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Caldwell
County Sports
The Hamilton Hornets captured another first place
trophy, this time at the local invitational tournament, beating
Richmond. (Photos by George Pease)
Hornets win third
championship trophy in a row
Saturday
evening, January 30, the Hamilton boys’ basketball team won not only
their first-ever Hamilton Invitational Tournament championship, but
their third tournament championship this year. They defeated the
Richmond Spartans 63-50 for the crown. The team advanced through the
first round of the tournament beating Lathrop 76-25 on Monday, Jan.
25, and South Harrison 67-33 in the second round.
In a repeat of
the Lawson championship game, the Hornets faced the challenge of
Richmond. Through a controlled game, the Hornets comfortably handled
the Spartans with four athletes breaking into double digits. Trevor
Dixon led the offensive attack with 15 points. Josh Pickrell sank
the ball for 12 points followed by Keagan Prather who had 11 points,
including the team’s two 3-pointers. TJ Schieber contributed 10
points. Brandon Hemry had nine points, Jordan Richman four, and
Dylan Chadwick two. Chadwick led wih five assists while Prather
crashed the boards for eight rebounds. Pickrell and Schieber each
had six. Prather made three steals to lead.
Prather was
named the tournament Most Valuable Player. The Hornets dominated
their first two opponents.
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Josh Pickrell gets tripped up defending a Richmond forward under the
basket in the final game Saturday. (Photos by George Pease)
The Hamilton Lady Hornets proudly accept the first
place trophy for winning the Hamilton Invitational last weekend.
(Photo by George Pease)
Lady Hornets break
tournament record for most points scored in a game
The Lady Hornets
took the championship at their home tournament this Saturday, Jan.
30, with a thundering 65-49 win over the South Harrison Bulldogs.
The Lady Hornets waltzed through the bracket beating West Platte
82-19 in the first game and Trenton 71-21 in the second game.
The Lady Hornets
commanded the floor during their championship game as they scored 26
points in the first quarter of play while holding S. Harrison to 13.
In the 2nd quarter, the Hornets added 14 points while the
Bulldogs added 10. In the third quarter, S. Harrison challenged the
home team and outscored them 11-9. With the first half of play,
though, the Bulldogs couldn’t pull any closer than 49-34 at the
close of the third. The Hornets held on in the fourth with 16 points
while S. Harrison grabbed 15.
Lindsay Vollmer
and Eileen Greenwood were the leading scorers with 15 points each.
Greenwood made three of her four 3-point shots while Vollmer hit one
of three attempts. Katrina Grossman made nine points. Jill Lucas and
Carissa Conger hit eight points a piece followed by Elsie Greenwood
who had seven. Paige Kline rounded out the offense with three
points. Eileen Greenwood led the team with six assists while Vollmer
had five. Grossman and Conger at the post had two blocks each.
Vollmer grabbed six rebounds followed by Lucas and Conger who had
five. Eileen Greenwood frustrated the Bulldogs with five steals.
Vollmer was
named the tournament Most Valuable Player for the second time. She
received the honor her freshman year, 2008, also. The girls’ team
broke the high score in a single game record when they scored 82
points over West Platte. The record was previously held by Stanberry
who scored 81 points in a 1996 game with Maysville.
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Eileen Greenwood
finds her way around some Trenton defenders in the semi-final game
of the Hamilton tournament last week. (Photo by George Pease)
Hornet wrestlers take
second in GRC tournament
Second place was
the team finish for the Penney High grapplers in the Grand River
Conference tournament on Saturday, Jan. 30. Cole Whitaker, Dylan
King, Matt Schieber, and Brock Barton won championships.
