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Prep Report: Waldron's Larrison and Price win Shelby County Cross Country Meet titles

Waldron’s Will Larrison and Riley Price (photo) were crowned Shelby County Cross Country champions Thursday at Blue River Memorial Park in Shelbyville.

Competing at the cross country venue at BRMP, Larrison crossed the finish line in 18 minutes, 24 seconds to lead Waldron to the team victory.

The top five Mohawks finished in the top 13 Thursday. Jared Crosby was runner-up in 19:22. Nate Evans placed third in 19:37. Sam Jones finished 10th in 21:13 and Max Jones was 14th in 23:02.

Morristown was the only other entrant to field a team score. The top five for the Yellow Jackets were Ryan Crisman (20:43), Bradley Theobald (21:43), Thane Cole (22:38), Max Compton (22:39) and Drake Hibst (23:21).

Southwestern’s top finisher was Dakota Claiborne in fifth place in 20:12. Triton Central’s Liam Thompson finished seventh overall in 20:41.

Only nine girls started the Shelby County girls meet – and five represented Waldron, who was named champion.

Price led the field, winning the girls race in 22:57.

The remainder of the field included Morristown’s Grace McLaughlin (24:27) and Audrey Van Dyke (24:4), Waldron’s Sophie Hudnall (25:43), Avery Haehl (25:50) and Audrey Hogg (27:57), Southwestern’s Maxine Higdon (28:29), Waldron’s Grace Fisher (29:26) and Morristown’s Remi Spicklemire (29:44).

Triton Central’s girls team held off Morristown, 28-32, to win the Shelby County Junior High Girls Cross Country championship. Sawyer Murdick led the Tigers with a runner-up performance in 13:13.

Morristown’s Jo Kuhn won the girls race in 12:52.

Triton Central’s Gavin Bailey won the boys junior high race in 12:14 and helped the Tigers capture the team title with 30 points.

In other prep events:

Boys soccer

Southwestern 3, Bethesda Christian 2

At Bethesda Christian, the Class A, No. 12 Spartans trailed 1-0 nearly midway through the first quarter before Benjamin Kahler delivered the equalizer.

Tucker Simmons converted a penalty kick to open the second-half scoring. Simmons then added the game winner in the 76th minute after the Patriots (2-11) tied the contest in the 68th minute.

In its regular-season finale, Southwestern upped its record to 14-2.

Girls soccer

Shelbyville 3, Greenwood 1

At Greenwood, Ella Johnson, Alyna Castanon and Cyanne St. Bernard scored goals to push the Golden Bears’ record to 11-4 this season.

Macy Cooley was credited with 12 saves in goal.

Joelle Young scored the lone goal for Greenwood (8-6-2).

Triton Central 1, University 0

At Triton Central, Elaina Maurice’s second-half goal was all the host Tigers needed to defeat the Trailblazers (5-6-2).

Cheyenne Allen had 12 saves in goal to preserve the shutout victory.

Triton Central is 7-7 this season.

Volleyball

New Palestine def. Triton Central, 25-10, 25-15, 25-4

At New Palestine, the visiting Tigers struggled to get their offense in gear against the Dragons (19-4). Gwyn Williams finished with a team-high six kills while just one other Tiger had more than one kill.

Madi Peterson had two service aces and eight digs. Kate Isley had eight assists and seven digs.

Triton Central is 15-8.

Mt. Vernon def. Shelbyville, 25-20, 25-11, 27-25

At Mt. Vernon, Easton Wampler led the Marauders with 12 kills and nine digs. Sophia Damer followed with 10 kills and three aces, and Kate Ferguson had nine kills.

Setter Ava Whitmore collected 33 assists.

Mt. Vernon improved to 13-11 (4-2 HHC). Shelbyville dropped to 2-22 (0-6 HHC)

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