Published: September 03, 2008 01:16 am         

PREP ROUNDUP: Panthers spike Berries

LHS suffers 1st defeat in volleyball; Warriors beat Culver to move to 9-3 on the season

The Pioneer volleyball team was able to overcome a big size advantage for Logansport in a 18-25, 27-25, 25-19, 25-22 win at the Berry Bowl Tuesday night.

The win knocked the Berries (3-1) from the ranks of undefeated.

“Pioneer’s defense played wonderful. They came ready to play,” Logan coach Jamee Jones said. “We knew if you give them an inch, they’d take a mile. We gave them the momentum and they ran with it.

“We’ve got to get back to the drawing board.”

For Logan, Kelsey Victor had 15 kills, Kian Rombold had nine and Jasmine Penny added seven. Rombold added three aces, and Erin Angle distributed 17 assists.

Jones wasn’t pleased with her squad’s defense in the contest.

“We’re not covering our blocking girls,” she said. “We had girls out of place and they hit it right in the middle where we weren’t.”

Another key factor was missed serves by the Berries.

“We gave up a lot of points on serving mistakes. We’ve got girls that are young and inexperienced at the varsity level. They need to understand you can’t give up all those free points,” Jones said. “We’ve got great servers. They’re just trying to get aces, and they’ve got to get it on their minds they don’t need to try to get an ace every time. We’ve got great hitters and we need to play out the point sometimes.”

“It was frustrating,” the Logan coach added. “We’re still optimistic we can get this hammered out. We’ve got incredible athletes this year.”

The Berries host the Logan Classic on Saturday. The Panthers return to action on Thursday when they host Northwestern.

Winamac 3, Culver 0

The Lady Warriors improved to 9-3 with a 25-13, 25-22, 25-21 win.

Erika Redweik had a game-high 22 kills while her younger sister Sarah dished out 28 assists. Rachael Franko had eight digs.

“It’s always nice to have the ‘W,” but it wasn’t our prettiest win so far,” Winamac coach Cathy DeFries said. “We lacked intensity, and I would have liked to have seen us be a little more aggressive throughout the game instead of just in spurts. We still played very well. Our blocking game has to improve to help our defense out. We will be working out some kinks the rest of this week to get ready for the Kankakee Valley Tournament on Saturday.

“Erika Redweik looked very strong with a great attack game. She and her sister Sarah read each other very well and Sarah has such a great court sense and good hands to put it right where she needs the set to be.”

Delphi 3, Frontier 1

The Lady Oracles moved to 2-5 with the 24-26, 26-24, 25-22, 25-13 victory.

Brittany Nelson had 12 kills and seven blocks and Jordyn Bieghler set up 17 assists while pounding out five aces.

Olivia George had seven digs and Leslie Kayser added five. Brittney Atwood contributed seven aces and Haley Richardson had six.

“The first game they had us down nine and we came back to tie it at 24-24,” Oracles coach Suzanne Hughes said. “Even though we lost that game, I was proud to see us play from behind and come that close. In the second game we were able to hold them off after they made a nice comeback. That was the first time I’ve seen this team do those things. And in the fourth game we just dominated. Everyone finally came together and just played very well together.”

Delphi travels to Rossville on Thursday.

West Central 3, Morgan Township 1

The Lady Trojans improved their record to 4-1 with the win over Morgan Township.

West Central took games one and two 25-18, 25-14 before dropping the third game 22-25. The Trojans came back and took the match with a win in the fourth game 25-12.

Leading the way for West Central was Makenna Hamilton with 11 kills followed by Riley Cervenka and Chantel Conley with 10 each. Rylie Pfledderer had 25 assists and 6 digs. Conley was high for the team with 5 service aces.

West Central also won the JV game 2-1 with 15-25, 25-20, 15-10 scores.

Tri-County Invitational

The Pioneer Lady Panthers volleyball team won the Tri-County Invitational Saturday by defeating rival Winamac in the championship game 22-25, 25-20, 15-13.

To get to the championship game, Pioneer had to go through Carroll 25-23, 25-12, North White 25-12, 15-6 and West Central 25-16, 25-12.

Leading the way for Pioneer on the day was Ashley Gerlach with 23 kills. She was followed by Kelly Gates with 18 and Kelsey Williams with 17.

