Korey Hostetter bends for a rebound.

•April 1, 2020•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports

The Sullivan Lady Redskins defeated the Lady Rams of Shelbyville to take eighth in the Okaw Valley Tournament in 2005, but dropped four other games this week.
Sullivan took a six-point lead into the half and tacked on one more in the third quarter.
In the fourth, the Lady Redskins spread

the lead open for the 48-37 victory. Sullivan outscored the Lady Rams in every quarter with help from Kasey Hamilton who led Sullivan with 20 points.
Carrie Kuhns followed with eight.
Micah Heddins, Kelly Malloy and Megan Buxton each scored four points, and Lacey Florey and Shaylee Walker had three each.
Lara Seelhoefer rounded out Sullivan’s scoring with a bucket. Read More

Photo by Jason Brown
Jamison Rocke defends Eli Hagerman during the Lincoln Prairie Conference regular-season championship game Feb. 1 at Arthur. Both players earned all-LPC honors.

•March 18, 2020•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports

The Lincoln Prairie Conference announced its boys’ basketball all-conference team Thursday.
In its inaugural year, several area players earned honors.
For Okaw Valley, senior Cameron Sharp earned unanimous first-team selection.
Sharp averaged a team-high 18.7 points and 2.9 steals per game to go with 3.8 rebounds and 2.5 assists per contest.
He shot 46 percent from the field and 30 percent from three-point range. Read More

•March 18, 2020•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports

The Illinois Elementary School Association (IESA) state wrestling and volleyball tournaments were canceled Friday because of concerns with the spread of coronavirus, COVID-19.
The IESA has made the decision to cancel the remainder of the IESA volleyball state series for both seventh grade and eighth grade.
“As we mentioned yesterday (Wednesday), we were hoping that if there was a reasonable chance to resume the state series, we would try to do so,” said IESA Executive Director Steve Endsley. “However, several factors have been taken into consideration just in the last 24 hours to reach this decision”
Factors for cancelling included the following.
• The increasing number of schools who are closing for an extended period of time
• The variability in state host availability
• Scheduled spring breaks and extended school closures after spring breaks
• The availability of contest officials as we transition into the high school spring season Read More

•March 4, 2020•

Jadon Nuzzo from Sullivan is a member of the Monmouth College men’s track and field team.
The Fighting Scots are set to compete in the Midwest Conference Indoor Track and Field Championship on Feb. 28-29 in Grinnell, Iowa, and select athletes will compete in early March for the right to compete at the NCAA indoor meet March 13-14 in Winston-Salem, N.C.
The Scots’ outdoor season will begin April 3-4 at Washington University in St. Louis.

(At left) the Blue Dolphins Terre Haute Team: First Row: Kara Chambers, Tyson Schmohe, Logan Booker, Johnathan Iacobazzi, Kaiden Smith.   Second Row: Isabel Donovan, Deanna Clark, Mason Booker, Liam Donovan, Josh Cremeens, Max Kersten.  Third Row:  Head Coach Jason Drury, Mackenzie Erixon, Gabrielle Spain, Madalyn Booker, Ethan Schmohe, Isaac Chambers, Miles Kersten. Blue Dolphins photo

•February 26, 2020•
Sullivan Blue Dolphins are finishing out the short course season with success in and out of the pool.
The Dolphins competed in Terre Haute at the Artic Blast meet. The team brought home the 2nd place team trophy against twelve other teams. Gabrielle Spain in the girls open division won the 2nd place high point award. Ethan Schmohe in the 13-14 boy’s division came home with the 1st place trophy. SBD has a moto “You earn your trophies at practice; you bring them home from meets” is a theme that is really showing for the team.
They have thirteen swimmers qualified to swim in the Regional Championship meet in Peoria at the end of February. Read More