Winter Sports Summaries
Delphi Middle School swimmers finish 8-1 for best season record ever

The Delphi Community Middle School swim team defeated Lewis Cass 96-87 for the first time ever, finishing the season with its best record in school history at 8 wins, 1 loss.

The Oracle swimmers recorded only one first place by Chelsey Marcotte in diving, but used team depth to pull out the win. Delphi placed second and third in 11 events and had five events with second, third and fourth place to keep the Kings at bay.

The evening's highpoint was Delphi's first, second and third place in diving for a 13-point swing. It was a true team win with many swimmers posting personal best times.

Delphi's only loss was at the hands of Twin Lakes who has an age group swim program based middle school swim team. DCMS also won the Rensselaer Relays.

Delphi has 58 swimmers on this year's team, with 26 being eighth graders. There were 27 swimmers on the A team and 31 on the B team. The B team only had one meet officially scored as Twin Lakes was the only other school to field enough swimmers to fill all the A and B events. The B team swimmers garnered much experience by swimming at all five home meets, an intersqaud meet, and three time trials.

The DCMS swim team earlier defeated Clinton Central 105-78. The Oracles won five events and again used team depth to gain many second, third and fourth place finishes. First place went to Justin Bennett, diving; Jordan Hudelson, 50 butterfly; Erika Matrica, 400 freestyle; 200 freestyle relay - Keaton Garrison, Rollie Taylor, Abbey Mose and Alex Price; and Payton Windell, 100 backstroke.

Lady Comets place third in tournament

The Lady Comets Special Olympics basketball team competed in a 32-team tournament held last weekend at DePauw University, Greencastle.

The Lady Comets split their two games, coming in third in their division.

The Cass County Lady Shooters defeated the Comets 29-24 in the first game. Shawna Sherman led the Cougars with 10 ponts. Diana Knight added 8 points, and Cary Walters, Cindy Hartman and Junie Sherman contributed 2 points each.

In game two, the Comets edged the Happiness Bag Lady Bandits from Terre Haute 21-16. Shawna Sherman scored all of her eight points in the first quarter. Jessica Hartman had 4 points, Bethany Cadwallader, Cary Walters, and Junie Sherman 2 each, and Darlene Goyer 1.

The Carroll Rockets and Unified Cougars will compete in sectional play this weekend.

Rockets and Cougars eliminated from sectional play

The Carroll County Rockets and Cougars Special Olympics basketball teams competed last weekend in sectionals. Both teams won their first game but were eliminated from competition in the second game.

The Rockets defeated the Clinton County Black Wolves 37-22. By the end of the first half, the Rockets were in command of the game, leading 28-10. Cody Martin led all scorers with 15 points. Paul Knight had 12 points; Doug McCarty 6 points; and Ron Rice and Jesse Cadwallader each had 2.

The Rockets defeat was to the White County Lakers 35-24. The Rockets led 8-6 at the end of the first quarter and that would be their last lead. Knight led all scorers with 16 points. Martin added 4 points, McCarty and Cadwallader split 4.

The Cougars pulled out the 31-26 win over the Clinton County Eagles. The Eagles came out storming, scoring 22 first quarter points while holding the Cougars scoreless. But the Cougars turned the tables, holding the Eagles scoreless in both the second and third quarters, tying the score at 23 all. The Cougars outscored the Eagles 8-4 in the final quarter to win the game. Aaron Hensley led all scorers with 10 points. Todd Yates added 8 points, Chuck Fry Jr. 5, Nick Martin 4, Conner Wells and Jarrod Hisey 2 each.

In the second game, the Porter County Pacers took the first quarter lead and never gave it up. Hensley led the Cougars with 8 points. Hisey had 7 points, Conner Wells 6, Yates 5, Fry 2 and Randy Hoffman 1.

The Rockets are coached by Mike Cadwallader and the Cougars by Bob Yates.