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ST. LOUIS — A record-setting home run was all Spencer Walker needed. After Luke Napleton launched a solo home run in the first inning Friday afternoon, allowing the Quincy University baseball team to break the single-season home run record, Walker followed with eight scoreless innings as the Hawks opened the weekend series against Missouri-St. Louis…
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BEARDSTOWN, Ill. — The Quincy Notre Dame baseball team delivered a strong message to a potential regional opponent Thursday afternoon. The Raiders are ready to Dance. Behind a one-hit shutout by right-hander Tyler Dance and a dominant effort from the top of the batting order, the Raiders rolled to a 13-0, five-inning victory over Beardstown…
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CANTON, Mo. — Culver-Stockton College women’s lacrosse coach Caitlin Erickson and six of the Wildcats were honored with mention on the inaugural All-Heart of America Athletic Conference teams. Erickson, in her fourth season at the helm, was named the Heart Coach of the Year, The Wildcats, under Erickson’s direction, finished with a 6-7 record and…
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JACKSONVILLE, Ill. — A counterattack, a cross and a goal by Chatham Glenwood all in the first 90 seconds of Thursday’s match left the Quincy High School girls soccer team reeling just a little. “I thought, ‘Oh, no, how is this going to roll?’” Blue Devils coach Travis Dinkheller said. Forced to alter the lineup…
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QUINCY — Opportunity awaits the Quincy University women’s tennis team. For the second time in three seasons, the Hawks have qualified for the Great Lakes Valley Conference postseason tournament, finishing fourth in the league’s West Division after winning two of their final three conference duals. The only drawback, if there is even one, is the…
Read Full Article GENESEO, Ill. — The depth the Quincy High School girls soccer worked to build during some of its early-season lopsided victories is going to be put to the test against some of the most stiff competition the Blue Devils will face. The Blue Devils likely will go into Thursday’s game at Chatham Glenwood without three…
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QUINCY — Registration is underway for the Cardiac Classic golf tournament to benefit the Blessing Heart and Vascular Center. The event will be held at Spring Lake Country Club on Friday, May 5, with sign-in from 8-9 a.m. The format is a 4-person scramble. Lunch will be provided. Cost is $300 per team. To register…
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QUINCY — Luke Napleton’s big weekend earned him another Great Lakes Valley Conference honor. The Quincy University baseball team’s junior catcher was named the GLVC Player of the Week after helping the Hawks go 5-0 last week with a four-game sweep of McKendree to move into sole possession of first place in the league standings.…
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QUINCY — World Series hero David Freese is one of several former St. Louis Cardinals who will be instructors at a baseball clinic from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 22. The clinic, to be held at Blessing Health System Field and Pepsi Field in Moorman Park, is for children ages 7-13 years…
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BEARDSTOWN, Ill. — The Quincy Notre Dame baseball team didn’t record a hit until the fifth batter of the first inning Friday against Carrollton in the opening game of the Beardstown Tiger Showcase and had only two hits in the inning thereafter. The Raiders still scored 12 runs in the frame. Capitalizing on walks, hit…
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QUINCY — Dirt track racing guru Steve Eighinger offers his insight into each of the five classes which will be featured at the Adams County Speedway this season, beginning with this season’s lid-lifter Sunday night: LATE MODELS Defending champ: Denny Woodworth. Best bet to dethrone the king: Tommy Elston. Dark horse to watch: Darin Weisinger…
Read Full Article QUINCY — The president of an outdoor sportswear brand. The J.G. Taylor Spink Award winner. An accomplished mixed martial arts fighter. An all-American baseball player. The latest class of inductees into the Quincy University Sports Hall of Fame are trendsetters, icons, acclaimed student-athletes and successful businessmen. QU will honor the Class of 2023 during an…
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QUINCY — Caitlin Bunte was dominant in the pitcher’s circle. The Quincy Notre Dame softball team collected timely hits. And Quincy High School struggled to generate an answer offensively. The end result in the first of two crosstown showdowns this spring was a 10-0 victory for the Raiders on Wednesday night at the QHS field.…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — No one wanted to go home, not until every last opportunity to score had been exhausted. That explains why the Hannibal baseball team’s 15-14 victory over Quincy High School at Veterans Field on Wednesday took 10 innings and 3 hours, 45 minutes to complete. Ultimately, a ground ball by Pirates freshman Tre…
Read Full Article PITTSFIELD, Ill. — The Quincy Notre Dame baseball team just keeps hitting. The Raiders collected 12 hits, scored in four of the six innings played Wednesday and rolled to a 14-4 victory over Pittsfield. The Raiders have scored 10 or more runs in eight of their 12 games this season and have collected 10 or…
