Area sports in brief 8-20-24
Girls soccer
Dragons outshot in home opener
ARGOS — The Argos Lady Dragons hosted the Trinity Lady Titans Tuesday Night. The Dragons would ultimately fall 4-1 to the Titans but showed promise for what remains of their season.
Trinity came out strong scoring two goals in the middle of the first half. Dragons’ Samantha Umbaugh gathered the ball and scored the lone Dragon goal late in the first half.
Trinity netted two more goals in the second half.
The Dragons finished with 8 shots but weren’t able to convert them to goals.
Argos will turn around and host Plymouth on Thursday night for their annual Pink Game coordinated and supported by Marshall County Ounce of Prevention. Kickoff is set for 5 p.m. at Eugene Snyder Field.
Golf
Bremen breaks 200 in win over Glenn
WALKERTON — Bremen Girls Golf took a win over conference rival John Glenn, breaking 200 with a 199.
Senior Samantha Ton shot her personal best with a 39, leading the Lady Lions. She was followed by fellow seniors Zoey Price with a 49, Bella Woodward with a 53, and Gabby Meert with a 58.
For the Lions JV Jazzy Urbina shot her personal best with a 71.
The Lady Lion golfers have one more match this week Thursday at Swan Lake against Marian.
Cross country
Bremen girls race in home opener
BREMEN — The Bremen girls cross country team showed strength tonight in their races.
Kate Kincaid maintained a solid second place throughout the race and was able to take more time off for a season-best of 21:07. Lauren Hartsell set a new personal record at 22:52. Angelina Checchin took a huge amount off of her first race with a new season best of 23:25
The Bremen boys were down 2 of their top 5 and the pressure was on for the rest of the team.
It was near-perfect racing conditions.
Matthew Urbina took 2nd overall with a 17:32 setting a season-best. Joseph Davis finished 7th overall with a PR of 17:57, Jacob Stump had a huge PR of 19:03, and Jordan Krallman had a season-best 19:32. Sean Clark rounded out the top 5 with a 19:57 PR.
Bremen will be racing this Saturday for the NIC stomp at OxBow Park in Elkhart.
Triton kicks off season
MANCHESTER — The Triton Varsity Cross Country teams kicked off their season at North Manchester in a four-way meet with Manchester, Southwood, Central Noble, and Triton.
Southwood and Triton did not have enough members to field a team for the boys and neither, along with Central Noble, had enough girls to field a team. So, it was really an individual race.
Travis Barnhart led the boys coming in 12th overall out of 24 runners. Andrew Gould placed 16th.
On the girls’ side, Senior Rory Heckaman led the girls’ team with an impressive finish of 6th place out of 16 runners. Junior Kayla Poff was next to place for the Triton girls coming in at 8th place.
Volleyball
Plymouth takes win at LaPorte
LaPORTE — Plymouth’s volleyball team won a battle on the road with LaPorte by scores of 25-23, 26-24, 25-22.
“We got off to quick starts in sets one and two with a couple big runs, which made up for some of our errors late in those sets,” said coach Shauna Ellinger. “Our girls stayed focused and fought through a back-and-forth third set, but ultimately came out with the win.”
Haylee Busse came away with 11 kills in the match, Emaline VanDuyne had five and Eva Sheedy had 2.5 blocks and four kills. Olivia Ringer had 14 digs and was 10 of 10 serving. Marley Christy had two service aces and 38 assists.
Plymouth is now 2-0 on the season.
Tennis
Triton boys best Glenn
BOURBON — The Triton boys tennis team hosted John Glenn for the season opener and came away with a victory 5-0.
•TRITON 5, GLENN 0
At Triton
Singles:
#1. Caden Large (T) def. Brady McLean (JG) 6-0, 6-0;
#2. Blayze Hensley (T) def. Brody Chapman (JG) 6-1, 6-2;
#3. Jaydon Heckaman (T) def. Levi Litteral (JG) 6-2, 6-0.
Doubles:
#1. Isaiah Vaca & Colton Large (T) def Justin Leslie & Drennon Nance (JG) 6-2, 6-0;
#2. Max Ritchison & Levi McFarland (T) def. Owen Hamel & Colin Hamel (JG) 6-3, 6-1.