Haleigh Williams was credited with 39 assists and Cortney Hanson with 29. Leading the team in digs with 14 was Haleigh Williams, with Tori Cole adding 12 and Abby Beach adding 11.

Leading the team in blocks was Kelsey Williams with 12 and Gerlach with 10. Gerlach also had 11 aces on the day with Hanson adding eight and Chelsea Corn adding seven.

BOYS TENNIS

Lewis Cass 5, Hamilton Heights 0

Lewis Cass improved to 7-3 overall and 1-1 in Mid-Indiana Conference play with the shutout win.

Cass’ Doug Engle won 6-1, 6-1 at the No. 1 singles. Cameron Cummings won at No. 2 singles by a score of 6-0, 6-2. At the No. 3 singles spot for Cass it was Sean Ritz winning 6-1, 6-2.

For Lewis Cass at the No. 1 doubles spot it was Jaren Downhour and Drew Fowler winning 6-2, 6-4. In the No. 2 doubles spot it was the team of Josh Hansen and Dillon Mund winning 6-2, 6-1.

The Kings will be in action again today when they play host to Carroll.

Lafayette Central Catholic 5, Delphi 0

The Oracles were blanked by the Knights.

At the No. 1 singles spot it was the Knights’ Mat Bagnoli defeating Andrew Flora 6-1, 6-4. For Delphi at the No. 2 singles spot it was Ethan Ross losing to Tyler King 6-4, 6-0. At No. 3 singles, Alex Novak defeated Quinton Pearson 6-3, 6-1.

The No. 1 doubles tandem of Nick Zink and James Wethington were blanked by Central Catholic’s Christopher Laneve and Anthony Laneve by a score of 6-0, 6-0. The No. 2 doubles team of Trey White and Caleb Beighler faired no better as they also dropped their match 6-0, 6-0 to Dru Anthrop and Chase Thieme.

The Oracles (0-7) travel to Rossville on Thursday.

Carroll 3, Attica 2

Carroll recorded its first tennis win of the season by turning back a stubborn Attica team.

Getting wins for the Cougars were Aaron Spesard downing Shawn Allen 6-3, 5-7, 6-0 at No. 2 singles, Kyle Seward over Justin Maynard 7-6, 3-6, 6-2 at No. 3 singles, and Kyle Geheb and Hunter Upton beating Nick Johnson and Cameron Wilson 6-1, 6-0 at No. 1 doubles.

Taking losses for Carroll were Isiah Stevens to Dylan Helton 6-2, 6-4 at No. 1 singles, and Blake Barnard and Dallas Butcher to Adam Bloesch and Tristian Reece 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 at No. 2 doubles.

Carroll is now 1-3 with the win and will be at Lewis Cass tonight.

BOYS CROSS COUNTRY

Maconaquah 27, Kokomo 40, Logansport 61

Logansport finished third in a three-way meet at Maconaquah. Leading the way and finishing first overall was Kyle Overway with a time of 17:40. He was followed by Clayton Stuart in 11th, Alex Ellington in 12th, Michael Anderson in 18th and Andrew Bowles coming in at 19th.

The Berries will be in action again on Saturday when they run at the Caston Invite.

GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY

Maconaquah 34, Logansport 39, Kokomo 48

Leading the way for Logan was Ashlynn Morrill, who was runner-up among individuals in 23:22. She was followed by Michelle Cline (24:23) in sixth, Marilyn Conteras (24:35) in 7th, Allison Morrill (25:25) in 11th and Kelsey Danhauser (26:21) in 13th.

Logansport is now 2-1 and will run at the Caston Invite on Saturday.

BOYS SOCCER

Carroll 4, Rossville 0

Carroll goalie Cody Abdon earned the shutout win.

Carroll found the back of the net in the first half when Chase Meade scored off a header 13 minutes into the game to give Carroll a 1-0 lead.

With 21 minutes left in the half the Cougars struck again with a goal from brother Cody Meade to make it a 2-0 game. Carroll scored their third goal of the half with three minutes to go when Steve Anderson scored off a penalty kick.

Both teams came out in the second half playing some solid defense and neither team was able to get on the board until Carroll struck one last time with Michael Myer putting one past the Rossville goalie with two minutes left in the game.

For the game Abdon was credited with eight saves.

The Cougars will be back in action again on Thursday when they travel to Lafayette Central Catholic.