Lady Tigers Win Triangular Meet Over Penn, Washington
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OSCEOLA – Warsaw’s Lady Tiger track team had first-place finishes in 10 of 16 events in defeating host Penn and South Bend Washington in a triangular meet Wednesday night. Warsaw had 84 points to Penn’s 71 and Washington’s 12. The Lady Tigers had a pair of individual double winners; Samantha Alexander in the 200-meter dash and the long jump, and Allison Miller in the 1600 and 3200 runs. Audrey Rich and Mariah Harter finished 1-2 in the 100-meter dash, and teamed with Alexander and Abbi Curtis to win the 4x100 relay. Harter was also second in the 200. Nicole Eckert was the winner in the 300 hurdles, and Jazzmine Brown won the high jump. That duo joined Rich and Tennie Worrell to take the 4x400 relay. Megan Chauncey took the top prize in the discus. Rebecca Lemon and Rich finished second and third, respectively, in the pole vault. Emily Bailey finished second and Passion Gardner fourth in the shot. Eckert was second and Alexie Day fourth in the 100 hurdles. Mia Beckham was fourth in the 1600 and third in the 3200. Mercedes Sanchez took fourth in the 300 hurdles. The Lady Tigers’ meet with Kokomo and Bremen on Friday has already been cancelled and won’t be rescheduled. Warsaw will now open its home season Tuesday with East Noble.
Softball Wednesday in South Whitley Whitko opened its girls softball season with a 10-0 whitewashing of Churubusco Wednesday evening. Pitcher Tori Silveus held the Eagles to one hit in six innings to be the winning pitcher. Emily Hughes’ last hit brought home the game-clinching run in the bottom of the sixth. Whitko scored once in the second inning, then got five runs in the third and three more in the fourth before scoring its 10th run in the sixth, invoking the run-rule for the win. The Lady Wildcats’ game with Lakeland this afternoon has been postponed, with no makeup date announced. The next game on the schedule is at Huntington North at 5 p.m. April 8.
