The Press-Dispatch
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B-2 Sports Wednesday, Februar y 20, 2019 The Press-Dispatch CHARGERS Continued from page 1 SPORTS BRIEFS Petersburg Little League baseball and softball sign-ups begin this weekend Petersburg Little League baseball and soft- ball sign-ups begin this weekend. The sign-ups will be at the American Legion Park on Illinois St. in the concession stand on Sunday, February 24 from noon to 4 p.m., Wednes- day, March 13 from 3 to 7 p.m. and Saturday, March 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is also an online sign-up at tshq.bluesom- brero.com/petersburglit- tleleague. Sign-up can al- so be done by mailing in a sign-up form to Peters- burg Little league. The registration fee is $20 +$20 per player for concession duty for all leagues. The maximum cost per family is $100 plus concession. Prospective players who cannot make it to the sign-up or don't have ac- cess to the internet can call Joey 0'Brien at 812- 486 -7107. No player will be turned away due to inability to pay. Pike Central Youth Wrestling Camp to be held March 11-15 Wrestlers who are inter- ested in improving their skills and knowledge of the sport are invited to participate in the Pike Central Youth Wrestling Camp. The wrestling camp is for students who will be in kindergarten or first through sixth grades in the 2019-20 school year. The camp will run from Monday, March 11, to Friday, March 15, from 6 -7:10 p.m., at the Pike Central High School gym. The wrestling finale will be held on Wednesday, March 20, at 6 p.m. The sign-up fee is $45 ($25 for any additional siblings) and includes a T-shirt, if registered by March 1. Registrations will be accepted until the first night of the camp. Registration forms, which can be found on Facebook at the Pike Cen - tral Wrestling page, can be mailed to Ryan Mc- Cain, 110 West Crestview Drive, Petersburg, IN 47567. Registration forms can also be obtained by e-mailing McCain at r yan - fmccain@gmail.com. For more information, contact McCain by call- ing 812-789 -6381 or by e-mail at ryanfmccain@ gmail.com, or visit the Pike Central Wrestling page on Facebook. Winslow Sports League holding conditioning, sign-ups Who is ready to play some ball? Join the Winslow Sports League Wednesdays this month for conditioning and sign- ups. Open conditioning and sign-ups for t-ball, soft- ball and baseball will take place on Monday and Wednesday nights at the Winslow Communi- ty Center from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Sign-ups can also be done on-line through the Winslow Sports League's page on Facebook. For more information, e-mail winslowsports@ hotmail.com or visit our Facebook page Winslow Sports League. In addition, the Winslow Sports League invites any- one who wants to get in- volved – either as a volun- teer or as an umpire – to contact them. Registration underway for VU Youth Baseball Spring Training Camp Registration is now un- derway for a one-day Vin- cennes University Youth Baseball Spring Training Camp that will take place on Saturday, March 23, at Jerry Blemker Field. The VU Baseball Team and coaching staff will host the camp for ages 6 - 12 and participants will cover pitching mechan- ics, hitting, stretching, base running, fielding – including rundowns and fly balls. Campers will al- so enjoy a pizza party and receive a VU t-shirt. Registration is $45 be- fore March 15 and $ 50 after. Complete details and online registration are available at vinu.edu/ camps. Winslow co-ed softball tourney set for March 23-24 The second annual Winslow co-ed softball tourney is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, March 23-24. The tournament is for anyone 18 or older. Each team must have at least four female players, with a maximum of 13 players per team. There is a $200 entry fee, and each team can purchase a maximum of four homerun bracelets at $10 each. The tournament begins at 8 a.m. each day. For a copy of the rules, contact Josh Moore at 812-403-3065 or Justin Hart at 812-582 2284. UPCOMING SCHEDULE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22 High School Boys' Swimming and Diving: State Finals at Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapo- lis – Swimming preliminaries, 6 p.m. