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SPORTS CALENDAR TUESDAY, MAY. 24 ❚ GSHS Boys' Varsity Golf — Evansville North — 4:30 p.m. at Cambridge THURSDAY, MAY. 26 ❚ GSHS Boys' Varsity Golf — County Meet — 1 p.m. at Cambridge South Gibson Star-Times Sports Tuesday, May 24, 2022 B-3 Elizabeth Steckler in the 1600, where she finished sixth in 6:06.76. Rachel Pohl cleared 4'10" to place second in the high jump. ners reach base until the sixth inning when Ryann Smith led off the inning with a single and Sydney Long laid down a sacrifice bunt moving Smith to second. Lauryn Adam- son drew a walk, bringing up Blume, who is batting .632 with 12 home runs. She ripped a single to left center to score Smith and break the tie. Then Olivia Money ripped a two-run double to center field for a 3-0 lead the Titans would not sur- render. "They are really clutch. I think if I had a game on the line and runners scoring po- sition, I would take either of them anytime," said Titan Coach Gary May. Alexis Tucker threw a sev- en-inning shutout allowing five hits, striking out four, while walking two. "Tucker pitched a great game for us," said Coach May. TITANS FINISH SEASON 26-4 WITH 9-2 WIN OVER EV. CENTRAL Gibson Southern ran up a 9 - 0 lead in the top of the sixth inning and went on to win 9 -2 for their 20th consecutive win and 26th win overall. The Ti- tans scored in five of the first six innings to build a 9 -2 lead. They started with Sydney Long leading off the game with a walk then stealing sec- ond. Olivia Money then hit a two-out single to score Long for a 1-0 lead. Gibson Southern got two in the second inning as Em- maLee Higgs walked and ad- vanced on a passed ball. She then scored on a single by Ry- ann Smith. Smith scored on a two-out single by Long for a 3-0 lead. Gibson Southern made it 4- 0 in the fourth when Higgs led off with a double. Taylor Fon- te's bunt moved her to third base and Ryann Smith hit a fly to right field to bring Higgs home. They added three in the fifth inning as Adamson led off with a single, followed by Brenna Blume's single. Al- ly Malone hit a one-out dou- ble to bring home Adamson. Alexis Tucker drove in Blume with a single and Higgs' sin- gle brought in Malone to make it 7-0. Gibson Southern pushed the lead to 9 -0 in the sixth as Ryann Smith opened the in- ning with a walk. Long sin- gled on a drive to center. Ad- amson then flew out to cen- ter and Blume drove in Smith with a single, and Long would score on a passed ball. Titan Pitcher Alexis Tuck- er sat the Bears batters down in order through the first four innings before giving up two walks to start the fifth. She got out of the inning with a strike- out and a pop out to the pitch- er before a runner was picked off trying to advance to third. She gave up one run in the sixth inning as Olivia Moxley led off with a single and was followed by Izabella Dix who singled, and then Maekyn Grigsby drove in Moxley with a single to make it 9 -1. Tucker got the win, pitching six innings, giving up three hits, two walks and striking out seven. Callie Dickerson came on in the seventh to finish off the Bears, who added one run on Moxley's leadoff homer, be- fore Dickerson got a strike- out to end the game. Lady Titans enter Sectionals with a 26-4 record By Andy Heuring South Gibson Sports sports@sgstartimes.com Gibson Southern just com- pleted with their regular sea- son, winning their 20th con- secutive game and finishing with a 26 -4 record. "That is just not easy to do," said Lady Titan Coach Gary May. " "It is incredible to look back and see all the games we could have lost and we didn't. Our biggest challenged going for- ward is to realize we can loose each game and to respect our opponent, and realize that the one game we are playing is the most important thing we have to deal with. Hopefully we will do that." Gibson Southern has re- turned to the 3A sectional, af- ter spending the last six years playing in the 4A ranks. They were set to host the section- al. However a strong storm blew through the area caus- ing serious damage to Gib- son Southern's softball com- plex. Including bending over the backstop, throwing two sets of bleachers onto the field and blowing down the left field fence among other things. "I feel bad for our seniors. They didn't realize last week they had played their last home game," said May. The sectional has been moved to Washington. Vincennes Lincoln (6 -16) and Princeton (5 -15) will play each other Monday night at 6 p.m. Gibson Southern will play the winner of that game in Tuesday's second game, scheduled for a 7 p.m. CST start time. It will follow the Washington (1-18)/Pike Cen- tral (15 -6) game, set for 5 p.m. CDT. The winners of Tuesday's games are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6 p.m. CST. Gibson Southern has been red hot the last 20 games. Their last loss of a 9 -3 to North Posey was on a cold windy morning, April 7. Breena Blume is leading the Titans offensively with .633 batting average, 12 home runs and 48 RBIs and a team high 19 doubles. Lauryn Adamson, .507, and Sydney Long, .500, are also batting over 500. Long has a school record of 38 stolen bases so far, and has scored 44 runs, and is third in doubles with 11. Olivia Money is batting .419 with 44 RBIs, six home runs and 12 doubles. "Alexis (Tucker) and Callie (Dickerson)are pitching very well. Our team defense is get- ting better all the time. We ar- en't just making routine plays. We are stealing