Thursday scoreboard, Friday schedule

Posted on September 25, 2019

Scoreboards are sponsored by COUNTRY Financial Representative Eric Lapan

THURSDAY:

Girls High School Volleyball:
Normal West def. Peoria Notre Dame 25-17, 25-17
Normal Community def. Champaign Centennial 25-21, 25-20
Bloomington def. Danville 25-5, 25-19
Pontiac def. Central Catholic 25-18, 22-25, 25-20

Boys High School Soccer:
Dunlap 2, U-High 0
Central Catholic 7, Tolono Unity 0
Peoria Notre Dame 7, Normal West 0
Normal Community 6, Danville 0

FRIDAY:

LIVE ON WJBC-AM 1230 & WJBC.com (click here to listen):
Friday Night High School Football Extravaganza (featuring U-High at Springfield Lanphier with live reports from Urbana at Bloomington, Manual at Normal Community, Central Catholic at Monticello and Tri-Valley at LeRoy), 6:05 p.m.
LIVE ON WJEZ-FM 98.9 & WJEZ.com (click here to listen): 
High School Football–IVC at Prairie Central, 5:50 p.m. (Changed start from 6:50 p.m.)

High School Football:
Normal West at Peoria, postponed (Game moved to Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Morton High School)
Urbana at Bloomington, 6 p.m. (Changed start from 7 p.m.)
Peoria Manual at Normal Community, 6 p.m. (Changed start from 7 p.m.)
U-High at Springfield Lanphier, 7 p.m.
Central Catholic at Monticello, 7 p.m.

Women’s College Volleyball:
Missouri State at Illinois State, 6 p.m.
Illinois Wesleyan at Millikin, 7 p.m.

Boys High School Soccer:
Central Catholic at Peoria Christian, 7 p.m.

Sports Director Greg Halbleib can be reached at [email protected]. 

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