DANVILLE -- The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley Middle School baseball team won 4-1 over Danville Oakwood in the IESA Class 2A regional quarterfinals on Wednesday.
RANTOUL -- The Buckley St. John's baseball team's season ended in the IESA Class A regional quarterfinals with a 7-6 loss to Rantoul St. Malachy.
IESA CLASS A
PAXTON -- The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley Middle School baseball team won 18-0 Thursday over Paxton-Buckley-Loda.
MILFORD -- The Paxton-Buckley-Loda Junior High School baseball team lost 13-3 to Milford on Wednesday.
CISSNA PARK -- The Paxton-Buckley-Loda Junior High School baseball team won 12-0 over Cissna Park on Wednesday.
PAXTON -- The Paxton-Buckley-Loda Junior High School baseball team was swept in a doubleheader against Hoopeston Area on Saturday.
PAXTON -- The Paxton-Buckley-Loda Junior High School baseball team lost 18-4 to Mahomet-Seymour on Thursday.
GIBSON CITY -- The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley Athletic Hall of Fame will induct three people into its Class of 2019.
PAXTON -- The Paxton-Buckley-Loda Junior High School baseball team split a doubleheader against Prairie Central on Saturday.
WATSEKA — The Paxton-Buckley-Loda Junior High School baseball team lost 8-7 to Watseka Glenn Raymond on Thursday.
TOLONO -- The Paxton-Buckley-Loda Junior High School baseball team lost 10-1 in its first game of the year on Monday.
Dutchmasters win tournament championship for fourth time in five years.
CHARLESTON -- Mason Ecker earned a win on the mound for the Danville Post 210 Speakers in a 7-5 win Saturday over Gladwin (Mich.).
GIFFORD — Buckley Dutchmasters manager Ryne Scheiwe knew Saturday’s Eastern Illinois Baseball League Tournament championship series game against the Royal Giants would be a back-and-forth battle.
PBL grad helps Post keep title berth alive
BUCKLEY -- The Paxton Swedes were one game and four outs away from advancing to the Eastern Illinois Baseball League Tournament championship series for the second straight year.
BUCKLEY -- After a one-year absence, the Buckley Dutchmasters will play in the Eastern Illinois Baseball League championship game.
BUCKLEY -- Storm Joop of the Gifford-Flatville Giflats was selected as the winner of the the Eastern Illinois Baseball League's Ralph Loschen Award for most outstanding player.
EASTERN ILLINOIS BASEBALL LEAGUE TOURNAMENT
MATTOON -- The Post 432 Indians Junior Legion baseball team won the District Four tournament championship on Sunday.
LEXINGTON -- After clinching the outright Eastern Illinois Baseball League regular-season title, the Buckley Dutchmasters swept Game Seven Legacy in their last doubleheader of the regular season.
PAXTON -- In game one of Sunday's Eastern Illinois Baseball League doubleheader against the Gifford-Flatville Giflats, the Paxton Swedes picked up where they left off the previous day.
EL PASO — The Paxton Swedes split an Eastern Illinois Baseball League doubleheader with the El Paso Warriors on Sunday.
GIFFORD -- It was, as manager Ryne Scheiwe put it, a "tale of two games" for the Buckley Dutchmasters.
TILTON -- The Post 432 Indians Junior Legion baseball team won 13-3 over Champaign in a District Four Tournament game on Saturday.
TILTON -- The Ford-Iroquois Indians Senior Legion baseball team split a couple of district tournament games on Wednesday.
PAXTON -- The Paxton Swedes entered Sunday's doubleheader with a 2 1/2 game deficit to Game Seven Legacy for the No. 4 spot in the Eastern Illinois Baseball League standings.
BUCKLEY -- Josh Krumwiede has noticed at least one difference between last year and this year for the Buckley Dutchmasters.
PAXTON -- The Post 432 Indians Junior Legion baseball team won 11-1 over Urbana on Wednesday.
GIFFORD -- Over a span of two days, the Paxton Swedes lost three games.
PAXTON -- The Buckley Dutchmasters and Paxton Swedes each put together, in Dutchmasters manager Ryne Scheiwe's words, a "skeleton squad" for Saturday's make-up game.
PAXTON — Perhaps the most famous of the many quotes said by the late Ernie Banks, a former player for the Chicago Cubs, was, “It’s a great day for a ball game; let’s play two.”
BUCKLEY -- The Post 432 Indians Junior Legion baseball team won two games on Saturday to improve its pool record in a tournament at Scheiwe Field in Buckley to 3-0.
BUCKLEY -- The Junior Legion Post 432 Indians age 17-and-under baseball team won 11-2 Friday over Urbana.
PAXTON -- The Ford-Iroquois Indians Senior Legion baseball team won 10-7 Sunday over Piatt County.
BUCKLEY -- Connor Gross had his second start on the mound for the Buckley Dutchmasters in game one of Sunday's scheduled doubleheader against Game Seven Legacy.
GIBSON CITY -- The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley Falcons age 14-and-under baseball team won 16-4 Tuesday over DeLand-Weldon.
BUCKLEY -- The Buckley Dutchmasters earned a split in Sunday's Eastern Illinois Baseball League doubleheader against the Gifford-Flatville Giflats.
PAXTON -- Paxton Swedes manager Mark Prina had a reason to be optimistic on Sunday.
LEXINGTON -- The Paxton Swedes split an Eastern Illinois Baseball League doubleheader with Game Seven Legacy on Sunday.
GIFFORD -- For the Buckley Dutchmasters' Nathan Walker, his second RBI hit of game one of Sunday's doubleheader against the Royal Giants did not come without adversity.
LINCOLN -- The Ford-Iroquois Indians Senior Legion baseball team won 6-5 in extra innings Saturday over Danville.
COLFAX -- The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley Falcons age 14-and-under baseball team won 20-13 Thursday over Ridgeview.
EL PASO -- The Buckley Dutchmasters and El Paso Warriors split an Eastern Illlinois Baseball League doubleheader on Sunday.
PAXTON -- Sunday's Eastern Illinois Baseball League action included a rematch of last year's league tournament championship series.
BUCKLEY -- About 10 miles separate Paxton from Buckley.
GIBSON CITY — In a close game with multiple opportunities to take advantage, Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley couldn’t take advantage, as the Falcons fell to Central Catholic 1-0 in the class 2A regional championship game.
WATSEKA -- For the second time in two weeks, the Paxton-Buckley-Loda baseball team could not hold onto a one-run lead against Clifton Central.
GIBSON CITY -- With a top seed and home field advantage, the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley baseball team has a chance to win a regional championship for the first time since 2006.