Photo by Keith Stewart
Sullivan’s Brittin Boyer goes up for the block against Meridian’s Maggie Comerford, who was a force on the front line last Thursday as she helped lead her team to a 25-12, 25-17 win over the Lady Red.

Inconsistency continues to plague Lady Red

by Keith Stewart
keith@newsprogress.com

After having one of their best games of the year at Monticello the Tuesday prior, Sullivan’s volleyball team had, what head coach Heather Lindenmeyer referred to, as their worst.

“We just played awful tonight,” said the Sullivan coach. “We had a wonderful match against Monticello. We came out so aggressive. We were in system. It was just amazing to see that, so this loss is much more disappointing, because it’s probably one of the worst.”

But signs of this worst-to-come match didn’t surface at the beginning.

Sullivan took an early 2-0 lead, but Meridian responded with four unanswered points. A Brittin Boyer kill would provide the side out and just a one-point deficit, but the Lady Hawks’ Maggie Comerford had her first of many kills on the night. Meridian tallied another four unanswered points, two of which thanks to unforced Sullivan errors. Despite stringing together three straight points and cutting Meridian’s lead to two, Sullivan fell back after the Hawks got back out to a four point lead at 8-12. Read More

Playoff hopes dashed with best possible record of 4-5 on the year

Kirk Whitaker
Arthur/Sullivan Reporter

Heartbreak has come again.

This year it was dealt by rival Shelbyville on homecoming with three weeks left to go in the season. The Redskins needed to win out the rest of the season to make the playoffs for the first time in more than a decade. Instead, SOV fell short 14-12.

The game was physical from the start, as both teams asserted their ground attacks early and often.

Sullivan had three possessions in the first quarter but squandered each while Shelbyville also had three possessions in the first and capitalized on their final drive of the quarter with 1:34 left on an 11-yard touchdown run. Read More

OV junior earns trip after playoff

by Keith Stewart
keith@newsprogress.com

Four area golf teams competed at various post-season golf competitions this past week. Emerging from the dust to compete at the state series is lone female Paige Harlin of Okaw Valley High School. Area results are as follows: Read More

by Emily Scott
Reporting in Sullivan

In a conference volleyball game last Thursday, the Maroa-Forsyth Trojans had the power and skills to put away the Sullivan Redskins in a 25-13, 25-15 match.

The Redskins came out the first game ready to compete and despite a few communication errors, were able, at first, to keep up with the Trojans’  strong offense.  Read More

Boyer injured, hopeful to return

Kirk Whitaker
Arthur/Sullivan Reporter

The struggles continued for the Sullivan Lady Redskins (5-15) as they faced off against Warrensburg in Sullivan Thursday, with hope that some home cooking would help them get another mark in the win column. Sullivan won the first set 25-19 but fell in the following two sets 27-29, and 25-16 and lost junior hitter Brittin Boyer to an apparent ankle injury late in the second set after she and senior Alex Love collided. Read More