Iroquois County High School Sports Recap
Iroquois County High School Sports Recap 2018
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A highlight of Iroquois County’s high school sports. There were many exciting games that happened, special awards received and tournaments won. This is just a sample of what happened in the 2017-18 school year.
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CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
Central Comets lose second-round playoff game in last three seconds
By DOUG BRENNEMAN, Sports Editor scored on its second play from scrimmage when Krumwiede sports@intranix.com went 81 yards on a sweep left. Central ran a total of five plays in A thrilling comeback by Central from a 21-7 deficit was canthe quarter and had two penalties. Orion had run 26 plays — 23 celled by an Orion field goal with 3 seconds remaining for a runs and three passes. Sam West scored on a 3-yard run off tackle 24-21 Chargers win in Saturday’s Illinois High School Associawith 1:29 left in the opening period. tion Class 2A second-round playoff football game at Orion. The Each team punted twice in the second quarter. With 5 minutes, game was played on a muddy field, but the rain had stopped by 24 seconds left in the half, Central started on its own 30 and put the opening kickoff. together a drive that reached the Chargers 17 before turning it Canyon Burrow’s 68-yard pass reception for a touchdown and over on downs. The big play was a third-and-six pass from An2-point conversion reception that was tipped by a defender had drew Boudreau to Kyle Buikema for 34 yards. tied the game at 21 with 1 minute, 5 seconds remaining. The Chargers took over with less than 2 minutes and used two The home team took runs, two passes and a advantage of the ensuing pass interference penalty kickoff that went out of on Central to march 74 bounds at the Orion 46. yards and take a 14-7 “I had a bad feeling lead with 1.8 seconds once we didn’t get the remaining in the half on kick we wanted,” Central a 14-yard pass into the head coach Brian Spooncorner of the end zone er said. “That gave them from Schulenberg to great field position. If we Lee. could’ve pinned them a Central got the ball little bit deeper, I don’t first in the third quarter, feel they had the ability but started on its own 10 to drive down the field because of a penalty. It and score with the time went three-and-out. left. We wanted to kick Orion put together a it deep and pin them. In 14-play drive that went slick conditions like this, 60 yards. A fourth-andit just went off the side of five became a first down his foot. It is what it is.” because of a Central offPhoto by Doug Brenneman The Chargers used four sides. Another first down Central High School quarterback Andrew Boudreau prepares rushes and a pass comwas picked up with to hand the ball to Kollin Krumwiede against Watseka in Clifton pletion to set up a field a pass and Sam West during a 54-21 Homecoming win. goal by Ryan Fowler scored his second TD of from the 33-yard line. the game for a 21-7 lead “That kick right there is something that we practice every day with 4:32 left in the third quarter. and it’s usually from right on that spot on the field,” Orion head “Our strength is upfront,” Filler said. “We are built for Novemcoach Chip Filler said. “It was exactly what we do and exactly ber. I thought our offensive line made a difference which was what we had to do.” important in these conditions. When we got that two-touchdown “I was hoping we could get to overtime,” Spooner said. “We lead, I felt comfortable turning it over to our defense but it sure knew we had to keep them from getting within range and it just didn’t work out that way.” didn’t happen. I think what hurt us was they had third down and Central had to start from its own 15 after a false start, but put five and they ended up getting seven or eight. That probably together a 19-play drive that ended with 7:17 left in the game on killed us the most because we had shut down the run game for the 3 when a pass into the end zone went through the hands of a the most part. They really only hurt us with the pass. I think they receiver. threw the ball more than they planned because we were playing “One thing I can say about my kids is they never quit,” Spooner the run so well.” said. “That was important. We showed some fight. We’ve shown Logan Lee would catch five passes for 67 yards in the game, that fight all season. We’ve got down early especially in the first but the big completion was a 23-yarder with 38 seconds left in two games and we came right back.” the game that gave Orion a first down at the Central 29. Central held Orion to a three-and-out and took over on the OriOrion’s rushing attack compiled 213 yards on 52 attempts. Seth on 38 after a punt. Three completions and a blast up the middle West had 78 yards on 25 carries. His brother Sam West had 80 from Krumwiede made it 21-13 with 4:35 left. yards on 18 tries. Dawson Schulenberg was 7 of 12 for 