Tiger Cubs win pair; Clover golfers win huge match
The Greencastle boys' golf team continued its winning ways this week, defeating Crawfordsville and North Putnam in a triangular match on Wednesday and beating Cascade and Monrovia on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Tiger Cubs' coach Steve Paquin said his team played its best nine holes of the season.
"It was a cool, breezy night," he said. "The greens were very fast and the pins were in some difficult positions, which made putting and chipping very hard."
Jake Buis led Greencastle with a 35 to win medalist honors.
"He had an excellent round of 35, even par for the nine holes; he had two bogeys and two birdies and five pars," Paquin said. "Blaise Hasty shot a very good round of 37 seven pars, one birdie, and a double bogey."
Paquin thought the home course advantage benefited his team as light rain fell over the final few holes.
"The Cubs get to play Windy Hill daily and are used to the tough greens and hilly shots," he said. "The other players struggled with the conditions."
Buis was again Greencastle's top player on Thursday with a 38, but the match came down to the fifth man -- and Jaxon Parmley's 46 allowed the Tiger Cubs to pull out the four-stroke win.
"It was a very close match with Cascade," Paquin said. "Jake Bennett had three birdies in his round to finish with a 40. Cascade has two very good players that made this a close one."
Paquin is pleased that his team has been winning, but notes several areas the Tiger Cubs still need to work on bettering.
"We still are struggling making good decisions and making consistent shots," he said. "We continue to improve; but must adjust to the conditions and the differences in golf courses."
Wednesday at Windy Hill
Greencastle (159) -- Jake Buis 35, Blaise Hasty 37, Jake Bennett 42, Jonah Stevens 45, Jaxon Parmley 46
Crawfordsville 178 -- Guard 40, Ross 44, Mitchell 44, Hacker 44, Baldwin 53,
North Putnam 181 -- Austin Judy 42, Jake Holtze 44, Logan Grim 45, Preston Porter 50, AlexRuble 51
Thursday at Deer Creek
Greencastle (169) -- Jake Buis 38, Jake Bennett 40, Jonah Stevens 45, Jaxon Parmley 46, Blaise Hasty 49
Cascade (173) Franchville 36, Compliment 36, Chaney 50, Flanigan 51, McMahan 52,
Monrovia (205) Halcomb 48, Travon 51, Hale 53, Marsh 53, Woodley 54
Next match: Greencatle plays Northview on Monday at Forest Park in Brazil at 5 p.m.
* Clovers win three-way meet -- Cloverdale coach Doug Wokoun had been waiting for his team to break through with a strong performance, and the Clovers did just that on Thursday by edging Sullivan by four strokes and easily outdistancing Owen Valley.
"We finally broke through the setbacks and played golf," he said. "Our guys did a very good job of overcoming difficulty and converted on things we have been struggling with. We still left some strokes that we can easily clean up, but this was our best group effort of the season."
Kylar Galloway and Zach Nichols led Cloverdale with 41s, tying them for second-place medalist honors with Sullivan's Austin Bobbitt behind medalist Colton Kuppler (who had a 37).
"They both had obstacles that they overcame," Wokoun said of Galloway and Nichols. "It was a good effort by both of them, but they, along with Chase [Snyder], know that they could erase a couple of more strokes.
"Zarek [Wellington] stepped up and finally posted a score that is more in line with his ability," he added. "We can be a tough team when we get this kind of effort."
Wokoun knows his team chose the right time to get itself together.
"We hope we are finally headed to a good place," he said. "The timing couldn't be more critical, with the county and conference coming up next week."
