim, Senior Columnist

NORMAL, Ill. — Bruce Firchau was known as a “fixer” during his 38-year basketball coaching career, taking downtrodden programs and turning them into winners. His 557 career victories, mostly at schools in northern Illinois, and 2007 induction into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame are testaments to the success he achieved. His biggest […]

Filed Under: Don Crim, Pressbox Tagged With: Basketball Museum of Illinois, Don Crim, Illinois prep basketball

Schuckman: Crim’s induction into IBCA Hall of Fame is fitting honor for inspiring writer, friend

May 1, 2022 — by Matt Schuckman, Sports Editor

Intimidating. It seems funny to say it, but that is the most apt description for how I viewed Don Crim the first time I walked into the Quincy Herald-Whig newsroom nearly 33 years ago. The sports editor’s desk, complete with stain rings from his coffee cup and an overflowing ashtray of cigarette butts, served as […]

Filed Under: Matt Schuckman, Pressbox, Sports Spotlight Tagged With: Don Crim, Hall of Fame, Illinois Basketball Coaches Association, Matt Schuckman

Crim: Scarcity of officials across prep sports is concern that continues getting worse

April 25, 2022 — by Don Crim, Senior Columnist

QUINCY — During most of his tenure as athletic director at Quincy Notre Dame, Bill Connell followed a familiar routine. Find opponents for the school’s various athletic programs, determine mutual open dates to schedule games and then hire crews to officiate them. That’s not the case anymore. “You have to find officials first and then […]

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Crim: Gates changing look of Tigers after taking over as Mizzou men’s basketball coach

April 18, 2022 — by Don Crim, Senior Columnist

Stream of consciousness … The University of Missouri men’s basketball team has largely been a non-factor in the SEC. Cuonzo Martin was fired last month after posting a 78-77 record in five years that featured two NCAA tournament appearances and three losing seasons. That followed the disastrous Kim Anderson experience (27-68 in three seasons). The […]

Filed Under: Don Crim, Pressbox Tagged With: Dennis Gates, Don Crim, Mizzou basketball

Crim: With NFL draft looming, Culver-Stockton College’s Rupcich ready to see dream come true

April 11, 2022 — by Don Crim, Senior Columnist

CANTON, Mo. — The list of football players with ties to Culver-Stockton College who have been selected in an NFL draft begins and ends with Bob Hendren. The offensive lineman, who enrolled in C-SC before transferring to the University of Southern California, was chosen by Washington in the seventh round in 1946, when the league […]

Filed Under: Don Crim, Pressbox, Sports Spotlight Tagged With: Andrew Rupcich, College football, Culver-Stockton College, Don Crim

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Prep baseball At Ferd Niemann Jr. Memorial Ballfield, Quincy Class 2A QND Regional Quincy Notre Dame 13, Athens 3. Click here for the story and photo gallery. At Maroa, Ill. Class 2A Maroa-Forsyth Regional Williamsville 6, Pittsfield 4: A five-run third inning by the Bullets put … ...Read Full Article about Scoreboard for Wednesday, May 18

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Girls soccer At Advance Physical Therapy Field, Quincy Class 1A QND Sectional Quincy Notre Dame 6, Piasa Southwestern 0. Click here for the story. At Kahok Stadium, Collinsville, Ill. Class 3A Collinsville Regional Edwardsville 1, Quincy High School 0. Click here for the … ...Read Full Article about Scoreboard for Tuesday, May 17

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Advance Physical Therapy, Blessing teaming up to offer free sports physicals June 28, July 19

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QUINCY —  Advance Physical Therapy, Blessing Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and Blessing Physician Services are teaming up to host two free opportunities for sports physicals on June 28 and July 19 by appointment only. The exams are for children entering grades 5-12, except students entering … ...Read Full Article about Advance Physical Therapy, Blessing teaming up to offer free sports physicals June 28, July 19

Sports physicals offered throughout Hancock County by Memorial Medical Clinics

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CARTHAGE — Memorial Medical Clinics is offering sports physicals at its sites in Bowen, Carthage, Colchester, LaHarpe and Nauvoo. Walk-in sports physicals will be offered: Tuesday, July 12 from 4-6 p.m. in Colchester, 110 Market, 309-776-3301Wednesday, July 13, from 1-4 p.m. in Carthage, 1450 … ...Read Full Article about Sports physicals offered throughout Hancock County by Memorial Medical Clinics

Golf tournament on July 1 at Cedar Crest to benefit QHS girls basketball

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QUINCY — The Quincy High School girls basketball team will sponsor a golf tournament Friday, July 1, at Cedar Crest Country Club, 3312 N. 36th. The format is a four-person best ball tournament with a shotgun start at 10 a.m. Entry fee is $75 per person or $300 per team. Lunch will be provided as … ...Read Full Article about Golf tournament on July 1 at Cedar Crest to benefit QHS girls basketball

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