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Joey Wright and Al Craig call the action as the Maroons host the Wildcats at Tommy Stewart Field.

Joey Wright and Ryan Weber call the action as St. Joseph-Ogden hosts Monticello in a key Illini Prairie Conference game.

Joey Wright and Adam Schonauer call the action from Frank Dutton Field as the Bulldogs host the Braves.

Joey Wright and Kyle Duvall call the action as the Spartans host the Rockets.

Joey Wright calls the action in Tolono as the Unity Rockets host the Bloomington Central Catholic Saints.

Joey Wright and Justin Taylor call the action as the Mahomet-Seymour Bulldogs host the Sacred Heart-Griffin Cyclones in playoff football.

Joey Wright calls the action for Week 9 as the Monticello Sages host the Unity Rockets.

Joey Wright and Doug Larson call the action as LeRoy hosts Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley in a battle of unbeatens at L.A. McKean Field.

Joey Wright calls the action as Mahomet-Seymour visits Effingham in week 7.

Joey Wright and Gary Page have the call as the Bloomington Central Catholic Saints host the St. Joseph-Ogden Spartans in week 6.

Rantoul football players DJ Davis, Emarion White and Andrew Owen — with coach Brett Trefren — chat with Joey Wright and Zach Piatt after the program's first victory in nearly six years.

Joey Wright and Tim Turner share the call as Centennial and Champaign Central face off at Tommy Stewart Field.

Joey Wright and Loren Tate call the action between the St. Joseph-Ogden Spartans and the Monticello Sages during week 1 of The News-Gazette and Lite Rock 97.5 High School Football Game of the Week.

Salt Fork football players Kam Keller, Grant Wilson and Carter Chambliss sit down with Joey Wright and Zach Piatt to preview the upcoming high school sports season.

Joey Wright and Matt Daniels talk with Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond football players Easton Frederick, Colin Smith and Ryan Appleby ahead of the 2024 season.

Joey Wright and Zach Piatt chat with Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley football players Cohen Kean, Austin Kasper, Brayden Elliott, Matt Allen and Ryker Grauer and coach Chad Augspurger ahead of the 2024 season.

Joey Wright and Zach Piatt chat with Monticello football players Mason High, Ike Young and Carter Foran along with coach Cully Welter ahead of the 2024 high school football season.

Joey Wright and Zach Piatt chat with Peter Samu, Toby Kreps and Reid Craddock as St. Thomas More Sabers enters the season ranked No. 10 in The News-Gazette's preseason rankings.

Joey Wright and Zach Piatt chat with Macie Russell, who earned The News-Gazette's 2023-24 Female Athlete of the Year award after excelling in basketball, cross-country, softball, track and volleyball for Salt Fork. Macie's father and Salt Fork girls' basketball coach, Brian Russell, joins the program as well.

Joey Wright and Zach Piatt chat with Centennial wrestler and football player Jack Barnhart, who earned The News-Gazette's 2023-24 Male Athlete of the Year award after earning all-area and all-state honors on the football field and going 44-0 with an IHSA Class 2A state title on the mat. Jack's father, Justin, joins the program as well.

Joey Wright and Zach Piatt chat with Centennial wrestler and football player Jack Barnhart, who earned The News-Gazette's 2023-24 Male Athlete of the Year award after earning all-area and all-state honors on the football field and going 44-0 with an IHSA Class 2A state title on the mat. Jack's father, Justin, joins the program as well.

Joey Wright and Zach Piatt chat with Salt Fork boys' track and field athletes Brysen Vasquez, Evan Webb and Ty Smoot along with coach Phil Surprenant.

Joey Wright chats with St. Joseph-Ogden wrestlers Holden Brazelton, Emmitt Holt and Coy Hayes, each of whom qualified for the IHSA Class 2A state finals.

Relive the action Joey Wright and Jason Liggett score the action as Champaign Central hosts Centennial in a boys' basketball game at Combes Gym. This is the debut of WDWS Sports Extra, our new online streaming platform for high school hoops.

Joey Wright and Zach Piatt chat with Unity boys' basketball players Andrew and Henry Thomas after the Rockets' hot start to the 2023-24 season.