QHS, QND each sending doubles team to state tennis tournament

By Muddy River Sports | October 17, 2023
The Quincy High School doubles team of Phoebe and Lily Hayes finished fourth at the Class 2A Belleville West Sectional and will play in the state tournament. | Matt Schuckman photo

QUINCY — A pair of doubles teams will represent Quincy at the girls state tennis tournaments this weekend in the Chicago suburbs. In Class 2A, the Quincy High School senior tandem of Lily and Phoebe Hayes finished fourth at the Belleville West Sectional, while the Quincy Notre Dame duo of Morgan Zanger and Kaitlyn Brown…

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Area track and field athletes ready to run down dreams at Illinois girls state championships

By Matt Schuckman, Sports Editor | May 14, 2022
Liberty's Shannon O'Neil, right, won both the 100- and 300-meter hurdles at the Class 1A Beardstown Sectional on Friday, while Unity's Kyra Carothers, left, won the high jump as both advanced to the state championships in Charleston, Ill. Matt Schuckman photo

QUINCY — West Central Illinois will be well represented at the Illinois girls state track and field championships next weekend at O’Brien Stadium on the Eastern Illinois University campus in Charleston. Quincy High School pushed two athletes through the Class 3A Danville Sectional on Thursday, while Illini West got two through at the Class 1A…

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Illinois sectional wrestling: Raiders’ Steinkamp, Chargers’ Belshaw and Saukees’ Davis fight way to state berths

By Muddy River Sports | February 13, 2022
Quincy Notre Dame senior wrestler Curtis Steinkamp with his medal after finishing third at the Class 1A Stanford Olympia Sectional. Submitted photo

Curtis Steinkamp wouldn’t be denied. Lance Belshaw is blazing a trail. And Mason Davis gets his name on the board. Each one of them gets to wrestle at the state tournament, too. Steinkamp, the Quincy Notre Dame 126-pound senior, lost in the semifinals of the Class 1A Stanford Olympia Sectional on Saturday, but rebounded to…

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