Girls edge Central A&M by 11
by Keith Stewart
keith@newsprogress.com
After finishing behind the Lady Raiders last Friday at a meet in Shelbyville, the SOV girls track team answered back with a first place finish at home Tuesday evening and were joined by the boys who landed a persuasive first place over Warrensburg-Latham and the Raiders. Read More
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Sherelle Coller eyes her deep shot to left field in the fifth inning of Wednesday’s game against OV. The senior, along with teammate Katie Wildman, celebrated her birthday with an 8-5 win.
Lady Wolves out strong but can’t sustain
by Kirk Whitaker
Arthur/Sullivan Reporter
It’s not often that in one inning with one hit, a team can score five runs. But that’s exactly what happened last Wednesday in Arthur as Okaw Valley’s softball team stumbled with two errors to let Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond take a lead they wouldn’t give up.
“If you take away the one inning where we gave Arthur-Lovington five runs off one hit and two errors, we played them well,” said OV head coach Dave Benning. “You can’t give a team five runs in an inning, especially a good team like Arthur-Lovington. We were outplayed defensively in two innings, and that is what cost us.” Read More
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SOV’s Megan Dash clears the bar during the high jump last Wednesday at the Arthur Invite. The sophomore cleared five feet to take first place.
ALAH girls, boys each finish in top five, Redskins take 11th
by Keith Stewart
keith@newsprogress.com
With more than 10 area teams for both boys and girls, the annual Arthur Invite last Wednesday saw SOV’s girls take second place, while the host’s two groups finished in closely contested top five spots.
McClain Can’t Complain
Amanda McClain didn’t just walk away with three first place individual medals Wednesday evening. She also took with her two new meet records, breaking teammate Emily Neuhauser’s 2012 200m dash record of 26.40 by running a 26.21 and then doing her own 2012 400m dash record (1:00) a few seconds better, running 57.94. Read More
Edge 13 other teams out for closely contested top three finish
Submitted by Kali Taylor
At the 16-team Unity Girls Invite, SOV finished a strong third place with 68 points, behind A & M's 70 points and St. Teresa's 74 points. Read More
Errors compound for Sullivan defense
by Kirk Whitaker
Arthur/Sullivan Reporter
It looked so good so quickly.
Then in the blink of an eye, it was gone.
It was night and day for the Lady Redskins softball team in the 20 minute time span that was the home half of the fourth and visiting half of the fifth inning Saturday afternoon against Windsor/Stew-Stras. Read More
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Logan Kauffman tries to evade the tag at first Tuesday afternoon.
Offense ignites after deadlocked third inning
by Kirk Whitaker
Arthur/Sullivan Reporter
That was fast.
Eight pitches to be exact.
Lancers senior Katie Wildman struck out two and snagged a liner for the first three outs of the visitor’s half of the first—on her way to an eight strikeout performance—and at first look of the Maroon’s pitching, it looked as if ALAH would clobber Champaign Central.
“Katie pitched really well today,” Lancers head coach Matt Darling commented. “She got some more speed than she has recently and got them to swing. Our defense wasn’t what we wanted, but it worked out for us.” Read More
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Sullivan’s Liz Inman prepares to throw her pitch Saturday. Inman finished what fellow pitcher Heidi Clements started, going two innings to close out Decatur MacArthur.
Mercy given after five innings
by Kirk Whitaker
Arthur/Sullivan Reporter
Some things just don’t require many words to explain.
After Taylor Gottfriedt went 2-3 with a single, double and 2 RBI, along with scoring a run herself in her return from a knee injury, Redskins head coach Ben Richter simply said, “It’s great to have her back.”
After a nine pitch half inning in the field, Elissa Stewart and Christina Brown both worked walks—Stewart scored on a wild pitch—and Liz Inman was hit by a pitch, setting up Gottfriedt with runners on second and third. Gottfriedt sent a liner past third base, bringing in Brown for what would be the last run of the inning.
If nobody else would have scored, it would have been just fine for the Redskins because Heidi Clements was on as always. The sophomore ace struck out two, walked zero, and allowed only one hit in three innings of work Saturday morning. Senior Liz Inman came in for the final two innings and was just as good, striking out four, walking one, allowing one hit, and working out of a bases loaded one out situation in the top of the fifth. Read More
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SOV’s Annie Hogan hands off to Amy Monroe during the 4x8 relay.
Both now set sights on Arthur Invite Friday
by Keith Stewart
keith@newsprogress.com
Competing for the first time outdoors this track season, both the SOV boys’ and girls’ teams took first overall in a triangular meet at home.
For the boys, they compiled 91 points, besting second place Tuscola by 27 points and third place Cerro Gordo by 67 points.
Those taking first place for the boys included Zach Devore in the 400m dash (58.46 seconds), Dalace Ray in the 110m hurdles (21.87), Gage Duran in the long jump (5 feet, 6 inches), Adam Davis in the pole vault (10-00), Ethan Lehman in the triple jump (36-10), Trey Schlieker in the discus (122-06), and the 4x200 relay of Calen Landrus, Jacob Cameron, Zane Uphoff, and Davis (1:42.50). Read More
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Mycaela Miller makes contact during last Friday’s 9-3 win over Decatur LSA. Miller went 3-4 on the day including two doubles, a triple, and three RBIs.
Miller goes 3-4, batting in three
by Kirk Whitaker
Arthur/Sullivan Reporter
After a 5-4 loss to Tuscola and a surprising 7-2 loss at Argenta, Arthur head softball coach Matt Darling knew there needed to be a switch in the lineup. So before Friday’s game against LSA, Arthur brought freshman Mycaela Miller up to lead off from fifth, junior Brooke Tabb went from leadoff to second, and freshman Logan Kauffman dropped from second to eighth in the order.
The change worked. Read More
ALAH’s Goodman earns first in shot put
by Keith Stewart
keith@newsprogress.com
SOV’s nucleus of four girls (Emily Neuhauser, Amanda McClain, Mollie Bowman, and Ashlynd Risley), qualified for six events at the indoor state track meet last Saturday in Bloomington. And while the meet did not, this year, tally team scores, head coach Kali Taylor says, according to her math, the team would have finished near fourth place overall. Read More