Today's News - August 6, 2008

Rain Postpones Tonight’s Mon-Clair Play-offs

The Monroe Division of the Mon-Clair Baseball League playoff games scheduled for tonight have been postponed because of the wet condition at the Waterloo field following last night’s rain.

The games have been rescheduled for Thursday evening. Millstadt and Valmeyer will play at 6:30 p.m., and Waterloo will host Columbia under the lights at 8:30 p.m. These first round games will be played at the SPPS Ball Field in Waterloo. The championship games will be played Saturday and Sunday at Borsch Park in old town Valmeyer.

Waterloo Legion catcher Ben Thoma looks up to see the umpire call the Belleville Hilgards runner safe at the plate in a close play. Belleville swept the Waterloo Bombers in a double-header play-off game last week.   – photo by Bob Haentzler

Amanda Hartman of Waterloo won the Grand Champion Meat Pen for her rabbits during the Junior Rabbit Show today at the Illinois State Fair. This is the same top prize Adam Schneider of Waterloo won two years ago.