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Polo’s Maddox Hayden of Eastland holds Morrison’s Cameron McDonald during the 195-pound match Jan. 26 in Polo. Sports roundup starts on page 7. Vol. 81 • No. 36 One Section • 12 Pages

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Bills propose arming DCFS workers, reinstating death penalty for those guilty of killing first responders By TROY E. TAYLOR

ttaylor@shawmedia.com Two local Republican state lawmakers introduced legislation last week in response to the line-of-duty deaths of workers from the Department of Children and Family Services and other first responders. State Rep. Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, has a package of bills for the 102nd General Assembly’s spring session, including one that allows caseworkers to be armed in the course of their duties. She said hers is in direct response to the Jan. 4 death of Deidre Silas, who was stabbed during a visit in Thayer and the Feb. 8, 2018, slaying of Pam Sue Knight of Dixon. State Sen. Neil Anderson, R-Moline, filed a bill to reinstate the death penalty for individuals found guilty of kill-

ing first responders. McCombie’s package also includes a death-penalty provision. “Children and adult protective services caseworkers and investigators deserve the same worker safety protections as other first responders in the performance of their, too seldom recognized, life-saving duties,” McCombie said in a news release. McCombie’s proposals: House Bill 4636: Allows DCFS caseworkers to carry concealed handguns and sets training requirements. HB 4637: Reinstates the death penalty for adults in the killing of police officers, firefighters and workers in the areas of child or adult protective services and those who supervise sexually violent persons. HSB 3933: Clarifies that an attack against a DCFS or Adult Protective Services workers is the same as attack-

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ing a firefighter or teacher. The intent of that last bill has been one the House Republicans have advocated for since the Knight slaying, McCombie said. Anderson’s proposal, Senate Bill 3125, extends first responder language to include police, firefighters, EMT/ paramedics, ambulance drivers, firstaid personnel, employees of the Department of Corrections and other similar agencies.

CRIME WATCH

Former Fulton man indicted on meth, firearms charges 40 years; possession of more than 100 but less than 400 grams of meth, punishable by a minimum 6 to 30 years; possession of a weapon by a ROCKFORD – A former Fulton man was felon, which carries a minimum of 3 to 14 years; indicted Jan. 25 on federal drug and firearms and escape, which carries 3 to 7 years, for escapcharges. ing from a Fulton police officer, court docuBradley Scott Goddard, 33, now of Clinton, ments show. Iowa, is charged with possession of a controlled Those charges were dismissed Tuesday when substance (more than 50 grams of the circuit court judge learned federal methamphetamine) with intent to discharges were being filed. tribute, possession of a firearm in furGoddard also was charged in Lee therance of a drug trafficking crime, County in August 2019 with felony retail and possession of a firearm by a felon, theft and was free after posting $730 of the U.S. Attorney’s office in Rockford his $7,300 bond that September, then said in a news release. failed to pay or appear starting that Goddard possessed the drugs and October. That case is pending. firearm on Sept. 8 in Fulton, the indictHe was sentenced in Whiteside ment states. That’s when he was County to 2 years in prison in February arrested by Fulton police. 2020 for theft worth more than $500 but Bradley Scott He pleaded not guilty on Jan. 26. less than $10,000 in a 2019 case. He Goddard Goddard initially was charged Sept. 9 stopped paying his fines in March and in Whiteside County Court with armed was sent to a collections agency, court violence, for possessing a Ruger handgun along records show. with methamphetamine, a charge that carries a Fulton Police Chief Nicholas Neblung, the minimum of 15 years in prison; possession with Morrison Police Department and the Whiteside intent to deliver more than 100 but less than 400 County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the federal grams of meth, punishable by a minimum of 9 to investigation, the release said.

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“These are people who wake up every day to serve and protect our communities, the people on our streets, our homes and our loved ones,” Anderson said in a news release. “We owe it to the first responder community to make sure that anyone who attacks them is held accountable to the highest possible level.” Anderson notes that 27 states have death-penalty sentences for the killing of a police officer. Former Republican Gov. George Ryan imposed a moratorium on Illinois state executions in 2003 before commuting all death sentences to life in prison. Illinois lawmakers, under Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, later abolished the death penalty in 2011.

