•April 18, 2018•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
The Okaw Valley softball team split a pair of games this past week and had a game postponed.
OV topped Cerro Gordo/Bement 7-3 but lost to Tolono Unity 16-2.
Last Friday against CGB, the Timberwolves fell behind 2-0 after the second inning but battled back to take the lead 4-2 after the fourth inning.
OV plated three more in the fifth inning and then held off CGB for the 7-3 win.
Each team totaled 10 hits in the game. Read More
•April 18, 2018•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
The Sullivan baseball team finished the week 2-1 with wins against Arcola and Central A&M and a loss to Shelbyville.
Last Friday the Redskins waited until the last half inning to make their move, but with five runs in the bottom of the seventh, Sullivan tied the score at five.
In the bottom of the eighth, Sullivan walked off the game to complete the 6-5 comeback.
Sullivan pounded out 10 hits and played errorless in the field.
After giving up a run in the second inning and four runs in the third inning, Redskins’ pitchers settled down and held CAMs scoreless, until Sullivan could plate late runs. Read More
•April 18, 2018•
The Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond track and field teams hosted the ALAH Invitational Saturday.
For the ALAH girls’ track team, Kenli Nettles placed first in her heat with times of 16.27 and 48.06 in the 100-meter hurdles and the 300-meter hurdles, respectively.
She leaped five feet three inches to win the high jump.
Hannah Wallen got first in her heat in the 400-meter run with a time of 1:01.78, and she placed second in the long jump with a leap of 17 feet .5 inches. Read More
•April 18, 2018•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
Once the weather cleared, the Sullivan girls’ and boys’ track teams wasted no time this week.
Girls Track
The girls’ team competed in the Tolono Unity Invite, the Shelbyville Open, the Arthur Invite a quadrangular against Central A &M, Warrensburg-Latham and Cerro-Gordo-Bement.
The girls finished 16th place with 12 points at the 21-team Tolono Unity Girls’ Invite last Friday.
Emily White led the way with a tie for third place in the high jump at 4 feet 10 inches.
Esther Miller placed fourth in the 400-meter dash with a new personal record time of 1:04.24. Read More
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All-Stars: Hope Ruppert, Natalie Jeffers and Paige Robinson hug after the SkyWalker All-Star Game in Decatur last Friday. Robinson won the MVP award and the 3-point contest, but had to play against her three-year co-starter in the game.
•April 18, 2018•
by Jason Brown
NP Sports
Several area girls’ basketball players participated in two different all-star games this past week, but it was Okaw Valley guard Paige Robinson who won the MVP award for both games.
Three players from Sullivan and one from Okaw Valley participated in the Marshall School Foundation Game in Marshall, Ind. and two Timberwolves played in the SkyWalker All-Star Game in Decatur.
In the Marshall School Foundation game Sunday, Redskins Chloe Riley and Haley Rose played for the Red Team, and Elizabeth Green played for the White Team.
For OV, Robinson played for the White Team, which won the game 88-63.
Robinson scored 28 points, including three 3-pointers, to go with double digit assists and a handful of rebounds to win the Co-MVP of the tournament.
“Paige had about four to five AAU teammates down there,” said OV coach Brad Ackers, “and so I know she enjoyed herself and competed against some girls she knows. A number of Sullivan girls were there too.”
Green scored in the first quarter for a total of four points for the White team.
For the Red Team, Riley scored seven points and Rose added two.
Riley made two of three free throws and made two baskets in the third quarter, and Rose scored her two points in the third quarter. Read More
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Southern Bound
Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond Knight setter Madison Brown signed a letter of intent to play volleyball at Georgia Southern University in Statesville, Ga.
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Sullivan High School graduate Brynna Sentel winning one of the relays at the Liberal Arts Championships in Iowa.
•April 18, 2018•
Brynna Sentel was a Blue Dolphin team leader in Sullivan inspiring many to push themselves to achieve swimming goals.
Sentel has achieved a few goals of her own since leaving Sullivan for
Franklin College in Indiana.
The daughter of Lori Sentel of Sullivan was named NCAA Liberal Arts Championships Female Swimmer of the Year.
She scored a perfect 60 points at the conference championship, the most ever by a Franklin female swimmer, won all three individual events, placing first in the 200 free, 500 free, and 100 back, achieved the NCAA National B cut in 100 back, swam on four gold-medal-winning relays and broke Franklin team records in the 100 back, 500 free and 200 free style. She also won the Franklin College Female Rookie of the Year Award as well as the Swimming & Diving Female Athlete of the Year Award.[/s2If]
•April 18, 2018•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond softball team picked up three-straight wins this past week.
The Knights knocked off Rantoul, Cerro Gordo and Neoga.
Against Rantoul last Friday, ALAH’s offense exploded for nine runs in the fourth inning to take a 10-5 lead.
Each team scored a run late in the game for a final of 11-6
Addi Tinkle was two for four with two RBIs, and Reagan Miller knocked in two runs. Read More
•April 18, 2018•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
The Sullivan softball team finished the week 1-2 and had Monday’s game against Clinton postponed.
The Redskins defeated Arcola but dropped games to Central A&M and Shelbyville.
Against Arcola, Sullivan took an early lead in the first, but the Purple Riders tied the game in the second.
Sullivan took the lead again in the third with a run, but Arcola answered with four runs in the third to take a 5-2 lead.
The Redskins cut the lead to 5-4 in the fourth inning, then scored three runs in the sixth inning to recapture the lead.
Sullivan scored one in the seventh for the 7-5 win. Read More
•April 18, 2018•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
The Okaw Valley baseball team stretched its winning streak to 10-0 to start the season by shutting out Cerro Gordo, Beecher City and Neoga this past week.
In the three games OV outscored its opponents 40-0.
The Timberwolves overwhelmed Cerro Gordo 15-0 in a 3-inning game.
OV plated two in the first inning, eight in the second inning and five in the third inning and totaled 13 hits.
Cody Drake, Trey Yarnell and Austin Harshman each recorded two hits. Read More