Season opener for Knights Baseball
The AC Central-PORTA Junior High baseball team opened their season last week, splitting a pair of games with Brown County. The AC Central “A” team (AC...
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PORTA/A-C State Track results
A great track and field season ended at the IHSA State Championships for the PORTA-AC Central Bluejays boys team with some great finishes. Bryson Schachtsiek placed sixth in the 300 hurdles finishing in a time of 41.18. He placed 28th in the long jump with a leap of 5.96 meters. Isaac Rennecker finished ninth in the triple jump, bounding 12.83 meters and fifteenth in the high jump, clearing 1.8 meters. Daxton Trueblood finished 18th in the 800 meters running a time of 2:02.56. Jacob Vogel ended in 26th place in the 200 meter dash, sprinting a time of 23.25.
A-C School Board approves summer infrastructure projects
With students about to go on summer break, the A-C Central School Board looked into and approved a number of building repair and improvement projects to be completed before students return in the fall.
For Ashland, the board accepted a bid for flooring work in the restrooms. The bid from Lamar Hager Construction was for $34,000 but the board put a spending ceiling of $49,999 in order to get the most funding the district could out of a matching grant to cover the project cost.
Numerous Bluejays are State bound
A very successful boy’s track and field season continued for PORTA-AC Central as the Bluejays placed second as a team in the Class 1A Rushville Sectional and will be sending a host of athletes to the IHSA State Finals starting Thursday, May 23 at Eastern Illinois University.
Olympia stops Lady Bluejays
The Stanford Olympia Spartans beat PORTA-AC Central in the second round of regional play 10 to 0 to end the Bluejay’s softball season at 12-11. PORTA-AC did get revenge on arch-rival Athens for a 13 to 1 April loss by knocking the Warriors off in round one of the regional by a score of 10 to 8.
Pretzels end Bluejays’ run
The best season in quite some time for the PORTA-AC Central baseball team ended with a 5 to 3, Regional Semifinal loss to the New Berlin Pretzels. The Bluejays lost to the Pretzels 12 to 1 on April 22 which spurned PORTA-AC onto a great finish to the season. They end the year with a mark of 21-10.
Twenty-Win Season for Bluejay Baseball
An incredible ten-game winning streak has carried the PORTA-AC Central baseball team to a 20-9 regular season record becoming the first Bluejay team in the last twenty years to reach the twenty-win milestone.
The Jays started the season slowly and were 5-5 at the end of March and 10-8 in middle of April. Following a disheartening loss to New Berlin on April 22 the team turned things around and has not lost since.
Bluejays sweeps last chance track meet
The PORTA-AC Central track and field teams wrapped up their regular season competitions by sweeping to team victories in both the boys and girls meets at their own PORTA Last Chance Meet last Monday.
For the boys, Jacob Vogel won the 100 and placed second in the 200, Noah Hardy placed second in the 400, Daxton Trueblood won the 800, Justin Zimmerman finished third in the 800, Kade Parker won the 1600, Logan Baker was second in the 110 hurdles, Avery Jockisch was third in the 110 hurdles, Bryson Schachtsiek won the 300 hurdles and the long jump, Owen Gilbert placed third in the discus, and Isaac Rennecker won the high jump and the triple jump. The 4x200 relay team of Hunter Stroupe, Schachtsiek, Rennecker and Jacob Vogel, the 4x400 relay team of Stroupe, Quincy Stuhmer, Cael Cotner and Trueblood and the 4x800 relay team of Justin Zimmerman, Stuhmer, Parker and Trueblood all won first place in their races.
A-C Central 8th grader one of six Youth Citizenship Award winners
The Pierre Menard NSDAR Chapter held a meeting on Sunday, April 21, at Country Hills Golf Course in Greenview, IL. The 8th Grade Youth Citizenship Award winners from six area schools were recognized for their Honor, Service, Courage, Leadership and Patriotism qualities. The winners are from left to right Madelyn Snedeker from Havana, Regan Heubner from PORTA, Leyla Danner from Midwest Central, Karlee Lewis from Athens, Braxton Stice from AC Central and Lucy Waibel from Greenview.
Lady Bluejays stay hot
Three wins in four games last week pushed the PORTA-AC Central softball team’s record to 5-1 for the season. The Lady Bluejays trounced Jacksonville Routt and Springfield Lanphier and snuck by North Mac before the season opening win streak was rudely snapped by Springfield High School.