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CARROLL COUNTY Carroll County Transit hopes to build a garage for its 14-vehicle fleet in the spring after the approval of a $536,000 Rebuild Illinois grant.

CCT hopes to build garage with grant MOUNT CARROLL – Carroll County Transit hopes to build a garage for its 14-vehicle fleet in the spring after the approval of a $536,000 Rebuild Illinois grant. CCT operations manager Alicia Kness and her grants manager, Mary Maszk, applied for the funds in late summer or early fall, Kness said last week. If the Illinois Department of Transportation signs off, construction will begin in the spring on a wooded lot on Benton Street, just off state Route 64. The lot is owned by IDOT, Kness said. The grant is enough to build a facility large enough to house the transit company’s four buses and 10 vans, she said. It is part of nearly $111.4 million from the Rebuild Illinois capital program allocated to downstate transportation companies for 63 projects involving facility, equipment and technology upgrades, according to a release from the governor’s office.

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First-time and faster, more reliable broadband internet service is coming to underserved areas of rural Whiteside and Carroll counties, thanks to about $10.3 million in state Rebuild Illinois funds awarded to three area providers. The nonprofit Jo-Carroll Energy cooperative, which is based in Elizabeth, was awarded $4,688,840 for work in Whiteside, Carroll, and Jo Daviess counties; Quad-Cities-based internet provider Strada Communications received $5 million for work in Rock Island and Whiteside counties; and Comcast’s share is $595,300 for work in Whiteside County. The money comes from a pool of $47 million in Connect Illinois funding, which will pay for 22 broadband expansion projects statewide. Connect Illinois is part of the Rebuild Illinois infrastructure program.

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Jo-Carroll Energy’s grant will be matched by the cooperative, bringing its total project to nearly $9.4 million to upgrade its Sand Prairie fiber internet service. With the money, JCE plans to build out 146.8 miles of fiber “to bring Sand Prairie fiber to approximately 625 households, businesses or farms in rural portions of Whiteside, Carroll and JoDaviess counties,” including rural areas north of Mount Carroll, and in Fenton, Fulton, Garden Plain and Albany, it said in a news release. A timeline for the project will be announced soon. In the meantime, the grant areas have been added to Sand Prairie’s fiber communities map at connectSP.com and are identified as MTC9 and GPN1 (click on fiber communities and find it under grants). Those interested can go to the web-

site to sign up for service; others who already have indicated their interest will get an email with a customized link to sign up for service, the release said. “This expansion of Sand Prairie broadband will provide numerous benefits to our communities,” and especially to farmers, Jesse Shekleton, director of broadband operations, said in the release. “Building a fiber network that provides the ultimate in broadband services to the farms and residences of the area will enable these members to access applications and tools to make their operations more efficient and enhance crop production,” Shekleton said. “The economic benefit of helping agri-business be more successful will trickle down to other businesses and individuals in and around the area.” Those in need of telehealth services and students and others working from home also will benefit, JCE President and CEO Mike Casper said in the release. Casper and Shekleton thanked those residents and businesses that provided letters of support for the cooperative’s grant application. “Access to reliable, affordable highspeed broadband is vital to the overall prosperity of our region of northwest Illinois,” Casper said. “As one of our members noted, they ‘needed it yesterday.’ This grant is the fourth the cooperative has received for its fiber-to-thepremise projects. Additional applications are pending, the release said. Last year, JCE was awarded a $14 million USDA ReConnect grant, also to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas. Sand Prairie is using that money to bring a high-speed, fiber-to-the-premise network to more than 3,000 homes in

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Jo-Carroll Energy will use its $4.6 million Rebuild Illinois grant to bring Sand Prairie fiber to about 625 households, businesses or farms in rural portions of Whiteside, Carroll and JoDaviess counties. The project includes rural areas north of Mt. Carroll, as well as Fenton, Fulton, Garden Plain and Albany.

