•September 9, 2015•
Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond Knights volleyball beat Villa Grove in an away match to improve their conference record to 1-0.
The Knights never let up, scoring 25-15 in each game.
Taylor Powell provided two aces and two kills; Janette Comstock had two aces and three kills; Madison Brown provided an ace, three kills and seven assists. Erin Wildman had one ace and four assists; Abby Foreman supplied five kills and Chelsey Chupp one kill. Read More
•September 9, 2015•
Arcola/Arthur-Lovinigton/Atwood-Hammond hosted Oblong and Villa Grove in a triangular at Kaskaskia Country Club last Thursday. Arcola placed first shooting a 161 followed by Oblong with a 196 and Villa Grove with a 219. Clayton Miller was the medalist shooting a two under 33. The runner up was Blake Lindenmeyer, shooting an even par 35. Arcola/ALAH improves their record to 8-1. Read More
•September 9, 2015•
Okaw Valley’s Lady Timberwolves took Neoga 2-0 Thursday, Sept. 3.
Brianna Creviston provided a dig; Charli Uhlrich had two kills; Dani Dick supplied a dig; Kailyn Boyer served an ace while giving one assist and a dig. Read More
Photo by RR Best
•September 2, 2015•
By Matt Kracht
NP sports reporter
In their season opener Sullivan Okaw-Valley rushed out to a 42-0 halftime lead thanks in part to a strong defensive effort.
Ty Molzen was sharp in limited action hitting on four of seven passing for three touchdowns and 110 yards in the first half. Head coach Gerald Temples thought overall it was a good start to the season. “We got some details we need to work on, but our defense played hard. We did not tackle exceptionally well so we got to get that corrected, but for the first ball game they did a nice job.”
After forcing a quick three and out on Hoopeston’s opening possession, the Redskins offense took over on the Cornjerker 34 yard line. On the first play Molzen plowed around the right end for an 18 yard gain. The Redskins then flipped it outside to Alec Ballinger who found space taking it 18 yards for the score with 10:16 remaining in the first quarter. Ballinger, who has game changing speed, received a pancake block from Blake Stewart to open his alley. The score was the first of three touchdown catches by Ballinger who finished with 105 yards receiving on the night. Coach Temples was pleased with the quick strike aspect of the offense. “Alex Ballinger is a pretty talented young man. When he gets in some space, he can make things happen. He did a nice job; our kids did a nice job getting it there.” Read More
•September 2, 2015•
Okaw Valley varsity volleyball team defeated Cowden Herrick Beecher City at home August 31 25-14, 25-23.
This left the Okay Valley team with a record of 1-1 when they faced Sullivan Tuesday. Read More
Photo by Darian Hays
Taylor Powell of ALAH volleyball goes for dig during last week’s game.
•September 2, 2015•
Arthur/Lovington-Atwood/Hammond Knights volleyball started their match with Tuscola at Arthur High School August 27 strong, scoring 20 in the first match.
“I was extremely impressed with how the girls came out of the gates last night,” Knights coach Emily Crossman said.” They had more energy, communication, and execution than they have had all of pre-season. I was thrilled with how they worked together and got the job done.”
Tuscola was able to rebound to overcome the Knights 25-20 in the first game and 25-11 in the second, leaving the varsity team with a 0-1 early season record.
“However, once we started making a couple of errors our whole mindset changed,” she continued. “We went from a team wanting to win to a team that was scared to lose.”
Makayla Brown was strong with three kills for the night. Madison Brown and Janette Comstock each responded with three kills as well.
Brown and Comstock also contributed with four digs each, with Kim Davis leading the way on digs with five.
Madison Brown had five assists and an ace to round off a solid performance for the Knights. Erin Wildman also stepped up with four assists and one kill. Read More
Photo by Darian Hays
Knight running back Marcus Vanausdoll navigates through Villa Grove-Heritage traffic in Friday’s game at Arthur. Vanausdoll scored a touchdown and two point conversion for the evening.
•September 2, 2015•
It was a strong third quarter for the Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond Knights, but the 24 points scored wasn’t enough to offset the 60 scored by Villa Grove-Heritage team, Friday at Arthur.
Returning letterman Tyler Smith led scoring with two touchdowns while sophomore Marcus Vanausdoll rounded out scoring with a TD adding an additional two points on the conversion. Will Cohan kicked the extra point following a Smith touchdown to complete Knight scoring for the evening.
Smith led rushing for the Knights with 158 yards on five carries. Vanausdoll supplied 11 yards followed by quarterback Teddy Poe with eight yards.
Steven Stroh ran for two yards as did Adam Day, while Jordan Rettig and Will Cohan contributed a yard each for the ALAH team.
On a limited passing game Will Cohan and Teddy Poe each connected with Brad Miller and Vanausdoll for seven yards apiece.
Cohan kicked off four times for a 131 yard total and supplied a seven yard return.
Brendan Teak booted two punts for 74 yards.
Mason Lee had one fumble recovery, and Vanausdoll picked off a pass which led to a 55 yard return. Read More
•September 2, 2015•
Sullivan golfers traveled to Moweaqua August 27 finishing second to Arcola (157-161) bringing the varsity men’s team to 7-2 for the season.
Shelbyville’s team shot 166 and Meridian 188 to complete men’s competition.
For Sullivan Caden Ellis shot a 36 to match Arcola’s Clayton Miller and Shandon Hershberger at 36 strokes each.
Redskin Tom Schibur shot 39, Adam White (41), Joey Davison (45), Leighton Burcham (45) and Eric Keller (48). Read More
•September 2, 2015•
Sullivan-Okaw Valley’s cross country teams hosted a quad meet at Sullivan High School August 27 with the boys team finishing first with a 45.
Teutopolis was second at 47, Tuscola third with 70 and Arthur-Lovington /Atwood-Hammond fourth with 73.
Logan Hall of ALAH led all runners finishing in 17:00 minutes.
For the Redskin runners JT Bland was top of the heap at fourth with 18:21. Isiah Plank came in seventh with 18:49; Logan Pedigo followed at ninth with 18:58; Jason Nuzo was 11th with a 19:58 effort and Charlie Goss 14th with 20:05.
SOV individual times: Kyzer Lash (20:21), Trevor Tarr (21:07), Atticus Harris (21:42), Seth Bricker (21:48), Parker Perine (22:19), Brodie Goss (23:19), Will Nolen (23:20), Austin Schmohe (24:08), Calab Villalobos (26:14), and Addison Graham (26:23).
For ALAH Logan Hall first (17:00), Justin Laughlin 12th (19:59), Austin Roming 17th (20:38), Trevor Wright 18th (20:41), Jordan Miller 25th (21:11) with Matthew Williams finishing the roster (24:25). Read More
•August 26, 2015•
by Keith Stewart
keith@newsprogress.com
Both this and last week Sullivan, Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond/Arcola, and Okaw Valley golf teams began regular season play.
For the Redskins, as reported in last week’s paper, they began the season in Windsor at the St. Anthony Invite where they finished ninth out of 12 teams, shooting more than 65 strokes better than this time last year.
Sullivan then travelled back to Windsor last Wednesday where they took first out of five teams.
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