•January 3, 2018•

By Jason Brown
NP Sports

The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond boys’ basketball team finished 3-1 in the Tri-County Christmas Tournament Kansas this past week.

The Knights defeated Westville, Windsor-Stewardson Strasburg and Hutsonville/Palestine but lost to Paris.

“The tournament went very well for us, and we learned quite a bit about ourselves and made quite a bit of improvement over the course of the tourney,” said ALAH coach Dale Schuring. “We handled adversity very well.”

Against WWS, ALAH doubled its lead in the first quarter 12-6, but Windsor came back with a 24-10 run in the second quarter for a 32-22 halftime lead.

In the third quarter, ALAH held WWS to two points with a 2-3 zone defense that held WSS to 4-of-20 shooting in the second half. Read More

•January 3, 2018•

By Jason Brown
NP Sports

The No. 4 seeded Okaw Valley boys’ basketball team placed third in the 33rd annual Dieterich Holiday Tournament, and Jared Bunfill earned all-tournament honors this past week.

OV was in Pool A with Christ Our Rock, Cowden Herrick-Beecher City and Newton.

In the tournament the Timberwolves defeated Christ Our Rock Lutheran, Cowden Herrick-Beecher City and Arcola but lost to Newton.

To take third place, OV defeated Arcola last Thursday.

OV doubled Arcola in the first quarter 8-4, and then added four more points to its lead to take a 19-12 half time lead. Read More

•January 3, 2018•

By Jason Brown
NP Sports

The Sullivan girls’ basketball team placed fifth in the Mattoon Holiday Tournament this past week.

The team finished 3-2 and Esther Miller earned all-tournament team honors.

Sullivan defeated St. Anthony and Salem twice but lost to Altamont and Galesburg.

“With the exception of the Galesburg game, I thought we played well the entire tournament,” said Sullivan coach Sheri McCain.

Sullivan took down St. Anthony 69-55 take fifth place. Read More

•December 27, 2017•

By Jason Brown
NP Sports

The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond girls’ basketball team placed second in the Knights Classic Holiday Tournament this past week, and senior Knight Hannah Wallen scored her 1,000th career point against Cumberland Friday.

During the Knights Classic Holiday Tournament, ALAH defeated Cumberland and Chrisman to reach the championship game against Decatur St. Teresa.

In the championship game, though, the Knights lost to the Bulldogs 65-61.

St. Teresa jumped out to a 13-7 first-quarter lead and took a 32-23 lead at the half.

The Knights outscored the Bulldogs 19-13 in the third quarter cutting the lead to three points, 45-42.

St. Teresa held on in the fourth for the eventful 65-61 win. Read More

•December 27, 2017•

Three area volleyball players earned all-area honors this past week.

For Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond, senior setter Madison Brown earned all-area first team honors. Read More