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Nov. 22 — Scrimmage, Northview at Princeton, 12. Nov. 25 — Wood Memorial, 6. Nov. 29 — at Evansville North, 6. Dec. 6 — at Pike Central, 5:30. Dec. 13 — at Evansville Bosse, 6. Dec. 16 — Mount Carmel, 6. Dec. 19 — Vincennes Lincoln, 5:30. Toyota/Gibson County Teamwork Classic Dec. 22 — Lawrenceville, Ill., 7:15. Dec. 23 — Evansville Reitz, 5:30. Dec. 26 — Mount Carmel, 7:15. Dec. 27 — Placement round, seventh-place game at Princeton Community Middle School; fifth, third and first-place game at Princeton community High School. ---Jan. 6 — South Knox, 5:30. Jan. 9 — at Boonville, 6. Jan. 10 — at Evansville Harrison, 6. Jan. 16 — Gibson Southern, 6. Jan. 23 — at Washington, 5:30. Jan. 24 — at Evansville Reitz, 6. Jan. 30 — Evansville Memorial, 5:30. Jan. 31 — at North Posey, 6. Feb. 6 — at Mount Vernon, 6. Feb. 12 — South Spencer, 6. Feb. 17 — at Jasper, 5:30. Feb. 21 — Evansville Central, 5:30. Feb. 24 — Heritage Hills, 5:30. Feb. 27 — Evansville Day, 6.
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Nov. 8 — Scrimmage, North Knox at Princeton, 12. Nov. 11 — Southridge, 5:30. Nov. 14 — at Evansville Bosse, 6. Nov. 21 — at Gibson Southern, 6. Nov. 25 — at Heritage Hills, 5:30. Nov. 28 — at Bedford-North Lawrence, 5. Dec. 2 — at Mount Vernon, 6. Dec. 4 — Evansville Harrison, 5:30. Dec. 8 — Mount Carmel, 6. Dec. 11 — at Boonville, 6. Dec. 13 — at Vincennes Rivet, 11 a.m. Dec. 18 — at South Knox, 5;30. Toyota/Gibson County Teamwork Classic Dec. 22 — Lawrenceville, Ill., 5:30. Dec. 23 — Evansville Reitz, 7:15. Dec. 26 — Mount Carmel, 5:30. Dec. 27 — Placement round, seventh-place game at Princeton Community Middle School; fifth, third and first-place games at Princeton Community High School. ---Jan. 3 — Evansville Central, 1. Jan. 7 — at Vincennes Lincoln, 5:30. Jan. 10 — Washington, 12. Jan. 15 — Wood Memorial, 6. Jan. 22 — Pike Central, 5:30. Jan. 24 — at Evansville North, 12. Jan. 29 — Jasper, 5:30. Jan. 31 — Evansville Reitz, 12. Feb. 6 — Castle, 5:30.
WRESTLING
Nov. 28 — Mount Vernon Turkey Classic, 10 a.m. Nov. 29 — Mount Vernon turkey Classic, 8 a.m. Dec. 2 — North Posey, 6. Dec. 6 — Westfield Invitational Shamrock Duals, 7:30 a.m. Dec. 9 — Gibson Southern, 5:30. Dec. 13 — Big Eight Five-Way at Princeton, 9 a.m. Dec. 20 — Bo Henry Classic at Bloomington North, 8 a.m. Dec. 30-31 — Al Smith Caveman classic at Mishawaka, 10 a.m. each day. Jan. 8 — at Southridge, 5. Jan. 10 — Evansville Memorial Tiger Duals, 7:30 a.m. Jan. 13 — at Jasper, 5. Jan. 24 — Big Eight Conference Championships at Jasper, 9:15 a.m.
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Tougher early sked to help Lady Tigers later? By PETE SWANSON Sports Editor
Would you trade a perfect regular season for a state championship? Most basketball fans would say yes, and those who do will like the Princeton Community girls’ schedule that follows the disappointment that followed last winter’s 20-and-oh regular season that brought the No. 1 ranking in the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association 3A poll. Coach Charlie Mair’s Lady Tigers will be underdogs Nov. 28 when they visit Bedford-North Lawrence, whose Lady Stars twinkle in the glory of two straight 4A state championships. They’ll be challenged again Jan. 3 when they host 4A Evansville Central and Division I recruit Zuri Sanders, who led the Lady Bears to a 17-4 record last winter. While last year’s perfect regular season and Princeton’s first Big Eight Conference championship in girls’ basketball will live in memories. the season-ending 41-26 upset loss to Evansville Memorial See Lady Tigers on 12
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Lady Titan hoopsters seek defensive identity By PETE SWANSON Sports Editor
FORT BRANCH — One identity could lead to another for Gibson Southern basketball girls. Just maybe, they could emerge as the darkhorse team in a 3A Mount Vernon Sectional that includes No. 1-ranked Evansville Mater Dei, No. 2-ranked Princeton Community, and the Evansville Memorial team that on paper completes the sectional’s top three after upsetting Princeton in February’s semifinals at Boonville. First, “We must find a defensive identify,” said Coach Mark Monroe, whose Lady Titans recently presented him with a 150th win in eight full seasons and early this one. “Last year we averaged more points than any girls’ team in Gibson Southern history. But we still lost eight games (between 14 wins). We scored 75 points against Mount Carmel and still lost. “Defense will be a priority for us. It must get better. Whether it’s man-to-man See Lady Titans on 12
