The IHSAA Baseball and Softball Sectional Pairings were released yesterday by the IHSAA. Lets check the match ups in round one.
Baseball starting in 3A at Huntingburg’s League Stadium, Washington will open against Princeton. Vincennes Lincoln will play Gibson Southern in game two. Southridge and Pike Central will play in the semi final round.
In Class A at North Daviess, Shoals opens against the Loogootee Lions. In the semi finals, North Daviess will play Vincennes Rivet, and Barr Reeve awaits the Loogootee and Shoals winner.
In Class 2A at Mitchell, South Knox will face Linton, Paoli will play Mitchell, North Knox and Eastern Greene play in the semi finals.
In Softball, at the 3A tournament at Washington, the Hatchets will play Princeton in the opening game, Pike Central plays Vincennes Lincoln. The two winners will meet for the championship.
In Class A at Loogootee, Loogootee play North Daviess, Barr Reeve will play the winner for the championship
In 2A at South Knox, Linton will face South Knox, North Knox will play Eastern Greene, and Sullivan and Southridge will meet in the semi finals.
The Baseball and Softball Sectionals get underway the week of May 24th.
Congratulations to Washington Kencia Lavasseur and Alaina Thorne. The two Hatchet Basketball stand outs have been invited to participate in the Top 100 Underclassmen Showcase on June 18th at Ben Davis High School. The two will join some of the top underclassmen in the state to particpate in drills and a controlled scrimmage.
Washington’s Brady Byrd was crowned the Indiana State Wrestling Association freestyle state champion cadet in the 94 pound weight class over the weekend. Byrd now has the opportunity to be one of 17 wrestlers to represent Team Indiana at Fargo nationals in North Dakota in July to compete for a national title. Byrd went on to win the Greco Roman division as well by out scoring his oppents 30-1 on the day. Byrd will now wrestle both styles in Fargo against the 49 other state champions at 16u in the 94 lbs weight class. Freestyle and Greco Roman are the styles of wrestling you have at the Olympic level.
The Cincinnati Reds beat the Chicago Cubs 13-12 in 10 innings at Great American Ballpark. Former Cub Nick Castellanos completed a five-hit day with a walk-off single in the bottom of 10th, driving in Jesse Winker. Castellanos finished 5-for-6 with two home runs and four RBI. Elsewhere in the big leagues, Corey Kluber struck out 10 over eight two-hit innings and the Yankees blanked the Tigers 2-0. Cleveland beat the White Sox 5-0 behind home runs from Jose Ramirez and Cesar Hernandez. Carlos Martinez pitched eight shutout innings, and Harrison Bader hit a three-run home run to lift the St. Louis Cardinals to a 3-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Kyle Busch pulled away on a final restart with two laps to go to win in the NASCAR Cup Series at Kansas Speedway. Busch celebrated his 36th birthday on Sunday by becoming the 10th different winner in 11 races so far this season.
The IndyCar youth movement continued Sunday, as 21-year-old Pato O’Ward earned his first career IndyCar victory Sunday at the Texas Motor Speedway. The Arrow McLaren SP star passed Josef Newgarden with 23 laps to go and pulled away for the victory at the one-and-a-half mile high banked oval. O’Ward is the first Mexican-born driver to win an IndyCar race since Adrian Fernandez in 2004. Sunday’s race featured a scary first-lap crash that eliminated six drivers from the race before completing a lap, but nobody was injured. On Saturday, Scott Dixon led 206 of 212 laps en route to his 51st career victory in the first race of the weekend doubleheader. Dixon appeared poised to sweep the weekend before fading late and finishing fourth. The NTT IndyCar Series is off next weekend before heading to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course for the GMR Grand Prix May 15th.
