for a wooden-bat tournament featuring teams from Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Ohio ... hit for the cycle — in Danville's 13-6 triumph over Rantoul at Gruber Park in Tilton.

Sodalis, a 210-acre park, was built in 2011 with minimal disturbance to the bats' living quarters, said Lori Pruitt, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species coordinator for Indiana.

And on a recent late-summer evening, the 55-year-old led a bat-finding expedition through Central Park as part of a marathon ... and a bullhead catfish.) “Oh, look, another species!” ...