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Sesser-Valier Boys Basketball team receive award from IHSA for high GPA
May 25, 2017 By Leave a Comment
SWEET SIXTEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 24, 2017 By Leave a Comment
HARRISBURG, IL (Paul Wilcoxen, Jefferson County Sports. Please click link above to read the full story. Here is an excerpt below.)
Waltonville/Sesser-Valier will play for a sectional championship Saturday morning after knocking off the defending Class 2A state champions Tuesday night.
The Spartans defeated Carterville, 5-2, to win the second semifinal contest at the Harrisburg Sectional.
WSV moves on the sectional championship where they’ll face Pinckneyville at 11 AM. The two teams were scheduled to play in March, but the game was canceled because of inclement weather. The game was never rescheduled.
Rend Lake fishing report
May 24, 2017 By Leave a Comment
LARGEMOUTH BASS – Good Minnows spinner baits, worms, and black and blue jigs. Reports of fish being caught around Jackie Branch, Sandusky Cove, and below the dam. Fish in shallow bays near brush cover and bushes. Fish around bridges and along the rocks 14” minimum length limit, 6 daily creel limit. 1 fish daily creel limit in PONDS 14” minimum length.
CRAPPIE – Excellent Meal worms. Small & medium minnows. Quarter-ounce pink and white tub jigs. Shallow water! Fish attractors! From shore, fish near structures, hot spots are Jackie Branch, Sandusky, Sailboat Harbor, Marcum coves, and Ina Boat Ramp. Try the Jackie Branch Breakwater and along Mine 21 Road. Fish the main lake drop off areas. 25 fish daily creel limit with no more than 10 fish 10 inches or longer
BLUEGILL – Good Small jigs, worms, meal worms, wax worms, crickets. From shore try Sailboat Harbor and Mine 21 Road. Try fishing shallow with crickets, worms or small jigs. Fish in the back of necks and on flat shallow banks and on the rocks. 10 fish daily creel limit in PONDS.
CHANNEL CATFISH – Excellent Large minnows, leeches, Hoss’s Hawg Bait, night crawlers, and Sonny’s stink bait. Try leeches in moving water. Drift fish the flats. Set line 3-4’ from the shore over rocks. Try the Waltonville Dam, Turnip Patch, Jackie Branch, and North Sandusky Day Use Area. 6 fish daily creel limit in PONDS. Jugs must be attended at all times while fishing.
WHITE BASS – Fair In-line spinners, jig and curly tail grubs. Reports of fish being caught around the 154 bridges. Fish around along the rocks and drop-offs Fish in shallow bays near brush cover and bushes. 20 fish creel limit. No more than 3 fish 17” or longer daily
Z-R’s Kassie Jeralds to play volleyball for St. Louis College of Pharmacy
May 24, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Press Release from St. Louis College of Pharmacy
ZEIGLER, IL – Kassie Jeralds signs a letter of intent to play volleyball at STLCOP.
Kassie Jeralds, a senior at Zeigler-Royalton High School in Zeigler, Ill., signed a letter of intent and scholarship papers to compete for the St. Louis College of Pharmacy volleyball team for this fall.
Surrounded by family and coaches, new and old, Jeralds committed to STLCOP at a signing ceremony at Zeigler-Royalton HS in February.
Jeralds was a starting outside hitter for the Zeigler-Royalton Tornadoes last fall.
Head STLCOP coach RANDI TYLER looks forward to having Jeralds on the Eutectic team for the upcoming 2017 season.
“Kassie will be a great addition to the Eutectic squad next fall,” said Tyler. “Her talent and work ethic will be a boost to our program and I look forward to her contributions to the team.”
Two Franklin County softball teams open sectional play today
May 23, 2017 By Leave a Comment
by Steve Dunford
The Galatia-Thompsonville lady Cats, the Carrier Mills Class 1A Regional champions.
Galatia-Thompsonville and Waltonville-Sesser-Valier open sectional play, after picking up regional crowns yesterday. You can links to stories for both games, on the website or Facebook page.
At the Trico sectional the Lady Cats (15-4) will face the Goreville Lady Blackcats (21-8) at 4:30. G-T picked up a 2-1 win over the Trico Lady Pioneers yesterday. Goreville beat Cobden 17-2 in their regional championship game.
I obtained a few stats on Goreville. They are led by by Sophmore Alexandria King (P-OF), who is hitting .571 with 5 HRs, and 32 RBI’s, with a 7-5 record an a 2.30 ERA .
Senior 1B Carmen Anderson is hitting .437 with 4HR’s and 32 RBI’s. Freshmen Kelsey Ray (P-2B) is hitting .429 with 1 HR and 27 RBI’s, and a 4-0 record with a 1.35 ERA. Sophmore Cheyenne Walker has went 7-3 in the circle with a 2.61 ERA.
Woodlawn will also take on New Athens this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in the Marissa Class 1A Sectional.
The Waltonville Sesser-Valier Lady Spartans 30-3 will take on Carterville at 6:30 p.m. W-S-V beat Carmi-White-County 7-5 to advance. Carterville beat DuQuoin 7-1 to advance.
Along with Carterville two other SIRR Mississippi teams will be in the sectional. Pinckneyville and Nashville will play the first game at Harrisburg today, starting at 4:30 p.m.
WSV wins Class 2A softball regional with victory over Carmi/White Co
May 23, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Waltonville-Sesser-Valier Spartans, Carmi-White County 1A Regional Softball champs
CARMI, IL – (Paul Wilcoxen, Jefferson County Sports – Click on the link above to read the full story. Here is an excerpt below)
The Waltonville/Sesser-Valier Lady Spartans defeated Carmi/White County Monday afternoon, 7-5, to win the Class 2A high school softball regional.
