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September 25, 2012

Sorrells, B-R win Pike invite

By Gregg A. Sims Washington Times Herald

PETERSBURG — It was hardly a run in the park, but it was a run to victory for Barr-Reeve at Saturday’s Pike Central Invitational.

Connor Sorrells, Damon Pruett and Jarit Perkins finished first, second and fourth to lead the Vikings past Blue Chip Conference and sectional opponent South Knox, 91-98, to win the boys race.

Sorrells broke a second record in a week, running 15:25, breaking the Pride’s Creek Invitational record of 15:38 set in 1992 by Todd Pennington of Gibson Southern.

Sorrells also set a new South Knox course record the previous Saturday in the Spartan Invitational.

“Coming off last Tuesday (Barr-Reeve’s meet) you don’t always know how the legs will react,” Barr-Reeve coach JayR Perkins said. “We had a good workout Wednesday. It’s all in preparation for the state tournament. It was a good win as a team.”

Washington’s KC Heller ran ninth in the 20-team, 134-runner field. Washington finished sixth as a team, and was third among participating teams that will appear at South Knox for the sectional.

Drew Brothers missed the race, resting after not feeling well in an earlier morning warm up while recovering from a knee injury.

“Drew was healing OK Monday, and he ran Tuesday (at Barr-Reeve),” Washington coach Dave Harman said. “He ran before the race, but we weren’t happy with the results. I think no matter what, he’s going to run next Saturday (conference meet). At this point, that’s the way it looks.”

“I was disappointed as I watched the race,” Harman said. “After looking at the results, considering we’re one runner down, I’m not so down. We were actually pretty close to regional teams from the Evansville area. KC had a good run today. I felt better after seeing the results.”

The Hatchets are starting to have some tournament desires of their own.

“We’ve set some goals.” Harman said. “We’ve got to get through the sectional obviously, but we want to get to the regional and see what happens, see how far we can get.”

With three of the top four runners in the field, the Vikings were able to hold off the Spartans again for the third time in the last week.

Barr-Reeve won the previous Saturday’s South Knox Invitational, and won again Tuesday at the Barr-Reeve get together.

South Knox placed all five scoring runners inside of the fourth and fifth runners from Barr-Reeve, but the top three Barr-Reeve finishers were impossible to overcome.

The Pike meet has become a preview for southwestern Indiana teams looking to reach the regional. Barr-Reeve and South Knox both have minds on that regional with spots in the semistate on the line.

Perkins believes Saturday’s Pike meet will be a preview of that regional when it returns to the Pike Central home course.

“Overall today, pleasing,” Perkins said. “We have some improvement we need yet, bit it was a good win. We want to win the conference. If we do that it will give us confidence for the tournament. South Knox ran a great race. I really look for us and South Knox to battle it out for the regional championship.”

The fourth-place finish from Perkins, the coach’s son, was especially important in the team standings. It’s the continuation of an ever-improving season from the freshman.

“The big thing is is that he’s running 25 more miles per week than he ran last year,” Perkins said of his son. “Your body adjust and changes, and this running puts stress on his body. But he’s getting more intelligent as he’s racing.”

 The news from the girls side was not so much where local teams finished. It was more about who didn’t compete.

Washington Madison Decker and Brandy White both sat the annual regional preview out. Decker is still suffering from a hip injury that has kept her from running in the past three races. White suffered a lower leg injury that kept out of the field.

“I didn’t want Madison to run because the course has a lot of turns, lot of hills,” Harman said. “We’d like to have her ready for conference.”

White has finished in the top five in each of the past three events before suffering the injury in practice.

“Brandy had a spill this week on Wednesday, and I told her yesterday not to run,” Harman said. “She got up this morning, an said she couldn’t go. It was a good decision.”

Harman believes White will be ready for conference. Decker is yet unsure.

“I think Brandy will be ready,” Harman said. “We’ll have to see about Madison.”

 

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