Swimmers Open Season with a Sweep at the Y

Chillicothe opened its Swim season with a sweep. The Cavalier Girls scored 102 points to win a tri-meet over Gallia Academy (86) and River Valley (47) while the Boys took the dual meet with River Valley, winning 88-60.

The Cavalier Boys won seven of eight events and placed second in three others while the Girls finished 1^st in seven of 11 events.

Pam Allen was more than pleased with her teams’ efforts, “These kids did an awesome job today.”

The Cavs will swim in the Athens Invitational next Saturday.

All the results:

BOYS

    200 Medley Relay-1st- Tom Conaway, Lander Zook, Per Petersen, David Masters.
    200 Free-Dominic Villarreal-1st.David Masters-3rd
    50 Free-Tommy Conaway-1st.Per Petersen-2nd
    100 Free-David Masters-1st.Per Petersen-2nd
    500 Free-Dominic Villarreal-1st
    200 Free Relay-1st-Masters, Conaway, Zook, Petersen
    100 Back-Tommy Conaway-1st
    100 Breast-Lander Zook-2nd, Matthew Hurff-3rd
   
GIRLS

    200 Medley Relay-1st-Chianne Burgin, MacKenzie Smittley, Jessica Limle, Hannah Arth
    200 Free-Hannah Lunde-1st. Abby Guerra-2nd
    200 IM_MacKenzie Smittley-1st
    50 Free-Chianne Burgin-1st.Hannah Arth-2nd
    100 Fly-Jessica Limle-2nd
    100 Free-Hannah Lunde-1st.Abby Guerra-2nd
    500 Free-Abby Guerra-2nd
    200 Free Relay-3rd-Shelby Wilburn, Sadi Cory, Taylor Sprouse, Anna DeGarmo
    100 Back-Anna DeGarmo-3rd.Jessica Limle-5th
    100 Breast-Makenzie Smittley-1st.Hannah Arth-5th
    400 Free Relay-1st-Lunde,Guerra,Limle,Smittley

Bowlers Place 3rd in State Kick-Off Tourney, Chaney on All-Tourney Team

The Chillicothe Cavaliers Boys Bowling team finished 3rd in the 30 team field of the Ohio High School Invitational Kick-Off Tournament held Saturday at the Palace Lanes in Columbus.

Trevor Chaney's 664 series led the Cavs. Chaney also made tournament's first team. Robbie Vest, the Cavs returning state qualifier had a 602 series. Fairport Harding won the tournament with Beavercreek the runner up.

The Cavs resume action Monday night bowling in the Pioneer Tournament, at Plain City.

Lady Cavs Drop Home Opener 54-33 to Athens

Going in Saturday, Coach Shawn Blue knew his young Cavaliers would be challenged by an experienced Athens team. The Bulldogs left Chillicothe with a 54-33 victory.

Athens sports one of the best shooters in the Southeast District (Dominique Doseck) and a couple of big post players under the basket. Add in 30 Cavalier turnovers and the end result is a long night.

“We challenged the girls after the game. We know we’re young, but we’re tired of using that as an excuse… that’s 30 times you don’t even get a chance to score.”

The Cavs also failed to take advantage of their trips to the free throw line, making just 11 of 23 shots “and I think five of those were front ends of 1-and-1’s”.

The Athens pressure gave the Cavs fits throughout the game. “We knew they were gonna press and just didn’t do a good enough job to put us in a good situation”.

The sophomore tandem of Jenna Holton (16 points) and Bri Dawes (15 points) paced the Cavs scoring all but two of Cavs’ points.

Chillicothe hosts Groveport Tuesday night.

Wrestling Cavs Earn 5^th Place Finish at Circleville

Chillicothe placed near the middle of the pack at the annual Circleville Kiwanis Invitational wrestling meet.

Coach Mike Peck was missing a number of wrestlers from the lineup but said they should be able to return in the following weeks.

"Fifth place is a very solid finish for a starting lineup that had one senior,  two juniors, six sophomores and three freshmen."

Peck added "Christian Collins had a hard fought championship match going into the final 25 seconds tied 3-3, to end up losing 6-3."

Jacob Price battled through an ugly cut to the head from an elbow that stopped the third place match for around 10 minutes to close the wound and clean up the blood. "Jacob fought through the adversity to win by tech fall 16-1."

Gene Dunn bounced back after a hard fought loss to eventual champ Tobin Anderson (Washington Court House) in the semifinals to break a 6-6 tie in the final 15 seconds of the match with a takedown.

Tom Dunn lost a tough semifinals bout. "With seven seconds left in the match, opponent Aaron Greer (Washington Court House) was able to break the 7-7 tie with an escape and record the victory." Dunn to placed third with a win over teammate Jalen Mischal who was wrestling as an extra and finished fourth."

The Cavs return to action in a tri-match at Paint Valley December 12th.

Individual Cavalier finishes by weight division:

113 Pounds:

Nicholas Lawhorn (2-1) finished 3rd place with a win by Fall in 3 minutes 39 seconds over Justin Haynes (Logan elm)

126 Pounds

Jacob Wheeler (1-2) finished 4th place to Makyin Tate (Mifflin) by fall in 3:00 Minutes

145 Pounds

Jacob Price  (3-1) finished 3rd place with a win over Reese Zeigler (North West) 16-1

160 Pounds

Christian Collins (3-1) finished 2nd place to Hannibal Tate (Mifflin) 6-3

182 Pounds

Gene Dunn (3-1) finished 3rd place with a win over Josh Rardain (Logan) 8-6

Daiquan Hall (2-2) finished 6th place to Payton Griffin (Circleville) 5-3

195 Pounds

Tom Dunn (3-1) finished 3rd place with win over Jalen Mischal (1-2) (Chillicothe) by fall 1 minute and 39 seconds

220 Pounds

Treven Pennington (1-2) finished 4th place to Caleb Branson (Logan) by fall 3 minutes 49 seconds

285 Pounds

Tyler Howard (3-1) places 5th with win over Alfonso Rice (Westfall) by fall in 1 minute and 21 seconds

Also Placing…

120 Donna Grant 8th place

182 Tyler Kelley (2-2) 7th place

Team Scores:

1. Washington Court House 242.50

2. Circleville 206.50

3. Logan 162.50

4. Mifflin 142.00

5. Chillicothe 127.50

6. Dayton Chaminade Julienne 123.50

7. Logan Elm 110.00

8. Northwest 83.50

9. Westfall  79.50

10. Circleville B 56.00

11. Trimble 46.00