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When many pro athletes still drank, ate whatever and didn't treat their bodies as commodities, Springfield's Ted Eck always took a different approach.

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Overachievers and sacrifices help Jerod Bruner get IWCOA Coach of the Year award for Class 2A.

Pawnee softball's leader in several categories is just a sophomore: meet Ava Rodriguez-Mansholt.

The Saathoff brothers on the mound benefitted from timely defensive plays behind them to give Litchfield a 2-1 win over SHG in the 2A Pleasant Plains Sectional.

Rowann Law’s shot just underneath the crossbar with two minutes left in the second OT gave the Titans a 2-1 sectional championship victory.

Jacksonville Routt junior Jace Lautemann's two-run double in the top of the eighth inning allowed the Rockets' faithful to drown out the noisy cicadas in supersectional win.

ROCHESTER — It’s the moment every high school senior athlete dreads — unless the end is a championship celebration of course. For senior Cru Erickson, the end came on a tennis court adjacent the baseball field at Rochester High School, in a team gathering where he and his Chatham Glenwood teammates exchanged final, somber hugs.

Zack Defreitas is never far from his brother's mind. The hockey-crazed family started this charity in his honor.