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The Press-Dispatch Sports Wednesday, September 5, 2018 B- 3 PCMS cross country teams compete in Gibson Southern Middle School Invitational The Pike Central Mid- dle School girls' and boys' cross country teams placed 13th and 15th, respective- ly, in the Gibson Southern Middle School Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 1. In the girls' race, sev- enth grader Xavery Weis- man placed 16th out of 121 runners with a time of 12:54. Sixth grader Kay- lyn Warner placed 77th with a time of 14:50. Sev- enth grader Anna White- head placed 78th with a time of 14:54. Sixth grad- er Eibhlin Teague placed 82nd with a time of 15:07. Seventh grader Ruby Sal- lee placed 94th with a time of 15:27. Fifth grader Kylie Meyer placed 95th with a season-best time of 15:28. Sixth grader Izzy Luker placed 107th with a time of 16:29. As a team, Pike Central scored a total of 327 points. Mount Vernon (Posey) placed first with 85 points, followed by South Knox (93 points) and Forest Park (107). In the boys' race, sixth grader Blaine Barnett placed 51st out of 143 run- ners with a time of 12:42. Eighth grader Dallas Reu- tepohler placed 52nd with a time of 12:43. Seventh grader Wyatt Luff placed 112th with a time of 14:34. Fifth grader Jacoby Smith placed 113th with a sea- son-best time of 14:35. Sev- enth grader Carter McCain placed 142nd with a time of 20 :40. As a team, Pike Central scored a total of 470 points. South Knox placed first with 35 points, followed by Tell City (74 points) and Barr-Reeve (94). Pike Central, which com- peted in a three-team meet hosted by Jasper on Tues- day, Sept. 4, will host South Spencer and Southridge on Thursday, Sept. 6, and Vin- cennes Clark on Wednes- day, Sept. 6. SPORTS BRIEFS Petersburg Kiwanis Golf Scramble set for Sept. 8 The Petersburg Kiwan- is Golf Scramble will be on Saturday, Sept. 8, starting at 9 a.m., at the Prides Creek Golf Course. Sign-ups are now being accepted at Prides Creek Golf Course. The cost is $40 per person or $160 for a four-person team. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three teams. In addition, hole spon- sorships are available for $100, although donations of any amount will be accepted. Please make checks payable to Kiwan- is and mail them to Dustin Schnarr, P.O. Box 14, Pe- tersburg, IN 47567. For more information, contact Dustin Schnarr at (812) 295 -8183 or the Prides Creek Golf Course at (812) 354-3059. All proceeds benefit the Petersburg Kiwan- is' Kids Christmas pro- gram, which helps under- privileged youth in Pike County. Petersburg Little League to hold election for officers The Petersburg Little League 2018 board offi- cers election will be Sun- day, Oct. 7, at 7 p.m. at the Petersburg Little League concession stands. Anyone interested in a league office or voting for the officers is welcome. New members are re- quired to attend. For more information, call Joey O'Brien at 812- 486-7107. Program on how to help butterflies on their migration set for Sept. 8 Deb Schade and Kate Lynch, both Master Nat- uralists and Master Gar- deners, will present a pro- gram on monarch butter- flies on Saturday, Sept. 8 (with a rain date for Sept. 15) at the Outdoor Class- room on Patoka River Na- tional Wildlife Refuge. Schade and Lynch will talk about the monarch butterfly life cycle and what you can do to help increase butterfly pop - ulations. They will also share their experiences captive-rearing caterpil- lars, and expect to have caterpillars and supplies to display. The program will begin at 10 a.m., Central time, and last about one hour. The Outdoor Class- room is located near Snakey Point, next to the parking lot at Boyd's Trail. To get to the Boyd's Trail parking lot, head east on State Route 64 through Oakland City. Just outside the city, turn left (north) onto paved CR 1275 E. Continue about a half mile and bear left onto CR 1300 E, which becomes gravel. Continue about one mile to the Boyd's Trail park- ing lot on the left. Look for posted brown Refuge signs along the way. For more information, visit the Patoka Refuge Friends page on Face- book, check out their web- site at www.patokarefuge- friends.org, or call Lynch at 812-853-8637. The Classroom is lo- cated near Snakey Point, next to the parking lot at Boyd's trail. Free