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January 29th, 2011
WALKERTON — Size mattered for John Glenn Friday. And strength. And depth. And quickness. And offensive balance.
The Falcons utilized all five of those qualities to work the ball inside, and finish, in a 67-46 Northern State Conference boys basketball win over visiting Knox at The Aerie.
With Knox standout Josh Risner sidelined for the evening by what Redskins head coach Todd Boldry termed “a violation of team rules,” the Falcons opened the second half with a game-changing 17-1 run to convert a five-point halftime edge into a 44-23 lead with 2:53 left in the third frame.
NEW CARLISLE — Sometimes a close game can get away in the blink of an eye, like in Friday night’s meeting between Bremen and host New Prairie.
Bremen trailed by six points going into the fourth quarter, but a 19-5 New Prairie run pushed the Cougars to a 67-51 victory.
It was an unfortunate result for Bremen, which played some of its best basketball of the season through three quarters.
HAMLET — Trinity’s plan was to keep Zach Richie down.
Their plan was more successful than they could have hoped, and Trinity left Oregon-Davis with a win at the Bobcats’ Homecoming, 72-59.
“We knew we had to stop Zach,” Trinity head coach Mark Havard said. “We knew he was their big scorer. We knew he was a tough competitor, but we were up for the challenge. “
Big scorer might be an understatement. As a junior, the Bobcat is only 28 points shy of 1000, and only five points shy of O-D’s record of most points scored in a season. But the Titans were certainly up to the challenge.
Boys basketball
• TRITON 50, JIMTOWN 31
At Elkhart
Score by quarters
Triton: 10 26 37 50
Jimtown: 6 15 20 31
TRITON (50): Griffyn Carpenter 12, Quentyn Carpenter 2, Austin Davis 8, Jordan Everett 11, Seth Glingle 0, Dane Kennedy 0, Blake Lemler 2, Marc Lindsey 0, Drew Mosson 2, Stephen Rowe 0, Zak Shively 0, Clay Yeo 13.
JIMTOWN (31): Brandon Abel 0, Brae Beadles 8, Alec Brown 0, Justin Brown 2, Corleone Desimone 6, August Farwig 0, Kasey Henkler 0, Chase Hoeflinger 3, Brian Hosinski 6, Max Pollock 2, DJ Washington 4.
Records: Triton 12-3 (4-0 NSC), Jimtown 7-7 (1-3 NSC).
January 28th
PLYMOUTH — Plymouth’s defense held Northridge 11 points under its average but continued its rough scoring streak without Marissa Green, and the Class 4A, ninth-ranked Lady Raiders spoiled Senior Night with a 39-25 victory at The Rock Thursday.
“Northridge is a really good team; you’ve got to give them a lot of credit,” said Plymouth head girls basketball coach Dave Cox. “They put a lot of pressure on us offensively, so we had a lot of trouble getting shots off. It’s one of those things, I think, giving them 39 points is OK; we’ve just got to score more than 25.”
ELKHART — Plymouth’s young squad finished sixth in both the 200 medley and 400 free relay and reached the consolation finals in six individual events against a tough Northern Lakes Conference field at the NLC prelims at Concord Thursday.
With just one senior and five sophomores on the Pilgrims swim team, head coach Leanne Senter knew it would be tough to compete for a share of the NLC crown and was happy just seeing the numerous personal- and season-bests her swimmers clocked.
PLYMOUTH — Any heavyweights looking to make the cut out of this Saturday’s Plymouth Wrestling Sectional has their work cut out for them.
Girls basketball
• LAVILLE 49, ARGOS 45 OT
At Argos
Score by quarters
LaVille: 9 14 29 41 49
Argos: 13 21 34 41 45
LaVILLE (49): Katie Berger 0 0-0 0, Katie Bettcher 0 0-0 0, Zoe Bulick 0 1-2 1, Jesse Feitz 7 3-4 17, Hannah Herbster 2 5-6 9, Lynae Hostrawser 1 0-0 2, Kaitlyn Kopetski 4 6-9 14, Leigha Manuel 0 0-0 0, Elaine Schmeltz 2 2-2 6; Totals: 16 17-23 49.
January 26th
CULVER — In Horse parlance, Culver Community’s girls basketball team proved it.
Just three days after dethroning Oregon-Davis in the Bi-County Tournament final, the Class 2A No. 6 Lady Cavs upended the Lady Cats again, this time more convincingly than Saturday’s four-point margin.
Culver landed a quartet of players in double figures and held Class A, No. 4 OD to 32 percent from the field in a 68-50 win at John R. Nelson Gymnasium Tuesday.
PLYMOUTH — No records, no personal bests and no lineup-shaking breakouts.
The atmosphere was subdued as Plymouth’s girls swim team finished out their regular season with a 105-81 loss to South Bend St. Joseph’s at their home pool Tuesday.
