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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, Feburar y 9, 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 SECTIONAL on page 2 www.UebelhorGM.com Jasper • 1-800-937-8721 CHEVROLET Lady Chargers swimmers finish eighth at Sectional By Andy Heuring Pike Central's girls swim team fin- ished eighth in the 15 -team Jasper Swim Sectional on Monday night. It was moved Saturday afternoon due to the snow and ice late last week. "We had a really good showing last night. Nearly everyone who swam broke their personal record," said Charger Swim Coach Jason McK- inney. Jillian Bailey, a junior, placed in the top eight in all four of the events she competed. Individually she placed sixth in the 100 backstroke in 1:06.96 and 8th in the 50 freestyle in 26.55. She was also a member of both the fifth place 200 medley relay and the fourth place 400 freestyle relay team. The 400 relay team of Xavery Weisman, Madison Riley, Alexis Os- walt and Jillian Baily peeled 11 sec- onds off their preliminary time in the finals to move up two places in the fi- nals to fourth place in 4:13.50. Weis- man and Oswalt are freshmen and Bailey is a junior . "It was their best time of the year, taking off 11 sec- onds is huge," said McKinney. The 200 medley relay team of Ri- ley, Oswalt, Emma McKinney and Bailey placed fifth. They swam a 2:02.35 that was three seconds fast- er than their preliminary time. Along with her two relay finish- es, Oswalt placed ninth in the 100 butterfly with a time of 1:08.34. It was six seconds faster than her pre- lim time. It actually was the seventh fastest time, but because she did not place in the top eight in the pre- lims, she could finish no higher than ninth. Senior Maddie Riley placed 10th in the 100 backstroke with a time of 1:09.74. She also was a member of the 400 freestyle relay and 200 med- ley relay teams that finished fourth and fifth. Freshman Xavery Weisman placed in four events. She had individual places of 16th in the 200 individu- al medley in a time of 2:44.11, and 14th in the 100 fly in a time of 1:17.05. She also was on the 400 and 200 re- lay teams. Freshman Izzy Luker finished 10th in the 100 breast in a time of 1:20.68. That time would have placed her in seventh, but she didn't qualify in the top in the prelims. Emma Krieg placed 12th in div- ing with a score of 202.4. Tessa Vinnedge placed 13th with a score of 201.05. "Throughout the night we swam really well, especially with the weath- er and sickness we had to deal with. I couldn't be more pleased with the way it turned out," said McKinney. The team results were: 1) Jasper 459, 2) Tell City 336, 3) Heritage Hills, 4) Southridge 240, 5) N. Har- rison 144, 6) Tecumseh 139, 7)Bed- ford NL 134, 8) Pike Central 133, 9) Corydon Central 97, 10) South Spen- cer 88, 11) Forest Park 87, 12) North- east Dubois 42, 13) Vincennes 26, 14) South Knox 22, 15) Lanesville 16. By James Capozella Mallory Hunt, Kya Sullivan and Hailey Parker played their last high school game at Washington, on Monday, against a very tough and sizable Lady Hatchet squad, that were tripped up just one time during the reg- ular season. Washington claimed a 64-21 sec- ond game win following their 54-28 win over Linton-Stockton, on February 1. Washington ran off a dozen points in the first five minutes of action, before Pike Cen- tral's, Kahle Young, got a shot to go, with three minutes to go in the first. That shot ac- counted for all the Lady Charger scoring in the first quarter, while Washington added 10 more markers, including a pair of threes for a 22-2 advantage. Young netted her second basket to start the second quarter, but Washington's, Ken- cia Levasseur, got a rebound basket and then, Chloe Browning swished her second three bagger for a 27-4 lead. Pike Central's, Kya Sullivan, reciprocated in kind with a shot from behind the arc for a 27-7 score, with four minutes left in the half. The Lady Chargers got into double fig- ures the same way, when Kahle Young net- ted a three from center court to finish the half trailing 39 -10. The third quarter was all Hatchets with Is- abelle Howell and Chloe Browning gunning two threes apiece. Kya Sullivan and Tiffa- ny Artega each contributed a basket for the Lady Charger cause but also got inside for three baskets and a 57-14 advantage going in- Lady Charger, Kahle Young, goes to the hoop in sectional action at Washington, this past Monday night. She was the top Charger scorer, with seven points on the night. James Capozella photos Weather and conflicts cause schedule shuffle There have been numerous chang- es to this week's sports schedules in the Pike County schools. As of Tuesday, here are the latest changes and schedule for the rest of the week at Pike Central. All practices were made optional on Tuesday. A sixth grade girls' game against Barr-Reeve at OPG has been resched- uled for Saturday, February 12 at 9:30 a.m. in Old Petersburg Gym. Sixth grade boys' basketball — Jas- per does not want to reschedule. The season is now over. High school boys' basketball — due to Tecumseh girls' playing in the sectional championship Tues- day, the boys game with Tecumseh is rescheduled for Wednesday. The JV game will start at 6:30 p.m. Boys' varsity will also play Friday night at Tell City. JV start time is 6:30 p.m. Boys' Freshman basketball at Northeast Dubois is set for 6 p.m. Thursday. Boys' swimming has a home meet Thursday versus Bosse and Central, the start time is 6:30 p.m. It will be senior night for both boys and girls. Cannon, Goeppner, Thompson compete in Regional By Andy Heuring Three Pike Central wrestlers com- peted at the Bloomington Regional on Saturday, but failed to advance. Senior Jon Cannon at 182 pounds wrestled Terre Haute South's Alex Rose, who had a 23-5 record. Cannon and Rose had a back-and-forth match with Rose leading 7-3 after two peri- ods, but Rose was able to pin Cannon in the third period. Cannon finishes the season with a 29 -8 record. At 195 pounds Corey Goeppner went into the match with Brock Hig- gins as a number one seed, but ran in- to trouble early as he got thrown. At one point he trailed 12-3, but fought his way back to 12-7 before he was pinned with just 15 seconds left. Goeppner, a junior, finished the season 31-5. Freshman Paul Thompson at 220 pounds got into the regional by plac- ing fourth in the sectional. He had to wrestle Terre Haute South senior Christian Verst, who was 13-5 on the year. He pinned Thompson in the first period. Thompson was 6 -22 on the year. "I think all three of our guys at re- gionals worked very hard this season. I'm very proud of them. Corey was thrown a few times during his match. Jon faced a very tough two seed. but he gave it his all. Paul faced a good one seed, that gave Paul a very tough match," said first year head wrestling coach Jorden Froderman. Pike Central falls to Washington in Sectional Senior Lady Charger, Mallory Hunt, defends against six-foot senior forward, Alaina Thorne, during sectional action at Washington.