94 yards An onside kick attempt failed but the Central defense rose up passing. behind Connor Prairie and Robbie Love and stopped a thirdCentral’s Andrew Boudreau was 14 of 19 throwing the ball for and-1, forcing a punt. 213 yards. Kollin Krumwiede had 109 yards on 16 carries, but Central again faced a first-and-15 on the first play of a drive got 3/4 of his total on his first carry. because of a penalty, but a completion to Burrow on fourth-and-7 “Obviously throughout the whole year everybody knows that gave Central a first down. The next play was Burrow deep down Kollin is the one we want to get the ball to,” Spooner said. “They the Central sideline and a pass from Boudreau resulted in a catchdid a good job of containing him other than the one play. I have and-run from Burrow for a TD and a 21-19 score. Burrow somealways felt that we could throw and I felt we proved that today. how reeled in a rollout pass that an Orion defender got his hands We did a great job in the passing game. Andrew made some great on and it was a tie game with 1:05 to go. decisions. He found open receivers. They caught the ball, which “We can’t make excuses,” Spooner said. “Bottom line is they is always a concern in a game like this because of the conditions. made plays when they had to. We did not match that intensity It was so sloppy, just your footing to get to your route was hard.” at times. Playing on the road, in conditions like this, three hours Burrow had five catches for 111 yards and the point after touch- from home, we have nothing to hang our heads about.” down reception. The biggest difference in yardage was in penalties. Central had 10 for 95 while Orion had three for 21. “We are very big on situational football and the guys responded to that,” Filler said. “There were a lot of instances where we made mistakes that killed ourselves,” Spooner said. “That kind of stuff ends up coming back and biting you in the rear end. 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CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
Photo by Doug Brenneman Central’s Justin Coggins gets control of Prairie Central’s Brandon Hoselton in the Class 1A championship match.
Coggins takes second at state By DOUG BRENNEMAN, Sports Editor sports@intranix.com Central senior Justin Coggins did not get to wrestle the match he planned in the Illinois High School Association Class 1A state championship at 195 pounds Saturday in the State Farm Center in Champaign. Brandon Hoselton, a freshman at Prairie Central with a 45-3 record, pinned Coggins in 3 minutes, 26 seconds to win the title. Finishing second was not on the schedule but it is the best finish in Central history. It is also the first time in school history that there were two place winners in the same year. Jacob Smith placed third at 170 pounds earler in the day. “I want to look at it positively, but it is kind of hard,” Coggins said. The result of the match hurt but the reality of the situation is something he will never forget. “The greatest experience of my life was warming up on the mats, putting my shoes on in the middle of the championship mats was an awesome experience,” Coggins
said. “I just wish it would have come out a different way.” Coggins quickly won his first match Friday with a pin in 1 minute, 4 seconds, but eked out a 3-1 decision Friday morning and a 4-3 decision Friday night. Hoselton got to the title match with a 33-second pin in his semifinal. Coggins had won a match earlier in the year, 2-0, over Hoselton. “I think I came out too aggressive,” Coggins said. “When I beat him before, I played it slow. There wasn’t much action because I knew he was a counter guy.” Central coach Travis Williams had said that Hoselton was a scrambler. He got a takedown on Coggins with a hip toss 25 seconds into the match. “I think the atmosphere kind of got to me and made me come out strong,” Coggins said. “I don’t want to say I screwed myself, but...” The adrenaline was pumping in the senior’s heart. “I think just the environment and watching the other matches how everyone was coming out strong, it got me to go against
what I usually do, basically,” Coggins said. Seconds before Coggins was pinned, he had seemed to finally have the upper hand. “When I got him on his back I really thought I had him, but he just countered it with a big move,” Coggins said. “I didn’t hit the big move and he did. He just got me. It just sucks. You get stuck sometimes. You don’t want it to be in the championship match but hey stuff happens.” Coggins finishes a most outstanding season with a 46-2 record. “I am beyond proud of the accomplishments Justin has reached,” Williams said. “The moment will always be bigger than the results.” Williams said it was an honor to coach every member of his team this season. “We don’t come by things the easy way,” he said. “The boys have embraced those challenges. Justin maintained his drive all season. He proved himself to be elite. One match and one result do not define the season that he accomplished.”
