•April 10, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor

The Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond softball team finished the week 2-1 and started the season 1-0 in the Little Okaw Valley Conference this past week.
ALAH defeated MacArthur 11-1 in five innings Saturday to improve it record to 7-3 overall.
The Knights scored runs in the second, third, fourth and fifth innings, including four runs in the fourth and fifth innings.
Makenzie Brown was 3-for-3, including a triple, with three runs scored and a stolen base, and Shelby Frederick went 3-for-3 with four RBIs and a run scored.
Addi Tinkle and Maria Garza each had two hits and Tinkle added two RBIs.
Kirsten Corum had a hit and scored two runs, and Cheyenne Chupp recorded two hits. Read More

•April 10, 2019•

By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor

The Sullivan girls’ track team placed eighth in the Shelbyville Invitational Friday and won a quadrangular meet at Shelbyville last Tuesday.
Friday at the Shelbyville Invite, seven Redskins scored 28 points for eighth place.
Zoe Walton high jumped five feet for first place, and Alaya Bolin tossed the shot put 33 feet 5 inches for second place.
Emily White high jumped 4 feet 10 inches for fourth place and ran the 300-meter hurdles in 52.63 for fifth place.
Ally Elzy threw the discus 92 feet 7 inches for fifth place, and Keelie Fleener long jumped 14 feet 4 inches for sixth place. Read More

•April 10, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor

The Okaw Valley baseball team won two games and lost one this past week.
OV defeated Tolono Unity last Tuesday and Argenta-Oreana last Wednesday but lost to Greenfield Saturday.
Against Tolono Unity, OV scored one run in the first for the early 1-0 lead.
The Timberwolves took advantage of five Tolono errors to score runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth inning for the eventual 5-1 win.
Talon Russell and Eli Hagerman each recorded a hit and a walk, and Hagerman and Camden Coleman each pitched three innings in the win.
Hagerman finished with two RBIs, and Hank Yowell knocked in one run.
The following day, OV defeated Argenta Oreana 2-0 behind a 2-hit shutout pitching performance from Dalton McGill.
He pitched seven innings and walked four. He struck out nine. Read More

•April 10, 2019•
The Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond boys’ track team placed seventh out of 15 teams with 32 points in the 49th annual Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond Boys Invite Saturday.
Tuscola won the invite with 86 points.
Austin Romine took first place in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:05.58. Read More

•April 10, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor

The Okaw Valley softball team dropped four games this past week.
The Timberwolves lost to St. Anthony and Paris Saturday, Argenta-Oreana last Wednesday and Windsor/Stewardson-Strasburg last Tuesday.
Against St. Anthony, OV fell behind 6-0 in the third inning and then 12-0 in the fourth inning for the eventual 13-2 loss.
Madison Vogel, Bella Benning each Kailey George recorded a hit, and Benning batted in two runs.
Grace Bunfill walked and scored a run, and Vogel scored a run.
Bunfill suffered the loss, pitching three innings. She gave up three earned runs on three walks and six hits. She struck out three.
Vogel pitched two innings in relief. She gave up one run on four walks and two hits. She struck out one.
OV committed 10 errors in the field.
Earlier that Saturday, Paris defeated OV 19-4 in four innings. Read More