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May 3rd
Boys track
Plymouth, NorthWood, Bremen, LaVille compete at Kelly Relays
Plymouth’s boys track team rounded out the field in seventh place in the A Division at the Kelly Boys Track Relays Friday night, while NorthWood finished fifth in the division, Bremen was third in the B Division standings, and LaVille was sixth in the small school division.
Plymouth’s top finisher was Dan Samuelson as he won both the discus and the shot put with respective throws of 143’2” and 51’3”.
BOURBON — For four innings, Culver Girls Academy hung tough with Triton.
But in the end, the Lady Trojans’ big second inning proved more than enough for the visitors.
Triton batters collected eight hits for nine runs batting through the order in the bottom of the second, and Hannah Jennings’ two-run double in the bottom of the fifth sealed CGA’s fate, 13-3 in five innings in Bourbon Thursday.
“We’ve been struggling hitting the ball, but this week we’ve hit the ball decent,” said Triton softball coach Steve McBride.
Boys golf
Carpenter sets school record for Triton
Quentyn Carpenter set a nine-hole school record, and Triton’s boys golf team beat out a four-team field at Rozella-Ford Thursday.
Carpenter’s 3-under-par 32 set a new program low for the Trojans, while number three Tanner Shepherd shot a strong 38, Ryan Rapp carded 39, and Lucas Shafer turned in a 40 as Triton beat out its next closest competitor, Bremen 149-188.
May 2nd
PLYMOUTH — When senior sprinter Sam Stevens’ season ended with a pulled hamstring over the weekend, Plymouth boys track coach John Barron knew his team would be in for an uphill battle with Wawasee.
Add to that a number of personal bests by the Warriors at Wednesday’s Northern Lakes Conference dual meet, and the Pilgrims couldn’t quite get it done in a 75-57 Senior Night loss.
CULVER — The Zeller name is currently one of the biggest in basketball, and organizers plan to bring to bring some of that excitement to Culver June 5 through 7 for a Zeller family-sponsored youth camp open to anyone entering 4th through 9th grade.
ELKHART — What a difference a day made as Plymouth’s Pilgrims came back from a tough conference loss at home to take a big win on the road over Elkhart Memorial 10-7.
“We battled and got a win; it’s a team we got beat by earlier in the year, and that’s what it’s about,” said Plymouth head coach Ryan Wolfe. “We’d like to win two, but if you can’t we’ll take it.”
WALKERTON — John Glenn started out the season on a 10-win tear, but the Falcons suddenly seem to be slumping. Bremen’s baseball team is on the rise, meanwhile.
Headed in opposite directions, when the two teams met at The Nest in Walkerton Wednesday, it made for an old-fashioned spanking.
Bremen plated seven runs in the top of the first on the strength of six hits and four Glenn errors, and the Lions never looked back in a 13-2, five-inning defeat of the Falcons on the road.
Baseball
Culver falls at Jimtown
Culver Community lost an 18-8 game on the road at Northern State Conference-leading Jimtown Wednesday.
The Jimmies recorded 19 hits in the game, including two home runs apiece by Evan Oblinger and Cole Gaugler as they downed the Cavs in five.
Nick Pritz homered and doubled for Culver, which responded to a five-run Jimtown first with five runs of its own in the top of the second, but fell too far behind to dig out of as the home team scratched out seven runs over the second and third innings.
• JIMTOWN 18, CULVER COMMUNITY 8 (5 inn.)
At Elkhart
May 1st
PLYMOUTH — The new sectional alignments for the upcoming 2013-14 school year were approved by the IHSAA Executive Committee Monday, with Plymouth High School slated to see the biggest changes to its postseason schedule.
The new sectional alignments came in the wake of the school reclassifications finalized by the IHSAA in late June, which reclassed Plymouth into 4A tournament fields in baseball, softball, basketball and volleyball.
BOURBON — It’s not often that the coach of a rival conference team gives you a helping hand. But that seems to have been just what happened for Triton senior Shana Anderson.
When Holy Cross women’s basketball coach Aimee Niespodziany was on the lookout for guard prospects, New Prairie head coach Doug Matthys pointed her in the direction of repeat Northern State Conference-champion Triton’s backcourt. Niespodziany reached out to Lady Trojans coach Adam Heckaman for some tape, and when he obliged the Saints skipper found her next recruit in Anderson.
