Josh Barnett - Sports Editor

The Jac-Cen-Del Eagles were nearly outscored by one player in the first game of the 1A Regional Tournament last Saturday at Edinburgh High School. The Eagles finished with 50 points and Henryville's Shane
Meadows finished with 48 as his team advanced to the regional finals by defeating the Eagles 74-50.

Tyler Einhaus put the Eagles on the board first with a jumper but the Hornets quickly tied the game. Henryville went ahead early taking a 10-4 lead. The Eagles bounced back and Adam Peetz tied the game with a jumper at 10-10 with just under 3:00 left in the first. From there Jac-Cen-Del had trouble scoring and managed to add only 2 points to their total in
the final 2:40 of the quarter. After one quarter of play Henryville was leading 17-12.

Peetz hit a bunny to cut the lead to three early in the second quarter, but that was the closest the Eagles would get. Henryville built up a nine point lead, but again the Eagles would come back. Kyle Hackman put the finishing touches on a 5-0 run to cut the lead to 4 with under 2:00 left to play in the half. From there the Hornets built their lead back to 9 to end the half. After the first half of play the Eagles were trailing 30-21.

In the third quarter the Eagles didn't score for the first 2:30 until Hackman finally hit a bunny and followed that with another bunny to force Henryville to call a time-out with the score at 35-25. Out of the time-out the Hornets pushed their lead to 18, topped off with a four point play making the score 43-25. At the end of the third quarter the Eagles were trailing 53-33.

In the fourth quarter Jac-Cen-Del was outscored 21-17 as the Henryville Hornets sealed the deal to advance to the championship game.

Kyle Hackman led the Eagles in scoring with 18 points followed by Adam Peetz with 10 and Tyler Einhaus with 9. Peetz finished the game with a double-double grabbing 11 rebounds to go along with his 10 points. Peetz finished with a team high 3 steals and a team high 2 blocks. Chip Schuler led the team with 3 assists. The Eagles wrapped up their season with a record of 10-14.

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Josh Barnett - Sports Editor

The South Ripley Raiders' season ended with a close to the Centerville Bulldogs in Saturday's Regional Tournament at Alexandria High School. The Raiders fell to the Bulldogs 72-68 in the second game of the first round of the tournament.

South Ripley came out with a lead outscoring the Bulldogs 20-14 in the first quarter. Tyler Ester chipped in 8 of his 11 points in the first quarter. Buchanan chipped in 6.

In the second quarter the Raiders were outscored 20-11 and lost their lead going into halftime. At halftime Centerville was leading 34-31. Only two Raiders scored in the second quarter with Tony Lloyd doing most of it with 8 points. Michael Fear scored the other three points.
The Raiders were outscored again in the third quarter by just one point at 15-14, pushing them behind by four. Going into the final quarter the score was 49-45 in favor of the Bulldogs. Michael Fear scored half of the Raiders' points in the third with seven.

The two teams scored evenly in the fourth quarter with both adding 23 to their total, which allowed the Bulldogs to hold on to their four point lead and get the victory.

Tony Lloyd and Michael Fear led the Raiders in scoring with 20 points apiece followed by Tyler Ester with 11 and Chris Buchanan with 9. Joel Pflum led the Raiders with 9 rebounds followed by Lloyd with 6. Pflum also had team highs in assists with 11 and blocks with 4. As a team the Raiders shot 55% from the field and outrebounded the Bulldogs 21-20.

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Tony Lloyd watches the ball and tries to get into position for the rebound as teammate Michael Fear watches in the background. Lloyd was second on the team with 6 rebounds.