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Today's Sports

  • Whitesville holds off Cannelton

    CANNELTON - Brooke Powers made 15 spikes but Cannelton lost to Whitesville Trinity 25-15, 23-25, 25-18, 25-15 in volleyball Thursday.

    Hannah Baur added 10 spikes and four blocks and Sarah Powers had nine spikes, including five kills, for the Bulldogs. Nakaa Myers made five spikes and two blocks.

    Tora Walls made four blocks.

    Myer served four aces and Baur added three.

    Jaci Garrett made five digs.

    Despite the loss, "we played a lot better than we did against Orleans," said Cannelton Coach Heather Daum. "We communicated better and we passed better."

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  • Tecumseh beats TC

    TELL CITY - Tell City won in No. 1 doubles but Tecumseh won all the other matches to beat Tell City 4-1 in PAC boys tennis Tuesday.

    Andy Kast and Greg Hollinden overcame a first-set loss to beat Kraig Bowen and Robb Clifton 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 in No. 1 doubles.

    Tecumseh's Kyle Fischer and Jordan Lamborn shut out Trent Wheatley and Patrick Hagedorn 6-0, 6-0 in No. 2 doubles.

    Tell City's Andy Chinn shut out Adam Westerman 6-0 in the first set of their No. 1 singles match. But Westerman came back to win the next two sets 6-4, 7-5.

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  • Tell City 3rd in tri-meet

    TELL CITY - Amber Thomas shot a 49 to lead Tell City but the Marksmen lost to Jasper and Floyd Central in girls golf Tuesday.

    Jasper won with 187 strokes. Floyd Central shot 197 and Tell City 250.

    Britney Hendershot was Tell City's second leading scorer. She shot a season-best 60 despite having a little trouble with her short game (22 putts).

    Megan Neyenhaus shot 67 and C.J. Fentress 74 to complete the Marksmen's scoring.

    Jessica Ballman was their fifth player with a 75 and Amber Fentress was sixth with a 76.

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  • Perry Central 1-2 in tipoff...

    LEOPOLD - Megan Hedinger made nine kills and served six aces as Perry Central beat South Spencer 25-15, 23-25, 15-8 in the Perry Central tipoff volleyball tourney Saturday.

    Perry Central lost its other two matches to Southridge 25-9, 25-8 and to Northeast Dubois to finish third in the four-team round-robin.

    Jessica Huber backed Hedinger with six kills against South Spencer. Molly Harth and Kyla Edwards each added three.

    Tessa Lynch and Sloan Harpenau each had eight assists. Hilarie Hahus made five digs.

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  • TC tops Bosse, goes 2-1 in...

    TELL CITY - Lauren Goffinet made 13 kills and seven digs as Tell City beat Bosse 25-12, 25-15, 25-13 in volleyball Tuesday.

    Elizabeth Kohnert added seven kills and six digs and Leslie Poole also made six digs.

    Julie Davis had 19 assists.

    Jamie Brinksneader served 12 points, including two aces, and Kohnert added 11 points.

    No one made more than one block for the Marksmen because "we didn't have a lot of opportunities to block," said Tell City Coach Dalonda Hayes.

    Tell City went 2-1 in Harrison's six-team tourney Saturday.

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  • PC boys win Boonville meet

    BOONVILLE - Perry Central placed four runners in the top 11 to win the Boonville invitational boys cross country meet Saturday.

    Tell City, led by fourth-place finisher Alex Fenn, placed fourth in the 14-team meet.

    Tell City freshman Sarah Goffinet won the girls race to lead the Marksmen to third place in it. Perry Central finished fourth.

    Jake Schwartz placed third in 16:43, one second ahead of Tell City's Fenn, to lead Perry Central in the boys race.

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  • Commodores stop Cougars

    LEOPOLD - Perry Central held South Decatur to 18 yards of total offense and got a big offensive game from T.J. Hall to beat the Cougars 30-6 in football Saturday.

    The Commodores totally stopped South Decatur's running game, holding the Cougars to minus-2 yards on 25 carries.

    A 20-yard loss after a bad snap on what was supposed to be a punt and two quarterback sacks - one by Dakota Huff and one by Robbie Piper - severely hurt the Cougars' rushing yardage.

    But their top running back, Lincoln Hacker, gained only 35 yards on 18 carries.

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  • Thomas leads Tell City past...

    ROCKPORT - Amber Thomas shot a 6-over-par 42 to lead Tell City past South Spencer 238-241 in girls golf Wednesday.

    Thomas birdied two holes, the par-3 No. 3 hole and the par-4 No. 6 hole, on her way to medalist honors on the Lakewood Country Club course.

    She turned in her best score of the season and tied for the best of her career.

    She finished seven strokes ahead of South Spencer leader Shayna Miller.

    Tell City's second and third scorers were C.J. Fentress with a 63 and Jessica Ballman 65.

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  • Cougars defeat Perry Central

    LEOPOLD - Perry Central had good spiking and serving statistics but lost to North Harrison 13-25, 25-17, 25-27, 25-8, 15-12 in volleyball Thursday.

    Megan Hedinger made 13 kills and 10 blocks for Perry Central.

    Jessica Huber added eight kills and two blocks and Emily Tempel made four kills.

    Sloan Harpenau had 13 assists and Tessa Lynch added 10 to aid the hitters.

    Lynch served three aces and Huber added two. Kyla Edwards went 15 for 15 serving with one ace.

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  • Gibson Southern tops Tell City

    TELL CITY - Learning a new offense and having serve reception problems contributed to Tell City's 25-16, 19-25, 25-21, 25-10 PAC volleyball loss to Gibson Southern Thursday.

    "We just put in a new offense yesterday (switching from a 5-1 to a 6-2) and I felt like that was a learning experience again," said Tell City Coach Dalonda Hayes.

    Paige Gelarden, who became the second setter in the new offense, had eight assists and original setter Julie Davis had 11. And the Marksmen "had more attacks than we'd had in the last two games," said Hayes.

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