•May 3, 2017•
The Okaw Valley softball team defeated Cerro Gordo/DeLand-Weldon 14-1 in windy weather Monday evening.
The Timberwolves scored three runs in the first inning and three in the second inning to take a 6-1 lead.
OV tacked on two more runs in the fourth, then blew the game open with six runs in the sixth inning. Read More
•May 3, 2017•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
The Sullivan-Okaw Valley girls’ track and field team competed in two meets despite the rainy weather this week.
Thursday at the 18-team Monticello Lady Sages Invitational, Sullivan had four athletes place in the top six spots.
Alaya Bolin tossed the shot put 32 feet 9.5 inches for fourth place, and Esther Miller high jumped 4 foot 8 inches for fourth place.
Natalie Drury followed with a high jump of 4 foot 4 inches for sixth place, and Laine Cameron placed sixth in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 52.72.
The Redskins 1,600-meter relay team placed fourth with a time of 4:27.34. Read More
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Okaw Valley’s Garrett Fritz swings away against Cerro Gordo during Monday’s windy weather. Fritz totaled two hits and five RBIs.
•May 3, 2017•
The Okaw Valley baseball team defeated Cerro Gordo-Bement but lost its first game in more than five weeks to Morrisonville.
Against the Broncos Monday night, the Timberwolves ended the game in the third inning with a 15-0 lead.
OV scored seven runs in the first inning and eight runs in the second.
The offense totaled 10 hits, and the defense played errorless in the field.
Taylor Coleman, Hayden Francisco and Garrett Fritz each recorded two hits.
Fritz also had a game-high five RBIs.
Sam Hagerman and Hutson Dickens each had three RBIs.
Coleman pitched a one-hit shutout in three innings and struck out seven.
OV’s overall record is now 17-2.
The Timberwolves are scheduled to travel to LSA Friday, host Paris Saturday, then back on the road to Tri-County Monday and Taylorville Tuesday.
•May 3, 2017•
The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond girls’ track team competed in the 18-team Monticello Lady Sages Invitational Thursday.
Three Knights placed in the top six spots.
Kenli Nettles high jumped 5 foot 2 inches for first place. Read More
•May 3, 2017•
The Sullivan softball team held off Neoga 7-6 at home Thursday but lost to Charleston away Monday.
Against Neoga, Sullivan scored two runs in the first inning, two in the third and two in the fourth to take a 6-0 lead.
The Redskins tacked on an important run in the fourth to extend the lead to seven.
Neoga bounced back with three runs in the sixth inning and three runs in the seventh inning but could not complete the comeback.
Sullivan totaled 12 hits. Read More
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Shut Out
Arthur Okaw Christian’s Brady Mast pitches a shutout against Judah Christian School, 9 -0, in Arthur on Tuesday, April 25.
•May 3, 2017•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
The Sullivan baseball team suffered two close losses this past week.
The Redskins dropped a game to St. Teresa 3-2 Thursday and to Maroa-Forsyth 6-5 last Tuesday.
Against the Bulldogs, Sullivan jumped out to an early lead with a run in the top of the first and second innings.
St. Teresa answered with a run in the third and one in the fourth inning to tie the game 2-2.
The Bulldogs won the game with a walk-off run in the bottom of the seventh.
Tommy Schibur, Brett Tuttle and Zach Sowers each recorded a hit for Sullivan.
Schibur and Sowers each scored a run, and Tuttle and Dalton Rogers each had one RBI.
The Redskins had four stolen bases. Read More
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The Okaw Valley Junior High eighth grade boys’ 800-meter relay team (left to right) Noah Dukeman, Ryan Pantier, Kameron Taylor and Luke Vander Burgh set the school record with a time of 1:45.9.
•May 3, 2017•
The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond boys’ track team competed in the 24-team St. Joseph-Ogden Boys’ Spartan Classic in St. Joseph Friday.
Five Knights and three relay teams finished in the top spots.
Logan Hall was ALAH’s top finisher. He won the 1,600-meter run in 4:20.23. Read More
•May 3, 2017•
The Sullivan-Okaw Valley boys’ track and field team competed in the 24-team St. Joseph-Ogden Boys Spartan Classic in St. Joseph April 28.
Sullivan had three athletes finish in the top 10. Read More
•April 26, 2017•
The SOV boys’ track team and field team competed in two meets this past week.
The Redskins finished in sixth place out of 17 teams at the Tuscola Invitational Friday.
Six athletes finished in the top six spots.
Jadon Nuzzo took first in the pole vault with a height of 13 feet, and Logan Pedigo followed with a third place finish with a vault of the same height.
J.T. Bland placed third in the 1,600 meter run with a time of 5:06.24, and Isaiah Plank placed fifth at 5:09.71.
Luke Bowman took fifth in the 100-meter dash in 12.12, and Leighton Burcham placed sixth in with a long jump of 18 feet 6 inches.
The 4x200 relay team (Burcham, Bowman, Hopper, Nuzzo) placed fourth with a time of 1:42.50, and the 4x100 relay team (Burcham, Boomer, Cullen Dyer, Bowman) placed sixth at 48.49. Read More