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4 LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Are you interested in a handbell choir? Dear Editor, For over a decade the handbells at Mount Carroll Methodist Church, donated by the Art Fetterolf Family, have been silent. An opportunity to develop a handbell choir to let them make joyful music has presented itself. This letter is to find out if there is any interest by 12 individuals, men or women, to participate. It is open to anyone in Carroll County who can count to four, lift 2-5 pounds, is willing to make mistakes, is over 50

• INTERNET Continued from Page 3 about 250 square miles in rural portions of Jo Daviess, Carroll, Whiteside and Stephenson counties, including the rural Savanna, Chadwick and Prophetstown areas, according to the website. The grant will be used ”to deploy a fiber-to-the-premise network to an area with 7,629 people, 378 farms, 150 businesses, eight public schools, three fire stations, two post offices and two

respect for the other players. No previous music background is required. If this is something you are interested in, please send a short letter telling me your contact information, any musical background you may have, any questions you have and which days might work for your schedule. The deadline is Feb. 15. We are all rookies, including the director. Thank you! years old and available tentatively from 10-11:30 a.m. on a weekday twice a month for practice. Masks will be required while you are in the building out of

museums” in those four counties, the company said in a previous news release. The work will be done within five years, as required by the grant, although plans call for the build to be done in four years or less.

Comcast

In Whiteside County, Comcast will use its nearly $600,000 grant to upgrade broadband service to 179 homes in “an unicorporated area near Sterling,” improving speeds, the company said in

an email. “This project will improve underserved levels up to 1 gigabit per second down and 35 megabits up,“ the email said. An email seeking the exact location of the project area has not yet been returned.

Strada Communications

Strada Communications also has not yet returned calls seeking details on its plan for its $5 million state grant. According to its website, Strada is a

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locally owned and operated internet service provider with more than 600 customers in the Rapids City and Port Byron area. It is in the process of bringing fiber internet to Erie, installing lines at no cost to the homeowner, and has and “opt out” option for those who don’t want a fiber line coming to their homes. Go to stradacomm.com for a map of the build area in Erie and other information.

OBITUARIES ARLA RUTH MILLER

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ing Fund, United Methodist Women, and promoting the annual church bazaar held for Born: May 20, 1925 in Thomson, IL 22 years. Arla will be remembered for her Died: January 26, 2022 in Mount Carroll, IL entertaining, cooking and sewing skills. She enjoyed hosting “Bob’s Annual 1942 Class Arla Ruth Miller, 96, formerly of Thomson, Reunion” and the “Chicken House” gang. In 1996, Bob and Arla left the farm and Illinois passed away moved back to Thomson. While living in January 26, 2022, at Allure Mt Carroll. Arla Thomson, Arla served for many years as a docent at the Thomson Museum and enjoyed was born May 20, sharing the stories of Thomson being the 1925, in Thomson to melon capital of the Midwest, the Brown Guy and Maude (Curbrothers duck hunting on the Mississippi, and ley) Brown. She graduated from Thomson early Thomson history. Arla was an avid WGN High School, Class of 1943. listener, and a great Cubs fan. Arla married Robert Miller on January 27, 1945, at the Albany, Illinois Methodist Parson- Arla will be deeply missed by her daughters, Janie (John) Dollinger of Shannon, Illinois, age, officiated by Reverend Doverspike. The ceremony was a double wedding with Lauren and Peggy (John) Richard of Polo, Illinois; her son, David (Cari) of North Aurora, Illinois; her “Joe” Mitchell and LeVona Potter. For 63 years, the couples remained close friends and grandson, Mark (Shanna) Dollinger of Lanark; celebrated milestone anniversaries together. two great grandsons, Cooper J and Maddex L Dollinger and many nieces and nephews. Together, Bob and Arla began a lifelong Arla is preceded in death by her husband of farming career in Thomson, raising melons 63 years, Bob, her parents Guy and Maude before moving to their Lanark farm in 1955. Brown, brothers Burrell, Gerald, Harold, GorBob and Arla retired from active farming don Brown, sister Harriett Brown, and in-laws in 1982 with a continued interest in it, and Fred and Minnie (Weber) Miller. enjoyed going on car rides to see the fields A private family inurnment will be held at and watching the crops grow. a later date. Memorials may be made to the Arla often joked about being born a town Lanark United Methodist Church in Arla’s girl, though she would always have farming honor. in her heart. The family wishes to thank the staff of While living in Lanark, Arla was active in the Lanark United Methodist Church, serving Allure of Mt Carroll for their wonderful and admirable care. as treasurer of the Education Wing Build-

