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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, October 31, 2018 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 The Pike Central High School girls' basketball team held a scrimmage against visiting Northeast Dubois on Sat- urday, Oct. 27. In the first quarter, seniors Hailey Marchino and Becca Crow, juniors Jayln Nelson and Jenna Horrall and sopho- mores Mallory Hickey and Kenzie Powell scored two points each as the Lady Char- gers out-pointed Northeast Dubois 12-4. In the second quarter, junior Lauren Vaughn scored four points, Crow and Powell both scored three points – both on three-pointers – and Hickey, Marchi- no and Nelson netted two points each as Pike Central outscored the Lady Jeeps 16 -5. In the third quarter, Marchino scored four points, senior Emily Carnahan hit a three-pointer while scoring three points and Horrall, Nelson, Vaughn and fresh- man Mallory Hunt added two points each as the Lady Chargers won by a score of 15 -9. In the fourth quarter, Nelson and soph- omore Gracie Jones netted four points each while Powell and senior Kelsey Bar- rett added two points each as Pike Cen- tral out-pointed Northeast Dubois 12-6. In the fifth quarter, Hunt scored four points while sophomore Kailee Mann By Ed Cahill Press-Dispatch Sports Editor sports@pressdispatch.net You just never know when – or how – you'll make a new friend. Few friendships, however, begin as uniquely as the one between Pike Central High School sophomore Jenna Meyer and North Daviess junior Alandra Brinegar. Jenna and Alandra can easily date the start of their friendship to a cross coun- try meet held at Prides Creek Park on Sept. 5, 2017 – when Alandra found Jen- na lying unconscious along a remote part of the 3.1-mile course. "I remember just kind of stumbling upon someone laying down, and my initial reaction was to see if she was responsive," Alandra recalled. "She wasn't." "I didn't really know what to do," Alandra continued. "So I started yelling for someone else. I kind of pan- icked a little bit." Fortunately, help – in the form of Pike Central head coach Josh Roach – was close by. Roach had stationed him- self near a tree stump lo- cated approximately at the course's one- and two-mile marks – which runners pass twice during the race – when he realized that he had not yet seen Jenna. "I was up by the top of the hill, where that tree stump is, the mile marker," Roach recalled. "I was getting ready to leave that area to catch up to the front of the pack, and, all of a sudden, I heard (Alandra) hollering for a coach." "I didn't know it was Jen- na," Roach continued. "I didn't know it was one of us. I just knew it was a runner. (Alandra) said, 'A runner is down.' So I went running over there, and as I came over the hill, I could see Jen- na on the ground." With Alandra looking on, Roach began trying to wake Jenna. "When I got to her, she was still passed out," Roach said. "I kind of shook her a little bit, tried to wake her up. She finally woke up, and when she woke up, she had no idea where she was, so she started, like, panicking and crying." "Coming up and finding her and knowing that she's not responding, it was defi- nitely very scary," Roach added. "I knew if I was scared when she woke up, it would make it worse, so I was trying to just not show it and trying to get her to understand what happened and where she was and ev- erything first." "I was scared," Jenna re- called. "I didn't know where I was at first, I think I asked (Roach) where I was, and if I was okay, and he said I was fine, and he was going to stay there." Jenna – who had set per- sonal best times in each of her previous three races – said that she didn't remem- ber much about what hap- pened before she passed out. "I was running my race, like normal, and I noticed, like, around a mile-and-a- half I was slowing down," Jenna said. "I just wasn't feeling like myself, but I didn't think I was going to pass out or anything. And then, before I knew it ... it just happened." "Actually, she was doing really well the first half of the race," Roach recalled. "It was back by the back gate when she's told me where she kind of started feeling really heavy." Before Jenna regained consciousness, Roach had told Alandra to go ahead and finish the race, which she did, albeit reluctantly. "He came over and he told me to keep going," Alandra recalled. "I wanted to stay there with her to make sure she was okay, but they told me to keep going, so I fin- ished." "I was pretty worried," Al- andra added. "I was shaken up. I just really didn't know what was going on. It was definitely scary. I had no clue what to think. I was ner- vous. My feelings were ev- erywhere." Along the way, however, Alandra alerted Jenna's fa- ther, Tim, who was serving as a course official near the park's stage. "I told (Alandra) to go ahead and, as she was go- ing, to find the next adult she saw to send them back, so I could tell them to call somebody," Roach said. "I told (Alandra) her dad was actually down by the stage ... and I stuck with ( Jenna) un- til her dad got down there." Jenna's mother, Candy, meanwhile, was stationed near the finish line. "I'm waiting," Candy re- called. "I'm seeing some runners come in, where she would kind of normally be, and she wasn't there." "It was a warm day, and I thought, you know, she's just not running well," Can- dy added. That's when she received a phone call from her hus- band. "I thought, 'Uh-oh,' and he said, 'You need to get the car and you need to come over here because she's passed out on the course,'" Candy said. "In my head, I'm not lit- erally thinking 'passed out on the course,'" Candy add- RIVAL RUNNERS BECOME FAST FRIENDS Above, North Daviess junior Alandra Brinegar (left) and Pike Central sophomore Jenna Meyer (right) pose for a picture following the IHSA A South Knox Girls' Cross Country Sectional Meet on Saturday, Oct. 6. Ed Cahill photo See FRIENDS on 3 See SCRIMMAGE on 2 PAID FOR BY THE COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHNSON FOR SHERIFF, JEREMY BRITTON, TREASURER EXPERIENCED FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE NAVY K-9 HANDLER HONEST Ready to be your next Sheriff. Pike Central's Meyer, North Daviess' Brinegar form bond following in-race incident in 2017 Petersburg Elementary School fifth grader Car- ter McCain and his father, Ryan, competed in the Wicked Triple Fun Run 5K along Cinco Bay- ou in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., on Saturday, Oct. 20. Carter placed third in the 10 and Under age group. Submitted Photo Pike Central High School senior Hannah Carnahan (with ball) tries to go up for a shot while being defended by Northeast Dubois sophomore Becca Brossmer (left) during a scrimmage on Saturday, Oct. 27. The Lady Chargers will open their season at Evansville Reitz on Thursday, Nov. 1, before returning home to host Boonville on Wednesday, Nov. 7, and South Knox on Fri- day, Nov. 9. Ed Cahill photo Lady Chargers win all five quarters in scrimmage against NE Dubois