Area soccer roundup from September 22

Sentinel area prep soccer scores and match notes. Mahomet-Seymour and St. Joseph-Ogden deliver 7-0 shutouts.

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Photo: Sentinel/Clark Brooks

SJO's Lucas Stevens fires a shot on the Unity goal past keeper Carter Cromwell in the first half. The Spartans rallied from a 3-0 first half lead to beat Unity, 7-0.

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Local prep soccer scores

St. Joseph-Ogden 7, Unity 0
St. Joseph-Ogden's Nico Harris contributed two goals and Tyler Hess, who tallied one assist, added another for good measure. Rounding out the Spartans' offensive effort Cam Daly assisted on two goals for the 9-3 Spartans. On fire, sophomore Lucas Stevens buried the ball in net four times to lead all scorers and tallied two assists.

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Champaign Central 2, Urbana 1
The Maroons (7-1-1) scored to goals in the first half, holding off the Urbana Tigers (4-3-1) after a second half surge. Bishesh Manandar and Christian Mbanzulu scored one goal each while Ahmed Mhaouer was credited for an assist.

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Watseka 3, Oakwood 2
Mason Swartz's two goal, one in each half, was not enough to secure the win for the Comets in their road match in Watseka. Warriors' Jose Tobar scored two goals in regulation time and the game winner in the first overtime period. Teamamate Adrian Fox, who fired four shots at the Oakwood goal, assisted on one of Tobar's three goals. Tobar blasted 14 of his team's 22 shots against the Comets.

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Mahomet-Seymour 7, Effingham 0
Kade Smith scored four times for the Bulldogs in their home conference match against the Hearts of Effingham. Brock Evans, Jamie Griffen and Tate Kimball also scored one goal each.

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Centennial 4, Urbana U-High 1
Monticello vs Rantoul ~ no score

Other scores from around the state

Bismarck-Henning-Rossville-Alvin 10, Schlarman 1
Irving Juarez and Noah Cole scored three goals each in the rout over the Hilltoppers. The Blue Devils improved to an 8-4 record after the win. Schlarman's Ivan Rodriguez scored his team's lone goal in the first half.

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Richwoods 1, Bloomington 0
Danville 4, Peoria 0
East Moline United 7, Geneseo 3
Hersher 4, Grant Park 0
Iroquois West 2, Momence 1
Manteno 9, Clifton Central 1
Carterville 1, Murphysboro 0
Moline 5, Quincy 1
Mater Dei 1, Salem 0
Robinson 6, Newton 3
Mattoon 3, Richland County
Lemont 7, TF North 1

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Photo Gallery | St. Joseph-Ogden wins road match at Unity

St. Joseph-Ogden picks up a road win, shutting out host Unity 7-0. Lucas "Buddy" Stevens led the Spartan scoring effort with four goals and two assists.

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Photos: Sentinel/Clark Brooks

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Want to see more great photos. Check out the bonus gallery here: Unity vs St. Joseph-Ogden Soccer Game

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The Sentinel On This Day | September 23

Sentinel Article Archive for September 23

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Viewpoints | The weather change is here, take hold of this new season

Fall has arrived and Glenn Mollette laments on the changing on the seasons. Sometimes life changed with a phone call or just a text message can change life as you know it.

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by Glenn Mollette
Guest Columnist

Glenn Mollette

Fall has arrived. This is not earth shattering news but very welcome news if you have been living in 95 degree plus heat. For those of us who have we are welcoming cooler temperatures. Autumn can be several weeks of happy weather but by the time it ends we know what follows – winter. We aren’t always that excited about winter, but it’s okay, it’s another season.

Mainly, let’s be happy to experience a new season. New seasons bring new days and new opportunities. Life is different in every season of life. Life is filled with seasons. We have weather seasons gut we have life seasons. If we are fortunate we have many seasons. How many Fall seasons have you lived to enjoy? Twenty? Fifty? Maybe even 90 or more. They go by quickly. The long hot days have been a grind but looking back they passed by quickly.

Life goes by quickly. Soon we will be celebrating Christmas, we hope. We should enjoy each of these rapidly passing seasons. Childhood, young adult life, middle age years and our senior years. We hope to experience them all and stretch out as long as possible.

Enjoy your season of health. Health and our daily peace with God are our most valued resources. Regardless of how much money you have you won’t enjoy it much without you’re your health, We value and treasure our health. Taking care of ourselves must be a top priority. Casting all restraints to the side is not a good idea. Pouring a little sand occasionally in your car’s fuel tank is never a good idea and neither is occasional garbage in our bodies. We all do it some. Some do it every day and get by with it a long time but none of us can forever.

