MECCA — North Central running back Chase VanSchoyck broke the Indiana High School Athletic Association rushing record with a 511-yard performance as the Thunderbirds defeated host Riverton Parke 67-0 in football Friday.
VanSchoyck broke the previous record of 489 yards set by Indianapolis Cathedral’s Otis Shannon in 1999. He had 460 of his yards at halftime in the Thunderbirds’ victory. He took part in only three plays in the second half.
VanSchoyck scored seven touchdowns (14, 96, 4, 73, 1, 63, 38 yards) as North Central improved to 6-1 for the season.
The Class A No. 10-ranked Thunderbirds will return to Southwest Seven Conference action next Friday as it hosts Wood Memorial.
Riverton Parke (0-7) plays at Rockville next Friday.
In other football action Friday:
• Sullivan 56, Brown County 6 — At Sullivan, Senior Payne Fortner set a Sullivan High School record by passing for 430 yards to lead the host Golden Arrows over Brown County in Western Indiana Conference action.
Fortner completed 22 of 30 attempts, including six touchdowns that went to Jake Kinnaman (two), Zach Willis (two), Mike Hutchcraft and Brooks Weszley, who had the longest TD reception of 77 yards.
Sullivan’s Nick Byrd also scored on a 3-yard run and Mike Willis fired a 30-yard TD strike to Matt Siner.
Sullivan (5-2 overall, 4-0 WIC) will try to stay in first place in the conference next Friday when it plays host to South Vermillion.
• Northview 54, South Vermillion 6 — At Brazil, the host Knights piled up the points in posting another Western Indiana Conference victory.
Northview (3-4 overall, 3-1 WIC) will visit West Vigo next Friday, while South Vermillion (2-5, 1-3) will travel to Sullivan that same night.
• Class A No. 3 Linton 64, North Knox 0 — At Linton, the host Miners blanked North Knox to improve their records to 7-0 overall and 4-0 in the Southwest Seven Conference.
Linton will visit Union next Friday, while North Knox (3-4, 3-2) will play host to North Daviess that same night.
• Eastern Greene 67, Union 20 — At Solsberry, the visiting Bulldogs took it on the chin in Southwest Seven Conference action.
Union 6 0 6 8 — 20
Eastern Greene 21 21 12 13 — 67
Union scoring information not provided.
EG — Martindale 36 run (Frye kick)
EG — Martindale 20 run (kick failed)
EG — Postell 6 run (Groomer pass from Frye)
EG — Groomer 31 run (Frye kick)
EG — Groomer 49 run (Frye kick)
EG — Groomer 1 run (Frye kick)
EG — Frye 49 pass from Martindale (kick failed)
EG — Postell 5 run (kick failed)
EG — Postell 43 run (Frye kick)
EG — Cody Hopkins 80 interception return (kick failed)
Next — Union (2-5 overall, 0-4 Southwest Seven) will be at home next Friday to face undefeated Linton, while Eastern Greene will welcome Southside HomeSchool to its field.
• Seeger 32, Turkey Run 7 — At Marshall, Ind., the host Warriors fell to Seeger in Wabash River Conference action.
Turkey Run (2-5 overall, 1-4 WRC) will be at home next Friday to take on Covington, while Seeger (4-3, 4-2) will travel to West Lafayette.
• Effingham 25, Paris 6 — At Effingham, Ill., Paris fell to 2-4 overall and 1-2 in the Apollo Conference after a loss to the Flaming Hearts. No other details were available.
Paris 0 0 0 6 — 6
Effingham 12 6 7 0 — 25
Next — Paris (2-4, 1-2) plays host to Charleston next Friday.
Volleyball
Thursday
At Cayuga
Turkey Run 19 11 25 11
North Vermillion 25 25 17 25
Highlights — For North Vermillion, Darby Martin had 10 kills, 19 digs and 5 aces; Taylen Balding 8 kills, 12 digs and 2 aces; Kylee Karr 16 digs; and Colby Pomar 24 assists, 2 aces and 11 digs.
Next — North Vermillion improved to 9-11 overall and 2-2 Wabash River Conference.
At Clay City
Riverton Parke 19 25 18 20
Clay City 25 20 25 25
Highlights — For Riverton Parke, Sara Dickey had 19 kills, 13 digs and 6 blocks; Paige Yando 13 kills,, 12 digs and 3 blocks; Rachel Austin 5 kills, 2 aces, 13 points, 5 digs and 4 blocks; and Shelby Bennell 3 kills, 3 digs and 6 points.
Record — Riverton Parke improved to 17-4.
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