Outside The County-Maconaquah
Results from Maconaquah for Monday, December 12th
The Lady Braves fell to #5 ranked Carroll. They were led by Sydney Barnes with a career high 12 points, Bailey Carson added 6 points.
The Lady Braves are in action again this Thursday as they travel north to take on TRC opponent Peru. JV game time is set for 6:15 pm.
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We secured the win tonight with some much needed free throw shooting in the final stretch once again. We are glad Jude Callane and Brody Kubly have been able to assist us in this capacity multiple times this season. We didn’t have our most complete game by any means but we are getting better and learning more about our team and how to work together to come out as victors. Tonight we had more assists and by multiple people than what we have had in past games which is a huge plus. We had troubles at times or more in spurts with turnovers, blocking out, and layups tonight for some reason but we found a way to come together as a team and rely on one another to pull out the victory. We now move to 5-2 on the season and 3-0 in conference play. We have two more games this week- one away verse Logansport on Wednesday and another home conference game on Thursday verse Rochester.
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The 6th grade “A” team battled Western in a home game, eventually falling 34-31.
The Braves tried to battle back from a slow start but weren’t able to make up the difference.
Scoring for the Braves was Caleb Barnett with 9 (hitting 3-3 pointers in the 3rd quarter), Jaxon Cole with 8, Levi Merritt with 6, Brayden Stamper with 4, and Evan Zeiser and Colt Myers each with 2.
The “A” team falls to 5-3 on the season.
The “B” team lost to Western 22-12. Chase Million and Grayson Caldwell each hit a 3 to score 3 points apiece. Peyton White, Blake Brakensiek and Diego Soto each scored 2 points.
The “B” team falls to 3-4 on the season.
Both teams will be back in action on Wednesday at Logansport-Columbia. The “A” team will play at 5:30pm with the “B” team to follow.
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I was able to mix up the line up tonight. I wanted to see where some guys were in different events and some events they had never done before. Quinn Richard dropped 7sec in the 500 free. Isaac Lorenz swam fly in the medley relay,-.5sec, and swam the 200 IM for the first time. Jarrod Nead had a great night. He dropped 3.5 in the IM, swam the 100 Fly for the first time, and dropped 1.8sec in the 100 Free. Luke Abbott had an awesome come from behind 4th place finish in the 100 Breaststroke dropping 1.2 sec. Garrett McManus changed from the normal distance events(200 and 500 Free) to the sprint events. He dropped 2.2 sec in the 50 free and 1.8 sec in the 100 Free. Cole Nye improved 1.5 sec in the 100 Fly. Jonathan O’Connor continues to get healthy and improve. He dropped 4.5 in the 50 Fly and 1 sec in 50 Free. Ryley Rodkey .1 in 200 Free, .14 in 50 free leg of relay, and 1.3 sec in 100 Breast. Victor Riker over came a fear by swimming the 500 Free for the first time. Aiden Williams improved his dive score by 49 points in his second meet ever. Drake Samuel swim th 200 Free for the 1st time, dropped another 5.5 sec in the 500 Free, and 3.7 sec in his 100 Free leg of relay. The Golden Goggle Award goes to Brady Dausch. Brady is new to the team this season. He is a great kid and athlete. He has improved his dive score by 60 points from 1st meet. I see so much potential in his diving ability. He also had a best 50 free leg of the Medley relay. Now it is time to get to work over the next 3 weeks as we prepare for the second half of season and our conference meet.
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The girls swam great for the last meet going into Christmas break. The 200 medley relay started out with the girls placing 1 (Loshnowsky, Jones, Collins, Laber) 2 (Sebastian, Winegardner, A. Jordan, Heath) 3 (Aquila, Waun, Burnett, Vierra Da Silva). In the 200 freestyle, Chloe Jordan placed 1st, Thea Tyra placed 2nd, and Madison Brennan placed 4th. Zoie Laber placed 1st in the IM with Kyndal Collins dropping eleven seconds to place 2nd, followed by Schoettmer placing 3rd. In the 50 freestyle, Heath placed 1st, Abby Jordan placed 3rd, and Burnett placed 4th. Rodkey, McClain, and Shively placed 1,2,3. Winegardner dropped over four seconds in the butterfly followed by Sam Jones in 2nd and Abby Jordan in 3rd. The 100 freestyle earned the girls 1,2,3 followed by the same for Chloe Jordan, Thea Tyra, and Marissa Burnett (PR) in the 500. The relay team of Winegardner, Jones, Tyra, C. Jordan placed 1st. Heath, Schoettmer, Rodkey, and Abby Jordan placed 2nd followed by Vierra Da Silva, Aguila, Shively, and Brennan placing 3rd. Loshnowsky, Sebastian, Collins placed 1,2,3 in the 100 backstroke. Heath, Jones, and Winegardner placed 1,2,3 in the 100 breaststroke. The final event of the night had the girls placing 1st (Laber, Tyra, Loshnowsky, C. Jordan) 2nd (Brennan, Schoettmer, Collins, Sebastian), and 3rd (Aguila, Vierra Da Silva, Waun, Burnett).
The Golden Goggle went to Laci Winegardner. Laci works hard in practice and was able to shave over four seconds off her 100 butterfly time. I am very proud of her and can’t wait to see what she and the other team will be able to do as the season continues.