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IROQUOIS WEST HIGH SCHOOL
Tilstra ends IW career as all-time leading rebounder
By DOUG BRENNEMAN, Sports Editor and on defense. She knows how to hold her ground.” sports@intranix.com “There’s a lot more that goes into rebounding then being taller Coaches like to say that height is one thing they can’t teach. than other kids,” Arie said. “She has worked hard on the fundaThey also can’t teach someone to have the internal drive that mentals of it. She knows how to put herself in that position to Meara Tilstra has displayed in becoming the all-time leading come up with those boards on a regular basis.” rebounder in Iroquois West history. She also has surpassed the Tilstra was exposed to two different coaches with two different 1,000 points scored milestone. styles and benefitted greatly from both. “Bob is more on the chill It takes a some fortitude to attend a basketball camp and play side. He would just explain things very thoroughly about what softball as an eighth grader with a broken wrist. was needed to be done to help the team. When I started playing “I still played with the cast,” Tilstra said. “That was fun to try I was very timid and Bohn had no problem telling me what was to get through that week. It was my left hand so I could do a ma- up. She let me know what I needed to do to get my head in the jority of what I needed to do like shooting. Then when I played game and improve as a player.” outfield, we had to make a glove so that I can play with it on over “I think we brought the same expectations and Meara exceeded the cast. It was not pretty, I can tell you that.” them,” Campbell said. That kind of determination was an example for her teammates. Tilstra had the luxury of playing with the school’s career scor“To me, Meara has always been a person to look up to, even ing leader — Grace Schroeder — for three years. “Grace and I though we are in the same grade,” IW senior teammate Rachel worked off of each other so well. I don’t know how to explain it Carney said. but we just kind of knew. Maybe because I’ve been playing with Carney looked up to the 6-foot-1 Tilstra in more than a physiher since sixth grade.” cal way. Tilstra scored an average of 17.3 points a game her senior year. “She has always strived to be the best that she can be,” Carney She poured in 466 points her junior year then netted 452 points said. “Being on the same team as her has made me better my her senior year to finish her career with 1,297. self. Being able to play with “She’s really good with the drop step,” Campbell said. her has made me a better “She gets in the position she needs to be on both sides of player.” the basket and she’s very good at that.” Kristy Bohn Arie was TilsOne advantage she has over other post players, Camptra’s basketball coach from bell said, was her ability to get out and run on fastbreaks. her freshman year through Tilstra has been playing since the fourth grade when her junior year, which ended she was in the Danforth league. It got more involved for with her having already her in the sixth grade and the realization that basketball hammered up 845 points was her favorite sport happened in eighth grade when and nailed down 558 reshe was asked to play on a travel team. bounds. “That’s when it really kicked into high gear for me,” “I kept track of her during Tilstra said. “I was playing on elite travel teams and basmiddle school,” Arie said. ketball became my life. It seemed like I was at the gym “I knew she was going to three hours a night and then on weekends there were be a special kid. She did not tournaments.” disappoint from the time She has played in tournaments in Atlanta, Georgia, in she walked in her freshman Wisconsin, in Kentucky and in the Chicago area many a year all the way through this time. “The girls that play there are insanely aggressive. year.” It helped me become more outgoing as a person and “When I started playing more confident as a player.” basketball my freshman year That confidence has lead to her being a model for othI remember Taylor Cultra ers. getting 1,000 points and I “She leads by example and that is a great thing besaw that it was a big deal,” cause she has a great work ethic,” Campbell said. Tilstra said. “So I thought I The basketball court provided one of the most joyous would love to be one of the times in Tilstra’s life. IW won a super