The Press-Dispatch
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B-2 Sports Wednesday, Januar y 16, 2019 The Press-Dispatch PATRIOTS Continued from page 1 UPCOMING SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16 High School Wrestling: Pike Central in Evansville Mater Dei Tournament ( junior varsity only), 6 p.m. Middle School 6th Grade Girls' Basketball: Princeton at Pike Central (Old Petersburg Gym), 6:30 p.m. THURSDAY, JANUARY 17 High School Girls' Basketball: Pike Central at Princeton – Junior Varsity, 6:30 p.m.; Varsity, 8 p.m. High School Girls' and Boys' Swimming and Diving: Pike Central in Pocket Athletic Conference Championship preliminaries at Tecumseh, 6 p.m. High School Boys' C Team Basketball: Pike Cen- tral at Washington, 6 p.m. Middle School 7th and 8th Grade Girls' Basket- ball: South Knox at Pike Central, 6 p.m. Middle School 7th and 8th Grade Boys' Basket- ball: Pike Central at South Knox, 6 p.m. Middle School 6th Grade Boys' Basketball: Pike Central at Heritage Hills, 6:30 p.m. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18 High School Boys' Basketball: Pike Central at North Knox – Junior Varsity, 6 p.m.; Varsity, 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY, JANUARY 19 High School Boys' Basketball: Washington at Pike Central – Junior Varsity, 6 p.m.; Varsity, 7:30 p.m. High School Girls' Basketball: Pike Central at Barr-Reeve – Junior Varsity, 1 p.m.; Varsity, 2:30 p.m. High School Girls' and Boys' Swimming and Diving: Pike Central in Pocket Athletic Conference Championship finals at Tecumseh, 9 a.m. High School Wrestling: Pike Central in Pocket Athletic Conference Championship at Heritage Hills, 10 a.m. Middle School 6th Grade Girls' Basketball: Pike Central in Fort Branch Tournament, TBA. MONDAY, JANUARY 21 High School Girls' Basketball: North Posey at Pike Central – Junior Varsity 6:30 p.m.; Varsity, 8 p.m. High School Boys' C Team Basketball: Pike Cen- tral at North Knox, 6 p.m. Middle School 6th Grade Boys' Basketball: Pike Central at Jasper (Gold), 6 p.m. TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 High School Girls' Basketball: Pike Central at Tecumseh – Junior Varsity, 6:30 p.m.; Varsity, 8 p.m. High School Girls' and Boys' Swimming: Evansville Mater Dei at Pike Central, 6 p.m. Middle School 6th Grade Girls' Basketball: Jasper at Pike Central (Old Petersburg Gym), 6 p.m. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23 High School 6th Grade Girls' Basketball: Pike Central at Washington, 6 p.m. THURSDAY, JANUARY 24 High School Girls' Basketball: Heritage Hills at Pike Central – Junior Varsity, 6:30 p.m.; Varsity, 8 p.m. Middle School 6th Grade Boys' Basketball: Pike Central at Fort Branch, 6 p.m. FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 High School Boys' Basketball: Pike Central at South Spencer – Junior Varsity, 6:30 p.m.; Varsity, 8 p.m. SATURDAY, JANUARY 26 High School Boys' Basketball: Pike Central at Barr-Reeve – Junior Varsity, 6 p.m.; Varsity, 7:30 p.m. High School Wrestling: Pike Central in Sectional Meet at Southridge, 10 a.m. Middle School 6th Grade Boys' Basketball: Barr-Reeve at Pike Central (Old Petersburg Gym), 9:30 a.m. HIGH SCHOOL BOYS' BASKETBALL Pocket Athletic Conference Standings PAC Overall Team W-L W-L Heritage Hills .................................. 4-0 .......... 13-1 Southridge ....................................... 3-0 ............ 9 -4 Tell City .............................................3-1 .......... 10 -3 Forest Park .......................................2-1 ............ 8 -6 North Posey .....................................1-2 ............ 4-8 South Spencer ..................................1-3 ............ 5 -7 Tecumseh .........................................1-4 ............ 8 -7 Gibson Southern ..............................0 -2 ............ 3-7 Pike Central .....................................0 -2 ............ 2-9 Result of January 8 Tell City 38, Evansville Day 25 Results of January 11 Forest Park 68, South Spencer 44 North Posey 66, Tecumseh 49 Southridge at Perry Central, ppd. Results of January 12 Forest Park 68, South Spencer 44 Heritage Hills 83, Tecumseh 47 Southridge 40, Jasper 38 (OT) Tell City 65, South Spencer 58 Washington 64, Gibson Southern 41 Result of January 14 Heritage Hills 71, Pike Central 31 Game of January 15 Gibson Southern at Princeton Games of January 18 Pike Central at North Knox: Junior Varsity, 6 p.m.; Varsity, 7:30 p.m. Forest Park at Jasper Heritage Hills at Southridge North Posey at South Spencer Tell City at Evansville Mater Dei Games of January 19 Washington at Pike Central: Junior Varsity, 6 p.m.; Varsity, 7:30 p.m. Crawford County at Tell City Evansville Mater Dei at Gibson Southern Forest Park at Tecumseh North Posey at Southridge South Spencer at Evansville North Game of January 22 Gibson Southern at Mount Carmel (Illinois) Games of January 25 Pike Central at South Spencer: Junior Varsity, 6:30 p.m.; Varsity, 8 p.m. Heritage Hills at Evansville Mater Dei Mount Vernon (Posey) at Gibson Southern South Knox at North Posey Southridge at Forest Park Tell City at Wood Memorial Games of January 26 Pike Central at Barr-Reeve: Junior Varsity, 6 p.m.; Varsity, 7:30 p.m. Princeton at North Posey South Spencer at Heritage Hills Southridge at Washington Springs Valley at Tell City Tecumseh at Washington Catholic