The Lady Rebels met up with Midland at Putnam County Saturday.  The game was the championship of the regionals.  Stark County won 6-5 in dramatic fashion advancing to sectionals.
Stark County got out to the early 1-0 lead after the first inning.  In the bottom of the third inning the Lady Rebels added 3 more runs making it 4-0.  
Midland would start their comeback, scoring 1 run in each of the next two innings.  Midland got the lead down to two heading into the seventh and final inning. 

The Stark County Junior High Track team fared well at the State Track meet last weekend at Eastside Centre in East Peoria.
The team, led by coaches Josh England, Jon England and Al Curry, worked through rainy weather Friday and Saturday to medal in four events.
Logan Hollis placed fourth in the 1600 meter run and seventh in the 800 meter run. Jake Berchtold placed seventh in long jump. The relay team consisting of Chase Hannam, Ian Davis, Jake Berchtold and Ryne Daum placed eighth in the eighth grade 4x400 meter relay.
In addition to placing eighth at the meet, the relay team also broke the school record by running the relay with a time of 3:57.24. The previous record was 4:01.
The complete list of Stark County Junior High State Track competitors and the events they competed in are listed as follows:
Logan Hollis – 1600 M, 800 M
Tyler Dorsey – shot
Thorin Hicks – high jump
Jake Berchtold – 100 M, 200 M, long jump
Ryne Daum – 400 M, high jump
Tyler Dorsey, Jake Goodman, Logan Hollis and Thorin Hicks – seventh grade 4x200
Ashley Phillips, Alyssa Koehler, Tasjianna Bachman and Brandi McGava – eighth grade 4x100
Ashley Phillips, Alyssa Koehler, Shelby Raineri and Brandi McGava – eighth grade 4x400.

The Rebels traveled to Wethersfield Friday for the conference track meet.  It was a rough day for both girls and boys teams as both finished 8th place.
The boys only gathered 7 points in the meet.  Stark County got 7th place – worth 1 point – in the 4x200 meter relay (Danny Berchtold, Kyle Copeland, Brandon Lee, Aaron Sidell), 4x400 meter relay (Joel Rice, Brandon Lee, Cody Strawn, Theodore Fritch), 4x800 meter relay (Kyle Milroy, Jon Hall, Sam McCauley, Joel Rice), and 400m dash (Cody Strawn).  Kyle Milroy high jumped over 5’6” for 5th place and 3 points. 

The Stark County softball team is really playing well as they shut out Mercer County last Tuesday 8-0.  The Lady Rebels completely shut down Mercer County and improved their record to 18-9 and 8-3 in conference play.
The Lady Rebels were swinging the bats very well as Danielle Kenny had 3 RBI’s – two came from a double in the first inning.  Brittany Price and Natalie Turner both had 2 RBI’s.  Price had one in the first inning to get things rolling and had another in the fourth inning.  Turner’s RBI’s also came in the fourth inning when she hit a triple with two girls on base.
Again Alex Nusz was phenomenal on the mound pitching all seven innings and only giving up 4 hits and no runs.  She got some excellent help defensively as Stark County committed no errors.  Nusz needed this help because she only struck out 4 batters.  
As the end of the season starts to come into focus the Lady Rebels are really starting to play some good softball.