Local sports briefs: March 7, 2013

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March 7, 2013

Local sports briefs: March 7, 2013

Anonymous The Kokomo Tribune Thu Mar 07, 2013, 09:10 AM EST

Drake, Shurn help Saint Francis advance

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Former Kokomo High School standout Kayla Drake hit four 3-pointers and scored a game-high 21 points Wednesday morning to lead the University of Saint Francis women’s basketball team to a 62-42 victory over Reinhardt University of Georgia in the first round of the NAIA Division II tournament.

Another former Lady Kat, Skylarr Shurn had nine points and four steals. Drake added seven rebounds and three swipes as the Cougars improved to 31-3 on the season. The Cougars are one of the tourney’s No. 1 seeds.

Saint Francis moves on to the round of 16 where they’ll play St. Xavier University (25-6) at 1 p.m. Friday. It’s a rematch of a regular-season game where St. Xavier handed USF its first loss of the season, 78-61 in the championship game of the SXU holiday Tournament on Dec. 29.

“Oh yes, we remember [SXU] and we are looking forward to playing them again,” Drake said in a story on the USF website. “We did some good things [Wednesday], but we can play better than we did. We hadn’t played for over a week, so we wanted to give it our all. We didn’t want to leave early.”

Saint Francis held Reinhardt to just 23 percent shooting in the second half and forced 21 turnovers, including 14 steals.

Area girls players receive IBCA, Top 60 honors

The Indiana Basketball Coaches Association on Wednesday announced its 2013 IBCA/Subway girls all-state teams and seven KT-area players received honorable mention. In addition, Hoosier Basketball Magazine announced selections for its Top 60 Workout and two area players made the cut.

The IBCA named a 15-player senior all-state team and a 15-player underclass all-state team. Another 115 seniors and 140 underclassmen received honorable mention.

Eastern guards and twin sisters Bethany Neeley and Brittany Neeley received honorable mention on the senior squad.

Eastern post Taylor Holliday, Tipton guard/forward Kacie Juday, Peru guard Josie Murphy and Western guards and twin sisters Caitlyn O’Neal and Carley O’Neal received underclass honorable mention.

Eastern’s Brittany Neeley and Kokomo’s Anastacia Kirby were picked to participate in the Hoosier Basketball Magazine Top 60 Workout, which gathers the top senior girls players from around the state for a one-day showcase at Marian University in Indianapolis. The workout is on Sunday.

Babe Ruth announces signups, tryouts

The Kokomo Parents Babe Ruth League will conduct spring signups from 2-5 p.m. Sunday at the Huston Park pavilion. Any player who is new to the league must bring his birth certificate. Tryouts will be held from 2-5 p.m. March 17 at Huston Park ball field. Contact Ken at 765-271-4949 after 3 p.m. for questions concerning signups.

Wildkat Baseball Winter Clinic set

Kokomo has scheduled the Wildkat Baseball Winter Clinic for March 16 at the high school. The clinic is for any player in kindergarten through eighth grade.

Kids in grades K-5 will participate from 9-10:15 a.m., while kids in grades 6-8 will participate from 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. There is no charge, but a $5 donation to the Warrior Classic spring break fund is encouraged. Kokomo coach Tim Weeks as well as the coaching staff and players will serve as instructors.

For more information contact Weeks at tweeks@kokomo.k12.in.us or 765-210-8396.

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Comets wear crown
In a softball game that was every bit the pitchers’ duel many were expecting, Tipton senior stud Shelby Hursh and Eastern junior ace Abby Oyler went head-to-head for nine innings in Friday’s Class 2A Eastern Sectional final.
When the smallest of doors cracked open late in extra innings, it was the Comets who were able to sneak through.

May 25, 2013 1 Photo
Northwestern takes down West Lafayette
Northwestern played a very solid game on both offense and defense in defeating West Lafayette 8-5 in the opening round of the IHSAA Class 3A Peru Baseball Sectional Thursday night.

May 24, 2013 1 Photo
10 area athletes advance to boys track state finals
Austin Roark’s first season as the head boys track and field coach at Eastern High School just keeps getting better and better.
A week after guiding the Comets to their first sectional title since 1998, Roark will join six of his athletes at next weekend’s IHSAA state finals after advancing out of Thursday’s Kokomo Regional at Walter Cross Field.

