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Lady Tigers primed for repeat state title JIMMY POTTS Sports editor

With much of the 2014-15 state championship girls basketball team returning for 2015-16, the Lady Tigers are certainly a favorite to repeat this season.

Although losing 2014-15 seniors Alyssa Koberstein, Raelynn Thompson and Tanisha Adams, the Princeton Community High School Lady Tigers retained their core group of starters with senior guard, and future Notre Dame Lady Fighting Irish, Jackie Young leading the way. According to maxpreps. com, Young leads the nation in points per game with an average of 39 in five games. Young was also named a USA Today All American, and may surpass the state record of Wawasee’s Shanna Zolman in most career points scored (3,086), if Young can main-

tain an average of 37 points per game. Young is complemented by senior Hannah Brewer and junior Brooke James, who will provide plenty of height and strength underneath.

“I’ve said it many times, when you have Jackie, Brooke and Hannah, you have some of the best players in the entire state of Indiana,” Princeton coach Charlie Mair said.

Young, a varsity starter since her freshman year, has more than 83 games under her belt, averaging 29.9 points per game during her illustrious career.

She currently has 2,485 career points.

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Lady Trojans aim for another deep run JIMMY POTTS Sports editor

The Wood Memorial High School girls basketball team looks to pick up where it left off in the 2014-15 season and make another deep run into the post season.

The Lady Trojans began the season with a 3-1 record with wins against Tecumseh, Perry Central and Pike Central to go against a loss to Vincennes Rivet. Although early in the season, Wood Memorial coach Johnnie Bartley limits the Lady Trojans’ chances for a Blue Chip Conference title.

“Our conference is strong again this year with Rivet and North Knox in there. For us, it’s about getting ready for the post season. We probably don’t have a very good chance at winning the conference with Rivet already beating us and North Knox, but

we expect to finish near the top and be ready by the time the tournament comes around in February.”

Wood Memorial returns many of its starters from last year’s sectional championship team, who Bartley said are making improvement daily.

“We’re progressing. We knew coming into this season that we would have a lot of experience coming back,” Bartley said.

“Every year is a new year and we were hoping to see some more development out of our two big kids, Lexi Lashbrook and Amy Young, and they have been making progress. Brenna Maikranz was our leading scorer from last year and she’s been back since having surgery on her toe. She missed that first game and was a See Lady Trojans on 20

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Lady Titans retool following 20-5 year JIMMY POTTS Sports editor

Despite losing four seniors from 2014-15, the Gibson Southern High School girls basketball team looks to make another bid for a Pocket Athletic Conference title after retaining much of last year’s roster.

The Lady Titans lost seniors Kiana Smith, Hannah Cosby, Tabi Pullum and Alyssa Bright, but still have much of last year’s roster intact. One of the players opposing coaches have an eye on is junior guard Maddie Raley, who has quietly garnered a reputation. Raley scored 26 points against an extremely talented Princeton Community o basketball team, where she also n knocked down four 3-pointers.

“If it were not for that kid over in Princeton, Maddie Raley would be getting all of the public-

ity around the county,” Wood Memorial coach Johnnie Bartley said. “She has given us fits over the last two or three years because of what she can do on the floor. She can play outside, go to the basket and rebounds well.”

Raley and junior forward Amy Niehaus will provide the Lady Titans’ 1-2 punch. The Lady Titans also have lengthy junior Presley Johnson, who poses a threat as both a perimeter shooter and hard-nosed rebounder underneath.

The Lady Titans are currently 3-2 with their latest win coming in a 67-30 demolishing of Evansville Bosse. The Lady Titans also have wins against Castle (62-26) and highly touted Evansville Reitz (70-31). Their only losses have come to Princeton (73-53) and Vincennes Lincoln (59-44).

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Tigers’ experience to pay off on the court JIMMY POTTS Sports editor

The Princeton Community High School basketball team will attempt to right the ship and return to its state championship caliber following a dismal 2014-15 campaign.

The Tigers return from what can only be described as a confidence problem. Princeton coach Ryan Haywood believes most of the Tiger woes from last season came from lack of varsity experience on the court.

“They are more confident,” Haywood said. “They have more fire. They know the battle that we are ready to go into.”

The Tigers lose starters Josh Mans and Nate Niederhaus, but return the bulk of last year’s squad who come into the season with varsity experience.

“It’s definitely going to be a big

advantage compared to where we were at last year,” Haywood said.