hunter education class offered A free hunter education class will be offered Mon- day, Sept. 17, through Fri- day, Sept. 21, at the Sug- ar Ridge Fish and Wildlife headquarters. Hunter education class- es provide instruction in safe firearm use and han- dling while hunting as well as in the home, hunt- er ethics and responsibil- ity, game identification and conservation man- agement. Class time will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Eastern time, each evening. At- tendance at all sessions is necessary to be eligible to test on the last day. This course is required for anyone born after Dec. 31, 1986, who wishes to purchase an Indiana hunt- ing license. The 10 -hour class is sponsored by the Indiana Department of Natural Re- sources-Law Enforcement Division, and will be con- ducted by Indiana Conser- vation Officers and certi- fied Indiana Hunter Edu- cation instructors. Seat- ing is limited and will be filled on a first-come, first- served basis. To register, go to www. register-ed.com and fol- low the instructions giv- en. Directions to the Sug- ar Ridge FWA Headquar- ters and additional in- formation can also be accessed on this website. Any child under 11 years of age must be ac- companied by a parent or guardian every session. At the first session, every- one under 18 years of age must give the instructor a signed, completed Liabil- ity Release Form, which can be downloaded at reg- ister-ed.com. This form must have the parent or guardian's signature. HOPEWELL Continued from page 1 Centifanto, placed 15th with a time of 19:51. "We felt like everyone took really well to the competition; there was a lot of personal improvement," Pike Central head coach Josh Roach said. "It gives the kids an idea of what bigger meets will be like but also challenges them be- cause people they are used to using as a gauge might be in a different race. Sometimes, that leads to a runner realiz- ing that maybe they can push themselves a little earlier in the race." Roach noted that Huff and Chambers ran "completely different races." "Draven got out hard ear- ly and felt good enough to hold it," Roach said. "He sat in fourth place for almost all of the race. He went back and forth with (Castle ju- nior Owen Fehr, who placed third with a time of 17:39)but couldn't quite catch him." "Ijaa ran in eighth for the whole first lap and came in- to the second with a strong move on the pack in front of him to take third place," Roach continued. "The next time we saw him, he had cre- ated a gap on them." In the girls' junior/senior division, Pike Central senior Erin Craig placed 31st out of 47 runners with a time of 29:03, while senior Madison Peer placed 46th with a sea- son-best time of 34:44, beat- ing her previous season-best time of 34:46 by 62 seconds. South Knox junior Mykay- la Couchenour placed first with a time of 20 :45. Owens- boro (Ky.) Apollo senior Sam- mi Roberts was second with a time of 21:32. The Lady Chargers, along with Boonville, Castle, Evans- ville Bosse, Evansville Cen- tral, Evansville Harrison, Heritage Hills, North Posey, Princeton, South Knox and South Spencer, did not have enough runners participat- ing to qualify for a team score. Gibson Southern was first with 11 points, followed by Owensboro (Ky.) Apollo (17), Signature (29), Tecum- seh (35), Mount Vernon (51) and Evansville Reitz (54). In the girls' freshman/ sophomore division, Pike Central sophomore Libby Stone placed seventh with a personal record time of 22:36, beating her previous PR time of 23:38 by 62 seconds, while freshman Quinlan Teague placed 14th with a personal record time of 23:24, beating her previous PR time of 24:06 by 42 seconds. Sophomore Jenna Mey- er placed 21st with a person- al course record best time of 24:25, beating her previous personal course record time of 25:33 by 68 seconds. Mey- er's time was also an 11-sec- ond improvement over her previous season-best time of 24:36. Sophomore Charlotte Dudenhoeffer placed 25th with a personal course record time of 24:52, beating her pre- vious personal course record time of 25:25 by 33 seconds. Dudenhoeffer's time was al- so an 86 -second improvement over her previous season-best time of 26:18. "Quinlan Teague, Jenna Meyer and Charlotte Duden- hoeffer had races where they got their places early and stayed strong