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2nd Annual T-Ball and Pinto Camp
The Sullivan Youth Baseball Board hosted the 2nd Annual T-ball and Pinto Camp April 28. SHS head softball coach Andy Wagner and SHS head baseball coach Nathan Becker led drills for 5-8 year olds and their coaches. Sullivan Youth Baseball is gearing up for another successful season and has almost 300 5-15 year old boys and girls registered to play. Games will kick off the week of May 12.
•May 8, 2019•
The Sullivan High School Bass Fishing Team participated in a stormy IHSA Bass Fishing Sectional Tournament on Lake Shelbyville, Thursday, May 2.
The rain and lightning led to a delay with rain throughout the day making fishing conditions very challenging. Read More
•May 8, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor
The Okaw Valley softball team dropped a Little Okaw Valley Conference home game to Arcola last Wednesday and won an LOVC home game against Blue Ridge Monday.
Monday during senior night for the Timberwolves, OV scored three runs in the third inning to take a 3-1 lead but lost the lead after Arcola scored a run in the fourth inning and two runs in the fifth inning to take 4-3 lead.
OV battled back by plating three runs in the sixth inning then held on in the seventh for the 6-5 win.
Madison Vogel was 3-for-4 with a homer, four RBIs and a run scored, and Kalie Reed was 2-for-3 with a run scored.
Paige Coleman drove in a run and scored a run, and Miaya Lehman was 1-for-2 with a walk, one run scored and stolen base.
Kate Jeffers, Grace Bunfill also recorded a hit each, and Bunfill and Kalie Reed each scored a run. Read More
•May 8, 2019•
The Sullivan softball team dropped a Central Illinois Conference game against Tuscola last Thursday.
The Warriors scored three runs in the first and two in the second to take the early lead and did not look back. Read More
•May 8, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor
The Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond baseball team swept two home games against Cerro Gordo/Bement, Monday.
In the first game of the doubleheader, after a scoreless first four innings, the Broncos plated a run in the top of the fifth inning to take the lead.
The Knights answered in the bottom of the sixth inning with two runs to return the favor.
Lucas Otto pitched seven innings for the win. He gave up one earned run on nine hits and two walks. He struck out 15. Read More
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Ironwood Classic Champions: Ryan Rochholz - 3rd (Moline, IL), Caden Ellis - 1st (Sullivan, IL), Alex McCulla - 2nd (Quincy, IL), Aydin Folker - 4th (Jacksonville, IL)
•May 1, 2019•
Sullivan senior Caden Ellis recorded a hole-in-one during the first round of the Prep Tour Ironwood Classic.
Ellis struck the shot on the 16th hole in rainy and windy conditions at Ironwood Golf Course.
Ellis went on to win the 2-day event.
For the Redskins in the fall, Ellis earned all-state honors with a tie for third place with a score of 76, earned first-team all-area honors.
He was medalist in the regional and sectional titles and finished with a 35.7 nine-hole average.
•May 1, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor
The Sullivan softball team lost two games last week but bounced back Saturday to defeat Okaw Valley 6-5 with a walk-off fielder’s choice by Alexis Britton in extra innings.
Against OV, Sullivan fell behind 3-0 in the first inning when Madison Vogel tripled in two of the team’s three first-inning runs.
Sullivan tied the game at 3-3 in the bottom of the second inning when Katie Honchell, Irie Dulin and Caprice Smith each drove in runs.
OV took the lead again in the third with a run and added to that lead with another run in the fifth inning.
Sullivan scored again in the sixth inning to cut the lead to 5-4, and in the seventh inning Smith recorded another RBI to send the game into extra innings. Read More
•May 1, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor
The Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond baseball team throttled Arcola 14-0 Friday then tied Altamont 2-2 in a 12-inning game Monday.
Against Altamont the Knights scored two runs in the first inning, and Altamont scored its two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to tie the game.
Neither team could score in the next five innings. Read More
•May 1, 2019•
Three Sullivan boys’ track and field athletes earned points in the St. Joe Spartan Classic Meet Friday.
The team finished in 18th place out of 28 teams. Read More
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Okaw Valley Timberwolves Tyson Montgomery avoids getting hit by a pitch against Cerro Gordo/Bement.
•May 1, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor
The Okaw Valley baseball team dropped two-of-three games last week.
The Timberwolves lost to Decatur Lutheran and Sullivan in pitchers’ duels and blew out Cerro Gordo/Bement 14-1.
Against Cerro Gordo/Bement Friday, OV’s offensive exploded in two innings, scoring six runs in the first and seven runs in the third.
The Timberwolves tacked on another run in the fourth for the win in five innings.
OV pounded out 13 hits. Read More