Led by Kaylee Tackett’s season-best round of 100, Shelbyville High School’s girls golf team finished tied for ninth Saturday at the Columbus East Invitational, played at Otter Creek Golf Course.
The Golden Bears’ team score of 425 left them tied with Lawrenceburg and behind tournament champion Columbus North (322), Plainfield (352), Columbus East (364), Jasper (366), Jasper JV (397), Corydon Central (404), Lawrence Central (405) and Bloomington South (413).
Also competing were Brown County (435), Franklin Central (440), a second Columbus East squad (460), Edinburgh (475) and Jeffersonville (477).
Kate Linville (107), Lanie Stephens (109) and Madison Monroe (109) (photo) also posted season-best scores in Shelbyville’s second 18-hole invitational of the year.
Regan Mathies rounded out Shelbyville’s scorecard with 118.
In other prep events Saturday:
Cross Country
Blue River Valley Early Bird Invitational
Morristown had five cross country runners compete at the season-opening invitational race.
Northeastern won the boys’ team title with 18 points. It was followed by Blue River Valley (50), Blackford (80) and Horizon Christian (88).
Northeastern’s Chase Cates was the individual champion at 17 minutes, 4.4 seconds.
Morristown’s Zavier Pool finished 21st in a time of 21:43 – better than his time in the 2020 race per head coach Elaine Goble-Carlton. Also for Morristown, Brayden Burris placed 37th overall in 28:25.
Blackford won the girls’ team title with 29 points. It was followed by Shenandoah (40) and Blue River Valley (62).
Northeastern’s Marissa Cates won the girls race in 21:09.7.
For Morristown, Grace McLaughlin finished 17th (27:30), Oakleigh Goedde was 19th (28:31) and Ashtyn McGuire placed 22nd (29:17).
Volleyball
Morristown Season Opening Classic
Northeastern swept the varsity and junior varsity invitational titles Saturday at Morristown.
Northeastern defeated Eastern Hancock (25-14, 13-25, 16-14) and Rising Sun (25-22, 24-26, 15-6) in pool play to advance to the championship match to meet Edinburgh, a winner over Morristown (25-15, 25-19) and Jac-Cen-Del (25-22, 14-25, 15-6) in its pool.
In the championship, Northeastern prevailed 25-22, 25-12.
The Yellow Jackets defeated Jac-Cen-Del, 23-25, 25-20, 15-10, after its loss to Edinburgh to advance to the third-place match.
Eastern Hancock then swept Morristown, 25-10, 25-14, to finish third.
In the fifth-place match, Rising Sun bested Jac-Cen-Del, 25-15, 20-25, 15-11.
