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during the boy's All-Area All Star basketball game at Parkland College in Champaign on Sunday, April 22 , 2012.
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Green Team coach Chad Benedict talks with Fisher's Dylan Chapman during the boy's All-Area All Star basketball game at Parkland College in Champaign on Sunday, April 22 , 2012.
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Fans during the boy's All-Area All Star basketball game at Parkland College in Champaign on Sunday, April 22 , 2012.
View ArticleSenior Legion baseball: Rantoul Post 287 loses to Charleston, won't advance...
By CLAYTON CONNESSFor the Rantoul PressMATTOON — On a sun-drenched day for baseball, pool play continued in the 27th annual Firecracker Classic at Mattoon High School.Rantoul Post 287, however, saw its...
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MATTOON — Bases loaded. Two outs.Trailing by three runs. Top of the seventh inning.That was the scenario Rantoul’s Post 287 Senior Legion baseball squad found itself in last Wednesday night during its...
View ArticleSenior Legion Baseball: Staying cool at the Firecracker Classic
By MATT DANIELS, CLAYTON CONNESS, LUCAS DECKER AND KRISTEN GISONDIMATTOON — Besides the action taking place at three baseball fields in Coles County, the hot temperatures were a constant source of...
View ArticleSenior Legion Baseball: Smith unhappy after loss to Macon County
MATTOON — Garry Smith was about as hot as the 100-degree temperature on Thursday afternoon.The Rantoul Post 287 Senior Legion baseball head coach did not like what he had just witnessed from his team...
View ArticleSenior Legion Baseball: Post 287 leaves Mattoon on a positive
MATTOON — Playing with no pressure, Rantoul Post 287’s Senior Legion baseball team played its best game at the 27th annual Firecracker Classic.It just so happened it came in Post 287’s last game and in...
View ArticleSenior Legion Baseball: Charleston spoils Post 287’s shot at semifinals
MATTOON — Rantoul Post 287 needed to win twice on Friday.Heading into the final day of pool play at the 27th annual Senior Legion Firecracker Classic, Post 287 saw its chances of playing on the...
View ArticleSenior Legion Baseball: No sparks for Rantoul at Firecracker Classic
MATTOON — More than 200 innings of baseball spanning 33 games.Twelve teams. Three facilities used. Three days of temperatures near and above 100 degrees.Hundreds of runs scored (306 to be precise)....
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