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Today's Sports

  • Fayette County Speedway Results...

    FRIDAY, August 27
    UMP DIRTcar Street Stock Division - 12 cars
    Heat 1
    1.    97    Josh Griffith
    2.    3D    BJ Deal
    3.    37    Rick Rush
    4.    21    Coleman Scott
    Heat 2
    1.    27    Keith Harre
    2.    1*    Tyler Blankenship
    3.    98B    David Barker

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  • Local volleyball results (Aug....

    Aug. 26
    The Brownstown High School volleyball team lost its season opener to Dieterich High School, falling in straight sets, 25-13 and 25-8.
    Bethany Oberlink had three digs, one block and one ace for the Bombers. Morgan Stinebring led the team with two kills and added an ace and three assists.

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  • Local baseball results (Aug. 24-...

    Monday, Aug. 30
    St. Elmo 10
    Sandoval 0
    The St. Elmo baseball team won its first game of the season,  shutting out Sandoval, 10-0, in five innings on Monday.
    Kase Stolte (1-1) went the distance for St. Elmo in its home opener, striking out five while allowing just two hits and one walk.
    Blaine Scholes led the Eagles offensively with a 3-for-4 effort, and Connor Beasley slugged St. Elmo’s first home run of the season. Levi Maxey and Woodsen Savage drove in two runs each.

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  • St. Elmo falls to Beecher City,...

    Aug. 27
    Beecher City 24
    St. Elmo 21
    The St. Elmo Middle School softball team took a 20-5 lead to the bottom of the sixth, but Beecher City rallied for 19 runs and took Friday’s game 24-21.
    Emily Bone was the only Eagle with two hits, but collectively, the team reached base via a walk or a hit-by-pitch 22 times. Kyrstyn Fitch (0-1) took the loss for St. Elmo.

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  • Vandalia golfers stand at 5-4...

    Aug. 19
    At Governor’s Run in Carlyle
    Vandalia-175
    Carlyle-173
    Breese-168
    Woodlawn-169
    Vandalia scores-Wes Lindsey, 38; Derrick Herker, 43; Zach Jackson, 44; Josh Lawson, 50; Devin Schukar, 57; and Wyatt Summann, 64.

    Aug. 23
    At Oak Terrace
    Vandalia-181
    Pana-197
    Vandalia scores-Wes Lindsey, 44; Derrick Herker, 45; Zach Jackson, 47; Josh Lawson, 45; and Devin Schukar, 50.

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  • Vandalia tennis squad defeated...

    The Vandalia girls tennis squad fell to 1-1 last Thursday, falling to Marquette Catholic, 9-0.
    Results from the match were:


    Singles
    No.1-Natasha Opfer lost to Caroline Claywell, 1-6, 1-6.
    No. 2-Lauren Wasmuth lost to Anna Morrissey, 0-6, 2-6.
    No. 3-Cassie Goodin lost to Claire Morrissey, 0-6, 0-6.
    No. 4-Micah Dugan lost to Kathryn Randolf, 0-6, 0-6.
    No. 5-Callie George lost to Aletis Silkwood, 0-6, 0-6.
    No. 6-Abby Hickerson lost to Emily Repking, 1-6, 0-6.

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  • JV squad wins 33-0

    The Vandalia junior varsity football squad picked off four passes, returning two of them for touchdowns, in opening its season with a 33-0 win at Greenville.
    Ryan Ambuehl and Dalton Wehrle returned interceptions for scores in the win.
    The Vandals’ other scores came on a run by Alex Newsom, who added a two-point conversion, and a pass from Tim Ritchey to Levi Carroll.
    Carroll and Wade Cowger also picked off passes in the win..
    The JV squad travels to Carlinville next Monday for a 5 p.m. game.
     

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  • Schaub places 17th in her first...

    Erin Schaub’s refrigerator served as motivation after seven months of triathalon training began to wear on her.
    The Brownstown resident and Vandalia Community High School graduate posted her entry receipt for the Ford Ironman in Louisville, Ky., where she would see it every day to remind her that the training would someday pay off.
    “The last month, I had really been getting burnt out on training,” Schuab said.
    “I was really ready for it to be here and ready to do it.”

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  • Patoka tops Bombers to win...

    After allowing Brownstown to build a 5-0 lead after two innings, Patoka recovered to take the championship of the Ramsey Tournament last week with a 6-5 win.
    Patoka improved to 3-0 on the season with the win, which came on an RBI single by Dylan Adams in the fifth inning.
    Adams’s single was one of four hits in that inning by the Warriors, who took advantage of a walk, a hit batsman and an error.
    Reid McKinley got the win, and Zach Thompson picked up a save.

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  • Bell's FG gives Vandals win...

    In a game in which Vandalia and East Alton-Wood River evenly exchanged touchdowns, it was two field goal attempts that made the difference.
    The first attempt, made by the Oilers’ Devin Spurlock from about 36 yards out, bounced off of the bottom crossbar of the goal post, hit the left crossbar and fell straight down in front of the post.
    The second, by Vandalia’s Daniel Bell from 26 yards out, sailed through the center of the crossbars with about 4 seconds left in the game to give the Vandals a 24-21 win.

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