Lady Raiders grab first victory of season with win over JCD

Josh Barnett - Sports Editor

After falling to Jennings County in their season opener the South Ripley Lady Raiders defeated the Jac-Cen-Del Lady Eagles on the Raiders' home court Saturday night. South Ripley defeated JCD 57-40 in the four quarter battle.

The Lady Raiders jumped out to an early lead and never looked back. After one quarter of play the Raiders were winning 16-4. The Lady Eagles battled back though, cutting the lead to 8 at one point in the second quarter. At the end of the first half SR was leading JCD 25-14.

In the second half the Lady Raiders continued to pour it on the Lady Eagles pushing their lead to 20. JCD kept battling back but the Raiders kept their lead around 20 thorough most of the third quarter. South Ripley outscored Jac-Cen-Del 17-14 in the final quarter to hold on to the victory.

JCD Coach Scott Smith said about his team, "Despite the loss you have to look at the good things. We were able to hold Julie Lipperd to just 11 points with good defense from Huff and Abby Rohlfing. We got some production from our bench as well."

Kristen Huss led South Ripley in scoring with 14 points followed by Lipperd and Ciara McGuire with 11 apiece. Erin Collier and Beth Stratton both chipped in 9 points. Lipperd was the leading rebounder with 11.

JCD was led in scoring by Erika Simon with 9 points, followed by Janelle Hardesty with 8 and Talena Huff and Amanda Harmeyer with 5 each. Abby Rohlfing had a team high 5 rebounds. Hardesty finished with 2 assists and 3 steals, both team highs. After the contest both teams records go to 1-1 on the season.

The Lady Raiders continue their season tonight (Tues.) on the road against Oldenburg while the Lady Eagles continue their season Friday night also at Oldenburg. Both games are scheduled to start at 6:00 pm with the JV playing first.

JCD's Janelle Hardesty goes up for a shot over SR's Abbey Lemon in the Eagles' loss last Saturday night.

Milan picks up second straight loss at home

Josh Barnett - Sports Editor

Milan's girls' varsity basketball team picked up their second straight loss of the season last Saturday night at home against Indian Creek. The Lady Indians fell to the Lady Braves by a score of 61-42.

The Lady Braves jumped out to an early 8-7 lead after the first quarter and managed to outscore the Lady Indians in every quarter of the game.

In the second quarter Milan was outscored 17-12 giving Indian Creek the 25-19 lead going into halftime.

Indian Creek more than doubled
Milan's third quarter performance as they outscored the Indians 19-8. The final quarter saw the Lady Indians score a team high 15 points, but it wasn't enough as they fell 61-42.

Kiley MacVey was the Indians' leading scorer with 15 points. Megan Lade was the only other Indian to hit double-digits in scoring with 10. Katie Volz chipped in 7 points and Shayna Gerster had 5. With the loss the Lady Indians' record falls to 0-2 on the sesaon.

Milan's next game is this Saturday on the road against county rival Jac-Cen-Del. That game is scheduled to start at 6:00 pm with the JV playing first.