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Second baseman Luke Wieneke goes high after a throw to second by catcher Zach Stewart in Thursday’s game against St. Mary’s. — Beth Shelton | Metropolis Planet
Baseball team splits last pair; regionals are Thursday
The Massac County Patritots tangled with a pair of west Kentucky teams to end their regular season and came out with one win and one loss. The boys whipped St. Mary last Thursday 7-3 at home but d...
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Lakin Hoyer, Alyssa Logeman, Payton Hillebrand and Courtney Nelson, all in red, were in action Saturday at Olney. The girls lost 3-0 to Harrisburg in the regional championship game. — Beth Shelton | Metropolis Planet
Harrisburg wins girls’ soccer regional in Olney
For Massac County, the third time was not a charm as Harrisburg’s Lady Bulldogs shut out the Lady Patriots 3-0 to take the Olney regional on Saturday. Harrisburg was a just bit too physical for Ma...
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Second baseman Jessie Douglas has been on fire lately. Here she connects against Pope County for a home run. — Beth Shelton | Metropolis Planet
Unbeaten softball team turns focus to regionals
Phase 1 of the “Peoria Project” is now in the books and it’s on to Phase 2. With an unblemished mark of 28-0-1 at the end of regular season play, the Massac County Lady Patriots now start the nerv...
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More from the worlds of track, soccer, softball
Hill, Hoard do well at West Frankfort tourney Massac County’s Lady Patriots track team has had a fair amount of success this spring as Leilani Hill and Emily Hoard have become dominant in their m...
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OVC champs Korte, APSU head to NCAA regionals
Talk about saving your best for last. Metropolis native Dustin Korte survived the travails of college life as a freshman then produced two seasons of solid, if not spectacular, golf for the Govern...
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Patriots win a close one
Despite Mother Nature, Massac’s baseball team got in a pair of games last week and added two more wins to their resume. A 26-0 blowout at Egyptian was followed with a good effort in a 3-1 win at A...
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Jordyn Smith connects for a line drive home run against Calloway County.
Lady Patriots knock off defending state champs, remain unbeaten
An ESPN “Instant Classic,” last Thursday night’s match-up of Massac County and Nashville at SIU’s Charlotte West Stadium pitted two of the state’s very best softball teams and the game lived up to ...
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Surrounded by the Massac County High School Lady Patriots soccer team, coach Brock Frazier holds up the second-place plaque won at the Centralia Tournament last week. — Photo submitted
Girls soccer team second in Centralia tourney
For the second time this season, Massac County’s Lady Patriots soccer team placed second in a very competitive tournament. This time, the girls actually lost in the championship game and weren’t r...
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MCHS Patriot baseball splits a pair . . . sort of
After the exciting 3-2 win over Herrin on April 22, the Patriot baseball team sort of kissed their sister with an 8-8 tie on April 23 against Benton. The back-and-forth affair ended when the umps ...
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Umpire Steve Karaker gives the safe sign as senior shortstop Sonja Robertson slides into third base with a triple. Robertson scored Joppa’s only run in a 10-1 loss to Century. — Beth Shelton | Metropolis Planet
Lady Rangers fall to 2-6
The improvement is easy to see, but the disappointment is also likewise easy to see. At the season’s beginning, first-year Joppa High School Lady Rangers softball coach Michelle Johnson was highly...
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