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Lady Patriots offering all-night camp
Press Release The 2013 Massac County High School Lady Patriot Basketball Camp will be an all-night camp on Friday and Saturday. Registration begins at 9:30 p.m., and the camp starts at 10:30 p.m...
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Childers shines at ‘Super Sixty’
The trip to Peoria wasn’t exactly what she had envisioned, but Kaylee Childers’ last appearance at the Eastside Centre was nonetheless a memorable one. Childers was named to play in the Illinois S...
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Post season honors roll in for softball
Massac County’s Lady Patriots softball team played to an almost unimaginable level this year with 31-1-1, and the girls are beginning to reap the rewards for such play. The Illinois Coaches Associ...
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Nashville, Goreville take third in state softball finals
If one needed additional proof that Massac County’s Lady Patriots were one of the best teams in the state, look no further than the IHSA Class A and Class AA state finals. Massac County split the...
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Korte advances to NCAA championships in Atlanta
Metropolis native and Austin Peay State University senior Dustin Korte apparently took a liking to the Arizona heat and particularly to Tempe’s Karsten Course. Korte fired a six-under par, three-d...
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There’s a new high jump ‘King’
Massac County’s Alex King finally cleared 7 feet and took down Waterloo’s Justin Kretchmer. And both couldn’t have happened at more opportune times. The setting this time was O’Brien Stadium on t...
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Gracyn McBride, left, congratulates Kaylee Childers after she scores the winning run against Red Bud, and Jessie Douglas runs to join them the plate.
Nashville Hornettes sting Lady Patriots, ending dream season
The rematch of southern Illinois’ two best softball teams didn’t end like we all had hoped Saturday morning at DuQuoin. Nashville’s powerful Hornettes took down the unbeaten Lady Patriots 5-2 to t...
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Jonathan Haverkamp and Rebecca Shepard are the first recipients of the the Coach J.D. Seitzinger Memorial Scholarship. — Photo submitted
Seitzinger memorial scholarship awarded
Staff Report Jonathan Haverkamp and Rebecca Shepard were each awarded $1000 after receiving the Coach J.D. Seitzinger Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship was established to award two scholarshi...
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Emily Hoard, left and Emily Hoard represent Massac County High School at the IHSA Girls State Track and Field Meet in Charleston. — Photo submitted
Hill shines at state track and field meet
Sophomores Leilani Hill and Emily Hoard were Massac County’s only representatives at the IHSA Girls State Track and Field Meet held last weekend at O’Brien Stadium in Charleston. Hoard, who has pr...
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Patriot infielder Tyler Jennings catches one on the barrel of the bat last week against Vienna in the Harrisburg regional. Massac lost a tough one 11-8 despite a valiant comeback attempt. — Beth Shelton | Metropolis Planet
Vienna ends boys’ season
What had been a somewhat surprisingly good season for Massac County’s baseball team came to a bitter end Thursday at Harrisburg’s Dorris Heights Baseball Complex. Vienna pulled off the upset and b...
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