Shelbyville High School’s track and field teams competed Friday in their final meet before the Hoosier Heritage Conference Championships.
In the Cougar Chase Invitational at Greenfield-Central High School, Shelbyville’s boys secured a pair of runner-up performances and had three more fourth-place finishes.
Christian Powell finished second in the 200 meters in 23.42 seconds.
The Golden Bears’ 3,200 relay team of Elijah Von Werder, Blake Hughes, Ben Price and Beau Kenkel (photo) placed second in 8:37.19.
Hughes also had a fourth-place finish in the 400 (53.84).
Kenkel was fourth in the 3,200 (10:38.44).
Ethan Lambert placed fourth in the discus (134 feet, 1.5 inches).
Greenfield-Central won the invitational with 157 points. Shelbyville finished seventh with 50 points.
In the girls’ meet, Hannah Wright delivered Shelbyville’s only top-10 individual performance – placing 10th in the 1,600 in 6:13.03.
Shelbyville also finished seventh in the 400 relay (57.07), fifth in the 800 relay (2:04.88), seventh in the 1,600 relay (4:57:09) and eighth in the 3,200 relay (12:09.76).
Franklin won the girls team title with 186.5 points. Shelbyville finished eighth.
The HHC girls meet is Tuesday at Mt. Vernon High School. The boys travel to Mt. Vernon Thursday for their HHC competition.
In other prep events:
Baseball
Batesville 5, Shelbyville 4
The Bulldogs scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to steal the win from the Golden Bears (9-11).
Max Baumer delivered a two-run double to tie the game and Carter Bohman had the game-winning hit to improve Batesville to 13-5.
Aiden Smith had three hits for Shelbyville and Luke Brinkman, Brock Kuhn and Gavyn Fisher each had two hits.
Eli Loichinger and Cade Kaiser combined to allow 12 hits and two walks. Only two of Shelbyville’s four runs were earned.
McKayne Wickham took the loss for Shelbyville, allowing 10 hits, four walks and five runs.
Boys golf
Batesville Invitational
At Hillcrest Golf & Country Club, Shelbyville finished fourth overall at 351, trailing Mt. Vernon (320), Madison (324) and Greensburg (336).
Greensburg’s Colton Schroeder was the medalist with a 77.
Jake Garrison topped Shelbyville’s scorecard with an 80. Brock Wischmeyer followed at 85 and Eli Baker shot 88. Logan Reinhart completed the scorecard with a 98.
Softball
Mooresville 2, Shelbyville 1
Class 4A, No. 12 Mooresville scored two runs in the top of the first inning and starting pitcher Zoey Kugelman scattered five hits to keep Shelbyville (13-5) in check.
A Kendall Lowry run-scoring single and a Cidney Newton RBI groundout helped the Pioneers (18-2-1) to their 17th straight win.
Kylee Edwards’ solo home run – her 14th of the season – in the third inning was all the Golden Bears offense in their third one-run loss of the season.
Four of Shelbyville’s five losses this season are to top-15 state-ranked opponents.
The Golden Bears travel to Class 4A, No. 2 Roncalli (17-2-1) Tuesday.
Girls tennis
Triton Central 5, Beech Grove 0
Triton Central evened its season record at 8-8 and improved to 3-0 against conference opponents.
The Tigers dropped a total of seven games in sweeping the Hornets.
At No. 1 singles, Maryrose Felling defeated Jeda Howard, 6-1, 6-0.
In junior varsity doubles matches, Triton Central got victories from the pairings of Jenna Cox and Hope Smith, 8-0, and Brooke Bear and Caydence Stout, 8-1.
New Palestine 5, Shelbyville 0
Shelbyville dropped to 1-3 against Hoosier Heritage Conference competition and 8-10 overall.
At No. 1 singles, Emma Sandman lost a three-set match.
The Dragons won the other four matches in straight sets.
Boys track
Indiana Crossroads Conference Championship
Triton Central’s Brayden Wilkins won two ICC titles and set two records.
Wilkins won the 200 in a new school record time of 22.39 seconds. The junior also took first place in the long jump with an ICC-meet record distance of 21-7.5.
Wilkins also was runner-up in the 100 (11.13) and was part of TC’s fifth-place finishing 400 relay team (46.3) with Mason Compton, Courtney Dunville and Zeke Robertson.
Also securing top-five finishes for Triton Central were Ethan Cales (second in 110 hurdles, 16.05), Zeke Robertson (third in 300 hurdles, 43.9), Willy Baugh (third in short put, 44-6.5), Ben Wilkins (fourth in discus, 119-1) and Hadyn Ball (fourth in shot put, 43-11; fifth in discus, 118-6).
The TC quartet of Robertson, Isaac Ross, Cash Compton and Gage Hutchinson finished fifth in the 1,600 relay (3:46.37).
Lutheran narrowly edged Ritter for the ICC team title, 95.33-93.33. Triton Central placed fifth at 64.
Girls track
Indiana Crossroads Conference Championship
Maddy Brown won the ICC high jump title and had two more top-seven finishes to lead Triton Central.
Brown won the high jump competition with a clearance of 5-1. She also finished third in the long jump (15-6) and seventh in the 100 (13.74).
Also securing top-five finishes for Triton Central were Brynne Aukerman (fifth in 800, 2:42.2), Hallie Schweitzer (second in 3,200, 13:17.86), Ava Bedwell (fifth in 3,200, 13:43.13), Linden Winslow (fourth in shot put, 29-1.5) and Farah Coen (fifth in shot put, 28-7.5).
TC also had a fifth-place finish in the 1,600 relay (4:58.11) with Aukerman, Bella Ball, Kennedy Brown and Ariel Walker.
Monrovia won the ICC team title with 181 points. Triton Central finished sixth with 38 points.
Steve Bush photo
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