Miller Sisters Power Knights to Regional Crown

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ALAH pitcher Shelby Frederick improved her record to 15-1 during regional play.

•May 24, 2017•

Kirk Whitaker
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The Arthur softball regional championship was changed from Saturday to Thursday this past week to avoid bad weather Saturday. The change did not affect the Knights who rained 10 runs on two-time defending regional champion Okaw Valley for a 10-1 victory, setting up a matchup against Cumberland in the sectional semi-finals in Bethany.

Sisters Reagan Miller and Mycaela Miller both went yard—the younger Reagan with a three-run shot to left field in the first and Mycaela with a grand slam in the sixth—to keep the family home run race tied.

Kristen Corum added a home run of her own and two RBIs.

The long ball was not the only method of scoring employed by the Knights.

Senior Logan Kauffman was 3-4, and Marissa Herschberger was a perfect 4-4 with three doubles. Taylor Powell added a double as well to help Shelby Frederick improve to 15-1 on the year.  Read More

Last Inning Score Pushes OV Softball Past Sullivan

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•May 17, 2017•

By Jason Brown
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The Okaw Valley softball team finished a busy week at 3-1 with wins over Sullivan and Argenta-Oreana twice and losses to Mt Zion and Neoga.

Saturday against Sullivan, OV and the Redskins went back and forth, but with a 3-3 score going into the last inning, OV scored two.

Sullivan couldn’t answer in its half of the inning and lost 5-3.

For OV Kailyn Boyer had three hits, and Kailey George and Natalie Jeffers each had two and one RBI.

Kayla Wheeler had two RBIs. Read More

ALAH Runner Takes First

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•May 17, 2017•

Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond distance runner Logan Hall took first place in three events at the Little Okaw Valley Conference Championships in Toledo last Tuesday. Read More

Local Varsity Players Join Challenger League Fun

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Varisty Okaw Valley and Paris high school baseball players joined the Challenger League for a game in Bethany. The road trip for the Challenger League let them play baseball with instruction from varsity players.

•May 17, 2017•

Okaw Valley and Paris high school baseball players dusted off their uniforms following the May 5 game in Bethany and went to work for a great cause.

The OV/Paris game was the ultimate road trip for the Challenger League, when the group of special needs ball players was greeted by two varsity baseball teams as “Buddies”.

As the high school players did the year before following the game at Paris, they stayed around as “Buddies” for the Challenger League game playing along side the Little League visitors.

The Challenger division in Douglas County Little League started with the help of local coach Matt Colvin with a fourth of July 2014 game two teams. Read More

Two Wins for OV Timberwolves’ Baseball

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•May 17, 2017•

The Okaw Valley baseball team finished the week 2-1 for an overall record of 23-4.

The Timberwolves defeated Louisville North Clay and Argenta-Oreana but lost to the much larger school of Taylorville

Saturday OV scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning to take the 9-7 lead and win.

Austin Harshman and Garrett Fritz each had two hits. Read More

SOV Track Places At CIC Meet

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•May 17, 2017•

The Sullivan-Okaw Valley boys’ track team placed sixth with 60 points at the Central Illinois Conference Track Meet at Meridian High School in Macon.

Notable individual achievements were as follows:

Jadon Nuzzo won the the pole vault, and Logan Pedigo placed third. Read More

ALAH Knight Baseball Advances in Regional Play

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•May 17, 2017•

By Jason Brown
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The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond baseball team improved its record to 6-10 with wins over Mt. Pulaski, Cerro Gordo/Bement and Sullivan this week.

Monday night, the Knights defeated Mt. Pulaski 13-6 to advance to the second round of the IHSA Class 1A Baseball Regional at Central A&M.

Will Cohan had five RBIs, which included a grand slam in the sixth inning.

ALAH scored eight in the first inning to set the tone.

Mt. Pulaski scored six late runs, but it was not enough.

The first inning rally started with a single by Kirk Herschberger, followed with a single by Waylon Schlabach, an error; single by Derek Rhodes, single by Eric Herschberger, a groundout by Shandon Herschberger, and a double by Marcus Vanausdoll. Read More

Sullivan Baseball Shuts Out Rams

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•May 17, 2017•

The Sullivan baseball team split a pair of games this past week, shutting out Shelbyville and losing to Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond.

Against the Rams, Sullivan scored three runs in the fourth and five in the fifth to win the game 10-0 in five innings.

Tommy Schibur was 2-for-4 with four RBIs, and Spencer Johnson was 3-for-3 with three runs scored.  Read More

ALAH Girls Place at Little Okaw Meet

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•May 17, 2017•

Four Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond athletes placed in the top two spots at the Little Okaw Valley Conference Championships in Toledo last Tuesday.

Hannah Wallen long jumped 16 feet 0.5 inches and ran the 400 meter in 1:01.71 for first places. Read More

Sullivan Softball Starts Regional Action at Macon

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•May 17, 2017•

The Sullivan softball team lost to Cumberland and Okaw Valley last week and was winning an unfinished game against Clinton 2-0.

Against Cumberland Saturday, the Redskins tied the score in the top of the seventh inning, but Cumberland scored two in the bottom of the inning to win 9-7.

Bailee Pratt had three hits, and Brook Tuttle had two. Read More