The Cornjerker Soccer team kicked off a very busy week with their first of four games in five days against Bishop McNamara. The Cornjerkers scored less than two minutes in the game when Nick Hofer found Talen Gredy for the only goal of the game. Bishop Mac tied things up in the second half and that was all the scoring on the night. Owen Root got the check in the tie box by saving six of the seven Bishop Mac shots. 

The Cornjerkers will be back into VVC action Tuesday as they travel to play Oakwood/Salt Fork. 

Meet Location: Hubbard Trail CC

Host: HAHS

Meet Medalists: Adin Portwood (St. Joseph - 45) & Wyatt Eisenmann (HAHS - 47)

Men's Team Score:

Milford - 201

HAHS - 215

Schlarman - 233

Hoopeston Men's Tees Individual Scores:

Wyatt Eisenmann - 47

Payton Armstong - 55

Trevor Swartz - 57

Trenton Betka - 56

Ethan Harding - 79

Hoopeston Women's Individual Scores:

Kylie Brown - 58

Taylor Page - 72

Hoopeston Season Record: 10 Wins / 9 Losses

Hoopeston Area varsity participated in the Blue Ridge Varsity Invitational on Saturday, and came away 3-1 to finish in third place for the day. Hoopeston defeated Urbana Uni High 25-19, 25-7 before falling to Judah Christian 8-25, 22-25. They rebounded with a 25-18, 21-25, 15-11 victory over Villa Grove, putting them in the third place match where they defeated Donovan 27-25, 25-13. Bre Crose and Kaitlynn Lange were named to the all-tournament team and the Cornjerkers moved to 5-2 on the year. They next travel to Fisher for a match Thursday night.

Hoopeston Area opened up their first home game by defeating a very talented Georgetown Ridge-Farm/Westville soccer team by the score 4-0. Cornjerkers got on the board at 22:23 with Isiais Diaz was in the right spot and the right time to make things 1-0 by scoring on a rebound. Talen Gredy scored his first of two goals about six minutes later once again on a rebound to make things 2-0. Ben Brown scored the team's third goal of the half when he made some fancy moves with the ball and was able to find the back of the net. 

Cornjerkers came out in the second half ready to play and not allow the GRF/W team to take control of the second half. The defense did an outstanding job keeping track of very talented forwards by the GRF/W team. Kamerin Cade, Preston VanDeVeer, and Gabriel Joneikis took turns running down Bina who has very good speed. Their one-on-one ball play was able to slow things down. Sophomore Mason Rush keeps showing great improvement on the defensive backside to lock down the back post. Sean Hudson, Cameron Zorns and Nick Hofer also went back on defense to set a good wall in front of Owen Root who saved all eight shots earning his second win of the year and Cornjerkers second shut-out of the year. Talen Gredy put the game away with 26:30 left in the second half when Diaz was able to chip the ball in front of the goal where Talen was able to get his head on it  to make the score 4-0.

Cornjekrers will be in action Saturday as they travel to Rantoul. The game will be played at the New Sports Complex off I-57.

Scoring

1st Half

HA-Diaz unassisted

HA-Gredy unassisted

HA-Brown unassisted

2nd Half

A-Gredy assist Diaz

Match 1

Grant Park def. Clifton  25- 19 ,  22 -25   27-26

Match 2

Kankakee def. Clifton 27-25, 25-11

Match 3

Kankakee def. Grant Park 25-15, 20-25, 25-19

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Match 1

Milford def. Clifton 22-25, 25-12, 25-14

Match 2

Bishop McNamara def. Clifton 25-11, 25-11

Match 3

Milford def. Bishop McNamara 25-17, 20-25, 25-20

The HAHS volleyball team fell at home to PBL Tuesday night by scores of 17-25, 19-25. The Cornjerkers fell to 1-1 on the young season and travel to Attica on Thursday to face the Ramblers.

Hoopeston Area Soccer team got off to a good start on Tuesday behind Ben Brown's three goals leading the Cornjerkers to 8-0 victory over the Watseka Warriors.  Owen Root got the win in goal saving two shot attempts. 

Brown got the score starting early in the first half with an assist from Owen Root's punt to make the score 1-0. Shortly later Talen Gredy scored on a throw-in by Nick Hofer. Ben Brown scored his second time after making some room to get a shot off. Isaias Diaz scored his first goal of the year with an assist going to Gredy. Gredy later scored his second goal of the night on a rebound. Later Harrison Wods scored on a beautiful pass from Diaz.  The Cornjerkers seventh goal of the half when Kamerin Cade was able to connect with Diaz. Brown rounded out the scoring before half by having his third goal with the assist going to Hofer second assist on the night. Freshman Dylan Judy replaced Root in goal for the second half stopping one shot. 

The Cornjerkers will have their first home game of the year Thursday at Hoopeston Area Soccer Field against Georgetown-Ridge Farm starting at 4:30.

Hoopeston Area record 1-0 overall 1-0 VVC

1st Half

Goal-Brown Assist Root

Goal-Gredy Assist Hofer

Goal-Brown Unassisted

Goal-Diaz Assist Gredy

Goal-Woods assist Diaz

Goal-Diaz Assist Cade

Goal-Brown Assist Hofer

The Cornjerkers opened their season with a 25-12, 25-22 victory over Donovan at home. The Jerkers were led by Bre Crose with six kills and Logan Watson with five, as well as five aces by Tobi West. Kaitlynn Lange led the charge from a 21-16 deficit to a 24-21 lead in the second set with seven consecutive serves. Hoopeston Area faces PBL at home Tuesday night.

Meet Location: Hubbard Trail Country Club

Host: Hoopeston

Meet Medalist: Mason Uden (Rantoul-PBL) [44]

Men's Team Scores:

Rantoul - 191

Hoopeston - 207

Fisher - 223

Westville - 253

Hoopeston Men's Team Individual Scores:

Kayden Wallace - 49

Wyatt Eisenmann - 50

Payton Armstong - 51

Ben Brown - 52

Trevor Swartz - 54

Nick Hofer - 58

Hoopeston Women's Individual Scores:

Taylor Page - 62

Kylie Brown - 59

Hoopeston Season Record: 9 Wins / 6 Losses