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 High School Boys' Swimming and Diving: State Finals at Indiana University Natatorium in Indianap- olis – Diving preliminaries and semifinals, 9 a.m.; Fi- nals, 1 p.m. Middle School Wrestling: Pike Central in Pike Central Invitational, 9 a.m. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Coed Middle School Swimming: Tell City at home, 6:30 p.m. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Coed Middle School Swimming: Quad Meet at Southridge, 6 p.m. SATURDAY, MARCH 2 Middle School Wrestling: Titan Duals at Gibson Southern High School, 9 a.m. MONDAY, MARCH 4 Coed Middle School Swimming: at South Spen- cer Middle School, 6:30 p.m. TUESDAY, MARCH 5 Coed Middle School Swimming: Tri-Meet at Jas- per Middle School, 6 p.m. Middle School Wrestling: at North Knox, 6 p.m. Pike Central's defensive hustle kept the game from getting out of hand be- fore they made a mini-run in the last two minutes of the first quarter. Ethan Scott scored on a drive with 1:50 left. Hayden Kabrick made it 10 -5 with 58 seconds to go and had a layup roll off the rim with 10 seconds left in the quarter. Instead, Forest Park got the rebound and got a shot off just be- fore the buzzer. Hopf rebounded it, and put it back up and in at the buzzer. So instead of a 10 -7 lead, it was 12-5. "I was pleased with our effort against Forest Park. I thought we really played well, we just didn't shoot it well. We had multiple opportunities to cut into the lead and just did not make shots," said Charger coach Hunter Elliott. Forest Park went on a 9 -2 run to take their lead out to 23-9. But Pike Central began to claw their way back into the game with a Scott three, followed by a Joey Church lay- up on a break off a turnover. Judah Leathco dropped a three-point- er at the 7:30 mark of the second quar- ter to make it a 23-17 game. Reid Steffe's three pointer late in the first half pushed the Ranger's lead to 35 -24 at halftime. They would push that lead to 45 -25 with a Hopf basket in the paint with four minutes left in the game. "Hopf is a very talented player and with his size and skill, it was difficult for us to stop him when they went in- side to him. I do feel like we did a nice job defensively for the most part, just came back to making shots," said El- liott. Forest Park then held Pike Central to only scoring six points in the final quarter to fall 47-30. It was the third loss of the week for Pike Central. VARSITY Pike Central (30) Austin Holder 1 1-2 3 3, Ethan Gorby 2 0 -0 3 5, Christian Benson 1 0 -0 2 2, Ethan Scott 4 1-3 1 11, Judah Leathco 1 0 -0 2 3, Joey Church 2 0 -0 3 4, Hayden Kabrick 1 0 -0 1 2. Totals 12 2-5 15 30. Three-point goals: 4 (Scott 2, Gor- by, Leathco) Forest Park (47) Reid Steffe 4 0 -0 0 10, Drew Howard 0 0 -0 1 0, Garrett Jochem 0 0 -2 0 0, El- liott Rothgerber 1 1-2 3 4, Garrett Betz 1 1-2 2 3, Wade Leonard 0 0 -0 1 0, Si- mon Jacob 4 2-3 0 11, Curt Hopf 8 3-5 2 19. Totals 18 7-14 9 47. Three-point goals: 4 (Steffe 2, Roth- gerber, Jacob) JUNIOR VARSITY Pike Central (20) Ethan Gorby 2 0 -0 4, Hunter Traylor 0 0 -2 0 0, Shawn Hanselman 0 1-2 2 1, Connor Young 1 0 -0 1 3, Jaden Guth 1 4-4 1 6, Alex Clark 1 0 -0 1 2, Stephan Krieg 0 0 -0 2 0, Colin Craig 2 0 -0 1 4. Totals 7 5 -8 8 20. Forest Park (54) Leonard Wade 2 2-2 0 7, Nathan Jar- boe 3 0 -2 0 6, Austin Clifton 1 0 -0 0 3, Evan Tretter 1 0 -0 0 3, Logan Englert 1 0 -0 3 3, Landon Nalley 2 0 -0 0 4, Collin Rothgerber 1 202 0 4, Cooper Wubel- hor 3 1-1 2 8, Kaden Bowman 4 1-2 2 9, Blake Hagedorn 3 0 -0 2 7. Totals 21 6 -9 9 54. Three-point goals 6 (Uebelhor, En- glert, Tretter, Austin, Leonard) CHARGERS FALL 68-32 TO JASPER On Friday night, they suffered a 68 - 32 loss at Jasper in a game the Wildcats controlled from the start. Jasper's Tanner Erny and Carter Stamm both outscored Pike Central in the first quarter. Erny who had a game-high 19 points scored seven and Stamm had six on two threes in the quarter that saw Jas- per jump out to a 15 -4 lead. Pike Central managed only four points in the first quarter. Jasper then outscored the Chargers 19 -7 for a 34-11 lead at half time. It con- tinued in the second half as they pulled away for a 36 point win. Pike Central's Austin Holder