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  • Perry Central outshoots Tell City, Jasper Monday

    ENGLISH - Zach Graves shot a 4-over-par 44 for medalist honors as Perry Central won a boys triangular golf match Monday.

    Perry Central shot 177 strokes, Jasper 181, and Tell City 196. Jasper did not bring its top five golfers, though it was scheduled as a varsity match.

    Graves birdied the par-4 No. 4 hole.

    Besides Graves, Perry Central scorers were Charles Weatherholt with a 44, Zach Rogier 46, and Travis Goffinet 47.

    Anthony Rennie, who shot a 48, and Logan Shearn, 52, also played for the Commodores.

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  • PC loses two PLAC games

    LEOPOLD - Paoli scored two runs in the eighth inning to beat Perry Central 12-10 in PLAC girls softball Monday.

    Perry Central had tied the score 10-10 in the bottom of the seventh on Cassy Schaad's two-run double.

    That was the Commodores' first runs since the first inning, when they scored eight as Schaad hit a double and a single. She went 3 for 5 with four RBIs.

    Ashley Brown also went 3 for 5 for the Commodores. Hilarie Hahus went 2 for 3 plus walked once and was hit by a pitch once. Morgan Gibson drove in two runs.

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  • Bulldogs lose three games

    MONTGOMERY - Barr-Reeve escaped a bases-loaded situation in the seventh inning to beat Cannelton 5-2 in baseball Monday.

    Cannelton loaded the bases with one out in the seventh, bringing the potential winning run to the plate.

    But two fly balls followed (the first too shallow for the runner from third to tag up and score), ending the game.

    Stephen Lane and Justin Dooley each went 2 for 4 to lead Cannelton's six-hit attack.

    Lane pitched a complete game, giving up eight hits and two walks and striking out three.

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  • Huber sets 3 records in Dubois invitational

    DUBOIS - Nick Huber broke three school records and two meet records as he led Perry Central to third place in Northeast Dubois' boys track invitational Tuesday.

    Northeast Dubois won the seven-team meet with 166 points. Perry Central scored 108.

    Huber cleared 6 feet, 6 inches to win the high jump, breaking the school record of 6-5 he previously shared with Loyd Jobe.

    Huber won the 110-meter high hurdles in 14.50 seconds, breaking his own school record of 14.57 and the meet record of 15.06 set by Jeff Higdon in 1990.

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  • TC goes 2-2 in tourney

    HAWESVILLE, Ky. - Lauren Roberts pitched a five-hit shutout as Tell City beat Webster County 6-0 Saturday morning in its second pool game of Hancock County's girls softball tourney.

    The Marksmen, who had beaten Owensboro Friday, lost their last two games, 10-2 to Hancock County and 9-8 in eight innings to Ohio County, to finish 2-2 in the tourney.

    Roberts struck out four and walked two against Webster County.

    Her teammates backed her with eight hits. Casi Hay hit a single and a double and Lauren Goffinet also had two hits.

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  • Mitchell rallies to defeat PC

    LEOPOLD - Mitchell broke open a pitchers' duel with six runs in the sixth inning to beat Perry Central 6-2 in PLAC baseball Monday.

    Perry Central left-hander Wes Linette and Mitchell's Steve Tomlinson matched scoreless innings until the sixth.

    Linette struck out the first batter he faced in the sixth. Then "I think he got a little tired," said Perry Central Coach Ty Guillaume.

    The next four batters singled, walked, singled and walked to get the big inning started. Linette was relieved by Andrew Harpenau before the inning was over.

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  • Marksmen overtake Bears in bottom of 7th

    TELL CITY - Tell City rallied for four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to beat Evansville Central 7-6 in baseball Tuesday.

    Central had led from the first inning and appeared to be in good shape after scoring a run in the top of the seventh on a walk, a stolen base and a single to increase its lead to 6-3.

    But in the bottom of the seventh Tell City loaded the bases with one out on walks to Andy Chinn and Jordan Rhodes sandwiched around a bloop single to right field by Cody Pfeifer.

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  • TC musicians earn gold, silver ratings in contests

    TELL CITY - As Tell City High School musicians exited the sight-reading portion of a concert-band competition Saturday, a judge "said that he'd just heard the most musical performance of the weekend so far," Tell City High School Music Director Barry Reasoner told his students.

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  • Students earn state awards

    CANNELTON - Perry County's animal shelter and the furry friends-in-waiting who live there have four young, state-certified allies in the Cannelton Media Club.

    This year's media-club membership started out larger, but has dwindled to the handful of 9- and 10-year-olds who now assemble for after-school meetings Tuesdays at Myers Grade School. Their impact, however, is much larger than their size and age indicates. As has become customary for teacher Joan Goble's media-club students, the current group has proven itself worthy of state-level recognition.

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  • Second-chance contestant comes home with $10,000

    TELL CITY - Howie Mandel didn't have to utter the words "deal or no deal" for Stormy Huff to come home with $10,000.

    The Tell City resident wasn't a game-playing contestant but won his prize while seeing if he would be while in Hollywood the week of April 14.

    He and four other Hoosiers earned the opportunity for the trip thanks to the Hoosier Lottery's second chance drawing of "Deal or No Deal" scratch-off tickets.

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