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BOYS’ BASKETBALLNov. 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 ClassicDec. 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 Prince-

ton 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.

GIRLS BASKETBALLNov. 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 ClassicDec. 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 Prince-

ton 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.

WRESTLINGNov. 28 — Mount Vernon Turkey Classic, 10 a.m. Nov. 29

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Tougher early sked to help Lady Tigers later?By PETE SWANSON

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Would you trade a perfect regular sea-son 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 chal-lenged 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 sea-son and Princeton’s first Big Eight Con-ference championship in girls’ basketball will live in memories. the season-ending 41-26 upset loss to Evansville Memorial

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Lady Titan hoopsters seek defensive identityBy PETE SWANSON

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FORT BRANCH — One identity could lead to another for Gibson Southern bas-ketball 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 Evans-ville Memorial team that on paper completes the sectional’s top three after upsetting Princeton in February’s semi-finals at Boonville.

First, “We must find a defensive iden-tify,” 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

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Sectional champ Lady Trojans want even moreBy PETE SWANSON

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OAKLAND CITY — Wood Memorial basketball girls made last season spe-cial, 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 even-tual Class A state runnerup Vincennes Rivet.

An encore? “We want a better season, a better record than last season’s 15-and-10,” said Johnnie Bartley, in his 17th sea-son 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

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OAKLAND CITY — “This could,” said Wood Memorial boys’ basketball coach Josh Thompson, “be a fun year.”

The season starting Tuesday at Princ-eton Community could become the Tro-jans’ first winning campaign since 2010-11, 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 bas-ketball, 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 blue-collar 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 sopho-more Tyler Fleisher and the junior duo of 5-10 Collin Robinson and 6-0 Tyler Bottoms are competing to start, knowing

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

position. “Jared has played well in the preseason,” said Thompson, whose depth corps includes 6-1 sophomore guard Tristan Vickers and the freshman duo of 6-footers Lathan Falls and Walker

Nurrenbern. Those two lead probably the most anticipated class in the recent history of Wood Memorial boys’ basket-ball, a group that won big at the middle

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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.


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Runyan likes what he sees from basketball TitansBy PETE SWANSON

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FORT BRANCH — Kyle Runyan gave up Pike Central’s athletic directorship to become Gibson Southern boys’ basket-ball 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 Uni-versity 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 2013-14 season, second straight losing cam-paign 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’ scrim-mage 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.

“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

between guard and forward, impresses as “a very good athlete who wants to be the best defensive player.”

Senior forward Chance Kruse, the fifth returning letterman, is “an athletic 6-2 kid who can run like a deer. He’s one of our bigs along with Caleb Ziliak and

Tyler McCrary.“Caleb (6-5 junior center) struggled at

times in summer, but he dedicated him-self to the weightroom and has put on 10 to 15 pounds of muscle.

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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.


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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 Confer-ence 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-foot-5 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 Hay-wood, Mount Carmel head coach for six years before crossing the border in July 2011 to coach and teach.

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Most anticipated season for Titan wrestlersBy PETE SWANSON

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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 Associa-tion 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.

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Gibson Southern wrestling. Front row, from left; Hunter Baehl, Cole Dilbeck, Kaije Elliot, Logan Dilbeck, Christian Pellacer, Michael Polen. Back row, from left; Kaleb Greenwell, Landon Knight, Dominik Richardville, Cory Klem, Dyllin Bennett, Shelton Dewig, James Deters.


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Princeton wrestlers more numerous than year agoBy PETE SWANSON

Sports Editor

Before starting their schedule, Princ-eton 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 four-time 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 all-county Dakota Lutz, the cupboard is not bare.

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BOYS’ BASKETBALLNov. 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 ClassicDec. 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’ BASKETBALLNov. 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 ClassicDec. 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.

WRESTLINGDec. 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 Heri-tage Hills, 9 a.m.

BOYS’ and GIRLS’ SWIMMINGNov. 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 previ-ously faced the likes of Memo-rial’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 Char-lie 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 ath-letic 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 assist-ing at Bedford-North Lawrence.

“After the best season in Princ-eton girls’ basketball history, and with All-Big Eight play-ers 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 deci-sion 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

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 class-mate of the 6-foot guard, for-ward 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 sopho-more center Brooke James, who scored 12 and 16 points the sea-son’s first two games after aver-aging 6.6 points as a freshman. Five-guard senior Kelsey Kolb-Blume returns at guard with the memories of five straight free throw makes that turned impending defeat into a Toyota/Gibson County Teamwork Clas-sic title win over Mount Carmel and Tyra Buss.

Five-six seniors Alyssa Kober-stein and Raelynn Thompson may share the fifth starting posi-tion. 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 wait-ing 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.”

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or zone, we must find some-thing 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 experi-ence. 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 section-al 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 sopho-more Amy Niehaus seemed headed for considerable varsi-ty 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 Memo-rial on Memorial’s court, regional champs by beating Jasper on Jasper’s floor, and semistate champions by beat-ing state-ranked Indianapolis Brebeuf Jesuit in Hunting-burg’s Memorial gym. The 1997-98 and 2002-2003 teams achieved unbeaten regular seasons, and every 21st cen-tury season has ended with 13 or more wins.



