Anthony Johnson
Senior Anthony Johnson, who helped lead Columbus North to a Class 3A state runner-up finish, has been named to the Indiana Soccer Coaches Association All-State first team.
North junior Aidan Whitley is on the boys second team. Bull Dog junior Christian Cardoso made the third team.
On the girls side, North senior Mallory Gilley and Columbus East senior Norah Dwenger were named honorable mention.
Volleyball players make All-State
Two local players have been named first-team All-State, and two others second-team All-State by the Indiana High School Volleyball Coaches Association.
Trinity Lutheran’s Bailey Tabeling and Addison Darlage are on the Class A first team, while the Cougars’ Laura Roeder made the second team. Columbus East’s Gabby Dean is on the 4A second team.
Dean and Jennings County’s Megan Vogel made the All-District 4 team in 4A. Hauser’s Kenze Bostic is on the All-District 4 team in 2A, and Trinity’s Tabeling, Carson Bowling and Darlage made the All-District 4 team in Class A.
Bull Dogs selected All-Conference Indiana
Several Columbus North fall sports athletes have been named to this year’s All-Conference Indiana teams.
Christian Cardoso, Flynn Keele, Nathan Imlay, Anthony Johnson, Obed Oliva and Eduardo Cordova were selected from the conference champion boys soccer team. Hank Lin, Amrit Kar, Anvay Atram and Parth Shah were picked from the conference champion boys tennis team.
Tyler Blythe, Savion Miles, Kok Kao Yee, Will Davis, Zac Horn and Cooper Horn are on the All-Conference football team. Osian Guest, Ian Calvert and Damon Edwards made honorable mention.
Mallory Gilley, Lauren Barker and Paige Mora are on the All-Conference girls soccer team. Charlotte Loheide and Riley Schumm were honorable mention selections.
Karen Dutro was picked for the All-Conference volleyball team. Emily Stair and Logan Branstetter made honorable mention.
Olympians, Panthers make All-HHC teams
Four Columbus East football players have been selected to this year’s All-Hoosier Hills Conference team.
Caaden Gault, Chase Harrison, Jamall Starks, Devon Tekulve made the first team. Jacob Guse, Nathanial Hedrick were honorable mention selections.
Meanwhile, East’s Gabby Dean and Jennings County’s Megan Vogel and Taylor Mowery are on the All-HHC volleyball team. East’s Kenzie Foster and Jennings’ Charlee Barlow and Zoie Suhre made honorable mention.
Barker named North girls soccer MVP
Senior Lauren Barker has been named MVP of the Columbus North girls soccer team.
Page Mora was selected Offensive Player of the Year, and Riley Schumm was named Defensive Player of the Year. Maddi Rutan was selected Most Improved, and Charlotte Loheide and Anna Donica won the Bull Dog Award. Barker and Sarah Fulp won the Legacy Award.
Paige Terry won the JV MVP award. Hayden Bigler won JV Most Improved.
Baseball, softball assignments set
The IHSAA announced its 2023 baseball and softball sectional groupings last week, and for area schools, those largely mirror the groups for volleyball and boys and girls basketball.
Just like in those sports, Columbus East and Columbus North are in a Class 4A sectional with East Central, Franklin, Shelbyville and Whiteland for baseball and softball. Hauser is in an eight-team 2A sectional with Austin, Brown County, Brownstown Central, Milan, South Ripley, Southwestern (Hanover) and Switzerland County.
Baseball and sectional host sites will be announced at a later date.
Ted Schultz is sports editor for The Republic. He can be reached at [email protected] or 812-379-5628.
