•March 2, 2016•

The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond Knights finished the season with an 8-18 record.

For the season the Knights showed their best strength in fourth quarters, scoring 294 to opponents 252.

First quarters were strong for the ALAH boys’ basketball team scoring 225 points; third quarters totaled 215 points with second quarters finishing with 203 points for a 949 season total points. Opponents tallied 1189 points against the Knights.

Jakob Brewer led the Knights with 183 points, hitting 10 three pointers, 66 field goals and 21 free throws. He pulled down 71 rebounds.

Carroll Bryce hit four free throws for four points and pulled down nine rebounds.

Will Cohan led Knights rebounds with 79 and scored 150 points on the season. Cohan scored one three point shot, 57  field goals and 33 free throws. Read More

•February 24, 2016•

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Okaw Valley Timberwolves seniors- L to R Ian Tiarks, Alex Martin, Justin Johnson, Drew Fruchtl, Dylan Park, Wes Bone, Brandon Poper.

It was senior night in Bethany with the Okaw Valley Timberwolves taking a tough 63-62 loss from the Argenta Oreana Bombers.

At the end of the first quarter the Bombers were at a 24-21 advantage over the Timberwolves.

By the half Argenta Oreana was leading Okaw Valley 39-31.

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Okaw Valley senior Alex Martin is comforted by Super Timberwolf fan.

In the third Okaw Valley’s Alex Martin, Connor Cloyd and Dylan Park contributed to a 27 point quarter and a 48-44 Timberwolf lead at the end of the quarter.

The Bombers came back with a 19-14 fourth quarter for the 63-62 win.

Pierce Bradford led the Timberwolves scoring four field goals, two three pointers  while hitting 5-6 free throws for 19 points.

Alex Martin hit five three point shots for the night adding 15 points. Connor Cloyd had five field goals for 10 points.

Drew Fruchtl hit a three point shot and three field goals for nine points. Dylan Park hit two three point shots for six and Justin Johnson made a three pointer to round out Okaw Valley scoring.

•February 24, 2016•

Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond boys’ basketball ended the season with a 48-45 loss to the Tri-County Shiloh team February 22.

Coach Dale Schuring’s varsity Knights finished the season with a 3-3 Conference record and 8-18 overall win record for the basketball season.

In the first quarter the Knights led 12-10 over the Titans. Second quarter scoring 14-9 Tri-County put the Titans into the half ahead 24-21.

Third quarter was in favor of the Tri County team11-9 with the Knights heading into the fourth quarter down 35-30. A 15-13 fourth quarter for the Knights was not enough to overcome the 48-45 Titan lead. Read More

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Sullivan swimmer Brodie Goss competes in the 100 Yard Butterfly in the boys’ IHSA Sectional Swimming and Diving Championship at Champaign Centennial High School Saturday.

•February 24, 2016•

By Jason Lee Brown
For the News Progress

The Sullivan boys’ swim team placed third out of 22 teams in the boys’ Sectional Swimming and Diving Championship at Champaign Centennial High School Saturday.

“We had some good personal best times for our swimmers, and we really competed well in a tough sectional meet against much larger schools,” said coach Scott Bales. “Unlike all other IHSA sports, swimming has only one class or division, so we compete against schools with enrollments of 2,000 or 200 students.”

Bryce King, Wiktor Poznachowski, Charlie Goss, Luke DeLong and Brodie Goss finished second in the boys’ 200 yard medley relay with a time of 1:46.39. Read More