Today's Sports

The YMCA will offer several fitness programs in September.

Every Monday and Wednesday starting Sept. 12 from 5:30-6:30 p.m., the YMCA will offer aerobics with Lynn Ferguson.

Every Tuesday starting Sept. 6, the YMCA will offer two bootcamps:  “Wild Bootcamp” from  5-6 p.m. and “Mild Bootcamp”  from 6-7 p.m, with Haron Denton

On every Tuesday and Thursday starting Sept. 8, Zumba will be offered from 9-10 a.m. with Alison Durbin.

Contact the YMCA at 283-1258 with questions or to register.

Years ago, there was a day that Trevor Opfer was simply trying to mind his own business when his identical twin brother, Tanner, decided it would be fun to pester his sibling.

After a while, Trevor had had enough and took matters into his own hands.

“He kept bothering me and calling me names, so I fought back,” Trevor said. “I hurt him pretty bad, with a black eye.”

Blake Swofford won the Southern Illinois Golf Association’s points championship and the tour’s Player’s Championship this summer.

The Vandalia High School junior easily won the points title, finishing with 177 points in the 16-18-year-old boys division. The second-place finisher had just 79.5.

At the SIGA Vogler Ford-Mazda Player’s Championship, Swofford had his best performance of the summer, winning by three strokes and shooting a 1-under-par 71 at Rend Lake.

That win was Swofford’s seventh in 13 summer tournaments.

Pitcher Justin Atwood was named the Most Valuable Player of the Vandalia’s men’s slo-pitch softball league after he helped Buckstop Archery to a 23-1 record and the league title.

Six other Buckstop players were also awarded.

The league wrapped up its regular season on Tuesday, and began a single-elimination tournament on Wednesday.

The finishing order of that tourney will determine the seeding of the end-of-season double elimination tournament that begins next Tuesday.