The Golden Bears, now 12-10 (3-4 HHC), swept the singles matches with Reece Prickett, Caden Claxton and Barni Kovacs winning in straight sets.
The No. 1 doubles team of Karson Schaf and Aiden Smith also prevailed over their New Castle counterparts, 6-2, 6-4.
New Castle’s only win came at No. 2 doubles over Alex Bunton and Gavin Reed, 6-2, 7-5.
In other prep events Saturday:
Girls golf
Shelbyville’s Emmie Higgins and Triton Central’s Jaylee Davis finished their seasons in regional tournaments Saturday.
Competing in the Franklin Regional, Higgins shot 116 and missed the cut to the state finals.
At the Lapel Regional, Davis carded a 133 and did not make the state finals cut.
Girls soccer
New Palestine 3, Shelbyville 1
At New Palestine, the host Dragons scored twice in the first half and made that work for the HHC victory over the Golden Bears (10-4, 3-3 HHC).
Tylar Whitaker, Hannah Sund and Nevaeh Gebhart scored goals for New Palestine (8-5-1, 5-1 HHC).
Monrovia 9, Triton Central 1
At Monrovia, Elaina Maurice scored the only goal for Triton Central (6-6, 3-3 Indiana Crossroads Conference) in the loss to the Bulldogs (11-1-1, 5-0 ICC).
Volleyball
Delta def. Shelbyville, 25-21, 25-9, 25-13
At Shelbyville, Emily Reno led Delta with 10 kills while setters Addie Phillips and Kate Manor combined for 23 assists.
Delta improved to 9-9 (1-5 HHC). Shelbyville dropped to 2-20 (0-4 HHC).
Class A Showdown
Morristown finished 1-3 at the invitational featuring only Class A schools.
The Yellow Jackets (8-15) lost to Lafayette Central Catholic (25-14, 25-16), Blue River Valley (21-25, 25-14, 15-10) and Wes-Del (25-19, 25-8) but defeated Cowan (25-18, 25-19).
Against Cowan, Maycee Cole led Morristown with seven kills. Kindall Dorsey had 11 digs and Katie Theobald notched 17 assists.
Cross country
Hauser Heritage Days Invitational
Morristown’s boys cross country program finished sixth in the event. Southwestern and Triton Central did not field complete teams.
Morristown was led by Ryan Crisman’s 17th-place finish in 19 minutes, 34 seconds. Also running for the Yellow Jackets were Maxamillion Compton (19:43), Thane Cole (19:48), Bradley Theobald (21:57), Levi Stoddard (22:36), Drake Hibst (22:37) and Evan Trittipo (24:10).
For Southwestern, Dakota Claiborne placed 11th in 18:40. He was followed by Chris Claiborne (20:00), Jackson Bentz (20:07) and Ryan Wildman (28:04).
Running for Triton Central were Liam Thompson, who finished 18th in 19:37, and Nicholas Straber, who placed 44th in 23:05.
In the girls race, Morristown’s Grace McLaughlin finished 9th in 23:18. Also competing for Morristown were Audrey Van Dyke (23:29) and Remi Spicklemire (28:31).
Representing Southwestern were Maxine Higdon (26:46) and Kyndra King (30:58).
Hoosier Heritage Conference Meet
At Blue River Memorial Park in Shelbyville, Blake Hughes became the first Golden Bear to run sub 18 minutes since 2019 with a personal-best performance of 17:59. He finished in 33rd place overall.
Shia Veach (18:03) and Logan Reinhart (18:13) both clocked personal bests. Also running for Shelbyville were Gavin Harker (19:40), Jonah Anspaugh (19:58), Ben Hinojosa (19:59) and Gaige Harker (20:52).
Shelbyville finished seventh in the team standings. Greenfield-Central was the HHC champion.
Senior Hannah Wright led the Golden Bears in the girls race with a 24th-place finish in 21:30. Also scoring for Shelbyville were Aerin Garcia-Santiago (22:42), Sonora O’Connor (24:19), Kathryn Seal (24:26), Sydney Dudgeon (25:17), Courtney Gross (25:30) and Angel Kreider (25:42).
Shelbyville finished eighth in the team standings. Mt. Vernon captured the conference championship.
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