Cheyenne Eads overpowered New Castle Saturday morning to get Class 4A, No. 15 Shelbyville its first Hoosier Heritage Conference win of the season.

Eads, a junior, twirled a five-inning no hitter, walked two and struck out 13 to improve the Golden Bears to 4-2 this season.

Limited to just one run in its last 14 innings, Shelbyville scored four times in each of the first two innings against New Castle (0-4, 0-1 HHC).

Eads had a two-run double in the first that scored Abby Brenner and Addie Stieneker. Kali Laycock followed with a single that scored Eads. Courtesy runner Addysyn Wettrick then scored on Destiney Johnson’s single.

In the second, Hailey Pogue had a run-scoring single and Laycock drove in two more with her second hit of the contest off New Castle pitcher Madi Moffitt.

Stieneker added a two-run home run in the fourth inning to put the 10-run rule into effect.

Eads finished the game in the fifth inning with a strikeout to improve to 2-2 this season in the circle.

The Golden Bears begin a busy week Monday against the first of three state-ranked opponents over a six-day span.

Shelbyville travels to Class 4A, No. 8 Pendleton Heights (4-2, 0-0 HHC) Monday before hosting 4A No. 2 Center Grove (5-1) Wednesday. Pendleton Heights defeated Center Grove, 5-3, Saturday in the championship game of the Horseshoe Classic.

Shelbyville continues its HHC schedule Friday hosting Delta (0-4, 0-0 HHC) then travels Saturday to Class 3A, No. 2 Yorktown (3-0, 0-0 HHC).

In other prep events Saturday:

Baseball

Waldron 6, Brown County 5

At Waldron, the host Mohawks scored four runs in the fifth inning to secure their first win of the season.

Bryce Yarling, Jared Brooks and Jacob Lindsey combined to scatter six Brown County hits and strike out 10 to get Waldron to 1-3 this season.

Jacob Bennett and Donovan Russell each had two hits. Brooks drove in two runs.

Jack Sichting finished with three hits and three runs scored for Brown County (1-2).

Hagerstown 8, Triton Central 2

At Hagerstown, Ben Williams and Will Combs each drove in two runs to lead Hagerstown to a win in game one of a doubleheader.

Cole Tracy, Quaid Mull and Kaagen Kendall benefitted from a five-run fifth inning and combined to limit TC to three hits while striking out 11.

Bryce Haney drove in both of Triton Central’s runs.

Hagerstown 21, Triton Central 0

In game two, three different Hagerstown pitchers limited Triton Central to just one hit and the host Tigers improved to 6-0 this season.

Wyatt Burris hit a home run and drove in five runs to lead Hagerstown, who pounded out 17 hits in the victory.

Trevor Couch had the lone hit for Triton Central (0-5).

Softball

Triton Central 8, Trinity Lutheran 0

At the Rising Sun Invitational, Lillian Fillippinie, Hailey Harris and Brylie Couch each had two hits in Triton Central’s victory.

Fillippinie went the distance, allowing two hits and two walks while striking out 12.

Grace Lance took the loss for Trinity Lutheran (4-1), allowing seven hits, three walks and eight runs over six innings.

Triton Central 10, Rising Sun 0

Couch delivered a one-hitter and struck out 12 to improve Triton Central to 2-1 this season.

Jalynn Keith led the offensive output with three hits, two runs scored and four runs batted in. Harris and Couch each had two hits.

Rising Sun dropped to 3-2.

Boys volleyball

Madison def. Shelbyville, 25-7, 25-13, 26-24

At Shelbyville, the Golden Bears (0-2) got off to a slow start before putting together a competitive third set.

Madison improved to 2-4 with the straight-set win.

Shelbyville hosts Whiteland Monday.

Boys track

Mohawk Invitational

Will Larrison won two events and Braylon Williams added a third victory for Waldron in its own invitational.

Larrison won the 1,600 meters in four minutes, 52.05 seconds. The sophomore also crossed the finish line first in the 3,200 in 11:09.86.

Williams took first place in the shot put with a best throw of 41 feet, one inch. The junior also finished third in the discus (108-11).

Waldron also got a pair of third-place finishes from Nathaniel Evans in the 1,600 (5:33.57) and the 3,200 (11:49.45).

Blue River Valley captured the team title with 106 points. South Decatur was runner-up at 98 with Switzerland County (78), Union County (66), Anderson Prep (55), Waldron (54) and Edinburgh (8) completing the field.

Girls track

Mohawk Invitational

Lillian Lozier produced Waldron’s only event win and had two more top-four finishes.

Lozier won the 100 hurdles in 18.75. She also placed fourth in the 300 hurdles (56.39) and third in the long jump (13-7.25).

Also for Waldron, Sophie Hudnall placed fourth in the 800 (3:08.73) and the Mohawks’ 400 relay team finished fourth (58.35).

Switzerland County won the team title with 114 points. Union County was runner-up at 111. South Decatur was third with 102 points to finish ahead of Anderson Prep (49), Blue River Valley (43), Waldron (30) and Edinburgh (6).

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