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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, Feburar y 23, 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 JASPER on page 2 See SECTIONAL on page 8 BOYS' SWIM FINISHES SEVENTH AT SECTIONAL By Andy Heuring Pike Central placed seventh in the 13 team Jasper swim sectional last week. All three of the Chargers re- lay teams placed in the top eight. "We swam very well on Saturday, all the relays set their best times of the season," said Pike Central Coach Jason McKinney. The 200 medley relay team of Wyatt Luff, Isaac Bur- dette, Michael Burkhart and Cobey McKinney placed sixth with a time of 1:56.09. It was two seconds faster than their preliminary time. The 200 free team of Draven Readle, Burkhart, Burdette and McKinney placed eighth with a time of 1:43.91. They were just 0.54 seconds out of seventh. The 400 free team of Luff, Burkhart, Readle and Gage Schmitt placed eighth in a time of 4:01.8. It wasn't just the relays, but the individuals perfor- mances as well. "All the kids who swam Saturday cut time for their personal best. I was very proud of all of them. It was a great end to a great season," said McK- inney. Burdette had the highest individual place for the Chargers with a fifth in the 100 breast with a time of 1:09.23. He also placed 10th in the 50 free with a time of 25.03. Readle placed sixth in the 200 free with a time of 2:08.82. He also placed eight in the 500 free in a time Pike Central will take on Tigers in Sectional first round By Andy Heuring Pike Central drew Princeton in the first round of Princeton Boys Basketball Sectional. The Char- gers have been surging recently as they have won seven of their last 10 games. Pike Central will face Princeton at 7 p.m. Pike County time on Tuesday, March 1 at Princeton. Single game tickets are $ 6 and can be purchased at the door. Also a three-night sea- son ticket for $10 will be available. Princeton stands at 3-18 on the season. Pike Central beat them 43- 41 back on December 4. Since that time, Pike Central has been trend- ing up while Princeton has been in a downward spiral, losing 15 games in a row. They will play Heritage Hills on Tuesday, Feb. 22 and Tecumseh on Wednesday, Feb. 23 in the regu- lar season prior to playing the Char- gers. Pike Central faced South Knox on Tuesday night and has North Posey on Thursday with both games being on the road. Friday night's games at Prince- ton will feature Washington (12-9) vs Sullivan (20 -1) in the first game. Following that game the winner of Pike Central and Princeton will face Vincennes Lincoln (0 -20). Saturday night the winner of the two Friday night games will play. Pike Central Athletic Director Dustin Powell said sectional season tickets for all three nights' games are available at the Pike Central Ath- letics office for $10. He said there will only be 100 available and they will be first come served. They will be available through February 28. Chargers big second quarter propels them to win over Brown County By Andy Heuring Pike Central's Quade Morton had a career night as the Chargers ex- ploded for 22 points in the second quarter and never looked back on their way to a 66 -46 win over Brown County on Saturday night. Morton poured in 30 points includ- ing 10 points in the second quarter as the Chargers expanded a 12-11 lead at the beginning of the quarter to a 34-19 lead at half-time. The Charger defense held Brown County to just eight points in the second quarter. "We did a really good job of get- ting in the passing lanes and getting steals. We had 13 steals and scored 18 points off of them," said Elliott. On the night the Chargers were 7 of 13 from three point range. "I will take that any night," said Elliott. But Elliott credited the Chargers attacking the rim more than their three-point shooting for their good offensive production. "We attacked the basket and got a lot of layups and got to the free-throw line," said El- liott. The Chargers shot 7 of 15 from the free-throw line compared with Brown County's 3 of 6. Morton's 10 points in the second quarter outscored the Eagles' him- self and five other Chargers also scored in the quarter. They stretched the lead to 20 points in the third quarter as Mor- ton added another nine points and Kendric Sorgius seven points in the quarter. Along with hitting two three-pointers Morton had three three-point plays in the game. Late in the third quarter and early fourth quarter, Brown County went on an 11-point run that cut the Char- ger lead. It was led by Kaydon Bell- more's back-to-back three pointers and another three by Carter Kelly. Kelly was the Eagles' leading scor- er with 16 points, while Belmore had 12 points. "I thought defensively we were really good, and then we had some lapses in the second half," said El- liott. Pike Central went on a 12-0 run of its own immediately following Brown County's run. Three-pointers by Pey- ton Howald and Alex Clark in the run extinguished any hope of a Brown County rally. The win pushed Pike Central's re- cord to 9 -10 on the season and was their seventh win in 10 games. VARSITY Pike Central (66) Kendric Sorgius 4 2-4 1 11, Peyton Howald 3 1-3 1 8, Braden Howald 2 0 -0 4 4, Quade Morton 12 4-6 2 30, Chase Ridao 1 0 -0 0 3, Julian Gish 2 0 -2 1 4, Alex Clark 2 0 -0 1 6. Totals 26 7-15 8 66. 