Eastbrook tops Starfires (11/22/2008)

BERNE - Points were at a premium Friday night. So when the Starfires didn't get any in the first quarter, they were in trouble.

South Adams High School's girls basketball team trailed throughout, falling 29-22 to the visiting Eastbrook Panthers.

SAHS trailed 7-0 after the opening quarter and fell behind by 10 at halftime. They closed the gap in the third, but the rally try fell short.

Ahston Morgan led the Starfires with nine points. Karen Bollenbacher and Tara Beitler each added four.

Danielle Gerdt and Amber Warrick shared the team high for Eastbrook with six points apiece.

South Adams also dropped the junior varsity game, 36-16. Jen Miller and Lyndsey each scored four points.

Jay tankers roll

ELWOOD - Two freshmen and a senior each contributed two wins as the Jay County High School girls swim team dominated its season-opening dual meet 147-27 Thursday over the Elwood Panthers.

Freshmen Mary Hudson and Eme Miller made their dual meet debut with two wins apiece, and senior Cori Vormohr started what she hopes will be another run to the state meet with a pair of wins as well. The Patriots finished first in every event, swept seven out of 12 and finished first and second in four of the other five.

Hudson's wins came in times of 27.59 seconds in the 50 freestyle and 1-minute, 14.4 seconds in the 100 backstroke, and Miller was first in the 100 butterfly in 1:08.49 and the 100 backstroke at 1:13.93.

Vormohr turned in victories in the 200 individual medley at 2:25.78 and the 100 freestyle in 58.97.

A couple of juniors accounted for the other two swimming wins, with Michelle Landfair first with a time of 2:26.48 in the 200 freestyle and Caitlin Ruchgy winning the 500 freestyle in 6:45.41. Senior April Acker was the top diver with 186.15 points.

SA 8th grade wins

Bryanna Graat outscored Hartford City/Montpelier by herself in leading the South Adams Middle School eighth grade girls basketball team to a 48-16 victory Thursday. The seventh grade Starfires lost 35-18 to Montpelier.

Graat finished with 20 points and 11 rebounds in the victory, and Tori Smith matched Hartford City with 16 points. Kristen Muselman added six points and eight rebounds.

Dzejna Ahmetovic totaled 13 points and eight rebounds for the seventh grade team.

Allison Amstutz grabbed five rebounds.

Murrell places 1st

RICHMOND - Alexis Murrell won a pair of events and the all-around competitions Nov. 15 as athletes from Portland's Gym City Gymnastics competed in Tumble Around the World.

Murrell put up her best score with a 9.3 to win the Level 4 uneven bars and added an 8.7 for first place on the balance beam. She was the runner-up in the other two events to take the all-around title with 35.225 points.

Lizzy Schoenlein posted a first-place finish on the Level 7 floor exercise with a 9.25, and Malarie Houck won the balance beam with a 9.0. Riley Leavell had a 9.025 on the vault and qualified for the state meet with a 32.275 all-around score.

Other top individual scores - Korinna Schindler (8.95), Halle Hill (8.9), Courtney Miles (8.675) and Sydnee Lee (8.05) - all came on the vault.[[In-content Ad]]