Local Roundup: Top players advance to WRC f inals

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DANVILLE May 11, 2008 01:48 am

— Covington, Seeger and Fountain Central all advanced their No. 1 singles player and No. 1 doubles team to Monday’s semifinal round of the Wabash River Conference Tournament.
Hannah Clingan of Covington will play Alyssa Hansen of Fountain Central at No. 1 singles while Seeger’s Ashley White takes on Turkey Run’s Annika Seeger.
In doubles Anna Devillez and Chloe Thurman from Seeger will play Katy Balch and Justine Niccum from Covington and Dara Reberger and Katie Rice from Fountain Central will battle Sonya Farrar and Rachel Mrockziewcz from Attica.
Covington’s Clingan made All-WRC for the fourth time in her career winning the title in 2005 and 2006.
White and Hansen made All-WRC for their second year in a row.
As a team, Seeger won the Wabash River Conference Title by earning a perfect 5-0 dual match record against conference teams.
The semifinal and final matches for both singles and doubles will take place on Monday at 3:30 p.m. at Fountain Central.
Men’s College Baseball
Worthington is MWAC Player of the Year
DANVILLE — Danville Area Community College Sophomore David Worthington was named Player of the Year for Men’s Baseball in the Mid-West Athletic Conference.
He is DACC’s career leader with 24 home runs and Post 210’s record holder with 210 home runs.
Worthington was also named to the First Team All-Conference team along with outfielder Byron Williams.
Pitchers Tyler Kilburn and Justin Cox received honorable mention and so did catcher Brenden Watson.
Prep Softball
N. Community 17-5
Danville 0-4
DANVILLE — After being blown away in the first game, the Vikings almost pulled off a win against Normal Community.
“We started off slow and we came out and scored two runs in the fifth and sixth,” Danville coach Wendy Royer said. “That was good they came back from the first game.”
McKenzie Hodges and Kaitlyn Phillips each drove in two runs for the Vikings, who drop to 12-17 overall and 2-6 in the Big 12 and will face Champaign Central on Monday.
Cornjerkers fall at Paxton
PAXTON — Hoopeston Area’s Amy Austin hit her eighth home run in the non-conference game versus Paxton-Buckley-Loda.
The Cornjerkers dropped one game to Peotone and one to PBL on Saturday.
“These were good games to play right before regionals,” Hoopeston Area coach John Hardcastle said. “In the second game there was lots of pressure. That’ll help us get ready.”
The Cornjerkers play at home in the Class 2A Regional on Tuesday versus either PBL or Prairie Central.
Schlarman 0-3 at Pontiac
PONTIAC — Kayla Bryant and Casey Cromwell were the only players to have extra base hits in three games of play on Saturday.
“We got the opportunity to face three excellent teams. Hopefully we can use the experiences from the day in the state run,” Schlarman coach Randy Skaggs said.
After the weekend the Hilltoppers’ record is now 19-16.
Fountain Central 1
Geo-RF 0
VEEDERSBURG, Ind. — Melanie Krout went 3-for-3 for Fountain Central in the close game versus Georgetown-Ridge Farm.
The Mustangs beat the Buffaloes 1-0.
Kelsey Everett added a double and an RBI.
“We hit the ball really well but right at people,” Georgetown-Ridge Farm coach Lucas Grider said. “We just didn’t get any breaks.”
Attica second in tournament
MICHIGANTOWN, Ind. —Attica won their first game and lost the Championship game to North Montgomery in the Clinton Central Tournament.
The Red Ramblers are now 6-14 overall.
Kelsey Randles, Lindsay Phillips, Kayla Allison, Elizabeth Waters, Casey Hurst and Ashley Bossaer all had multiple hits in the first game and all nine starters at least had one hit.
“We played really good. The first game was our best game of the year,” Attica coach Dusty Goodwin said. “The second game we shut North Montgomery down in the first five innings but we fell apart defensively in the sixth and allowed two unearned runs in the sixth and one unearned in the eighth.”
North Central 1
North Vermillion 0
CAYUGA, Ind. — The Falcons played the best game they had played in a while but it wasn’t enough to get past North Central, the team ranked seventh in the state in Class A softball.
Bethany Chew was the only player with multiple hits with two singles.
“We played well. We had runners in scoring position but our hitting was not timely,” North Vermillion coach Mike Davis said.
The Falcons fall to 10-10.
PREP BASEBALL
Salt Fork 8
Milford 0
JAMAICA — After a tough loss to Westville Friday, the Salt Fork Storm bounced back and won 8-0 against Milford.
“Even though this game didn’t play a role in our conference standings it was still good for the kids to come and hit like they did. It gives us a great start in regionals,” Salt Fork coach Darin Jarling said. “And congratulations to Schlarman.”
Freshman pitcher Joel Learnard (2-0) had 11 strike outs and allowed only one hit.
Bryn Eakle, Morgan Learnard and Joe Pratt all had three hits in the win.
Conference play is over but Salt Fork improves to 16-7 overall and Milford drops to 9-14.
PREP BOYS TENNIS
Danville third in Big 12
CHAMPAIGN — Jesse Roberson had a great Big 12 tournament placing fourth in doubles along with Devon Kidwell and second in No. 5 singles. He was seeded fifth in both brackets.
Lewis Towne won second place at No. 1 singles while Vibhav Reddy placed second at No. 2 doubles.
Colby Clapper and Devon Kidwell took fourth place at No. 3 and No. 4 singles.
Ashish Patel contributed to Danville’s third place victory placing sixth at No. 6 singles.
“It was a great showing and everyone contributed,” Danville coach Scott Simpson said.
PREP BOYS TRACK
Buffaloes place 7th in Bulldog Invite
MAHOMET — Georgetown-Ridge Farm/Chrisman’s J.W. Harris placed first in the 100 meter run and third in the 200 to help the Buffaloes take seventh place at the Bulldog Invitational.
Joey Reisinger placed first in the shot put and third in the discus.
Devon Darnell took sixth in the high jump and seventh in the triple jump.

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