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Pony baseball results
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[JUNE 4, 2002]
In
a Pony Division baseball game Monday, June 3, Brian Willmert led the
way in the Knights of Columbus Phillies’ 11-1 victory over the
Bloomington Astros. He threw a complete game five-inning no-hitter
and had 13 strikeouts for the game.
Offensively the
Phillies were led by a double by Joey Heidbreder and singles by
Jeremy Moore, Jonathan Lessen and David Williams.
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Bronco results
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[JUNE 4, 2002]
Waterstreet
Catering improved to 2-0 by defeating the Mason City Cobras 15-12 in
Bronco League action.
Waterstreet stats: Nate Kunkel was 2-for-3 with four RBIs. Tyson
Smith went 3-for-3 and scored three times. Jon Oliver reached base
and scored three times, along with playing great defense at
shortstop.
Mason City stats: Cole
Brownfield reached base four times, had two doubles and scored three
times. Trent Gardner had two hits, a walk and two RBIs.
[Provided by T.J. Swarts] |
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Gators open season with
gusto
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[JUNE 4, 2002]
The Lincoln
Gator Swim Club came away from this past weekend’s
season-opening meet with outstanding achievements. This was the
first USS long-course meet of the summer season. It was hosted by
the Decatur Swim Club. Competition was fierce as teams from all over
the state attended the three-day event at Nelson Pool in Decatur.
Coached by Heidi
Heidbreder, the Gators had an exciting weekend setting team records,
meet records and also one Junior Olympic qualifying time. Stephanie
Couch, Gabrielle Ernst, Brennan Elsas, Sam Wood and Alberta Danley
set team records. Elsas set both a meet and team record with his
time of 44.02 in the 50 backstroke.
Elsas placed first overall
in the 8 & Under Boys division and Sam Wood achieved a JO time in the
100 fly. That time qualifies him for the state meet the first part of August.
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Lincoln Gator Swim Club results
Summer opener:
May 31-June 2 in Decatur
8 &
Under Girls
Sara Fuller 50
fly 8th
1:14.96
50 free 9th
56.62
50 breast 6th 1:08.79
50 back 10th 1:10.20
8 &
Under Boys
Brennan Elsas 50
fly 1st 42.88
50 free 1st
37.07
50 breast 1st
52.34
(team record)
50 back 1st
44.02
(meet record and team record)
Zach Ziemba 50
fly 2nd 49.98
50 free 4th
41.72
50 breast 7th
1:10.55
50 back 5th
57.74
10 &
Under Girls
Alberta Danley 800 free 40th
15:27.95
(team record)
100 back 14th B 1:53.97
50 fly 10th B
48.50
50 free 7th B 41.03
100 breast 17th B 2:08.72
200 IM 16th 3:46.01
100 free 1st B 1:27.71
50 breast 13th B 57.79
50 back 13th B 53.30
100 fly 7th B 2:01.53
Ashlyn Schleder 100
back 10th B 1:51.23
50 fly 2nd C 54.52
50 free 8th B
41.10
Sara
Fuller 100 back 12th C 2:26.91
100 breast 6th C 2:26.64
200 IM 27th 5:07.45
100 free 14th C 2:09.13
100 fly 13th C 2:59.92
10 &
Under Boys
Sam
Wood 800 free 20th 13:22.14
(team record)
100 back 2nd B 1:43.78
50 fly 2nd A 42.12
50 free 4th A 36.90
100 breast 5th A 1:56.92
200 IM 3rd 3:27.57
100 free 5th A 1:21.64
50 breast 4th A 52.57
50 back 3rd B 47.38
100 fly 2nd A 1:34.12
(JO time)
200 free 21st 3:03.65
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Brennan
Elsas 100 back 6th 1:39.62
(team record, 8 & Under)
200 IM 6th 3:32.84
(team record, 8 & Under)
100 free 4th A 1:20.56
(team record, 8 & Under)
100 fly 4th A 1:41.98
Zach
Ziemba 100 free 11th B 1:35.74
100 fly 11th B 2:05.23
13 & 14
Girls
Gabrielle Ernst 800 free 24th 10:56.31
(team record)
200 IM 3rd B 3:00.62
(team record)
100 fly
10th B 1:27.98
200 back 10th B 3:11.72
(team record)
100 free 6th A 1:09.05
(team record)
100 back 5th B 1:30.70
50 free 2nd A 30.96
(team record)
200 free 7th A 2:31.99
(team record)
100 breast 18th B 1:48.29
Leanna
Gleason 100 fly 8th C 2:00.69
100 free 1st C 1:26.47
50 free 4th B 35.58
Senior
Girls
Stephanie Couch 800 free 34th 11:59.48
(team
record)
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Reichle one of
22 Redbird athletes with 4.0
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[JUNE 4, 2002]
The
LDN wishes to congratulate former Lady Railer Steph Reichle on her
4.0 (all A’s) GPA at ISU this year! The junior from Lincoln
was one of 22 Redbird athletes to accomplish the feat.