May 24, 2013
Eastern dominates Taylor in softball
GREENTOWN — The third time turned out not to be the charm for the Taylor softball squad as Eastern improved to 3-0 on the season over its backyard rival Wednesday night, ousting the Titans from the Class 2A Eastern Sectional 15-0 in five innings.

May 23, 2013 1 Photo
Barnes sets Taylor's career hits record
Taylor baseball standout Logan Barnes made his final game at George Phares Field one to remember.
Barnes pitched four solid innings to lead Taylor past Monroe Central 9-3 Tuesday. In addition, he went 2 for 3 at the plate, pushing his career hits total to a school-record 142.

May 22, 2013 1 Photo
Kats drop heartbreaker
When the postseason arrives, emotions surge like a roller-coaster. One minute, it’s a long uphill, then a wild series of events offer a barrage of frights and thrills. And then, for one team, the ride ends and there aren’t any more tickets for another go around.
After two days of chills and thrills, Kokomo’s softball team ran out of tickets Tuesday night in the Class 4A Harrison Sectional. The Kats dropped a 4-3 decision to Harrison in eight innings, giving up a run in the top of the extra frame, and having a runner tagged out at home in the bottom of the frame.
“It was a great game,” Harrison coach Dick Mitchell said. “It’s always nerve-wracking to coach in one of them, but both teams played their hearts out. Nobody deserved to lose that game, but unfortunately somebody does.”

May 22, 2013 1 Photo
Comets turn heads at track regional
Heading into Tuesday’s IHSAA girls track and field regional at Fort Wayne Northrop High School’s Spuller Stadium, event workers alike weren’t sure of Eastern High School’s location.
After the dust settled, they may feel compelled to get a map out and find out where Greentown is located.
Led by seniors Sarah Wagner, Brittany Neeley and Bethany Neeley, the Comets qualified for the state finals in six separate events to finish fourth as a team with 55.5 points, behind host and champion Northrop (78), Bellmont (68) and Carroll (Allen) 66.

May 22, 2013 2 Photos
GASKINS: Hibbert’s block was thing of beauty
For the better part of the NBA season, ESPN devoted all kinds of time on SportsCenter episodes to replays of two dunks. Anyone who watches any ESPN at all surely knows the two to which I’m referring: 6-foot-11 DeAndre Jordan of the Los Angeles Clippers posterizing 6-3 Brandon Knight of the Detroit Pistons, and 6-8 LeBron James of the Miami Heat hammering home a dunk over 6-2 Jason Terry of the Boston Celtics.
Day after day, ESPN commentators lavished endless praise, which quickly grew tiresome. The dunks were strong, but Jordan and James were much taller and heavier than Knight and Terry and the dunkers also caught perfect alley-oop passes with the defenders in poor positions to defend. Still, ESPN commentators loved these plays.
I kept wondering if a great defensive play would receive the same kind of love.

May 21, 2013 1 Photo
Coons, Walker, Glassburn reach Victory Lane
When the dust settled Sunday evening at the Kokomo Speedway, a pair of drivers who have visited Victory Lane in the past at the local oval found themselves there once again while a talented up-and-comer hit the hallowed ground for the first time.
Jerry Coons Jr. had his way in the sprint car feature and Craig Walker seemed to get faster as the laps wound down to win the Street Stock main event, however Kokomo High School sophomore Kory Glassburn had to scratch and fight before scoring the first feature win of his career in the Thunder Car A-main.

May 21, 2013
Field is set for Indianapolis 500
After being bumped from the starting field while sitting on the qualifying line on pole day, Josef Newgarden turned the fastest time on bump day, assuring himself a spot in the Indianapolis 500.
The field of 33 cars will have one final opportunity to practice on Friday before next Sunday’s 97th running of the 500.
One year ago the Sarah Fisher Racing Team withdrew Newgarden’s entry on the first day of qualifying and had to qualify on bump day. This year the team decided not to make another qualifying run and got bumped.

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