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January 25th, 2011
CULVER — Patrice McBee is all grown up.
Not just in a physical sense — although at 6-foot-3, the Culver senior is certainly that, too — but spectators of Lady Cavaliers basketball have seen McBee’s game reach new heights recently.
At last week’s Bi-County Tournament, McBee scored a combined 49 points in three games — including a double-double with 14 points and 15 rebounds in Culver’s championship game against Oregon-Davis — leading the Cavs to their first tourney crown in more than 15 years and garnering MVP honors in the process.
MUNCIE — Ball State junior guard and Plymouth native Randy Davis has been named the Mid-American Conference West Division Player of the Week, the league office announced Monday. This is the first MAC weekly honor for Davis this season and the second of his career.
Davis becomes the second BSU men’s basketball player to earn the league’s weekly honor this season, joining classmate Jarrod Jones, who has picked up the award twice.
Girls basketball
• BETHANY CHRISTIAN 46, LAVILLE 42, OT
At Goshen
Score by quarters
LaVille: 9 20 26 37 42
Bethany: 4 22 27 37 46
LAVILLE (42): Kaitlyn Kopetski 12; Jesse Feitz 10; Zoe Bullick 6; Leigha Manuel 5; Elaine Schmeltz 5; Lynae Hostrawser 2; Kyla Coblentz 2. TOTALS: 12 16-21 42.
BETHANY CHRISTIAN (46): Marla zumFelde 27; Malaina Weldy 7; Natalie Thorne 5; Mattie Lehman 3; Alena Yoder 3; Gina Gautsche 1. TOTALS: 12 19-25 46.
January 24th
Members of Culver's volunteer fire department braved the frigid temperatures Saturday morning as they test-drove a hovercraft privately owned by Dave Rayburn of Goshen. The craft, which would be custom-made for the department according to rescue and safety standards, would be used primarily for ice rescues if purchased. Funding for the purchase would come from both the department's town-based budget and the Union Township budget. Township Trustee Jerry Greason -- as well as Township board member Bill Githens -- was on hand to observe.
By
Michelle Donaghey, correspondent
BREMEN — Teachers at the Bremen School Board meeting last Tuesday hoped to have approved a tentative contract they had reviewed with the school superintendent. What they found instead was a decision to table the agreement between the Bremen Educators Association (BEA) and the Bremen Public Schools for “further study” by the board.
LAKEVILLE — Triton is firing on all cylinders, and the Trojans have plenty of cylinders to fire with.
Class A, No. 3-ranked Triton continued its hot streak Saturday, working the ball inside-out, outside-in and every which way to keep Culver defenders off-balance while connecting at a 62.2 percent rate from the field en route to a convincing 65-54 win over the Cavs and a repeat Bi-County Basketball Tournament championship at Dale E. Cox Gymnasium.
LAKEVILLE — Culver Community’s girls basketball team just wanted defensive stops against four-time defending Bi-County Tournament champion Oregon-Davis.
Given the Class A No. 4 Lady Cats’ 26-percent mark from the field and Culver’s 23-rebound surplus, mission accomplished.
Class 2A No. 7 Culver withstood foul trouble and a 7-of-19 fourth-quarter showing from the foul line to unseat OD and secure the program’s first Bi-County crown since 1995 in a 50-46 championship round slugfest Saturday at LaVille’s Dale E. Cox Gymnasium.
PLYMOUTH — With only one win during the Northern Lakes Conference dual schedule, the Rockies had a lot of ground to make up at Saturday’s NLC Championship meet.
Led by IndianaMat.com No. 2-ranked Damon Howe’s championship finish in the heavyweight class, Plymouth placed a total of nine wrestlers in the top six Saturday, but couldn’t make up enough ground to shake up the final NLC standings as they beat out Concord but finished seventh, while Elkhart Memorial claimed the crown as expected at The Rock.
ELKHART — It wasn’t a championship, but first-year Bremen head wrestling coach Shawn Campbell still got a little misty-eyed at the progress he’s seen his team make.
Jimtown won the championship on its home turf, but outsized Bremen won a moral victory, placing 13 of its 14 wrestlers in the top six for third place at the Northern State Conference Championships at Jimtown Saturday.
PLYMOUTH — Despite being down 6-foot-1 senior Marisa Green, Plymouth outrebounded Wawasee 35-18 — including an 11-2 advantage off the offensive glass —to beat their Northern Lakes Conference foe 45-36 at The Rock Saturday night.
With Green sidelined with an ACL tear — the second of her four-year career — Amber Redinger and Andria Shook stepped up in the front court while the rest of the team chipped in to help the Lady Pilgrims win the battle of the boards and their second straight NLC game.
