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Okaw Valley’s Austin Harshman rounds first base while ALAH’s Marcus Vanausdoll covers first base.

•April 11, 2018•

By Jason Brown
NP Sports

Despite the rain, high winds and snow, the Okaw Valley baseball team slipped in two games last week.

The Timberwolves toppled rival Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond 10-0 in Bethany and knocked off Greenfield 10-5 Saturday.

The two wins extended OV’s winning streak to 7-0 to start the season.

Against ALAH, OV scored three runs in the first inning and three in the fourth inning to take a 7-0 lead.

The Timberwolves tacked on two runs in the fifth inning and a run in the sixth to end the game.

Trey Yarnell and Austin Harshman each three hits, and Hutson Dickens had two hits for Okaw Valley.

Yarnell also had two RBIs as did Tanner Coleman. Read More

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Hannah Wallen laughs it up with teammate Hannah Rutledge of Unity on the bench.

•April 11, 2018•

By Jason Brown
NP Sports

The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond’s basketball program was well represented at the News Gazette’s 7th Annual All-Area Game at Parkland College’s Dodds Athletic Center in Champaign Sunday afternoon.

Seniors Hannah Wallen and Colton Romine participated in the all-star game with a focus on having fun.

“I expected to come and have fun, and it’s obvious these are tough girls; they’re good, players to be invited to play here,” said Wallen. “It was a lot of fun.”

Wallen scored eight points in the game, including a last-second deep 3-pointer to end the third quarter to help her gold team defeat the black team 62-47.

“Somebody started counting down and the clock said 1.7, so I just chucked it, and it went in,” she said. Read More

•April 4, 2018•

The Sullivan girls’ track and field team took first place in the Macon Meridian Quad last Wednesday at Meridian High School.

The Redskins scored 59 points to defeat Meridian, Warrensburg-Latham and Athens.

Katherine Kite took first place in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 13:20.02, and she placed second in the 800-meter run at 2:48.92.

Haley Rose placed first in the 300-meter hurdles at 50.58 and third in the 100-meter hurdles at 18.56. Read More

•April 4, 2018•

The Sullivan Okaw Valley junior football league registration is approaching for fourth - eighth graders.

Registration dates are 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, April 7 at the Sullivan American Legion; 6-8 p.m. Thursday, April 12 at the Bethany Firehouse; 10 a.m.-1 p.m. April 21 at Bethany Firehouse and 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 1 at Elizabeth Titus Memorial Library in Sullivan. Read More