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Sectional champ Lady Trojans want even more By PETE SWANSON Sports Editor
OAKLAND CITY — Wood Memorial basketball girls made last season special, becoming sectional champions for the first time since 2010 and winning a regional game for the first time since 2008 before a regional final loss to eventual Class A state runnerup Vincennes Rivet. An encore? “We want a better season, a better record than last season’s 15-and10,” said Johnnie Bartley, in his 17th season as head coach at his alma mater. It could very well happen. “I think this is Wood Memorial’s nicest team since the 2007 team that reached the Class A state final,” Gibson Southern Coach Mark Monroe said after his Lady Titans won 65-58 Nov. 14 in Oakland City. To be sure, this is a different team than that one, which hubbed around 6-foot-5 Kaiti Cochren and 6-2 Keely Wilhite. “We’re not very big,” said Bartley, whose tallest starters are 5-9 senior Rachel Wilkins and 5-9 sophomore See Lady Trojans on 13
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Could be special year for basketball Trojans By PETE SWANSON Sports Editor
OAKLAND CITY — “This could,” said Wood Memorial boys’ basketball coach Josh Thompson, “be a fun year.” The season starting Tuesday at Princeton Community could become the Trojans’ first winning campaign since 201011, when their predecessors achieved the school’s only sectional championship since 1990 of the one-class era. “We had a nice summer in which we won a lot of games,” Thompson said. “We’ll be a young team, since Conner Sevier is our only senior. But we have an opportunity top be good if we get better each day.” Sevier, 6-foot-5 center and forward who played in a statewide underclassman showcase at Indianapolis Ben Davis in summer, averaged 16.8 points and 5.6 rebounds during an 8-16 season. “Conner has more moves now,” his coach said. “Since he wants to play college basketball, he worked in summer to extend his shooting range. We need him in the post, so he’ll play there and at power forward.” Six-one junior Jacob Jarboe, who saw varsity action as a freshman, averaged 8.3 points and a team-high 6.3 rebounds last season. “Jacob does a lot of little things. Only 6-1, but a workhorse. A bluecollar guy,” said Thompson. Preseason, including Thursday’s scrimmage at potential sectional foe Evansville Day, included the search to find a point-guard successor to the graduated Sam Trader. Six-two sophomore Tyler Fleisher and the junior duo of 5-10 Collin Robinson and 6-0 Tyler Bottoms are competing to start, knowing
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Wood Memorial boys basketball. Front row, from left’ Torry Brown, Collin robinson, Lathan Falls, Tyler Fleisher, Conner Sevier, tyler Bottoms, Walker Nurrenbern. Back row, from left; Blayne VanMeter, Jared Cox, Austin Ireland, Dalton Coburn, Jordan Stamper, Tristan Vickers, Jacob Jarboe. that those who don’t start are expected to supply depth. Six-four junior Jared Cox, who last season showed perimeter shooting skill, may start at the small forward
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Runyan likes what he sees from basketball Titans By PETE SWANSON Sports Editor
FORT BRANCH — Kyle Runyan gave up Pike Central’s athletic directorship to become Gibson Southern boys’ basketball coach, and he likes what he sees. “There’s some skill at all levels, we have some boys who put a lot of work into the weight room and the preseason, and I’m kind of excited at where we could possibly be,” said the former University of Evansville basketball player and Pike Central basketball coach who is enshrined in the Grant County Sports Hall of Fame. Runyan takes over a program that fell to a 5-18 record in an injury-plagued 201314 season, second straight losing campaign after 12-11 marks in each of Travis Farmer’s first two seasons. Due to the football Titans’ advance to the sectional finals, and a decision to give the gridders a week off between seasons, not all the basketball players started practice Nov. 11 when boys’ hoops practice started throughout Indiana. The Titans’ scrimmage game at Mount Vernon comes Nov. 25, when Princeton Community and Wood Memorial meet each other, and the season opener won’t come until the Dec. 12 girl-boy doubleheader at Evansville Central. Still, Runyan saw enough in summer to be convinced that “all our lettermen bring something different. Alex Smith is a four-year varsity player,” he said of a 5-foot-8 guard who averaged 9.25 points and 2.75 assists last season. “Chandler McKee came up to last year’s varsity as a freshman and couldn’t be taken out,” Runyan said of a 5-7 guard who averaged 9.5 points.
