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Bureau County Sports Hall of Fame 2026: Athletes · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Bureau County Sports Hall of Fame twenty twenty six Athletes
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  Speaker 1: Written by Kevin Hieronymous. This article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. This is
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  Speaker 1: the second installment of the twenty twenty six Bureau County
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  Speaker 1: Sports Hall of Fame class, featuring twenty two individual athletes
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  Speaker 1: and two sets of brothers. The final part will feature
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame teams. The Bureau County Sports Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame was formed in nineteen ninety five as part of
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  Speaker 1: the bcr's Tribute to Sports program. While the Tribute to
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  Speaker 1: Sports was discontinued in two thousand and five, the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame was reinstituted in twenty sixteen. Fifty five individuals
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  Speaker 1: and twenty three teams have previously been inducted. Garrett Barness,
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  Speaker 1: Bureau Valley, the Star QB was the catalyst for the
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  Speaker 1: Storm's two thousand and five state champion football team under
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  Speaker 1: his stepfather Dave Moore. He ran for one forty two yards,
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  Speaker 1: for one fifty five yards and scored three tds in
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  Speaker 1: the Storm's thirty four to seven state championship victory over
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  Speaker 1: Tolno Unity. He was a two time BCR track and
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  Speaker 1: Field Athlete of the Year, winning five state medals his
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  Speaker 1: hurdles and shot put. He led Harper College to the
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  Speaker 1: NJCAA National football title. Committed to play QB at Syracuse
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  Speaker 1: before the coach was dismissed, and played defensive back at
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  Speaker 1: Northern Illinois. He is inducted into the BV and Illinois
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  Speaker 1: Valley Hall of Fames. Wendy Becker Hall. Becker was the
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  Speaker 1: ace pitcher of the Lady Devil's nineteen eighty eight and
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety state softball teams. The dominating Devil through five
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  Speaker 1: perfect games, twelve no hitters, and five to one hitters
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  Speaker 1: for her career, Becker posted a forty ten record with
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  Speaker 1: three saves between nineteen eighty eight to ninety one, with
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  Speaker 1: a stingy zero point nine to eight ERA. She ended
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  Speaker 1: her run amassing four to sixty six strikeouts, averaging ten
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  Speaker 1: point five per game while walking only seventy seven and
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  Speaker 1: allowing only one hundred three runs. She won two regional
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  Speaker 1: championship games, two sectional titles, and pitched in two Elite
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  Speaker 1: eight games. She was an All Area First Team pitcher
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  Speaker 1: three times and Hall's MVP twice. She was inducted into
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  Speaker 1: the Hall High School Hall of Fame, both individually and
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  Speaker 1: as a member of Hall's nineteen ninety state squad. Greg
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  Speaker 1: Barry Manlius Barry left a legacy in many ways at
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  Speaker 1: Manlius High School as an all around athlete, all state player,
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  Speaker 1: and all time leading scorer in basketball. Graduating in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty four, He has ranked number twenty among Bureau County
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  Speaker 1: all time scorers with one thy five hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: two career points. He was the top scorer in Bureau
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  Speaker 1: County two years running, including a twenty four point seven
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  Speaker 1: scoring clip as a senior in nineteen sixty three to
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  Speaker 1: sixty four. He went on to Bradley University on a
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  Speaker 1: basketball scholarship and was the last athlete to let her
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  Speaker 1: in three sports, including golf and track, and was named
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  Speaker 1: to the school's Hall of Fame. Barry, who passed away
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  Speaker 1: in February twenty two, twenty four, made the Fellowship of
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  Speaker 1: Christian Athletes a lifetime passion. Ron Bohm Walnut u of
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  Speaker 1: I Boehm was a key member on Walnut's nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: two to one a state runner up football team. He
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  Speaker 1: went on to play for the Fighting Illinois from nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty two to eighty six, starting on the d line
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty five with five games of six tackles
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  Speaker 1: or more, including nine with one TfL in the Peach
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  Speaker 1: Bowl against Army. He appeared as a replacement player for
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  Speaker 1: the Saint Louis Cardinals during the nineteen eighty seven NFL
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  Speaker 1: players strike. The Borowski Brothers Hall. The six Borowski brothers
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  Speaker 1: played football at Hall for nineteen consecutive years, believed to
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  Speaker 1: be a consecutive year record at Hall. Joseph Junior nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty three to sixty three, Gary nineteen sixty three to
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  Speaker 1: sixty six, John Jack nineteen sixty seven to nineteen seventy,
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  Speaker 1: Frank nineteen seventy three to seventy six, and George nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy five to seventy eight all were NCIC All Conference
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  Speaker 1: and team captains during their tenure. All were linemen, except Frank,
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  Speaker 1: a running back, who held halls Hall's single game rushing
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  Speaker 1: record of two hundred and forty yards for twenty six years.
