IHSAA Student-Athlete Tip of the Week (4-30-12)

IHSAA Student-Athlete Tip of the Week (4-30-12)

"Promoting education-based athletics in Indiana."

Most student-athletes can perform in the classroom and on the athletic field when things are going well and there doesn't seem to be too much push or pressure from the opposition.

However, when things aren't going as well and you seem to be struggling in the classroom or on the field of play, how do you react?

When the pressure is on and you need to turn it up a notch or two, do you know how to do so?  The best answer to this question is one simple word, preparation. Those who are prepared, whether in the classroom or on the field of play, will do a better job when the pressure is really on.  Preparation will help your confidence and self esteem!

For more on the student-athlete go to www.ihsaa.org 

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WEEKLY SCHEDULE

As the Spring season progresses we always get some confusion about times and locations of events. So, I thought it would be best to share this weeks events for you just to make sure we are clear about where and when our teams play this week.

Monday
          The girls Varsity Softball team travels to Churubusco. THIS IS A 4:30pm start. This is a strange start time. However, I have checked with the Busco website and they also say its a 4:30 start. So, I will have to assume that is correct. I will check with the BUSCO AD tomorrow, just to make sure, If you don't hear differently assume it's at 4:30pm.
         
          The boys Varsity Baseball team travels to Central Noble for a 5:00pm start time.

Tuesday
          The Boys and Girls Track teams travel to WOODLAN for an ACAC 3-way track meet. Please make sure you spread the word about the location. The Coaches were a little confused about the location and Highschoolsports.net IS a little confusing. BUT, the meet really is at WOODLAN not Southern Wells. The meet wil begin at 5:00pm.  DON'T go all the way to Southern Wells. It will be a long trip for nothing!
         
          The Varsity Baseball and Softball team will host South Adams here at Garrett on Tuesday. Both the Baseball and Softball games will begin at 6:00pm.
         
          The Varsity Boys Golf team will travel to Woodlan. The match will begin at 4:30pm. Woodlan plays their golf matches at Pond-a-River Golf Course.

Wednesday
          The Varsity Boys Baseball team will play Bluffton AT PARKVIEW FIELD. Our game begins at 4:30pm. THIS IS AN EARLY START TIME! Please make a special note of the early start time as we need to make sure we can get both the games in at a reasonable time. Parkview field is in charge of any postponement. We will let you know if the weather is not good enough for us to play on their field.

Thursday
         The Varsity Girls Softball team will travel to Bluffton for another ACAC matchup. The game at Bluffton will begin at 5:00pm.
         
          The Boys and Girls Track teams will host Central Noble at Memorial Field on Thursday night. This will be senior night for the track team. The Senior Recognition will begin at 4:45pm. Field Events and the 3200 relay will begin at 5pm. All other running events will begin at 5:30pm.

Friday
          The Varsity Softball team will travel to Concordia for a Softball game against the Lady Cadets. That game is scheduled to begin at 5pm.

Saturday
          The Varsity Softball team will host the Garrett Softball Invitational beginning at 10:00am. Garrett will play Bishop Dwenger at 10:00am. The second game, 12noon,  will feature Manchester High School against Elkhart Memorial. The losers of the first two games will play at approximately 2:00pm. The Championship game will begin at 4pm.

JUST A REMINDER. WE ARE NOT PLAYING THE SCHEDULED JV BASEBALL OR JV SOFTBALL GAMES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR. PLEASE MARK YOUR SCHEDULES ACCORDINGLY!

Busy Friday!

This was a busy Friday as we finishe the first half of the spring season. May is just around the corner and hopefully better weather! Baseball, Softball, and boys/girls track all had contests tonight. Softball 6-1, Yes it was a good win. New Haven is a new team on the schedule who we haven't played in around 20 years. There was no scoring until the 3rd by Garrett when Kayla Morrow lead off with a single. She was followed by Kate DePew 2nd hit also a single. They were advanced on a sac bunt by Ashley Morris. Morris scored when a error happened on Smiths grounder and then Rachel Stafford followed with a single driving in 2 more runs. We added 3 more in the 4th inning when Sam Yoder got her 2nd hit of the game. She was followed by Macy Sturges single and with 2 outs DePew had a triple and she later scored on an error. Kayla Morrow had 2hits tonight as did Stafford and Yoder. DePew had 3hits. On the mound Brit Yarian went the distance giving up 1 run on 5 hits walking none and striking out 7. New Haven scored in the 6th inning when they had 3 hits but didn't threaten other than that. A good way to end the week reaching .500  and with prom weekend here. We have a VERY busy next week with 6 games scheduled every day except Wed. Nice job girls!! Be ready to really play some ball next week. Enjoy your weekend!!!! The Baseball team traveled to Indiana Tech tonight to take on Bishop Luers. They lost 9-1. I received no other stats from the game. The boys tack team ran at Enral Noble tonight and had a good meet coming in 4h with 74.5 points. Todd Frickey had a great night scoring 29 points himself. He had 1st place finishes in the 100 and 200. He tied the meet record in the 200 with a time of 22.6. He also got 2nd in the 400 and was on the 5th place 4x400 team. Drake Lamdes got 3rd in long jump, 4th in 300 hurdles, and 5th in the 110 hurdles. Jaron Somers got 6th in the 1600 and 3200. Robert Deventer won the discus. Patrick Chester got 5th in high jump. Lukas Christensen got 6th in shot put. Connor Fostor was 6th in the 3200. The 3200 relay team of Lantz, Foster, Slabauhg, and Somers was 6th. The girl rack team had their best meet ever at New Haven tonight. One again Jordyn won the high point award. The team was 5th overall. It was Jordyns 2nd MVP award at New Haven. She was 2nd in high jump, long jump, and the 300 hurdles. She was 4th in the 200. She had 28 points. Laura Moynahan was 2nd on shot put with a career best 36-5 3/4. She was also 4th in discus. The team had 8 PRs. Great work girls!

