Auburn's Sanders nears rushing-receiving record at Auburn

Auburn  has just one win this season, but running back Gavin Sanders has had one of the best-dual threat seasons in school history.

Heading into Thursday night's game against Jefferson, Sanders has 629 yards rushing and eight touchdowns and 632 yards receiving with another five touchdown catches.

If you include his 725 yards on punt and kick returns, he has 1,986 all-purpose yards this season for Auburn.

It is impossible to calculate an all-purpose record that includes receiving yards back more than a few years because the Rockford Register Star did not include that statistic in its yearly leaders lists.

Looking just at rushing and receiving and Sanders is likely about to set a school record.

The Knights have had just a handful of 1,000-yard rushers and none of those were featured receivers.

* In 1990, Craig Rideout led the NIC-9 with 1,334 yards rushing, but he had less than 202 yards receiving. That was the lowest published total on the conference receivers leaders list.
* In 1997, Terrell Goldsmith led the NIC-9 with 1,228 yards rushing, but he had less than 150 yards receiving.
* In 2016, Daquawn Bell had 1,213 yards rushing but less than 213 receiving.

Sanders is at 1,261 combined rushing and receiving yards.

NIC-10 Newswire: Guilford close to first volleyball title since 2016

The Guilford Vikings are one win away from the school's first girls volleyball NIC-10 title since 2016.

The Vikings knocked off Hononegah Tuesday night, 27-25, 15-25, 25-19, in Rockton to improve to 16-1 in the conference and 22-9 overall. The Vikings still have to beat Harlem on Thursday night, but they've already at least clinched a share of the conference title.

It's a rare title for Guilford in general and for Rockford Public Schools in particular. Hononegah has dominated the conference for much of the past 30 years and Belvidere North over the past 15 years has risen to be the other major contender. Before 2016, the last time a Rockford Public Schools team had won the NIC-10 volleyball title was Guilford in 1996.

In fact, in 2016, Guilford shared the conference title with Belvidere North, which was that school's first NIC-10 title. Since then, either North or Hononegah has won every conference title from 2017 to 2024.

Hononegah dropped to 15-2 in the NIC-10 and 21-13 overall. Belvidere North is 13-4.

Going back to 1977, here are the conference girls volleyball champions

1977 - Freeport (1)
1978 - Belvidere (1)
1979 - Rockford East (1), Harlem (1)
1980 - Rockford East (2)
1981 - Belvidere (2)
1982 - Rockford East (3)
1983 - Hononegah (1)
1984 - Belvidere (3), Harlem (2)
1985 - Rockford East (4), Hononegah (2)
1986 - Belvidere (4), Hononegah (3)
1987 - Belvidere (5)
1988 - Hononegah (4)
1989 - Hononegah (5)
1990 - Hononegah (6)
1991 - Hononegah (7)
1992 - Belvidere (6), Hononegah (8)
1993 - Hononegah (9)
1994 - Hononegah (10)
1995 - Belvidere (7), Hononegah (11)
1996 - Rockford Guilford (1)
1997 - Hononegah (12)
1998 - Belvidere (8), Harlem (3)
1999 - Harlem (4)
2000 - Hononegah (13)
2001 - Hononegah (14)
2002 - Hononegah (15)
2003 - Belvidere (9)
2004 - Belvidere (10)
2005 - Hononegah (16)
2006 - Hononegah (17)
2007 - Hononegah (18)
2008 - Freeport (2)
2009 - Hononegah (19)
2010 - Rockford Boylan (1), Hononegah (20)
2011 - Rockford Boylan (2)
2012 - Rockford Boylan (3)
2013 - Rockford Boylan (4)
2014 - Hononegah (21)
2015 - Hononegah (22)
2016 - Belvidere North (1), Rockford Guilford (2)
2017 - Belvidere North (2)
2018 - Belvidere North (3)
2019 - Belvidere North (4)
2020 - Belvidere North (5)
2021 - Belvidere North (6)
2022 - Hononegah (23)
2023 - Belvidere North (7)
2024 - Hononegah (24)