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  Speaker 1: George was killed in an auto accident in nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: and the George Barowski Offensive Lineman of the Year was
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  Speaker 1: established that same year. Teagan Davis Princeton when the conversation
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  Speaker 1: of who the best all around athletes from PHS is
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  Speaker 1: too quickly come to mind Luflnn nineteen fifty five and
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  Speaker 1: Davis twenty twenty twenty three. Davis received all state recognitions
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  Speaker 1: in football as a quarterback, basketball as a one thousand
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  Speaker 1: point scorer, and track as a state high jump champion.
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  Speaker 1: He received a scholarship to play football for the University
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  Speaker 1: of Iowa, but was unable to play due to a
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  Speaker 1: devastating knee injury in his last high school indoor track
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  Speaker 1: meet and retired from football this January. Charlie Ellerbrock Media
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  Speaker 1: Charlie covered sports in the Illinois Valley, including a long
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  Speaker 1: stint at the BCR for parts of six decades before
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  Speaker 1: untimely death on February fourteenth, twenty twenty five. He was
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  Speaker 1: a much beloved sports writer who covered his teams, athletes,
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  Speaker 1: and coaches as if they were family. He was inducted
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  Speaker 1: into the IBCA and Illinois Valley Hall of Fames in
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  Speaker 1: recent years. DJ Glynn Hall DJ spun a day for
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  Speaker 1: the record books with four gold medals in Class A
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  Speaker 1: track in nineteen ninety nine, winning the high jump one
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  Speaker 1: hundred two hundred and four hundred. He finished with seven
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  Speaker 1: state medsals. He also was a standout running back in football.
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  Speaker 1: He was the nineteen ninety nine BCR Athlete of the
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  Speaker 1: Year and Track Athlete of the Year. Danny Colb Walnut.
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  Speaker 1: Even though Walnut High School had no baseball program, big
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  Speaker 1: League scouts knew all about the kid with the golden arm.
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  Speaker 1: Drafted by Texas in the sixth round of the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety four MLB Draft, Colb made his debut in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine with the Rangers and went on to pitch
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  Speaker 1: in nine seasons with four Big League teams. He converted
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  Speaker 1: sixty of sixty seven save opportunities in two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: three and two thousand and four for the Milwaukee Brewers,
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  Speaker 1: including a then club record thirty nine saves in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and four, making the NL All Star Team. He
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  Speaker 1: also pitched for the Braves and Pirates. Noah Laporte Princeton,
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  Speaker 1: the two time BCR Basketball and football Player of the Year,
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  Speaker 1: earned All State selection in both sports. He set the
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  Speaker 1: Phs Boys all time scoring record in basketball with one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: six hundred and sixteen career points. He now plays Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten football for Northwestern University Ron Marrowkein Depew, a four
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  Speaker 1: year varsity starter marrikean average eighteen PPG, scoring in double
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  Speaker 1: figures in fifty seven straight varsity games, finishing with one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred and sixty seven career points, including a record
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  Speaker 1: nine to seventy six in Indian Valley Conference history. He
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  Speaker 1: was named First Team the AP and Chicago Sun Times
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  Speaker 1: All State, Depew's MVP and Unanimous All Conference two years,
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  Speaker 1: Hall Holiday All Tournament three years, and to the IBCA
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  Speaker 1: the Western Illinois and Illinois Valley Area All Star Teams.
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  Speaker 1: Colin Micco Princeton, the former Tiger Standout, and University of
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  Speaker 1: Illinois All American took a unique path to becoming a
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  Speaker 1: world renowned marathon runner. He took six years off of
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  Speaker 1: competing running after using up his NCAA eligibility. In twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 1: in his first competition back, he won a half marathon
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago. He placed sixth in the twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Marathon, competed for the US in the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: two World Athletics Marathon Championships, and has ran twice in
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  Speaker 1: the Boston Marathon. Parker Neuhalfen Bureau Valley. The two time
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  Speaker 1: BCR Player of the Year twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen and
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  Speaker 1: BCR Player of the Decade, finished as the Storm's all
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  Speaker 1: time leading scorer in school history and third all time
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  Speaker 1: in Bureau County history with twenty two hundred eight career points.
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  Speaker 1: He averaged twenty one point nine points, six point zero rebounds,
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  Speaker 1: two point zero steals, and three point zero assists as
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  Speaker 1: a senior, leading the Storm to their first regional title
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  Speaker 1: in ten years. The Track East Player of the Year
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  Speaker 1: was named d AP and IBCA Second Team All State.
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  Speaker 1: In football, new Holfin switched from QB to wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: as a senior and flourished, racking up nine seventy six
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  Speaker 1: yards receiving on thirty seven sit receptions, good for a
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  Speaker 1: whopping twenty six point four yards per catch, and twelve tds.
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  Speaker 1: Angie Noble, Princeton. Noble was a three sports standout at Princeton,
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  Speaker 1: setting fifteen school records, eight in basketball and seven in track.
