Three Vigo County schools will join eight other schools in the IHSAA girls swimming and diving sectional at Plainfield starting tonight and concluding on Saturday.
Teams competing include Terre Haute South, Terre Haute North, West Vigo, Avon, Cascade, Danville, Greencastle, North Putnam, Plainfield, South Putnam and Tri-West.
Swimming preliminaries are set for 5:30 p.m. tonight, while the diving, consolation and swim finals will start at 9 a.m. on Saturday.
Favorites to win the team sectional title include Avon, Plainfield, and Danville. Avon and Plainfield are ranked 35th in the final IHSSCA state poll, with Danville ranked 39th.
South is unranked, but does have have two relays — 200 medley relay and 400 freestyle relay — ranked 21st and 22nd, respectively. Individually, Grace Padget is ranked 28th in the 100 backstroke.
South easily defeated Terre Haute North 137-49 on Jan. 12. South had four two-event winners in that meet, including Padget (200 freestyle, 100 backstroke), Sarah Senseman (200 individual medley, 500 freestyle), Katherine Senseman (50, 100 freestyle) and Mercedez Bray (100 butterfly, 100 breaststroke).
North’s Carly Young and Kelsey Thomas are both ranked statewide as divers, 24th and 31st, respectively. Young was the Patriots’ only winner in the North-South match with 202.35 points.
First-place sectional winners and persons equaling or bettering the state time standard in the consolation finals or championship finals in each event qualify for the state meet.
The top four divers in the sectional advance to the diving regional, then the top eight in the regional advance to the state meet.
Meanwhile, North Vermillion, Rockville and South Vermillion will be competing in the Crawfordsville sectional. Those start times are 6 p.m. today and 9 a.m. on Saturday.
The diving regional will be Feb. 7 at Brownsburg, with the state finals at the IU Natatorium on the IUPUI campus in Indianapolis on Feb. 10-11.
Girls basketball
• South Vermillion 71, Turkey Run 33 — At Clinton, Bailey Mack had 17 points to lead South Vermillion to a win as Jessie Lubovich connected for 14 points and Kenzi Cheesewright and Morgan Samuelson added 13.
Shelby Crum led Turkey Run with 10 points.
TURKEY RUN (33) — Cox 1 2-6 5, Aubrey 0 0-0 0, Davies 3 2-6 9, Goddard 1 1-2 3, Crum 3 2-2 10, Kellems 0 0-0 0, Wood 1 1-2 4, Myers 1 0-0 2, McCombs 0 0-0 0. Totals 10 FG, 8-18 FT, 33 TP.
SOUTH VERMILLION (71) — Samuelson 6 0-0 13, Lubovich 5 2-2 14, Riggen 0 2-4 2, Wright 0 0-0 0, Andrew 1 0-0 2, Russell 1 0-0 2, Kirby 0 1-2 1, Cheesewright 5 2-2 13, Mack 4 5-6 17, Freed 2 2-2 6, Hickson 0 1-2 1, Festa Cilveti 0 0-0 0. Totals 24 FG, 15-20 FT, 71 TP.
Turkey Run 5 11 4 13 — 33
South Vermillion 17 18 17 19 — 71
3-point goals — Cox, Davies, Crum 2, Samuelson, Lubovich 2, Cheesewright, Mack. Total fouls — TR 15, SV 14. Fouled out — Lubovich.
Next — South Vermillion (9-12) plays West Vigo on Tuesday in the Class 3A Owen Valley Sectional.
Boys Basketball
• Casey 72, Chrisman 49 — At Casey, Ill., Brandon Wolfe led the Warriors in scoring with 18 points in Tuesday’s game. Trivette Scales had 14 points and Drew Bolin tallied 13. Both players had eight rebounds.
Chrisman 8 15 7 9 — 39
Casey 17 21 18 16 — 72
Next — Casey (11-8) will play host to Oblong on Friday.
• Cerro Gordo 81, Martinsville 72 — At Cerro Gordo, Ill., Blaine Washburn hit seven 3-pointers and scored 27 points for the Bluestreaks in Tuesday's Little Okaw Valley Conference contest.
Zach Mulkins scored 22 points and Kyle Perisho 13 for the Bluestreaks.
Martinsville 14 14 18 26 — 72
Cerro Gordo 18 20 28 15 — 81
Next — Martinsville (6-17, 3-3 LOVC) will play host to Villa Grove on Friday.
High School
PREP ROUNDUP: Swimming sectionals begin today
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New route leads to same place for South girls tennis
For so many years, the road to the IHSAA girls tennis state finals for local teams ran through Vincennes (regional) and Jasper (semistate). In other words, south and more south.
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Robinson jumped to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning, then cruised to a convincing 12-3 victory over Greenville in a IHSA Class 2A Vandalia sectional semifinal game on Thursday.