advantage of 32-14. Then, after a basket by Scott pulled the Chargers to within 32-16, the Patriots scored eight unanswered points – five by junior Cole Sigler and three by Scher- ry – to take a 40 -16 halftime lead. Heritage Hills would score the first five points of the second half – on a three- point play by Sisley and a basket by Scherry – to cap off a 13-0 scoring run that extended the Patriots' lead to 45 -16. Pike Central would get no closer than 27 points the rest of the game. Scott led the Chargers in scoring (14) and rebounds (6) while Benson and se- nior Judah Leathco add- ed five points each. Soph- omore Sean Hanselman tossed in three points. Gor- by and Kabrick rounded out the scoring for Pike Central with two points each. For the game, the Char- gers made 13 of 38 field goal attempts – a 34.2 percent average – and were 0 -for-2 from the free throw line while turning the ball over a total of 24 times. Heritage Hills, which converted 14 of Pike Cen- tral's turnovers into 30 of- fensive points, out-rebound- ed the Chargers 27-23 while scoring a total of 10 points off of eight offensive re- bounds. The Chargers, mean- while, converted four of the Patriots' eight turnovers into a total of eight points while scoring a total of four points off of seven offensive rebounds. "They really worked it into Sisley and Becher a lit- tle bit, but the one thing I thought, in the half court, we really didn't do too bad," Elliott said. "We could slow them down and play five- on-five half court defense. It was just we might give up an offensive rebound. We didn't always finish it with a rebound like we need to, and size comes into play there." With junior Noah Whann sidelined with a knee inju- ry, Pike Central found itself without another of its start- ing players as senior Aus- tin Holder – who netted 22 points in the Chargers' win at Wood Memorial after missing three games due to a concussion – missed the game due to illness. "That's very tough," El- liott said. "Holder came to me today and said that he was sick, and I just couldn't believe it, with all that he's been through this year. Hopefully, he can get bet- ter and we'll be having him back this weekend. And with Whann's injury, I know it's hurting him, not being able to help us out." "I think we've said we've only played with everybody we started with twice all year, so, you know, it's a lit- tle bit of adversity for us," Elliott added. "But it's giv- ing a lot of kids opportuni- ties to learn and get better and grow." Elliott admitted, how- ever, that the 10 -day lay- off – largely due to inclem- ent weather that forced the postponement of games at Heritage Hills and Boon- ville originally scheduled for Friday, Jan. 11, and Sat- urday, Jan. 12, respectively – certainly didn't help the Chargers, who also expe- rienced a 17-day layoff be- tween games in December. "Now's the time where ev- erybody's wanting to play basketball games, and prac- tice isn't something that they're always wanting to do," Elliott said. "It's one of those things where, weath- er-wise, and just kind of how it fell, we ended up not being able to play, and that proba- bly hurt us a little bit." "We had some really good practices early in the week, and it kind of tailed off be- cause ... they were ready to play games," Elliott add- ed. "So that break definite- ly played into this as well." Pike Central will return to action on Friday, Jan. 18, when the Chargers will travel to North Knox (1-12). On Saturday, Jan. 19, Pike Central will host Washing- ton (9 -4), with 2019 Winter Sports Homecoming Queen festivities taking place be- tween the junior varsity and varsity contests. The back-to-back games will be the first time during the regular season – out- side of the 2018 Old Nation- al Bank Holiday Classic at North Daviess in late De- cember – that the Chargers have played on back-to-back nights. "We better get used to it, because we play back- to-back, Friday and Satur- day, the rest of the way out here," Elliott said. "It's a great opportunity. Travel- ing to North Knox, play- ing away, is always a chal- lenge, and then Washington is definitely a good ball club. We're going to have to come out ready to go." • • • In the junior varsity con- test, junior Cayden Kratzer scored a game-high 14 points to lead Heritage Hills to a 44-25 victory over Pike Central. Krieg and ju- nior Colin Craig scored six points each to pace the Chargers. Pike Central High School junior Ethan Scott drives toward the basket during varsity boys' basketball action at Heritage Hills on Monday, Jan. 14. Scott netted a team-high 14 points in a 71-31 loss to the Patriots. Ed Cahill photo Pike Central High School sophomore Stephen Krieg grabs a rebound during junior varsity boys' basketball action at Heritage Hills on Monday, Jan. 14. Krieg scored six points in a 44-25 loss to the Patriots. Ed Cahill photo Above: Pike Central High School sophomore Jaden Guth (30) goes up for a shot as Heritage Hills sophomores Adam Guth (left) and Aiden Susnjara (right) defend during junior varsity boys' basketball action on Monday, Jan. 14. Ed Cahill photo Right: Pike Central High School sophomore Ethan Gorby (11) goes up for a shot during junior varsity boys' basketball action at Heritage Hills on Monday, Jan. 14. Gorby scored four points in a 44-25 loss to the host Patriots. Ed Cahill photo