Mt. Carroll Small Fry catcher Keegan Kloepping slides safely into third base as Savanna third baseman Taylor Hazen watches the ball go into left field during action Friday in Mt. Carroll. (PA photo/Craig Lang)
Mt. Carroll’s Karson Metz slides into third base as Savanna’s Taylor Hazen puts a late tag on him. The Mt. Carroll squad scored often, rolling to the 18-8 victory. (PA photo/Craig Lang)
Shannon Junior Miss pitcher Sam Johnson lets a pitch go during tourney action Saturday in Milledgeville. The Shannon team held off a good Chadwick team to take the 13-10 win (PA photo/Craig Lang)
Savanna Junior Miss pitcher Josi Anderson releases a pitch to a Thomson batter during first round tourney action in Milledgeville on Saturday. (PA photo/Craig Lang)
Thomson Junior Miss pitcher Bailey Durward lets a pitch go to a Savanna hitter during Saturday tourney action in Milledgeville. (PA photo/Craig Lang)
Chadwick Junior Miss pitcher Jenna Bibler delivers a pitch to a Shannon batter during Saturday tourney action in Milledgeville. Chadwick played well but fell to Shannon 13-10. (PA photo/Craig Lang)
Milledgeville-Polo Coop Ends
By Craig Lang
Prairie Advocate Sports
The Polo School Board on Thursday June 25, 2010 approved by a vote of 5-1 to begin a two year coop agreement for spring sports with Forreston. The vote effectively ends the coop agreement between the Polo and Milledgeville school districts for all spring sports.
The coop between Milledgeville and Polo began in 2003 and led to many stellar sports teams, the last being this years girls softball team who were eliminated by Rock Falls. Both the Milledgeville-Polo baseball coach Jeff Sands and the softball coach Rick Lincoln were employees of the Polo school district.
The new coop agreement will begin with the 2010-2011 school year and will include baseball, softball track and wrestling. With the move, the Milledgeville program will wait to see what their school board will do as they meet later. As for right now, the move will drop the Missiles programs back to the 1A classification.