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The White River Valley Lady Wolverines tennis team narrowly missed winning their second straight match as they fell to North Daviess 3-2 Thursday night. The loss drops WRV to 1-6 on the season.Amanda Mowery and Brooke Braswell cruised to a win at No. 1 doubles for the Wolverines first point, then No. 2 tandem of Megan Padgett and Danielle Higgins rolled to a 6-0, 8-6 victory to cap off the final scoring.

“Our doubles teams did an amazing job tonight, especially our No. 2 doubles team,” Lady Wolverines head coach Katie Mullis said. “Megan and Danielle really came together and played well tonight.”

All three singles matches had a close game, but Kendra Brown, Mindie Neeley nor Taylor Blanton could come away with a win.

“It was just not a good day for the singles players, but they all gave their best,” Mullis said.

WRV will be back in action on the courts Friday when they play host to Linton-Stockton in what will be a third attempt to play the match. It will start at 4:30 p.m.

At North Daviess

North Daviess 3, White River Valley 2

Singles

1. Stacey Beard (ND), d. Kendra Brown (W), 6-4, 6-3.

2. Shannon Winklepleck (ND), d. Mindie Neeley (W), 6-2, 6-4

3. Macey Doades (ND), d. Taylor Blanton (W), 6-4, 6-4

Doubles

1. Amanda Mowery and Brooke Braswell (W), d. Maggie Wagler and Edith Gonzales, 6-0, 6-1

2. Megan Padgett and Danielle Higgins (W), d. Justine Ginderich and Sarah Smith (ND), 6-0, 8-6.

White River Valley continues to show improvement as the Wolverine baseball team defeated host Cloverdale 7-2 in a high school game Thursday night.”We are starting to play better,” said WRV coach Mike Karr. “This is the third game in a row where we have been really competitive. It is always good to win, but we were competitive and got the win as well.

“We are hoping to continue to improve as we finish out a busy month of May. We want to be competitive in the tournament, that is our goal.”

Jeremy Roberts pitched five innings to earn his second victory in five decisions. Nathan Bushy tossed two shutout innings to close out the win.

“Jeremy had five strikeouts and two walks,” said Karr. “He pitched a really good game.

“Nate also threw well in his two innings of work. He struck out three and gave one hit.”

Trey Sparks had a double and RBI for the Wolverines (3-6). Bushy also doubled while catcher Evan Karr had a hit and one RBI. He also threw out two runners and was key in a run down play that ended up in an out.

Briar Sparks also contributed one RBI and one run while Levi Hostetter added one hit and two runs. Michael White converted a walk and a hit by pitch into two WRV runs

First baseman Ethan Dyer recorded two outs on high pop ups, according to Karr.

“We are starting to hit the ball better,” said Karr. “We played well from start to finish.”

The Wolverines will play at 5 p.m. Friday at home against North Daviess before hosting Eminence at 11 a.m. Saturday.

They will entertain Linton-Stockton at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 14. They will play at Barr-Reeve at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 16.

White River Valley 103 003 0 — 7 5 1

Cloverdale 100 100 0 — 2 6 2

Jeremy Roberts, Nathan Bushy (6) and Evan Karr; Burdette and Martin. W — Roberts, 3-2, L — Burdette. 2B — Trey Sparks (W), Bushy (W).

The White River Valley girls and boys track and field teams competed at the Patriot Challenge Saturday at Terre Haute North. No team scores were kept.In the girls competition, Shana McDonald was timed at 15 minutes, 36.29 seconds in the 3,200 meters.

In the 200, Kelsey O’Malley was second with a time of 13.74. Kara McDonald was clocked at 16.80 in the same event and junior Amber Hunt was timed at 18.07.

O’Malley went 14 feet, seven inches, third best in the long jump.

Abby Henry ran a time of 1:19.30 in the 400 and freshman Lydia Miller ran a 2:59.15 in the 800.

Caitlyn Robertson cleared 4-8, good for third place in the high jump.

Kelsey Anderson threw the shot put 27-9 1/2 and Sam Goodman 27-4 1/2, the fifth and sixth best efforts in that event.

Goodman was third in the discus at 108-10 and Anderson was fifth at 95-11.

In the boys competition, Chris Reel ran 6:05.97 in the 1,600. Chris Spencer was timed at 1:12.00 in the 400.

Ty Robbins was fourth in the 800. He was clocked at 2:09.86.

Cole Goodman had a throw of 28-5 1/4 in the shot put and 117-9 1/2 in the discus. Cody Fiscus had an effort of 25-8 1/2 in the shot put and 81-2 1/2 in the discus.

The White River Valley softball team fell to 1-4 on the season with a 10-0 six-inning loss to visiting Edgewood Wednesday night.Haylee Holtsclaw was the starting and losing pitcher for the Lady Wolverines.

Rachel Mowery and Kelsey Anderson registered the only hits for WRV in the shut-out.

The Lady Wolverines will be back in action Thursday when they travel to Brown County at 5:30 p.m.

Rachel Mowery had two doubles and drove in four runs as the White River Valley softball team defeated visiting Barr-Reeve 6-1 in a high school game at Switz City Thursday. It was the first victory in three contests for WRV.”It was really good for the girls to get their first win,” said WRV coach Ruan Fougerousse. “They really deserved it. The girls have improved so much just since our first game.

“Rachel came up with a double in the first inning to give us the lead and she cleared the bases with a double in the sixth inning to help us put the game away.”

Erin Pittman and Alicia Tally each had two hits. Tally also scored two runs.

Ashley Speer had a hit, Breana Fox doubled and catcher Jasmine May, winning pitcher Haylee Holtsclaw and Jenna Rollins each had a single. Rollins scored two runs and Holtsclaw crossed the plate once. Kelsey Anderson had one RBI as did Holtsclaw.

“The girls did a really good job of putting the ball in play,” said Fougerousse.

She added that they had their best outing of the year defensively.

“We had just two errors. That was a big improvement,” said Fougerousse.

Holtsclaw scattered seven hits to earn the victory. She struck out three and walked one.

“Haylee goes out and throws strikes,” said Fougerousse. “She is not really fast, but she makes the other team put the ball in play.”

The Lady Wolverines will play Monday at Bedford North Lawrence.

Barr-Reeve 000 000 1 — 1 7 3

White River Valley 100 023 x — 6 11 2

Kavanaugh, Trickle (2) and O’Connor; Holtsclaw and May. W — Holtsclaw, 1-1. L — Kavanaugh. 2B — Mowery 2 (W), Fox (W).