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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.