Thursday, September 29, 2011

Thursday wrap: Dragons, Cougars HHC champs

The New Palestine Dragons and Greenfield-Central Cougars are both celebrating Hoosier Heritage Conference soccer championships tonight. 
The Dragons bounced back from an early deficit to beat Pendleton Heights 4-1. G-C had five different goal scorers in a 5-0 victory over Rushville. 

The two teams will begin sectional play Wednesday at G-C -- the Cougars open against Shelbyville at 5 p.m., the Dragons then will meet Mt. Vernon at 7 p.m. 
The championship game will be at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8. The broadcast will be live on www.hancockcountysports.com. 

New Palestine 4, Pendleton Heights 1: Bryson Basaran scored three goals and assisted in the Dragons' other tally. Senior Wes Fox had a goal and an assist.The Dragons finish the regular season 11-5 and 6-1 in Hoosier Heritage Conference play. 

PH drew first blood, but Basaran scored twice to give the Dragons a 2-1 lead going into the half. Dillon Pike and Ryan Perkins assisted on the two goals. In the second half, Basaran fed Fox for an early goal, and then Fox fed Basaran to complete the hat trick. 
NP coach Bobby Holden credited the eight-person senior class for playing with the most passion of any group he's ever seen. 
"What a game to end the season on," said Holden, who completed his first regular season as the Dragons' head coach, and noted the Pendleton Heights roster he coached to a semistate appearance last year. "There was not a player on the field that I did not know, which makes it very enjoyable to coach.  Every player did their part to play the game while on the field and those players should all be very proud."

Greenfield-Central 5, Rushville 0: The Cougars clinched their piece of the HHC title with five different goal scorers. 
Adam Koers had a goal and an assist. Angel Rodriguez, Jerry Spencer, Gabe Collins and Trent Barnhart all scored for the Cougars. Ross Morgan and Joe McClarnon added assists. 

The game was called after five minutes of the second half due to weather. 
The Cougars have an 11-3-1 record. They will host Fishers on Senior Night Monday evening.


Volleyball
Greenfield-Central 3, Pendleton Heights 1: The Cougars won a big road HHC match 25-19, 19-25, 25-15, 25-22. That improves G-C's record to 10-14 overall and 2-4 in conference play.

Shay Pope set a school record with 31 kills -- the most in a match in G-C history. Maddi Graham and Jordan Bunch recorded nine kills each. Megan Bradley had 44 assists. Alex Colclazier had 17 digs, while Caitey Sosnowski had nine digs.

The Cougars next play Tuesday at home against Hamilton Southeastern. 

New Palestine 3, Triton Central 0: The Dragons improved to 18-7 on the year with a three-set victory over Triton Central. The Dragons won 25-13, 25-8, 25-10. NPHS next plays Tuesday at Shelbyville.

The Dragon JV also won 2-1.


Boys tennis
Sectional postponed: Weather postponed the boys tennis sectional. New Palestine plays Mt. Vernon and Greenfield-Central meets Eastern Hancock at 4:15 p.m. Friday in the semifinals. The title match is 10 a.m. Saturday at Mt. Vernon. 

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