Better night for GHS!

The Garrett Golf team continued its winning ways tonight shooting another 167 defeating Fremont and Prairie Heights on the Road. Coach Kleeman said  "I feel that this was our best team effort of the year. Bennett (42) is hurting with a sore right knee so Cameron (42), Noah (42), Jake (46), Karsten (41), Zach (44) all came up big for us. On Tuesday we shot a team score of 167 on our home course. Today we shoot another 167 at a course that played harder."

Team Results:

Garrett - 167

Fremont - 172

Prairie Heights - 200

Individual Scores for Garrett:

Bennett Rieke - 42

Karsten Cooper - 41

Cameron Stockdale - 42

Zach Sarrazine - 44

Noah Getts - 42

Jake Stafford - 46

Individual Scores for Fremont:

Austin Corcimglia - 38 (medalist)

Tyler Jenkins - 41

Jordan Schumuker - 49

Collin Sherburne - 48

Colt Penner - 45

Justin Papenbrock - 52

Individual Scores for Prairie Heights:

Jesse Morgan - 47

Dakota Lambert - 53

Nick Bennelt - 47

Jason Miller - 53

Cole Larntz - 53

Braxton Elliot - 68

The Softball and Baseball team traveled to Adams Central for another ACAC matchup. Here are the Softball Results and comments from Coach Bishop:

Softball

Garrett v.s. Adams Central. A long bus ride proved to be worth it as we won 6-4 in 8 innings,actually it should have been 7-4 but the head coach made a really dumb mistake. Rachel Stafford had just hit a 3 run homer in the 8th to give us the lead at 7-4. The umpire said that the coach assisted a runner from 3rd to home by touching her. The umpire was correct in his call costing us 1 big run. I asked the team to pick up the coach in the bottom of the 8th and they did to preserve the win at 6-4. We brought the bats today to the tune of 10 hits including a double and homer by Stafford. Amber Poling and Hannah McCoy had a double and single.. Annessa Smith had an rbi single and Katie DePew had 3 singles. Macy Sturges went all 8 innings and pitched well giving up 4 runs , 3 earned on 4 hits. She started rough giving up 3 in the first and settled in allowing 1 run in the 6th which was unearned due to 2 errors. Macy walked 1 and hit 1 and struck out 6. They played a hard game and ground it out to get the win.
We now need to play hard tomorrow v.s. New Haven to put us back on top with back-ti-back wins which would be very good for the club. C Ya there!

Baseball

The Baseball team also made the trip to Adams Central and didn't fare as well as the Softball team. They fell by the score of 10-3. Coach Mireles was not happy with the results. He didn't have much to say.

Golf the LONE Bright Spot tonight!

Boys Golf

          The Garrett Golf team continued their march toward a regular season championship tonight at home. It was Senior Night for Bennett Rieke, Cameron Stockdale, Jacob Stafford, and Noah Getts. These 4 seniors have been the backbone of our team for the last 4 years. They all have lettered 4 years and contributed to our first and only ACAC Golf Championship. We are VERY proud of them and their contributions. The team soundly defeated the ACAC competition tonight. Here are the results and comments from Coach Kleeman: "

Garrett hosted South Adams, Adams Central and Leo on Tuesday at Garrett Country Club. It was Senior Night for Garrett's 4 seniors Bennett Rieke, Cameron Stockdale, Noah Getts and Jake Stafford. Each of these seniors will have lettered all 4 years at the conclusion of this this golf season."

Team Results:

Garrett - 167

South Adams - 178

Leo - 180

Adams Central - 210

Individual results for Garrett:

Bennett Rieke - 39 (medalist)

Karsten Cooper - 42

Cameron Stockdale - 43

Noah Getts - 43

Jake Stafford - 43

Individual Results for South Adams:

Mark Muselman - 46

Derek Fox - 41

Mark Smith - 48

Chase Mosser - 48

Peter Amstutz - 49

Individual Results for Leo:

Sean Bock - 45

Kent Kimura - 45

Chandler Reinking - 48

Trent Baver - 43

Chandler Fields - 47

Individual Results for Adams Central:

Blake Pfeiffer - 46

Ren Christian - 55

Nick McCullough - 52

Jim Everett - 57

Jared Lehman - 61

Thanks

Tom Kleeman

For everyone else it was not a good night for our Athletic Teams. Where do I start? We were defeated at Baseball, Softball, and Track. Nobody got a "W" tonight except the golfers.

