•July 11, 2018•
Central Illinois Crush travel baseball will be hosting tryouts for the 2019 season.
Tryouts will be held for an 11U teas as well as a 12U team.
For 11U, players must be 11 or under as of May 1, 2019.
For 12U, players must be 12 or under as of May 1, 2019.
Arrive early, prior to tryouts to complete all tryout registration forms. Read More
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Repeat Trampoline Champion
Shaylin Hunter, 11, of Sullivan is the reigning national trampoline champion. She made nationals four years straight and competed against 50 girls in her age group to reach number one this year in the Ft Lauderdale, Fla. national event. She is the daughter of Siobhan and Austin Hunter of Sullivan.
•July 11, 2018•
Natalie Jeffers and Grace Harlin were named to the Herald and Review All Area Softball first team.
Natalie Jeffers - Sr. - Jeffers closed her senior season with a bang, crushing 10 home runs for the Wolves and driving in 30 runs while compiling a .536 batting average. She was a good glove and was named second team all-state and a unanimous all-conference selection. Read More
•July 11, 2018•
Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond’s Kenli Nettles took home three silver medals at the Class 1A State Track and Field Meet in May,
Nettles earned 26 points which placed the team eighth in state. Read More
•July 11, 2018•
Garrett Fritz was named Herald and Review player of the year and was joined on the all area team by several of his teammates.
Austin Harshman - First Team - Harshman was a dynamic leadoff hitter for the Wolves who hit .417 with a home run and 25 RBI. He showed off a strong arm in center field and pitched in relief while assuming occasional starts on the mound, going 7-0 with a 0.22 ERA in 32.1 innings with 39 strikeouts. Read More
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League Champions
The 9-10 year old Sullivan Youth Baseball team #3 won the 2018 Okaw League Championship. The team finished the season with a .320 team batting average, outscored their opponents 83-30 and were 9-0 this season. Pictured front: Brady Stollard, Jake Poyner, Aden Butler, Cannin Hall and Caden Saul; middle row: Carter Standerfer, Lane Nowlin, Aden Wallace, Bryton White, Tegan McRill and Addison Hullum and back row: coaches Luke Poyner, Brad Saul and Eric Stollard.
Photo by Ellen Ferrera
Beacon Athletes Win Medals In Special Olympics
Coach, Debbie Hunter, and a group of athletes from the Moultrie County Beason competed in the statewide Special Olympics in Bloomington June 15-17.
Hunter said, “Thousands of athletes from all over the state came to compete. We are so proud of our young people who came home with medals.”
The Beacon medal winners are:
Chance Shuman – gold medal in softball throw and 4th in 50- meter run.
Laura Walter – silver in 100- meter walk
Elisa Whitehead – silver in standing long jump
Kim Fair – bronze in standing long jump
Richard McCabe – bronze in 800-meter walk race
John Whitehead – bronze in shot put
Becky Ellis ( Whitrock) – 4th in 100-meter walk
Kim Yeakel – 4th in standing long jump
Kailee French – participation ribbon in 100-meter walk
Jennifer Kenny - 7th in 100-meter walk
Photo by Grant Wade
Mustang Tournament Action
Tanner Seelow from Sullivan Youth Baseball #2 (Kevin Cremeens, coach) batting against the Atwood- Hammond team in Monday’s Mustang League Tournament in Villa Grove. Seelow hit a two run double to help win against the AH team. They proceeded to the next round on Tuesday and were defeated by the Sullivan #3 team (Brad Saul, coach).
Photo furnished. National Tumbler Six year old Sylvia Dawkins of Sullivan recently competed in the National Tumbling competition held in Florida earlier this month. Sylvia will be in the first grade at Sullivan Elementary School in the fall.
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Robinson at state tournament in Normal.
•June 27, 2018•
by Jason Brown
NP Sports
The 2017-18 sports year is over, but Okaw Valley athletes are still accumulating awards.
Recent graduates Paige Robinson and Garrett Fritz won the 10th annual ESPN Decatur Espy Award during the ceremony at Richland College, Sunday.
Paige Robinson
Robinson took home the prize for Girls’ Basketball Player of the Year for the second straight year.
Fritz took home the prize for Baseball Player of the Year.
Robinson set several school records and collected even more accolades.
Robinson was named to the 15-member Illinois Girls’ Basketball Coaches All-State Class 1A/2A first team.
The 5 feet 10 inch guard was one of five players named to the second team Associated Press All-State girls’ basketball team.
“I said Paige is the best player in the area and best player around to anyone who would listen in the last two years,” said OV coach Brad Ackers. “Paige just continued to prove it.” Read More