Thursday at Clover Meadows
Cloverdale (169) - Kylar Galloway 41, Zach Nichols 41, Chase Snyder 43, Zarek Wellington 44, Drew Boyette 50, Jason Miller 61
Sullivan (171) - Colton Kuppler 37, Austin Bobbitt 41, Noah Cox 42, Lex Moody 51, Conner King 57, Levi Whigham 60
Owen Valley (213) - Kyle Swafford 51, Wade Emmert 53, Evan Brinson 53, Grant Rosenberger 56, Alex Ackerson 57, Isaiah Johnson 58
White River Valley (no team score) - Christian Crowe 53, Alex Wolfe 56, Dane Emmons 63
Next match -- Cloverdale (6-5) hosts Clay City next Tuesday.
Softball
* South Putnam 11, Sullivan 10 The Eagles trailed 10-7 going into the bottom of the sixth on Tuesday, but came up with three runs to tie the game and scored the game-winner in the bottom of the seventh
"This was a big win for our team," Eagles' coach Jamie Steffy said. "Sullivan is a very, very good team. We were able to battle our way back twice to take the lead and then our execution in the bottom of the 7th was outstanding."
Lillie Stein started the sixth-inning rally with a one-out walk, and Drew Bratcher followed with a single.
Katie Hewitt hit a two-run double to cut the gap to one, and later scored on a single by Logan Hawkins.
In the seventh, Makenzi Myers walked with one out, was sacrificed by second by Stein and scored on a walkoff double by Bratcher.
"Because of our team first philosophy, we don't mention individuals a lot, but I told Lillie Stein after the game that her contribution in the bottom of the seventh is a perfect example of what we have been stressing all year about playing team softball and finding ways to help the team be successful that maybe don't show up in the scorebook," Steffy said.
"Mackenzi Myers scored the run to win and Drew Bratcher had the game winning hit, but if Lillie doesn't get the sacrifice bunt down to advance Mackenzi we go from one out to two outs and the defense can now back up and play deeper."
Myers had a two-run single and Bratcher had a two-run double as the Eagles got four runs in the second. Myers also had an RBI single as part of a three-run third inning.
"I told the girls after the game this win was a direct result of playing unselfish, team softball," Steffy said. "Our communication was good, we executed relays and our outfield is doing a very good job of getting balls back in to our infield quickly to hold runners from advancing extra bases."
Sullivan 041 302 0 -- 10
South Putnam 043 003 1 -- 11
WP -- Hughbanks. LP -- Pirtle.
Next game -- South Putnam (9-6-1) hosts Cascade today at 5 p.m.
* Cougars split pair -- North Putnam split a pair of home games this week, falling 9-1 to Cascade on Tuesday and defeating Brown County 7-6 on Wednesday.
Against Cascade, Chloe LaPierre had a double and a single for half of North Putnam's hits.
In the Brown County victory, the Cougars trailed 4-2 after three innings but came back to pick up the victory.
The Cougars again had only four hits.
LaPierre and Skylar Clifford each had a hit and an RBI for North Putnam.
Tuesday
Cascade 014 310 0 - 9 8 1
North Putnam 001 000 0 - 1 4 1
WP -- Tucker. LP -- Burch.
Wednesday
Brown County 310 011 0 -- 6 8 3
North Putnam 002 221 x -- 7 4 6
WP -- Tucker. S -- LaPierre. LP -- Edds.
Next game -- North Putnam plays at Danville today.
* Cloverdale 10, North Putnam 0 -- On Thursday, the Clovers scored in every inning as they won a game shortened by the 10-run rule.
Lauren Meek pitched a one-hitter for Cloverdale, adding two singles, a double and an RBI at the plate.
Other hitting standouts were Mackenzie Allen with two singles, a double and two RBI, Kelsey Helterbrand with a single, double and two RBI, Kiley Shedron with two singles and three RBI and Skylar Price with two singles and one RBI.
"This was a solid conference win that combined a better night of pitching, fielding, and hitting for the Clovers," coach Jim Spencer said.
North Putnam 000 00 -- 0 1 3
Cloverdale 143 11 -- 10 13 2
Track and field
* North Putnam girls 65.5, Rockville 55.5 -- On Tuesday, Emily O'Neal won three individual firsts as the Cougars got eight total victories in defeating the Rox.
