A few local girls basketball players have been selected to this year’s Indiana Basketball Coaches Association All-State teams.
Miley McClellan
Jennings County senior Mollie Ernstes is on the Senior Supreme 15 team, which honors the state’s top 15 seniors regardless of school size. Columbus North’s Miley McClellan and Edinburgh’s Kenna Streeval made Senior honorable mention.
Jennings County junior Etta Young is on the Underclass Large School All-State, and Trinity Lutheran junior Marley Warren made the Underclass Small School All-State. North junior Kaylie Harmon and Trinity sophomore Rachel Bonde are Underclass honorable mention selections.
Meanwhile, Harmon and Ernstes have been selected to the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association All-State girls basketball first team. McClellan and Young are on the second team, and Warren made the third team. There are 25 girls each on the first, second and third teams.
McClellan and Ernstes also were selected to participate in the Hoosier Basketball Magazine Top 60 Senior Girls Workout, which took place Sunday at Beech Grove High School.
Meanwhile, McClellan, Harmon and North junior Avery Johnson have been named to the All-Conference Indiana girls basketball team. North senior Kenna Conrad made honorable mention.
Also, Jennings coach Kristi Sigler has been named Hoosier Basketball Coaches Association District 3 Coach of the Year.
North’s Sipes to play soccer at Trine
Columbus North senior Jonah Sipes has committed to continue his soccer career at Trine University.
Jonah Sipes
Sipes was The Republic Boys Soccer Player of the Year last fall.
East football moving from 5A to 4A
After spending most of the past decade playing at the Class 5A level in football, Columbus East is moving back down to 4A for at least the next two years.
The IHSAA announced classifications for the next two years last week. East and Columbus North will remain in 4A, and Hauser will stay in Class A for boys and girls basketball, girls volleyball, baseball and softball.
East wrestlers compete at Frosh-Soph state
Columbus East freshman wrestler Cam Cooper finished second at 144 pounds in last weekend’s Freshman-Sophomore State Tournament at Southport.
Kade Stevens (113) took fifth, and Henry Eickmeyer (175) placed eighth for the Olympians. Joel Smith (106), Jayden DeHart (144), Colton Foster (144), Henry McMahon (190) and Brady Cleary (190) also competed for East and won at least one match.