Nice going, Steph!
[Jeff
Mayfield] |
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Olympia baseball,
softball champions
[JUNE 3, 2002]
Both baseball and softball teams
from Olympia High School took the championships in Class A this weekend. |
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Click on the following links for more
information:
Baseball:
IHSA baseball
tournament info
Baseball
championship stats
Olympia
baseball team stats
Softball:
IHSA softball
tournament info
Softball championship stats
Olympia softball team stats
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Pantagraph stories:
Olympia: Home of champions
Olympia champs come home
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Legion
baseball opens season at Rochester tourney
[JUNE 3, 2002]
ROCHESTER — The
Lincoln Junior Varsity Legion baseball team opened its season
Saturday and Sunday at the Rochester Round Robin Tournament. The
Lincoln squad rebounded from a pair of setbacks on Saturday to down
Pekin 8-0 Sunday afternoon. Lincoln lost its opening game of the
tourney to Taylorville 11-7 and lost to Carlinville 3-1. |
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Jason Williams
pitched seven strong innings to lead the Lincoln team to victory
Sunday. The sophomore right-hander allowed three hits, striking out
seven and walking three. Williams also aided his own cause with a
two-run homer over the left center-field fence in the third inning.
Lincoln plated a run
in the first on a single by Bob Maestas, a stolen base and a
run-scoring double by Drew Olson. Lincoln scored three times in the
third. Olson reached base safely on an error, stole second, moved to
third when the throw to second sailed into center and continued
around the bases to score when the center fielder misplayed the
ball. Miles Musick then followed with a single and Williams hit the
homer.
Lincoln added an
unearned run in the fifth and put the game out of reach with three
runs in the seventh. Mitch Sheley led off with a double and came
around to score on a double by Maestas. Neil Rohrer then drew a
walk, after Maestas had stolen third, and continued toward second.
On the throw to second, Maestas broke for the plate and scored, with
Rohrer ending up at third. Rohrer then scored on a single by Jaron
Harnacke.
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On Saturday, Miles
Musick had the only Lincoln hit in the 3-1 loss to Carlinville.
Musick singled in the fourth to score Olson, who had reached on an
error and stole second. Maestas was the losing pitcher for Lincoln,
allowing just three hits while striking out six and walking five.
One of the two runs was allowed. Paul Phillips pitched the final
inning for Lincoln and allowed one unearned run.
In the game against
Taylorville, Lincoln was shut down the first three innings before
scoring seven times in the last three frames. Taylorville led 8-0
before Lincoln got on the board. Chance Berger was the starting and
losing pitcher for Lincoln, while Trent Kavelman hurled the final 3
1/3 innings.
Kyle Atteberry had a
pair of hits to lead a nine-hit Lincoln attack. Sheley, Olson,
Williams, Maestas, Musick, Berger and Kavelman each had one hit.
Lincoln travels to Urbana for a
doubleheader Monday and will play its first home games of the season
Tuesday against Decatur at 6 p.m. at Lindstrom Field.
[Bill Martinie] |
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Bronco results
[JUNE 3, 2002]
Waterstreet
Catering defeated Battery Specialists 9-4 in a combined one-hitter
on Friday.
Brock Heidbreder pitched five innings with 12 strikeouts and no
hits. He also had a double, triple and five RBIs.
Kody Swarts closed out the game with two innings pitched, one hit
and one strikeout. He also had a double, a single and two runs
scored.
Tyson Smith was
2-for-3 with an RBI.
