Girls Basketball
Owls grab first HHC win behind dynamic duo
The twin towers of Grace Meyer and Grace Schrader led the Seymour girls basketball team to a big win, 67-59, over Jennings County on Tuesday night.
Meyer scored 27 points and hauled in 10 rebounds, while Schrader had 24 points and nine rebounds to lead the Owls to their first Hoosier Hills Conference win of the season.
Aidan Hiester added seven points for the Owls and was followed by Alyssa Perry’s four, Brooke Trinkle’s three and Jamya Miller’s two.
The Owls locked down the victory over Jennings County with an impressive mark down the stretch at the free throw line. Seymour was a perfect 10-for-10 from the charity stripe to secure the win.
Braves take down No. 1 Salem
The Brownstown Central girls basketball team earned a big win over Class 3A No. 1 Salem, 54-50, on Tuesday night behind a 19-point second-quarter effort.
Katherine Benter scored a team-high 19 points to lead the Braves to the promised land and was one of three players to score in double figures for the Braves. She was 3-for-4 from the 3-point line and a perfect 4 of 4 from the free-throw line.
Freshman Maddy Hackman scored 16 points and was 4 of 6 from behind the arc.
Both Hackman and Benter shot 6-for-11 from the field.
Ashley Schroer scored 11, while Halle Hehman and Kelsey Wischmeier scored five and three, respectively.
Hehman pulled down a team-best seven rebounds, while Emma Klinge dished up a team-high five assists.
Cougars continue to dominate
Two huge efforts from Sydney Jaynes and Bailey Tabeling led the Class A No. 5 Trinity Lutheran girls basketball team to a dominating 68-39 win over South Ripley.
Tabeling and Jaynes would have beaten the Raiders on their own, as they combined for 57 of the Cougars’ point tally. Tabeling scored 30 and Jaynes dropped in 27 to pace the Cougars.
Rounding out the scoring, Kailene Cockerham had five points, while Hannah Sabotin, Hannah Durham and Emma Schepman each chipped in two.
Swimming
Owls sweep New Albany
Both the Seymour boys and girls swim teams moved to 2-1 on the season after sweeping the New Albany Bulldogs on Tuesday night.
The girls team won 98-85, while the boys were victorious 98-77.
The boys’ side won two of the three relay events over the Bulldogs, taking the 200 medley and freestyle relays. The team of Harrison Cottrill, Trevor Layne, Eduardo Zarate and Blake Stark came in with a time of 1 minute, 52.86 seconds in the medley. The squad of Cottrill, Stark, Layne and Aaron Drake won the freestyle in 1:46.34.
Layne grabbed two individual wins for the Owls, taking the 50 freestyle and 100 breaststroke. He raced to a 24.59 finish in the 50 and 1:03 in the breaststroke.
Kaleb Brown rounded out the individual wins on the boys’ side with a 97.25 score in diving.
The team of Katya Cox, Maren McClure, Abby Boyt and Sandy Cerino won the 200 medley relay for the girls team with a time of 2:05.68.
Individually, Cox won the 200 freestyle in 2:14.48, dropping more than half a second off of her previous time in the event.
Cerino took home the top prize in the 50 freestyle with a time of 27.35, while Boyt won the 100 butterfly with a time of 1:10.60.
Wrestling
Owls go perfect last weekend
The Seymour wrestling team went a perfect 9-0 last weekend at the Robert Fugate Memorial Wrestling Invitational at Scottsburg High School.
Two teams among their wins were Hoosier Hills Conference foes Madison and Jennings County, who finished second and fifth, respectively.
Stats were not made available at the time of publication.