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Prep Sports
Peoria Christian headed to state championship game
This weekend my editor sent me up to Naperville, Ill. to cover a local team, Peoria Christian School, in the state soccer semi-final game. I love road trips because its always nice to get out of the area and see something new. I took a kind of backward way up to Naperville from Peoria to avoid traffic, and I got to see some very beautiful countryside along the way. This trip will be especially interesting since Peoria Christian won 1-0 to advance to Saturday night’s championship game. This means I’m staying up in the Chicago area all day. I’ve got my Holga with me so I’ll have to see what I come up with in the loop.
Volleyball regional
Girl’s golf player of the year portrait
My main assignment today was a portrait of the paper’s girl’s golf player of the year. The golfer goes to school in Oneida, a town about a two hour drive from Peoria on the edge of the paper’s coverage area. Unfortunately, there isn’t a golf course nearby so the background was the main challenge. On our way into the town, the reporter spotted a sign near the town’s grain terminal that looked interesting. I wanted to show that she came from a rural community so I decided to use the area near the train tracks as the background to help illustrate this.