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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, Februar y 19, 2020 B-1 SPORTS Submit sports items: Call: 812-354-8500 Email: sports@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg See DROP on page 5 See TOOPES on page 5 Meyer places 10th at regional Pike Central diver Jenna Meyer placed 10th at the Bloomington South Diving Re- gional last Wednesday. She scored 319 points in her 11-dive per- formance. The top 20 divers from the Castle, Colum- bus North, Floyd Central, Franklin Commu- nity and Jasper sectionals qualified for the regional. Meyer won the Jasper Sectional with a score of 340. All 20 divers completed eight dives. Then the top 12 divers did three more dives. Mey- er made the cut in 10th place. A fter the final three dives, she maintained her 10th place position. "Her goal was to make the cut this year. She hadn't made the cut the first two years she had qualified for the regional," said Charger as- sistant coach Jason McKinney. "She dove well. She was a lit- tle nervous the first two or three dives and then she got into a good rhythm," said McKinney. He said her score was about 20 points lower than her score during the PAC and Sectional, but added the judges at the Regional were judging tougher than at the PAC or Sectional. The competition was won by Sadie Mills, of Mooresville, with a score of 486.5. Mills' team- mates from Mooresville, Kylie Stietelmeier and Kayla Gott, al- so took second and third, with scores of 482.35 and 428.30. The remaining finishers were: 4) Ken- zie Mills, Center Grove, 428.25, 5) Ellie Kemper, Ev. Reitz, 372.35, 6) Madison Rollett, Ev. Reitz, 367.15, 7) Valorie Marx, Ev. Re- itz, 356.1, 8) Caitlin Liechti-Haw- kins, Bloomington South, 345.7, 9) Kaylee Ivy, Ev. Central, 323.4, 10) Jenna Meyer, PC, 319, 11)Ab- by Ryan, Floyd Central, 313.4, 12) Cloie McDonald, Columbus East, 298.35, 13) Kaleigh Schul- er, Floyd Central, 227.50, 14) Lauren Chasteen, Bloomington South, 227.5, 15) Logan Mather- ly, Bloomington North, 226.60, 16) Elizabeth Williams, Heritage Hills, 217.75, 17) Olivia Biggs, Jasper, 215.35, 18) Evie Sherer, Southridge, 207.8, 19) Ahna Cobb, Floyd Central, 182, 20) Etta Great- house, Jennings County, 178. Toopes busts 1,000 points One of six to do it in two years Pike Central graduate Tyler Toopes be- came the sixth Oakland City Universi- ty men's basketball player to reach the 1,000 -point career threshold in just two years as a starting forward for the Mighty Oaks. The senior became a member of that exclusive 1,000 -point club against the Tigers of Salem University this past Saturday when he notched a double-dou- ble in the contest, scoring a team-high 26 points to go with 10 assists in the 116 - 102 loss. Teammate Nathaniel Schmittler added 21 counters on 10 -13 shooting be- fore fouling out. Schmittler is the team's rebound leader and second in total points with a 16 -point average. Toopes had been averaging 24.6 points per game, with 44 percent shooting from the three-point line and 50.2 from two- point range. He is number two in both of- fensive and defensive rebounds, averag- ing 7.3, and leads in steals with 44. He is number two in blocked shots with 20 and number one in assists with 99. Toopes, who is a 75 -percent free throw shooter, is tops in assists with 109, while notching 591 career points this season. Following three games on the road, where the Mighty Oaks basketball team won over Boyce College (94-80) and lost against NAIA#1 Georgetown Col- By Andy Heuring Press-Dispatch Sports sports@pressdispatch.net Pike Central dropped a hard-fought game Friday night to Tell City 43-31. De- spite hot shooting hands by the Chargers, who hit 40 percent from three-point range and 60 percent from two-point range, they couldn't overcome their turnovers and Tell City's size. Dylan Mathena, at 6'6" and 240, pound- ed away for 12 first-half points inside and the Chargers had few answers for him. Of- ten they challenged him in the paint, but he was able to move the Chargers out of the way, get his own rebound and get it down. "He was definitely a load," said Charger Coach Hunter Elliott. However, Pike Central's 22 turnovers might have been a bigger story. "I think the story of this one is we shot 40 percent from three-point range and over 60 percent from two-point range, but we on- ly shot it 20 times, while we had 22 turn- overs," said Elliott. Pike Central's hot shooting kept things tight for much of the first half. They staked a 4-2 lead when Colin Craig took a nice assist in the paint and put it in. Then a minute later, Ethan Scott scored on a running five-footer at the 5:56 mark. They retook the lead 6 -5 on a bank shot by Jaden Guth, with 4:32 still left in the first quarter. A three-pointer from Scott made it a 9 -7 lead with four minutes left. It was the last lead of the game for the Chargers. A turnover on the press led to a 15 footer by Keaton Lloyd for an 11-9 lead. Tell City would push that lead to 15 -9 at the end of the first quarter when Mathena got an offensive rebound put back in with 5.3 seconds left in the quarter. The Chargers fought back in the second quarter when Sean Hanselman hit Craig in the paint with a nice pass and Craig con- verted to make it 15 -11 at the 5:40 mark. Ethan Gorby hit his third three of the night at the 4:10 mark to make it 17-14. A three by Hanselman again got the Chargers to three points at 20 -17 with 2:40 left in the half. Tell City then stretched it to 25 -17. Hanselman hit a lay-up with nine seconds left in the half to make it 25 -19 at half time. Ethan Scott scored on a drive at the 5:31 mark of the third quarter to get Pike Cen- tral to within six points at 27-21. That was as close as the Chargers would get. The Marksmen found their range as Kaden Chestnut hit a three, then on their next possession, Devin Pruitt hit a three with 3:26 to play in the third quarter for a 33-21 lead. Pike Central trailed 36 -26 at the end of three quarters. Not much changed in the fourth quarter as Tell City only scored seven points and the Chargers five points. "We held them to 43 points. When you hold someone to 43 points, you should have a chance to win, but we just made too many CHARGERS FALL TO TECUMSEH AND TELL CITY Pike Central diver Jenna Meyer placed 10th at the Bloomington South Diving Re- gional last Wednesday. Photo courtesy Charger Photography by Clemmy. Pike Central graduate Tyler Toopes became the sixth Oak- land City University men's bas- ketball player to reach the 1,000-point career threshold in just two years. File photo. Who says basketball isn't a contact sport? Pike Central's Ethan Scott gets banged hard enough as he cuts through the lane his hair stood straight up. Scott had seven points against Tell City and five against Tecumseh.

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