sectional game at few people that actually get Harvest Christian to make it to state. “We face-timed Sait.” vannah Mims (who was sick and couldn’t make it) to tell Tilstra used that motivaher everything that it happened. It was the most exciting tion to her advantage as well thing. The bus ride home was awesome and we were so as some prodding from her excited the whole time.” coach. All good things eventually end. “Bohn told me my career “My worst memory was the last game this year betotals at the end of last year Photo by Doug Brenneman cause that was the last game of my high school career. and I was only three or 400 Iroquois West’s Meara Tilstra grabs I’m never going to get play high school basketball again. away so I knew I would have It just kind of stings.” a rebound against Watseka during to push myself if I wanted At least she has stung her opponents with her superior her junior year. to get the record,” Tilstra play. said. “When I knew that I could get it, I pushed myself even harder to make sure that I did. The rebounding record is a big thing. Any record is.” Andrea Fouss, who graduated in 2016, held the rebounding record at 866 career rebounds. “Form is important in rebounding,” Tilstra said. “Everyone Family owned & talks about shooting form but in rebounding, you can’t just stand operated since 1967 there and let the ball come to you.You have to use your body and be strong and get after the ball. Even after getting a rebound, it 1043 S. Crescent St. is important to stay strong because you get smacked. People are Gilman, IL 60938 trying to rip it out of your hands.” 815-265-7310 Tilstra brought down 408 rebounds her senior year to smash the record with a career total of 966. HOMEMADE HOME “It means more than the scoring because you just hold that top P IES, BREAD spot,” Tilstra said. “Everyone is going to know. When there’s a COOKING AND COOKIES list, there’s always the top scorer and the top rebounder. I don’t know how to explain it but I know that it’s really important. Being number one is exciting.” Bob Campbell was Tilstra’s coach for her senior season. “Her positioning on the floor has really made a difference,” he said. “She gets to where she needs to be and gets position. She knows how to use her body. She fights for position on offense
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IROQUOIS WEST HIGH SCHOOL Raiders advance in postseason boys baseball action Staff Reports ers Coach Robert The Iroquois West Rhodes. “Ethan had Raiders advance in four solid innings for postseason varsity us on the mound and baseball action after the defense behind an 8-6 win over the him did a good job Cissna Park Timmaking plays. We berwolves Thursday put up five in the evening at Cissna third to give us a Park. comfortable lead Ethan Martinez with plenty of game pitched four inleft. The T-Wolves nings, allowing six always compete hits, three runs (two against us to the last earned), one walk out, came out swingand striking out two. ing in the fifth and Tibaldo Alvarez took advantage of pitched two innings our mistakes. Tibaldo with two hits and gave us strong inning striking out three. Photos By Antonio Metheny in the sixth after we Cole Stone also (Above) Senior Raider pitcher Austin Saathoff delivers a pitch late in added an insurance pitched one inning, the game. run. That gave Cole a with one base-onlittle breathing room balls. to go out and get us (Below) Catcher Kaleb Pheifer pulls one in for a strikeout in the Mario Renteria was the save. We swung fourth inning. the Timberwolves the bats well tonight, pitcher, going 3.2 getting numerous innings, allowing extra base hits and nine hits, six runs (all opportunities to earned), two walks score. and five strikeouts. Timberwolves Ian Rogers pitched Darryl Focken said, one inning, allow“While the loss is ing one run and one fought, I couldn’t be base-on-balls. Gavin prouder of how we Speirs pitched 2.1 came back from a innings with one run 7-1 deficit. The kids (earned) and one just battled, giving base-on-balls. us chances in the Keegan Boyle was fifth, sixth and sev2 for 4 at the plate for enth to tie the game. the Timberwolves, “Iroquois West with two RBIs and did a nice job going one home run. Rentwith the pitch in the eria was 3 for 4 with this to score five. one RBI and Will Mario was around Petry had two RBIs. the zone but they Austin Saathoff battled and moved was 2 