The Press-Dispatch
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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, Januar y 12, 2022 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 See SECOND on page 2 See FIGHT on page 6 See GREEN on page 3 www.UebelhorGM.com Jasper • 1-800-937-8721 CHEVROLET Boys' swim team take first at home Girls take second in tri-meet By Matthew Haycraft Pike Central's swim teams faced off in a home tri-meet with Gibson Southern and Northeast Dubois. The Charger boys' team took home first place in the meet with a total of 116 points, having six firsts, two seconds and four third placed wins in the 24-event meet. Whereas the Lady Charger swim team pulled out sec- ond place in the tri-meet with a total of 121 points, missing out on first to Gibson South- ern with 135 points. Pike Central's girls' team ended the meet with five firsts, seven sec- onds and two third place wins. In the Charger boys' swimming division, the boys placed first in the 200 -yard medley relay, with Wyatt Luff, Isaac Burdette, Mi- chael Burkhart and Cobey McKinney clock- ing 2:02.58; second in the 200 -yard free, with Draven Readle stopping the clock at 2:16.19; second in the 200 -yard IM, with Luff clock- ing a time of 2:43.52; first in the 50 -yard free, with Burdette clocking a time of 26.02; first in the 100 -yard fly, with Xander Parker clock- ing a time of 1:27.88; first in the 100 -yard free, with Cobey McKinney clocking a time of 1:00.14; third in the 500 -yard free, with Readle clocking a time of 6:22.07; first in the 200 -yard free relay, with Gage Schmitt, Rea- dle, Burdette and Cobey McKinney clocking a time of 1:51.95; third in the 100 -yard back, with Luff clocking a time of 1:12.91; in the 100 -yard breast Chargers placed first, with Burdette clocking a time of 1:13.70, and third, with Ethan Mann clocking a time of 1:28.27; third in the 400 -yard free relay, with Readle, Schmitt, Luff and Ty DeCoursey clocking a time of 4:22.43. In the girls' swimming division, the Lady Chargers placed first in the 200 -yard med- ley relay, with Jillian Bailey, Alexis Oswalt, Xavery Weisman and Addy Russell clocking a time of 2:11.44; first in the 200 -yard free, with Jackie Berry clocking a time of 2:35.96; second in the 200 -yard IM, with Oswalt clock- ing a time of 2:50.95; second in the 50 -yard free, with Bailey clocking a time of 27.94; second in the one meter diving, with Tessa Vinnedge totaling 148.05 points; first in the 100 -yard fly, with Oswalt clocking a time of 1:11.35; second in the 100 -yard free, with Rus- sell clocking a time of 1:09.90 ; third in the 500 -yard free, with Weisman clocking a time of 2:25.56; in the 200 -yard free relay the Lady Chargers took first, with Bailey, Russell, Os- walt and Weisman clocking a time of 1:59.62, and third, with Ella Adams, Sarah Fenwick, LJ Deffendoll and Gabby Collins clocking a time of 2:25.56; in the 100 -yard back, the La- dy Chargers took first, with Bailey clocking a time of 1:11.38, and second, with Berry clock- ing a time of 1:18.01; second in the 100 -yard breast, with Shelby Keeker clocking a time of 1:29.74; second in the 400 -yard free relay, with Russell, Lexie Onyett, Berry and Weis- man clocking a time of 4:46.00. Pike Central Lady Charger diver Tessa Vinnedge does a reverse dive off the board during the Charger home tri-meet against Northeast Du- bois and Gibson Southern on Mon- day, January 10. Chargers place fourth in the Green County Invitational By Matthew Haycraft The Pike Central Charger boys' basketball team played in the Green County Invitational this last week, placing fourth with a win and two losses. In the first game, the Chargers faced off with the Jug Rox, of Shoals, taking the victory with a score of 51- 42. During the first half of the game, the Chargers came out a little slow with their scoring, getting a lot of their points in free throws. By half- time, the score was 27-18; however, the Chargers did not let that get them down or deter them from their goal of winning the game. They hit the floor in the second half of the game ready to crush the competition and about halfway in, they did just that. They picked up their scoring and their defensive play shot through the roof. There were a lot of times that the score went back and forth, but the Chargers kept up the fight and pulled through with the win, tally- ing a total of 33 points scored in the second half. The Chargers lead scorers for the face off were Quade Morton and Peyton Howald, with 18 points each. Following them were Kendric Sorgi- us with six points, Braden Howald with four points, Chase Ridao with three points and Julian Gish with two points scored during the game. Coach Hunter Elliott said, "I was proud of the pride and resiliency we showed in the second half. We came out and gave up 20 points in the first quarter, where they went 9 for 11, but then only allowed nine more makes for the rest of the game. We have to be more consistent on both ends of the floor. We were still careless with the basketball at