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Podcast feed of local sports coverage produced by the award-winning WRMJ sports department
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On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor recaps Week 5 of the high school football season around the TRAC.Guests on the show this week:Rockridge head coach Sam Graves (26:50)Sherrard head coach Dan McGuire (41:01)Orion head coach Chip Filler (51:27)Monmouth-Roseville head coach Jeremy Adolphson (1:02:37)Mercer County head coach Fred Lucas (1:15:34)
On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor recaps Week 4 of the high school football season, which marked the first week of divisional games in the TRAC.Guests on the show this week:Mercer County head coach Fred Lucas (23:22)Rockridge head coach Sam Graves (33:26)Newman head coach Mike LeMay (44:09)Sherrard head coach Dan McGuire (54:46)Orion head coach Chip Filler (1:04:30)
On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor recaps Week 3 of the high school football season, which marked the first week of divisional games in the TRAC.Guests on the show this week:Mercer County head coach Fred Lucas (25:34)Orion head coach Chip Filler (37:57)Monmouth-Roseville coach Jeremy Adolphson (50:29)Rockridge head coach Sam Graves (1:01:14)Sherrard head coach Dan McGuire (1:15:15)
On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor recaps Week 2 of the high school football season around the TRAC.Guests on the show this week:Mercer County head coach Fred Lucas (23:37)Rockridge head coach Sam Graves (37:55)Riverdale head coach Guy Dierikx (52:13)Sherrard head coach Dan McGuire (1:05:20)Orion head coach Chip Filler (1:17:19)
On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor recaps Week 1 of the high school football season around the TRAC.Guests on the show this week:Mercer County head coach Fred Lucas (21:22)Sherrard head coach Dan McGuire (34:47)Rockridge head coach Sam Graves (43:18)Newman head coach Mike LeMay (57:00)Orion head coach Chip Filler (1:08:07)
On the first Sportsline of the 2025-26 school year, Ty Taylor opens the show previewing the upcoming season in the Three Rivers Athletic Conference, which is expected to be extremely competitive.Then, Ty talks with Orion head coach Chip Filler (28:00), Sherrard head coach Dan McGuire (43:22), Rockridge head coach Sam Graves (57:07), and Mercer County head coach Fred Lucas (1:14:24) to preview their respective seasons.
On the final Sportsline of 2024-25, Ty Taylor opens the show reacting to Sherrard naming Dan McGuire its next varsity football coach, recaps the season-ending losses for Sherrard in the softball and baseball sectional semifinals this week, and touches on results from the IHSA State Boys Track and Field Meet.New Sherrard football coach Dan McGuire joins the show to discuss taking over the program (18:53).Then, Ty counts down his favorite five games out of the 134 the station covered during the 2024-25 school year with highlights from each of the selections (50:21).Thanks for following along in 2024-25!Sportsline returns Aug. 23.
WRMJ's play-by-play broadcast of Sherrard's 5-4 walk-off win over Rockridge in the championship game of the 2A Monmouth-Rosevilel Regional on May 24, 2025
On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor opens the show recapping Sherrard's 2-1 thrilling regional championship softball win from Friday and looks ahead to Saturday's Sherrard-Rockridge regional championship baseball match-up on Saturday.Sherrard baseball coach Nick Basala (23:57) and Rockridge baseball coach Justin Chisholm (34:01) join the show to preview the game.Then, Ty speaks with new Mercer County High School principal Joel Zaiser, who was hired earlier in the week (43:30).
WRMJ's play-by-play broadcast of Sherrard's 2-1 win in eight innings over Rockridge in the championship game of the 2A Farmington Regional on May 23, 2025.
On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor opens the show looking back at Riverdale clinching the TRAC West softball championship with a win over Rockridge, local girls track and field sectional results and state qualifiers, Orion winning the TRAC boys track and field title, and providing a brief update on Sherrard's football coaching search.Then, Mercer County girls track and field coach Lara Swanson joins the show to discuss the Golden Eagles' sectional championship win from earlier in the week (16:28).Ty previews the local softball postseason by talking with Sherrard head coach Josh Starkweather (26:26), Rockridge head coach Scott Durbin (37:14), and Mercer County head coach Dustin Murray (48:34).
On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor opens the show discussing results from the TRAC girls track and field meet and recapping the local IHSA 2A postseason brackets for baseball and softball, which were released earlier in the week.Then, Ty is joined by a trio of Sherrard coaches who won conference championships this week...Sherrard girls track and field coach Todd Volkert (24:22)Orion-Sherrard-Cambridge girls soccer coach Rick Cline (40:07)Sherrard baseball coach Nick Basala (58:48)
On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor opens the show discussing Sherrard's football coaching search, the past week's important results, and previews and projects this week's postseason seed for the local baseball and softball sub-sectionals.Mercer County boys' track and field coach Emily Voller joins the show to discuss the program's strong start to the season and its win at the Mick Louck Invitational on Tuesday (24:36).Then, Ty talks with new Bureau Valley football Pat Elder about making the move from Ridgewood, what he thinks he can take from 8-man football and apply to 11-man football, and more (40:09).
On Sportsline this week, Jim Taylor & Ty Taylor discuss the week in local sports and look ahead at what's to come in the second half of the local spring sports season - after opening the show looking forward to Tess Taylor (Jim's daughter & Ty's sister) and Zac Anderson's wedding later in the day.Then, 2020 Mercer County High School grad and current Amoby baseball coach Cade Sharp joins the show to discuss his transition to coaching varsity baseball in his first year out of college, growing up around baseball in his family, and much more. (34:56)WCCI's Brian Reusch speaks with Jim this week about Sports Illustrated's bracket of best high school mascots in the country (1:01:35).
On Sportsline this week, Jim Taylor and Ty Taylor are joined by retiring Rockridge School District educators Tom and Katy Hasson to discuss their 33-year careers.Then, Jim and Ty close the show discussing local sports results from the past week (1:06:15).
On Sportsline this week, Jim Taylor and Ty Taylor open the show by discussing the opening week of baseball and softball conference games in the TRAC West. They then discuss separate pieces of proposed legislation that aim to ban the use of Native American mascots for high schools in the state and clarify IHSA policy on transgender participation in the state series.Then, Rockridge grad and WIU softball standout Payton Brown joins the show to discuss her record-tying three-home run performance against Tennessee State and more. (35:42)WCCI's Brian Reusch speaks with Jim about the Native American mascot legislation. (50:00)
WRMJ's play-by-play broadcast of Rockridge's 6-5 walk-off win in high school softball from April 10, 2025
On Sportsline this week, Jim Taylor and Ty Taylor are joined by Sherrard High School football coach Brandon Johnston to begin the show. He's leading the new CORE Leadership program at the school. He discusses the program's first year in-depth and also talks about the landscape of Sherrard and small-school football.Then, Jim and Ty recap the week in local sports and discuss the baseball and softball postseason assignments, which were released by the IHSA this week. (58:20)
WRMJ's play-by-play broadcast of Sherrard's 5-4 win over 1A No. 1 West Central from April 3, 2025.
On Sportsline this week, Jim Taylor and Ty Taylor open the show discussing the first couple weeks of the spring sports season.Then, Mercer County softball coach and athletic director Dustin Murray joins the program to talk about the Golden Eagles' 5-0 start, the state of the TRAC, the new IHSA enrollment classification policy, and more. (24:49)WCCI's Brian Reusch and Jim speak about legislation introduced in the Illinois General Assembly that aims to allow IHSA student-athletes to play school sponsored sports and club sports simultaneously. (1:10:35)
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