The much anticipated Roast of "TG", Terry Glasgow will be held on Saturday evening at Monmouth College's Stockdale Center. Glasgow began his head coaching career at Monmouth during the 1972-73 season, and retired at the end of the 2006-07 year.  He also guided the Scots baseball program from 1973 to 1993.The night will be filled with stories of the former Fighting Scots basketball and baseball coach.  There is a website devoted to tomorrow night's roast where alumni and friends have shared stories.  The website is roasttg.com.  To listen to the entire interview with one of the event's organizers Paul Bubb and Coach Glasgow, click below. http://1330wram.com/audio/glasgowroast.mp3|

The 2010 football season marks the inaugural year of the Mid-County Cougars football co-op.  With it comes radio coverage for the Galva/ROWVA/Williamsfield football players.  The team will be led by Tom Buck, who last year led the Galva/Williamsfield co-op.  Buck won a Class 1A state championship in 2001 while head coach at Wethersfield.  Mid-County will compete in the Lincoln Trail Conference, and every game will be broadcast on AM 1590 WAIK on Saturday mornings.  Long-time announcer Jason Bates of Galva will provide the play-by-play of Mid-County Cougars football.  Bates has spent the last 10 seasons covering the Lincoln Trail Conference.  Opening night is Friday August 27th against Princeville at Bill Adams Field in Oneida.  The broadcast will be aired the following morning on AM 1590 WAIK.

The annual Monmouth-Area Old Timers game is scheduled for Sunday August 8th at Monmouth Park.  The first game of the night will be the Women's Celebrity team against the ASA 12-under Manta Rays.  That game will begin at 5:00, and will be followed by the Old Timers Game, pitting Captain Dollinger's Team against Captain Avery's Team.  Batting and fielding practice will begin at 4:15 for the ladies.  The Old Timer of the Year is Jack McBride. There will also be a memorial for the Old Timer's that have passed away in the last year, and five will be recognized.  Those five are; Dave Fleming, Bill Howe, Martin Lovdahl, Bob Bennett, and Herb Temmenson.  The Old Timer's game is set for Sunday August 8th.  Click below for an interview with interim chairman Ralph Whiteman, Kim Sheetz-Zugmeyer and Lynnae Touchette.
http://1330wram.com/audio/oldtimers.mp3|

The Monmouth-Roseville Titans wrapped up the summer with some 7-on-7 drills with area teams.  The first official practices for IHSA football is August 11th.  The Titans open up their 2010 season on the road at Princeton.  For a summer update on Monmouth-Roseville football with head coach Curt Crum, click below.
http://1330wram.com/audio/curtcrum.mp3|

This Saturday will be the Roast and Toast of "TG", Terry Glasgow.  The former head basketball and baseball coach at Monmouth College will be roasted by alumni, family, and friends.  Glasgow was the head basketball coach for the Fighting Scots from 1972 to 2007, and coached the baseball team from 1973 to 1993.  Paul Bubb, who is now the Associate Athletic Director for External Operations at Murray State University in Kentucky, organized the event.  Bubb was on the WRAM morning show last week, click below for the interview.
http://1330wram.com/audio/paulbubb.mp3|

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Coming off a berth in the IHSA Class 1A state quarterfinals in 2009, the United Red Storm look to turn that success over to the 2010 season. Success is the one word that would describe the football program at the Warren County school under the guidance of head coach Tim Engebretson. He has guided the United Red Storm/Warren Warriors to the playoffs in 16 of his 17 seasons at the helm. The Red Storm are looking to reload this season, and will be limited with varsity experience. "We will be very young, but I really like the character of this team," Engebretson said. Don't be fooled by his size, Geoffrey Hahn (5'5" 150 Jr. RB) is among the team leaders back for the Red Storm. Hahn rushed for 779 yards as a sophomore. The United ba [ ... ]

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Monmouth-Roseville will be playing under a new conference banner for the first time since 1976. A charter member of the Olympic Conference in 1976, that league is now defunct. The Titans will join forces with four Olympic castaways, and enter play in the West Central Conference for 2010. Macomb, Orion, Rockridge, and Sherrard are former conference members with the Titans, and join West Central Conference teams; Illini West, West Hancock, Central/Southeastern, and Pittsfield/Griggsville-Perry. This league will change again in 2011, with three new teams (Spring Valley Hall, Princeton, and Mendota) joining to split the league into two divisions. The Titans struggled to a (2-7) final record in 2009. One of those wins was an excit [ ... ]

