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Prep Report: Seniors lead Shelbyville to HHC victory over Yorktown

Shelbyville scored four goals in the second half to secure a 6-3 Hoosier Heritage Conference win Saturday over visiting Yorktown.

With the win, the Golden Bears closed out their regular-season schedule with a 12-4 record (4-3 HHC).

Ava Wilson scored Shelbyville’s first three goals on Senior Night and added another goal late to complete the scoring. Sydney Baker and Cyanne St. Bernard also scored against the Tigers.

Nina Fischer scored twice for Yorktown (10-5-1, 2-5 HHC) and Clara McCammon tallied a goal in the loss.

Shelbyville will host HHC-rival New Palestine (9-6-1) Tuesday in the Class 3A, Sectional 12 opener for both teams. The Dragons defeated Shelbyville, 3-1, on Sept. 23.

In other prep events:

Girls soccer

Triton Central 5, Greensburg 2

At Triton Central, five different Tigers scored a goal to net the win in the regular-season finale.

Vivian Blye, Elaina Maurice, Ariel Walker, Abby Byrd and Farah Coen each had a goal to improve the Tigers to 8-7.

Greensburg dropped to 4-11.

Triton Central hosts Wapahani (9-5-1) Tuesday in a Class A, Sectional 44 contest in Fairland.

Cross country

Nike XC Town Twilight

At Lavern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Shelbyville senior Hannah Wright placed 31st in the first of two open races in a time of 21 minutes, 15 seconds – a new personal best, and finished 50th out of a combined 642 total runners in the two open events.

Also for Shelbyville, Aerin Garcia-Santiago placed 170th in the first open race in 23:44 and Sonora O’Connor placed 246th in 25:29.

There were 358 participants in the first open race.

Waldron’s Riley Price, also running in the first open race, finished the course in 23:37 to finish 164th. Audrey Hogg was 284th in 26:39.

In the first of two boys open races, Waldron’s Will Larrison finished 18th in 16:59, which left him 68th in the combined standings of the two races which featured 972 total runners.

Also for Waldron, Jared Crosby finished 129th in 19:28.

Shia Veach led the Shelbyville boys with a 136th-place finish in 18:30. Logan Reinhart placed 153rd in 18:38. And Gavin Harker (226th in 19:31) and Blake Hughes (237th in 19:37) also had top-250 finishes in the first open race.

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