CARROLL COUNTY FARM BUREAU

arroll County Farm Bureau is inviting you to take part in a preventive health screening to be offered on Tuesday, March 1 from 6 - 9 a.m. at the Carroll County Farm Bureau office! These screenings include a blood draw with panels similar to a wellness draw at your doctor’s office, but at a fraction of the cost! Identify any health concerns early, while they’re still very treatable or give yourself piece of mind that your own the right track with your health! It is recommended to have an annual blood draw after the age of 40 to track basic health values with focus on prevention first! Appointments are limited for this event, so call now! The Base Package Health Screening, $100, includes blood draw and blood pressure check. The Base Package Blood Draw includes: a Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (CMP), Lipid Panel and Complete Blood Count (CBC). These panels test values such as cholesterol, glucose, protein counts, electrolytes, liver enzymes, white and red blood cell counts and much more. These tests can indicate risk for heart disease, diabetes and many other chronic conditions. Important: The blood draw does require a 12-hour fast. To schedule your health screening, contact Bob Phillips, Director of Thrive Wellness, at 309-550-9172 or bob@ thrivewellnessinc.com. We accept cash, check or debit/credit for payment.

AT A GLANCE Chastity Welch

$1,000 general scholarships along with the Harold Schmidt Memorial Forestry Scholarship in the amount of $1,000. To be eligible for all of the scholarships, applicants must meet the following criteria: must be a high school graduate; must be a Carroll County Farm Bureau member, spouse of a member or member’s child; must be accepted for enrollment or be enrolled at an accredited college, university, community college or technical school; must exhibit potential for successful completion of course of study; and must be a resident of Illinois. The general scholarships require a student to be majoring in agriculture, agribusiness, or an ag-related field. The Harold Schmidt Memorial Forestry Scholarship requires a student to be enrolled in Forestry, Wood Science, Wildlife Biology, Botany, General Biology, or other related disciplines as listed on the application. Now don’t be scared off as there are many, many careers out there that are ag-related. Scholarship applications have been sent to all Carroll County high school guidance counselors, FFA Advisors, and are available at the Carroll County Farm Bureau office or our website at www.carrollcfb.org. Completed applications must be returned to the Carroll County Farm ••• The Carroll County Farm Bureau Bureau by Monday, March 7. For more information contact Chas Foundation has recently announced their 2022 Scholarship Opportunities. Welch at 244-3001 or by email at carrollThis year they will be offering six cfb@gmail.com

PEARL CITY – The Pearl City FFA Pork Chop Dinner is scheduled for 5 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11. The dinner will be at the Pearl City High School cafeteria.

