Good morning everyone. I have been asked to let everyone know that the Lions Club All Star basketball game at Rend Lake College tonight has been postponed. A makeup date is TBA at this time. Please spread the word.
Stay safe tonight and have a great weekend!!
Ryan Miller
Benton High School
We had 5 participants in this game: Savannah Hulbert, Anna Frey, Elijah Marlow, Hunter Danberry, and Weston Hails. I'll let you know as soon as the TBA becomes A.
Shout out to our "man in the middle" Hunter Danberry for his selection onto the Southern Illinois Coaches Association All-South Team Congrats Big Guy!
Great day for the Webber-Wayne City Track and Field Program as both the boys and girls have great showings. Boys win all 4 relays WITHOUT their fastest legs for all four of them. Weston Hails jumps 20'7" in the long jump to win by over a foot. Hunter Danberry starts out his discus season with a win and only 7 feet shy of his all time PR. James Gentry wins the 110 Hurdles in his first ever HS hurdle race(Shoutout to Shanna Lusby for the training in middle school!) Finally for the boys Nathaniel Marlow wins the 800 with a PR of 2:13. The day included many PRs for a lot of our guys, I just cant list them all!
On the girls side they won the 4x400 relay and placed 2nd in the 4x800 as well. Addison Seidel of Wayne City takes second in the high jump, and Savanna Hulbert takes 2nd in the Discus and anchors the winning 4x400 relay. Laney Hails slides into scoring position with a 6th place finish in the 200 meter dash. The ladies had a very strong showing without several of their girls as well, and we expect them to improve greatly over the course of the season!
Highlights from HS Track at Fairfield:
Boys:
4x100 1st(46.74)
4x200 1st (1:37.7)
4x400 1st(3:50)
4x800 NT(Only ran with 3 legs, 6:57 after 3rd leg with fastest leg missing)
Discus: 1st (122' Danberry)
Shot: 2nd (35' White-WC)
LJ: 1st (20'7" Hails)
1600 2nd(4:57 Dalby)
Girls:
4x400 1st(5:11)
4x800 2nd(13:07)
Discus 2nd(77' Hulbert)
HJ 2nd (4'4" Seidel WC)
A real good friend mine and amongst the bet coaches in Webber history is being honored with IBCA Coach of the Year honors for District 20. This honor is well deserved for the year they had and the numbers put up over a career. My congratulations goes out to Coach Brad Beaty for receiving this prestegous award/honor. I believe I speak for all of Webber Nation in relaying how proud we are of your achievement.
In the news - ACES
The 4th grade's service project was a success. What a wonderful charity to raise money for. 💙💛
Webber Nation Basketball Junkies have we got more for you to scratch that itch you have for more HS BB. We have Anna Frey, Savanna Hulbert, Weston Hails, Hunter Danberry, and Elijah Marlow participating in the Lions Club HS Basketball All-Star games at RLC Friday, March 31. Girls game starts at 6pm and boys 8pm.
Congratulations to these fine representatives of Webber HS.
Beta Convention was a huge success and these students represented Webber well!
Webber Beta Students brought home the hardware from State Convention! This is a super talented group of kids!
Come out to the Ruritan Club tomorrow morning and get some breakfast.
The first day of state Beta Convention has been busy and so much fun!!
Congratulations to Savanna Hulbert and Wyatt Jackson for placing in the Sectional ACES competition on March 15th at SIUC. Savanna earned 2nd place in English and Wyatt earned 2nd in Engineering Graphics. They both will be attending the state competition in April!
Well Webber Nation, after much deliberation and back and forth we think we may have a winner finally. The store for Regional Champion Super 16 clothing is up again. Lets hope for the best. Closes April 3
https://webber20230regional.itemorder.com/shop/home/
Cancelations Part II. The weatherbug got the Boys HS Baseball Team too. No game at Brownstown today.
However, for now, the HS SB game here vs Ham. Co. is still in go mode. Stay tuned.
Bluford/Webber Nation, our HS home track meet for tomorrow, March 24th has been canceled due to weather forecasts. Our first HS home meet is now scheduled for April 6th.
Thank you to all of those that signed up to help tomorrow!
Its baseball/softball season Nation which means its Spring, which means rain, which means rainouts and reschedules. Stay tuned to this station for the latest:
SB from March 21 vs South Central has ben rescheduled to April 10 here 4:30
1 in what will be a long line as time goes on.
Blood Drive today! Come and donate today in the grade school gym from 1-5pm.
HS SB cancelled today Webber Nation. Even the turf couldn't save us.
Calling out to the Bluford/Webber Community! We are hosting our first track meet this weekend and need volunteer workers!
Attached below is a sign up sheet for concessions, announcing, timing, and field events! Thank you for considering to help out our track and field program! If you know of anyone with any track and field experience, please have them consider helping out!
https://signup.com/go/qxAugqR
Well the pins just weren't falling our way today at the JH State Bowling Match. No ribbons, medals or trophies BUT i am extremely proud of these young men who did the best they could and gave it there best. It just wasn't in the cards (pins) today for us. Great just getting that far. Great season. Like my Cubbies always say.... wait till next year!