News Progress

•May 17, 2017•

By Jason Brown
NP Sports

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

Photo by RR Best
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

•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

•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

•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