[Provided by T.J. Swarts] |
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Pony baseball results
[MAY 31, 2002]
In a closely
fought ballgame in the Pony League Thursday evening, the Dodgers’
Mason Coons drove home the winning run in the bottom of the seventh
to defeat the Phillies 4-3. The Phillies duo of David Williams and
Justin Mason combined to throw a four-hitter, only to be outdone by
the brilliant pitching of Aaron Altman for the Dodgers. Altman threw
a one-hit complete game, registering 19 strikeouts.
[Provided
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Lincoln plays tough but receives
tough loss in sectional playoffs
[MAY 31, 2002]
Thursday night the Lincoln
varsity baseball team had another shot at the defending AA state
champions, Bradley-Bourbonnais. Early in the year, the Railers lost
6-7 to Bradley-Bourbonnais in the first game of a doubleheader,
although they were ahead by two runs going to the seventh inning.
Especially with the way the senior-led Railers have played recently
(winning nine of their last 12 games), most people rightly believed
that they had what it takes to make it even further in the state
tournament. (It’s been 11 years since the Railers got this far in
the tournament.)
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[Photos provided by
Rich Knopp]
[Illinois Wesleyan provided a beautiful setting for
the sectional game.]
The game was played
the way you’d expect top caliber-state teams to play: strong
pitching, solid defense, and aggressive hitting and base running.
The downside for the Railers is that Bradley did them all just a
little better and handed Lincoln a season-ending 4-1 defeat.
Lincoln senior Matt
Boyer went the full game on the mound, walking three, striking out
two and granting six hits. The first Bradley run came in the first
inning, after a walk and an RBI triple by Dan Haley to the
right-field fence. Haley also scored in the first on a wild pitch.
As it turned out, the two-run inning would have been all that
Bradley needed for the win. But Boyer pitched the next three innings
without a score and, with a Railer run in the fourth inning, kept
Lincoln within one run.
Bradley’s fifth
inning, however, included another opposite-field hard-hit ball by
Haley. Haley sliced one down the right-field line that had the
Lincoln fans praying for a foul ball. But the ball stayed fair and
the two-run homer put Bradley up 4-1.
Lincoln had only four
hits in the game but hit the ball hard a number of other times. They
didn’t seem to get on track until the fourth inning, sending only
nine hitters to the plate in the first three innings. In Lincoln’s
fourth, Jeremy Ohmart led off with a walk and a stolen base.
Sophomore Mitch Sheley moved him to third on a grounder to short.
And senior Andy Knopp lined a one-out single to right field to bring
in Lincoln’s only run of the game. Senior Ryan Williams followed
Knopp with another single, but both were stranded on base in the
inning.
One of the more
significant plays of the game came in Lincoln’s fifth inning. With
one out, junior Ryne Komnick drew a walk, and pinch runner Josh
Gallagher was moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Michael Martin.
Ohmart then picked up his second walk of the game to put runners at
first and second with two outs. All-conference performer Mitch
Sheley, who has an over .400 batting average with runners in scoring
position this season, was at the plate. With a 2-2 count, speedster
Gallagher was given the green light to steal third, but the throw
beat him, the tag was made and the inning ended.
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Lincoln’s sixth
inning tested Bradley’s center fielder, Tyler Grace, who had all
three put-outs in that inning. One of them was a blast off Knopp’s
bat to dead-center field that, after several turns by Grace, was
finally hauled in at the base of the 380-foot fence. In that inning
Grace also chased down fly balls by Mitch Sheley and Ryan Williams.
A base hit by Blake
Schoonover in Lincoln’s seventh provided a little spark to the
Railers, who were down 4-1 at that point. But Schoonover was unable
to get beyond first.
Several Railers
performed particularly well during Lincoln’s three IHSA tournament
games. Andy Knopp, who is headed to Division I Western Illinois
University, batted .625 for the tournament, with five hits
(including a home run) and six RBIs. Jeremy Ohmart hit .429; and
Blake Schoonover, who’s headed to Kankakee Community College to play
baseball, and Mitch Sheley both hit at a .333 pace for the state
tournament games. Michael Martin, who’s headed to Springfield
College to play baseball, played a solid right field for the Railers.
[Ten Railer seniors will move on next year. (From R
to L): Ryan Williams, Michael Martin, Adam Schonauer, Danny Schick,
Jeremy Ohmart, Matt Boyer, Blake Schoonover, Michael Aper, Brian
Boyer and Andy Knopp]
It was a down-and-up
season for the Railers. At one point they were 10-13, but they
finished at 18-16 and placed third in the Central State Eight
Conference. Four Railers earned all-conference honors: sophomore
Mitch Sheley and seniors Matt Boyer, Blake Schoonover and Andy Knopp.