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Gibson Southern boys basketball. Front row, from left; Alex Smith, Chance Kruse, Kaleb Curtice, Chandler McKee, Jacob Sparks, Shane Murphy. Back row, from left; Kyle Brasher, Kyle Runyan, Jerrill Vandeventer, John Kissel, Grant Allen, Tyler McCray, Caleb Ziliak, Wesley Obermeier, Mason Mockobee, Chase Abbott, Kyle Lewis. “Shane Murphy is a very good shooter who wants to be more than a shooter,” his new coach said of a 5-10 senior who averaged 5.5 points. Six-one junior Mason Mockobee, who averaged 3.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists, and like Murphy can rotate
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Princeton boys take us-against-world mentality By PETE SWANSON Sports Editor
It’s us against the world. That’s the Princeton Community approach to a boys’ basketball season following the graduation of all five starters from the team that posted a 17-7 record and shared the Big Eight Conference championship. “Our guys have been told by so many people that they’re too small and too slow to compete at the varsity level. I’m sure Nate Niederhaus has been told that throughout his high school career,” Coach Ryan Haywood said of the 5-foot5 senior who will play the point-guard role. “So many people don’t expect much from this group. Our guys are trying to show everybody that they’re better than people think they are. They’re working as hard as any group I’ve had,” said Haywood, Mount Carmel head coach for six years before crossing the border in July 2011 to coach and teach. “We’re taking an it’s-us-against See Basketball Tigers on 20
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Princeton Community High School’s varsity team front row from left: Phil Dzienciol, Cordell Gooch, Nate Niederhaus, Jacob Hughen, Brogan Reneer, Nick Albin. Top row from left: Coaches Ryan Haywood and Trevor George, Lane Rumple, Grant Holder, Josh Mans, Joe Wildt, Trent Shafer, Marquise Bonaparte, Daniel Crabtree, coach Bill Niederhaus. Not pictured: Brian Douglas and Justin Young.
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Most anticipated season for Titan wrestlers By PETE SWANSON Sports Editor
FORT BRANCH — What will start in the Dec. 6 Castle Invitational is perhaps the most anticipated wrestling season in Gibson Southern history. One reason is the return of five Titans who last February reached the Evansville Semistate. Another reason, and perhaps the most eye-opening, is Gibson Southern’s place the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association Team Duals Jan. 3 at Division I Ball State in Muncie. “My first season here we finished 20th in the Class 2A standing,” said Coach Blake Maurer, a four-time state wrestling champion at Evansville Mater Dei and now in his third season at the school where dad Kelly Maurer starred in athletics. “Last year our goal was to finish in the top eight so we’d get a berth in the State Duals. We finished fifth. This year they’ve invited 12 teams, but we’d have made it even if they had kept the See Titan wrestlers on 21
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Princeton wrestlers more numerous than year ago By PETE SWANSON Sports Editor
Before starting their schedule, Princeton Community wrestlers are ahead of last season. “We have about 24 kids,” said Coach Clay Leek, whose Tigers are scheduled to debut Friday and Saturday in Mount Vernon’s Turkey Classic. “The last couple years we were down to 12 before the season ended. It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish, but this year’s turnout is encouraging. “We brought in Cameron McGinness, a guidance counselor, as assistant coach. And he helped get more kids out for wrestling.” While the Tigers must replace fourtime Big Eight Conference champion Korbin Karges, who at 145 pounds last February became Gibson County’s only state meet qualifier and ran his career wins total to 120; plus classmate and allcounty Dakota Lutz, the cupboard is not bare. “Kyler McKinney probably will again See Princeton wrestling on 23
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Gibson Southern winter sports schedules BOYS’ BASKETBALL
Nov. 25 — Scrimmage, Mount Vernon, 6. Dec. 12 — at Evansville Central, 7:30, after girls’ varsity game. Dec. 16 — at Evansville North, 6. Dec. 19 — at South Spencer, 6. Toyota/Gibson County Teamwork Classic Dec. 22 — Castle, 7:15. Dec . 23 — South Central, 5;30. Dec. 26 — at Wood Memorial, 7:15. Dec. 27 — Placement round, seventh-place game at Princeton Community Middle School; fifth, third and first-place games at Princeton Community High School. ---Jan. 6 — at Southridge, 5:30. Jan. 9 — at Heritage Hills, 6. Jan. 10 — Evansville Memorial, 5:30. Jan. 16 — at Princeton Community, 6. Jan. 17 — Washington, 5:30. Jan. 24 — at Evansville Mater Dei, 5:30. Jan. 27 — at Mount Carmel, 6. Jan. 30 — Homecoming, Mount Vernon, 5:30. Feb. 6 — Tecumseh, 5:30. Feb. 7 — at Tell City, 6. Feb. 12 — Boonville, 5:30. Feb. 17 — Pike Central, 5:30. Feb. 20 — at Wood Memorial, 6. Feb. 21 — at Vincennes Lincoln, 5:30. Feb. 24 — Forest Park, 5:30. Feb. 27 — North Posey, 5:30.
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
Nov. 8 — Scrimmage at Evansville Mater Dei, 5. Nov. 11 — at Castle, 7. Nov. 14 — at Wood Memorial, 6. Nov. 15 — Vincennes Lincoln, 12. Nov. 18 — Evansville Reitz, 6. Nov. 21 —Princeton Community, 6. Nov. 25 — at Evansville Bosse, 6. Dec. 5 — at Forest Park, 5:30. Dec. 8 — at Evansville North, 6. Dec. 11 — Mount Vernon, 6. Dec. 12 — at Evansville Central, 5:30. Dec. 18 — at Pike Central, 5:30. Toyota/Gibson County Teamwork Classic Dec. 22 — Mount Vernon, 5:30. Dec. 23 — South Central, 7;15. Dec. 26 — at Wood Memorial, 5:30. Dec. 27 — Placement round, seventh-place game at Princeton Community Middle School; fifth, third and first-place games at Princeton Community High School. --Jan. 10 — at Tell City, 12. Jan. 13 — Jasper, 5:30. Jan. 15 — Tecumseh, 6. Jan. 17 — at Washington, 12. Jan. 22 — at Southridge, 5:30. Jan. 29 — Boonville, 6. Jan. 31 — North Posey, 12. Feb. 3 — South Spencer, 6. Feb. 5 — at Heritage Hills, 6.