Release: Monmouth College Office of Sports Information
MONMOUTH, Ill. — Monmouth College quarterback Alex Tanney’s trophy case is getting a little crowded after his latest preseason All-American award. Tanney (Normal, Ill./Lexington), who earlier this year was named the winner of the Melberger Trophy as the nation’s top Division III player, can add a D3football.com preseason All-American distinction to his resume. The website, dedicated to small school football, released its preseason team this week and named Tanney to the first team. The senior business major, a two-time Midwest Conference Offensive Player of the Year, was named to the second team by D3football prior to last season. He led Division III with 3,856 passing yards during the 2009 campaign and surpassed 10,000 passing yards in his career. Tanney has also been named preseason All-American by Consensus Draft Services and the organizers of the D3 Football Senior [ ... ]

Former Monmouth-Roseville Titans baseball standout Brian Thompson is having a successful summer, playing in the M.I.N.K. (Missouri-Iowa-Nebraska-Kansas) League.  Thompson will be a junior at Quincy University this fall, where he plays for the QU baseball team.  This summer, playing for the Sedalia Bombers, Thompson has a 3-0 record with a 0.31 ERA in 22 1/3 innings.  He has held opponents to a .150 average.  The Bombers also have the best record in the league, at 25-5, holding an 8.5 game lead in the south division.

Monmouth American Legion Post 136 will be in action this week at the District 14 tournament, hosted by Milan Post 569.  All games will be played at Sherrard High School.  Post 136 brings in a (2-4) district record, and pulls the #5 seed out of the seven team field.  Post 136 will open up against (#4) Milan on Tuesday night at 6:00.  District tournament play is double-elimination.  Here is Tuesday's complete schedule.

3:00  (#2) Rock Island vs. (#7) Reynolds
3:00  (#3) Macomb vs. (#6) East Moline
6:00  (#4) Milan vs. (#5) Monmouth (#1) Moline has a first round bye.

Monmouth-Roseville Junior High Football Camp will be held next week.  The camp will run from July 19th-July 23rd from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Monmouth-Roseville Junior High in Roseville.  To participate, players will need a copy of a current physical, unless you got a booster physical, a camp form which you can get from coach Wetterling, and football cleats are strongly recommended.  Call coach Wetterling with any questions at 734-1937.

Coming off a berth in the IHSA Class 1A state quarterfinals in 2009, the United Red Storm look to turn that success over to the 2010 season. Success is the one word that would describe the football program at the Warren County school under the guidance of head coach Tim Engebretson. He has guided the United Red Storm/Warren Warriors to the playoffs in 16 of his 17 seasons at the helm. The Red Storm are looking to reload this season, and will be limited with varsity experience. "We will be very young, but I really like the character of this team," Engebretson said. Don't be fooled by his size, Geoffrey Hahn (5'5" 150 Jr. RB) is among the team leaders back for the Red Storm. Hahn rushed for 779 yards as a sophomore. The United backfield returns over 1,000 yards, with Nick Hu [ ... ]

This Saturday, the annual Monmouth Review-Atlas Senior Shootout will be held at United High School.  The girl's game will tip off at 5:00, followed by the boy's game at 7:00. Both games will be broadcast on AM 1330 WRAM.  Here are the team breakdowns for the games.   Boy's North
Head Coach: Mike Reynolds (Galesburg)
Markus Hunter (Monmouth-Roseville)
DeAndre McClendon (Monmouth-Roseville)
Cody Whiteside (Monmouth-Roseville)
Aaron McDonald (United)
Zach Steele (United)
Sheldon Welch (United)
Dalton Johnson (West Central)

Boy's South
Head Coach: Jim Noonan (United)
Andrew Kovacik (ROWVA)
Cedric Huffman (B-PC/A)
Tauge Rux (Galva)
Cory Link (Abingdon)
Caleb Lepisto (ROWVA)
Austin Hammerlinck (Sherrard)

