New Central is proud to celebrate our attendance winners for the week of April 13–17 and our weekend food sack delivery crew; way to show up and help out!👏
🏃♂️HS Track & Field 🏃♀️had the Varsity version of the John Levingston Invite last night. The crew had 1️⃣0️⃣ PRs along with season bests in all relays we ran:
Boys 4x100, 4x200, 4x400
Girls 4x100, 4x200, 4x400
Absolutely all of the kids continue to impress the coaching staff. Sometimes a kid is on fire and stands out.
Korey Hurst was one of those kids. Korey had a PR in the 8️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ m and a season best 1️⃣6️⃣0️⃣0️⃣m. The season best 1600 was 2️⃣1️⃣ seconds faster than his previous best mile of the year. Coach Cam Lee and the 4x800 crew are showing out! This mid season mile is only 3 seconds slower than where he was peaked for the Sectional.
Miles Chapin was another standout. Miles PRed on his 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣m & 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣m times. Miles and Hunter compete well with each other. Miles passed Hunter PR in the 100 and then Hunter got his get back against Miles in the 200. Those two are in both 4x100 and 4x200 relays with Dylan Yocum and Gavin Hamlet. Those sprint relays also had season best times.
Huge shout out to Garrett Martin. That kid played a baseball game where he got two outs and then came to the meet and ran in the 4x400. That 4x400 (which included PJ, Korey, and Bracdyn) logged a season best time.
Josey McClausland ran the 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣m hurdles for the second time this year. She was able to run well enough to shave 2 seconds off her first time. She has trusted the process and is doing extremely well. I'm excited for her to retry the 3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣m hurdles next week!
I don't usually talk about place winners, but I'll sneak them in down here.
Maddie Long Jump 3rd 🥉
Kasyn 1600 1st🥇
Kasyn 3200 (was faster than the previous meet record) 2nd 🥈
Josey 100m hurdles 6th
🦆 ⚾️ ends in a 2-2 tie with Brown County. Great outing on the mound for Oscar Jones! Ducks will be back in action on Monday at West Prairie. #GODUCKS #BUYIN
Congratulations to the high school choir on their amazing performance at the IHSA Organizational Contest tonight in Beardstown! They came home with a Division 1 Rating! Way to go, choir! Go Ducks!
The softball game today 4/17 has been canceled. Illini West administration did not feel comfortable sending the kids here with the potential weather threat.
The high school boys baseball game scheduled for tomorrow at Farmington Saturday, April 18 has been moved to Monday May 11th.
DUCKS @ Hornets
Tomorrows start time for the HS baseball game at Brown County has been changed from 4:30 to 4 oclock.
5th graders in Mrs. French's math class are measuring, cutting, crafting and creating for their Volume Zoo project to end the volume chapter! They have to choose a few boxes, decide on an animal to create, find the volume of each box and combine them for total volume, and then create their animals! Stay tuned for finished products!
Today we’re celebrating three of our students who absolutely crushed their life skills goals by beating their task box times! 🎉
Task boxes are structured, hands-on activities designed to help students build independence with everyday skills. Each box targets a specific skill—like sorting, matching, organizing, or following steps—and gives students a clear, repeatable way to practice. Over time, students not only improve accuracy but also increase their speed and confidence.
Watching these three stay focused, push themselves, and finish faster than ever before was amazing. More importantly, they showed perseverance, independence, and pride in their work.
We love seeing progress like this—small wins that build big life skills! 💪✨
Ethan Edwards from ThinkFirst for teens at SIU school of Medicine came to the drivers education class to educate on how car crashes are a leading cause of brain and spinal cord injures for teens. He had different tools for the kids to practice real life scenarios and goggles that show the visual effects from impairment.
Thank you for coming to our class!
🏃♀️🏃Great job to all the athletes at the Track meet this afternoon! The following athletes earned 🥇 first place in their events:
100m - Jordan Kinkead
200m - Graham McCausland
800m - Raylan Larson
1600m - Raylan Larson
Hurdles - Ruger Hilst
Discus - Drake Skaggs (Broke his school record again!)
High Jump - Noah Dembinski
Long Jump - Graham McCausland
Hurdles - AJ Griffin
4x100 - Sammie, AJ, Lena, Myiah
Long Jump - Myiah Alexander
We also had 32 Personal Bests at the meet which is pretty impressive considering the wind.
Great job to all the athletes! Go Ducks!❤️🦆👟
JH track is still on for today. 4/15
HS baseball will practice until 5:30 today with the JV game being canceled.
JV baseball game today 4/15 has been canceled.
🦆 ⚾️ Down 7-2 going into bottom 6th. Come back and score 11 in the 6th to get a 13-7 win vs Beardstown! Carter Brooks HR 5 RBI Day! Great game by all the guys today! Ducks will be back in action Friday at Brown County. #GODUCKS #BUYIN
Junior High Scholastic Bowl comes away with 2 big wins over A-C Central tonight...Go Ducks!!
🏃♀️HS Track & Field🏃♂️had the John Livingston Freshman/Sophomore Invite last night. The kids had 1️⃣0️⃣ PRs.
I am proud of EVERYONE, but there are some specific shout outs:
Bracdyn had 2 of the PRs, one in the 8️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ and one in the 1️⃣6️⃣0️⃣0️⃣. What made his 800 so cool was Coach Cam Lee pushed him to run a harder race. All of his 4x800 splits and open 800s had him finishing around 2:29.8. He came out and ran a 2:21.99. An amazing 8 second PR. His sights are now set on a 2:15 race. Coach Lee will get him there; he has been working really hard with that 4x8 crew.
Kasyn Jibben broke the meet record in the 3️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ with a run of 11:31.4, previously 12:54.8.
Landon Howerter and Max Layton had a competition: winner between the two of them gets throw shotput in the Varsity meet on Thursday. Landon had a .17 m (7 inch) PR, winning the throw off. Howerter then had a personal best in the triple jump and Max had a PR in the discus. Max is fast approaching that 💯 foot mark.
The entire Freshman girls 4️⃣x2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ team (Marleigh, Ryleigh, Josey, Jordyn) ran a 2:06.73. That is 2.27 seconds faster than the Varsity 4x200 time.
Boys finished 10th of 15 teams
Girls finished 7th of 12
DUCKS vs Tigers
🦆 ⚾️ Picks up a 7-1 win vs BPC today! Another great collective pitching performance from Jack Turner, Bradyn Willing, and Jayden Weaver. Carter Brooks and Lukas Miller both go yard for the ducks today as well! Back in action tomorrow vs Beardstown. #GODUCKS #BUYIN