The Press-Dispatch
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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, February 6, 2013 B-5 H Girls swimming Continued from Page B1 dividual finish for the Lady Chargers with a seventh in the 100 backstroke with a time of 1:14.58. She had her best time of the season in the preliminaries at 1:13.64, improving by almost two seconds. Justine Suanes of Vincennes Lincoln finished eighth in 1:16.09 and Rachel Welsh of Jasper was sixth in 1:14.03. First went to Addison Nolan of Jasper in 1:01.91. Marrs finished 16th in the 200 yard freestyle with a time of 2:39.20 after having a qualifying time of 2:34.39. Samantha Allen of Tell City was 15th in 2:28.78 and Sydney Barrett of Southridge won in 1:59.72. Kendall Dudenhoeffer finished eighth in the 100 yard butterfly event with a time of 1:17.77 with Shaina Dant of Jasper seventh in 1:16.85 and Erin Deckard winning the B Final in 1:21.07. First went to Taylor Miles of Southridge in 58.74. Dudenhoeffer was also 15th in the 200 individual medley clocked at 2:51.16. Tylynn Schaber was 16th in 2:54.25 and Meranda Jester of Heritage Hills 14th in 2:43.39. Winning the event was Miles of Southridge in 2:15.41. Ally Sutherland took 13th place in the 100 freestyle in 1:07.55. Darrian Zabel of Tell City was 14th in 1:08.36 and Brielle Forier of Heritage Hills 12th in 1:05.36. Alivia Cummings finished 16th for the Lady Chargers in 1:11.88. First went to Alissa Haas of Jasper in 56.38. Sutherland was also 15th in the 50 freestyle at 31.17 seconds. Taylor Seufert of Southridge was 14th in 31.03 and Haas of Jasper first in 25.69. Kylee Claridge finished 12th in the breaststroke event, fourth in the B Final with a time of 1:25.09, more than two seconds better than her prelim time and her best of the season. Grace Maxey was 13th for Southridge in 1:26.53 and Maria Veintimilla of Vincennes Lincoln was 11th in 1:25.06. Payton Painter of Jasper won in 1:11.91. In the preliminaries in the 200 freestyle, Lauren Luff finished 18th in 2:42.,97, her best time of the season by five and a half seconds. Kaylee Gray was 22nd at 2:58.58, also her best of the season. Claridge was 18th in the 200 individual medley with a time of 3:01.28. In the 50 freestyle, Keepes finished in 22nd in 33.29, her best of the season, and Ashley Davis was 27th in 38.26. Davis finished 26th in the 100 free in 1:23.37, her best time of the season. Helen Dudenhoeffer finished in 17th in the 100 yard butterfly in the prelims with a time of 1:28.99, just missing the finals. Keepes was 19th in the 100 backstroke prelims in 1:29.41 and Gray was 22nd in 1:31.57, her best time of the season by five seconds. Luff finished in 17th in the breaststroke in 1:31.77, again just missing the finals. Cummings was 18th in 1:32.27. Only the first place finisher in each event and any swimmer meeting a state standard qualifies for the state this weekend in Indianapolis. The full results are available on the IHSAA Web site at www.ihsaa.org. Kylee Claridge reaches out in the backstroke portion of the 200 yard individual medley in the Sectional Meet last week. Alivia Cummings works hard during one of the freestyle events at the Girls Sectional Meet last week. Mason Roberson tries to squirm out from under Michael Merriweather of Evansville Bosse during the Regional Tournament. H Miller advances Continued from Page B1 borne on his back to end the match quickly. In the Semifinal, he met No. 5 ranked Nathan Wright of Evansville Mater Dei. Wright had pinned Miller in their first meeting this season in a dual match in early December. Wright entered the match at 22-2 after pinning Kale McCormick of Castle in 35 seconds. Wright got the takedown in the opening period to gain a 2-0 lead on Miller after they battled back and forth much of the opening period. Wright started down in the second period and reversed Miller, but Miller reversed him back and turned Wright on his back near the end of the second period. Miller had Wright within an inch of being pinned for several seconds, but the buzzer blew to end the period before he could get the pin. He earned a three point near fall and led the match 5-4. Miller began