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January 22, 2013

Local sports briefs: Jan. 22, 2013

Anonymous From staff reports The Kokomo Tribune Tue Jan 22, 2013, 12:22 AM EST

Boys basketball week tips off tonight

Northwestern’s boys basketball team faces a busy schedule this week with games tonight, Friday and Saturday. Tonight, the Tigers (5-5) visit North Miami (1-11).

Also tonight, Taylor (4-10) hosts Sheridan (8-3). Sheridan, which is coached by former Tri-Central standout Cory Dunn, opened the season with six straight wins but has gone 2-3 since.

The following is this week’s area schedule. JV games start at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Today

Sheridan at Taylor

Northwestern at North Miami

Friday

Peru at Western

Carroll at Northwestern

Maconaquah at Cass

Hamilton Heights at Tipton

Attica at Clinton Central

6:30 — Kokomo at Anderson

Saturday

1 p.m. — Taylor at Madison-Grant

Northwestern at Sheridan

Harrison at Kokomo

Eastern at Tipton

Tri-Central at Manchester

Cass at Clinton Central

It’s penultimate week for girls regular season

The girls basketball regular season is entering the stretch drive, with games this week followed by the state tournament draw on Sunday, and then the final week of the regular season.

The following is this week’s area schedule. JV games start at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Today

Western at Tri-Central

Oak Hill at Eastern

Hamilton Heights at Tipton

Wednesday

Frankfort at Kokomo

Thursday

Peru at Taylor

Lafayette Jeff at Tipton

Friday

6:30 — Anderson at Kokomo

Saturday

Noon — Western at Maconaquah

1 p.m. — Northwestern at Eastern

1 p.m. — Rensselaer at Tipton

Western girls move into 3A rankings

Western’s girls basketball team moved into the Class 3A rankings this week, settling at No. 10 a week after beating No. 3 Benton Central. The BC girls fell a spot to second. Western (15-3) also has split a pair of games with new No. 2 Lebanon this season.

Eastern’s girls are ranked No. 8 in Class 2A, down a spot from last week.

On the boys side, Tipton held its No. 3 ranking in Class 2A following an overtime victory over Kokomo on Saturday. The Wildkats fell from the Class 4A rankings with that loss.

Local softball team takes tourney title

WEST LAFAYETTE — The Howard County Thunder 13U girls softball team won the USFA Old Man Winter tournament Sunday at the Family Sports Center. The Thunder posted a 5-1 record in winning the 11-team tournament.

Team members are Alexis Clark, Chase Epp, Lexi Jackson, Crystal Metz, Carlie Ritchie, Lexy Sanders, Bailey Thatcher, Meg Tuberty, Morgan Tuberty, Paige Ward and Holy Widner. The squad is coached by Troy Clark, Rusty Ritchie and Chris Tuberty.

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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.

May 20, 2013 1 Photo
Athlete of the week
Cole led the small-school Comets to the Kokomo Sectional title, their first title since 1998.

May 20, 2013 1 Photo
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