“Last year, we returned no varsity experience at any position. We had guys that had not played any meaningful minutes on varsity.”

Instead of putting meat in the grinder, Haywood believes this year’s team can compete with anyone.

“This year, we have guys like Joe Wildt (senior forward), who started every game for us last year,” Haywood said.

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Wood Memorial remains top contender JIMMY POTTS Sports editor

The Wood Memorial High School basketball team may have suffered an early setback, but the Trojans seem primed for another deep run in post season, regardless.

While many teams find themselves in a rebuilding year, the Trojans are not one of them. Hot off their 22-9, 2014-15 campaign, the Trojans come into the season with a full staff after losing only one senior to graduation.

That senior, however, was Conner Sevier and Sevier will not be easy to replace.

“We’re not going to have one guy that is going to have to step in and fill that role,” Wood Memorial coach Josh Thompson said. “It’s going to have to be several guys that are going to have to step up and do some things for us. Jacob Jarboe is going to have to step up and help us out on rebounds. We’re going to have to have guys step up and provide some scoring ... We had a pretty key loss last week. Lathan Falls is going to be out the rest of the season with an ACL injury. That is a pretty devastating loss to us from the standpoint of a guy who was the top scorer for us, but I feel like we have some guys that

can step in there.”

Despite losing two of his premier players from the 2014-15 squad, Thompson is confident his team will continue having success this season. The Trojans return 6-foot-4-inch sophomore guard Tyler Fleisher, and Wood Memorial’s powerful senior centers in 6-foot-2-inch Jacob Jarboe and 6-foot-6-inch Jared Cox, along with many other players that make the Trojans a very, very dangerous team for any school. The Trojans began the 2015-16 campaign with a 44-40 victory over Princeton Community High School. Much of the credit for that victory belongs to the Trojans’ post players.

“With what we’ve had in the past with our big men down low, teams worry about that when they see us or scout us,” Jarboe said. “That is what teams worry about, our bigs. We were just getting low and getting people out. He (senior center Jared Cox) does a good job of getting people out and getting boards and putting them back.”

While the Trojans are known for their size underneath the basket, their perimeter game may surprise opposing teams. Junior forward Tristan Vickers has done much to fill the void left in

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Front, from left, are: Torry Brown, Collin Robinson, Jared Cox, Jacob Jarboe, Blayne VanMeter and Paxon Bartley. Back: Dalton Coburn, Tristan Vickers, Walker Nurrenbern, Austin Ireland, Lathan Falls, Tyler Fleisher and Jordan Stamper. the wake of Falls’ injury.

“Guys like Tristan Vickers have really done a nice job for us in practice so we think we’re going to be OK,” Thompson said.

The Trojans may have an added advantage this year against their Gibson County rivals considering Princeton and Gibson Southern each spent much of the last month still playing foot-

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Time not a factor for Titan basketball JIMMY POTTS Sports editor

With the Gibson Southern High School boys basketball team not starting its season until Dec. 11, the football team’s deep run into the playoffs will not have a looming effect.

The Titans held their first full team practice Monday after giving players a week off following the football team’s semi state loss to Bishop Chatard Nov. 20, but instead of being anxious about the fast start to the upcoming season, Gibson Southern coach Kyle Runyan is excited.

“Luckily, we have a veteran group,” Runyan said. “We lost five seniors, but we have a veteran group coming back as far as guys that played last year.”

Runyan said he also has players joining the team who may have been out of basketball for a few years, but can make an immediate impact on the court this season.

“There are seniors that have not played since their freshman year that are going to be a part of the team,” Runyan said. “They have been very successful on the football field. I do not have to preach hard work or effort, they already bring that. We have two weeks, 10 days of practice with

everyone there and that will be plenty of time. With those guys coming out and playing this year, we’re going to be pretty deep.”

Runyan is in his second year as Gibson Southern basketball coach after foregoing becoming Pocket Athletic Conference rival Pike Central’s offer to become the Chargers’ athletic director.

The Titans had a 7-15 season in his Gibson Southern debut and Runyan looks for a stronger finish this season.

“We had a really strong summer and these kids have really bought into the weight room and coming in in the mornings (for practice) during football season and getting shots up,” Runyan said. “It was football, cross country and soccer, fall sports athletes are really good about that ... We only had a handful of kids that did not play fall sports. We have some guys that had great summers, worked their butts off and are young kids. The seniors that haven’t played basketball in a few years are a little rough and we will have to clean up some things, but looking back from last year, we were a sectional team that got beat by Bosse.”

