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Today's Sports

  • PHOTO: Vandalia Soccer Awards

    Vandalia soccer coach Walt Kinney handed out several awards at the team's banquet last Tuesday.

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  • Mouse Races will be held on Nov...

    The Vandalia High School boys basketball program is seeking several sponsors for its Mouse Races fundrasier, which will be held on Nov. 9.

    Sponsors are needed for each of the 60 mice which will participate in the races, each of the 10 races and each of the six racing lanes.

    Naming a mouse costs $15, naming a lane costs $50 and naming a race costs $100.

    Lane sponsors will also receive one admission ticket, and race sponsors will receive two admission tickets.

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  • Area Prep Roundup (Oct. 31)

    The Jr. Lady Vandals had two games in the past week.

    On Tuesday, the seventh-graders beat Brownstown, 23-16, with Katlyn McKinney scoring 15 points. The eighth-graders lost, 28-12, with Alli Palmer scoring six points, and Bailee Workman scoring five.

    On Monday, the seventh-graders lost at Pana, 26-12, with McKinney scoring seven points, and the eighth-graders lost, 36-6, with Olivia Marquardt scoring four points and Rachel Zimmerman adding two.

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  • PHOTO: Ram Challenge Nets More...

    The Ram Truck Gridiron Challenge netted a $3,620 donation to the Vandalia Sports Boosters from Ram. Members of the community earned $20 for the Sports Boosters by test driving a Ram truck prior to the Oct. 18 football game.

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  • Clift named baseball MVP of EIC

    Patoka senior Johnnie Clift has been selected as the Most Valuable Player in the Egyptian-Illini Conference.

    Clift, the second straight Warrior to take the honor, was dominating as a pitcher during the EIC season, going 3-1 with a 1.03 earned-run average in 27 innings.

    He struck out 34, while walking just four, and allowed four earned runs on 18 hits.

    At the plate, he hit .286 during conference games, but had a .417 on-base percentage and scored four times. He drove in five runs.

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  • Blythe goes 1-2 in first state...

    Vandalia sophomore Hannah Blythe started off her first appearance at the Illinois High School Association state tennis tournament with a victory, but has been elimiinated from the double-elimination event.

    Playing Thursday morning at Palatine High School in Chicagoland, Blythe was a 6-3, 6-4, winner against Hannah Seaton, a junior from Mt. Carmel, in the first round.

    She continued on to play Emily Stefancic – a senior from West Aurora and the overall No. 17 seed – in the second round, but lost, 1-6, 1-6.

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  • Vandalia sophomore Hannah Blythe...

    EFFINGHAM – Hannah Blythe didn’t have too much to say about her recent tennis accomplishment.

    And that’s OK, because – like always – she’ll just let her play do the talking.

    For the first time since 1987, Vandalia will represented in singles at the state tennis tournament after sophomore Hannah Blythe placed second at the Effingham Sectional on Saturday to earn a trip to the Chicago suburbs.

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  • Godoyo sidelined after suffering...

    VANDALIA – Megan Godoyo has suffered another knee injury.

    For the third time in as many years, the Vandalia senior will miss time after sustaining an injury to her left knee.

    This time, it was a bucket handle tear of her meniscus, which has slipped behind her kneecap, locking her knee and requiring surgery to repair.

    She suffered the injury on Sunday, playing catch in preparation for her final season of softball. It forces her to miss the final two weeks of volleyball and ensures that she won’t play her final season of basketball.

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  • Vandalia beats Gillespie in last...

    VANDALIA – Pass. Set. Kill. Repeat.

    The Lady Vandals were basically on autopilot for the final home game of the season on Tuesday, earning 26 kills in a dominating two-set 25-14, 25-11 South Central Conference win against Gillespie.

    “I thought they came out and played well, especially with all the stuff that is going on,” said coach Allison Hall.

    Not only was there the excitement of senior night, the Lady Vandals were also playing without their leading attacker, senior Megan Godoyo, who suffered a season-ending knee injury on Sunday.

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  • Vandalia to finish season at...

    VANDALIA – The football season comes to a close this Friday with a road game against undefeated Greenville, which hasn’t lost to Vandalia since 1998.

    It will mark the final football game in the seniors’ careers, and Stout said that despite a rough season, they are still leaving behind a legacy.

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