The Press-Dispatch
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B-4 Wednesday, May 25, 2022 The Press-Dispatch EAST GIBSON Submit East Gibson news items: Call: 812-354-8500 Email: egnews@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg Trojans claim two wins South Knox claimed hon- ors in a three-way match, but the Trojans scored a 164-168 win with Lucas Gress and Anthony Gress carding 40s to lead Wood Memorial. Re- ese Morton was in with a 41, Alton Falls had a 43 and Dylan Buck a 48. NE Dubois finished with a 232. Against Princeton, the Tro- jans notched a 183 to 210 win, with honors going to Reese Morton in at 43. Others in the winning cause were An- thony Gress with a 45; Lucas Gress at 47; and Dylan Buck a 48. Mason Young carded a 67 against Princeton, and a 64 with South Knox. Sectional preview By Andy Heuring Pike Central's softball sec- tional is underway. The sec- tional has been moved be- cause of severe storm damage to the Gibson Southern soft- ball complex last Thursday. Their backstop was blown over, as well as, a couple of bleachers being tossed onto the field, and their left field fence taken out. It is now being hosted at Washington. Monday night, Princeton beat Vincennes 6 -2. Pike Central played Wash- ington at 6 p.m. Monday; fol- lowed by Gibson Southern and Princeton at 8 p.m. The winners of those games are scheduled to meet 7 p.m. Thursday at Washington. Pike Central comes into the game on a two game win streak, having beaten Evans- ville North 6 -3 last Monday, and Tell City 11-0 on Thurs- day. Pike Central, on offense, has three batters hitting above 400. Avery Hunt with a team leading .472, Karley Ka- vanaugh .414 and Chloe Wil- liams at .403. Their biggest bat is Alyna Sharp, who is hitting .382 with a school record 8 home runs and 26 RBIs. Brailey Mills, who leads off for the Char- gers, is also hitting .382, with a team high of nine doubles and 12 stolen bases. On the mound Chloe Wil- liams has been brining the heat. She is 9 -3 while strik- ing out 111 this season and allowing 33 earned runs in 89 innings for a 2.60 earned run average. Sophie Carnah- an has throw 47.1 innings and allowed 26 earned runs for a 3.85 era. "Washington cannot be taken for granted and we will come out ready to play. Reg- ular season results against teams we have played have no bearing on what's to come," said Charger Coach Dustin Traylor of Tuesday nights match up. Pike Central beat Washing- ton recently by the run rule. If they advance, they will likely play Gibson Southern in the final game. The Titans are 26 -4 and on a 20 game win streak. "Gibson Southern is al- ways a challenge and we will be ready for that challenge if that's how things work out. I felt like we played with them the last time, but we just didn't hit the ball. It could have easi- ly been a one run game either way. Regardless, our girls are ready for the opportunity to play them again! " said Tray- lor. Tell City played error-less ball, and the Lady Chargers committed one while facing 21 batters. That error came in the first inning, but was fol- lowed by the second and third strike outs courtesy of Wil- liams, thus ending the inning. The bottom of the first saw Mills walk, and then Kavana- ugh single, before being driv- en in by Carnahan. By the bot- tom of the third inning, the Lady Chargers got four more runs across, and then held the line for a 6 -0 lead going into the five-run fifth. Williams added two more strike outs in the fourth and the infield handled the closeout fifth, for the 11-0 win. TC: 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0 5 0 PC: 2 0 4 5 X X X 11 13 1 SOFTBALL Continued from page 1 Page sets new sectional record Above: Wood Memorial's Josie Page stretches on the way up trying to clear 5'6.5" in the girls track sectional at Princeton last Tuesday. She missed on this attempt, but later cleared the height to not only win the event, but set a new Princeton sec- tional record. Newton fourth in sectional Left: Wood Memori- al's Kaden Newton long jumped 20'2" last Thurs- day in the boys track sec- tional at Princeton. He placed fourth in the event. Commish: Railroad blocks improving Commissioners said the railroad blocking the CR350E crossing has slowed after continuous communica- tion with Norfolk Southern. "Right now, where we are as commissioners and a county is we want to keep working with them," said County Commissioner War- ren Fleetwood. "There have been some improvements,...I don't think we're completely satisfied yet." In previous meetings lo- cal first responders com- plained about trains block- ing the important thorough- fare for extended periods of time. Neighbors have record- ed overnight and eight hour stretches blocking the road. Most recently, EMS ser- vices were delayed reaching a stroke patient as they took a less direct route after find- ing the shortest way blocked. Visitor's and Tourism gives $2k to fairgrounds By Janice Barniak Gibson County Visitor's and Tourism sponsored mar- keting for programs at the Gibson County Fairgrounds to the tune of $2,000 this year, which member Char- lie Woodruff, who is on the board, abstaining from the vote. "It's our fairgrounds, we got to support it. It's a busy thing out there. I'm 100 per- cent on supporting it," said GCV T Member Stanley Mad- ison. Gibson County Visitors and Tourism considered al- so funding marketing for the Southern Indiana Car Show; members tabled the request to get more informa- tion on how they would use the funds. JH Rudolph picks up county's summer paving By Janice Barniak Gibson County accepted low-bidder JH Rudolph as the contractor on two coun- ty paving projects set for this summer. Rudolph came in at $1.5 million on a Community Crossings grant project— $1 million of that amount will be covered by state funds with the remaining $514,100 in local match. On other local projects that are outside the grant, the county agreed to anoth- er $1.07 million in road work. The bids fall within what the highway department budget- ed this year County Engineer Matt Holden told commis- sioners, adding no addition- al appropriations were need- ed as the bids came in lower than he expected. "You keep paying for your- self every year," said Com- missioner Warren Fleet- wood. Chloe Williams threw a shut-out and notched nine strikeouts and just one walk against a strong Tell City team. Karley Kavanaugh sets for a bunt early in the Tell City match up and later tripled to help the girls claim a run- rule 11-0 win over visiting Tell City. Lady Chargers Lakin Sorguis, Karley Kavanaugh and Brailey Mills converge on a popup to the Pike Central infield in the 11-0 run-rule win over Tell City.