The Titans return starter Mason Mockobee, Wes Obermeier and junior Chandler McKee,

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“We’re returning a lot of kids that played a lot of minutes and we’re adding some pieces that we would have loved to have had last year and thankfully they are playing this year,” Runyan said.

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Runyan feels the athleticism brought on by some of the football players will have an immediate impact on the Titans when they begin play against Evansville Central.

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Tuesday Dec. 15 Evansville North 7:30 p.m.

Friday Dec. 18 South Spencer 7:30 p.m.

Monday Dec. 21 at Princeton

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Saturday Jan. 9 at Ev. Memorial 7 p.m.

Friday Jan. 15 Princeton CHS 7 p.m.

Saturday Jan. 16 at Washington 7 p.m.

Friday Jan. 22 at Evansville Day 7 p.m.

Saturday Jan. 23 Mater Dei 7 p.m.

Tuesday Jan. 26 Mount Carmel 7:30 p.m.

Friday Jan. 29 at Mount Vernon 7 p.m.

Saturday Jan. 30 Evansville Bosse 3:30 p.m.

Saturday Feb. 6 Southridge 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday Feb. 9 at Boonville 7 p.m.

Friday Feb. 12 at Tecumseh 7 p.m.

Saturday Feb. 13 Tell City 7 p.m.

Tuesday Feb. 16 at Pike Central 7 p.m.

Saturday Feb. 20 Vincennes Lincoln 7 p.m.

Tuesday Feb. 23 at Forest Park 7 p.m.

Friday Feb. 26 at North Posey 7 p.m.

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Tigers excited for return to wrestling JIMMY POTTS Sports editor

The Princeton Community High School wrestling team has a powerful weapon and a new head coach as it heads into the 2015-16 season.

Recently hired coach Micael Duckworth has been impressed in seeing his team during his first few weeks of prictice.

“I’m excited about the turnout .... We’re excited to be working with the kids,” Duckworth said.

“We have a good core group of kids that came back with a couple of conference champions.”

One of those champions is sophomore 132-pounder Chase Wilson. Wilson returns from an appearance at the semi state tournament last year and competed at the Asics/Vaughn Junior/ Cadet Nationals in free style and

Greco-Roman wrestling, where he placed in the top 20 among the best wrestlers in the country.

Instead of playing football this season, Wilson chose to forego taking the gridiron and instead focused on being in peak physical condition. Duckworth said Wilson’s work ethic in practice rubbed off on some of his teammates.

“It sets the tone for the room.

When you have a kid that competes at the caliber that Chase does, but sets the tone and sets the bar high for the kids,” Duckworth said. “They see what hard work and dedication can get them. It’s just putting that time in and having the experience that can get them to that point.

He’s done a good job at setting the bar high and being a good role model on and off of the mat.

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New coach, same goals for Trojans JIMMY POTTS Sports editor

Despite having a new coach, not much has changed for the Wood Memorial High School wrestling team.

Coach John Thompson has taken the reins of the wrestling program, but he still has help from former coach Caleb Cherry, who stepped away from coaching wrestling to focus on his duties as football coach.

“I was out for a year and Coach Cherry told me he wanted to step back and focus on football. He asked me if I was interested and, after a lot of thought, I wanted to get back in it,” Thompson said.

Thompson coached at Pike Central as an assistant, then coached seven years at Washington High School before coming to Wood Memorial.

“This is the third place that I’ve coached,” Thompson said.

“I spent years as an assistant coach at Pike Central and after that I was the head coach at Washington for seven years.

“It’s a new challenge and something I look forward to. Being able to teach the sport to a new group of kids is exciting. I love it.”

Although having a relatively small roster with only nine wres-

tlers, Thompson said his boys will receive more one-on-one attention than many wrestlers receive at larger programs.

The Trojans return 126-pound senior regional competitor Dalton Ashby and 182-pound junior regional competitor Quentin Might, who will miss the first month of the season due to injury and illness but both are aching to get back on the mat.

“We’re really excited to have this new coach,” Quentin Might said.

“We’ve known him for a few years, ever since I was in eighth grade. Coach Cherry had us move in with Washington to practice with their team so I was excited to have him down here.

He knows quite a bit and has been coaching for a long time.”

Once back in action, Ashby and Might look to pick up where they left off last season and make another deep run into the post season.