Girl's North
Head Coach: Mike Kelley
Taylor Woods (Monmouth-Roseville)
Lynsey Weber (Monmouth-Roseville)
Rebecca Gillen (Monmouth-Roseville)
Alyssa Hampton (Monmouth-Roseville)
Claire McGuire (Monmouth-Roseville)
Beth Dingman (Monmouth-Roseville)
Amanda Schreck (Monmouth-Roseville)
Emma McGuire (Monmouth-Rosevil [ ... ]

Radio Monmouth Sports Director Beau Spencer sat down and spoke with West Central graduate, and Harvard University basketball player Miriam Rutzen.  Click below to listen to entire interview. http://1330wram.com/audio/miriamrutzen.mp3|

United High School will hold a trophy sale of all remaining Alexis and Warren athletic and academic awards next Thursday (July 8th) at the Alexis Fieldhouse from 3:00 to 7:00.  First come, first serve.  Free will donation.  For more information, contact United athletic director Tony Kozelichki at (309) 335-7480.

Governor Pat Quinn is expected to lay out exactly where he decided to cut spending in the state budget for the just arrived new fiscal year.  The governor has called a press conference for 10:30 this morning in Chicago to discuss the budget.  He has said he plans to cut as little from education, human services and public safety as possible.  But with the state buried under billions in unpaid bills, and even more in debt, some aren't so sure that's possible.  Earlier this year, Quinn asked lawmakers to approve a one-percentage point income tax increase.  That didn't happen.  Neither did a plan to borrow about four-million dollars to pay down the state's pension debt.  Instead, lawmakers handed Quinn the power to personally decide where the cuts should be made.  Generally, the legislature as a whole would make those decisions.

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Monmouth College is hosting it's annual girl's basketball camp this week.  Fighting Scots women's head coach Melissa Bittner talks with Radio Monmouth Sports Director Beau Spencer about this week's camp. http://1330wram.com/audio/coachbittner.mp3

There will be 24 girl's basketball teams at Monmouth College tonight and tomorrow for a summer shootout.  Play begins tonight at 4:30 with games being played on six courts.  Teams involved this weekend are; Freeport Aquin, Bushnell-Prairie City/Avon, Bureau Valley, Dunlap, Lanark Eastland, Flangan-Cornell/Woodland, Forreston, Havana, Illini Central, Lake Villa Lakes (Blue), Lake Villa Lakes (White), Ottawa Marquette, Monmouth-Roseville, Oregon, Orion, Pekin, Burbank Reavis, Ridgewood, Jacksonville Routt (Gold), Jacksonville Routt (Purple), Sherrard, Stockton, United, and Wethersfield.  A single-elimination tournament starts at 1:00 on Saturday.  Here is the pool play schedule for the Titans and Red Storm.

Monmouth-Roseville
Friday @ 4:30 vs. Stockton
Friday @ 7:30 vs. Forreston
Saturday @ 9:00 vs. Wethersfield
Saturday @ 12:00 vs. Lake Villa Lakes (White)

United
Friday @ 5:30 vs. Freeport Aquin
Friday @ 6:30 vs. Jacksonville Routt (Gold)
Saturday @ 10:00 vs. Burbank Reavis
Saturday @ 12:00 v [ ... ]

Monmouth American Legion Post 136 defeated East Moline last night, 6-5.  Alex Temple was the winning pitcher, throwing 7 2/3 innings, allowing four runs on three hits.  Offensively, Tanner Schreck was, 2-4, with a double, run, and RBI.  Tim Chick and Justen Adams each had two RBI.  A big win for Post 136, it ups their record to, 6-4.  "We lost to these guys 3 times last year. It feels good to finally beat one of those Quad Cities teams. We were a combined 0-9 against all 4 of them last summer," Post 136 coach Shawn Temple said.  Monmouth Post 136 will be at Farmington Saturday afternoon for a doubleheader, beginning at 1:00.

The battery of Katie Bertelsen and Sommer Foster are All-Staters.  The Illinois Coaches Association released their softball All-State team and United (Jr.) pitcher Katie Bertelsen was tabbed a first team all-stater, while her catcher, Sommer Foster (Sr.), was named to the second team.  Foster will be playing softball at Parkland College, while Bertelsen will be back in the pitcher's circle attempting to break the IHSA All-Time strikeouts record.  Kelcie Matesa of Gillespie holds the record with, (1,501), which she set in 2008.  Bertelsen, according to Radio Monmouth stats, will enter her senior season with, (1,250), ranking her 7th all-time.

