Photo of the Day: January 26, 2021

Comets slide out of the playoffs

Oakwood quarterback Trace McClintock reads the St. Joseph-Ogden defense on an option play with running back Arlen Kerst at his disposal during the second quarter of his team's first round road playoff game against the Spartans. Rain, mud and muck led to Oakwood-Armstrong-Potomac's season coming to an end after falling 48-8 to SJO in their Class 3A football on October 30, 2009.

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Photo of the day: January 25, 2021

Allen is all that at Unity Invite

Leading runners in all eight lanes, Salt Fork's Bailey Allen heads to the finish line in the 4x200 at the Unity Girl's Track Invitational on April 13, 2007. Twenty teams, mostly from Champaign, Vermilion and Douglas County competed at this year's annual track and field event held at Hicks Field in Tolono on Friday night. The Storm finished second in the team standings at this year's meet.

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Photo of the day: January 24, 2021

Arato finishes 8th at Illinois Marathon

Francesco Arato, from Bolingbrook, IL, runs to a eighth place overall finish at the 2016 Illinois Marathon. Despite the wet, rainy conditions, he finished the annual marathon event in Champaign-Urbana with a time of 2:36:48 on April 30. More than 1,400 runners finished this year's course which runs through the twin-city community and finishes on the 50-yard line at Memorial Stadium on the University of Illinois campus.

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