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School Sports

  • Jr. Legion squad gets first victory

    VANDALIA – In the season’s first two doubleheaders, Vandalia’s Jr. Legion squad had been close to winning the opening game each night.

    On Tuesday, Post 95 was clearly tired of coming up short.

    Vandalia plated five runs in the bottom of the first inning against Carlyle and pitched out of several jams to take a 5-2 victory for its first win of the summer.

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  • Rain cuts short Post 95's opener

    VANDALIA – Summer baseball returned to Vandalia last Thursday, but the summer weather was lagging a few innings behind.

    Vandalia’s Sr. Legion team had its season-opener cut short after a line of storms rolled into the area after the top of the seventh inning, giving Centralia a 6-1 victory in non-district action.

    Post 95 (0-1) had just three hits – including two infield singles – and only hit two balls in the air against Centralia’s Kyle Davis, who showed exceptional control in striking out eight.

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  • Alumni sweep Lady Vandals in softball

    VANDALIA – The alumni put on an offensive show in sweeping a doubleheader on Tuesday against the current Lady Vandals.

    Vandalia’s former players pounded out 31 runs in the two games – 13-5 and 18-3 victories.

    Audra Donaldson had five hits on the night, including a pair of doubles, and Shelby Cearlock totaled four hits – with two doubles and a triple – and four runs.

    In game one, the alums scored in all five innings, doing the most damage in the third and fourth innings with four runs in each.

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  • Patoka, Vandalia in first shootout

    A pair of local teams will take part in the first summer shootout in Vandalia.

    Next Monday and Tuesday, Vandalia and Patoka will both be in action at the various schools in the Vandalia district, with each team starting play at 9 a.m. on Monday.

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  • PHOTO: Vandalia baseball awards

    The Vandalia High School baseball team held its awards banquet last Friday, and coach Luke Hohlt handed out several awards.

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  • Jr. Vandal football camp is June 17-21

    The Jr. Vandal football camp will be held from June 17-21.

    Students entering grades 2-6 may register for the camp, which will be held from 8:30-10 a.m. at Mark Greer Field.

    There will be no contact hits at the camp.

    The registration cost is $35.

    For more information, contact high school football coach John Stout at jstout@vandals.k12.il.us, or call the school at 283-5155.

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  • Officials don't allow Ambuehl to run in state finals

    The Vandalia boys track season ended with a tough break at Saturday’s state finals.

    Coming into the 110-meter hurdle finals as the No. 4 seed, senior Ryan Ambuehl did not make it to the check-in tent in time to run in the finals, even though he reported before the race actually began.

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  • PHOTO: Whightsil signs with IC

    Vandalia senior Morgan Whightsil last Thursday signed a letter of intent to play softball for Illinois College.

    Whightsil played in 114 of a possible 116 games during her high school career with the Lady Vandals.

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  • Schroeder ends coaching career with state champ

    EAST PEORIA – Pacing in the last row of seats at the EastSide Centre, coach Kevin Schroeder nervously watched as the final athlete he would ever coach was working toward winning a second state championship.

    Eighth-grader Curtis Gordon cleared 12 feet, 9 inches in the pole vault on May 18 to win the state title and allow Schroeder to close his 33-year coaching career with a back-to-back state champ.

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  • Cougars defeated in sectional title game

    GREENUP – Four years ago, there was a big freshman class that took the field at Lions Field in Kinmundy.

    Many of those 15 athletes still remained with the Cougars on Saturday when South Central took the field for the sectional championship game, and that’s not exactly the position coach Curt Jones thought the team would be in when he first met the group.

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