WRESTLING
Dec. 6 — Castle Invitational, 9 a.m. Dec. 9 — at Princeton Community, 6. Dec. 12-13 — Pocket Athletic Conference Duals at Heritage Hills, times to be announced. Dec. 19-20 — Jeffersonville Classic, 8 a.m. each day. Dec. 30-31 — Mooresville Holiday Classic, 9 a.m. each day. Jan. 3 — Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association Team State Duals, at Ball State University, Muncie, time to be announced. Jan. 6 — Pike Central, 5:30. Jan. 8 — North Posey, 6. Jan. 15 — at Evansville North, 6:30. Jan. 17 — Jasper Invitational, 9 a.m. Jan. 24 — Pocket Athletic Conference Championships at Heritage Hills, 9 a.m.
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Nov. 17 — at Tell City, girls only, 5:30. Dec. 4 — at Pike Central, 5:30. Dec. 6 — Tecumseh Relays, 10 a.m. Dec. 9 — Triangular at Lloyd Pool, Evansville, 5. Dec. 15 — Triangular at Boonville, 5:30. Dec. 18 — at South Spencer, 5:30. Jan. 12 — at Pike Central, 5:30. Jan. 15 – Triangular at Tell City, 5:30. Jan. 22 — PAC preliminaries at Tecumseh, 5:30. Jan. 24 — Pocket Athletic Conference finals at Tecumseh, 9 a.m. Jan. 29 — at Vincennes Lincoln, 5:30. Feb. 9 — at Boonville, 5:30.
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in the Boonville Sectional semifinals remains a stinger. The Lady Tigers hadn’t previously faced the likes of Memorial’s 6-foot-3 Emily Sullivan, who, more than anybody else, impacted a second half in which her team didn’t yield a basket and a fourth quarter in which Memorial didn’t yield a point. “I wish we’d been able to play Castle,” Princeton Coach Charlie Mair said of a scheduled late-season game that was twice called off for weather reason. Had it been played, the lady Tigers would have experienced 6-4 Olivia Hunt and 6-2 Rebecca Nunge before facing Sullivan. So Mair was elated when athletic director Jason Engelbrecht worked out the Nov. 28 date at Bedford-North Lawrence. And he shared the eagerness of Brittany Hart Maners to renew a series that was dropped before she arrived at Central for her first year as head coach after assisting at Bedford-North Lawrence. “After the best season in Princeton girls’ basketball history, and with All-Big Eight players Jackie Young and Hannah Brewer returning, we hope to advance deeper into the state tournament,” Mair said of the program’s goal. Young, who followed her decision to head to Notre Dame after her 2016 PCHS graduation by breaking the Lady Tigers’ career scoring record in this season’s opener, averaged 28.8 points, 12.2 rebounds and 6.54 assists as
Lady Titans a sophomore. A deep advance in her junior postseason would enhance her chance to become Indiana Miss Basketball as a senior. Brewer, 5-9 forward and classmate of the 6-foot guard, forward and post player, averaged 9 points and 5.6 rebounds last season. “She’ll have a couple 20 to 25-point games,” Southridge Coach Greg Werner predicted after his Raiders fell 60-46 in Tiger Arena in each team’s Nov. 11 season opener. Mair and Werner both note the improvement of 6-0 sophomore center Brooke James, who scored 12 and 16 points the season’s first two games after averaging 6.6 points as a freshman. Five-guard senior Kelsey KolbBlume returns at guard with the memories of five straight free throw makes that turned impending defeat into a Toyota/ Gibson County Teamwork Classic title win over Mount Carmel and Tyra Buss. Five-six seniors Alyssa Koberstein and Raelynn Thompson may share the fifth starting position. Five-two senior Tanisha Adams returns to basketball after a year away. The junior trio of 5-9 Samantha Hyneman, 5-8 Ashleigh Chestnut and 5-5 Kiana Hardiman lend depth. And waiting in the wings is 5-6 freshman Kiare Young, sister of Jackie. “We have to keep improving,” Mair said. “We want to shoot and pass better. We’re trying to build a foundation.” One that is seasoned against
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or zone, we must find something that fits our personnel.” Monroe noted that “we return 90 percent of last year’s team. Five girls are back who started all or some of the time.” Vailey Eberhard, now on rowing scholarship at Rutgers, is the only graduated starter. Six-foot-one junior Maddie Raley, who as a freshman set the Lady Titans’ single-game scoring record with 36 points vs. South Spencer, averaged 13.6 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2 assists last season and opened this campaign with 23 points in a win at Castle. Six-foot senior center Hannah Cosby, after averaging 10.3 points and 8 boards a year ago, achieved back-to-back double-doubles this campaign’s first week. Five-five senior guard Kiana Smith averaged 9.1 points and 3 assists last winter. Five-nine senior Alyssa Bright and 5-11 sophomore Presley Johnson also made starts last season. Five-eight junior Lora Barton gained considerable varsity experience. Five-nine junior Lexi Lay provides more depth. “Since we’re a year older and more experienced, we should be more physically and mentally mature,” Monroe said. “I believe we have a chance to repeat as Pocket Athletic Conference champions (a title the Lady Titans shared with