in that pack, while catching people at the end," Roach said. "Libby Stone had a race where she kind of jostled back and forth with her pack and then over- took them at the end." In addition, freshman Mor- gan Sallee placed 43rd with a personal record time of 27:50, beating her previous PR time of 28:30 by 40 seconds; freshman Morgan Anderson placed 50th with a personal record time of 29:06, beat- ing her previous PR time of 30 :56 by 110 seconds; and freshman Laney Johnson placed 51st with a personal record time of 29:07, beating her previous PR time of 29:35 by 28 seconds. Mount Vernon (Posey) sophomore Emma Thomp- son placed first with a time of 20 :54. Heritage Hills sopho- more Katie Winkler was sec- ond with a time of 21:29. As a team, Pike Central placed fourth with 34 points, trailing Heritage Hills (12 points), Owensboro (Ky.) Apollo (25) and Gibson Southern (30). South Knox was fifth with 35 points, fol- lowed by Mount Carmel (71), Castle (80), Evansville Har- rison (82) and Evansville Re- itz (86). Evansville Central, Evansville Christian, Mount Vernon, North Posey, Princ- eton, Signature, South Spen- cer and Tecumseh also par- ticipated but did not have enough runners to qualify for a team score. "It was fun to see the kids competing like this and we know it's going to help them a lot going into the second half of our season and into the postseason," Roach said. "Those that are buying into just making progress every day are starting to see the re- wards come their way." Pike Central, which hosted North Daviess, South Knox and Washington Catholic on Tuesday, Sept. 4, in a quad meet at Prides Creek Park, will compete in the Prince- ton Invitational on Tuesday, Sept. 11, and in the South Knox Invitational on Satur- day, Sept. 15. Pike Central High School sophomore Libby Stone placed seventh out of 65 run- ners in the girls' fresh- man/sophomore di- vision of the Alan Hopewell Cross Coun- try Invitational hosted by Gibson Southern on Thursday, Aug. 30. Ed Cahill photo Pike Central High School sophomore Ijaa Chambers placed third out of 67 run- ners in the boys' freshman/sophomore division of the Alan Hopewell Cross Coun- try Invitational hosted by Gibson Southern on Thursday, Aug. 30. Ed Cahill photo Pike Central High School sophomore Charlotte Dudenhoef- fer placed 25th out of 65 runners in the girls' freshman/soph- omore division of the Alan Hopewell Cross Country Invitation- al hosted by Gibson Southern on Thursday, Aug. 30. Ed Cahill photo Pike Central High School sophomore Jenna Meyer placed 21st out of 65 runners in the girls' freshman/ sophomore division of the Alan Hopewell Cross Country In- vitational hosted by Gibson Southern on Thursday, Aug. 30. Ed Cahill photo Pike Central High School junior Nate Woolery placed 20th out of 87 runners in the boys' junior/senior division of the Alan Hopewell Cross Coun- try Invitational hosted by Gibson Southern on Thursday, Aug. 30. Ed Cahill photo Pike Central Mid- dle School seventh grader Anna White- head approaches the finish line while com- peting in the Gib- son Southern Mid- dle School Cross Country Invitation- al on Saturday, Sept. 1. Whitehead placed 78th with a time of 14:54. Photo submit- ted by Carly McCain PCHS cross country teams beat North Knox By Ed Cahill Press-Dispatch Sports Editor sports@pressdispatch.net The Pike Central High School boys' and girls' cross country teams both placed first in a dual meet hosted by North Knox on Tuesday, Aug. 28. In the boys' race, the Char- gers won by a score of 18 -41. In the girls' race, the Lady Char- gers won by a score of 21-40. "It was a small race on a very hot day on a course we only see every other year," Pike Central head coach Josh Roach said. "Our kids did a great job of refusing to use these things as excuses. They were determined to give their best effort no matter the situ- ation." In the boys' race, Chargers senior Draven Huff placed first with a personal course record time of 18:11, beating his pre- vious personal course record time of 18:16 by five seconds, while sophomore Ijaa Cham- bers placed second with a time of 19:01. "Draven and Ijaa pulled away from the pack early and mainly focused on pushing each other," Roach said. Junior A.J. Hill placed fourth with a time of 21:26; sophomore Colt Armstrong placed fifth with a time of 