outs from the other team, not just one per- son, it is everyone of them," said Coach May. Gibson Southern Golf places fourth in Washington Invite By Andy Heuring South Gibson Sports sports@sgstartimes.com Gibson Southern's golf team placed fourth in the Washing- ton Invitational on Saturday at Country Oaks, which will host this year's regional. Peyton Blackard had the lowest official score turned in by any of the players from the 17-teams, as he shot a 72. However, the medalist honors were given to Peyton Butler of Evansville North, who had a 70. His score did not count to- ward North's team score, be- cause he was not one of their five players. North won the team com- petition with a 313. They had three players break 70 besides Butler. Gibson Southern shot a 325. Their individual scores were: Blackard 72, Ryan Islam 80, Dawson Maurer 86, Cale Mar- tin 87 and Mitchell Gilles 89. Evansville North which is ranked seventh in the state won at 313. The remaining team scores are: 2) Browns- burg and Covenant Chris- tian 318; 4) Gibson Southern 325; 5) Terre Haute North and Avon 335; 7) Barr Reeve 339; 8) Evansville Memorial 340 ; 9) South Knox 361; 10) Washington 374; 11) Evans- ville Central 375; 12)North- view 378; 13) Mt. Vernon 391; 14) Ev. Reitz 392; 15) South- ridge 394; 16) Linton 401; and 17) Princeton 409. Ryan Islam shot 84 and 85, earning All-PAC honors with Blackard. "Cale stepped up big time. He had two bad holes that kept him from shooting in the 70s. Ryan had a great ball strik- ing round. He just struggled around the greens and had one really bad hole. But overall (it was) a great team effort," said Reinbrecht. Mitchell Gilles had a 94 to round out the team's 336. Daw- son Maurer shot an even 100. There were only 14 scores from the 13 teams to break 90 and only 24 of 65 golfers broke 100 for 18 holes. The Titans' team total put them 10 shots ahead of second place Forest Park at 346. The teams scores were: 1) Gibson Southern 336, 2) For- est Park 346, 3)South Spencer and Heritage Hills 358, 5) Mt. Vernon 385, 6) Tell City 391, 7) Boonville 395, 8) Washing- ton 406, 9) Pike Central and Southridge 407, 11) North Posey 421, 12) Princeton 458 and 13) Tecumseh 459. GOLF PAC Continued from page 1 WIN-STREAK Continued from page 1 By Andy Heuring South Gibson Sports sports@sgstartimes.com Gibson Southern's girls track team placed in 14 events, winning three events includ- ing two of the three relays to propel them to second place in the Princeton Track Sectional on Tuesday. The 4x400 relay team of Carmen Hasenour, Miah Roesch, Keelyn Wilkerson and Haley Richter in the last event of the night ran their best time of the season, win- ning the race in 4:08.35. "It was a great run for them. They took off about eight sec- onds from their previous best time," said Titan Track Coach Jeremy Aydt. The 4x800 relay team of Courtney Heldt, Olivia Pen- nington, Carmen Hasenour and Taylor Hart started the night with a similar perfor- mance. Coach Aydt said they cut nearly 20 seconds off their time from just two weeks ago. They won with a time of 10 :04.98, beating Princeton by two seconds. Gibson Southern's tandem of Heldt and Hart also scored a one-two finish in the 800 run. Heldt and Hart came out of the fourth turn running shoulder to shoulder with Princeton's Lexi Smith. The three of them traded the lead back and forth as they ran the last 100 yards with Heldt and Hart both edg- ing ahead of Smith. Heldt won in 2:27.32, with Hart right be- hind at 2:28.01 and Smith at 2:28.41. "Taylor and Courtney have been training together for two years pushing each other ev- ery day in track and cross country and it is paying off by success in relay and in the 800," said Titan Coach Aydt. The Titans' 4x100 relay team scored a second place finish .61 seconds out of first place. Team members were Rachel Pohl, Hailey Richter, Halley Pohl and Elle Jones. Richter and Jones ran three and four in the 200 dash with Richter finishing in 27.36, just .25 out of first. Jones came in at 27.88. Jones also finished fifth in the 100 in a time of 13.57. Richter also added points in the long jump where she placed third with a leap of 16'5". Pohl took third in the high jump clearing 4'10". Briley Ed- wards was sixth in the high jump at 4'8". Chloey Graham brought home third places in both the shot put and discus. She threw 32'11" in the shot put and 103'2" in the discus. Haley Edwards also placed in both. Lady Titan Track places in 14 Sectional events She was sixth in the shot put at 31'4" and eighth in the dis- cus with a throw of 97'5". Miah Roesch placed second in the 300 hurdles with a time of 49.13, just .16 seconds out first. Cassidy Hasenour add- ed a sixth place in the 300 hur- dles with a time of 52.87. In the distance races, Eliza- beth Steckler and Aleks Parm- er finished sixth and seventh, running 6:06.76 and 6:13.75,. In the 3200, Olivia Penning- ton ran a 12:55.58 for sixth with Madalyn Steckler in sev- enth at 13:00.46. Carmen Hasenour placed third in the 400 in a time of 1:03.35 with Keelyn Wilker- son in fifth place at 1:05.23. The girls compete tonight (May 24) at 5 p.m. CT in the Regional at Evansville Cen- tral. Ella Jones bringing home the Titans anchor leg of the 4x100 relay, for second place. Courtney Heldt (l) and Taylor Hart (r) with Princeton's Lexi Smith, ran shoulder to shoulder down the straight away to the finish of 800. The lead changed repeat- edly, with Heldt winning and Hart finishing second.