Schoonover was also named to a Springfield area all-star squad as a
pitcher.
Head coach Pat Hake,
in his second year at the helm of the Railers, and assistant coach
Brad Shaw are to be congratulated for taking the Railers further in
postseason play than they’ve been for over a decade. The coaches
have had a great group of guys to work with, and they all pulled it
together at the right time.
Thanks, Railers, for
a great season. And thanks for putting Lincoln baseball back on the
state map.
[Rich
Knopp]
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LC volleyball recruit
[MAY 31, 2002]
Lincoln College
has announced the signing of a letter of intent from Jessica Livezey
to play volleyball next season for coach Mark Tippett. Livezey, a
graduate of Chenoa High School, was a four-year letter-winner and
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Livezey was named to
the all-conference team three years in a row and was selected for
honorable mention as a Pantagraph scholar-athlete. She is a
versatile middle and outside hitter. Livezey plans to purse a degree
in nursing at Lincoln College.
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"I am very pleased Jessica chose LC to
begin her college career," coach Tippett said. "She is an aggressive
player and a team leader. I am confident she will help us
offensively as both an outside hitter and a middle blocker."
[Bill
Martinie,
Lincoln College
sports information director] |
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Athlete of the week
By Jeff Mayfield
[JUNE
3, 2002]
...Goes to former Railer Jon Barton. Jon distinguished
himself and Lincoln, Ill., by graduating from West Point on Saturday
and shaking hands with the president. I had the distinct privilege
of being in attendance for the august ceremony and overheard the
charge that President Bush presented to the new group of second
lieutenants. It was an awe-inspiring event. |
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The LDN sports desk
is always open to hearing graduation stories from other proud
friends and or family members. And if you’ve got any photos, send
them along to us as well. Have you ever noticed how well our Lincoln
kids do on the college stage and on the national scene? I couldn’t
be prouder of Jon and all of our Lincoln graduates! Same thing goes
for all junior high, high school and every other graduate in Lincoln
and Logan County. Nice going, everybody. You’re all making me wish
that I was back in school!
Teams of the week
This one is a
no-brainer. In addition to our own Lincoln Railers winning the
regional title for the first time since 1991, Olympia High School
won both the Class A softball crown and the Class A baseball
championship. Talk about a rare double?! That marks the first time
that feat has been accomplished on the smaller-school level. Thorton
pulled it off on the AA level several years ago. At any rate,
congrats to all three of these stellar teams!
Writers of the week
My personal thanks to
Rick Hobler, Rich Knopp, Bill Martinie and anyone else who has been submitting
stories and photos covering the athletes of Lincoln and Logan
County. There is no way that the LDN could ever cover the plethora
of games and contests that people like Rich, Bill and Rick help us report
on. Not only that, but more times than not, their stuff is a lot
better than ours! We have gone on record that we welcome your input,
and these three men always deliver. My heartfelt thanks to the three
of you!
Keep up the good work!
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Summer help
We really need your
help this summer. We know that many of you are participating in
sports like swimming, golf, track and field, tennis, baseball and a
host of others. Please get word to us of your scores and statistics.
Every month we try to improve our reporting skills, and the only way
that can happen is if you let us know how you and your team are
performing.
Lakers and Nets to the finals
Did you really
think that the Kings would eliminate the world champion Lakers? I
didn’t… and I said so a few weeks ago right here in this column.
Barring injury or record shooting by a road New Jersey Nets team,
the Lakers will win it all again.
Cubs on a roll, Cards spinnin’ their
wheels
Every time I look up
the Cubs start lookin’ better and the Cards keep stubbin’ their toe!
I really like Matt Clement as a new Cubs ace. However, I’m starting
to get concerned about Matt Morris’ outings. On the highlights he
just looked really tired to me, and it’s only June!
I think I speak for the whole platoon
...when I say that it’s so hot we should
just work from inside the confines of the pool! I think we will all
be more productive in a cooled-off state. If any of you are running
for a political office and this plan is part of your platform,
please let me know, because you just got another vote!
Have a great
week, everybody!
[Jeff
Mayfield]
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