Indiana High
School
Athletic Association
9150 North Meridian Street, Box 40650, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240-0650
Phone: 317-846-6601
Fax: 317-575-4244 Website:
www.ihsaa.org
Blake Ress, Commissioner
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MEDIA
ADVISORY March 11, 2003
Contact:
Jerry
Baker,
Sports Information Director
E-Mail:
jbaker@ihsaa.org
GIRLS
BASKETBALL CHAMPS CROWNED
A boisterous
crowd of 20,365 was in attendance at Conseco Fieldhouse for the 28th Annual IHSAA Girls
Basketball Tournament Finals on Saturday, March 8, 2003.
That attendance mark bettered last year’s total of 17,320 and was the
largest turnout since 1997.
Top-ranked Kokomo scrapped back in the late going for its third state
championship with a 44-42 victory over Perry Meridian in the Class 4A state
title game. It was the Wildkats’ first title since back-to-back championships in
1992 and 1993 and their first under coach Charlie
Hall. It also was the first unbeaten Kokomo squad at 26-0.
Laura Gaybrick of Perry Meridian High
School was
named winner of the 2003 class 4A girls basketball
Patricia L. Roy Mental Attitude Award.
Stats and
story available at 2003 Girls Basketball 4A
Finals.
Katie Gearlds
scored a Class 3A record 33 points and led second-ranked Beech Grove to a 63-45
victory over unranked South Bend St. Joseph’s in the Class 3A state
championship game. It was the first state
championship in any sport for Beech Grove. Katie Gearlds of Beech Grove High School was named
winner of the 2003 class AAA girls basketball Patricia
L. Roy Mental Attitude Award. Stats and story available at 2003 Girls Basketball
3A Finals.
Shenandoah senior Amanda Norris hit a
pair of free throws with :02.1 remaining to give
Shenandoah a 52-51 victory over Southwestern (Hanover) in the
Class 2A state championship game. It was
the first state championship in any sport for Shenandoah. The team’s third
consecutive trip to the state finals proved to be the charm as the Raiders had
fallen short each of the two previous years, including last year’s 70-64 loss
to Southwestern in the final. Amanda
Norris of Shenandoah High School was named
winner of the 2003 Patricia L. Roy Mental Attitude Award in Class 2A Girls
Basketball. Stats and
story available at 2003 Girls Basketball 2A Finals.
Tri-Central preyed on three North
Vermillion turnovers in the final minute of play and rallied to top the
defending Class A state champion Falcons, 57-55, for its first state
championship in school history. North Vermillion’s
Allison Hughes topped all scorers with a Class A championship game record 25
points. The Falcons (26-1), had their 50 game winning streak snapped with the
loss. Annie Morgan of North Vermillion High School was named
winner of the 2003 Class A Girls Basketball Patricia
L. Roy Mental Attitude Award, becoming the first athlete from the school, in
any sport, to take home this prestigious honor.
Stats and story available at 2003 Girls Basketball A Finals.
BOYS BASKETBALL TOURNEY MOVES TO REGIONALS
The 93rd Annual IHSAA Boys
Basketball Tournament Series moves into the regional round of play at 16 sites throughout
the state. Already, all four of the 2002
state champs have been eliminated from this year’s tourney play. Class 4A winner Gary West Side lost the first
game in its own sectional, 60-39 to Lake Central. Delta also could not escape the first-round
jinx, getting knocked out of the 3AYorktown Sectional by Pendleton Heights, 43-26. The Class 2A winner from a year ago, Speedway, as a sectional
host, was also knocked out in the opening round by Indianapolis Ritter, 52-40. Rossville, a winner in Class A last season,
dropped its first contest in the Tri-Central Sectional, 60-53, to Clinton
Prairie.
Lafayette Jefferson is the all-time
leader in regional victories with 38, followed by Marion (34) and Kokomo (33). Marion is the leader in
consecutive regional crowns with 13, between 1975-1987. You’ll find a complete list of regional champs in the
history
section
of the IHSAA web site.
Note:
To accommodate the expected crowd, the class 2A Regional at Mississinewa has been moved to Blackford
BOYS
BASKETBALL REGIONAL INFORMATION
Saturday, March 15 10:00 a.m., 12:00 noon, 8:00 p.m.
Ticket Information: Single Session: $6.00
Season Ticket: $9.00
The complete regional schedule is
available at 2003
Boys Basketball Regional Pairings.
Girls gymnastics
defending state champ Chesterton put 111.775 points on the board to score the
highest point total of any of the eight sectional site winners on Saturday,
March 8, edging Valparaiso (107.275) to
claim the Chesterton Sectional crown and advance as a team to the Valparaiso
Regional on Friday, March 14.
