The Press-Dispatch
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B-2 Wednesday, October 28, 2020 The Press-Dispatch FOOTBALL Continued from page 1 RUN Continued from page 1 SPORTS CALENDAR *Bold = Home game THURSDAY, OCT. 29 ❚ PCHS Girls' Varsity Basketball — Northeast Dubois Scrimmage — 6:30 p.m. at Pike Central THURSDAY, NOV. 5 ❚ Girls' Eighth Grade Basketball — Fort Branch Community School — 6 p.m. at Pike Central ❚ Girls' Seventh Grade Basketball — Fort Branch Community School — 6 p.m. at Pike Central ❚ Girls' JV Basketball – F.J. Reitz High School — 6:30 p.m. at F.J. Reitz High School ❚ Girls' Varsity Basketball – F.J. Reitz High School —8 p.m. at F.J. Reitz High School Lady Chargers scrimmage Thursday By James Capozella High school hoops comes to the hardwood this Thurs- day when the Pike Central Lady Chargers square off with the visiting Northeast Dubois Lady Jeeps begin- ning at 6:30 p.m. Lady Char- ger head coach Kyle Mc- Cutchan said, "We have 16 girls playing this year. I re- ally like this group of girls. They are working hard at practice and they are pick- ing up on new stuff. We on- ly have four returning var- sity players, so we have 12 sophomores and freshmen. We are young and will have some growing pains, but our goal is to continue to improve and be tough come tourna- ment time. "We have two seniors in Mallory Hickey and Ken- zie Powell, and we will lean heavy on their experience. Both are different types of players but both can real- ly shoot the ball. We face Northeast Dubois on Thurs- day and it will be a good chance for our girls to play someone else. "It's a glorified practice and I will mostly be looking to see how we compete on the defensive end. The offense is usually sloppy, but you get to see things you need to work on." Asked about COVID is- sues, coach said, "I have not heard anything as far as COVID is concerned. I know that is something we will have to deal with all sea- son. Hopefully, we will get to scrimmage them on Thurs- day. It will be a very unusu- al year for everyone dealing with COVID." Neither team averaged a pass attempt per quarter and as field conditions worsened the likelihood of injury per- sisted. Charger quarterback Jagar Dent was sidelined ear- ly with a right leg injury, with Lars Utterback taking over as signal caller. Dent was recu- perating on the sideline with ice on his right knee in the fourth quarter, but was up on the leg with crutches later with the Charger team. Wash- ington's Seth Holtsclaw was taken out of the game in the second quarter with a back injury. According to the stat board that is kept by Dave Pipes, freshman Julian Gish led the six Charger ball carriers with 53 yards on seven snaps. Sophomore quarterback Jagar Dent carried nine times for 25 yards, while Stephen Krieg was three for 24. Wyatt Fra- sure rushed 13 times for eight yards, while senior Lars Utter- back stepped in as quarter- back and carried three times for eight yards. Sophomore Brayden Howald was suited up after sitting out the regu- lar season with a broken collar bone. He made several clutch tackles and had three rush- es for one yard. Dent was 0 of one in the passing department and Utterback was one for one with a minus two yards. Gish caught one pass for a minus two yards. The total Pike Cen- tral offense was 117 yards. Perkins was the top Hatch- et ball carrier with 77 yards on 11 carries. Quarterback Trey Reed was next with 65 yards on six carries, and Holts- claw had 51 yards on eight at- tempts. He also had 33 yards on two catches. Strange had 48 yards on four snaps. The Hatchets rushed for 308 yards and passed for 33 yards. A fter the game, Charger head coach Dave Stephens commented, "By the end of the game, we were down to 12 kids. ( Wyatt) Frasure was out, ( Jagar) Dent and (Colson) Dillard were out. (Stephen) Krieg played the whole game and the week with cracked ribs. He was in real pain on every play. He's a true warrior. Quade Morton was out, (Arri) McDonald was out earlier. We were 17 on the sideline to their 56." Coach said, "We got down 14-0 real quick. We had sev- eral calls right in front of me and multiple times, there were hits after the whistle. It was blatant, not judgment calls. I think they were ready to get out of there, especially the white hat. It was 25 mph winds running sideways. We didn't get a new ball every time. We were denied a couple times. They were under center and we were in the shotgun. We practiced in the elements with a cooler of ice water, wet ball and mud, too. We had kids out with academic, COVID