Braves win Mid-Southern Conference track crown

Brownstown Central athletes captured three events to propel the Braves to a first-place finish in the Mid Southern Conference track and field meet at Corydon on Thursday night.

Seymour scored 90 points to finish third in the Hoosier Hill Conference meet at Jennings County in North Vernon. Columbus East athletes won six events to lead the Olympians to the conference title.

Braves senior Kwin Cutter won the 400-meter dash with a time of 51.72 and junior teammate Mark Crossman captured the 800-meter run with a time of 1:58.86. The Braves 1,600-relay team of Cutter, Crossman, coley Brown and Kaeler Persinger also won that event with a time of 3:33.24.

The conference title was the second in three years for the Braves and the fourth since 1990.

"We just had some outstanding performances and a lot of personal bests," Braves coach Barry Cutter said.

Cutter said the Braves are getting healthy and in good shape as they prepare for the sectional on Thursday.

Cutter said he knew heading into the meet that the Braves could finish anywhere from first to fifth.

The key to the win proved to be two seventh-place finishes and five-eighth place finishes, he said.

"That really kind of helped us out a bunch," he said.

The Owls were led by the first-place finish of sophomore Nolan Fife in the 1600 meter run.
Fife finished that event with a time of 4.30.

Seniors Marc Tormoehlen and Brett Brock also finished two and three in the 400-meter dash, and sophomore Steven Tanner was fourth in the 3200-meter run.

Junior Drew Royalty placed third in the discus with a throw of 142'0".

Tormoehlen also had a jump of 18'8-3/4" inches to place third in the long jump and junior Andrew Brock placed fourth in the shot put with a throw of 47'0-1/4".

Mid Southern Conference
At Corydon Central
Thursday
Team scores: Brownstown Central 95, Silver Creek 87, Clarksville 83, North Harrison 83, Salem 79, Charlestown 72, Corydon 57, Austin 39, Scottsburg 23, Eastern Pekin 6
Brownstown all-conference (first place)
400 dash: 1) Kwin Cutter 51.72
800 run: 1) Mark Crossman 1:58.6
1600 relay: 1) Cutter, Crossman, Kaeler Persinger, Coley Brown 3:33.24
All conference honorable mention (second place)
1600-meter run: 2) Crossman 4:33.44
Discus: 2) David Baker 129.2
Other Braves scoring points:
3200 relay: 3) Jacob Childers, Jarred Leffler, Keith Waggoner, Crossman 8:39.87
400 relay: 3) Jordan Turpin, Tim Bishop, Blaze Hurley, Christian Peters 46:88
Pole vault: 3) Hurley 12'0"
Shot put: 3) Baker 45'7"
Long jump: 4) Peters 19'1½"
100 dash: 5) Hurley 12:10
Long jump: 6) Ted Stucker 18'10"
3200 run: 6) Keith Waggoner 10:33.48
200 dash: 7) Hurley 25.0
300 low hurdles: 7) Chris Branaman 45.11
High jump: 8) Cutter 5'8" 
Shot put: 8) Caleb Silvers 42'0"
Discus: 8) Levi Caudill 115'0"
Pole vault: 8) James Scott 9'6"
200 dash: 8) Cutter 32.29

Hoosier Hills Conference
At Jennings County
Thursday
Team scores: Columbus East 132, Jeffersonville 109.5, Seymour 90, Floyd Central 86, New Albany 66.5, Jennings County 53, Madison 47, Bedford NL 39
Seymour results (top eight): 
100 dash: 7) Mitchell Reutter 12.13
200 dash: 6) Stephen Fleming 24.19
400 dash: 2) Marc Tormoehlen 52.13; 3) Brett Brock 52.86
800 run: 5) David Schulz 2:03.00
1600 run: 1) Nolan Fife 4:30
3200 run: 4) Steven Tanner 10:09.00
110 hurdles: 7) Tyrei Tucker 17.36
300 hurdles: 6) Joey Benefiel 45.04
400 relay: 3) Eric O'Mara, Reutter, Jacob Carmichael, Fleming 45.75
1600 relay: 2) Daniel Koester, Brett Brock, Carmichael, Tormoehlen 3:34.00
3200 relay: 3) Schulz, Koester, Zack McAdams, Josh Pottschmidt 8.19
High jump: 6) Mitch Atchison 5'6"
Pole vault: 5) Reid Martin 11'0"; 8th) Clayton Abbott 10'0"
Long jump: 3) Tormoehlen 18'8-1/4"; 6) Colin Aker 18'0-3/4:
Shot put: 4) Andrew Brock 47"0-1/4"; 8) John Stark 41'5-1/4"
Discus: 3) Drew Royalty 136-6"