The PHS team
earned 146 points. Stanberry took first place with 171. Whitaker at
103 opened with a :44 pin over his Albany opponent. He defeated Rock
Port 15-0 in the next match to advance to the championship were he
defeated Trent Steiner of Maysville 9-2. At 125, King executed a
quick :16 pin against South Harrison and beat the Albany wrestler
9-1 for the championship of this bracket. Matt Schieber wrestled
through the 152 bracket for his first place finish. He pinned South
Harrison’s wrestler in 1:36 then pinned Gallatin in 2:38. He earned
a 16-0 victory over Maysville’s Jake Riggs for the top finish.Brock
Barton at 285 pinned his way to first. He took down and pinned the
Albany wrestler in :15. He faced Polo next and pinned that athlete
in 2:43 before finishing the Maysville wrestler in his final match
with a 4:09 pin. Robbie Routh at 215 finished second place. Routh
defeated Tarkio in a 21-3 match to advance. He beat Albany 3-2
before taking on Polo’s Harley Martin in the championship match.
Routh battled Martin into the third period when Martin finally
overcame him for the 5:26 pin. Hayden Horinek earned a third place
medal in the 189 bracket. He opened with a 1:09 pin over South
Harrison but got pinned by Stanberry’s wrestler in the second match.
Moving into the consolation bracket, Horinek pinned Tarkio in :35
and battled Albany’s wrestler for an 8-4 win in the third place
match. Mike Lamp, at 130, took fourth. He opened with a 3:34 pin
over Tarkio’s athlete. S. Harrison’s wrestler knocked him into the
consolation bracket in a 10-4 match where Lamp defeated Maysville
10-3 before moving into the third place match. Lamp was stopped
there by Polo’s wrestler in a close 5-4 match. ReyRey Garcia also
took 4th at 112. He was beat in the first round but
wrestled back through the consolation bracket to the third place
match. He was beat by South Holt’s wrestler with a 1:22 pin.
MEADVILLE STOPS BRAYMER
The
Meadville Eagles stopped the Braymer Bobcats winning streak at 13
Saturday night in the championship game of the Meadville
Invitational Tournament. In a closely contested game that saw the
Bobcats trailing by 1 point with just a little over one minute left
on the clock, a controversial technical foul allowed Meadville to
stretch their lead to 6 points as no time elapsed. Braymer was
forced to foul in an attempt to close the gap and Meadville's Cody
Smith was perfect at the line as the Eagles posted a 64-52 victory.
The game proved to be an excellent matchup between the #2 ranked
Eagles and a streaking Bobcat team. Meadville led early only to see
the Braymer squad comeback to trail by 1 point at halftime. The
third quarter saw the Eagles lead swell to 8 points by the end of
the frame, but a furious comeback by the Bobcats saw them close to
within 1 at the time of the technical.
Meadville was led in scoring by senior guard Cody Smith with 21
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LADY
BOBCATS DROP HEARTBREAKER IN OT
The
Braymer Lady Bobcat basketball team traveled to Meadville Wednesday
night to play against Linn County in the consolation half of the
tournament bracket.
A
1st quarter offensive explosion keyed by a pair of three pointers by
Molly Foley and scoring from all five starters saw the Ladycats jump
out to an 18-5 lead after one frame. Braymer continued to excel in
the 2nd quarter with another 14 points including 8 from Foley
including another pair of 3's. The score at halftime was Braymer 32
- Linn Co. 16.
The higher seeded Lady Mustangs began to turn the game around in the
3rd quarter by outscoring the Lady Bobcats 11-8 and closing the
score to 40-27, but it was the 4th quarter that proved to be
Braymer's undoing as they were only able to put 2 points on the
scoreboard compared to Linn County's 15. With the score knotted at
42 apiece, both teams entered the overtime period looking to put the
other away.
Linn County took their first lead of the night with 2:23 left in the
overtime with a basket by senior Samantha Klinger. Braymer managed
to tie it up again when sophomore Jacie O'Dell scored with 50
seconds left. Linn County took the lead seconds later, but junior
Keely DeBolt tied it at 46 with 35 ticks left on the clock. Linn
Co. made the front end of a one-plus one free throw and the Lady
Bobcats were forced to foul. The Lady Mustangs hit two more free
throws and the game ended with a final score of Linn Co. 49 -
Braymer 46.
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