PREP ROUNDUP: Ross stays on hot streak for Tiger Cubs

Greencastle’s tough luck in 3-2 boys’ tennis matches continued on Thursday, as Southmont defeated Greencastle by that score.

The Cubs fell to 2-9 with the team defeat. No. 1 singles player Trent Ross won its sixth-straight match and imprmoved his record to 10-4.

The Cubs will play at Edgewood today in the Western Indiana Conference crossover match.

Varsity

Southmont 3, Greencastle 2

Singles — 1. Trent Ross (G) def. Reece Long (S) 6-4, 6-1; 2. Trever McKinney (S) def. Eli Hardwick (G) 6-0, 6-0; 3. Connor McVay (S) def. Holton Miller (G) 6-1, 2-6, 6-0

Doubles — 1. Liam Callahan-Micah Korhorn (S) def. Anthony Conley-Micah Hammond 6-3, 3-6, 6-2; 2. Luke Watson-Luke Gregg (S) def. Henry Carter-Josh Nally 6-2, 6-1.

Golf

• Cougars second in triangular — North Putnam’s Lady Cougar golfers travelled to WeBo on Thursday night to play in a 3-way with Western Boone and North Montgomery.

Western Boone won with a 187, while the Lady Cougars shot a 214 and the Chargers shot a 224.

“The Lady Cougars played well and with some extra putting practice before sectionals, should make the team very competitive in the sectionals,” coach Linda Patrick said.

Abby Simmerman led North Putnam with a 49, while Nyiah Goff had a 52, Brittany Bonificius shot a 54, Haylee Greene had a 58 and Grace Timm shot a 65.

Volleyball

• Monrovia 3, Cloverdale 1 — At Monrovia, the Clovers lost to the Bulldogs but coach Jim Spencer saw a lot of positives.

“I was really pleased with some aspects of our game that we have been working on in practice,” he said, “but we continued to struggle with serve receive and passing. As a result, we spent too much time out of system offensively and could not maintain ball control.”

Monrovia won the first set 25-18 and the second set 25-20, before the Clovers came back to win the third set 25-18. Monrovia closed out the match by winning the fourth set 25-17.

The Bulldogs took advantage of the problems the Clovers had.

“Monrovia made us pay for every physical and mental mistake throughout the night,” Spencer said. “We led at 15 points in three of the sets, but could not finish in two of the sets. We continue to give up five- or six-point runs to our opponents and get stuck in certain rotations.”

The Clovers fell to 12-5 and host Brown County on Tuesday night.

Stats:

Kills: Tori Combs 15, Kenzie Stoltz 9

Points: Kaya Daub 11

Assists: Hannah Rady 28

Digs: Hailey Thomas 17, Kaya Daub 15

Monrovia won the junior varsity match 25-24, 25-23. Cloverdall is 9-4 on the season.

Stats:

Points: Bella Branneman 7

Digs: Bella Branneman 9

Kills: Ashlynn Basore 6

Assists: Kacey Shedron 11

Soccer

• Sullivan 7, North Putnam 0 (girls) —The Lady Cougars lost 7-0 to Sullivan on Thursday night.

• Cubs busy — The Lady Tiger Cubs traveled to play a very wet game at Cascade on Sept 8.

“Combinations were made between many players to garner a 5-1 win,” coach Angie Weeks said.

Scoring for the team came from Kennedy Trigg (1), Thomas (2), Beauchamp (1) and White (1). Assists were earned by Thomas (2) and Doan (1).

Goalkeeper Gillen had 5 saves and Guyer had 2 saves.

On Tuesday, the Cubs traveled to West Vigo.

Despite hard efforts coming from the defensive line, the opponents were able to gain a score to the back of the Lady Tiger Cub goal for the only score of the match.

Goal Keeper Gillen had 6 saves.

On Thursday, the Lady Tiger Cubs hosted their latest match against Brown County for Senior Night and won 5-1.

The team celebrated high school careers from Claire Gillen, Erin Thomas and Gretchen Weliever.

The first half offered the team two scores on the board. Connecting passes came through from Thomas and Weeks, who both earned assists. Scoring during the first half came from Trigg and Thomas.

During the second half, the team was able to bring the final score to 5-1.

Scoring was earned by Thomas (2) and Anderson (1). Assisting the scoring plays were Trigg and Thomas. Gillen had 7 saves for the match.