Four Golden Bears qualified for sectional championship races Saturday at the New Palestine Girls Swimming and Diving Sectional.
At Thursday’s preliminary races, Shelbyville sophomore Riley Everette finished second in the 50-yard freestyle (24.84 seconds) and the 100 butterfly (59.92) with personal-best times in both events.
Senior Miriam Garringer also had a pair of top-8 finishes to qualify for the finals. She finished sixth in the 200 freestyle (2:06.83) and seventh in the 100 freestyle (57.72).
Everette and Garringer also will compete in two sectional championship relay races with Naomi Garringer and Paige Bohman. The quartet finished third in the 200 freestyle relay (1:47.68) and third in the 400 freestyle relay (2:57.33).
All sectional champions advance to the 50th Annual IHSAA Girls Swimming and Diving State Finals on Feb. 9-10 at the Indiana University Natatorium in downtown Indianapolis.
In other prep events Thursday:
Boys basketball
Triton Central 45, Covenant Christian 44
At Covenant Christian, Max Crouse scored a game-high 18 points to improve Triton Central to 14-4 this season.
Taggy Goul finished with eight points and Sam Collier had seven against a future Indiana Crossroads Conference opponent. The Warriors join the ICC next season to replace Cascade, who is departing.
Nef Farrell led Covenant Christian (7-9) with 12 points. Nathan Crane finished with 11 points.
Triton Central is off until Feb. 9 when it travels to Indianapolis Ritter (6-11, 4-1 ICC) for an ICC game between the top two teams in the standings.
North Decatur 47, Waldron 38
At North Decatur, the host Chargers extended a 3-point halftime lead to double digits after three quarters after outscoring the Mohawks 15-7.
Kaden Muckerheide finished off Waldron with a 16-point, 6-assist performance that keeps North Decatur (11-8, 4-1 Mid-Hoosier Conference) in contention for the conference title. Hauser sits atop the MHC standings at 13-4 (5-0 MHC).
Waldron dropped to 6-8 this season and 2-2 against MHC foes. The Mohawks host Tri (11-4) Saturday afternoon.
Hauser 64, Southwestern 37
At Southwestern, the visiting Jets scored 25 points in the second quarter to secure its fifth MHC victory of the season.
Alex Cord scored a team-high 15 points. Kameron Blair finished with 12 points.
Ben Kahler scored 14 of his game-high 23 points in the second half for Southwestern (1-14, 0-3 MHC). Carter Snepp finished with seven points.
The Spartans host Indiana Deaf (11-4) Tuesday.
Gymnastics
Franklin Central 99.725, Shelbyville 84.85, Richmond 81.6, Lapel Inc., Southwestern Inc.
Austyn Dykes won three events but did not compete in the vault which allowed her Franklin Central teammate, Ava Rebennack, to secure the all-around title and lead the Flashes to the team victory over Shelbyville and Richmond.
Dykes scored 9.4 in the floor exercise, 8.85 on uneven bars and 9.425 on the balance beam. Rebennack won the vault with an 8.7 and the all-around title at 34.35.
Southwestern and Lapel also had gymnasts competing and Southwestern’s Mikayla Claiborne placed third in the all-around (30.05) behind Lapel’s Myleigh Carpenter (31.05). Claiborne’s best event finish was third on the balance beam (7.75).
Shelbyville’s Lilli Conway placed third on the vault (8.575) and fourth on the uneven bars (6.875). Haylee Barnes was fourth in the vault (8.45) and Renee Aldridge was fifth on uneven bars (6.575) and balance beam (7.75).
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