Jaylee Davis’ career-best round of golf earned her a spot in the Lapel Regional.
The Triton Central golfer (photo) shot 108 Monday in the New Palestine Sectional to take the third and final advancing spot to Saturday’s regional tournament at The Edge golf course in Anderson.
At the Links Golf Club in New Palestine Monday, the top three finishing teams and the top three individuals not on an advancing team qualified for the regional.
With four of the top five low scores, New Palestine captured the sectional championship with a 367. Mt. Vernon (376) and Rushville (411) also advanced.
Shenandoah (440), Triton Central (452), Greenfield-Central (463) and Eastern Hancock (507) completed the team scoring. Morristown, Knightstown and Tri did not have enough golfers to post a team score.
New Palestine’s Katherine Kelly shot 87 to be crowned sectional champion. Also advancing out of the sectional with Davis were Shenandoah’s Madelyn Shelton (93) and Greenfield-Central’s Ella Neal (98).
Also competing in the sectional for Triton Central were Kennedy Hall (111), Hanna Fink (115), Olivia Williams (118) and Lindsay Huxford (129).
Morristown’s sectional roster included Alexia Rogers (114), Clara Hale (124) and Mollie Runnebohm (131).
In other prep events Monday:
Boys soccer
Southwestern 3, Trinity Lutheran 1
At Trinity Lutheran, Jaime Gutierrez DeMessa scored a pair of first-half goals to jump start Class A, No. 12 Southwestern to the road victory.
DeMessa’s 12th goal of the season put the Spartans (11-1) up 2-0 and Tucker Simmons followed with his 11th goal to make it 3-0 at halftime.
Michael Weisser, Josh Karr and DeMessa each had assists.
Kade Gillaspy scored the lone goal for Trinity Lutheran (4-8).
On Friday, Southwestern clinched the Mid-Hoosier Conference championship with a 3-0 win over Hauser. DeMessa had a goal and an assist. Simmons and Weisser also had goals in the shutout victory.
The Spartans host Herron Wednesday and Central Christian Friday for its annual Community Night.
Girls soccer
Shelbyville 3, Martinsville 2
At Martinsville, the host Artesians (8-3-1) took a 2-0 lead on goals by Addy Berry and Olivia Phillips but the Golden Bears rallied for three straight goals to steal the win.
Ava Wilson scored two of Shelbyville’s three goals while Kincade Dorsey had the third goal. Ella Johnson was credited with an assist.
Boys tennis
Shelbyville 5, Rushville 0
At Rushville, the visiting Golden Bears improved to 10-9 with a dominant performance. Shelbyville lost three games total in sweeping all five matches.
Reece Prickett, Caden Claxton and Barni Kovacs won singles matches while the doubles victories came from Karson Schaf and Aiden Smith at No. 1 doubles and Alex Bunton and Gavin Reed at No. 2 doubles.
Waldron 5, Oldenburg Academy 0
At Waldron on Senior Night, the Mohawks’ two seniors chose their doubles partners then produced dominant performances.
At No. 1 doubles, senior Jacob Lindsey teamed with Connor Ping and produced a 6-1, 6-1 victory.
Fellow senior Conner Hinchman played with Cash Young and secured a 6-0, 6-0 win at No. 2 doubles.
Waldron’s singles victories came from Lucas Shaw, Charlie Fischer and Jack Fischer.
Indianapolis Bishop Chatard 3, Triton Central 2
Triton Central won both doubles matches but could not add a singles victory to secure the win.
At No. 1 doubles, Eli Sego and Connor Evans defeated Brady Leppert and Alex Fowler, 6-2, 6-0.
Ben Toth and Caleb McGuire were victorious at No. 2 doubles, 6-4, 6-4, over Nate O’Brien and Keaton Kuehr.
Chatard won all three singles matches in straight sets.
Volleyball
Triton Central def. Shelbyville, 25-12, 25-20, 19-25, 29-31, 15-10
At Triton Central, the Tigers’ 10th-consecutive victory did not come easy.
Triton Central built a 2-0 advantage only to drop the third and fourth sets to create a winner-takes-all fifth set.
Freshman Lucy May had a team-high 17 kills for Triton Central (13-5). Gwyn Williams and Brooklyn Bailey combined for 16 kills.
Williams, a sophomore, also had a team-high 26 digs. Fellow sophomore Madi Peterson collected 23 digs and had four service aces.
Senior setter Kate Isley finished with 27 assists.
Shelbyville dropped to 1-18.
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