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School Sports

  • Hawkins pitching well for SIUE club team

    Vandalia graduate Kyle Hawkins has been a very effective pitcher for the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville club baseball team this spring.

    In his last four games, he has pitched 18 1/3 innings, striking out 28 batters.

    Included in those starts were a complete game in a 7-1 win against SIU-Carbondale on Sunday, and a four-hitter against St. Louis University last Tuesday.

    Against SIUC, Hawkins struck out eight, walked one and allowed just five hits to keep SIUE undefeated in conference play, at 8-0.

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  • Vandalia prep roundup (April 18)

    VANDALIA
    Girls track
    Monday, April 15, 2013
    at Roxana Relays
    First-place finisher
    •Sierah Ruffner, high jump, 5 feet, 4 inches (tied meet record)
    Third-place finishers
    •Johanna Walton, high jump, 5 feet, 2 inches
    •Sprint medley (Karlie Bright, Ruffner, Ally Sasse and Jalea Pasley), 2:04.1
    Fifth-place finishers
    •Makayla Tinker, long jump, 14 feet, 5 inches
    •4X800-meter relay (Paslay, Hallie Leigh, Kelsey Rubin and Makenzie Roberts), 12:52.9
    Team score

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  • Area Prep Roundup (April 18)

    SOUTH CENTRAL
    Baseball
    Tuesday, April 16
    North Clay 4
    South Central 0
    S: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0—0-3-2
    N: 4-0-0-0-0-0-X—4-4-0
    LP: Diss (1-2); 5 IP, 4 K
    Cougars: Schwarm, 1-for-2, 2B; Bray, 1-for-3; Tharp, 1-for-3.
    Record: 5-7
    Softball
    Friday, April 12
    South Central 6
    Dieterich 5
    D: 0-0-0-0-0-5-0—5-6-2
    S: 1-0-1-0-4-0-X—6-6-2
    WP: King; 7 IP, 6 K

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  • This week's schedule (April 18-24)

    VANDALIA
    Baseball
    •April 19 vs. Hillsboro, 4:30 p.m.
    •April 22 at Litchfield, 4:30 p.m.
    •April 24 vs. Pana, 4:30 p.m.
    Softball
    •April 18 at Breese Cent., 4:15 p.m.
    •April 19 at Hillsboro, 4:30 p.m.
    •April 22 vs. Litchfield, 4:30 p.m.
    •April 24 at Pana, 4:30 p.m.
    Boys track
    •April 19 at Robinson, 4:30 p.m.
    •April 23 at T-Town, 4:15 p.m.
    Girls track
    •April 19 at Greenville, 3:30 p.m.

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  • The Next Level: Graduated athlete roundup (April 18)

    Many athletes who spent their high school years in Fayette County have moved on to play for college or professional teams. Below are the athletes who recently made headlines.

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  • School sports briefs (April 18)

    Nomination period open for VCHS Athletic Hall of Fame inductions

    The nomination period is open for this year’s Vandalia Community High School Athletic Hall of Fame inductions.

    Forms are available in the high school office, and should be sent to Kevin Jackson, VCHS Athletic Director, 1109 N. 8th St., Vandalia, Ill. 62471.

    In order to be nominated, the following conditions must be met.

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  • Home runs, defense highlight sectional win for South Central

    GREENUP — Two home runs, 16 hits and stellar defense fueled an 11-3 win for South Central on Wednesday, as the Cougars took down North Clay in a sectional semifinal game.

    Seniors Kyle Bray and Austin Schwarm accounted for five of those runs with home runs, and Schwarm made about as good of a catch as any high school player could make to rob a North Clay batter of what would have been a two-run double.

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  • Gordon repeats as state champ

    EAST PEORIA – Oh, the drama.

    For anyone with a rooting interest in Curtis Gordon’s pole vault performance at Saturday’s Illinois Elementary School Association state championships, it was tough to stand still throughout the final four heights.

    Battling Parkside’s Ryan Ashenbremer in 3-inch increments in the Class AA finals, the tension rose on every attempt as Gordon and Ashenbremer matched heights up to 12 feet, 9 inches.

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  • Meyer is fourth at IESA state meet

    EAST PEORIA – Of the three events she qualified in, eighth-grader Emma Meyer made her biggest impact at Saturday’s state meet in the pole vault.

    After easily clearing the first six heights, Meyer needed all three attempts to set a new school record with 9 feet, 9 inches, and in doing so, she finished fourth at the Illinois Elementary School Association state championships.

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  • Two Vandals qualify for IHSA state meet

    For all of the excitement of two Vandalia boys track athletes making the state meet, there was just as much disappointment, as a senior missed qualifying by just a fraction of a second.

    Senior Ryan Ambuehl qualified in two events and sophomore Ben Strobel qualified in one for this weekend’s Illinois High School Association state track championships on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.

    In the 800-meter run, senior Wade Cowger placed third, and his time was just six-hundreths of a second over the automatic state-qualifying time.

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