•December 23, 2015•

The Meridian Lady Hawks capitalized on a strong first half to beat the Lady Redskins 36-29, December 19.

“We played a great second half and outscored them 16-10,” coach Sheri McCain said. “But unfortunately we dug ourselves a hole in the first half, giving up 26 points, including four three pointers.”

Merdian’s Amy AuKamp had two three pointers, Chloe Herbert scored two three pointers and Hannah Wetzel contributed one for the Lady Hawks.

Lady Redskin Lizzie Green scored a three pointer and a field goal for five points; Brooke Tuttle had two field goals and two free throws for six points plus adding two steals; Chloe Riley and Ester Miller scored four points apiece from a field goal and two free shots each. Ally Elzy scored a field goal and one free shot for three points. Laine Cameron led Lady Redskin rebounds with seven while scoring two free throws. Read More

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Redskin Senior forward Ty Molzen pushes toward the basketball for two of his seven points against Monticello.

•December 23, 2015•

By Mike Brothers

Sullivan Redskins basketball took a 55-30 loss from a larger Monticello Sage team December 18.

Sullivan kept up the battle of the backboards throughout the game, getting 21 for the night, led by 5’10” senior guard Kaleb Shumard with six. The Sages had 24 rebounds led by Winterbottom with seven.

The Sages started out the first quarter with an 11 to five advantage over the Redskins team. In the second Sullivan scored another three points to Monticello’s 15, heading into the half 26-8 Sages.

In the third quarter Redskins scoring improved to 12, with Monticello getting 14. By the fourth quarter the Sages maintained momentum, outscoring the Redskins 15-10.

Six foot senior guard Eric Keller led Sullivan scoring with one field goal and two three points shots for eight. Read More

•December 16, 2015•

Sullivan’s Lady Redskins were hampered by turnovers in their 53-36 home loss to the Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond Lady Knights Dec. 7.

“Once again we had too many turnovers,” coach Sheri McCain said. “You can’t win if you turn the ball over consistently.”

In first quarter action the Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond team outscored the Lady Redskins 17-12. The Lady Knights had an 18-12 run in the second quarter heading in to the half ahead 35-24.

A cold third quarter for Arthur led to a 10-6 effort for Sullivan. Arthur scored 12 to Sullivan’s four in the fourth quarter to win the game. Read More

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Lady Knight Megan Fifer goes up for two of her six points against the Mattoon Green Wave during last Saturday’s game in Arthur.

•December 16, 2015•

A bigger, more powerful Mattoon Green Wave came to Arthur Saturday, defeating the Lady Knights 71-39.

The first quarter play ended with Mattoon up 29-14. A 17-13 second quarter sent the Green Wave to a half time lead 46-27. Mattoon outscored Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond in the third 16-8 and in the fourth quarter 9-4 for the win.

In the junior varsity game Mattoon won 41-17.

Hannah Wallen was high scorer for the Lady Knights getting most of her 10 points in the first quarter.

Megan Fifer came up with two field goals and two free throws for six points; Logan Kauffman hit one three point shot and a field goal for four points; Janette Comstock had one field goal and hit two free throws for two totaling four points; Alyssa Hershberger hit one field goal and two free shots for four points; Jazmine Arnett had one field goal for two points; Payton Wellbaum hit one field goal and one free throw for three points; Liz Shipman hit two from the field for four points. Read More

•December 16, 2015•

Warrensburg-Latham shot well enough to overtake the Lady Redskins 32-29 at home Dec 10.

“You can’t shoot 11 percent from the field and expect to beat many teams,” said coach Sheri McCain. “We had three assists; that pretty much sums up the fact that we did not play team basketball.”

Sullivan started the first quarter ahead 7-4. The Lady Cardinals outscored the Lady Redskins 10-8 in the second quarter, with Sullivan retaining a 15-14 lead at the half.

A cold third quarter put three points on the board for Sullivan while Warrensburg-Latham scored eight. It was an 11-10 Sullivan fourth, but the Lady Cardinals came out on top. Read More