Last year’s
Bars and Balance Beam winner, Lauren West of Chesterton, advanced in both of
those events again this year. Jenna Tarkington of Northwestern, last year’s champ in the Floor
Exercise, also qualified for the regional with a first place finish at Harrison (West
Lafayette).
Niccole Van Hoey,
the 2002 champion on the Vault, captured first on the Bars at Homestead.
The team and
individual winners at each of the eight sectional sites can be found at 2003 Girls
Gymnastics Sectionals.
GIRLS GYMNASTICS REGIONAL INFORMATION
Dates: Friday,
March 14 Columbus East (7:00 p.m.)
Qualifiers
from Columbus East and Richmond
Muncie Central (6:00 p.m.)
Qualifiers
from Homestead and Muncie Central
Valparaiso (6:00 p.m. cst)
Qualifiers from Chesterton and Wawasee
Saturday,
March 15 Harrison (West
Lafayette) 12:30 p.m.
Qualifiers from Decatur Central and Harrison (West Lafayette)
Admission: $5.00
Advancement: The top two teams, the top six finishers in each
individual event and the top six in the all-around competition will advance to
the State Finals. Also advancing to the Finals will be any gymnast who matches
or betters the score of the sixth place gymnast at last year’s state meet in a
respective event (Floor Exercise: 9.400; Balance Beam: 9.375; Vault: 9.500;
Uneven Parallel Bars: 9.350; All-Around: 37.025).
IHSGC FINAL TEAM POLL
For the latest
gymnastics information, log on to the Indiana High School Coaches Gymnastics
web site at IHSCG.
Regional champions throughout the years can be found
at IHSAA Girls Gymnastics Regional Champions.
A complete look at
all former state team champs is available at IHSAA Girls Gymnastics Champions. Individual champs are listed on-line at IHSAA Girls Gymnastics Individual Champions.
ICGSA GYMNASTICS ACADEMIC ALL-STATE
The state’s top team, Chesterton,
placed two players, Lauren and Leslie West, on the ICGSA Academic All-State
Team. The complete 2002-03 Indiana
Coaches of Girls Sports Association’s Academic All-State Team is on the web at 2002-03 Academic All-State Team.
GIRLS TRACK POLL 03/10/03
For more
girls track and field information, log on to IATCC.
Alexandria senior Jackie Closser closed out her career as the all time leader in
points (1,590), assists (388), 3-pt field goals (171) and steals (287).
Crawfordsville senior Rich Fuller passed the 1000 career points plateau in the Athenians’
regular season finale on Feb. 28 against Covington. With 1006 points, he is now fifth on the
school’s career scoring list, behind Matt
Petty, Matt McCarty, Karl “Knobby” Dickerson and Bob Williams.
Trey Eaton of Tippecanoe Valley broke the school’s single season scoring record that was held by Ron Dittman (1975) of 605 points.
With 47 points and 22 rebounds in the 2 sectional games, he ended up with 612
points for the season. Also at Tippecanoe Valley, junior Rebekah Parker scored her 1,000th
career point in the sectional championship win over Plymouth 56 - 41. She now has 1051 career points and is second
on the school’s all time career scoring list behind Cathy Welch, a
1978 Indiana All-Star and 2003 Silver Anniversary Team Member (1,238).
Greg Saulmon has been approved as the new
head football coach at Union City. He had been an assistant at Winchester and will replace Kevin Lehman, who resigned after last season.
Beech Grove’s Katie
Gearlds has been chosen to participate in the
McDonald’s All-American Game at Gund Arena in Cleveland on March 26.
At the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association’s
conference on March 2 and 3 in Indianapolis, a number of awards were presented: Marian Archer Award-Cinda Rice Brown, Rushville High School; Service Award-Priscilla Dillow,
Ben Davis High School; Carmen Moreschini/ICGSA
Scholarship-Dana Culp, Elwood High
School, Teri Delagrange,
Carroll High School; 2002-03 Swimming District Coach of the Year: 1-Richard Wachs,
West Lafayette; 2-Jennifer Gibson,
FW Snider; 3-Mark Hesse,
North Central (Indpls.); 4-Bev Arnold,
Jay County; 4-Jay Agnew, Yorktown; 5-Larry Zoller,
Mt. Vernon; 2002-03 Swimming State Coach of the Year-Mark Hesse, North Central; 2002 Golf
State Coach of the Year-John Knauff, Valparaiso.
Steve Hatton announced his resignation as boys head basketball coach at Clarksville on March 6. He was a 1990 graduate of the school and was
head coach for four seasons.
Charles
Cummings, member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and
head coach of the Anderson boys basketball team that went to the state finals
three times and captured the state championship in 1946, passed away on March
4. He was 94.
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