North Posey).” Wood Memorial Coach Johnnie Bartley says Gibson Southern “poses a lot of tough matchups. Raley can drive the ball, spin, shoot and run the floor. Cosby is big and strong inside, and you can’t let Smith get open shots.” The Lady Titans may become deeper before sectional time. Five-six junior Holly Bittner, idled in early-season by a concussion suffered in an auto accident, lettered the past two years. Five-eleven sophomore Amy Niehaus seemed headed for considerable varsity time until suffering an ACL tear in summer soccer; she hopes to return in late-season and play in the sectional. Gibson Southern’s distaff basketball heritage includes 10 sectional titles, four straight from 2006-2009 and the 10th in 2012. The 2002 Lady Titans, coached by Jason Blackard, became sectional champions by beating Evansville Memorial on Memorial’s court, regional champs by beating Jasper on Jasper’s floor, and semistate champions by beating state-ranked Indianapolis Brebeuf Jesuit in Huntingburg’s Memorial gym. The 1997-98 and 2002-2003 teams achieved unbeaten regular seasons, and every 21st century season has ended with 13 or more wins. Email Pete Swanson at sports@pdclarion.com
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Bailey Perkins. “So we must play to our strengths and play with the same intensity as last season. We must be fundamentally sound, and we can’t lose people defensively. “We are more experienced than last year.” Not only does Wilkins return as a three-year starter, the sophomore trio of coach’s daughter Chloe Bartley, Carsen Robinson and Brenna Maikranz started throughout their freshman season. Bartley averaged 11 point and 2 assists, Robinson 10 points and 3 assists, Maikranz 10 points. Fivenine senior Morgan Bailey will share center duty with Perkins as together they replace 6-foot Sidney Heldt, now at Wabash Valley of junior college ranks. A key is Wilkins, who played guard out of necessity as a sophomore, but last season and this in a forward role closer to the basket.
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Basketball Trojans “We expect a big year from Rachel,” Bartley said of the athlete who reached the cross country semistate while leading the Lady Trojans’ first team in that sport in over a decade. “We expect her to be our big rebounder and play defense against big people. “Perkins can step away from the basket to hit shots, and Bailey can give us strength inside. They complement each other.” Chloe Bartley, Robinson and Maikranz key the full-court pressure defense designed to keep opponents away from the basket and wear them down. That fullthrottle play is helped by depth, and the Lady Trojans have that in 5-7 sophomores Morgan Loveless and Sydney Day. Depth will increase when 5-4 senior guard Michaela Beach returns after recovering from a hip strain and tenderness that came in cross country.
Wood Memorial plays a challenging schedule, including home dates Dec. 2 and Dec. 18 with North Posey and North Knox, a Dec. 9 date at Barr-Reeve, the Toyota/ Gibson County Teamwork Classic, visits Jan. 15 to Princeton Community and Jan. 20 to Southridge’s reigning 3A sectional champions, a Jan. 27 home date with the Northeast Dubois team they beat in overtime for last February’s sectional title, and a regular-season-ending home date with perennial Class A power Vincennes Rivet. The Lady Trojans hope the latter date takes on added meaning. “We want to compete for the Blue Chip Conference title. That’s something we haven’t done,” Coach Bartley said. “Mainly we want to play hard and compete. Like Johnny Wooden said, wins will take care of themselves.” Email Pete Swanson at sports@ pdclarion.com
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waiting in the wings for varsity time. Thompson expects the Blue Chip Conference to be “as good as it has been in some time. A bear. Barr-Reeve, which reached the Class A state championship game last season, returns quality players and adds Duncan Roy, a 6-5 player who moved in from Texas. North Knox and South Knox are senior-laden and each will have its best team in several years. And Northeast Dubois has a 6-7 player in Eric Dodson. “ Yet, “We expect to be right there.” Email Pete Swanson at sports@pdclarion.com
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Nov. 20 — Scrimmage at Evansville Day, 6. Nov. 25 — Princeton Community, 6. Dec. 5 — Loogootee, 5:30. Dec. 6 — at Tecumseh, 6. Dec. 12 — Perry Central, 6. Dec. 13 — at White River Valley, 5:30. Dec. 17 — at Washington, 5:30. Dec. 19 — at North Daviess, 5:30. Toyota/ Gibson County Teamwork Classic Dec. 22 — South Central, 5:30. Dec. 23 — Castle, 7:15. Dec. 26 — Gibson Southern, 7:15. Dec. 27 — Placement round, seventh-place game at Princeton Community Middle School; fifth-place, third-place and championship games at Princeton Community High School. ———
Nov. 6 — Scrimmage vs. South Central, 6. Nov. 11 — Perry Central, 6. Nov. 14 — Gibson Southern, 6. Nov. 18 — at Tecumseh, 6. Nov. 21 — at Pike Central, 5:30. Dec. 2 — North Posey, 6. Dec. 4 — Washington Catholic, 5:30. Dec. 9 — at Barr-Reeve, 5:30. Dec. 11 — South Spencer, 6. Dec. 18 — North Knox, 5:30. Toyota/Gibson County Teamwork Classic Dec. 22 — South Central, 7:15. Dec. 23 — Mount Vernon, 5:30. Dec. 26 — Gibson Southern, 5:30. Dec. 27 — Placement round, seventh-place game at Princeton Community Middle School; fifth-place, third-place and championship games at Princeton Community Middle School. ———
Jan. 9 — Pike Central, 5:30. Jan. 16 — at Washington Catholic, 5;30. Jan. 17 — at Cannelton, 7:45. Jan. 23 — Barr-Reeve, 5:30. Jan. 24 — at Shoals, varsity only, 6. Jan. 30 — Tell City, 6. Jan. 31 — at Northeast Dubois, 5:30. Feb. 6 — Vincennes Rivet, 5:30. Feb. 7 — at Forest Park, 5:30. Feb. 12 — Southridge, 5:30. Feb. 17 — North Knox, 5:30. Feb. 20 — Gibson Southern, 6. Feb. 27 — at South Knox, 5:30.
