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IHSAA approves postseason hosts for basketball, swimming and wrestling

Southwestern High School will host both girls basketball sectional and regional tournaments in 2023.

The Indiana High School Athletic Association has released the postseason site approvals for basketball, wrestling and swimming.

Girls basketball

All five Shelby County girls basketball programs will stay in the county for 2023 sectional tournaments.

Shelbyville’s William L. Garrett Gymnasium is the host site for Class 4A, Sectional 14 that includes Columbus East, Columbus North, East Central, Franklin, Shelbyville and Whiteland.

Columbus North will be the regional site for the Sectional 14 champion.

New this season, Shelbyville will serve as one of two South Semistate host sites along with New Albany.

Triton Central will host Class 2A, Sectional 42 that includes Eastern Hancock, Scecina, Irvington Prep and Riverside.

Southmont is once again the regional site for the Sectional 42 champion.

Southwestern takes over the Class A, Sectional 60 hosting duties for a seven-team sectional that includes Edinburgh, Jac-Cen-Del, Morristown, Oldenburg Academy, South Decatur, Southwestern and Waldron, the 2022 host school.

Southwestern continues as host of the regional that will include sectional champions from Bloomfield, Bethesda Christian, Eminence and Southwestern.

The girls basketball regional championship games are slated for Feb. 11, 2023. Semistate championships follow on Feb. 18 with the state championship games at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on Feb. 25.

Boys basketball

Columbus North will host the Class 4A, Sectional 14 tournament with the champion advancing to the Seymour Regional.

Triton Central travels to Eastern Hancock for the Class 2A, Sectional 42 tournament. The sectional champ moves on to the Greenfield-Central Regional.

Edinburgh returns as the host of Class A, Sectional 60 with Martinsville the host site for the sectional champion.

The sectional fields for the boys basketball tournaments involving Shelby County schools are identical to the girls sectional fields.

Regional tournaments are scheduled for March 11 with the semistates one week later. The state championship games will be played March 25 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

Swimming

Shelbyville will once again travel to New Palestine for boys and girls sectional competition in 2023.

The girls sectional at New Palestine concludes on Feb. 4. The 11-team field includes Centerville, Connersville, Eastern Hancock, Greenfield-Central, Hagerstown, Mt. Vernon, New Castle, New Palestine, Richmond, Seton Catholic and Shelbyville.

The State Finals for the girls is Feb. 10-11 at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis.

The boys sectional championship is Feb. 18 with the state finals on Feb. 24-25.

Wrestling

Shelby County’s wrestling programs at Shelbyville and Triton Central will compete at the Warren Central Sectional on Jan. 28.

The regional qualifiers will travel to Perry Meridian on Feb. 4 and semistate qualifiers head to New Castle on Feb. 11.

The state championship meet is Feb. 17-18 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

In other IHSAA executive committee meeting business:

 

 

  • Waldron High School was one of 18 IHSAA member schools to earn the Sportsmanship Award for 2021-2022.

The 18 schools are Angola, Brebeuf Jesuit, Brownsburg, Calumet, Clay City, Eastern Greene, Frankton, Fremont, Harrison (West Lafayette), Highland, Madison, Mooresville, North Vermillion, Pioneer, River Forest, Seymour, Sheridan and Waldron.

Each school will receive an award banner to display.

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