Beacon July 2022

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Chris Jack
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Five Conference Records
Broken at EIAC Track Meet
The EIAC track and field
championships were held at
South Dearborn High School
on May 10, and five conference
records were broken in
one night of competition.
Three records were broken
in the girls’ competition. The
first was By set in the 100-meter
hurdles where Maxine East Central
Klump
senior Hope Fox broke the
record of Community her coach Ashley
(Wilhelm) Correspondent Andres, which was
set in 2001 in a time of 15.64.
Fox ran a time of 15.41 to set
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a new record in an exciting
race with Greensburg senior
Elizabeth Mitchell, who holds
their school record. Mitchell’s
time in this race was 15.49.
Hope Fox then joined
up with teammates Rachel
Campbell, Anna Graf, and
Ellie Hill to set a new mark
in the 4x100 meter relay.
The team ran a time of 50.26
to best the previous mark
of 50.29 set in 2018 by the
East Central team of Lobenstein,
Messmore, Griffin, and
Grimm.
South Dearborn’s Lisa Tyler
has held the mark in the shot
put since 1985 with her put of
42’. The longstanding mark
was bested by the impressive
sophomore Emarie Jackson
of Greensburg with her put of
43’.75” at the championships.
The boys also saw three records
fall on this night. Dave
Galle of Batesville set a high
jump mark of 6’6.5” back in
1983. The nearly 40-year old
record was toppled by Franklin
County senior Chad Cox
with a leap of 6’7” on this
night.
East Central senior Leo
Maxwell then went about setting
two new records in field
events. His put of 59’7.5”
was good enough to take the
decades-old record of Mark
Parris of East Central who
had a distance of 59 feet set in
1988.
Maxwell also went about
breaking his own discus
record set last year. In last
year’s meet, Maxwell threw a
distance of 174’8” but improved
that mark to 179’5” in
his senior year.
The East Central girls won
the conference title scoring
186 points, followed by
Batesville (112), Greensburg
(88), Lawrenceburg (71),
Connersville (53.5), Rushville
(45), Franklin County (38.5),
and South Dearborn (27).
The boys’ title was won
by Batesville with a score of
127.33, followed by Lawrenceburg
(94.5), Connersville
(93), Franklin County
(64.33), Rushville (64),
South Dearborn (62.33), East
Central (58), and Greensburg
(53.5).
At the IHSAA sectional,
East Central freshman Ellie
Hill set a new sectional mark
of 18’11” to win the event and
claim the record from Franklin
County’s Ashlan Hill of
18’2” set in 2018.
Maxwell also bested two
sectional records, both his
own from 2021. He set a
new mark of 179’8” in the
discus to improve last year’s
record of 168’11”. In the shot
put, Maxwell’s final attempt
resulted in a put of 61’1.75”
to set a new school record and
sectional record over his old
mark of 59.6.75”.
Ava South Continues Her
Success on the Links
Ava South continues to
progress in her golf prowess
as she gets ready to swing
into her high school career in
the fall beginning in August.
Ava just finished her middle
school years at South Dearborn
Middle School and competed
on the middle school
golf team. This is a coed
team, and Ava has competed
for the past two years.
In that time, Ava was able to
medal in fourteen matches in
a row. Throughout two years,
she was able to beat out 129
other golfers against whom
she competed. In her very first
meet for South Dearborn Middle
School in 2021, Ava was
co-champion of the St. Mary’s
of Greensburg Invitational in
Back Row: Dylan Wynn, Corbin McHenry, Braden Foist,
Max Burger, Ryan Richard, Logan Thies, Conor Huff,
Clay Gentry, Logan Hochstrasser and Carson Cheek.Front
Row: Vance Wheat (Bat Boy), Sean Sohmer, Reese Willoughby,
Adam Kunkel, Ryan WIlloughby, Gabe Perry,
Drew Probst, Hunter Gates, and T.J. Wissing. Knights are
coached by Head Coach Jay Malott and Assistant Coaches
Adam Wheat and Austin Bowling (coaches not pictured)
SDHS Varsity Baseball Team Wins
Charlestown Tournament
Congratulations to the South Dearborn High School Varsity
Baseball team on being the 2022 Charlestown Tournament
Champions! SD traveled to Charlestown, IN to compete in
their high school baseball tournament.
Great job on the win and best of luck in the rest of the season
to the SD Knights!
a field of sixty competitors.
Her middle school coach Justin
Bushorn remarked, “Ava
is an academic athlete who
excels on the course and in
the classroom. With her determination,
Ava will stay on the
path of a champion well into
her high school career.”
Ava has also had recent success
outside of school competitions.
In the fall of 2021,
she competed in the Hidden
Valley Lake Club Championship.
She got to play against
Sharon Voelker, who has won
the club championship for
fourteen years. South was
able to defeat her and others
for the club title, but she was
more thankful for the opportunity.
“I enjoyed being able to
play with someone who had
a lot of experience with the
sport.”
More recently, South competed
at the Covered Bridge
Indiana Girls Jr. event in Sellersburg.
She competed against
54 of the top junior golfers
throughout the state, which
includes girls up through high
school. Ava tied for fourth
with Batesville High School
junior Emma Weiler in the
36-hole event on April 9-10.
They both scored 152 over
36 holes to end up two shots
from the title in the event.
During the event, South had
one of those memorable shots
many hope to experience on
the course. South’s second
shot on the seventh hole par
four was from 124 yards out.
“I hit my eight-iron, and it
hit the front of the green and
rolled into the hole for my
first eagle on a par four. It was
a magical moment, and one I
will certainly remember for a
long time.
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