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Carroll County Farm Bureau members can place up to two free classified ads per week, with a limit of 250 characters per ad (not including spaces). Ads are limited to personal or farm items for sale/wanted to buy, or farm labor or services available or wanted. No ads for the sale or rental of real estate, garage sales or commercial businesses will be accepted. To place an ad, call the Farm Bureau office at 815-244-3001 by 3 p.m. Thursday to get your ad in the following week’s paper. The Farm Bureau office compiles the ads and Shaw Media runs them in the Prairie Advocate as a courtesy in conjunction with the weekly column. Shaw Media is not responsible for the ads and any errors or corrections need to be made to the Farm Bureau office. For Sale: Schwartz loader with 7 ft. Snow bucket to fit 40-80 hp tractor. $400 obo, 815-821-3397. For Sale: Small square hay bales, $5/bale, 563-219-4862. For Sale: Hay and straw, rounds, large squares, and small squares, corn stalk bales, 815-499-0463. For Sale: Mixed Firewood, 815-225-7824. For Sale: Generation3 Kirby vacuum with hose and 10 attachments including shampooer, and extra bags $70 obo, runs well. Lanark area call Deb at 815-291-7697. For Sale: Beautiful handmade automatic rocking oak baby cradle in like new condition, Lanark area, $300 obo, Call John at 815-275-7208. For Sale: 100 year old antique ¾ headboard and frame in good condition, Lanark area, $200 obo, call Jon 815-275-7208. For Sale: Three new 24’” x 36” chalk boards and 2 new dry erase boards the same size $3each Lanark area call John at 815-275-7208. For Sale: Round bales of hay. 4th crop Alfalfa. Also, rye, wheat, clover wet bales wrapped for sale. Call 815-590-5265.

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‘North Carolina Cultural Exchange’ offered Feb. 9 The Windmill Volunteer Educators at the Windmill Cultural Center in Fulton invite the public to attend the next Wild Winter Wednesday program on Feb. 9 at 9 a.m., featuring coffee, tea, and mill treats. The program, titled “North Carolina Cultural Exchange,” will feature a team of de Immigrant Millers, Educators and Friends of the Windmill who traveled to Raleigh/ Durham North Carolina to exchange ideas and learn about the area. The team learned some of their best practices, while sharing about the best of Fulton. The presenters will also discuss their visits to other interesting places in North Carolina. WWW@WCC programs are held on Wednesday mornings through March. Doors open at 9 a.m. and the program starts around 9:20. Programs are free and open to the public. For more information, visit the Windmill Cultural Center Facebook page or call 815589-3671. The building, located at 111 10th Ave., is disability accessible. Programs are funded through a grant from the D.S. Flikkema Foundation and a donation from Nelson Corp. If River Bend Schools are closed due to weather, WWW is also canceled.

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Here is the team of de Immigrant Millers, Educators and Friends of the Windmill who traveled to Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, to exchange ideas. A special presentation will take place Feb. 9 at the Windmill Cultural Center in Fulton.

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Northern Illinois Antiques Dealers Association Presents Its 62nd Annual Antiques Show Forest Hills Lodge n Loves Park, IL Saturday, February 26, 2022 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sunday, February 27, 2022 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Located 1/2 mile East of Route 251 on Route 173 1601 West Lane Road n Loves Park, Illinois From I-90, exit Route 172, head West to Forest Hills Lodge

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The Ninth Annual Quilts of Valor National Sew Day will be held at Keeping You Sewing Fabric Shop in Clinton, Iowa from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 5. This event encourages sewers to gather and make Quilts of Valor for local veterans. Every two years the local guild River Cities Quilters Guild presents Quilts of Valor to veterans and in 2020 they presented over 50 quilts. Sewers should bring their own sewing machine, sewing supplies and a dish to pass for the potluck lunch. There will be quilt kits ready to sew or you may bring your own Quilt of Valor that you may be working on. All sewers are invited to participate in this free event. Please register by calling Keeping You Sewing at 563-2426135 as space is limited.

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Girls basketball Morrison 54, Riverdale 32: The Fillies led 26-12 by halftime and never looked back in a Three Rivers West win at home. Shelby Veltrop had 18 points, five rebounds, six assists, three blocks and two steals to lead Morrison, which pulled away with a 17-7 scoring edge in the third quarter. Camryn Veltrop finished with 14 points, seven rebounds, three blocks and two assists, and Diana Robbins added 13 points, nine rebounds and three assists. Jordan Eads had five points and three steals, Kendra Fisher chipped in four points, six rebounds, three assists and three steals, and Kalli Fisher dished four assists for the Fillies. Carrieanne Hungate’s seven points led Riverdale, and Ryalynn Grant scored six. Durand 35, Milledgeville 26: The Missiles kept it close, but couldn’t catch up to the Bulldogs in an NUIC crossover loss on the road. Lily Smith led the way with nine points and 13 rebounds for Milledgeville, which trailed 8-7 after the first quarter, 21-17 at halftime, and 29-22 through three periods. Adriana Miller added seven points and seven rebounds, and Rylee Matthews finished with four points and eight