21:27; junior Nate Woolery placed sixth with a time of 26:52; and sophomore Trent Zimmerman placed seventh with a time of 21:56. "A.J. Hill had a great race and looked to have a lot of en- ergy late," Roach said. "He came on strong and showed us something we need to see more of out of him." In addition, junior Sam Theising placed 10th with a personal course record time of 22:25, beating his previ - ous course record time of 27:22 by almost five minutes; while sophomore Ethan Gor- by placed 11th with a time of 22:52. The race was the first of the season for Woolery, who is coming off of an injury, Roach noted. "He makes a huge differ- ence out there for us, not on- ly in how he pushes himself, but in how he pushes the rest of the guys in the race," Roach said. "Trent told me after the race that his finish was made a lot easier because of Nate coming up behind him and talking him into speeding up with him. Nate is a positive force out on the course and he helps everyone else strive to get better." In the girls' race, Pike Cen- tral sophomore Libby Stone placed second with a time of 24:12; sophomore Lauren Young placed third with a time of 24:29; sophomore Jen- na Meyer placed fourth with a time of 24:39; and freshman Quinlan Teague placed fifth with a time of 24:40. In addition, sophomore Charlotte Dudenhoeffer placed seventh with a time of 26:37; senior Erin Craig placed eighth with a personal course record time of 27:58, beating her previous personal course record time of 28:49 by 51 sec- onds; freshman Morgan Sal- lee placed ninth with a time of 28:30 ; freshman Laney John- son placed 11th with a time of 29:35; freshman Morgan An- derson placed 12th with a time of 30 :56; and senior Madison Peer placed 15th with a time of 34:46. "Our top four really packed together the whole race and pushed each other," Roach said. "It can be very hard to push yourself once you get out on your own, with no one around you to race. They stayed together and used the competition among them- selves to their advantage. In a race like that, you could prob- ably run it about 20 times and Libby, Lauren, Quinlan and Jenna probably all win it an equal number of times. They are all very competitive girls and it's going to just keep mak- ing them better." "Charlotte wasn't far be- hind them for most of the race, and Erin and Morgan Sallee were right behind her," Roach added. "We need them to keep packing like that and just keep trying to move those packs up." Reutepohler places second in middle school cross country meet at North Knox Eighth grader Dallas Reu- tepohler placed second with a time of 12:28 while sixth grader Blaine Barnett placed fifth with a time of 13:21 as the Pike Central Middle School boys' cross country team competed in a three- team meet hosted by North Knox on Tuesday, Aug. 28. Fifth grader Jacoby Smith placed 24th with a season-best time of 20 :35, while seventh grader Carter McCain placed 34th with a time of 25:41. "Dallas had a great per- formance from the start all the way to the finish," Pike Central head coach Brid- get Butcher said. "North Knox has an exhausting up- hill start to its course, but to Dallas, this part of the course worked in his favor compared to others. A fter winning the uphill battle, he continued to lead the Char- ger pack until the finish." "Blaine Barnett kept a constant focus on the lead- ers of the race, and worked consistently to come in fifth place," Butcher added. "Next in line for the Chargers were Jacoby Smith and Carter Mc- Cain. Both boys took one hot step at a time to come in 24th and 34th place." In the girls' race, seventh grader Xavery Weisman placed fourth with a time of 13:21; fifth grader Kylie Meyer placed ninth with a season-best time of 15:30 ; and seventh grader Anna Whitehead placed 10th with a time of 15:36. "Xavery led the girls' team by pushing herself be- yond the pain and placing in second place," Butcher said. "Next for the Chargers, Ky- lie Meyer, showed a new spring in her step, finishing ninth." In addition, seventh grad- er Ruby Sallee placed 13th with a time of 16:06; sixth grader Izzy Luker placed 14th with a time of 16:10 ; sixth grader Eibhlin Teague placed 15th with a time of 16:19; sixth grader El- la Hartke placed 32nd with a time of 19:28; fifth grad- er Gracie Hill placed 38th See SECOND on 4