No-hitter highlights opening week for UJHS baseball
The Unity Junior High School baseball team got its 2017 under way in grand style, defeating Paxton-Buckley-Loda 2-1 in eight innings and St. Joseph 3-1 last week.On Monday, Aug. 14, the Rockets hosted...
View ArticleUJHS baseball, softball both undefeated
As their regular season wind down in the next two weeks, the Unity Junior High School softball and baseball teams are on their way to accomplishing something that may not have been done in the history...
View ArticleUJHS falls to Mattoon in regional semis
The Unity Junior High School baseball team won its first 10 games of the 2017 season and received the top seed in the Class 2A regional tournament hosted by Charleston.Unfortunately, the season took a...
View ArticleFisher signs with Morton College
Unity High School senior Jon Fisher signed his letter of intent to play baseball for Morton College last Wednesday.“I chose Morton because it checked all the boxes,” Fisher said. “I loved the young...
View ArticleRocket baseball goes 1-2 on spring trip
The Unity High School baseball team was finally able to get some diamond time last weekend in Union City, Tenn. The Rockets played three games in northwest Tennessee, which was just one contest shy of...
View ArticleUnity team battles weather, opponents
Stop me if you’ve heard this before.I’m pretty sure you have, but the weather is making mincemeat out of the schedules for the high school baseball and softball teams, and the Unity Rockets are no...
View ArticleRockets drop two in Illini Prairie action
The Unity Rockets baseball team was able to get on the field for two games on back-to-back days last week, but the results were the same, as Unity lost a pair of Illini Prairie Conference games....
View ArticleRockets come from behind to edge Bombers
The Unity Rockets baseball team turned a potentially busy week into a productive one last Friday, scoring six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to defeat Argenta-Oreana 7-2 in a non-conference...
View ArticleRockets snap skid heading into postseason
osed out its 2018 regular season with a flourish, scoring seven runs in the top of the seventh inning Saturday to defeat Villa Grove/Heritage, 11-5, at Broadlands in a non-conference baseball game. The...
View ArticleUnity’s baseball season ends in regional semi-finals
The Unity Rockets baseball team ended its regular season by breaking an eight-game losing streak, defeating Villa Grove/Heritage, 11-5 on May 12. Two days later, on May 14, theRockets had to return to...
View ArticleUnity baseball looks toward the future
The Unity High School baseball team struggled to get on the field during the early weeks of the 2018 season, and many times fought to get off the field, defensively, as the season went on.read more
View ArticleRocket baseball lands three on All-Area team
Three members of the 2018 Unity High School baseball team have been named to the News-Gazette’s All-Area Team for the season which concluded recently.read more
View ArticleUnity All-Stars to begin tourney play July 5 and 6
The Unity Little League All-Stars will enter postseason play on Thursday, July 5, and Friday, July 6, with district tournaments getting under way in Tuscola and Champaign.The 9-/10-year-old All-Stars...
View ArticleUnity 9/10 All-Stars end tourney run
The Unity Little League 9/10-year old All-Star baseball team saw its tournament trail come to an end last week at the district tourney in Tuscola. Monday evening, July 9, Unity dropped a winner’s...
View ArticleUnity 11/12s advance in district tournament
At the Unity All-Stars’ game vs. Urbana on July 7 at the District 2 11/12-year old baseball tournament at Bottenfield School in Champaign, Unity’s Nolan Remole pitched four innings, and gave up no runs...
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