For 10 years now head coach Jason Drury has been teaching more than swimming to his swimmers. He also instills a hard work ethic and the belief in giving back to the community. These successes continually show with coach Drury taking swimmers to the state and zone level swim meets.
Former OV golf standout Colton Bush, better known as "Cookie", along with Steve Nickerson, Chad Palmer, and OV junior golf phenom Paige Harlin took the Monday night scrambler at Timberlake Golf Course, shooting a combined 8-under par.
A mandatory parent/player meeting will be held next Monday for participants in all Sullivan High School or Sullivan-Okaw Valley sports. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in Sullivan High School gym.
Bethany residents placed in 24 of the 25 categories during the Moultrie-Douglas 4-H horse show recently. The results are as follows:
The clear cut winner of Monday night's golf scrambler at Timberlake Golf Course was the team of Andrew Pollock, Bryce Miller, Chad Palmer, and Ed Briscoe, who combined shot 7-under par.
The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond co-ed soccer team will begin practice August 14 at the Lovington soccer field just south of the elementary school. Practice will be held from 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Dan Dawson, extension educator, 4-H Youth Development - Shooting Sports, will hold an informational meeting on what it takes to establish a shooting sports program at the county level at 6 p.m. August 29 at the Moultrie-Douglas Extension office located at 122 S Walnut Street in Arthur. The meeting will cover Read More
At the weekly Monday Night Scramble at Timberlake Golf Course, the team of Bryce Miller, Dustin Plummer, Andrew Pollock, and Heath Righter took Read More
For American Legion Post 429’s Senior Legion baseball team, it has been a sub-par summer. The Senior team finished the season 9-13, with the final two losses coming in the first two games of the division tournament.
According to head coach Duff Hoel the team played well and had opportunities to win both of those games.
“Going into the season we knew the senior team was not very deep. The senior team had some good hitters and scored runs pretty well but couldn’t hold leads. The team had only one true pitcher. We had a few arms, but pitching was certainly a weak spot on this team."
There were also chances for improvement left untapped.
“I was really disappointed that we weren’t able to get more games in due to weather and other teams canceling games due to lack of players," said Hoel. "The older guys had an opportunity to play some good teams when we did get games in."
According to the coach, there were some players on the junior team that could have contributed some depth to the senior team.
“We had several players on our junior team that have a skill set that would allow them to play senior legion, but we made the decision to keep them on the junior team and try to make a deep post season runwith the junior team.”
And the Juniors are doing just that, as they are enjoying an unprecedented amount of success for a Mo-Do team, a season on the opposite end of the spectrum of the senior team. Read More
by Keith Stewart
keith@newsprogress.com
Caught up in the fussy, cool Illinois spring weather last Friday, Sullivan hosted Class 2A no. 3 Maroa-Forsyth, and though the Lady Trojans got up quick with three runs in the first, Sullivan responded in the second, scoring three to tie the game. But not only would that cap all the production Sullivan could muster, but it would be followed by a devastating six run fifth inning that led Maroa-Forsyth to a 13-3 win. Read More