Read Full Article RUSHVILLE, Ill. — Colin Kurk’s home-run trot got interrupted. The No. 9 hitter in the Quincy Notre Dame baseball team’s lineup, Kurk cracked what everyone believed to be a grand slam to left-center field in the top of the fifth inning Monday against Rushville-Industry. However, he pulled up rounding second as one umpire called it…
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QUINCY — An overturned call gave the Pittsfield baseball team new life, and the Saukees took advantage of it. With the game tied and two outs in the top of the seventh inning, Pittsfield’s Justin Pennock was called out at first base after hitting a ground ball to Quincy High School shortstop Blake Bunch. However,…
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QUINCY — The Illinois Federation for Outdoor Resources is warning Illinois hunters about the impact of the Protect Illinois Communities Act (PA 102-1116). Common sporting shotguns used by snow goose hunters in Illinois no longer will be allowed on public lands as of Monday, April 10, even though snow goose season runs through April 30…
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SALEM, Mo. — The issues that resulted in former Palmyra football coach Kevin Miles tendering his resignation as a teacher March 30 have forced him to resign from his new job. According to the Salem News, the Salem R-80 Board of Education accepted Miles’ resignation as a teacher, head football coach and assistant athletic director…
Read Full Article QUINCY — A seven-run outburst in the sixth inning allowed the Quincy High School baseball team to survive a tumultuous seventh inning and earn an 11-8 victory over Granite CIty on Wednesday at the QHS field. The Blue Devils (4-3) have won three of their last four games to climb above the .500 mark. Quincy…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The physical play of the Quincy Notre Dame girls soccer team and the second-half intensity of the attack brought about by senior forward Lia Quintero and sophomore forward Makalya Patton led to a 5-2 victory over Hannibal on Wednesday at Veterans Field. Photographer Mathew Kirby put together this photo gallery from the…
Read Full Article PALMYRA, Mo. — Expressing regret over what has transpired within the Palmyra football program and school district within the last six months, former Panthers coach Kevin Miles made his first public comments following his resignation as a teacher last week. Miles spoke with Dave Roberts of the Salem (Mo.) News and said “All I can…
Read Full Article GALESBURG, Ill. — The path of Tuesday’s severe storms that led to funnel clouds being spotted in McDonough and Fulton Counties not only forced the Quincy High School girls soccer off the field, but it kept the Blue Devils grounded in place. “The storm was south of us and they weren’t going to make us…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — After two seasons at the helm of the Hannibal-LaGrange University women’s volleyball program, Maliah Blakemore is leaving to join the coaching staff at Kansas Wesleyan University. Blakemore, a Quincy High School graduate, was a graduate assistant at HLGU during the 2020 season before taking over as the interim head coach two weeks…
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Jay Hammel delivered his best when the Quincy University baseball team needed it most. Having lost the first game of Sunday’s Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheader with Illinois-Springfield, the Hawks needed a victory in the nightcap to split the day and the four-game series between two nationally ranked teams. Hammel made certain…
Read Full Article SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Chase Gockel’s job Saturday was to keep the Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheader from teetering to the point of no return. Three scoreless innings did the trick. After the Illinois-Springfield baseball team won the first game of the twinbill 9-3 by scoring three times in both the sixth and seventh inning, the…
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QUINCY — The Western Illinois Fellowship of Christian Athletes annual area banquet will be held at 2 p.m. April 16 at Quincy University. Keynote speaker will be Les Steckel, president of FCA. He will be joined by Patric Young, a former Florida Gators basketball player. Steckel coached college and pro football for 27 years. He…
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HAMDEN, Conn. — Former Hannibal multi-sport standout Dezi Jones was arrested by the Hamden Police Department on Tuesday night and charged with misdemeanor strangulation/suffocation and disorderly conduct, according to police reports. The arrest was first reported by NBC Connecticut. Jones, a 5-foot-10 guard who spent the previous two seasons on the Quinnipiac University men’s basketball…
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CANTON, Mo. — Dorian Hobbs, Jr., a former Culver-Stockton College player and assistant coach, will return to the college as the head coach for the men’s basketball program. Athletic Director Pat Atwell made the announcement Wednesday afternoon. Hobbs has spent the last two seasons with the coaching staff at Millikin University. This year’s team finished with…
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QUINCY — Does having survived playing five games in five days without a loss earn the Quincy High School girls soccer team a day of rest come Wednesday? “Oh, hell yes,” Blue Devils coach Travis Dinkheller said. Quincy finished its physically taxing stretch Tuesday night with a 1-0 victory over United Township in Western Big…
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