Ashlyn Sullivan was 2 for 3 with a double, home run and three RBIs to lead the winning Maroons. -
West Vigo baseball falls in sectional to Owen Valley
West Vigo overcame the odds to win 20 high school baseball games this season with a lineup that often included four freshmen and few seniors.
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South Vermillion softball's late-season surge comes to end
A late-season surge by South Vermillion wasn’t quite enough to halt a high school softball sectional winning streak by the host team Thursday night, as Edgewood got on top early and held on for a 5-2 win in the championship game of the Class 3A Edgewood Sectional.
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Feeling cursed: South bitten in sectional final again
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PREP ROUNDUP: Mundy, Porter, Knight individual regional winners
Chanli Mundy and Keirra Porter of Terre Haute North were among the individual winners in the IHSAA Evansville Central girls track and field regional that ended late Tuesday night.
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Thornton puts away South Vermillion
Cody Thornton’s three-run blast over the left-field fence was the finishing touch to West Vigo’s 10-3 victory over South Vermillion in the opening game of the Class 3A Greencastle Sectional on Wednesday.
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Lakers triumph, go home for regional
Shakamak took Class A Clay City Sectional honors in high school softball for the first time since 2009 Wednesday, defeating White River Valley 9-5 in the title tilt.
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North Vermillion avenges losses
North Vermillion avenged two high school softball losses during the regular season to win the Class A Riverton Parke Sectional championship Wednesday with a 3-2 triumph over the host Panthers.
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Pats, Knights will meet in sectional
Adler Ingalsbe pooh-poohed his lack of velocity Wednesday night, yet the Terre Haute North pitcher was throwing BBs in the first game compared to Mooresville’s Brandon Topie in the nightcap.
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South outbattles Northview to reach sectional final
Even the best of high school softball pitchers can’t keep all the batters in the middle of Terre Haute South’s lineup down.
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Panthers get 20th win in sectional
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Plainfield Sectional all about parity
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PREP ROUNDUP: North Vermillion in title game
Casey West had a triple and three runs scored to help North Vermillion softball advance to the championship game of the Class A Riverton Parke Sectional on Tuesday.
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North takes second in track regional
Terre Haute North finished second with 74 points, six behind team champion Evansville Reitz, during the Evansville Central girls track and field regional that ended late Tuesday night.
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Wildcats advance to sectional softball final; West Vigo falls
Patience, patience.
South Vermillion exhibited great patience, being very selective at the plate and it paid off royally in the fourth inning. -
South, Crawfordsville win in regional tennis semis
Terre Haute South outlasted Fountain Central 4-1 in the first round of the girls high school tennis regional Tuesday, advancing the Braves into today’s championship match against Crawfordsville.
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Braves, Knights open with wins
It was an excellent night for starting softball pitchers to help their own cause Monday night in the Class 4A Northview Sectional.
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Lough dreamt about McMillan
A two-time state finalist in wrestling and a two-time all-Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference football player and wrestler, Tsali Lough of Terre Haute South was named the male recipient of the 2012 McMillan Award on Monday night at South’s Senior Awards Night.
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PREP ROUNDUP: Panthers cruise in sectional opener
Sarah Burnham pitched a two-hit shutout with 10 strikeouts in high school softball Monday evening as host Riverton Parke defeated defending champion Rockville 10-0 in opening-round action at the Class A Riverton Parke Sectional.
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Notable tradition bodes well for Riverton Parke
Located practically in the shadow of a high school that sets one state standard in track and field, Riverton Parke has a tendency to be overlooked in that sport.
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Vikings get 18th win over Shakamak
West Vigo began a busy week of high school baseball Monday on a winning note, defeating Shakamak 6-3.
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Greencastle new site for girls tennis regional
The starting times might prove to be a bone of contention, but otherwise coaches Bill Blankenbaker and Emily Goff are thrilled their respective girls high school tennis teams will begin play today at the Greencastle Regional.
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Northview sectional groups 3 20-win teams
Three teams with 20-plus victories will attempt to claim the Class 4A Northview Sectional crown for high school softball this week, and most of the other Wabash Valley sectional fields also appear to be wide open.
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Terre Haute South softball takes Riverton Parke tournament
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North baseball splits doubleheader with Indy North Central
Some of their incentive could have been sapped a couple of nights earlier, when Center Grove achieved an eight-inning victory over Warren Central to clinch the Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference high school baseball championship.
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Robinson takes regional softball crown
Robinson’s Maroons came from behind in the last two innings Saturday to defeat top-seeded Newton 3-2 and win the Illinois Class 2A Lawrenceville Regional.
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PREP ROUNDUP: Terre Haute South baseball sweeps, takes second place in MIC
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