Sports

The Switzerland County Pacer boys track team didn’t have all of its team members present at last Thursday’s Milan Invitational track meet, and in the end the short-handed Pacers finished sixth in the meet.

It hasn’t been a good start to the season for the Switzerland County Pacer varsity baseball team, and the squad continued its rough start with three losses during the past week.

Last Tuesday Switzerland County fell to Owen County by a score of 6-2.

The Switzerland County varsity baseball team picked up its first win of the season last Friday night with a victory over Jac-Cen-Del, 5-4.

Cody Peters got the win on the mound, as he pitched 4 2/3-innings before giving way to Chancey May, who finished out the game for the save.

Coach Steven Konkle’s Switzerland County Lady Pacer varsity softball team is off to a fast start this season, winning three games during the past week to keep its record unblemished.

Last Wednesday, April 6th, the Lady Pacers defeated South Dearborn for the first time in memory by a score of 5-0.

Junior Kodi Driver keyed the Switzerland County Lady Pacer varsity softball team both offensively and defensively Friday night in the season opener versus Lawrenceburg — striking out six as the winning pitcher and hitting a grand slam home run at the plate.

It all added up to an 11-1 victory for Switzerland County.

Switzerland County Lady Pacer Ashley Chase is considered the best junior basketball player in this part of the state — and that feeling was cemented early this week when she was named as a member of the prestigious Indiana Junior All Star squad.

The Indiana Basketball Coaches Association has released its Girls Academic All State team members for the 2004-2005 season, and two members of the Switzerland County Lady Pacers have been honored.

Switzerland County High School honored its boys and girls basketball teams and cheerleaders during its annual winter sports athletic banquet held last Thursday night in the high school cafeteria.

Switzerland County and Southwestern were certainly not strangers when the two clubs met on the Lawrenceburg High School basketball floor Friday night for the semifinal game of the Sectional — but when the buzzer sounded four quarters later, the outcome had changed, as the Rebels defeated the Pacers 58-50 to advance to the finals against North Decatur.

Switzerland County’s Travis Webster tries to work the ball up court as Madison’s Norman Wells wraps an arm around in an attempt to steal the basketball. The Pacers concluded their regular season with an 85-41 drubbing at the hands of the Cubs, and now look to Sectional play tomorrow (Friday) night at Lawrenceburg. Photo by David Campbell.