•May 2, 2018•
The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond boys’ track team competed in the St. Joseph-Ogden Boys’ Spartan Classic at Joseph-Ogden High School last Thursday.
The Knights had five top-five finishers.
Logan Hall won the 1,600-meter run with a time of 4:25.86, and Kobe Wells high jumped 6 feet 5 inches for first place.
Wells also triple jumped 40 feet 5 inches for second place. Read More
•May 2, 2018•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond softball defeated Cerro-Gordo Bement but lost to Mattoon this past week.
Friday, April 27 against CGB, the Knights knocked off the Broncos 7-2 with a solid pitching performance from Shelby Frederick.
ALAH scored one run in the second inning, but the Broncos plated two runs in the third inning to take a 2-1 lead.
The Knights scored a run in the bottom of the third inning to tie the game and took a 3-2 lead with a run in the fourth inning.
From there ALAH took over the game, scoring three runs in the fifth inning and one in the sixth for the final 7-2 score.
Frederick (5-1) picked up her fifth win on the season. She pitched seven innings. Read More
•May 2, 2018•
The Sullivan girls’ track and field team finished in 13th place with 12 points at the 20-team Monticello Girls’ Invite Friday and second with 60 points in a Pana triangular last Tuesday.
At Monticello, Esther Miller placed second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:04.05. Miller teamed up with Zoe Walton, Haley Rose and Laine Cameron to finish fourth in the 1,600-meter relay with a time of 4:24.26.
In the Pana meet, Emily White won the high jump at 4 feet 10 inches, and Miller won the triple jump at 32 feet 8.5 inches. Read More
•May 2, 2018•
The athletes from the Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond girls’ track and field team placed well in the Monticello Lady Sages Invitational Friday, April 27.
Kenli Nettles placed top three in four events, and Tyra Wingler placed in the top five.
Nettles won the high jump and triple jump, and she placed third in the 100-meter hurdles and the 300-meter hurdles. Read More
•May 2, 2018•
The Sullivan boys’ track and field team placed third in a triangular at Pana Monday and competed in the St. Joseph-Ogden Boys’ Spartan Classic Friday.
In the Pana triangular, the Redskins scored 26.5 points.
Leighton Burcham took first place in the long jump and triple jump, and Jadon Nuzzo won the pole vault competition. Read More
•May 2, 2018•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
Windsor/Stewardson-Strasburg softball team, which is ranked No. 7 in Class 1A, earned a top seed in the National Trail Conference Tournament and blew out three teams by at least 10 runs this past week.
The Hatchets shellacked Dieterich Monday, St. Elmo/Brownstown last Friday and Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City Thursday, April 26.
WSS outscored its opponents 42-2 those three games.
In the first round of the National Trail Conference Tournament on the West Diamond at Evergreen Park in Neoga, WSS took out Dieterich 15-0.
The Hatchets scored seven runs in the first inning and seven runs in the second inning to take a quick 14-0 lead.
WSS tacked on one more run in the third to end the game in three innings.
Madision Everett was 2-for-3 with three runs scored and five RBIs, and Hannah Hayes was 3-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBIs. Read More
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Bella Benning runs past first base.
•May 2, 2018•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
After losing three straight games, the Okaw Valley softball team battled back to win two straight games this week.
OV defeated Cerro Gordo/Bement Monday and Sullivan on Saturday but lost to Charleston and Argenta-Oreana in a doubleheader earlier in the week.
Against CGB at Crowder Park, OV plated two runs in the first inning, which left the score 2-0 until the fifth and sixth innings when the Timberwolves scored three more runs each.
CGB scored its two runs in the top of the seventh. The final score was 5-2.
Grace Harlin and Natalie Jeffers each recorded three hits, including a double and triple each.
Harlin also scored twice, and Natalie Jeffers scored three times and had one RBI. Read More
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Josh Stutzman catches the ball.
•May 2, 2018•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
The Sullivan baseball team finished the week 5-1 with losses to Clinton, Okaw Valley, Shelbyville, Tuscola and Maroa-Forsyth.
The Redskins defeated St. Teresa last Wednesday.
Against the Bulldogs, Sullivan shutout St. Teresa 7-0 for a Central Illinois Conference win.
Sullivan scored two runs in the first inning, one run in he second and one run in the third for an early 4-0 lead.
The Redskins scored three more in the sixth inning for the final score.
Dalton Rogers, Spencer Johnson and Gavin Sullivan each recorded two hits. Johnson added two runs scored and two RBIs, and Rogers scored two runs. Read More
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Sam Hagerman runs across first base against Sullivan.
•May 2, 2018•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
The Okaw Valley baseball team won four more games this past week to improve its record to 18-1 on the season and undefeated in the Little Okaw Valley Conference Northwest division.
OV defeated Argenta-Oreana, Morrisonville, Sullivan and Cerro Gordo.
The Timberwolves have won six games in a row after its only loss to Effingham two weeks ago, and OV has a busy schedule ahead of them.
“Big week this week; starting today we play four conference games,” said OV coach Andrew Hagerman Monday afternoon. “The next two weeks we play five games each week so we’ll really need to stay focused and work on improving in certain areas.”
As with most elite baseball teams, OV has had a different player step up when they need to help with games.
“Overall, it’s hard to pinpoint any one player in particular as each player is doing his job,” said Hagerman. “(We are) hitting well, we are pitching well right now and if one guy has a bad day, a couple of others are picking him up. It’s been a total team effort from day one.” Read More
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OVHS’s Gwen Diepholz makes the tag as Jordan Bassett looks on.
•May 2, 2018•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
The Sullivan softball team finished the week 1-3 with a win over St. Teresa and losses to Shelbyville, Tuscola and Okaw Valley.
Against St. Teresa at Sullivan, both teams scored two runs in the first inning, but Sullivan put up five more runs in the second inning to take a 7-2 lead.
After the Bulldogs scored a run in the third, Sullivan plated two runs in the fourth inning and four more in the fifth inning to take a 13-5 lead.
Sullivan tacked on two more runs in the six for the final.
Madi Wall earned the win from the circle, pitching six innings and striking out four with no walks. Read More