Jan. 6 — at Springs Valley, 5:30. Jan. 8 — Loogootee, 5:30. Jan. 13 — at South Knox, 5:30. Jan. 15 — at Princeton Community, 6. Jan. 17 — at Cannelton, 6. Jan. 20 — at Southridge, 5:0. Jan. 22 — White River Valley, 5:30. Jan. 27 – Northeast Dubois, 5:30. Jan. 29 — North Daviess, 5:30. Feb. 2 — at Shoals, varsity only, 6. Feb. 4 — Vincennes Rivet, 5:30.
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Nov. 22 — Wood Memorial Invitational (Gibson Southern jayvees, Evansville Bosse, North Knox), 9 a.m. Nov. 29 — Vincennes Lincoln Invitational, 8 a.m. Dec. 3 — Mount Carmel, 6. Dec. 6 — North Knox Invitational, 7:30. Dec. 10 — at North Posey, 6. Dec. 18 — Heritage Hills, 6. Dec. 20 — Evansville North Invitational, 9 a.m. Jan. 10 — Tecumseh Invitational, 9 a.m. Jan. 14 — North Knox, 5:30. Jan. 17 — South Spencer Invitational, 9 a.m. Jan. 21 — at Evansville Central, 6. Jan. 28 — at Evansville Bosse, 6.
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15 a welcome number for Wood wrestlers By PETE SWANSON Sports Editor
OAKLAND CITY — By larger schools’ standards, 15 wrestlers wouldn’t be numerous. But it’s a welcome number for Wood Memorial Coach Caleb Cherry as he starts his fifth season in that role. “My first year as coach we had eight in the program. The previous year, just three,� said Cherry, whose Trojans were scheduled to debut in the Nov. 22 Wood Memorial Invitational that’ll include North Knox, Pike Central and Evansville Bosse. “Our outlook this year is pretty good.� The Trojans include Lane Stocker, who seeks a fourth straight advancement from sectional to regional. Stocker’s 18-7 record last season’s wasn’t the team’s best because now junior Dalton Ashby finished 22-8. New to Wood Memorial is junior Louis Hoover, who for Gibson Southern last season joined Stocker and Ashby on the all-county team by producing an 18-18 record and placing third at sectional at 182 pounds. See Trojan wrestling on 20
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Lady Trojans girls versatile in water By PETE SWANSON Sports Editor
OAKLAND CITY — They’re versatile swimmers, the Wood Memorial girls who Monday who were scheduled to open their season at the University of Southern Indiana against Evansville Memorial and Tecumseh. “I’m pretty excited that all seven of our returning girls can swim all four strokes and do any event,” said Coach Brenda Seats, whose squad numbers eight. Morgan Pflug, swimming for the fourth year, “is fast and versatile. Morgan will swim the 200-yard individual medley, 200-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard freestyle relay and in any event where she’s needed.” Coach’s daughter Lizzie Helsley, swimming again as a senior after taking last season off, will swim the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle relay “and any other event where she’s needed,” said mom and coach, who added, “Morgan and Lizzie are great leaders for this team.”
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8 Lady Titans return to the swimming pool By PETE SWANSON Sports Editor
FORT BRANCH — For the swimming season that will continue Dec. 4 at Pike Central, 18 Gibson Southern girls began practice Oct. 27. Eight of the Lady Titans are returnees from last year’s team. Seniors Allyson Schneider, Shelby Rose and Madison Hinman return along with the sophomore quintet of sister Olivia Schneider, sister Sammy Rose. Baylee Parten, Emma Williams and Kallie Chandler. Sophomore Jaime Nurrenbern, whose pitching keyed Gibson Southern’s advancement to the Class 3A state championship softball game last June, is among 10 newcomers on the team directed by veteran coach Rhonda Wells. Senior Audrey Douglas and junior Rachel Weiss are swimming for the first time. So are sophomores Kalea Garrett, Diana Jones, Jaelyn White and Emma Morales, plus freshmen Allison McClain, Kristen Adler and Hannah See Lady Titan swimmers on 21
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FORT BRANCH —Five-man squads can win team honors in basketball, cross country and golf, but the emphasis is on individual accomplishment when a swimming team has just five members. So it is at Gibson Southern, where boys’ swimming practice started Nov. 11 for a season that’ll open Dec. 4 at Pike Central. “Nick Scheller is shooting for our 500 freestyle school record this season,” Coach Rhonda Wells said. “Nick just started swimming this event late last season,” so mention of him setting a school record is all the more noteworthy. “Zach Davis, besides swimming the 50-yard freestyle, will aim for our school record in the 100-yard breaststroke,” said Wells. Nathan McClain will swim the backstroke along with the 100-yard freestyle, while Kody Merrell will join Davis in the 50-yard freestyle.