poured in eight of his team high 12 points in the third quarter. Ethan Scott added eight points for the Chargers. VARSITY Pike Central (32) Austin Holdern 5 2-2 3 12, Draven Huff 0 0 -0 1 0, Ethan Gorby 2 0 -0 2, Christian Benson 1 0 -2 2 2, Ethan Scott 3 1-2 4 8, Judah Leathco 0 1-2 1 1, Hayden Kabrick 2 0 -0 0 5. Totals 13 4-8 13 32. Three-point goals 2 (Scott, Kabrick) Jasper (68) Tanner Erny 8 0 -0 0 19, Carter Stamm 4 2-5 1 12, William Schmitt 1 0 - 0 0 3, Will Troxler 2 2-2 0 7, Reece Day 3 1-1 2 7, Isaac Heim 3 0 -0 1 8, Andrew Wallace 2 2-2 3 6, Cameron Mehring- er 3 0 -0 0 6. Totals 26 7-10 10 68. Three-point goals 8 (Erny 3, Stamm 2, Heim 2, Schmitt, Troxler) JUNIOR VARSITY Pike Central (22) Aden Brown 1 0 - -0 0 2, Ethan Gorby 2 0 -0 1 4, hunter Traylor 0 0 -0 1 0, Sean Hanselman 1 0 -0 4 2, Connor Young 0 0 -0 3 0, Ashtan Evans 1 0 -0 0 2, Jaden Guth 0 2-2 1 2, Alex Clark 0 0 -0 1 0, Ste- phen Krieg 2 0 -0 1 6, Colin Craig 1 0 - 0 2 2. Totals 9 2-2 14 22. Three-point goals 2 (Krieg 2) Jasper (46) Dillion Sternberg 0 2-2 1 2, Jackon Kabrick 2 0 -0 1 5, Reece Milligan 5 0 - 0 0 13, Josh Weidenbenner 3 0 -1 2 6, Jared Englert 4 3-6 0 11, Philip Noblitt 0 2-4 2 2, Quentin 3 0 -0 5 6. Totals 17 8-15 11 46. Three-point goals 4 (Reece 3, Kabrick) CHARGERS FALL TO GIBSON SOUTHERN Pike Central ran into a hot-shooting Gibson Southern team as they fell 58 - 37 on Tuesday night. The Titans were led by Dawson Witte with 25 points, who was 11 of 13 from the free-throw line. Adam May hit two threes in the first quarter for the Titans. Pike Central stayed close despite hot shooting by the Titans. Ethan Gorby's basket with 2:38 left in the first made it a 12-9 game. Witte's second basket of the quarter at 31 seconds left in the quarter made it a 16 -11 game. Pike Central went cold in the second quarter, only scoring three points on an Ethan Scott three pointer with 4:03 left in the half. This would allow Gibson Southern to pull out to a 25 -14 lead at halftime. Witte, at 6'4", took over the third quarter, scoring nine points on seven of eight from the free-throw line, while Pike Central was scoring six points in the quarter. Gibson Southern then put up 21 points in the fourth quarter to move the winning margin out to 28 points. Austin Holder led the Chargers with eight points and Scott added seven. VARSITY Gibson Southern (58) Andrew Smith 2 1-3 0 5, Aiden Neel 2 1-1 4 6, Kaden Hurless 4 1-2 3 9, Daw- son Witte 7 11-13 1 25, Adam May 3 0 - 0 0 8, Ethan Reinbrecht 1 0 -0 2 2, Ja- cob Spindler 1 1-1 1 3. Totals 20 15- 21 11 58. Three-point goals: 3 (May 2, Neel) Pike Central (30) Austin Holder 4 0 -0 3 8, Draven Huff 1 0 -0 0 2, Ethan Gorby 1 0 -0 1 2, Chris- tian Benson 3 0 -4 1 7, Ethan Scott 2 2- 4 3 7, Sean Hanselman 0 2-2 0 2, Ju- dah Leathco 0 0 -0 4 0, Stephen Krieg 0 0 -0 1 0, Hayden Kabrick 1 0 -0 4 2, Colin Craig 0 0 -0 1 0. Totals 12 4- 10 18 30. Three-point goals: 2 (Scott, Benson) Pike Central to play Hatchets in first round of sectional By Andy Heuring Pike Central drew Washington in the first round of the sectional. They will play the 14-7 Hatchets on their home court in the first game on Tuesday, Feb- ruary 26. The second game on Tuesday will be between Southridge (17-5) and Sulli- van (12-10). The winner of the Pike Central vs. Washington game will play Vincennes Lincoln (9 -13) in the first game on Fri- day. The second game on Friday will be the winner of Southridge vs. Sullivan against Princeton (17-4). The champi- onship game will be on Saturday night. "Our sectional is one of the toughest in the state and it is never easy regard- less of who you draw. Washington is a senior-laden basketball team with a lot of experience and size. If we can play defense and compete the way we did against Jasper and Forest Park, we will give ourselves a chance. Statistics and records are great, but the thing is they are in the past. We need to come out and play aggressive and believe in our- selves, and you never know what can happen this time of year," said Char- ger head coach Hunter Elliott. Ethan Gorby drives the lane against Forest Park's Curt Hopf. Gor- by had five points in the loss. Christian Benson blows past a Forest Park defender on his way to the bucket. He scored two points in the game.