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Prep Report: SHS soccer overwhelms Connersville with second-half surge

Shelbyville High School’s girls soccer team exploded for five second-half goals Tuesday to pull away from visiting Connersville for a 6-0 victory.

Ava Wilson scored three goals for the Golden Bears (5-3-1), winners of three straight. Evelyn Kiefer scored twice and Sophie Parker had her eighth goal of the season and team-leading 13th assist.

Kiefer (12 goals) and Wilson (11 goals) lead Shelbyville’s offensive attack.

Wilson and Emma Sandman also had assists in the victory.

Connersville is 4-4 this season.

In other prep events Tuesday:

Girls Golf

Franklin 154, Shelbyville 237

At The Legends, Franklin’s Ava Ray shot 2-under-par 34 to lead the 10th-ranked Grizzlies over the Golden Bears.

Reese Phillips and Morgan Sandrock shot 39s for Franklin and Maria Williams followed at 42.

Kaylee Tackett and Regan Mathies each shot 57 for Shelbyville. Completing the scorecard were Kate Linville (58), Madison Monroe (65) and Lanie Stephens (67).

Southwestern 213, Greenwood Christian 228

At Timbergate, Southwestern senior Lily Kerber shot a season-best round of 44 to lead the Spartans to the win.

Also for Southwestern, McKinley Correll carded 52, Alison Muck shot 58 and Sydney Griffin finished at 59.

Taylor Harris led Greenwood Christian with a 49. Emma Adams (51), Emily Heldmand (62), Eli Nipa (66) and Emma Hoge (67) competed for Greenwood Christian.

Morristown 234, Knightstown 261

At Royal Hylands, Delaney Cornn (51) and McKinley Kile (58) posted season-best scores to lead Morristown to a victory in its final regular season match.

Also for Morristown, Ashlee Ballinger shot 57 and Mollie Runnebohm carded 68.

 

 

Cascade 201, Triton Central Inc.

At Hawk’s Tail, Emma Branham (45) and Olivia Martin (59) posted season-best scores in the Tigers’ final regular season match.

Kendra Erdmann shot 60 to complete TC’s scoring.

Bri Andres led Cascade with a 44. Neveah Hubner was one shot back at 45. Mariah Richardson (54) and Kara Berge (58) completed Cascade’s scorecard.

Boys Soccer

Mt. Vernon 2, Shelbyville 2, PKs 10-9

At Mt. Vernon, Shelbyville’s Drew Hassebroek scored in the game’s final minute to tie the Hoosier Heritage Conference contest and send it to overtime.

After two scoreless overtime periods and 10 penalty kicks apiece, Shelbyville missed in round 11 and Mt. Vernon’s Zach Johnson was able to convert to get the Marauders (6-3, 4-2 HHC) the victory.

Johnson scored in regulation and Brennan LaBelle put a shot in the net as Mt. Vernon built a 2-0 lead.

Al Hernandez cut the deficit in half for Shelbyville (6-5, 1-2 HHC) off an assist from Benny Cazares and Hassebroek sent the match to overtime with his late-match heroics.

Mt. Vernon won the junior varsity game, 4-1. Trent Todd scored Shelbyville’s lone goal.

Southwestern 8, Morristown 0

The Class A, No. 8-ranked Spartans improved to 7-2 this season on another record-setting night for senior Aiden Hartsell.

Hartsell scored five first-half goals to push his season total to 36, surpassing the single-season scoring record he held with his brother, Anick, that was set in 2020.

Aiden Hartsell also reached the 100 career goals milestone in the win.

Johnny Joy, Jordan Jones and Garrett Stringer also had goals for Southwestern.

Eli Fix was credited with two saves in goal. Michael Clements had one.

Morristown goalkeeper Dyllan Ruttledge had five saves.

In a junior high match, Southwestern defeated Morristown, 4-0.

Carter Cooley had two goals and an assist for Southwestern. Ethan Sipes and Landon Drake also scored goals. Kiera Stringer finished with two assists.

Boys Tennis

Waldron 4, Hauser 1

At Hauser, the visiting Mohawks (5-7) swept the three singles matches and got a straight-set win at No. 2 doubles to defeat the Jets.

Bryant Becker and Matthew Thomas won at No. 2 doubles, 7-5, 6-0.

Waldron got singles wins from Lucas Shaw (7-6, 6-3), Jack Fischer (6-7, 6-1, 6-3) and Josh Kellems (6-3, 6-2).

At No. 1 doubles, Hauser’s Eli Miller and Levi Gollmer defeated Max Jones and Jacob Lindsey, 6-2, 6-1.

Isaiah Jones won a junior varsity match for Waldron, 8-5.

Southwestern 5, Oldenburg Academy 0

The Spartans (4-5) lost just one game in sweeping all three singles matches and accepted forfeits in both doubles matches.

At No. 1 singles, Hunter Pappano defeated Will Hollingsworth, 6-1, 6-0.

Jackson Burcham was victorious at No. 2 singles over Thad Eaglin, 6-0, 6-0.

And at No. 3 singles, Ben Schlabach defeated Carson Rater, 6-0, 6-0.

 

 

Triton Central 4, Edinburgh 1

At Triton Central, the host Tigers won their seventh straight match to improve to 12-5 this season.

The doubles combinations of Quinton Potts and Avram Rund (No. 1 doubles) and Griffin Sego and Oliver Gearlds (No. 2 doubles) lost just one game combined to improve to 13-4 this season.

Tucker Hutchinson also improved to 13-4 at No. 2 singles with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Travis Jones.

Ashton Sturm improved to 8-2 at No. 3 singles with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Austin Brockman.

Edinburgh’s Max Blanford defeated Alex Crouse at No. 1 singles, 7-6 (4), 3-0 (retired).

 

 

Volleyball

Shelbyville def. Morristown, 25-16, 25-8, 25-7

At Morristown, Shelbyville started slow but dominated the second and third sets to secure the victory.

Jaidyn Tackett led the Golden Bears (9-6), winners of five of their last six, with 13 kills and 11 digs. Shelby Lasure added 12 kills.

Emma Nolley and Payton Jackson each had four aces. Kina Schultz collected three total blocks.

Gracie Leffler added to her career assists record with 35 assists.

Cross Country

Morristown Inc., Oldenburg Academy Inc.

At Morristown, Zavier Poole finished second in the boys race in a season-best time of 19 minutes, 52 seconds.

Grace McLaughlin won the girls race in 27:27.

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