Dragons advance to gymnastics regional

The New Palestine gymnastics team finished third in the New Palestine gymnastics sectional Saturday, and advances as a team to Friday's regional at Lafayette Jeff.

 

The Dragons scored 105.975 to nose out Noblesville by four tenths of a point to advance. Roncalli (108.225) and Franklin Central (105.025) finished first and second.

 

Junior Kenzi Hoffman led the Dragons, finishing with a 35.2 all-around score, placing fourth in the all-around competition. Junior Whitney Weileman (32.925) was 11th in the all-around.

 

Hoffman was fourth on vault (9.5), fifth on the floor exercise (8.775), seventh on balance beam (8.425) and ninth on uneven bars (8.5).

 

Weileman was third on uneven bars (9.225) and tied for eighth on vault (9.15).

 

Shelly Huesman was seventh (8.6) on bars. On balance beam, Jessica Marshall placed 10th (8.2).

 

The regional will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Lafayette Jeff. The State Finals are March 17 at Worthen Arena at Ball State University.

Tuesday wrap: great matchups

All 3 county teams who played tonight fell as the final week of the regular season began tonight, but all three fell in their Tuesday-night contests.

Morristown 80, Eastern Hancock 68: The Royals and Yellow Jackets hooked up in a back-and-forth tussle that saw Morristown pull away in the final five minutes. A big reason why was the play of 6-foot-4 Morristown senior Dylan Langkabel. He had 44 points -- 30 in the second half -- to carry the Yellow Jackets to the victory.

Langkabel scored 15 points in each the third and fourth quarters and helped the Jackets pull away. EH led 31-30 at the half and had a 38-32 lead in the third quarter, but Langkabel led an 8-1 run that saw Morristown take the lead at 40-39. He also hit a 3-pointer and a pull-up jumper on back-to-back possessions to turn a three-point edge into a 65-57 game and essentially put it away midway through the fourth.

Victor Vincz followed up his 52-point game from last week by leading four Royals in double-figures, with 24 points, eight rebounds and eight assists. Isaiah McCormick had 13 points, including three 3-pointers. Garrett Hancock also hit three triples -- EH hit 10 for the game -- and scored 11 points. Jared Pyle battled foul trouble but finished with 12 points and five rebounds. Cody Wallace had six rebounds.

You can listen to the archive of tonight's game at HancockCountySports.com

EH (10-9) finishes Friday against Hagerstown.

Westfield 59, Mt. Vernon 52: The Marauders dropped their third straight game -- all against 4A schools -- against a strong Shamrocks team on the road.

Stephen Turner led the Marauders with 19 points and 10 rebounds. C.J. Coleman scored 15. Center Wade Burtron led Westfield with 21 points.

Westfield built an early 10-point lead. MV cut it to one on several occasions, but couldn't get over the hump, as Westfield outscored the Marauders 26-20 in the fourth quarter.

MV is now 12-7 and finishes the regular season Friday at Yorktown. That game will be live at HancockCountySports.com

Connersville 59, Greenfield-Central 29: The Cougars hung tough for a half, trailing 26-23 at the break, but Connersville started the second half on a big run and outscored G-C 33-6 after the break to pull away.

G-C finishes the regular season 3-17, and opens sectional play Tuesday at New Castle against the same Spartan team it played tonight.

New Palestine was idle tonight, and finishes the regular season Friday at Greenwood. NP is 13-6.

Gymnastics
New Palestine posts season-high score:New Palestine's gymnastics team posted a season-high score in a 103.0-85.725 victory over the Shelbyville Golden Bears.

 

Kenzi Hoffman swept the meet, winning first place in all four events and the all-around. She scored 9.05 on vault, 8.85 on uneven bars, 9.225 on balance beam and 9.025 on the floor exercise. Her winning all-around score was 36.150. Senior Jessica Marshall placed second on beam (9.0) and in all-around (32.975). Ciarra Hough was second on floor (8.725) and third in all-around (30.275). Whitney Weileman was second on vault (8.3) and bars (8.6).Maddie Wallace and Julie Hilton tied for fourth on vault (8.15).

 

The Dragons' next meet will be Saturday's Columbus East Olympian Invitational, which will begin at noon.

 

Wednesday wrap: NP gymnasts win

The Dragon gymnasts beat Tri 98.675-38.375 Wednesday at NPE. 

 

The Dragons won all four events, with Kenzi Hoffman winning the vault (8.6), balance beam (9.35) and floor exercise (8.85) and placing second on uneven bars (8.025). She naturally took the all-around competition (34.825). 

 

Jessica Marshall was second in all-around (32.025), with a second-place finish on balance beam (8.825) and floor (7.9). Whitney Weileman was third in all-around (31.1), including a victory on uneven bars (8.4). She was second on vault (8.55) and third on balance beam (6.775). 

 

NP swept the top six places in the vault. Also placing in the top three for NP were Julie Hilton (3rd, vault 8.35), Shelly Huesman (3rd, bars, 7.675) and Ciarra Hough (3rd, floor, 7.375). 

 

The Dragons visit Morristown Thursday for a 3-way meet with Richmond.

More weekend wrap: Gymnastics

The New Palestine gymnastics team placed fifth out of 14 teams in Saturday's Valentine's Invitational at Bloomington North.

 

The Dragons totaled a score of 98.25. Kenzi Hoffman placed eighth on floor (8.85), second on vault ( 9.45) and seventh in all-around (33.975).

 

Jessica Marshall placed 10th on beam (8.15) Whitney Weileman placed 11th on bars (8.0). The Dragons host Tri Wednesday and travel to Morristown Thursday for a three-way meet with the host Yellow Jackets and Richmond.

Gymnastics: New Palestine wins

The New Palestine gymnastics team won a three-way meet Wednesday against Hagerstown and Muncie South. The Dragons scored 96.2 to edge Hagerstown (94.725). Muncie South was third with 70.65.

 

Kenzi Hoffman led the Dragons with first-place finishes on vault (9.0) and floor exercise (9.1). She was also second on uneven bars (8.3), third on balance beam (7.8) and second in the all-around (34.2).

 

Other strong performances came from Jessica Marshall, who was second on beam and fourth on both vault and floor. Shelly Huesman was third on bars. Ciarra Hough was third on floor, fifth on vault and sixth on bars.

 

Julie Hilton was also fourth on vault and eighth on floor exercise. Maddie Wallace was eighth on the vault. Kylie Zehner was eighth on the balance beam. Savannah Eldridge was eighth on bars and eighth in the all-around.

 

The Dragons will travel to Bloominton North High School Saturday to compete in the Valentine's Invitational.