3 pt. goals 7 (Morton 2, Clark 2, Sorgius, P. Howald, Ridao) Brown Co. (46) Bellmore 4 0 -0 3 12, Bond 1 0 -0 1 2, Wagler 0 2-4 3 2, Hubbard 1 0 -0 0 2, Miller 2 0 -0 2 4, Wagler 0 0 -0 1 0, Patrick 3 0 -0 0 8, Kelly 6 1-2 3 16. To - tals 17 3-6 13 46. 3 pt. goals 9 (Bellmore 4, Patrick 2, Kelly 3) PC leads going into fourth Wildcats avoid overtime in last second By James Capozella Time was on Jasper's side when Jack Ahlbrand swished a shot from behind the arc with just a second to go in a tie ball game on the Char- ger court, this past Friday night. Jas- per had gotten the ball with 19 sec- onds remaining after Julian Gish tied things up at 46 apiece, when he filched the ball and dashed down the court for the last Charger score. Jasper had the ball the last 50 sec- onds and called time out with 19.3 remaining. Kendric Sorgius, Quade Morton, Julian Gish, Braden How- ald and Peyton Howard had stymied the Wildcat offense to the point where they could only manage Ahl- brand's last gasp three from the left wing with just .6 seconds to go. A drive to the hoop in hopes of a foul and or basket seemed more logical to put the game on ice for the Wild- cats. The Wildcats scored on four three pointers, three coming from the hands of Ahlbrand. The last four seconds of the third quarter found the Wildcats catch- ing up from down 32-24. The Wild- cats trailed by a basket heading in- to the fourth when senior Connor Foley netted his 12th score of the night. The three ball was king in the third quarter for the hosts with Morton claiming a pair, and Kend- ric Sorgius good for the third in the late going. The Chargers had a substantial lead through three quarters kicked off by senior Alex Clark who popped a three bagger in for the initial score. Quade Morton, Julian Gish and Peyton Howald nailed shots for a 16 -5 first quarter and Morton, Kendric Sorgius and Gish continued on a spree with 13 second quarter points and a 29 to 14 first half advan- tage over the visiting Jasper Wild- cats. The Wildcats got back into the fray with a 22 third quarter mark- ers to make it a 39 -37 ball game Charger Quade Morton was the game's top scorer with 19 points, followed by classmate Julian Gish with 11 markers. Kendric Sorgius had eight points, and Peyton How- ald and Alex Clark each had four. Wildcat senior forward Connor Fo- ley had 18 points, and seniors Tan- ner Erny and Gus Heichelbech had 12 and 11 respectively. Senior guard Jack Ahlbrand tallied three from beyond the arc including the game winner. Charger head coach Hunter El- liott commented, "I thought we played really hard and battled. We built a really nice lead at halftime up by 14. The second half we did not do as good of a job attacking them on offense, we had some forced shots and live ball turnovers that hurt us. Then we did not rebound nearly as well, and they got a lot of second chance points and that was really the difference in the game. "I think we are showing we are fully capable of playing with and beating anybody. We have to make sure we continue to learn and do the little things down the stretch." Coach added that Kendric Sor- gius had eight points and five re- bounds. Quade Morton had two re- bounds and two assists, and Julian Gish had three steals and three as- sists. Morton had five threes, and Sorgius and Clark each had one. The junior varsity fell to the Wild- cats 60 -32, with seven scorers in- cluding 10 points by Jagar Dent. Barrett Cooper and Noah Meece each had five, Albert Whitehead four, Chase Ridao and Brenton Fry- rear three each, and Zack Miller a basket. Jasper built a comfortable 30 -15 first half lead with eight scorers and then put up another 30 markers to 18 for the Chargers. Wyatt Luff reaches for another stroke during the 100 backstroke race. He finished ninth in the event at the Jasper sectional. Jamie Luff photos. Ethan Mann pops up between strokes in the 100 breaststroke event during the Jasper swim sec- tional. Kendric Sorgius looks for a cutter during the Jasper game. Sorgius had eight points in the 50-46 loss Friday night.