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Timberwolves Baseball Team Splits Wins in a Busy Week

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•May 8, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor

In another busy week, the Okaw Valley baseball team played four games in five days.
The Timberwolves defeated Arcola and Argenta-Oreana but lost to Decatur Lutheran and Paris.
Monday evening at Argenta-Oreana, OV needed an extra inning to plate the eventual winning run in an 8-inning pitcher’s duel.
In the top of the eighth inning, freshman Cale Roley singled in the winning run, and Dalton McGill pitched a 5-hit complete-game shutout and struck out 10 batters for the win.
McGill and Eli Hagerman each recorded a hit.
Saturday against Paris, OV could not overcome a Tiger 5-run fourth inning and eventually lost 7-3. Read More

WSS Softball Team Continues Their Winning Ways

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•May 8, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor

The Windsor/Stewardson-Strasburg softball team stayed undefeated on the season by blowing out Nokomis 10-0 Monday.
WSS also defeated Farina South Central 10-0 Friday and Neoga 8-2 last Wednesday.
Against Nokomis, WSS scored three runs in the first inning and five in the second inning on its way to the 10-0 win.
Calla Roney pitched six innings for the win and gave up no runs on three hits and two walks. She struck out 13.
Carson Cole was 3-for-4 with two doubles, two runs scored, two stolen bases and one RBI.
Karlie Bean doubled three times to knock in two runs, and Maddy Pfeiffer was 2-for-2. Read More

Coach of the Year and Hall of Fame for SHS’s Sheri McCain

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•May 8, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor

Illinois Basketball Coaches Association announced its District Coaches of the Year last week.
Sullivan’s head girls’ basketball coach Sheri McCain was the Class 2A District 14 Coach of the Year.
Under McCain, Sullivan earned its second straight trip to Class 2A Sweet 16 and finished with a 26-4 record.
That will not be the only honor McCain will receive while at the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame Banquet Saturday at Illinois State University. Read More

ALAH Girls’ Track Team Take LOVC Track and Field Championship

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•May 8, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor

Boys’ and girls’ track and field teams competed in the last (as currently constructed) Little Okaw Valley Conference Championship meet at Thomas Bradford Field in Arcola Friday.
In the girls’ 44th annual meet, Kenli Nettles helped Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond take the LOVC championship with 99 points, while Okaw Valley placed second with 93.6 points in the 13-team meet.
Nettles scored the bulk of the Knights’ by winning four events: the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, 200-meter dash and 300-meter hurdles.
She broke the meet record in the 100-meter hurdles with a 14.85, and she ran the 200-meter dash in 26.11.
She finished the 300-meter hurdles in 46.35 and high jumped 5 feet 4 inches.
Alexa Miller also scored points in multiple events. Read More

2nd Annual T-Ball and Pinto Camp

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2nd Annual T-Ball and Pinto Camp
The Sullivan Youth Baseball Board hosted the 2nd Annual T-ball and Pinto Camp April 28.  SHS head softball coach Andy Wagner and SHS head baseball coach Nathan Becker led drills for 5-8 year olds and their coaches.  Sullivan Youth Baseball is gearing up for another successful season and has almost 300 5-15 year old boys and girls registered to play. Games will kick off the week of May 12.

Big Sixth Inning Hits Cinch Okaw Valley Softball Win

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•May 8, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor

The Okaw Valley softball team dropped a Little Okaw Valley Conference home game to Arcola last Wednesday and won an LOVC home game against Blue Ridge Monday.
Monday during senior night for the Timberwolves, OV scored three runs in the third inning to take a 3-1 lead but lost the lead after Arcola scored a run in the fourth inning and two runs in the fifth inning to take 4-3 lead.
OV battled back by plating three runs in the sixth inning then held on in the seventh for the 6-5 win.
Madison Vogel was 3-for-4 with a homer, four RBIs and a run scored, and Kalie Reed was 2-for-3 with a run scored.
Paige Coleman drove in a run and scored a run, and Miaya Lehman was 1-for-2 with a walk, one run scored and stolen base.
Kate Jeffers, Grace Bunfill also recorded a hit each, and Bunfill and Kalie Reed each scored a run. Read More

ALAH Baseball Team Sweeps a Doubleheader

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•May 8, 2019•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor

The Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond baseball team swept two home games against Cerro Gordo/Bement, Monday.
In the first game of the doubleheader, after a scoreless first four innings, the Broncos plated a run in the top of the fifth inning to take the lead.
The Knights answered in the bottom of the sixth inning with two runs to return the favor.
Lucas Otto pitched seven innings for the win. He gave up one earned run on nine hits and two walks. He struck out 15. Read More

Hole in One for Ellis at Ironwood Classic

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Ironwood Classic Champions: Ryan Rochholz - 3rd (Moline, IL), Caden Ellis - 1st (Sullivan, IL), Alex McCulla - 2nd (Quincy, IL), Aydin Folker - 4th (Jacksonville, IL)

•May 1, 2019•
Sullivan senior Caden Ellis recorded a hole-in-one during the first round of the Prep Tour Ironwood Classic.
Ellis struck the shot on the 16th hole in rainy and windy conditions at Ironwood Golf Course.
Ellis went on to win the 2-day event.
For the Redskins in the fall, Ellis earned all-state honors with a tie for third place with a score of 76, earned first-team all-area honors.
He was medalist in the regional and sectional titles and finished with a 35.7 nine-hole average.