AMBOY – The Mendota girls’ basketball teams will compete in the Amboy Holiday Tournament set for Dec. 26-29.

SPRING VALLEY – Mendota ended with a 2-2 record and a fourth-place finish in the 12-team Hall Colmone Classic held Dec. 2-9 at Spring Valley.

Mendota dug itself a first-quarter hole that it couldn’t climb out of in absorbing a 54-24 setback to Princeton in a Three Rivers Conference girls’ varsity basketball contest on Dec. 7 at Princeton.

The Mendota wrestling team posted a 1-1 record in a triangular meet against West Carroll and Rockridge on Dec. 7 at Edgington.

MENDOTA – Mendota is still looking for its first conference win after Sterling Newman took out the Lady Trojans, 59-23, in a Three Rivers Conference matchup on Dec. 11 at the MHS gym.

SPRING VALLEY – The Mendota sophomore boys’ basketball team claimed a 62-28 victory over Hall in its final game of the Colmone Classic on Dec. 7 at Spring Valley.

SPRINGFIELD – Hunters in Illinois took a preliminary total of 76,232 deer during the seven-day 2023 Illinois firearm deer season that concluded Dec. 3.

MENDOTA – When contestants of the Mendota Sweet Corn Pageant are getting ready for the annual event, they are usually waiting for the summer to get over so they can go to college or are working shifts around their pageant schedule.