Boys Track
           Garrett 58 - Heritage 65 -- Here are the comments from Coach Clifford:

           "Proud of the boys tonight. We have continued to face adversity with the injuries and tonight we     started to show more toughness through the adversity! We put ourselves in a position to win at the end of the meet. It came down to the 4x400 relay..... unfortunately we did not win that race even though we shaved 5 second off our best time of the season."

1st Place winners - Jaron Somers - 800, 1600, and 3200; Todd Frickey - 100, 200, 400; Frake Landes - long jump; Robert Deventer - discus; Jordan Lantz, Connor Fostor, Kendall Slabaugh, Jaron Somers 4x800.

2nd Place finishers - Kendall Slabaugh - 800; Jordan Lantz - 3200; Connor Meehan - shotput.

Girls Track
          Coach Lapadots comments: "We were horrible as a team tonight and got beat by 5 points. We were not focused or ready to run. Jordyn Knott won High Jump, Long Jump, and 200m. Ariel McCoy won the 1600 and 3200. The 4x800 team of Becca Oliver, Kelsi Winebrenner, Amanda Stump, and Ariel McCoy ran a 10:59 winning the race. Laura Moynahan won the shot put and discus."

Baseball
          The Baseball team lost a very tough game to ACAC conference foe Leo tonight here in Garrett. The final score was 12-2 in 6 innings. Brett Schendel took the loss. It was a combination of giving up to much offense to the Lions and not getting much offense for the Railroaders. Leo hit the ball often and hit it hard. Like the girls track team we just lost focus tonight. We are a good team. We just didn't play like it tonight.

Softball
          Just like Baseball the Lady Railroaders lost a tough game to Leo. This one was more of a heartbreaker. The final score was 4-2 and the Lady Lions had 3 unearned runs. We are a young team, but we have to understand we can compete with anyone if we play like we are capable. We just can't make mistakes against good teams like Leo. They will always capitalize and make you pay for it.

Here are Coach Bishop's comments: "After last nights aggressive play we were hoping for more of the same tonight and really didn't get it, both on offense and defense. We came out and after a lead off double from Leo , we missed played an outfield ball. That was followed by 2 more hits which resulted in 3 runs and only 1 earned run. We held them until the 5th inning when we had another error which scored giving them 4 total for the game. On the offense we had only 4 hits, led by Katie DePew with 2.  One of those was an rbi double in the 3rd which drove in Ashley Morris, who had doubled to start the inning. In the 6th, DePew started the inning and was driven in by Annessa Smith with a double of her own. Consistency remains a problem and perhaps better pre game preperation would help. We will address this in practice tomorrow. Honestly after scorching the ball last night the coaches were hoping that the players would be excited to go to the plate tonight and that didn't happen. Brit Yarian pitched a good game allowing 4 runs on 6 hits, walking 1, and striking out 7. A few mental errors on defense really hurt. Next up Adams Central there on Thursday and then New Haven here on Friday night. "

Great win for SB!

The Lady Railroader Softball team got a quality win tonight over a great opponent and hit the ball well against a very good pitcher. The final score was 9-4. Here are Coach Bishop's comments:

"As they say, what a difference a day makes. The girls came to play and compete today. Macy Sturges started and got the win with 3 innings of relief from Yarian, they combined for 10 k's.At the plate we were aggressive against a very good pitcher and put the ball in play, hard all night. Katie Depew had 2 hits, as did Annessa Smith, Hannah McCoy and Ashley Morris. DePew had a triple while Smith  added a double both hits driving in runs. Also having a triple was Rachel Stafford also producing a run. Morris also had a rbi. Casandra Grrifith had 2 nice sacrifice bunts doing her job and moving the runners, while Stafford threw out a runner at home trying to score on a base hit. Samantha Yoder completed the play with a nice tag on the runner. Hopefully we bring it again tomorrow against a good Leo team and an important conference game. We had 8 runs on 10 hits and 3 errors while Lakeland also had 10 hits scoring 4 runs and committing 3 errors. Bring it again!!"


Garrett hosts Leo in a big ACAC matchup in Baseball and Softball tomorrow. Both games begin at 6pm.

IHSAA Student-Athlete Tip of the Week (4-23-12)

"Providing education-based athletics in Indiana."

Are you the student-athlete that follows up on a commitment that you have made to your parents, teachers, coaches, or teammates?

It is somewhat discouraging to those in charge when someone accepts the challenge of doing something and then they don't follow through.  If you commit to doing something, make sure you do your part.

Most teachers and coaches will tell you that they look at the effort, just as much as they look at the result.  If there's a project in the classroom, or new play or fundamental to learn in your sport, follow through and do your part.  Set yourself up for success!

For more on the student-athlete go to www.ihsaa.org

Content property of Billy Shepherd Sports Inc.