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Today's Sports

  • PHOTO: Girls Jr. Pro camp

    Many local girls have been participating in the annual Jr. Pro camp at Vandalia High School.

    Under the direction of high school coaches Michelle McNary and Jim Dierkes, along with high school players, the youth have been working on their basketball skills.

    The final meeting will be held on Saturday during Red/White Night, when the girls will show off the skills they learned.

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  • PHOTO: Mouse Races a success

    Last Saturday's Mouse Races fundraiser was held at Vandalia Junior High. The fundraiser was held to raise funds for transportation of the boys basketball team this season, and the event allowed the team to have that need funded for this season.

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  • PHOTO: Jr. Vandals win tournament

    The Vandalia eighth-grade boys basketball team recently picked up the first-place plaque at the Altamont Lutheran Tournament, with wins against Teutopolis and Altamont Lutheran.

     

     

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  • Strobel improves place and time...

    All Vandalia junior Ben Strobel wanted to do at this year's Illinois High School Association Class A state cross country meet was to finish with a faster time and a better place than he did as a sophomore.

    Check and check.

    Strobel finished the 5K race in 15:48 to finish 29th in the field of 208 runners on Saturday at Detweiller Park in Peoria, besting last season's finish by 49 places and 27 seconds.

    He placed 78th as a sophomore, finishing the race in 16:15.

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  • Strobel gets last qualifying...

    Well, that was close.

    Vandalia junior Ben Strobel earned the final spot to the state cross country meet at Saturday's St. Teresa Sectional in Decatur, finishing 10th in the 5K race.

    At any other sectional site in the state, that would have easily put Strobel into the state meet, but because there were so many good runners in the race, his time of 15:46 – a nine-second improvement on his regional race time – almost fell short.

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  • 32-2 Cisne overwhelms South...

    LEBANON – It started with a uniform violation, and didn’t get any better from there.

    South Central lost the first point of the match on a questionable decision and then struggled to find a rhythm as Cisne rolled by the Lady Cougars, 25-14, 25-16, in the Tuesday’s Class 1A sectional semifinal.

    Prior to the first serve, officials said the numbers on South Central’s uniforms were too low, the first time in four years that the team has been called for such a violation.

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  • PHOTOS: Fayette County raises...

    Two Volley for the Cure matches were held in Fayette County during October, and combined, the two games raised $9,804.73 for cancer research.

    Vandalia hosted Greenville on Oct. 3, and the match raised $7,649.88 for Fayette County Relay for Life.

    On Oct. 23, South Central hosted Patoka, and that match raised $2,154.85 for Susan G. Komen.

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  • REGIONAL CHAMPS: South Central...

    FARINA – Freshman Emily Chapman killed off the winning point in each of South Central’s two set wins last Thursday, Monica Young went on a key serving streak at the end of the match and the Lady Cougars upset top-seeded North Clay in the regional finals.

    Playing at home in a Class 1A tournament, second-seeded South Central earned coach Mary Brimberry’s ninth regional championship plaque with a back-and-forth 25-21, 18-25, 25-19 victory.

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  • First-set resurgence aids Lady...

    FARINA – The Lady Cougars had several opportunities to allow themselves to get buried by North Clay in the first set of last Thursday’s regional championship match.

    But they refused each one of them, and that’s probably a good thing.

    South Central trailed until tying the first set at 20 as part of an 8-3 run that finished off the set and helped propel the Lady Cougars to the regional championship after a 25-21, 18-25, 25-19 victory.

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  • Second-half surge propels South...

    FARINA – The Lady Cougars may not be as potent as some of the recent versions, but this year’s squad has sure made the most out of an otherwise ordinary season.

    Coming into the regional title game with just a 16-16 record, South Central gave its pedestrian season an extraordinary finish with a 25-21, 18-25, 25-19 win against top-seeded North Clay.

    South Central was 5-10 on Sept. 26 after losing to North Clay in three sets. After that weekend at the Herrin Tournament, it was 8-12.

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