for 3 for the runners. Gavin Raiders. Kaleb PheSpeirs really did a ifer had two RBIs. nice job of keeping Sean Rogers also had us close. two RBIs and Alvarez was 2 for 4. “All in all we had a solid season with the 13 wins but still Cissna Park got on the board first with one run in the first. The (have a) ways to get better. Ahead we lose one senior, Tanner Raiders scored one in the second, five in the third and one in the Benoit, who was everything to this team with his leadership as fourth, but the Timberwolves scored five in the fifth to get within well as baseball talent. He will truly be missed, but his example one run. The Raiders scored one again in the sixth and that would of how to play the game will live with the young players as their be how the scoring stayed to the end of the seventh inning for the careers progress,” he said. Raiders win. The Timberwolves end their season 13-16. “This was a great team effort by the boys tonight,” said Raid-
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DONOVAN HIGH SCHOOL
Staff photos (Top) Keegan Wingerter (45), C.J. Swisher (11) and Antonio Kiger (25) wait to get a rebound for Donovan. (Left) Hannah Askew lays off a pitch and tries to get ahead in the count for Donovan. (Above) Annie Clatterbuck (4) smacks her attack as Donovan teammates Alee Leady (6), Jessi Page (3) and Morgan Squyres watch. Central’s Riley Thompson (9) and Rachel Nehls attempt to block.
Adams signs with Albion College DHS star to play two sports, double major By WENDY DAVIS, Reporter as a freshman her GPA wasn’t as high as wdavis@intranix.com she wanted it to be. As a senior she earned Donovan sports and academic all-star a 4.4. Adrienne Adams is set to go to Albion “Since I was little I wanted to be a docCollege to play two sports tor,” she said. A push to and be a double major. be a good doctor was to Adams graduates next not make a mistake on a week from Donovan High patient, as she said she’s School with cumulative known to have happened GPA of 3.6, a softball with someone in her pitching ERA of 8.62 and family. She has a lot of being recognized for havpeople in her family who ing scored 1,095 points in have been good examples basketball. of ones in the medical The school is in Michifield. gan, and she said she is a Plus, there’s been a few little nervous being so far family members who away from home. have had Alzheimers or “The coaches were dementia, she said. “I interested in me. I looked want to do something Photo contributed into the school and saw with that.” Adrienne Adams (21) they had the right academShe’ll double major scores her 1,000th point ic programs,” Adams said. in pre-med biology and She earned a $27,000 a for Donovan against St. neuroscience, with a Anne. year academic scholarship likely minor in psycholto attend Albion College. ogy, she said. The goal is Playing sports and getting good grades has to go to med school. meant a lot of late nights, Adams said. Though she’s been on all conference “It was hard but I had to do it.” It was teams and all county teams throughout her about using her time well, and she used high school career and she’s been recogher study halls wisely. nized as a leader in sports. She said she learned the hard way when She’s been playing ball since her T-ball
days. She’s become a pitcher and shortstop, preferring to play shortstop. She pitched her first no-hitter her junior year. Her batting average is 4.24, and hit her first of two home runs when she was a sophomore. She’s accumulated 35 doubles, 15 triples and 88 RBIs. In basketball she’s a shooting guard, a position she’ll play in college. She totaled the most points for a girl in school history, having earned a 12 points per game stat. Though the school is far from home, she said she’s excited to meet new people and have new teammates. She said the basketball program is a strong one but the softball team is a young team. She said she expects to see playing time with both. Adams said she doesn’t have a favorite sport. “I like them both.” In fact, she said, she thought of playing golf, too, for the college. In high school she played on the boys’ team and was three strokes away from making it to state. Other than sports and studying, she said she’s been a typical teenager hanging out with friends doing “typical teenage stuff”. She’s also been drawing, which she notes helps the brain and her hand/eye coordination.
