Carter Patterson
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Carter Patterson // Columbus East junior basketball player
Patterson scored 27 points and grabbed six rebounds to lead the Olympians to a season-opening 77-67 win against Whiteland.
His performance last week: “I think it was a pretty good game for me, but it had a lot to do with my teammates.”
Do you do anything special to prepare? “I just like to stay off of my phone and focus in on the game completely.”
Favorite drink: “Sprite Cranberry”
Favorite food: “Jaggers double cheeseburger”
Favorite class: “My Algebra class”
Favorite sports team: “Indiana University”
Favorite athlete: “Michael Jordan”
Role model: “My grandpa (Dale Patterson)”
Best advice: “Keep trying if you’re in an area where you think you can’t perform well.”
Athletics goal: “To play college basketball somewhere.”
If you could travel anywhere: “I want to go to Hawaii because I think it looks pretty.”
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Mollie Ernstes // Jennings County junior basketball player
Mollie Ernstes
Ernstes led the Panthers with 20 points in a 66-55 loss at Jeffersonville and 31 points and 10 rebounds in Saturday’s 49-47 win against Pendleton Heights.
Her performance last week: “Jeffersonville, I thought we played really good, but the 3s weren’t falling for us. For Pendleton Heights, we came into that game knowing we had to defend, and the offense just came from that.”
Do you do anything special to prepare? “We usually just watch a lot of film on our own, and then we’ll watch film before or after practice, and we had a scouting report with a lot of information on it and then a test over the scouting report.”
Favorite drink: “Baha Blast”
Favorite food: “Quesadillas”
Favorite class: “Broadcasting”
Favorite sports team: “New Orleans Saints”
Favorite athlete: “(Pro track athlete) Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone”
Role model: “My mom (Lee-Lee Ernstes)”
Best advice: “Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.’’
Athletics goal: “To play high major college basketball.”
If you could travel anywhere: “Bahamas, because the water is pretty.”
