Rising Sun Trio Earn ORVC Weekly Honors

The ORVC report for the week of April 9-14 was released on Tuesday.

(Rising Sun, Ind.) – It was a good week for Rising Sun High School student-athletes.

The Ohio River Valley Conference on Tuesday announced its baseball, softball, boys golf and track & field performers of the week for April 9-14.

Rising Sun’s Brent Turner is the ORVC Baseball Player of the Week. Turner was lights out on the mound pitching two compete games. During the two-game stretch, Turner stuck out 18 batters and allowed only one earned run. He also went 5-6 at the plate and drove in two runs.

The ORVC Softball Player of the Week went to Rising Sun’s Lindsay Montgomery. The Lady Shiners star tallied 7 runs, 6 RBIs, 5 hits, 3 stolen bases and 2 home runs in three games.

Southwestern’s Hunter Mefford is the ORVC Boys Golfer of the Week. Mefford shot a 43 at Westwood and was the medalist at the Jennings County Invite with a 71 at St. Annes.

The ORVC Boys Track & Field Performers of the Week are South Ripley’s Luke Welch and Shawe Memorial’s Leon Kinne. On the girls side, Rising Sun’s Kinsey Price and Shawe Memorial’s Lauren Lundergan shared the honor.

Other top performers for the week of April 9-14 are listed below.

 

BASEBALL

Avery Halcomb (SR)                5 hits, 5 RBI, 2 runs, 2 2B, SB / 7 IP, 4 hits, 1 ER, 10 K’s in win

Chad Turner (SR)                     4 hits, 2 runs, 2 RBI, 2B, SB in 3 games

Jackson Cornett (SR)               5 hits, 5 runs, 3 SB, RBI, 2B in 3 games

Austin South (SC)                    3 hits, 3 runs, 2 2B, RBI, SB / 4.33 IP, 6 K’s, 6 hits, ER

Kyle Whitham (SC)                  4 hits, 2 runs, 2 RBI, 2 SB in 3 games

Kenyon Bledsoe (SC)               3 hits, 3 runs, 3 RBI, 2B, SB in 3 games

Stephen Jiminez (RS)              4-6, 5 RBI, 3 runs, 2 2B, 2 SB in 2 games

Kameron Montgomery (RS)    4-7, 4 runs, 2 SB last week in 2 games

Talon Harmon (SW)                4-8, 4 RBI, 3 SB, 2B / 5 IP, 6 K’s, 0 ER last week

Mathew Binzer (SM)               2-6 last week

Nate Pawlak (SM)                   2-5 / 7 IP with 10 K’s

Jorge Rodriguez (SM)              2-7 last week

Dustin Herbert (JCD)               6 hits, 3 runs, 3 RBI, 2 2B in 4 games

T.J. Menchhofer (JCD)            5 hits, 5 runs, 2 RBI, 2B, SB in 4 games

Logan Drockelman (JCD)         6 hits, 5 RBI, 4 runs / 4.1 IP, 3 K’s last week

 

SOFTBALL 

 

Erin Widener (M)                    10 hits, 4 RBI, 3 runs, HR in 2 games

Taryn Cline (M)                       7 RBI, 6 hits, 3 runs, 2 2B, HR in 2 games

Taylor Amberger (M)              6 hits, 4 runs, 2 SB, RBI in 2 games

Kassidy Romans (RS)               5 hits, 4 RBI, 3 runs, 3 SB, 2B in 3 games

Sydney Pitts (RS)                     4 hits, 4 RBI, 2 runs, 2B, SB / 20 IP, 21 K’s going 2-1 last week

Abby Ralston (SW)                  6 hits, 6 runs, 3 RBI, 2 2B / 4 IP, 4 ER, 6 K’s in win

Kate Sampson (SW)                5 hits, 4 runs, 2 SB, RBI in 3 games

Abby Fulton (SW)                    4 hits, 3 RBI, 2 runs, 2B / 3.2 IP, 2 hits, 0 ER, 7 K’s

Kristen Snodgrass (SM)           3 hits, 2 runs, RBI in 3 games

Morgen Carroll (JCD)              5 hits, 3 RBI, 2 2B / 16 IP, 0 ER, 33 K’s going 2-1 last week

Emily Adams (JCD)                  4 hits, 4 runs, 3 SB, 2 RBI, 2 2B in 3 games

Karlee Wolfe (JCD)                  5 hits, 4 RBI, 2 2B in 3 games

Julia Rea (SR)                           4 hits, 4 SB, 3 runs, RBI / 11 IP, 4 K’s going 1-1 last week

Taylor Scott (SR)                     4 hits, 2 runs, 2 RBI, 2B in 3 games

Jenna Moore (SR)                   4 hits, 3 RBI, 2 runs, 2 2B in 3 games

 

BOYS GOLF

 

Garrett Boor (JCD)                  49 @ Rising Star

Trenton Hadley (SW)              38 @ Westwood

Brent Turner (RS)                    39 @ Rising Star / 39 @ North Branch

Garrett Demaree (SC)             43 @ Rising Star

Tyler Konkle (SC)                     40 @ North Branch / 43 @ Rising Star

Kyle Whitham (SC)                  43 @ Rising Star

Chris Hawk (M)                       46 @ Dearborn CC

Joe Hawk (M)                          42 @ Rising Star

Cory Welch (SR)                      49 @ Rising Star

 

 

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