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played a big position before, but he has gotten pretty strong.” New to Gibson Southern is 6-2 junior guard and forward Grant Allen, who transferred from South Spencer and made an immediate football impact as a wide receiver. “Grant was AllPAC basketball honorable mention as a sophomore,” Runyan noted.
“A very well-rounded player who can shoot, dribble, pass, defend and rebound. He works hard in practice.” John Kissel, who rushed 1,449 yards and became an All-PAC running back, chose to also play basketball as a senior. “John hasn’t played basketball since he was a freshman, and he’s only 5-9 or 5-10, but he’s an athlete,” Runyan said. “Of the 30-some kids who have
tried out, several more could see varsity time this season. Wes Obermeier could get some varsity minutes,” Runyan said of the 6-3 freshman son of former Gibson Southern football coach John Obermeier. “Our preseason emphasis is trying to figure out what we’ve got and establish a work ethic. We’ve had a good start.” Email Pete Swanson at sports@pdclarion.com
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Lane didn’t wrestle in summer as much as usual because he joined the National Guard and was in basic training,” Cherry said. “But he has wrestled a lot this year and he’s a lot stronger. He wrestled at 120 last season after two years at 113, and he could go at 126 or 132 this season. “Definitely we’d like to see Lane reach semistate.” Cherry said Ashby could wrestle-off with Stocker at 126 pounds or move to 132. “Dalton has matured quite a bit. He’s a lot smarter wrestler now, more aware of what’s going on. He was active in summer.” Hoover, who became residentially eligible for athletics late in football season, will start his Wood Memorial career at 182.
“Louis is very strong and he’ll fit in very well,” his new coach said. Senior Heath Miley, apt to compete at 138, “wrestled a lot in summer, attended camps and became a lot stronger. Heath definitely wants to reach regional.” Senior Adam Lee, whose 201314 season marked his first in high school wrestling, looms at 120 pounds. “Adam has gotten a lot better,” Cherry said. Sophomore Nate McDowell likely will wrestle at 152. “Nate wrestled last year at 138 and 145, tough weights for a freshman. Now he, too, is a lot stronger,” Cherry said. Sophomore Quinten Might, who rotated at 152 and 160 last season, figures as the Trojans’ 170-pounder. “Still another guy who has gotten a lot stronger,”
his coach said. The squad gained a boost when junior Ed Matlock, apt to wrestle at 220, moved from Kansas early this school year. Sophomore and wrestling rookie Corbin Richardson, apt to vie at 113, is “new to our sport but learning quickly.” Classmate Brock Carter, another wrestling rookie, could go at 138. Sophomore Tristan Riley, who wrestled in grade school before stepping away from the sport a couple years, also bids for a lineup spot. Yet another sophomore, football quarterback Austin Powell, decided to wrestle because “he wants to work on his footwork and flexibility.” Email Pete Swanson at sports@ pdclarion.com
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-the-world approach.” Haywood said the reloading job is “similar to my first season here,” after graduation of Rontray and Dontray Chavis, Jalen Packer and others from the unbeaten 3A state champions of 2008-09. “We played a lot of sophomores my first half here, but we also had older players like Al Holder. Now we have seniors like Nate and Josh Mans, plus a few juniors. “Our guys have worked hard in the preseason. They’re doing everything we ask them to do.” Niederhaus becomes a varsity starter for the first time after starting for the junior varsity and making brief varsity appearances last season. “Nate would have played on the varsity at a lot of schools. He’s a leader and he’ll be a playmaker for us,” his coach said. Mans, 6-3 center; 6-2 senior guard Jacob Hughen and 6-2 junior forward Joe Wildt earned letters last season, Wildt entering against Jasper in the waning seconds and breaking up a play to clinch the win that brought the Big Eight co-championship. “Josh and Joe must do a good job on the boards for us,” Haywood said.