WSV advances to face the defending class 2A state champs Carterville Tuesday at the Harrisburg Sectional.
It’s the first regional championship won by the Spartans in softball since 2004. WSV will play Carterville at 6:30 PM in the second semifinal contest. The first sectional semifinal between Pinckneyville and Nashville will start at 4:30 PM.
Baseball/Softball regional championship scores
May 22, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Waltonville-Sesser-Valier Spartans, Carmi-White County 1A Regional Softball champs
CLASS 1A BASEBALL
Goreville 7 Century 5 (Century)
Steeleville 3 Trico 2 (Trico)
Carrier Mills 7 Crab Orchard 1 (Carrier Mills)
CLASS 2A BASEBALL
Harrisburg 3 BENTON 2 (9 innings)(Harrisburg)
Nashville 3 Waterloo Gibault 2 (Red Bud)
Breese Central 5 Newton 4 (Flora)
CLASS 1A SOFTBALL
GALATIA-THOMPSONVILLE 2 Trico 1 (Carrier Mills)
CLASS 2A SOFTBALL
WALTONVILLE-SESSER-VAILER 7 Carmi-White County 5 (Carmi)
WF falls to the Harrisburg Bulldogs in the regional semifinals
May 20, 2017 By Leave a Comment
by Steve Dunford
HARRISBURG, IL –The West Frankfort Redbird baseball team ended up their season with a 10-12 record, bowing out to the Harrisburg Bulldogs 8-2 on Thursday. Harrisburg advances to the championship game of their own regional playing the Benton Rangers today. Because of rain, the game has been rescheduled to 4:30 Monday afternoon.
In the first two pitches of the ball game, it looked like Harrisburg hurler Dalton Lambert was going to have a rough afternoon. The first pitch of the ball game SS Noah Vance knocked the ball over the LF wall for a home run. Redbird catcher Peyton Overturf picked up a base hit and scored on a throwing error. Lucas Wolfe helped himself with a base hit.
The crooked number on the scoreboard for West Frankfort after one half inning was the only runs they would pick up on the afternoon as they led 2-0.
Lambert mowed down the Redbirds as he pitched a complete game, only allowing two hits the rest of the way, striking out eight and walking no one. He hit four batters on the afternoon. He helped his own cause going 3-3 from the plate.
Harrisburg put up four runs in the bottom of the first on six base hits. Lambert, catcher Isaac Crabb, and LF Jack Martin doubled. Center fielder Jordan Gould, 1B Presley Gauch, and RF Jack Martin picked up base hits.
Brendan Russell picked up a base hit with one out in the top second inning. A double play erased a potential rally.
Harrisburg put up two more runs in the bottom of third on three singles in a row from Lambert, Gauch, and Crabb. After three it was 6-2 Harrisburg.
The Redbirds stranded two runners in the top of the fourth. Wolfe was hit by a pitch and stole second. Bryson Dorris reached on an error. Lambert strkes out the side as WF could not get anything going.
Harrisburg tacks on two more in the bottom of the fourth as the fire balling sophomore Brendan Jonson comes out of the pen to give up a couple base hits. He had three errors committed behind him allowing two unearned runs. Dorris makes a diving stop at second to field a screaming line drive to bail the Redbirds out. After four it was an 8-2 Harrisburg.
Johnson had a perfect fifth and sixth inning, and the Redbirds strand two runners in the top of the seventh as Dorris was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning. Pinch hitter Andrew Strugil picks up a one out single. The Redbrids could not capitalize, as it was an 8-2 Final in favor of the Bulldogs.
Harrisburg improved to 14-18. They will square off against the Benton Rangers 27-6 in the Harrisburg Class 2A regional, Monday at 4:30 p.m.
BOX SCORE
WEST FRANKFORT
| HITTING | AB | R | H | RBI |
| Vance SS | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Overturf C | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Archione CR | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Clark 3B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Elko 1B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wolfe P-CF | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Broy DH | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dorris 2B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| B. Russell RF | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Herrell LF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sturgill PH | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Glass CF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Johnson P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 25 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
HR: Vance SB Overturf, Wolfe
| PITCHING | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | HP |
| Wolfe – L | 3 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Johnson | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | 6 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
HARRISBURG
| HITTING | AB | R | H | RBI |
| Gould CF | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Holland 2B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lambert P | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Patel CR | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Gauch 1B | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Crabb C | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Phalin PR | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Burtis SS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Martin LF | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Wendler RF | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Mayer 3B | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | 28 | 8 | 11 | 5 |
2B Lambert, Crabb, Martin
| PITCHING | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | HP |
| Lambert – W | 7 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 4 |
LINE SCORE
| TEAM | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
| West Frankfort | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| Harrisburg | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 2 |
Patience at the plate ends pitchers duel for Benton
May 18, 2017 By Leave a Comment
http://www.bentoneveningnews.com/sports/20170518/patience-at-the-plate-ends-pitchers-duel-for-benton
BENTON, IL – (Michael Dann – Harrisburg Daily Register – Please click link for the full story above. Here is an excerpt below)
The pitchers duel between Eldorado’s Max Kasiar and Benton’s Zach Avery was everything fans were hoping for during Wednesday’s IHSA Class 2A Regional semifinal at Harrisburg’s Jay Thompson Field.
Holding a 2-1 lead through four innings, Benton, the No. 1 seed, couldn’t seem to put Eldorado away.
And then the fifth inning happened.
The Rangers (27-6) put up seven runs, blowing the game open and walking out with an 11-3 win over Eldorado (7-18), putting themselves in Saturday’s championship game.