and in- juries. We talked about this going on every week. It is what it is. We had fall break and I don't know how to combat apa- thy. We had three players that went on fall break instead of playing in the sectional. This is my seventh year coaching with one off season, one nor- mal season. We need a weight room. It's like a strong eighth grade. We need to have a good off season in the weight room to be successful." "I have respect for their toughness, proud of them. It was not what we wanted or hoped for, but it was the best they could do with five guys off from last time, plus ones that were banged up. The se- niors helped the young guys. The five seniors helping the young guys was best for the program. We have a good young core of freshmen and sophomores." Asked about Jagar Dent's right leg injury, coach said, "The trainer thought it was a sprain of his LCL. He is to sit out for a week and have an MRI done if it doesn't im- prove." Dent was up and with the team on crutches and with the team at the end of the game." Sectional 30 pairings had Princeton at Sullivan, Vin- cennes at Owen Valley, Brown County at Edgewood and Pike Central at Washing- ton. September 18, the Char- gers were at Washington and 44-21 in their first contest of the season. They then did not take the field until October 9, when they hosted the Forest Park Rangers, their fifth Pock- et Athletic Conference oppo- nent. The final regular season outing was to PAC foe North Posey, leading to the October 23 Friday night road trip to Washington. Washington had three wins this year, the last being a 34- 27 win at Princeton. Brown County was the closest con- test of the year for the Char- gers, dropping a 39 -28 deci- sion that kicked off the sea- son. THE 1986 PAC CHAMPS Pike Central's only Pocket Athletic Conference football championship dates back to 1986, when they notched a 9 -1 record, after opening that year with a 32-13 loss at the hands of Washington. The game was much closer than the score indicates due to six Charger fumbles, four of which were recovered by the Hatchets. In his "From the Side- lines" weekly column, Char- ger head coach Randy Col- glazier wrote: "The score was 32 to 13 and many peo- ple are probably saying 'here we go again,' but this is not a 'here we go again season.' De- spite the score, the Chargers held their own to a much larg- er Washington squad. If it had not been for our mistake,s that game would have been much closer." To summarize his column, Colglazier said that three of those fumbles were inside the Charger 35. He added "We had areas that need im- provement, but the physical hitting part of the game was really good." He saw need for "work in the passing depart- ment and some small things on defense that could easily be worked out." He said you can't be pleased with a loss, but he saw some very good things and because of that, he said this team was going to win some games. Statistically, the Chargers struggled with nine penal- ties for 84 yards and the loss of four of six fumbles. The story in The Press-Dispatch summed up the ground game by Barry Welch (123 yards), Mark Nowark, Steve Pride and quarterback Trent Stone. Stone finished four of seven for 66 yards in that 1986 loss to Washington. That Charger team set a school record by scoring a 55 -0 landslide over Wood Me- morial, won the Pocket Athlet- ic Conference with a 9 -1 sea- son record with Player of the Week picks in Scott Vickers, Mark Nowark, Steve Powell, Steve Pride (2), Todd Sullivan, Ryan Powell, Barry Welch and Brad Cox. 133, Bloomington South 179, Jasper 181, Northview 197, Seymour 226, Terre Haute South 229, Jennings 234, Terre Haute North 280, South Knox 300, Castle 310, Reitz 339, New Albany 390, Martinsville 399, Borden 401, Corydon 401, Central 416, Memorial 484, Brown County 491. Girls team results: Colum- bus North 50, Floyd Central 109, Northview 118, Bloom- ington North 127, Blooming- ton South 166, Jasper 175, Barr-Reeve 246, South Knox 248, Terre Haute South 258, Brown County 265, Reitz 342, Forest Park 359, Edgewood 361, Seymour 363, Prince- ton 365, Corydon 371, Gib- son Southern 392, Columbus East 450, Heritage Hills 450, Jennings County 476. Charger freshman Zane Gehlhausen (85) lines up opposite a Washington Hatch- et defensive man ready to take on the slippery task of blocking for a Charger sweep. Both Washington and the Chargers did a pretty good job of staying on their feet after an hour-long drenching made fall football a lot more like mud football. 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