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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 sopho-more 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. Five-nine 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 sopho-more, but last season and this in a forward role closer to the basket.

“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 pres-sure defense designed to keep opponents away from the basket and wear them down. That full-throttle play is helped by depth, and the Lady Trojans have that in 5-7 sophomores Morgan Love-less 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 chal-lenging 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 Com-munity and Jan. 20 to Southridge’s reigning 3A sectional champions, a Jan. 27 home date with the North-east Dubois team they beat in over-time 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 Wood-en said, wins will take care of themselves.”


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school level.“Tristan will be in the

mix,” Thompson said.“Lathan has shot the

ball well. Walker is a lot like Jarboe and he fin-ishes well. In summer the younger guys mixed well with the older guys.

“We look to be much improved. Yes, we have a ton of work to do to get where we want to go, but we have some size and athletic ability. Our kids are coachable and enjoy playing together.”

Another freshman, 6-5 Austin Ireland, is on the varsity roster and had a good summer, but his pre-season was interrupted by a concussion suffered in gym class in late-October. He’ll play mostly on the junior varsity while

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 Dun-can 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.”


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BOYS’ BASKETBALL 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 ClassicDec. 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 champi-onship games at Princeton Community High School.

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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.

GIRLS’ BASKETBALLNov. 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 ClassicDec. 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 champi-onship games at Princeton Community Middle School.

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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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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 produc-ing an 18-18 record and placing third at sectional at 182 pounds.

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Wood Memorial wrestling. Front row, from left’ Lane Stocker Quinten Might, Louis Hoover, Heath Miley, Adam Lee. Back row, from left; Corbin Richeson, Austin Powell, Brock Carter, Edd Matlock, dalton Ashby, Bobby Denton, Tristan Riley. Not pictured, Nate McDowell.

Lady Trojans girls versatile in waterBy 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 South-ern Indiana against Evansville Memo-rial 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. Mor-gan 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, swim-ming again as a senior after taking last season off, will swim the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard free-style relay “and any other event where she’s needed,” said mom and coach, who added, “Morgan and Lizzie are great leaders for this team.”

Junior Makenzie Bruce is a third-year squad member. “Versatile with the strokes and with the yardage,” said Seats, who said Bruce will swim the 100 freestyle, 200 medley relay and possibly the 100 breaststroke.

Junior Haley Settle is a second-year swimmer. “Haley was our fastest sprint-er last season,” her coach said. “I look for her to pick up where she left off last year with her time in the 50 freestyle. She’ll also anchor our 200 and 400 free-style relays.”

Seats noted that sophomore Kylie Head “finished strongly in last year’s sectional and worked hard over the summer by doing swimming workouts on her own when she could.” Head will swim the 100 breaststroke, the 200 and 400 freestyle relays and possibly the 200 individual medley.

Sophomore Kalyn Ingle returns to swim the 100-yard butterfly. “Like Kylie, Kalyn swam in summer at Tecumseh

with their swim club,” Seats said. “She hopes to break our school record in the butterfly and also is swimming in the 400 relay.”

Another sophomore, Kendal Briggs, returns to the 100 backstroke. “Kendal has the best kick on our team in any stroke,” Seats said. “She’ll do the 100 and 200 freestyles and the 100 backstroke. She can also swim breaststroke and butterfly.”

Freshman Cori Pflug starts her high school career. “A quick learner who will do the 100 backstroke and some freestyle events,” Seats said.

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Eight of the Lady Titans are return-ees from last year’s team. Seniors Ally-son Schneider, Shelby Rose and Madison Hinman return along with the sopho-more quintet of sister Olivia Schneider, sister Sammy Rose. Baylee Parten, Emma Williams and Kallie Chandler.

Sophomore Jaime Nurrenbern, whose pitching keyed Gibson South-ern’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

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“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.

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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 All-PAC basketball honorable men-tion 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 var-sity 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.”


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-the-world approach.”Haywood said the reloading

job is “similar to my first sea-son here,” after graduation of Rontray and Dontray Chavis, Jalen Packer and others from the unbeaten 3A state champi-ons of 2008-09.

“We played a lot of sopho-mores 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 var-sity starter for the first time after starting for the junior varsity and making brief var-sity 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 lead-ers. He has added a perimeter jumper to his game. He can also rebound, and he’s proba-bly 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 soph-omores 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 us-against-the-world mentality.”


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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 residen-tially 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 def-initely wants to reach regional.”

Senior Adam Lee, whose 2013-14 season marked his first in high school wrestling, looms at 120 pounds. “Adam has gotten a lot better,” Cherry said. Sopho-more 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,”

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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. Sopho-more 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.”



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“ 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 Confer-ence 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.

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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 heavy-weight 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 semi-state, 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

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 com-pete 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 wres-tling 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 wres-tling 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.”


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Rumble.“We may look at switching events

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“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 abil-ity to conquer the sport.

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wrestle at 106 pounds, where he won 22 matches (against 14 losses) as a fresh-man,” said Leek, starting his fifth sea-son 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 semi-state. “Graham is looking a lot stronger and he’s a leader in our wrestling room. He just might get to the state tourna-ment — 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 sopho-mores 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. Hopeful-ly we’ll be competitive in tournaments. And as young as we are, we might be even more competitive next year.”


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