Release: Monmouth College Office of Sports Information MONMOUTH, Ill. - The D3 Football Senior Classic All-Star Game is the latest to honor a pair of Monmouth College athletes by naming them preseason All-Americans.
Fighting Scots quarterback Alex Tanney (Normal, Ill./Lexington) and wide receiver Matt Shepherd (Leesburg, Fla.,/Fla.), a pair of senior business majors, were named to the first and second team offense, respectively. Only seniors were chosen by the selection committee.
As a junior, Tanney was presented with the Melberger Trophy as the nation's top Division III football player and was named a preseason All-American this year by Consensus Draft Services. He led Division III last season with 3,856 passing yards and accounted for 350.55 passing yards per game. The 6-foot-4 signal caller passed for more than 400 yards four times last season and has thrown for more than 10,000 yards in his career.
Shepherd was on the receiving end of nearly a third of Tanney's completions. He led t [ ... ]

The Maple City Tumblers competed in the USTA National Championship in Springfield this past weekend.  There were nine Maple City Tumblers that qualified in tumbling and two qualified in double mini.  There were 137 teams with 1,759 tumbling and 1,254 double mini competitors.

Maple City Tumblers results from USTA Nationals (@ Springfield)
Beginner 7-year old
Keirstyn Johnson (24th)

Beginner 8-year old
Erin Bushong (18th)

Advanced Beginner 9-year old
Kailee Yates (27th)

Sub Novice 10-year old
Alexia Golden (9th)
Kelsey Wyman (24th)

Sub Novice 11-year old
Taydem Devlin (13th)
KaLee Pringle (33rd)

Sub Novice 12-year old
Brooke Johnson (9th)

Sub Novice 15 and over
Courtney Henry (10th)

Double Mini
Beginner 9-year old
Abby Twiss (25th)

Intermediate 15 and over
Courtney Henry (12th)

Monmouth American Legion Post 136 hosted Macomb on Thursday night at Sunnylane Field.  The visitors came away with a, 13-3 win.  Nine of those runs were scored in the 5th inning.  Monmouth started the scoring in the 1st inning on a Tanner Schreck RBI single, that scored leadoff hitter Tanner Adams, who reached on a double.  Blaine Robinson hit a two-run single in the 3rd inning, to give Post 136 a 3-1 advantage.  Macomb tied the game in the 4th inning, and then opened up the game in the 5th inning.  In that frame, Kendall Hocker hit a double and a grand slam.  Monmouth Post 136 drops to (4-2) overall and were saddled with their first District loss (0-1).  Monmouth plays a doubleheader tonight at Geneseo, and takes the weekend off before a doubleheader at Galesburg on Tuesday.

  Release: Monmouth College Office of Sports Information MONMOUTH, Ill. - For the second straight year, the Monmouth College football team has been ranked in the nation's preseason top 20 by a pair of national magazines.
The Fighting Scots will enter the 2010 season ranked 16th and 19th by The Sporting News and Lindy's Sports Annuals, respectively. Monmouth had climbed as high as No. 8 last season in both the American Football Coaches Association and D3football.com regular season polls.
The Fighting Scots, with 32 letterwinners returning, lost the majority of their offensive line, but return senior quarterback Alex Tanney - named the nation's top Division III player in 2009 - and their top two receivers from a year ago, senior receivers Matt Shepherd and Mike Blodgett. Tanney has passed for more than 10,000 yards in three seasons and Shepherd became the first Scots' receiver to gain more than 1,000 yards in a season last fall. The offensive unit was second in two nationa [ ... ]

After hosting the Lakis Shootout in boy's basketball this past weekend, the Huff Athletic Center and Glennie Gymnasium will be hosting a girl's basketball shootout next Friday and Saturday (June 25th & June 26th).  Here is the schedule.   Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable table.MsoTableGrid Glennie Gym North Glennie Gym South Huff Court #1 Huff Court #2 Huff Court #3 Huff Court #4 Friday Games 4:30pm Dunlap VS Reavis Monmouth-Roseville VS Stockton Eastland VS Illini Central Marquette Catholic VS Wethersfield Routt Catholic Purple VS Ridgewood Pekin VS Routt Catholic Gold 5:30pm Bureau Valley  [ ... ]