Both wrestlers believe Thompson has the tools to make that possible.With Princeton Community and Gibson Southern both having less than a few weeks of practice before taking the mat for See Trojans on 20

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Front, from left: Nicholas Denny, Quinten Might, Louis Hoover and Brady Blakenship. Back: Dakota Ward, Nate McDowell, Edd Matlock, Corbin Richeson and T.J. Riley

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Asay returns to the Titans as coach JIMMY POTTS Sports editor

Gibson Southern High School looks to continue its winning tradition under new coach D.G. Asay.

Asay takes over for a program formerly run by Blake Maurer, who now runs his own private team.

Asay, a Gibson Southern alum, coached at Evansville North before joining his alma mater. He said Maurer left the program in great shape and looks forward to picking up where Maurer left off.

“It’s been great coming back to this program,” Asay said.

“Blake left it in good shape.

The numbers are good, the kids are great kids. It’s been a fairly easy transition. It’s good to be back home.”

One of Asay’s first tasks as head coach will be getting the Titans back into wrestling shape in little more than a week.

“It’s going to be hard. I never had the luxury of doing that at North High School,” Asay said. “That’s no slam on their football program. We’re going to have to get these guys in shape and get them in shape quick. It will be hard. We have

not lost a step and we’re moving forward. A lot of these guys that were playing football are experienced seniors. They are going to come in and be where we are. They are not losing much.”

One of those wrestlers that will have to quickly acclimate is senior 220-pounder Cory Klem, just days off the school’s football march to semi state competition.

“There is nothing I can do right away to get ready,” Klem said. “I just have to use the entire season to get ready. Getting beat up at practice helps a lot and matches help a lot so we’ll see how it goes.”

Sophomore Logan Dilbeck, who also made an appearance at semi state, has been with the team since its first day of practice.

Dilbeck became PAC champion, sectional runnerup and a semi state qualifier as a freshman and has high expectations this season.

“I love it. It’s been a while since I got into a wrestling room,” Dilbeck said. “I wrestled for a little while over the summer. I would like to place at state, that is my main goal.

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Front, from left: Eric Harpenau, Max Ziller and Drew Dilbeck. Second row: Michael Flanagan, Logan Dilbeck, Clay Singleton, Hunter Baehl, Caleb Kifer, Michael Polen, Cole Dilbeck and Mark Sorg. Back row: Coach D.G. Asay, Coach Scweizer, Lane Kell, Lucas Plasse, Parker Rose, Corey Klem, Hayden Maurer, Landon Knight, Devin Mills, Beau Lamey, Eli Kifer and Coach Polen.

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Lady Trojans off to great start JIMMY POTTS Sports editor

If the results of the Wood Memorial High School swim team’s first meet are any indication of the team’s future success, then the Lady Trojans have a lot of good times ahead of them this season.

During their first meet against Tecumseh, senior Haley Settle won the 50-yard freestyle with her personal best time of 29.65. Settle, a thirdyear swimmer, is considered on of the team’s fastest and has continually improved. She also placed 2nd in the 100 free with a time of 1:09.16. Head placed 5th with time of 1:12.98 Junior Kylie Head placed in the 50 with a time of 32.36 and showed early signs of success.

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Junior Kalyn Ingle placed 3rd in the 100-yard butterfly with her best time of 1:32.24, a stroke she swam for years.

Sophomore Cori Pflug looks to pick up where she left off last season and follow in the footsteps of her sister Morgan Pflug.

Cori Pflug placed fifth in the 100-yard backstroke earlier this year, and along with seniors Amanda Wilson, Haley Coleman and freshman Reise Gray placed 7th in the 200-yard free relay.

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Submitted photo, Johnnie Bartley

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Lady Titans young, but versatile JIMMY POTTS Sports editor

Despite losing 10 swimmers from the 2014-15 season, Gibson Southern coach Rhonda Wells said the team will remain competitive.

Although the losses from last year will hurt, the Lady Titans return half of their roster, with much of those returning swimmers as upperclassmen.

“It was kind of an adjustment to make, but I still have some that are returning,” Wells said.

“I only have one senior this year and that is Rachel Weiss.

They are all very, very young.

I only have 10 girls this year with one senior. I have quite a few juniors, most of the team are juniors.”

The Lady Titans competed at a meet in Tecumseh earlier

this year, but Wells did not put much stock in an event so early in the season.