O'Neal won the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and the long jump.
North Putnam results
100 hurdles -- 1. Reeves 19.59
100 -- 1. O'Neal 13.10; 3. Pace 13.38
1,600 -- 2. Nunez 6:52; 3. Dill 7:17; 4. Benge 8:54
400 -- 2. Willoughby 1:10.66; 3. Spencer 1:18.82
300 hurdles -- 1. Young 59.29
800 -- 3. Spencer 3:11; 4. Dill 3:16
200 -- 1. O'Neal 27.84; 3. Pace 28.94
3,200 -- 3. Lovie 16:08; 4. Freije 16:54
SP -- 1. Millican 30-6.5; 2. Gasho 27-8.5
D -- 1. Gasho 95-8; 2. Parent 86-6
LJ -- 1. O'Neal 13-7.5; 3. Mason 12-8.5
HJ -- 1. Mason 4-6; 2. Spencer 4-4
4x100 relay -- 1. North Putnam 55.78
4x400 relay -- 2. North Putnam 4:46
* Eagles, Bruins split pair -- On Thursday, South Putnam hosted Tri-West in a dual meet with the Eagles winning the boys' meet 98-32 and the Bruins taking the girls' meet by a 72-37 score.
In the boys' meet, Jonah Sanders and Blaze Bottorff each picked up two individual victories. Sanders won the two hurdles events, while Bottorff won the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs.
Boys
South Putnam 98, Tri-West 32
4x800 relay 1. South Putnam 10:03.72
110 hurdles -- 1. Sanders 20.69; 2. Cain 20.69
100 -- 2. Parker 11.84; 4. Thibodeau 12.16
1,600 -- 1. Bottorff 5:12.13; 2. Hinkle 5:25.23; 3. Bock 5:29.44; 4. Carr 5:36.21
4x100 relay -- 2. South Putnam 47.40
400 -- 1. Vittetow 55.16; 2. Clearwaters 55.81; 3. Crossman 56.53; 4. Fanning 1:00.28
300 hurdles -- 1. Sanders 49.66; 2. Cain 52.53
800 -- 1. Vandermark 2:08.06; 2. Mainetti 2:08.19; 3. Rumley 2:14.40
200 -- 2. Parker 24.56; 3. Thibodeau 25.41
SP -- 2. Workman 40-0; 4. Their 35-9
D -- 1. Masters 103-3; 2. Drawbaugh 98-11; 4. Workman 98-2
LJ -- 2. Parker 18-4; 4. Zeffel 16-5
HJ -- 1. Zeffel 5-8; 3. Fanning 5-2
PV -- 1. Lorimer 12-0; 2. Their 6-6; 3. Carr 6-0
3,200 -- 1. Bottorff 11:35.88; 2. Hinkle 11:53.87; 3. Bock 12:16.79; 4. Carr 12:43.00
4x400 relay -- South Putnam 3:46.41
Girls
4x800 relay -- South Putnam 11:20.19
100 -- 4. Becker 15.72
1,600 -- 1. McHugh 6:29.12; 3. Young 6:43
400 -- 1. Nichols 1:06.09; 3. Bottorff 1:12.37; 4. DeLano 1:12.88
800 -- 3. Fanning 3:16.19; 4. Young 3:20.37
200 -- 3. Nichols 29.53; 4. Bottorff 30.00
SP -- 2. Capps 32-1; 3. Taylor 26-3
D -- 1. Capps 87-2; 3. Taylor 74-6; 4. Rector 70-1
LJ -- 1. Cheatham 13-7
HJ -- 2. Cheatham 4-0
4x400 relay -- 2. South Putnam 4:48.37
* Clovers sweep Rox -- On Thursday, Cloverdale dominated Rockville in a dual meet by winning the boys' event 89-25 and the girls' competition 74-54.
