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Today's Sports

  • Cassidy leads small, quick all-...

    Perry Central dominated Perry County (and much of southwestern Indiana) with a small but quick boys basketball team this year.

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  • Tell City places 3rd in PAC

    LINCOLN CITY—Tell City had five individual champions as it tied for third in the nine-team PAC junior high wrestling tourney Saturday.
    Southridge won with 302 points. Tell City scored 237.
    Southridge had only three champions but used its superior depth to win the tourney.
    All five Tell City champions finished the season undefeated.
    Tell City’s Nate Kaiser pinned Race Britton of Pike Central for the 80-pound title to finish the season 15-0.

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  • Roos writes book about Spuds’...

    By LARRY GOFFINET
    Sports Editor

    IRELAND—Mike Roos played high school basketball for Tell City and has lived in Ohio for 39 years.
    His parents are Dale High School graduates and his father’s last job in education was principal of Rockport High School 1963-64.
    So why has Roos written a book about tiny Ireland’s regional championship basketball team of 50 years ago?

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  • Braunecker places 5th in 200 free

     

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  • Jasper overtakes Tell City late

     

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  • Graves, Parker make All-PLAC...

    By LARRY GOFFINET
    Sports Editor

    LEOPOLD—Perry Central center Ashley Graves made the All-PLAC girls basketball team for the third time Thursday and teammate Brittany Parker made it for the first time.
    Graves was the second leading vote-getter on the team behind Paoli guard Sophie Sears, whose team won the conference undefeated.
    Graves, a 6-foot-1 senior, did not play basketball until she was in the eighth grade and saw only limited varsity action as a freshman.

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  • Perry Central places 3 boys on...

    By LARRY GOFFINET
    Sports Editor

    LEOPOLD—Three Perry Central seniors were named to the All-PLAC boys basketball team in voting by conference coaches Thursday.
    Forward/guards Tanner Cassidy and Derek Thomas made it for the third year in a row and guard Abe Schwartz made it for the first time.
    Cassidy was a nearly unanimous pick as the top player in the conference, being voted No. 1 by five of the six coaches eligible to vote for him (coaches could not vote for their own players) and No. 2 by the other one.

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  • Miners edge PC for regional title

    By LARRY GOFFINET
    Sports Editor

    HUNTINGBURG—Taking advantage of its superior height, Linton-Stockton worked the ball inside consistently to beat Perry Central 68-63 for the Class 2A boys basketball regional title Saturday night.
    Dess Fougerousse, a 6-foot-5 forward, and Austin Karazsia, a 6-8 center, combined for 48 of the Miners’ points on 19 of 25 field-goal shooting and 9 of 10 free-throw shooting.

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  • Perry Central blitzes...

    By LARRY GOFFINET
    Sports Editor

    HUNTINGBURG—Perry Central forced 17 turnovers, including 10 on steals, to beat Switzerland County 60-46 in the first round of the Class 2A boys basketball regional Saturday.
    The Commodores improved to 22-3, setting a school record for victories in a season, as they won a regional game for the first time ever.
    They forced three turnovers as they went on an 8-2 lead to start the third quarter, building their lead to 19 points, 41-22.

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  • Tell City shut out on All-PAC...

    By LARRY GOFFINET
    Sports Editor

    FERDINAND—No Tell City players were selected to the All-PAC boys basketball team Monday, but seniors Matthew Watts and Brian Arnold received honorable mention.
    Voting was done by conference coaches, with no coach allowed to vote for his own players.
    Tell City Coach Brent Owen said he thinks the Marksmen “maybe could maybe have gotten one on there if” he had told the other coaches that he preferred they vote for one Tell City player over the other.

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