Swimming

From B1 was a 0.83-second difference.

Toward the end of the meet, Powhatan railed off four straight victories to help the team win, with the girls 200 freestyle relay team of Autry, Kantanen, Hayden Russell and Kayla Blinn winning in 1:54.84, Malkerson winning the 100-yard backstroke in 1:01.52, Chloe Proffitt winning the girls 100 backstroke in 1:17.89, and Christopher Naoroz winning the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:17.66.

Compton and Redlich competed together on their senior night in the 400-yard freestyle relay, the last event of the meet. Working with Summer Campbell and Stallings, they finished with a time of 5:14.57.

Powhatan also competed against Louisa

Henderson

From B1

Henderson was a constant for Powhatan in the Maggie Walker matchup, adding four points in each quarter, including a bucket and much-needed free throws to help give his team the late advantage.

Next to Henderson was also a 16-point showing from senior Jack DeBord, who went scoreless in the opening frame, but went on to knock down two threes and score eight points in the fourth quarter. With those two accounting for 12 of the team’s 15 points in the final eight minutes, they were able to withstand a strong final run from the Green Dragons, who scored 20 points in the fourth quarter led by two 3-pointers from KJ Dowling.

After surviving that final effort, the Indians looked fresh in their next performance, which started with the defense shutting down the Bulldogs decisively while their own offense quickly got cooking.

It was a 35-12 Powhatan quick first period pin in just 16 seconds before taking care of business against Cave Spring wrestler Davis Henritze with a 12-4 major decision win in the lead at halftime, with Henderson scoring 13 points and sophomore Jamison Wallace shooting the lights out of the gym for nine points at the half.

County prior to its senior night on Jan. 13, which started with the Indians winning the first six events, including wins in both 200-yard medley relays, a win by Zach Kantanen in the 200-yard freestyle (2:13.37) and an extremely fast 200-yard individual medley performance from Malkerson where he blasted through the race in 2:16.77. Malkerson was 15.43 seconds ahead of second place.

It was a good day for Autry as well, who was part of the 200 medley win and the 200 freestyle win, but also finished first in individual events like the 50-yard freestyle (30.55 seconds) and the 100-yard butterfly (1:13.52).

Coming off a spectacular senior night, Powhatan now looks forward to a matchup against Orange County on Jan. 28. The teams will compete at SwimQuest Aquatic Center starting at 4 p.m.

The Bulldogs were ultimately able to generate some offense in the second half, but their troubles stopping the Indians still persisted. While Henderson continued to look unguardable with a 17-point half, the Indians also got scoring production from guys like guard D.J. Jackson, who scored all nine of his points on the night in the final two quarters, and Kaleb Lenhart, who chipped in six points after the break.

The last game of the week was Powhatan’s only loss, which came at the hands of the Midlothian Trojans in a 65-49 finish.

Now standing at 6-10 on the season with six games remaining, the Indians have games against Huguenot (4-11) on Jan. 25 and Monacan (9-7) on Jan. 27 in this week’s schedule, with both games holding substantial weight on Powhatan’s postseason aspirations.

From among 28 runners with a time of 6.93 seconds.

Two Powhatan athletes then placed within the top-5 in the girls shot put event, which had a total of 14 throwers competing.

In fourth place was junior Whittney Anderson, whose throw of 26 feet, 11.50 inches was just outside a top-3 finish, with two versus Grayson County’s David Mitchell. third place match. Harness also had a solid showing in Christiansburg in the 132-pound class, going 4-1 with three pins to claim third place. His quickest match came against Salem’s Manuel Bonet in the second round, which took just 19 seconds. He won his third place match with a pin in 4:29 robby Fletcher can be reached at rfletcher@powhatantoday.com.

Utley meanwhile went 3-2 in the 138-pound bracket, with a sudden death victory in the quarterfinal meeting versus Abingdon’s Michael Maxfield being a highlight. The battle went scoreless all the way down to overtime, where Utley finally gained the advantage with a game-winning takedown.

Wells also went 3-2 in the 120-pound division, with notable highlights being an opening round pin in 1:06 against Blacksburg’s Brady Ankrum and a 21-9 major decision victory over Staunton River’s Josh Manning in the quarterfinals.

Huber took home fifth place after bouncing back from consecutive losses in the semifinals and the consolation semifinals with a late pin in 4:50 over Staunton River’s Austin Powell in the fifth place match.

Powhatan gets to stay at home for its next meet, with the team hosting the Arrowhead Invitational on Jan. 28. That is the last meet of the season for the Indians before they host the Region 4B Tournament on Feb. 10-11.