Today's Sports

By LARRY GOFFINET
Sports Editor

LEOPOLD—Sydney Goffinet hit a triple and a home run in a 14-run third-inning that carried Perry Central past Tell City 22-5 in girls softball Friday.
Perry Central had seven hits that inning, with Ashley Guillaume also getting two.
The Commodores also took advantage of six walks, a hit batsman, four wild pitches and three passed balls that inning, which saw Tell City go through three pitchers.
Goffinet started the inning with a triple to left field.

DUBOIS—Perry Central won seven of 17 events but finished second to Forest Park in Northeast Dubois’ seven-team boys track invitational Tuesday.
Forest Park scored 171 points and Perry Central had 141.5.
“Forest Park just has excellent sprinters,” said Perry Central Coach Jason Barnett. “And my distance runners were tired—we’ve been working them pretty hard.”
Still four of the Commo-dores’ wins were in distance races.
Alex Newton won the 1600-meter run in 4:46.59 and the 3200 in 10:25.62.

EVANSVILLE—Evansville Central scored six runs on one hit in the sixth inning to beat Tell City 13-11 in baseball Tuesday.
The Bears drew seven walks from three Tell City pitchers that inning.
Tell City had scored three runs in the top of the inning to take a 10-7 lead.
The Marksmen outhit the Bears 13-8. Spenser Beard, Austin Paulin, Gant Miller and Trent Zuelly each had two hits for the Marksmen.
Casey May, Trent Rainey, Miller and C.J. Rowe each hit a double.
Beard and Miller each had three RBIs and Paulin added two.

MARENGO—Miranda Claise pitched shutouts against PLAC opponents Saturday and Monday as Perry Central put itself in the driver’s seat for its first conference softball title.
Claise pitched a four-hitter as the Commodores beat Crawford County 3-0 Satur-day. She struck out nine and walked two.
Brittany Parker hit a triple and scored on an error for the game’s first run in the second inning.
Morgan Richardson capped the scoring with a solo home run over the left-field fence in the seventh inning.