Josh Barnett - Sports Editor

East Central was the site of this year's IHSAA Sectional Track and Field Meet, which was held on May 20. Thirteen schools showed up to participate in the meet with a chance to advance to the Regional meet at Franklin High School this Thursday evening.

Like the girls sectional meet the East Central Trojans took the title with 151 points followed by Rushville with 137.5. Batesville finished third with 73 followed by South Dearborn with 51, Milan and Franklin County with 40 apiece, North Decatur with 30.5, Rising Sun with 28, Lawrenceburg with 26, South Ripley with 18, Jac-Cen-Del with 16, Switzerland County with 9 and Oldenburg with 3.

Any individual that finished in the top four in their event qualified to participate in the Regional meet and any relay team that finished in the top three qualified to participate in the Regional meet. South Ripley's Chris Buchanan was the only Raider to qualify to compete in the Regional meet finishing fourth in the long jump. Jac-Cen-Del's 4X800 meter
relay team made up of Chris Bultman, Kyle Horan, Craig Hill and Derek Jones advanced placing third. Milan has two individuals advancing including Ryan Thompson in the 100, 200 and long jump and Brandon Welti in the 1600.

Josh Barnett - Sports Editor

South Ripley's baseball team picked up two big ORVC victories last Friday against the conference leading Rising Sun Shiners. With the two wins the Raiders put themselves in the lead for the conference race.

The first game on Friday was a make-up from a game the two teams started on Monday. They started in the bottom of the fifth inning with the Raiders leading 4-0. South Ripley went on to score one more run in the fifth to take the 5-0 lead. Rising Sun was unable to score in the last three innings, giving the Raiders the 5-0 victory.

Izzy Burkett finished the game batting 3 for 4 with 2 runs scored and a stolen base and Tyler Ester went 2 for 3 with one run scored.

In their second game against the Shiners the Raiders won 7-2 to hand the Shiners just their second loss in the conference.

The Raiders fell behind early as Rising Sun put a run on the board in the top of the first inning. The Shiners' lead didn't last long as the Raiders took over scoring two runs in their half of the inning. Both Tyler Ester
and Brandon Seabolt scored on a Scott Hobbs double to give the Raiders the lead.

Izzy Burkett scored in the bottom of the third on a Josh Cumberworth sacrifice fly to give SR the 3-1 lead. Jacob Lemon batted Scott Hobbs in in the bottom of the third to give the Raiders their fourth run.

Rising Sun added their second run on the top of the fourth inning, but it would be all they would get. South Ripley scored two in the bottom of the fourth and one more in the sixth go get their seven runs.

Tyler Ester finished the game batting 2 for 3 with a run scored. Brandon Seabolt went 3 for 4 with a double and Scott Hobbs batted 2 for 4 with 2 runs scored.

After winning two straight against Rising Sun the Raiders traveled to Lawrenceburg on Saturday for a doubleheader. South Ripley lost both games by the ten run rule, playing only ten innings in two games. In game one the Raiders lost 16-1 and in game two the Raiders lost 12-0.

South Ripley continues their season on Wednesday at home against Milan, which is going to be senior night for all spring sports. That game is scheduled to start at 4:30 pm.

JOSH BARNETT PHOTO

SR's Tim Burcham waits to scoop up the ball at third base before getting the force out at first during the Raiders' doubleheader against Lawrenceburg Saturday.