down in the final period and was given an escape point when Wright chose to let him up and go for a takedown. However, Miller was the one who took advantage and gained the Takedown on Wright to push ahead 8-4. Miller was able to ride him for about another minute to end the match with the upset win over the fifth ranked wrestler in the state by an 8-4 score. That advanced Miller to the finals and sent Wright to the consolation round finals. Miller met up with Austin Little of North Posey in the finals and it came down to one move in the second period to decide the match. That came on a reversal that gave Little a 2-0 decision and the Regional championship and sent Miller to the Semistate in second place. Miller will have a tough foe in the first round at Semistate and must win two matches to advance to state. He will meet Ethan Schwoeppe (43-4) of Southridge, the third place finisher at Bloomington South. He lost to Schwoeppe by a 5-1 score in the Pocket Athletic Conference meet. The second round, if Miller wins, would be against either Gavin Jolly-Little (44-4) of Jeffersonville or Mile Williams (28-7) of Danville, to qualify for state. The other two wrestlers for the Chargers did not have as much luck. Devin Phillips at 138 pounds had high hopes of finishing in the top four and qualifying for Semistate, but had two really tough matches. He opened against Charlie Allen of Boonville and suffered a 20-3 technical fall loss in round one. He had a first period reversal for two points and an escape in the second period. However, he gave up 10 points in the first period, five in the second and five in the third. His second match was against Cordale Miller of Heritage Hills with a chance to get in the consolation round. He lost a 4-0 decision giving up an escape and takedown in the second period and a penalty point in the third. Mason Roberson also had a tough match to open the tournament at 160 pounds losing an 11-7 decision to Andy Wimpelberg of Evans- ville Reitz. Wimpelberg got the takedown in the opening period, but Roberson earned a reversal. Wimpelberg reversed him, but Roberson again got a reversal for a 4-4 tie at the end of the first period. Wimpelberg got a reversal in the second period after starting down. Roberson escaped and trailed 6-5 at the end of the period. Roberson began down in the third period and got the reversal. Wimpelberg reversed him back and earned a three point near fall for some cushion in the match and to win by four points. Roberson picked up a win by injury default over Jake Burden of South Spencer in the consolation round. He lost a 9-4 decision to Michael Merriweather of Evansville Bosse in the match for fifth and sixth. His foe got the takedown in the opening period. He picked up a two point near fall in the second before Roberson reversed him and earned a two point near fall. His foe escaped. He earned a three point near fall as well as another point for the 9-4 final score. The final point standings had Pike Central in 14th place in the 20 team field with 24 points. The standings were: Evansville Mater Dei 204, Evansville Reitz 135, Evansville 114, Evansville Memorial 96, Heritage Hills 89.5, Castle 76, Gibson Southern 46, North Posey 45, Mount Vernon 43, Evansville Harrison 39, Vincennes Lincoln 36, Evansville North 35, South Spencer 30, Pike Central 24, Princeton 21, Tecumseh 19, Boonville 16.5, Tell City 10, Evansville Bosse 8, Wood Memorial 6. Ally Sutherland takes a breath during a freestyle event at the Sectional in Jasper. She placed in two individual events and helped the relays to good finishes. Lauren Luff works hard in the breaststroke event at the Sectional Meet in Jasper last Thursday. Kaylee Gray reaches out during the backstroke event in the Sectionals last week. She had her best time of the season improving by almost five seconds. Chloe Keepes strokes ahead in the 50 yard freestyle event in the Sectional at Jasper. She also competed in the 400 freestyle relay. Ashley Davis had her best time of the year in the 100 freestyle during the Sectional Meet in Jasper. Helen Dudenhoeffer forges ahead in the breaststroke during the 200 individual medley in the Sectional meet last week.