times and had some unforced turnovers. We went to our 1-2-2 early in the second half and Charger Konner Simmons prepares to take down a North Knox wrestler during the North Knox dual at the Forest Park In- vitational on Saturday, January 8. Lady Chargers fight for wins, but lose two By Matthew Haycraft The Lady Chargers played two games this week, facing off with Heritage Hills on Tuesday, Janu- ary 4 and Forest Park on Saturday, January 8, suffering a loss on both accounts. In the Tuesday match-up with Heritage Hills, the Lady Chargers started out slow in the first half of the game, only scoring 14 points to the Patriots' 36. This may have been a big point difference, but this did not stop the Lady Char- gers from putting forth all their effort and determination into win- ning. With their heads held high, they entered into the third quar- ter of the game where they battled the Patriots for some extra points. Unfortunately, they were only able to make up two points through the second half of the game. This left the Lady Chargers losing out to Heritage Hills by a score of 53-33. Pike Central's lead scorer for the game was Mallory Hunt with 11 points. Following her was Brai- ley Mills with 10 points, Kya Sul- livan with seven points and Anna Whitehead with five points. SATURDAY, JAN. 8 A fter this game, the Lady Char- gers went on to play the Rangers at Forest Park, where they suffered a loss of 68 -34. During the first half of the game, the Lady Chargers battled for points but could not seem to put them together. Unable to keep up with Forest Park's Lady Rang- ers, our Lady Chargers went to halftime with the score at 33-18. The second half of the game be- gan and the Lady Chargers con- tinued to fight, despite the odds not being completely in their fa- vor, racking up 10 points through the third quarter of the game. The rest of the second half was much of the same, with the Lady Char- gers unable to keep up to the La- dy Rangers. They were unable to take the win, with only scoring a total of 26 points in the second half of the game to the Rangers' 35 points. The Pike Central Lady Char- gers lead scorer for the game was Hunt again with a total of 12 points. Following her was Sullivan with eight points, Mills with sev- en points and Kahle Young with five points. Coach Kyle McCutchan said, "We played two good opponents this week and despite the out- comes, we did some good things in both games. I thought we played a good second half at Her- Lady Charger sophomore Brailey Mills makes her way to the net during the Pike Central girls' varsity basketball game at Forest Park on Saturday, January 8. Charger wrestling ties for second By Matthew Haycraft Pike Central's Charger wres- tling team competed in the For- est Park Wrestling Invitational, tying for second place in the du- als on Saturday, January 8 at For- est Park. The Chargers won three and lost two of the duals at the invita- tional. They defeated North Knox by a score of 48 -27, defeated Princ- eton by a score of 37-34, but lost to Forest Park by a score of 42-33 and to Evansville North by a score of 48 -30, then defeated South Spen- cer by a score of 48 -36. In the North Knox duals, the Chargers started out with senior Jon Cannon, in the 182 weight class, defeating Gracyn Conrad, of North Knox, by pinning him in 1:34. Following that, freshman Paul Thompson wrestled in the 285 weight class and was pinned in 1:43. Charger freshman Kylee Baker wrestled in the 106 weight class and was pinned in the sec- ond period at 18 seconds. Follow- ing her, Charger junior Ryan Glad- ish won the 132 weight class by pinning Doland Wrapper in 50 seconds. Charger freshman Ri- ley Mosby lost by decision to Jake Phipps in the 145 weight class and Charger freshman Jayden Bolin won in the 152 weight class by pinning his opponent, Ethan San- difer, in 44 seconds. Charger ju- nior Gavin Pancake wrestled last and was pinned in 45 seconds by Garrett Fuller, of North Knox, in the 160 weight class. Pike Central ended the dual with six forfeits, gaining them more points. During the dual against Princ- eton, the Chargers had six for- feits, gaining them extra points. In the other duals against Princ- eton, Konner Simons wrestled in the 220 weight class and lost to Isiah Martin by being pinned in 21 seconds in the third period; Thompson wrestled in the 285 weight class and lost by being pinned in 34 seconds in the sec- ond period to Alex Kling; Griffin Boyd wrestled in the 120 weight class and lost to Jared Dunn by decision; Gladish wrestled in the 132 weight class and won by deci- sion against Brice Smith; Charger sophomore Aiden McGiffen wres- tled in the 138 weight class and lost to Xander Shearer, getting pinned in 36 seconds in the sec- ond period; Mosby lost to Blakely Dillon in the 145 weight class, be- ing pinned in 1:26; Bolin wrestled in the 152 weight class and lost by pin to Jacob Keehn in 56 seconds; Cannon wrestled in the 182 weight class, defeating Drew Walden by decision. The Chargers had five forfeits in the dual against Forest Park.