“Josh is a good weakside rebounder. We’ll shoot a ton of threes, and he’ll be on the side where missed shots frequently come off the rim. He can also use his size on defense. “Joe is the best athlete we have and one of our best leaders. He has added a perimeter jumper to his game. He can also rebound, and he’s probably our best defensive player.” Hughen pushes for prime time. So do the junior quartet of 5-10 guard Lane Rumple, 6-0 guard Trent Shafer, 5-6 forward Cordell Gooch and 6-2 forward Marquise Bonaparte, who moved to Princeton midway through last school year. Five-nine guard Brogan Reneer is among several sophomores who probably will play on the junior varsity but could see varsity time. So could the freshman trio of 6-2 Maleek Hardiman, 5-10 Nick Albin and 5-10 Rylin Stough, though Hardiman missed the first two weeks of preseason practice due to a football injury and was awaiting medical clearance to return to athletics. Goals? “We just want to get better every day,” said Haywood. “And keep that usagainst-the-world mentality.” Email Pete Swanson at sports@pdclarion.com
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tournament at eight. “ We have a great group of guys and we’re anxious for the season to start.” To be sure, depth is a question due to moveaways. Louis Hoover, who advanced to regional at 182 pounds as a sophomore, now wrestles for Wood Memorial. Steven Thurston and Mark Garrison, two more lettermen, have moved to Tennessee and Castle High, respectively. Senior Parker Rose won’t wrestle due to an ACL tear suffered in football. “We could have some forfeits,” said Maurer. One move-in before the 2013-14 school year is among the Titans with semistate experience. Kyle Todrank compiled a 39-4 record with Pocket Athletic Conference and sectional titles and a regional runnerup finish at 132 pounds as a junior. “Kyle’s season didn’t end as he wanted and he hasn’t stopped wrestling since semistate,” said Maurer, who said Todrank probably will start the season at 138 pounds but could also see action at 132 or 145. Football line standout Cory Klem
returns after a 35-5 sophomore season with PAC and sectional titles and a semistate-opening win. “Cory has big goals and he wrestles hard. Since he started practice at 238 pounds, he’ll probably start the season at heavyweight but we think he’ll get down to 220,” Maurer said. Senior Christian Pellacer (30-11) and junior Logan Dilbeck (28-5), each a PAC champion and semistate qualifier last winter, could rotate between 113 and 120 pounds. “Christian wants to end his career with big things, and Logan comes in after a good off-season,” their coach said. Junior Hunter Baehl (35-8) also reached semistate after winning a PAC title. “Hunter wrestled tough at semistate, he has a lot of confidence and he’ll be a leader,” Maurer said. “All five of our semistate returnees are high-quality kids.” Senior Kaleb Greenwell could wrestle at 138 or 145 after an 18-4 record and second straight PAC title at 120. “Kaleb was a team captain last year and has gotten stronger in the off-season,” said
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Rumble. “We may look at switching events for the returnees,” Wells said. ”We need to mix up the relays to make the team stronger as a whole. “We are working more on the technical strokes this season. Our freestylers are strong. We need to see more butterfly and backstrokes, mix it up a bit. “I hope to see a lot of our new swimmers step up, work hard and surprise everyone with their ability to conquer the sport. “Once we have a couple meets, they will understand that this is the only sport in which you’re happier with less time in the water.” Email Pete Swanson at sports@ pdclarion.com
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Maurer, whose returnees also include junior Landon Knight and sophomores Michael Polen and Cole Dilbeck, brother of Logan. “Landon’s a fighter, he put in a lot of time in the off-season and could compete at 170 or 182. Michael wrestled nine matches at 106 and we expect he’ll be at 120 or 126 this season. Cole went 9-and-4 at 120.” Football lineman Auston Moses could emerge at 195 or 220 as a junior. “He’s about 210 now,” said Maurer, who said football players were given a week between seasons and reported to wrestling Nov. 17. Sophomore Dyllin Bennett could emerge at heavyweight. Freshmen Logan Lewis and Kaige Elliott vie at 106. “On paper, this could be the best wrestling team in Gibson Southern history,” Maurer said. “Castle will be a good test. They beat us last year. We want to win the PAC after finishing fourth two years ago and second last year. We expect our best wrestling to come in January and February.” Email Pete Swanson at sports@pdclarion.com
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wrestle at 106 pounds, where he won 22 matches (against 14 losses) as a freshman,” said Leek, starting his fifth season as head coach at the school where his 147 career wins led Gibson County until two-time state champion Drake Stein passed him in 2011. “Not only is Kyler looking slick on the mat, he has kind of filled out to a true 106-pounder this year. I look for him to win more matches than he did last season.” Senior Graham Dougan is apt to wrestle at 152 pounds after upsetting a sectional champion in last February’s regional and joining Karges at semistate. “Graham is looking a lot stronger and he’s a leader in our wrestling room. He just might get to the state tournament — I think his chances are high.” Sophomore Joe Bichler, fresh from rushing 1,102 yards in 10 games for the football Tigers, could wrestle at 160 or 170. The latter is where he wrestled as a freshman in compiling a 19-16 record and joining Karges, Lutz, McKinney and Dougan on the all-county team. “Joe has matured and gotten a lot stronger,”
said Leek, who said several more sophomores look considerable stronger this season. Sophomore Payton Halbig, brother of 2012 state tournament qualifier Dalton Halbig, could vie at 170 or 182 pounds. Classmate Kinnen Scott looms at 145. Leek likes the potential of freshmen Luke Dunn and Gavin Hardiman, who could both compete at 113 pounds. “Luke and Gavin have wrestled for a long time,” their coach said. Freshman Bronson Scott may open at 120. Chase Wilson, described as “a tough kid,” could land at 126 or 132. “A lot depends how our younger guys migrate into high school wrestling,” said Leek, whose Tigers hope to rise from last winter’s team finishes of seventh in the Big Eight and eighth at sectional. “We definitely hope to win more dual meets than we won a year ago. Hopefully we’ll be competitive in tournaments. And as young as we are, we might be even more competitive next year.” Email Pete Swanson at sports@pdclarion.com
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