High School Sports
PHOTOS: Baseball evens record with three weeks left of regular season
With three weeks remaining in the regular season before regionals, the high school baseball team (9-9) is sitting at .500 after playing 18 games. The team opened their week with a disconcerting 3-15 loss on Monday to Staunton, but then ousted Litchfield 7-3 on Tuesday two short weeks after losing to the Panthers 9-19.
Blake Middleton is leading the team in the batter’s box hitting .483 with 26 RBIs and 12 extra base hits including four homeruns. Eli Fox and Tate Wargo have also been top contributors at the plate tallying only five strikeouts on the season for each of them. Fox is hitting .400 with six doubles this year and 12 RBIs while Wargo is averaging .426 while leading the team in stolen bases with eight.
Rylee Bernot continues to lead the team on the pitcher’s mound with a 2.625 earned run average (ERA) in addition to throwing the most innings. Bernot has pitched over 34 innings at this point in the season recording 30 strikeouts and walking only seven batters. Wargo has thrown the second most and carries a 1.050 ERA with 24 strikeouts.
The struggle for the Miners has been the team’s defensive performance. Gillespie has committed 43 errors in the team’s 18 games this season averaging more than two each game. Nine of the team’s errors were committed in the two games earlier this week – six against Staunton on Monday and three against Litchfield on Tuesday.
The team takes the field again Saturday morning, April 23, against North Greene and has six games on the schedule next week including a double header on Saturday, Apr. 30. Gillespie is at Bunker Hill on Monday before hosting Carlinville on Wednesday and East Alton-Wood River on Thursday. The team is back on the road Friday and Saturday where they travel to Vandalia and Southwestern respected.
Dylan Roberts gets the starting number on the mound against Staunton on Monday.
Tate Wargo (right) dives back into first base on an attempted pickoff.
Rylee Bernot (right) attempts to leg out an infield hit.
Owen Carter (left) at first base for the Miners is late with applying the tag to Staunton’s Ryan Billings.
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Gillespie High School will honor the high school baseball team before the team’s banquet on Wednesday, June 14 with a parade through downtown.
The parade will start at the school at 5:30 p.m. and proceed through downtown Gillespie before heading back to the school so the team can conclude their season with a team-only banquet.
The school invites everyone to come downtown to recognize the team and celebrate this year’s accomplishments. The team ended their season with an overall 32-1 record and won 32 straight wins, a new school record.
The team also won their respective conference and regional.
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Eight athletes of Gillespie High School were named to the 2023 All-South Central Conference softball rosters that were released on Thursday.
Miners being named to the all-conference rosters included Emma Gipson, Regan Bussmann, and Eve Kaduk as first-team; Ava Parish, Megan Rife, Macie Wright, and Sadie Sholtis as second-team; and Delaney Taylor as third-team.
Gillespie’s season ended in the regional semi-final with an overall 25-4 record and 9-0 in the conference. The team loses three seniors including infielder Regan Bussmann, outfielder Eve Kaduk, and outfielder Megan Rife.
The entire list of honorees is below.
First team
- Emma Gipson (Gillespie, junior, pitcher)
- Hannah Gibson (Carlinville, sophomore, pitcher)
- Abby Hendricks (North Mac, junior, catcher)
- Isabella Tiburzi (Carlinville, sophomore, infielder)
- Shelby Ashcraft (Pana, sophomore, infielder)
- Ele Feldmann (Staunton, sophomore, infielder)
- Regan Bussmann (Gillespie, senior, infielder)
- Eve Kaduk (Gillespie, senior, outfielder)
- Olivia Kunz (Carlinville, junior, outfielder)
- Hallie Lomelino (North Mac, junior, outfielder)
- Kylie Lucykow (Staunton, junior, outfielder)
- Anika Camp (Hillsboro, sophomore, utility)
Second team
- Josie Patterson (North Mac, senior, pitcher)
- Grace Strohbeck (Southwestern, sophomore, pitcher)
- Addison Ruyle (Carlinville, sophomore, catcher)
- Makenah Dugan (Carlinville, sophomore, infielder)
- Kennedy Bowker (Pana, freshman, infielder)
- Ava Parish (Gillespie, freshman, infielder)
- Taylor Nolan (Staunton, junior, infielder)
- Gracie Philpot (Vandalia, senior, infielder)
- Megan Rife (Gillespie, senior, outfielder)
- Macie Wright (Gillespie, sophomore, outfielder)
- Maddy Fenstermaker (Southwestern, sophomore, outfielder)
- Sam Anderson (Staunton, sophomore, outfielder)
- Maddie Lupton (Vandalia, sophomore, outfielder)
- Sydney Valdes (Southwestern, sophomore, utility)
- Sadie Sholtis (Gillespie, freshman, utility)
Third team
- Shelby Ashcraft (Pana, sophomore, pitcher)
- Gracie Philpot (Vandalia, senior, pitcher)
- Hallie Gibson (Carlinville, freshman, pitcher)
- Delaney Taylor (Gillespie, sophomore, catcher)
- Bella Roach (Litchfield, junior, catcher)
- Hannah Potthast (Greenville, senior, infielder)
- Braley Wiser (Carlinville, sophomore, infielder)
- Taylor Keirs (North Mac, sophomore, infielder)
- Vivian Zurheide (Southwestern, freshman, infielder)
- Korryn Keehner (Staunton, sophomore, infielder)
- Delaney Kopp (Vandalia, senior, infielder)
- Karly Tipps (Carlinville, junior, outfielder)
- Haylee Clark (Greenville, freshman, outfielder)
- Lilly Troeckler (Staunton, sophomore, outfielder)
- Lauren Johnson (Vandalia, freshman, outfielder)
- Anna Osbourne (Vandalia, senior, utility)
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The top 59 boys’ and girls’ basketball seniors from South Central Illinois played in the 19th Annual Carlinville Rotary Club All-Star Basketball Classic on Sunday, March 26 in Carlinville which was presented by Prairie Farms Diary and CNB Bank & Trust.
Representing Gillespie High School among the athletes on the West teams included Emily Schoen, Jenna Clark, Kam Link, and Bryan Jubelt. Clark posted 2 points in the girls’ contest while Link posted 15 and Jubelt helped with 5 points in the boys’ game. Link also put on a show in the dunk contest scoring 48 out of the possible 50 points to win first place.
The Girls East beat the West 68-51 behind 14 points from MVP Layne Rupert of Hillsboro. The 3-point shootout was won by Paige Henson of Carrollton in a corner shootoff with Natalie Engelman of Nokomis. Staunton coach Corrie Allan was selected as the Rotary Club’s Girls’ Coach of the Year.
Devon Peebles of Pana took MVP honors in the boys’ Carlinville Rotary Club All-Star Basketball Classic. Peebles scored 25 points to lead the East to a 108-97 win over the West. Elijah Aumann of Nokomis won the 3-point contest hitting 10 treys and edging out Ryan Eisenbarth of Nokomis, Peebles and Jubelt of Gillespie who all had 9. In the Slam Dunk contest, Link scored 48 out of the possible 50 points for his routine with Peebles finishing second with a score of 41. Nokomis coach Dan DeWerff was named the Rotary Club’s Boys’ Coach of the Year.
With the East winning both the girls and boys match-ups this year, the all-time series record for boys moves to 12-7 with the West holding the lead and the girls record extends to 13-5 with the East holding strong.
The All-Star Classic serves as a fundraiser for the Carlinville Rotary Club who help with community projects throughout the year.
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