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SPRING VALLEY – Mendota’s junior varsity boys’ basketball team won both of its pool play games in the Colmone Classic on Dec. 7 at Spring Valley.

Bowling results for Mendota High School.

The Mendota boys’ wrestling team split a triangular meet with Morrison and Galena on Dec. 3 at Morrison.

MENDOTA – Mendota High School will be celebrating the 1989 state team and the 1990 supersectional team on Saturday, Jan. 11 against LaSalle-Peru at the Mendota High School gymnasium.

SPRING VALLEY – It was a great start to the Colmone Classic for the Mendota varsity boys’ basketball team as it rolled over Putnam County, 65-30, in a pool play game on Dec. 7 at Spring Valley.

The Mendota varsity girls’ basketball team opened up the Three Rivers Conference schedule with losses to Hall and Newman.

Mendota opened up the new wrestling season with losses to Three Rivers Conference foes Monmouth-Roseville, Rockridge and Mercer County on Nov. 25 at Aledo. The Trojans fell by a 42-24 count to …

Results from Mendota High School bowling matches.

OREGON – Mendota suffered a 52-40 loss at Oregon in a nonconference varsity girls’ basketball game on Nov. 26.

OREGON – Mendota won four straight games to capture the championship of the Oregon Junior Varsity Boys’ Basketball Tournament held Nov. 25-30.

OREGON – Mendota captured three wins in four games to finish in fifth place in the Oregon Thanksgiving Tournament to start the 2024-25 varsity boys’ basketball season.

MENDOTA – Four Mendota football players earned Three Rivers Conference Mississippi Division all-conference honors for the 2024 season. Senior Braiden Freeman was selected to the first team …

Recent scores for the Mendota bowling team.

MENDOTA – Mendota High School is in search of a head football coach after Keegan Hill’s resignation was accepted by the District 280 Board of Education at its Nov. 18 meeting.

PRINCETON – The Mendota Lady Trojans started the 2024-25 season with one win in four games in the Princeton Thanksgiving Tournament.

SAVOY – Mendota’s boys’ and girls’ bowling teams competed in the Brian Hodge Memorial Tournament on Jan. 6 at Savoy.

It was a rough weekend for the Mendota varsity boys’ basketball team as it was beaten by area rivals Princeton and LaSalle-Peru.

MENDOTA – Mendota had trouble shooting the basketball and Bureau Valley did not, which resulted in a lopsided 59-17 win for the Storm in Three Rivers Conference varsity girls’ basketball action on Jan. 4 at the MHS gym.

Princeton used a strong fourth quarter to claim a 49-40 victory over Mendota in a Three Rivers Conference sophomore boys’ basketball game on Jan. 5 at the Mendota gym.

AMBOY – Mendota wrestlers participated in the Amboy Junior Varsity Tournament on Jan. 6.

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) will host two public meetings in Lee and Bureau counties to provide information about the recent detection of chronic wasting disease, its effect on free-ranging deer populations, and IDNR’s efforts to control the disease.

AMBOY – The Mendota Lady Trojans competed in the Amboy Holiday Tournament held Dec. 26-29. The squad finished in fourth place.

PLANO – The Mendota Trojans finished in 13th place in the Plano Christmas Classic held Dec. 27-30.

PLANO – The Mendota junior varsity boys’ basketball team finished in eighth place in the 16-team Plano Junior Varsity Christmas Classic.

Results from Mendota High School boys' bowling.

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