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Monday, June 9

Olympia girls repeat as
state softball champs

[JUNE 9, 2003]  Class A state tournament game results:

Olympia 1, Casey-Westfield 0

Score by innings:

Olympia               000 100 0 -- 1-3-0

Casey-Westfield   000 000 0 -- 0-4-0

Jessie Shay (W, 30-2) and Amber Lessen; Erika Elkins (L, 16-2), Whitney Mathews (5) and Tori Knierim.

Olympia hitting highlights: Lindsay Watkins, 2B; Becky Heiser, RBI.

Olympia pitching: Shay, seven innings, four hits, no runs, no walks, three strikeouts.

Records: Olympia 39-2, Casey-Westfield 28-8

Olympia 12, Reed-Custer 3

Score by innings:

Olympia           032 212 2 – 12-14-1

Reed-Custer    021 000 0 – 3-8-2

Jessie Shay (W, 31-2), Lindsay Watkins (6), Kaylee West (7) and Amber Lessen; Colleen Keenan (L, 33-3) and Brittany Bradley.

Olympia hitting highlights: Lessen, 2B, two hits, three RBIs; Mallory Tolivar, four hits, two RBIs; Tiffany Prager, three hits, RBI; Watkins, RBI; Canopy, RBI; Becky Heiser, RBI.

Olympia pitching: Shay, five innings, six hits, three runs, three earned runs, no walks, six strikeouts; Watkins, one inning, two hits, no earned runs, no walks, one strikeout; West, one inning, no hits, no earned runs, no walks, no strikeouts.

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Championship

Olympia 2, Piasa Southwestern 0

Score by innings:

Olympia      000 011 0 – 2-6-0

Piasa SW    000 000 0 – 0-5-4

Jessie Shay (W, 32-2) and Amber Lessen; Jamie Orban (L) and Alicia Metz.

Olympia hitting highlights: Lessen, 2B, RBI; Tiffany Prager, two hits, RBI.

Olympia pitching: Shay, seven innings, five hits, no runs, one walk, two strikeouts.

Records: Olympia 41-2, Piasa Southwestern 20-11

Lincoln Christian College announces new
athletic director and men's basketball coach

[JUNE 9, 2003]  Kevin Crawford, vice president of finance at Lincoln Christian College, has announced John Searby as the new athletic director and head men's basketball coach at Lincoln Christian College. Searby began his duties on June 2.

Searby is a 1998 graduate of Milligan College in Johnson City, Tenn. He was a two-year starter at Milligan, helped the team to the NAIA National Tournament and in his senior year served as team captain. Since Milligan, he has served at Gardner-Webb University (NCAA, Division II) as an assistant coach and at Tennessee Tech University (NCAA, Division I) as an assistant coach under former University of North Carolina star Jeff Lebo. Tennessee Tech won back-to-back OVC titles and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NIT during Searby's tenure.

Tennessee Tech coach Lebo commented: "One does not find the caliber of a staff member like John Searby easily. He will be a fine addition to any staff or institution that he is involved with or represents. I have appreciated his loyalty, his supreme work effort, his enthusiasm and his teamwork mentality. His desire for academic success and his enjoyment in relating to students, faculty and administration makes him a solid candidate for any position that he desires."

John Searby and his wife, Jessi, move to Lincoln from Colorado Springs, Colo., where he taught English and served as assistant varsity coach and freshmen head coach at Widefield High School. Widefield advanced to the 2003 Class 4A regional finals.

Searby is a 1994 graduate of University High School in Normal. He received his bachelor's degree in English and history education from Milligan College in 1998 and his master's degree in English from Tennessee Tech University in 2002.

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"I am very excited to be a part of Lincoln Christian College and the Lincoln community," he said. "I accepted this position at LCC because I believe in what Lincoln Christian College is doing. Lincoln is one of the finest Christian colleges in the country, and we are preparing to do the greatest work that any Christian can do: Commit whole self to Christ and expanding His kingdom. My motto for our team this year is ‘Striving for Excellence, Living for The Master.' I hope that our players and coaches at LCC will strive for, and achieve, excellence in everything they do."

Searby is available at (217) 732-3168, Ext. 2223 or jsearby@lccs.edu.

LCC, located on Route 10 on the east side of Lincoln, is accredited by the Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges and the Commission of Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

The college is a member of the National Christian College Athletic Association and participates in six intercollegiate sports: men's basketball, women's basketball, volleyball, men's soccer, women's soccer and men's baseball.

More information about LCC is available at www.lccs.edu.

[Lincoln Christian College news release]

Articles from the past week

[JUNE 9, 2003]  I don't know how many major league players read the LDN (but, who could blame 'em?), but it may be more than we originally thought. How's that? Well, take for instance, last week's column. In it, we discussed how the Cubs would need to hold their own with the D-Rays and the Yanks and that the Cardinals would really have to make some hay while playing at home. Both teams did just that. So, the LDN would like to thank whoever is responsible for getting that message out. It's always exciting when our local source intended primarily for area fans oozes into such places as professional locker rooms. I never thought we'd ever get that close to the action and have inside sources. Since we're so inside… does anybody have any stock market tips for us?

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Note: One other Cardinal note of interest… Stopper Jason Isringhausen threw another great inning down at AA Tennessee, lending speculation that Izzy could rejoin the Birds sometime this week in Boston or at Yankee Stadium… Does that sound weird to you National League purists or what???

[Jeff Mayfield]

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Announcements

Basketball camp dates announced

[MAY 14, 2003]  NORMAL -- First-year Illinois State head basketball coach Porter Moser has announced his camp dates for the summer of 2003.

Moser and his Redbird staff will host three camps this summer, with a pair of day camps and one team camp.

The first day camp runs June 16-19 and is for boys entering grades 1-12. The second day camp is open to boys entering grades 1-8 and is scheduled for July 15-18. The day camps are designed for commuters only and focus on the basic fundamentals of dribbling, passing, shooting, rebounding, defense and game play.

The cost for either day camp is $170. Each camper receives a basketball and a T-shirt.

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The team camp, which caters to high school and junior high teams with boys entering grades 6-12, will be June 20-22. The camp format is round-robin and tournament team play.

The cost for the team camp is $170 for commuters and $205 for resident campers. Each will receive a camp T-shirt.

For more information about the basketball camps, call the Redbird men's basketball office at (309) 438-8681 or click here for an application form.

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[Todd Kober, director of media relations,
Illinois State University]

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