Students in the Maroon Platoon cheer for the St. Joseph-Ogden football team during the final minutes of their home opener on August 28, 2017, against St. Thomas More. The fans had over 50 good reasons to celebrate as the Spartans rolled to a 54-7 win over the visiting Sabers from Champaign.
Spartan Dana Peters looks over her shoulder after beating a tag at home plate in her team's tournament game against Schlarman High School. SJO plated two more additional runs on the play thanks to errors by the Hilltoppers to win the tournament title back on May 9, 2009.
With less than 100 yards to go on a rain-soaked track, St. Joseph-Ogden's Josh Dees stay ahead of Tremont's Park Thompson as they approach the finish line in heat one of the 800-Meter run at the Illinois High School Association Boys Track & Field State Finals in 2009. Thompson overtook at the finish line to finish .29 of a second ahead of the SJO senior who clocked in at 1:58.81. Both runners qualified for Saturday's Class 1A championship race. Dees went on to finish seventh for the Spartans in the event.
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