Our Pro Wire Athletes of the Week for the week of March 28 are Vandalia baseball senior centerfielder Kohnor Depew and South Central softball pitcher Maddie Peddicord and freshman first baseman/catcher Emmie Ruholl. Depew had a very strong week for the Vandals during their 3-0 run with wins against Hillsboro, Greenvill...

Our Pro Wire Athletes of the Week for the week of March 21 are Brownstown St. Elmo junior basketball players Dayana Haslett and Madi Miller, Altamont senior basketball player Kade Milleville and South Central softball senior pitcher Lauren Johnson. Three of the area's top basketball players saw the accolades come rolli...

Our Pro Wire Athlete of the Week for the week of March 14 is the Vandalia Jr. Wrestling Club. For the past three and a half months, the athletes who make up the Vandalia Jr. Wrestling Club have been competing all across the state in the Illinois Kids Wrestling Federation with older kids in grades 6-8 focusing on compet...

Our Pro Wire Athlete of the Week for the week of March 7 is the Vandalia High School Wrestling team. Three weeks after the Vandals earned their trip the Dual Team State Tournament in Bloomington, they stormed into the quarterfinals and grabbed a 44-26 win over Chicago Hope Academy to advance to the semifinals and guara...

Our Pro Wire Athlete of the Week for the week of February 22 are Vandalia wrestlers Dade Kleinik, Ross Miller, Preston Waughtel, Max Philpot and Dillon Hinton. The Vandals had 5 athletes reach the podium at the IHSA 1A Individual Wrestling State Finals with three of them capturing Championships. Dade Kleinik is a first...

Our Pro Wire Athlete of the Week for the week of February 7 is BSE girls basketball guard Dayana Haslett. Haslett, a junior for the Lady Bombers, became the all-time leading scorer in BSE girls basketball program history, surpassing 2020 graduate Claire (Wilhour) Warchol at the top of the list. With 4:46 left to go in ...

Our Pro Wire Athletes of the Week for the week of January 31 is the Vandalia Jr. High Seventh Grade Boys Basketball Team. The 7th Grade Jr. Vandals picked up a 56-47 win over East St. Louis Lincoln on Wednesday to capture the Litchfield 7-3A Sectional Championship. The win earned the Vandals a trip to the IESA 7-3A Sta...

Our Pro Wire Athletes of the Week for the week of January 17 are Vandalia senior wrestler Dillon Hinton, the Vandalia wrestling team and South Central junior basketball player Westin Neilson. Hinton became the winningest Vandalia wrestler on Thursday night as the Vandals swept the Triad Quad going 3-0. Hinton got three...

Our Pro Wire Athletes of the Week for the week of January 11 are Altamont senior Kade Milleville and South Central senior Hudson Moore. A senior guard for Altamont, Milleville reached a big career milestone on Friday night as he surpassed the 1,000 career point mark in the Indians conference loss at Dieterich. With jus...

Our Pro Wire Athletes of the Week for the week of December 21 are BSE's Madi Miller, Hagan Henrichsmeyer of Mulberry Grove & CHBC's Griffin Vaughn. A junior forward for BSE, Miller notched a double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Lady Bombers in their National Trail Conference win over Neoga on Thursd...

Our Pro Wire Athletes of the Week for the week of December14 are Vandalia basketball junior Qwentyn Stombaugh and Vandalia wrestling senior Dillon Hinton and junior Preston Waughtel. Stombaugh, a guard for the Vandals, has been on a hot scoring streak this week putting up 72 points across three games for an average of ...

Our Pro Wire Athletes of the Week for the week of December 7 are SEB's Graidon Wilhour, BSE's Dayana Haslett, Vandalia's Carter Robbins and Ramsey-Mulberry Grove's Anna Benhoff. St. Elmo-Brownstown junior guard Graidon Wilhour continued his strong and steady start to the season leading the Eagles in scoring in all thre...

