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May 16th
BREMEN — Sandwiched between the NSC Tournament championships Monday and a potential meeting with perennial sectional champion Plymouth tonight, Bremen’s first round sectional match-up with LaVille would have been an easy one for the Lady Lions to overlook.
After all, the Bremen Sectional hosts hadn’t lost to the Lancers in recent memory; they’d swept them just three weeks ago in round robin NSC play en route to the conference championship. But looking too far ahead is nearly always a mistake, especially against a team that has been making steady progress throughout the year.
MIDDLEBURY – A big dose of Northridge starter Shannon Baker went a long way, but the fight of Plymouth’s Pilgrims nearly made up for it as the Raiders hung on to take an NLC win by a 6-3 final.
ARGOS — Argos senior goalkeeper Karlee VanDerWeele has signed on to play soccer at NCAA Division III Hanover College next fall.
VanDerWeele is a four-year letterwinner for Argos. A goalkeeper and captain, she led the Dragons to back-to-back semistate appearances and Northern Indiana Soccer Conference titles in 2011-12. She was twice selected First Team All-Northern Indiana Soccer Conference for the Lady Dragons, and was named the team MVP her senior season.
Girls tennis
CGA, Rochester advance to sectional championship
Culver Girls Academy and Rochester advanced to the finals at the CGA Girls Tennis Sectional with a pair of 4-1 victories Wednesday.
The Lady Eagles topped Knox on all courts but 3 singles, while the Zebras eliminated North Judson on all but the 1 singles court.
Brittany Fletcher battled back from a first-set loss to beat CGA's Alena Arkhipov 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 for Knox's only win of the night.
May 15th
The 47th Annual IHSAA Baseball State Tournament is set to get underway, and the draws for next week's sectional tournament were announced on Tuesday.
Plymouth will host a seven-team Class 3A field that includes John Glenn and Culver Military, while Culver Community hosts Triton, Argos and Oregon-Davis in another seven-team tilt, and Bremen and LaVille travel to the six-school Class 2A Westview Sectional.
ROCHESTER — For about as long as Culver Academies track coach Michael Chastain can remember, his Lady Eagles have been battling it out with Plymouth for the championship at the Rochester Sectional. In fact, the two teams have been trading back and forth for first and second at the state tourney opener for the past four years.
True to that back-and-forth theme, Culver Girls Academy topped Plymouth at Tuesday’s sectional meet, returning the favor for Plymouth’s one-point title win over the Eagles last year by trumping the Lady Pilgrims 137-123 for this year’s championship.
BREMEN — Jasmine Schafer understands. Winning a sectional track title is nice, but survival is the name of the game.
It was less important to win a blue ribbon at the Bremen Girls Track Sectional than it was to earn a trip to next week’s Warsaw regional.
So, when Schafer finished second in the 100-meter dash Tuesday night, well, that was OK.
Same thing with her fourth place finish in the 200.
The top four finishers in each event at a sectional advance to regional meets. So Schafer lives to race another day.
And in this meet, that was a tall order.
PLYMOUTH — An apt title for the book about this year’s Plymouth Pilgrim baseball season would be “The Agony and the Ecstasy”.
There was a heavy dose of both at Bill Nixon Field on Tuesday night, but in the end Plymouth would have a little more of the ecstasy. A walk-off single by Plymouth shortstop Justin Drudge plated the tying and winning runs in the bottom of the seventh over CMA (9-6) for a final of 11-10.
Softball
Triton wins at Manchester
Triton's softball team ran out to a 3-0 lead in the first three frames and held on for an eventual 4-1 victory over Manchester on the road Tuesday night.
Hannah Jennings had two extra base hits, doubling in the first and second innings and singling in the fourth as she, Krystal Sellers and Allyson Brown combined for eight hits and two RBIs.
Brycelyn Garbison struck out six hitters while allowing one earned run on six hits and two walks over seven innings for the win inside the circle.
May 14th
NAPPANEE — Three sixth inning runs were the difference as Plymouth (10-13) dropped a Northern Lakes Conference road decision at NorthWood (11-6) by a 5-2 final.
Facing NorthWood senior Tommy Klem for the second time this season, the Pilgrims had a better idea of how to approach their at-bats, recovering from a 2-0 early deficit to tie the game in the fourth. Blake Cleveland’s two-run single in the third gave the Panthers an early lead.