rebounds. Olivia Schurman scored six points for the Missiles. Emmie Nyen had 10 points for Durand, Elaina Nyen scored nine, and Olivia Robinson and Alissa Moore added eight points each. Amboy 62, Fulton 19: The Clippers led 18-4 after the opening period and 38-11 by halftime, then outscored the Steamers 17-3 in the third quarter for an NUIC South road win. Olivia Dinges had a double-double of 21 points and 14 rebounds, and also dished three assists to lead Amboy (15-7, 6-1), while Maeve Larson hit four 3-pointers and finished with 16 points and four assists. Elly Jones added 11 points, five steals and three assists, and Courtney Ortgiesen and Haidyn Zimmerly both scored six points. Olivia Miller grabbed six rebounds for the Clippers. Kylie Smither’s five points led Fulton, and Lara Bielema and Miraya Pessman scored four each. Milledgeville 41, AFC 29: The Missiles led throughout – 11-5 through one quarter, 19-12 at halftime, and 29-24 through three periods – in an NUIC South win in Ashton. Adriana Miller and Rylee Matthews both See SPORTS ROUNDUP, Page 8

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• SPORTS ROUNDUP Continued from Page 7 recorded double-doubles for Milledgeville; Miller had 15 points and 10 rebounds, and Matthews finished with 10 points and 12 boards. Olivia Schurman scored eight points, Lily Smith added six points and eight rebounds, and Brooklyn Balsiger also grabbed eight rebounds for the Missiles. Taylor Jahn’s game-high 17 points paced the Raiders, and Kaelynn Larson hit a pair of 3-pointers for six points. Eastland 56, Polo 44, OT: The Marcos’ Nicole Boelens hit a tying 3-pointer at the buzzer to force overtime, but the Cougars shot 12 for 17 from the free-throw line in the extra period to pull away for an NUIC South win in Lanark. Chloe Sweitzer had 22 points and four assists for Eastland (10-10, 6-1), while Addison Burkholder finished with 12 points, 12 rebounds and four assists, and Delana Erbsen added 11 points and seven rebounds. Quinc Haverland had five points, eight rebounds, two assists and two steals, Sarah Kempel added four points and six boards, and Annika Myre chipped in five steals and two assists for the Cougars, who rallied from a 23-16 halftime deficit, then outscored the Marcos 14-2 in overtime. Boelens had 12 points, six rebounds, four steals and three assists for Polo, and Lindee Poper scored 11 points. Kadence Sheaffer had seven points, three rebounds and two assists, and Natalie Nelson chipped in six points, five assists and four rebounds. Bekah Zeigler had four points and four rebounds for the Marcos, who jumped out to a 15-7 lead in the first quarter. Morrison 54, Erie-Prophetstown 27: The Fillies built a 33-15 halftime lead and rolled to a Three Rivers West win at

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Polo’s Blake Diehl holds West Carroll’s Dallas Bunn on the mat during Jan. 26 action in Polo. home over the Panthers. Camryn Veltrop tallied 16 points, six rebounds and two blocks to lead Morrison. Jordan Eads scored 11 points, Kendra Fisher added nine points, seven steals, five rebounds and four assists, and Shelby Veltrop chipped in 10 points, five rebounds and two steals for the Fillies. BayLeigh Brewer nabbed five steals for Morrison. Malory Eggers and Kennedy Buck paced Erie-Prophetstown with six points apiece. Fulton 45, Milledgeville 29: Freshman Miraya Pessman scored 23 points and nabbed four steals to lift the Steamers over the Missiles. Kylie Smither scored eight points for Fulton, and Resse Germann added four points, six rebounds, seven assists and

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