Our Pro Wire Athlete of the Week for the week of November 22nd is the Brownstown-St. Elmo Lady Bombers basketball team. The Lady Bombers started off a very busy first week of the season with three straight wins. They won at Cumberland in NTC action to open the season, then got a big win over Litchfield in their home o...

Our Pro Wire Athlete of the Week for the week of November 15th/16th is the Vandals Football team. The Vandals season came to an end on Saturday afternoon, but they had a wild ride before that. The Vandals had an undefeated regular season--no one could get closer than 10 points in a final score--on their way to the out...

Our Pro Wire Athlete of the Week for the week of November 8th is Andrew Casey of the Vandals. During their week 2 playoff game versus Greenville, QB Qwentyn Stombaugh went out with an injury. Andrew was able to step in at QB for the Vandals and was 15 for 24 passing for 248 yards and 5 Touchdowns, helping the Vandals ...

Our Pro Wire Athlete of the Week for the Week of November 1st is Vandals Senior Kohnor Depew. In Saturday's 42 to 6 win over CZRE in the First Round of the Playoffs, Kohnor had two carries for 114 yards and 2 Touchdowns. He also had 2 receptions for 67 yards a TD---meaning 4 touches on offense turned into 3 TDs. Kohn...

Our Pro Wire Athlete of the Week for the week of October 25th is the Vandals Football Team. On Friday night, the Vandals defeated Litchfield 49 to 14 to wrap up an undefeated regular season. This is the 5th undefeated regular season in school history (joining 1963, 1976, 1996 & 2019). The Vandals also win the Sou...

Our Pro Wire Athletes of the Week for the week of October 18th are Qwentyn Stombaugh and Sam Bowers. In Friday night's 49 to 0 win for the Vandals, Qwentyn ran for 95 yards and a Touchdown and threw for 239 yards and 5 TDs. He also became the 5th Vandal with 4,000 offensive yards. Sam Bowers continued his strong seaso...

Our Pro Wire Athlete of the Week for the week of October 11th is the Lady Vandals Tennis team and Vandals Senior Kohnor Depew. Although it's been a bit of a trying season for the Lady Vandals, they have come up with some very solid performances. This past week, the Lady Vandals went to Centralia and came away with a 5...

Our Pro Wire Athletes of the Week for October 4 are the Vandalia High School football team, SEB volleyball senior Presley Williams, Vandalia golf senior Jack Lewis and Ramsey golf senior Bryce Gillock. The Vandalia football team is now 6-0 on the season and battled through their toughest game of the season on Friday ni...

Our Pro Wire Athletes of the Week for September 27 are the Vandalia High School and Altamont High School soccer teams. The Vandalia High School soccer team picked up their first two wins of the season this week and did so in shut out fashion. On Monday, the Vandals traveled to Jacksonville and picked up a 4-0 win over ...

Our Pro Wire Athletes of the Week for September 20 are the South Central Middle School Softball team and the Vandalia Jr. High Baseball team. The South Central Middle School Lady Flacons softball team won its fourth straight Regional Championship last Saturday with a 6-1 win over Dieterich and then followed it up with ...

Our Pro Wire Athlete of the Week for September 13 is the Vandalia High School football team. The Vandals are off to a 3-0 start to the season with wins over Carlinville, Hillsboro and most recently, a 40-26 win over state-ranked Pana on the road on Friday night. The Vandals have played at Pana several times in the last...

Our Pro Wire Athlete of the Week for September 6 is the St. Elmo-Brownstown Lady Eagles volleyball team. The Lady Eagles are off to a 4-0 start to the season with wins over Okaw Valley, Martinsville, Vandalia and South Central. The Lady Eagles have not lost a set yet as they have beat each opponent 2-0 so far. They wil...

Our Pro Wire Athletes of the Week for the week of August 30th are Kohnor Depew, Andrew Casey and Dillon Hinton. Andrew was 12 for 17 passing for 290 yards and 3 TDs. He also ran for 90 yards and 2 TDs on 7 carries. Kohnor had 8 receptions for 235 yards and 3 TDs. He also had 3 carries for 20 yards and a TD Dillon had...