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WATSEKA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
Zack finishes ninth in triple jump at state Staff Reports Keegan Zack of Watseka Community High School finished in 9th place in the triple jump with a leap of 42’7 3/4” at the IHSA State Track and Field Meet on May 26. “Keegan capped off a very successful 2018 season by earning All State honors in the triple jump,” wrote Coach Rich Dickte in an email. Watseka Community High School’s Rusty Kuhlmann and Keegan Zack participated in the IHSA Class 1A State Track and Field Prelims. Dickte said Zack qualified for the triple jump finals with a
jump of 42’ 7 1/2”. He was in 7th place with a chance to improve on Saturday in the finals. Zack also competed in the long jump, finishing in 17th place, with a jump of 20 5 3/4”. Kuhlmann just missed making the finals in the shot put by 3 1/2”. He had a put of 46’ 9 1/4” which was good for 15th place. Kuhlmann competed in the discus where he finished 25th with a throw of 128’ 9”. Zack will compete in the finals of the triple jump on Saturday at O’Brien Stadium on the campus of Eastern Illinois University. The triple jump will start after the long jump finals have completed which start at 10 a.m.
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CISSNA PARK HIGH SCHOOL
Cissna Park Lady Timberwolves wins fifth consecutive regional championship
By DOUG again. BRENNEMAN, Sports Some more numbers Editor from the game — three sports@intranix.com and four. The Trojans It was a game of numhad three points in the bers for the Cissna Park first quarter, four in the High School girls basfourth quarter. ketball team Thursday in “The first and fourth Crete. quarters won the game The crucial numbers for us, no doubt,” were 45 points for CP Videka said. “Our girls and 33 for Dwight in a locked down on defense Class 1A regional chamand Gabby, Jasmine and pionship victory for the OP all hit shots. I don’t Lady Timberwolves. think a coach could ask Some other vital numfor anything better.” bers for Cissna Park OP (Powell) also had were: 20 — the victory five rebounds and two gave CP its 20th win assists. Wessels had Photos by Doug Brenneman this season; four — the three assists and two fourth regional cham- (Above) The Cissna Park team celebrates the regional blocked shots. Stock had pionship for the Lady championship it won with a 45-33 victory over Dwight in Crete. four points in the fourth Timberwolf seniors; quarter. Sloan Boyce (Below) Jasmine Stock shoots a runner for Cissna Park in the 30 — the number of had five points, three team rebounds for CP sectional game. rebounds, two steals and to 27 for the much taller an assist. Trojans; 10 — points “Starting the fourth for Olivia Powell, including the first four of the game and the quarter, I told my team, ‘win the quarter and you win a regionlast two; 14 — rebounds for Gabby Wessels, who had eight by al’,” Videka said. halftime; 15 — points for Wessels by halftime; 23 — points for “We have a regional championship every year we have been in Wessels in the game, matching her season high; 13 — the biggest high school so that is special,” Stock said. “Gabby is so good at lead of the game for CP. driving and kicking it out. Waiting and being patient on offense is Sevens and nines were also important numbers for CP. so important.” “Sevens are what we call open jump shots and nines are laCissna Park has a 20-9 record. Dwight ends its season at 13-11. yups,” CP coach Anthony Videka said. “In the second and third CP plays Monday in Colfax at 6 p.m. against a familiar foe — quarters, we got away from that.” Lexington. The Lady Timberwolves got out to a 9-0 lead and had a 14-3 It will be a chance for revenge as Lexington eliminated CP advantage at the end of the first quarter as Wessels connected from a volleyball sectional. Lexington (16-9) defeated Ridgeview from behind the arc as the buzzer sounded. Wessels scored on (19-9) 49-43 to win the Fisher Regional. a drive to the bucket to start the second quarter for the 13 point Cissna Park went on to lose to Lexington 52-38 in the first lead, but the Trojans scored the next five and 14 in the quarter to game of the Class 1A sectional semifinal game in Colfax. get their