Coach Dale Schuring’s Career Guided Hundreds of Athletes

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ALAH Basketball season with youngest son Tyler Schuring and Coach Dale Schuring (2014-2015 season).

•June 13, 2018•

By Jason Brown
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This summer not only marks the end of the school year but also the end of a long and prestigious coaching career at Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond High School.

In March the ALAH school board did not renew Dale Schuring’s coaching positions in football or basketball.

For more than three decades, Schuring has been a staple in the area and leaves behind a long history of coaching that spans several sports.

Currently, he has been taking things slowly and trying to adjust to the newfound downtime.

“I am taking things slowly to see what is out there and figure out where I want to go with my life since I am close to retirement, three years,” said Schuring, who is a math teacher. “I am struggling mightily with all the downtime I now have available because I am accustomed to going 100 miles per hour all year round.”

This transition is understandable after years of conditioning.

Schuring first coached for Arthur as a volunteer as an assistant football coach in the fall of 1988.

He took his first paid coaching job at Arthur as an assistant baseball coach in the winter of 1988-89. Read More

Blue Dolphins at Summer Steam

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Johnathan Iacobazzi is pictured.

•June 13, 2018•

Sullivan Blue Dolphins competed in the Summer Steam meet in Terre Haute Indiana June 1-3. Thirty-two swimmers represented the Dolphins. Johnathan Iacobazzi brought home the second place 9-10 High Point award. Iacobazzi also made two Age Group Championship meet cuts in the 50 backstroke and 100 backstroke.

SBD next competes in Quincy at the Firecracker meet. To date 14 Dolphins have qualified for the Regional Championship Meet including Isaac Chambers, Calista Clark, Emily Crosier, Natalie Drury, Mackenzie Erixon, Brodie Goss, Johnathan Iacobazzi, Miles Kersten, McKenna Kull, Sofia Nuzzo, Allison Oligschlaeger, Ethan Schmohe, Gabrielle Spain and Anna Wooters.  Submitted by J.D. Graham

ALAH Softball Awards Announced

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•June 13, 2018•

The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond softball team announced its 2018 award winners last week.

Junior Taylor Powell won the MVP, and junior Maria Garza won the most improved award.

Junior Reagan Miller won the offensive player award while sophomore Kirsten Corum won the defensive player award.

Freshman Makenzie Brown won the rookie of the year award, and Maddie Snyder took home the Knights award. Read More

Moultrie-Douglas Legion Teams Search for Win

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•June 13, 2018•

The Moultrie-Douglas Legion baseball junior and senior teams competed this week, but neither team could find a win.

The Moultrie-Douglas Legion junior (prep) team dropped three games to Effingham, Mattoon and Decatur Gold.

Friday, June 8, Effingham defeated MDL 16-1 in the second game of a doubleheader, and Mattoon defeated MDL 8-1 in the morning game. Read More

Three Earn Central Illinois Conference Honors

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•June 6, 2018•

The Central Illinois Conference announced its all-conference teams this past week.

Three Sullivan players earned honors.

Sophomore earned second team honors, and junior Irie Dulin and senior Madison Wall were named to the honorable mention team.

The Sullivan softball team finished 2-12 in the CIC.

Top Area Track and Field Athletes Compete in Honor Roll Meet

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•June 6, 2018•

By Jason Brown
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Area’s top track and field athletes competed in the News Gazette Honor Roll Meet Monday in Urbana.

For the Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond boys’ track team, Logan Hall took second in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:57.96, and Layton Hall took second in the 3,200-meter run at 10:14.95.

Kobe Wells placed second in the high jump at 6 feet 5 inches and in the triple jump at 42 feet 2.5 inches.

Austin Romine placed sixth in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:05.82. Read More

St. Jude 3 on 3 Winners

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Winners of the St. Jude Dash n Bash 3 on 3 basketball tournament were the Ball Hogs” L to R: Kyle Corkill, Brett Bushue, Owen Hussong

Legion Post Team Holds off Alton

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•June 6, 2018•

The Post Moultrie Douglas Sr. and Jr. Legion teams competed last week.

The Post Moultrie Douglas Jr. team split two games with a win against Alton and a loss to Charleston.

Against Alton, PMD Jr. Legion scored two runs in the second inning to take a 2-1 lead.

PMD tacked on a much needed insurance run in the fifth, because Alton scored a run in the seventh. Read More

WSS Hatchets Make Dream Come True

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2018 IHSA Class 1A State Champions

By Jason Brown
NP Sports Editor

The Windsor-Stewardson-Strasburg softball team made school history with its first trip to the IHSA Class 1A State Softball tournament at the Eastside Centre in East Peoria Friday and Saturday.

And they made the most of it, winning both games to capture their first ever state championship softball trophy.

Friday the Hatchets traveled nearly two hours to play Argenta-Oreana, a team less than 35 miles away, then took on the Goreville Blackcats for the state championship game Saturday.

The game against Goreville, originally scheduled for the afternoon, was changed to 9 a.m. because of incoming storms predicted for later in the afternoon.

The quick turnaround did not affect WSS.

The Hatchets scored three runs in the top of the first inning to take control of the game early.

Junior Carson Cole bunted for a single to start the inning, and junior Megan Schlechte sacrificed Cole to second.

Junior Calla Roney homered to right center for the quick 2-0 lead. Read More