In the boys' meet, Tyler Kaeff had three individual firsts and Garry Spencer took home a pair of first-place finishes.
Clare Plamondon had three firsts to lead the Clovers in the girls' meet, while Chelsea Edwards and Tori Szalay each won two events.
Boys
SP -- 2. Radford 35-11.5; 3. Jackson 34-8.5
D -- 1. Jackson 108-10; 2. Radford 104-5; 3. Williamson 96-5
LJ -- 1. Spencer 18-3; 2. Wilkes 15-8
HJ -- 1. Kaeff 5-0
4x800 relay -- 1. Cloverdale 9:16
110 hurdles -- 1. Kaeff 15.90; 2. Wilkes 23.05
100 -- 1. Shoopman 11.76
1,600 -- 2. Stevens 5:08; 3. Manners 5:19
400 -- 1. Heavener 54.8; 3. Davis 1:02
300 hurdles -- 1. Kaeff 44.9; 2. Duby 1:02.04
800 -- 1. Blundell 2:06; 3. Monnett 2:23
200 -- 1. Spencer 2.52; 2. Johnson 26.1
4x100 relay -- 1. Cloverdale 4.85
3,200 -- 2. Mannon 11:38
4x400 relay -- 1. Cloverdale 3:44
Girls
SP -- 3. Gaston 23-2
D -- 3. Sutherlin 57-9
LJ -- 1. Plamondon 14-9; 3. Gaston 12-8
HJ -- 2. Willis 4-0; 3. Rightmyer 4-0
PV -- 1. Atwood 9-6
4x800 relay --1. Cloverdale 11:57
100 hurdles -- 1. Plamondon 17.34; 3. Estes 21.50
100 -- 2. Rightmyer 13.71
1,600 -- 1. Szalay 6:20; 3. Gaston 8:40
400 -- 1. Edwards 1:03
300 hurdles -- 1. Plamondon
800 -- 1. Blankenship 2:41
200 -- 1. Edwards 28.3; 3. Atwood 29.8
4x100 relay -- 1. Cloverdale 54.76
3,200 -- 1. Szalay 14:19
4x400 relay -- 1. Cloverdale 4:38
* Cougars win pair -- North Putnam defeated Northridge and South Putnam in a triangular middle school meet on Monday.
The Eagles placed third in the boys' meet and second in the girls' meet.
Steven Schepp won one individual event and ran on a first-place relay team for the South Putnam boys, while Lilly Vittetow won two individual events for the Eagle girls.
Boys
Team scores -- North Putnam 69, Northridge 39, South Putnam 29
South Putnam results
2400m- 1. Steven Schepp
110 hurdles 3. Logan Carrington
1600m- 1 Karl Egold
4x100m - 3. South Putnam (Michael LeBlonc, Levi Girton, Kain Gregory, Daniel Johnson)
200m - 1. Kain Gregory
4x400m - 1. South Putnam (Trey Blades, Brach Carrington, Logan Carrington, Steven Schnepp)
Shot- 3. Brayden Blue
High Jump- 2. Kain Gregory
Girls
Team scores -- North Putnam 55, South Putnam 42, Northridge 40
South Putnam results
2400m - 1. Lexi Vanihel
100 hurdle - 3. Lilly Vittetow
1600m- 1. Lilly Vittetow
4x100m- 3. South Putnam (Grace Burdge, Chloe Sprinkle, Kiarra Bellmore, Naomi Martinez)
400m- 2. Grace Burdge
800m- 1. Lilly Vittetow
200m- 3. Bayli Clampitt
4x400m -- 2. South Putnam (Sarah Jones, Lexi Vanihel, Grace Burdge, Chloe Sprinkle)
Shot- 1. Bree Mahoney-Sutherland
Discus- 2. Bree Mahoney-Sutherland
High Jump- 1. Ava McHugh; 3. Lexi Vanihel