•May 24, 2017•
Four members of the Sullivan-Okaw Valley girls’ track and field team competed in the News Gazette Honor Roll Meet at Urbana High School last week. Read More
Category Archives: Sports Section
Sullivan Softball Season Ends in Macon
•May 24, 2017•
The Sullivan softball team’s season ended with a 9-6 loss to Carlyle in the Macon Meridian Regional May 16.
In a game that had a lightning delay, Carlyle scored three runs in the first, but the Redskins battled back with a run in the second and third innings.
Sullivan cut the lead to 6-4 with two runs in the fifth inning, but Carlyle added three more runs in the third. Read More
SOV Pole Vaulter Qualifies for State Track and Field Meet
Photo by Jason Brown
Redskin Jadon Nuzzo pole vaults during the IHSA Class 2A Mahomet-Seymour Sectional at Moose Handlin Track Thursday.
•May 24, 2017•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
Redskin Jadon Nuzzo pole vaulted 13 feet 7 inches for second place in the IHSA Class 2A Mahomet-Seymour Sectional at Moose Handlin Track May 18.
His finish qualified him for the State Track and Field meet at O’Brien Field on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston Saturday.
The Sullivan-Okaw Valley track and field team did not qualify any other athletes for state but placed six athletes and all four relays in the top 15 spots.
Josh Ernst threw the discus 118 feet 9 inches for 10th place.
Luke Bowman ran the 100-meter dash in 11.82 for 12th place and the 200-meter dash in 24.78 for 19th place.
Leighton Burcham long jumped 19 feet for 11th place and triple jumped 36 feet 11.5 inches for 15th place. Read More
Sullivan Baseball Ends With Pitching Duel
•May 24, 2017•
The Sullivan baseball team suffered a heartbreaking 1-0 loss to Riverton in the IHSA Class 2A Regional at Forsyth Park May 17.
The pitchers duel lasted until the bottom of the seventh inning when Sullivan gave up the run. Read More
Miller Sisters Power Knights to Regional Crown
Photo by Darian Hays
ALAH pitcher Shelby Frederick improved her record to 15-1 during regional play.
•May 24, 2017•
Kirk Whitaker
For the News Progress
The Arthur softball regional championship was changed from Saturday to Thursday this past week to avoid bad weather Saturday. The change did not affect the Knights who rained 10 runs on two-time defending regional champion Okaw Valley for a 10-1 victory, setting up a matchup against Cumberland in the sectional semi-finals in Bethany.
Sisters Reagan Miller and Mycaela Miller both went yard—the younger Reagan with a three-run shot to left field in the first and Mycaela with a grand slam in the sixth—to keep the family home run race tied.
Kristen Corum added a home run of her own and two RBIs.
The long ball was not the only method of scoring employed by the Knights.
Senior Logan Kauffman was 3-4, and Marissa Herschberger was a perfect 4-4 with three doubles. Taylor Powell added a double as well to help Shelby Frederick improve to 15-1 on the year. Read More
Last Inning Score Pushes OV Softball Past Sullivan
•May 17, 2017•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
The Okaw Valley softball team finished a busy week at 3-1 with wins over Sullivan and Argenta-Oreana twice and losses to Mt Zion and Neoga.
Saturday against Sullivan, OV and the Redskins went back and forth, but with a 3-3 score going into the last inning, OV scored two.
Sullivan couldn’t answer in its half of the inning and lost 5-3.
For OV Kailyn Boyer had three hits, and Kailey George and Natalie Jeffers each had two and one RBI.
Kayla Wheeler had two RBIs. Read More
ALAH Runner Takes First
•May 17, 2017•
Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond distance runner Logan Hall took first place in three events at the Little Okaw Valley Conference Championships in Toledo last Tuesday. Read More
Local Varsity Players Join Challenger League Fun
Photo by RR Best
Varisty Okaw Valley and Paris high school baseball players joined the Challenger League for a game in Bethany. The road trip for the Challenger League let them play baseball with instruction from varsity players.
•May 17, 2017•
Okaw Valley and Paris high school baseball players dusted off their uniforms following the May 5 game in Bethany and went to work for a great cause.
The OV/Paris game was the ultimate road trip for the Challenger League, when the group of special needs ball players was greeted by two varsity baseball teams as “Buddies”.
As the high school players did the year before following the game at Paris, they stayed around as “Buddies” for the Challenger League game playing along side the Little League visitors.
The Challenger division in Douglas County Little League started with the help of local coach Matt Colvin with a fourth of July 2014 game two teams. Read More
Two Wins for OV Timberwolves’ Baseball
•May 17, 2017•
The Okaw Valley baseball team finished the week 2-1 for an overall record of 23-4.
The Timberwolves defeated Louisville North Clay and Argenta-Oreana but lost to the much larger school of Taylorville
Saturday OV scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning to take the 9-7 lead and win.
Austin Harshman and Garrett Fritz each had two hits. Read More
SOV Track Places At CIC Meet
•May 17, 2017•
The Sullivan-Okaw Valley boys’ track team placed sixth with 60 points at the Central Illinois Conference Track Meet at Meridian High School in Macon.
Notable individual achievements were as follows:
Jadon Nuzzo won the the pole vault, and Logan Pedigo placed third. Read More