News Progress

•February 3, 20201•
by Jason Brown
NP Sports

For a start of the season that many did not believe would come, local boys’ and girls’ basketball teams tipped into action this week.
After the Illinois High School Association announced new guidelines that basically allowed basketball to start practice and games, athletic directors, coaches, and athletes scrambled to set scheduled and began action as soon as possible.
Sullivan
The Sullivan girls’ opened their season Monday, February 1, with a home game against Villa Grove.
And the boys’ team is scheduled to begin next week.
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•January 27, 20201•
by Jason Brown
NP Sports

What a difference two weeks make.
January 15, high school athletes in Illinois’ Region 6, including Moultrie County, did not have much hope for spring sports.
On that day, Governor JB Pritzker announced sports restriction rollbacks for three regions in the state, which did not include Moultrie County.
Schools in Moultrie County are located inside Region 6 and were on pause, until the Illinois Department of Public Health announced significant changes to its all-sports policy Friday, January 22.
The IDPH announced it would allow higher-risk sports to have competitions in regions that reached and stayed at Phase 4 of the state’s COVID-19 mitigations.
Region 6, which includes Moultrie County, reached Phase 4 on Thursday, January 21. Read More

Photo by Jason Brown
Emily White dribbles the ball up the court during the 2019 Tuscola sectional championship game against Teutopolis.

•December 23, 2020•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports

Sullivan basketball’s Emily White announced her intentions to play at Millikin University last week.
Emily White was one of four unanimous choices for the six-member all-Central Illinois Conference team in 2020 and earned all-CIC second team in 2019. Read More

•December 9, 2020•
By Jason Brown
NP Writer

In 2019, Lyle Dorjahn took over as head coach of the Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond boys’ cross country team.
In 2020, Dorjahn took home one of the area’s most prestigious coaching honors.
The Decatur Herald & Review announced last week that Dorjahn was the 2020 Cross Country Coach of the Year.
Dorjahn was introduced to cross country at Eastern Illinois University and has been a fan of track and field, so he got involved with the ALAH cross country program.
When the position opened in 2019, Dorjahn was offered and accepted the job. Dorjahn inherited a solid running core and an all-area runner of the year in Leyton Hall. Read More

•December 9, 2020•
By Jason Brown
NP Writer

The Herald and Review announced its winner of the Boys’ Cross Country Runner of the Year: Layton Hall.
Hall had an honored four-year career at Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond in which he earned a trip to the state finals the first three years and would have earned another trip this season.
Hall’s personal-record time was achieved in the first meet of the season. Read More