“We practice at Mount Carmel at the college and the first week we were able to be in the water, the pool was shut down,” Wells said. “We did not have that much time in the water when we went into that first meet. They did not pick up where they left off last year, but I think a lot of that was that we did not have the endurance because the pool was shutdown.”

Wells said her team is certainly in a rebuilding year, but it has improved.

“We’re building up, but I think we’re building up two strong sets of relays instead of just a single set,” Wells said.

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Although low in numbers, the Gibson Southern boys swim team makes up for that in talent.

The Titans return to the water rife with mature talent with seniors Zachary Davis and Nick Scheller leading up a pack of extremely talented swimmers.

“They have always been focused on leadership,” Gibson Southern coach Rhonda Wells said. “Zach is my breast stroker and Nick does the 500. They have both stepped forward. We have three new freshmen in and they took them aside and did some one-on-one training with them, which is actually more encouraging when you can do team training instead of

just the coaches.”

Despite having low numbers, Wells said she looks to make up for it in talent and athleticism.

She hopes that success in the water will translate to a larger turnout next season.

“We’re just looking at getting better and improving,” Wells said. “We want to show everybody to come aboard. This is an odd sport for Gibson Southern.

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“I’m just waiting to go out and see what I can do,” Wilson said.

“I was off in North Dakota and nobody else knows what I did. It would be cool for people at home to see what I can do. Weight is not a problem for me. I’ve been going into it very smoothly and I’ve been cutting for a while ...

This is the best feeling in the world. I love this sport. I do high jump (in track) and it’s a fun thing to do, but wrestling is what I live to do.”

Another wrestler looking to

Lady Tigers improve from last year is sophomore Luke Dunn.

“I want to just do the best I can and go as far as I can go,” Dunn said. “I definitely have high expectations for me and the whole team. I’m looking to start out at 120 and possibly move down to 113, depending on how the season goes.”

The Tigers will also welcome back Kyler McKinney, who wrestled at 106 last season but could move up a weight class this year.

Duckworth said he looks to restore the storied Princeton wrestling program to its former glory.

“This is a program with a lot of history with some good wrestling that has come through this area, especially in Princeton,” Duckworth said. “With the program where it is at right now, we want to continue to rise up to that level. In years past, things have petered out a bit, but we’re trying to right that ship.

Haywood attributes some of the Tigers’ early issues on injuries limiting strength underneath, but feels those issues should disapear when Hardiman returns from an injury suf-

fered during the football season.

“We’re just going to try and get better.

“Hardiman is back and that gives us some help on the inside,” Haywood said.

wrestling shape and football shape are much different,” Thompson said. “It’s different muscles and a different type of speed.

“We’ll have an advantage there because we’ll have more time in the room and more time to get into shape. But

don’t get me wrong, Gibson Southern is going to be very tough, as they have been in past years. Princeton is a traditional powerhouse team and I wholeheartedly expect they are going to shape up and do extremely well this year.”

Tigers Continued from 7

almost like juniors now.”

The Tigers are currently 0-2 with a 44-40 loss to Wood Memorial and 75-31 loss to Evansville North last Friday.

Trojans Continued from 14

the first time this season — due to both teams making deep runs in the football playoffs — the Trojans may have a leg up on their competition with Wood Memorial beginning practice in early October.

“As far as conditioning,

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Lady Tigers’ twin towers underneath. The James and Brewer combination gave opposing volleyball teams fits in the middle and pose the same threat to opposing basketball teams underneath the basket.

James averages 14.5 points per game over her 35-game varsity career while Brewer averages 6.1 over 33 games but many of her skills such as leadership and tenacity do not show up in the stat book.

When not having Young drive in for a shot or Brewer and James scoring points in the

post, the Tigers will option out to junior Easton Chandler or sophomore Kiare Young, Jackie Young’s sister.

Other players that see significant time on the court are junior guard Kaycee Russell, senior forward Kiana Hardiman and senior forward Sam Hyneman. Hyneman believes the Lady Tigers high profile makes them a target, but that her team is certainly up for the challenge.

“There is a target on our backs now. We’re the team everyone wants to beat,” Hyneman said.

Lady Trojans Continued from 4

little slowed down by that.

With the whole volleyball thing, we did not expect to come out of the gate as good as we could be, but we knew we could make some progress all along.”

When not scoring in the post, the Lady Trojans will option the ball out to junior guards Carsen Robinson and Chloe Bartley.

“Our junior class is who we’ve really leaned on,” Bartley said.

“Carsen Robinson, our point

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