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  Speaker 1: She won three state track medals, capped by a second
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  Speaker 1: place finish in the eight hundred meters as a senior
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven, The BCR Basketball Player of the
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  Speaker 1: Year became the school's all time leading scorer with nine
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  Speaker 1: ninety four career points. She received All State Volleyball special mention,
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  Speaker 1: leading to a full ride scholarship at ISU. She has
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  Speaker 1: gone on to a distinguished coaching including a six year
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  Speaker 1: run as head volleyball coach at Fairbury Prairie Central and
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  Speaker 1: was an assistant for five time state champion Brentwood Ten.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Pirona sat Beide Perona, was a star in football, basketball,
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  Speaker 1: and baseball for the Bruins. He went on to play
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  Speaker 1: baseball for Northwestern University, twice selected as Team MVP and
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  Speaker 1: All Big Ten. He was selected in the eighth round
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  Speaker 1: by the Detroit Tigers. Playing five seasons in the minor leagues,
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  Speaker 1: reaching the Triple A level. He is a distinguished summer
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  Speaker 1: baseball coach and founder of the Chicago Warriors youth baseball program.
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  Speaker 1: He is a member of the Saint bede In Illinois
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  Speaker 1: Valley Hall of Fames mac Reseetik Hall. Resatik is one
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  Speaker 1: of the best all around athletes to ever play football,
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  Speaker 1: basketball and baseball at Hall, earning All State recognition in
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  Speaker 1: all three sports. He planned to play baseball in college,
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  Speaker 1: but Illinois football coach Brett Bulema came on late to
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  Speaker 1: offer him a full ride scholarship to play for the
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  Speaker 1: Fighting Alini. He was the twenty twenty three BCR Athlete
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  Speaker 1: of the Year as a senior, with Players of the
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  Speaker 1: Year honors in football and baseball, and a one thousand
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  Speaker 1: point scorer in basketball. Taia Romagnoli Princeton Roe. Magnoli held
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  Speaker 1: the Princeton girls basketball scoring record for twenty seven years
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  Speaker 1: with one thousand, five hundred and six points. Graduating in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine. She was a three time BCR Player
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  Speaker 1: of the Year and a fourth team All State selection,
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  Speaker 1: averaging twenty ppg over her junior and senior years as
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  Speaker 1: the top scorer in the NCIC. She went on to
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  Speaker 1: play volleyball at Indiana Wesleyan, where she is ranked in
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  Speaker 1: the top five and fourteen school records, number one for
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  Speaker 1: career kills twenty eighty five and single season aces one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and nine and hit percentage point four to three
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  Speaker 1: four percent, and named third team NAIA All American two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and two. Rubinstock Bureau Valley coach Brad Bickett plugged
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  Speaker 1: Slock into the Storms starting lineup as a freshman, and
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  Speaker 1: he became the foundation for bv's first two of three
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  Speaker 1: straight third place state finishes in nineteen ninety nine zero
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  Speaker 1: zero and two thousand zero one. A two time BCR
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  Speaker 1: Player of the Year, Slock was named first team the
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  Speaker 1: AP All State as a senior, averaging one eight coma,
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  Speaker 1: seven point one rebounds, and three point two steals per game.
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  Speaker 1: He graduated as the Storm's career leader in scoring one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred and ninety seven points, rebounding nine hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixty two, and steals two hundred and seventy four. He
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  Speaker 1: was also a standout in football. The Suarez brothers depu
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  Speaker 1: Between them, Randy, Mike, and Brian scored nearly three thousand,
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred points each a one thousand point scorer for
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  Speaker 1: the Little Giants over a span from nineteen seventy six
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  Speaker 1: to ninety one. Randy went on to play basketball for
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  Speaker 1: South Dakota St. State, Brian embarked on a professional baseball
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  Speaker 1: career in the Phillies and Cubs organizations, and Mike played
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  Speaker 1: for the Fighting Illini football team, starting all twelve games
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  Speaker 1: at right tackle in his senior season. Mike also played
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  Speaker 1: during the nineteen ninety six season for the NFL Europe's
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  Speaker 1: Frankfurt Galaxy. Grady Thompson Princeton. Thompson broke Princeton's sixty eight
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  Speaker 1: year old school scoring record held by the legendary Joe,
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  Speaker 1: finishing with one thousand, four hundred and sixty eight career points.
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  Speaker 1: He led the Tigers, who were ranked a number one
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  Speaker 1: in two A for most of the twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 1: to twenty three season, in scoring twenty one point eight
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  Speaker 1: PPG and rebounding six point six In unanimous three Rivers
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  Speaker 1: East All Conference selection, Thompson became the first Tiger named
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  Speaker 1: First Team the AP All States since Ruklik. He was
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  Speaker 1: also named first Team All State by the Chicago Sun
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  Speaker 1: Times and Chicagoland Prep Hoops. A two time MVP of
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  Speaker 1: the Colmonne Classic at Hall, and capped his prep career
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  Speaker 1: as the team MVP and high scorer for the Class
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  Speaker 1: A North in the IBCA All Star Game. He is
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  Speaker 1: one thousand point scorer and All Conference player for the
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  Speaker 1: University of Dubuque entering his senior season.