After a solid performance Thursday night, May 12, against Pleasant Plains, Litchfield would look to carry that over to Friday night’s South Central Conference game in Piasa. Southwestern, …
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5/16/22
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It was a baseball game fit for the lore of Litchfield/Hillsboro athletic contests. Hillsboro jumped ahead, then held on for a 4-3 win when the two teams met in South Central Conference play at the …
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by Ron Deabenderfer
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5/12/22
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Based on their first meeting and similar records, one could have predicted that Tuesday’s softball game between Hillsboro and Litchfield would be a close one. Few would have predicted what …
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5/12/22
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Two things needed to happen for there to be an all-Montgomery County regional championship on Friday: there needed to be an upset and there needed to be a win by a conference co-champion.
By the …
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5/12/22
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After a 10-day hiatus from the diamond, three cancelled ball games, the Purple Panthers were able to finally get a game played on their schedule on Monday, May 9.
Early in the contest Litchfield …
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5/12/22
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It took the Litchfield girls soccer team seven games to score five goals to start the year. On Friday, May 6, it took the Panthers less than 11 minutes.
With their regional game against Gillespie …
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by Kyle Herschelman
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5/9/22
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The last time the Litchfield High School girls track team won the South Central Conference title, most of its team was barely walking, let alone running.
It had been 15 years since the Lady …
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5/5/22
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The Litchfield boys track team came away from the South Central Conference Championships on Tuesday, May 3, with a third place finish as a team and five individual champions as the Panthers continue …
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5/5/22
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Both Montgomery County high school girls soccer teams came away with victories on Tuesday, May 3, as the season begins to wind down.
The Hillsboro Lady Hiltoppers made the long trek to Trenton on …
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5/5/22
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The Litchfield girls track team picked up 11 wins in the 14 events as they finished second by just 3.5 points to Pleasant Plains in a four-team senior night meet at LHS on April 28.
On the track, …
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5/2/22
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After claiming their second win of the season on Tuesday, Litchfield would look to grab their second straight win Friday night, April 29, in Vandalia. The Purple Panthers would get on the board …
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5/2/22
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After losing their last 10 games, including a 5-0 loss to North Mac on April 27, the Litchfield girls soccer team was in need of a victory, even a moral one if one not on the field. On senior night, …
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5/2/22
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Intermittent rain cancelled several games on Friday, April 29. Not-so-intermittent scoring made one of the games that did proceed less fun for the Litchfield Lady Panthers.
Vandalia scored nine …
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5/2/22
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Part of the success of the Litchfield High School track team this year has been the performance of their underclassmen. On Thursday, April 21, those young Panthers got their opportunity to shine …
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5/2/22
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An old Irish blessing states, "May the wind always be at your back." On Saturday, the Hillsboro girls soccer team was blessed for half the game, then held on for a 5-4 victory when the wind favored …
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4/28/22
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After claiming their first win less than a week ago, the Purple Panthers baseball club decided to claim their first South Central Conference win on Tuesday night. Litchfield scored all three of their …
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4/28/22
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The start of the week wasn’t particularly kind to the Litchfield High School softball team as they fell to Carlinville and Staunton by 15 runs each.
On Monday, April 25, the Lady Panthers …
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4/28/22
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A six-run bottom of the fifth propelled the Carlinville Cavaliers over the Purple Panthers in a shortened 12-2 non-conference baseball game.
The Cavies six-run fifth would blow open a 4-2 …
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4/28/22
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The Litchfield High School track team turned in a solid effort at the Rochester Rocket Invite on Saturday, April 23, placing girls team standings and tying for sixth in the boys team ranks.
The …
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4/28/22
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The old saying, “Good things come to those who wait,” came true for the Litchfield baseball team on Friday, April 22, as the Purple Panthers claimed their first win of the …
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4/25/22
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