Muddy River Sports
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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MENDON, Ill. — Opportunistic or powerful describes the Quincy Notre Dame softball team’s offense depending on the situation. In the first inning of Tuesday’s West Central Conference game against Unity, the Raiders seized the moment as Brooke Boden followed an error that put runners at the corners by stroking a two-run double to right field.…
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QUINCY — Strong pitching, clutch hitting and solid defense. Put those three together and you end up with the results the Quincy Notre Dame softball team enjoyed Saturday during its season-opening games at The Backyard. The Raiders saw Carly Gilker and Caitlin Bunte combine to throw a one-hitter in a 5-0 victory over Calhoun and…
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QUINCY — The Quincy Notre Dame softball team put together strong pitching performances and opportunistic at-bats to beat Calhoun 5-0 and Illini West 13-2 on Saturday in its season-opening games at The Backyard. Muddy River Sports Editor Matt Schuckman captured some of the action for this photo gallery:
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — An in-person registration event for summer softball and baseball leagues will be held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 1, at Bear Creek Sports Park. The leagues are for boys and girls ages 4-14 and will be divided into T-ball, coach pitch, machine pitch and kid pitch. Games will begin in mid-May.…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Due to popular demand, Hannibal Parks and Recreation is keeping the Clemens Training Facility open for a few weeks in April. The facility will be open for walk-ins 5-8 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday April 1-12. Individuals can use the facility for $6 per hour in 10-minute increments. The facility is in left…
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QUINCY — The Quincy High School girls soccer team finished off the first night of its two-day tournament with a 2-1 victory over Hannibal at Flinn Stadium. Ladue Horton Watkins beat Quincy Notre Dame 3-0 and Cape Girardeau Notre Dame beat Springfield 2-0 in the other games. Muddy River Sports Editor Matt Schuckman captured the…
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QUINCY — Everyone got into the act. The Quincy University baseball team scored 12 runs over the final three innings Friday to post a 14-4, seven-inning victory over Truman State at QU Stadium. All nine of the Hawks in the lineup reached base, seven had hits and eight scored at least one run. Muddy River…
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QUINCY — The second annual Gaybo/PDL basketball tournament will be held May 27-28 in Berrian Park. Children ages 5-17 will take the courts Saturday, May 27, and individuals 18 and older will play on Sunday, May 28. Entry fee is $150 per team. All participating teams are required to have uniforms. Officiating will be performed…
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BELLEVILLE, Ill. — The Quincy High School baseball team made strides. One week after suffering a 9-0 loss to Belleville West, the Blue Devils squared off with the Maroons again Wednesday afternoon and suffered a 5-2 loss after allowing four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. Quincy led 2-1 going to the bottom…
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QUINCY — The Quincy University men’s lacrosse team scored seven goals in the third quarter Monday, erasing a one-goal halftime deficit and propelling itself to a 13-8 victory over Colorado State-Pueblo at QU Stadium. Quincy scored three times in the first 90 seconds of the third quarter. Neal Dardis tied the game at 5 off…
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QUINCY — A pair of former Prospect League hurlers are making strong pitches to land on major league rosters when spring training breaks. Left-hander Dylan Dodd, who played for the Hannibal Hoots in 2018, is in the conversation to be the Atlanta Braves’ fifth starter. Meanwhile, right-hander Cam Sanders, who played for the Quincy Gems…
Read Full Article QUINCY — When the Quincy University baseball team starts rattling the bats, there’s no slowing down the offense. The Hawks tagged nine Missouri S&T pitchers for a combined 30 runs in sweeping Sunday’s doubleheader at QU Stadium, winning 11-2 and 19-11 to take three of the four games in their first Great Lakes Valley Conference…
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QUINCY — What’s the best way to respond to a pummeling? Come back and deliver the final blow. The Quincy University baseball team is pretty good at finishing with a punch. After allowing the most runs in a Great Lakes Valley Conference game in at least two decades in a 20-10 loss, the Hawks salvaged…
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RIVERTON, Ill. — Welcome back, Gearshift. Lia Quintero, the Quincy Notre Dame girls soccer team’s senior forward who has said her gameday hairstyle resembles a gearshift, is showing no signs of being slowed by the knee injury she suffered in the final minutes of last season’s Class 1A state semifinal victory. After scoring twice in…
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MACOMB, Ill. — A state-ranked showdown to open the prep softball season came down to the final at-bat just like everyone hoped it would. Macomb’s Kaitlyn Robinson scored the tying run in the bottom of the sixth inning and then worked a 1-2-3 seventh inning to preserve a 4-3 victory over Brown County. The Bombers…
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BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Struggles defensively put the Quincy High School baseball team in a precarious position Wednesday. The Blue Devils committed eight errors, leading to nine unearned runs, as they dropped their season opener 9-0 to Belleville West. The Maroons managed just five hits, but three came in the pivotal fourth inning when two errors…
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QUINCY — With spring break taking place on the backend of the Quincy Notre Dame girls basketball team’s third-place finish at the Class 2A state tournament, the Raiders had to wait an extra week for their fire truck ride and welcome home celebration. The time lapse gave the Raiders time to appreciate all they had…
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QUINCY — The Quincy University men’s basketball program will be the host of a camp on June 9-10 for high school varsity and junior varsity teams. Cost is $350 per team for five games inside the Quincy University Health and Fitness Center. To register, contact Troy Potts at pottstr@quincy.edu or 217-440-0019. The Hawks basketball program…
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CARTHAGE, Ill. — Sign-up is open for the 44th running of the Strawberry Strut in Carthage on Saturday, June 3. The Strawberry Strut is a classic five-mile run along the Carthage Lake. Other events in this year’s Strut are a 5K run, a 5K walk and a one-mile fun run/walk. To sign up, go to…
Read Full Article SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The 2023 Illinois spring trout fishing season will open Saturday, April 1, at 58 ponds, lakes and streams throughout the state. An early opportunity at selected trout sites – the spring catch-and-release fishing season – will open March 18. No trout may be kept during the catch-and-release fishing period, but anglers can…
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HILLSBORO, Ill. — The title defense began somewhat slow. In 32-degree weather, what else would you expect? The Quincy Notre Dame girls soccer team, the reigning Class 1A state champion, led 1-0 at halftime of Monday’s season opener with sophomore Lilly Schuette scoring her first goal with the Raiders six minutes before the break. In…
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QUINCY — The Quincy Junior High School wrestling team’s trip last weekend to the Illinois Elementary School Association state tournament proved incredibly fruitful. The Comets crowned one state champion, one state runner-up and finished eighth out of 72 teams overall in Class AA at the Northern Illinois University Convocation Center in DeKalb, Ill. At 126…
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QUINCY — A pair of Quincy University men’s basketball players have entered the transfer portal. Junior guard Paul Zilinskas and redshirt freshman forward Connor Davis announced their decisions on social media last week. Zilinskas, a 6-foot-5 swingman from , was the Hawks’ third leading scorer, averaging 10.9 points while shooting 42 percent from the field…
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A coach once labeled as “just a Class A coach” showed his true wares on the state’s biggest stage against the state’s biggest competition. A team that faced one of the toughest schedules of any Class 4A squad this season proved it could handle any challenge with poise and precision. And a…
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Moline boys basketball coach Sean Taylor delivered one final message to his team in the locker room Friday night before the Maroons left State Farm Center and headed back to their hotel. “We didn’t come here to get second,” he said. The Maroons earned the chance to make that reality. A sizzling…
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