February 2, 2006

sports

Bulldog sports roundup

Ashanta Robinson flew past a Dayton Christian defender and attempted a layup during the Lady Bulldogs’ 62–30 loss on Monday night at home.

Compiled by Lauren Heaton

Boys tied for 2nd in MBC
The YSHS boys basketball team revenged an earlier season loss to Ridgeville Christian by beating their Metro Buckeye Conference rivals, 47–46, on Friday, Jan. 27, and tying the Lions for second place in the league, behind Jefferson.

The Bulldogs also suffered a 62–49 loss to Stivers on Tuesday, Jan. 24, and then handily beat Cedarville, 68–59, on Saturday, Jan. 28. The Bulldogs are now 11–3, and 7–2 in the MBC.

On Friday, the Lions took an early lead and were up 16–8 in the first quarter. The Bulldogs cut the lead to 2 at the half, trailing 23–21. The Bulldogs had their first lead of the game at 40–36 in the third, but Ridgeville came back to tie the score.

Ridgeville was up 46–43 with 55 seconds left, when Issa Walker made two free throws to put the ’Dogs within 1 point. Anthony Carter then made a steal, and with six seconds left, Brad Benning-Clark drove the ball to the net and scored the game-winning shot.

“It was a character game for us to see what kind of team we were,” coach Brad Newsome said. “We’re the type of team that can win close ball games, and now we’ve got the confidence by winning against Cedarville, who got the number one seed [in the Division IV Wright State bracket]. It was a measuring stick in the tourney.”

Yellow Springs is seeded second behind Cedarville, and in front of Ridgeville, seeded third, and Tri-Village, the fourth seed. The Bulldogs play their first tournament game against Springfield Catholic Central on Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 6:30 p.m., at Tipp City High School. Southeastern plays the winner of that game on Feb. 27.

The Bulldogs put up a good fight against Stivers, tying the game at 28 at halftime. But Yellow Springs didn’t handle the Tigers’ press, and by the end of the third quarter, the ’Dogs had committed nearly 20 turnovers and had fallen behind 49–38.

Against Cedarville, Yellow Springs jumped out to a 16–14 first-quarter lead, and held it the rest of the game. The ’Dogs were up by as much as 14 in the second quarter, but the Indians cut the gap to 36–26 at halftime and came within 1 at 53–52 with five minutes left in the game. The Bulldogs proceeded to outscore the Indians 15 to 7.

Ryan Silvert scored a season-high 21 points, Carter had 13, Benning-Clark had 16 and Nick Eastman scored 8.

Girls basketball splits games
The YSHS girls basketball team impressively beat Waynesfield-Goshen, 64–51, on Saturday afternoon, then lost badly to Dayton Christian, 62–30, on Monday, Jan. 30.

The Lady Bulldogs are now 12–5 overall and 5–4 and in third place in the MBC.

The Lady Bulldogs came out smoking against Waynesfield‚ outscoring the Tigers 19–3 in the first quarter. The Tigers turned up their offense in the second period, scoring 16 points to close the gap to 31–19 at halftime.

Tenia Scarver led YSHS with 21 points and 4 assists. Megan Burrick scored 12, and Ashanta Robinson had 11.

Against Dayton Christian, which is in first in the MBC, the Lady ’Dogs had trouble finding their rhythm. Minus one starter and into early foul trouble, the Lady ’Dogs couldn’t find the basket to score a single point in the second quarter and were down 21 points at halftime.

Megan Burrick scored 7 points, Tenia Scarver had 6, Alisha Lucas had 5 and Carly Bailey had 4.

Division IV tournament play starts next week, and Yellow Springs plays Tri-village, the fourth seed in the Tipp City bracket, on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 8 p.m.

Boys swim to first in quad meet
With just three boys swimming for the YSHS boys team at a quad meet on Saturday, Jan. 21, Yellow Springs racked up 14 points to win by just one point. Dayton Christian had 13 points, and Emmanuel Christian and Miami Valley each scored 7.

The YSHS girls finished second with 39 points, behind Dayton with 41. Miami Valley scored 8 points, and Emmanuel was shut out.

Unable to put a relay team together, the boys team had to rely on individual performances. The Bulldogs got five first- and second-place finishes right off the bat, when Jacob Wishart finished first in the 100 freestyle and second in the 100 backstroke, while Carey Dixon finished third in the 200 free and second in the 50 free. Brandon Carver-Halley was second in the 100 free.

The girls 200 medley relay team (Jenny Barnett, Eve GunderKline, Tina Chen and Liz Zaff) placed first. The 200 free relay (Barnett, Olivia Dixon, Zaff and Miriam Barcus) placed second. The girls 400 free relay (Chen, Barcus, Dixon and GunderKline) placed second.

In girls individual competition, Barcus placed first in the 200 free and the 500 free. GunderKline was second in the 200 IM and first in the 100 breaststroke. Chen placed third in the 50 free and first in the 100 free. Dixon placed third in the 100 free and third in the 100 breaststroke. Barnett finished third in the 200 IM and second in the 100 back. Zaff was third in the 100 butterfly and fourth in the 50 free.

On Saturday, Jan. 28, the Bulldogs competed in the Shawnee Invitational at Wittenberg. Both Yellow Springs teams had trouble, with the girls scoring 1 point and the boys scoring 4.

Wishart finished third in the 100 free to score the team’s points. GunderKline placed sixth in the 100 breaststroke to score a point for the girls team.

The Bulldogs pulled out of the Tippecanoe Relay meet this weekend due to conflicts with school activities. Their next meet is sectionals at Wittenberg. The boys swim on Friday, Feb. 10, and the girls compete on Saturday, Feb. 11.

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