halftime deficit to seven at 24-17. Wessels was the only CP player to score in the second quarter as her repeated forays into the lane resulted in 10 points. “I just took what they gave me,” Wessels said. “Gabby was out of her mind tonight,” Videka said. “Everyone did great. The girls on the bench prepared us in practice so everyone was part of this.” Dwight scored the first four points of the second half to get within three points and eventually closed to within 27-25. Wessels went 4 of 4 at the line to build the lead to 31-25 but the Trojans again scored four consecutive and the quarter ended at 31-29 for CP. “Dwight came in with a good game plan,” Videka said. “Their girls executed it very well.” CP’s hot start surprised the coach. “That shocked me but the slow second and third quarters shocked me more. Usually the third quarter is ours.” Powell scored the first points of the fourth quarter, then Stock Bob Burd scored on an assist from Wessels. Powell hit a jumper to get the bob.burd@countryfinancial.com lead to 37-29. Dwight’s Kayla Kodat, who scored seven in the game, scored for the Trojans’ first points of the final frame but Stock scored seconds later and Mel Stewart, who finished with 12 points and 10 rebounds, then scored for Dwight to make the score 39-33 with five minutes remaining in the game. Dwight would not score
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MILFORD HIGH SCHOOL
Staff photo Alex Barney takes a cut trying to bat some runners in.
Marshino throws shutout to advance Bearcats Staff Reports Brady Marshino didn’t allow a single run against Fisher, throwing a complete game shutout and leading Milford to a 10-0 victory on Thursday. The Bearcats opened up scoring in the first inning. Caleb Atwood singled on a 2-1 count, scoring one run. Milford put up five runs in the third inning. Milford Bearcats varsity’s big bats in the inning were led by an error on a ball put in play by Klaytin Hunsinger, a hit by Jared Schunk and Trey Totheroh and a single by Marshino. Marshino took the win for the Bearcats. He went five in-
nings, allowing zero runs on six hits, striking out three and walking zero. J Chow took the loss for Fisher. He went four and twothirds innings, allowing ten runs on eight hits, striking out four and walking one. Hunsinger led Milford with two hits in three at bats. Baker went 2-for-3 at the plate to lead Fisher in hits. The Bearcats (11-12) advance to the Regional Championship to face Salt Fork at 1 p.m. Saturday. The Bearcats went on to lose to Salt Fork when it fell behind early and couldn’t come back in a 10-4 loss.
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Photo contributed WCHS Lady Warriors (front row from left to right) Courtney Thompson, Magan Harris, Summer Cramer, Kate Norder, Natalie Schroeder, (back row) Kennedy McTaggart, Kadyn Stevens, Cassie Peters, Kennedy Bauer, Emily Bunting, Malloery Drake and Kinzie Parsons pose at the Watseka girls basketball banquet.
Watseka girls basketball celebrates best season By DOUG BRENNEMAN, Sports Editor sports@intranix.com The Watseka girls basketball team celebrated their outstanding high school basketball season Wednesday with a banquet. The Lady Warriors accomplished a lot in the 2017-18 season. The Lady Warriors were ranked most of the season, climbing as high as number two in the Associated Press Class 2A poll. They finished with a 30-2 ledger, setting the record for most wins in school history. They went through the Sangamon Valley
Conference regular season with a 7-0 record to capture the first conference championship since 1994. Watseka won two tournaments — Cissna Park Tipoff and Bismarck Holiday Classic. Letterwinners on the record-setting team were Emily Bunting, Summer Cramer, Kate Norder, Kennedy Bauer, Mallory Drake, Magan Harris, Cassie Peters, Courtney Thompson and Natalie Schroeder. Cramer was second team all-state, first team SVC, first team All County, won the
team FreeThrow Award, and was team MVP. Bunting was SVC honorable mention. Bauer was first team SVC and first team All County. Drake was first team SVC, first team All County, won the team Rebound Award, and Most Improved. Harris second team SVC, first team All County, and Best Defender. Thompson won Best Teammate.