The seasons of life can change at any given moment. Sometimes life changed with a phone call or just a text message. The news can be good or bad and our entire direction of life is changed regardless if we are ready,

Ecclesiastes chapter three talks about seasons. This biblical passage tells us there are many of them.

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up. A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance. A time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing A time to get and a time to let go; a time to keep and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away.”

Read the rest of this good chapter sometime today or this week. For reflection and mediation.

Every season has it ups and downs. Take hold of this new season with all that we will learn, experience and enjoy.

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About the author ~

Glen Mollett is the author of 13 books including Uncommom Sense, the Spiritual Chocolate series, Grandpa's Store, Minister's Guidebook insights from a fellow minister. His column is published weekly in over 600 publications in all 50 states.

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Volunteers invited to fall workday at Sibley Burr Oak Grove

Volunteers will gather Oct. 10 at Sibley Burr Oak Grove Nature Preserve for a fall workday. The three-hour project offers community members an opportunity to help care for the 50.5-acre preserve while making the natural area more welcoming and accessible to visitors.

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SIBLEY - A morning of outdoor work and conservation is planned Oct. 10 at Sibley Burr Oak Grove Nature Preserve, where volunteers will help prepare a new picnic area while contributing to the ongoing stewardship of the 50.5-acre preserve.

The East Central Illinois Master Naturalists will host the Sibley Burr Oak Grove Fall Workday, with check-in from 8:30 to 9 a.m. and volunteer work scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteers will meet at the northwest corner of the grove, with parking available on E 1250 N Road.

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The morning's project will focus on clearing a new picnic area in preparation for the installation of a picnic table provided by the Scouts. The effort is part of ongoing work to improve the preserve while maintaining its natural character and creating additional opportunities for community members to enjoy the site.

“Workdays like this are a great way for people to get involved in caring for a local natural area while also helping make the preserve more welcoming and accessible for visitors,” said Karla Griesbaum, Extension educator with University of Illinois Extension. “We appreciate the volunteers who are willing to spend a morning working together to improve Sibley Burr Oak Grove.”

Volunteers should wear long pants, sturdy shoes and work gloves.

Sibley Grove Nature Preserve, owned by The Nature Conservancy, is an isolated prairie grove dominated by bur oak. The 50.5-acre preserve sits on a morainal ridge at the very headwaters of the Mackinaw River, just east of Sibley.

The site includes a restored wetland as well as the bur oak grove. At least 10 young-of-the-year wood ducks were observed at the wetland this year, and an immature bald eagle was seen flying just above the treetops June 27 while observers watched the ducklings.

The preserve has a small parking area off County Road 1250N but does not have a trail system.

The area's conservation history also includes Burr Oak Valley Nature Preserve, another significant natural area protected through the efforts of Julia and Eugene McCleary in the 1980s. With a donation from the McClearys and McCleary Industries, the Natural Land Institute purchased the first 63 acres in 1986 and has provided stewardship ever since. McCleary Industries donated another 35 acres adjacent to the preserve in 2013, bringing the preserve's total size to 93 acres.

Burr Oak Valley is one of the area's few woodlands left untouched by development and represents a landscape similar to what surveyors encountered in this part of Illinois in the 1830s. Its natural communities include mesic upland forest, dolomite prairie, dolomite cliff and intermittent stream.

Dolomite bedrock lies close to the surface across much of the preserve, with exposed outcrops along the creek and nearby hillsides. Black oak, shagbark hickory and hackberry are among the trees found there, while three small dolomite prairies in the northwest corner support plants including little bluestem, side-oats grama and purple prairie clover. The preserve is also known for its spring wildflower display.

The Sibley Burr Oak Grove workday offers residents an opportunity to take part in that broader tradition of protecting and caring for central Illinois' remaining natural areas.

For more information, visit go.illinois.edu/SBOG.

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Photo of the Day | Rockets fall in home battle

Unity couldn't hold off St. Joseph-Ogden aggressive attacks and passing precision in regular season Illini Prairie matchup.

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Photo: Sentinel/Clark Brooks

Unity's Kenny Adcock and St. Joseph-Ogden's Karter Peoples battle for possession during second-half action of Illini Prairie Conference game on Tuesday. Despite the Rockets athleticism and tenacity, the Spartans posted a 7-0 shutout improving to 9-3 overall and 1-1 in conference play. Next up, SJO plays at Monticello on Friday at 4:30 p.m. Unity (1-8) hosts the Rantoul Eagles on Thursday and play again on Saturday at Illinois Valley Central. More Sentinel photos from the match coming soon.

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