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Bears Win Home Opener, Tigers’ JV Victorious in County Rivalry Match
Brody Runnebohm prepares to be introduced last night before Shelbyville High School’s home opener against Triton Central. | photo by KRISTIAAN RAWLINGS
Mar Nicholson posed a good question to The Addison Times after the Golden Bears’ 52-46 victory over Triton Central last night. “How about that Brody Runnebohm dunk?”
How about it? Runnebohm’s first quarter steal and contested dunk set the tone for a scrappy match-up between rivals and helped awaken the home crowd after the Tigers handily won the Junior Varsity game.
“Brody helped us a lot on the defensive end,” Caden Claxton, who finished with a game-high 21 points, said.
It was Runnebohm’s first-ever in-game dunk, and he said he wasn’t sure how the shot would go down until he was airborne.
“When I jumped up, I was like, ‘Oh yeah,’” the junior said after the game.
As Charles Barkley observed, “You don’t win friends with layups,” and Runnebohm instantly found plenty of friends in the Garrett Gymnasium student section, many of whom were wearing sports jerseys backwards. (“It’s a hip-hop thing,” one source explained. “Frat Night theme,” freshman Melia Cartwright added later.)
After winning their season-opener, 54-29, on Wednesday at Rushville, the Golden Bears (2-0) maintained a close lead much of the game. It was a contest of contrasting styles that went beyond the head coaches’ shoe wear selections. (The Bears’ John Hartnett Jr.: Nike Dunk Low Retros. TC’s Mark James: cowboy boots, which vibrated the stands each time he stomped Frank Barnes Court.)
Triton Central (1-1) closed the gap in the third quarter, highlighted by a three-pointer from Silas Blair, who finished with 18 points, a subsequent steal and three-point play from Eli Sego, and another score from Sego off a Max Crouse assist, making it a close Bears lead, 37-35, heading into the fourth.
“We faced some adversity then, but we persevered,” Claxton said.
It just took the right mindset, Nicholson added. “Mentally, physically, we had to impose our will on them.”
In the fourth, the Golden Bears limited Blair to one basket while Claxton scored nine timely points. In addition to Claxton, Nicholson reached double figures with 10, Runnebohm added 7, Reed and Badgley hit two three-pointers each, including a Reed half-time buzzer beater, and Cole Schene added 2, in addition to several key rebounds. For the Tigers, Crouse had 10, joining Blair in double figures. Sego added 8, Gavin Morgan, 7, and Sam Collier hit a three.
Both schools were well represented by supporters, perhaps eager to get out of the house on a frigid Thanksgiving weekend for some quality basketball. (Several fans were spotted multi-tasking early on, watching the Indiana-Purdue football game on their phones, but that contest soon became less interesting than the one on the court.) The Bears’ Pep Band was in full force, and both teams’ cheerleaders worked the game. The home opener also saw Jeff Kolls back for another season, somewhere around his 20th, as public address announcer.
While SHS took home the varsity match, Triton Central’s JV team overpowered the JV Bears, 51-31. The Tigers hit five three-pointers in the first half: three from Jackson Faust, including one from NBA range with 45 seconds remaining in the half and another shortly after, two from Brody Cieriello and one from Chace Calderone.
A Golden Bears’ run led by Josue Isaac, who made an assist to Nolan Cord for a bucket and then hit his own, cut the lead to 12-10 at the end of the first quarter. But even with a half-time buzzer-beater beyond half-court from Cayde Farmer, Triton Central’s lead had grown to 32-20, and they didn’t look back, with Landon Bailey adding 8 of his game-high 13 points in the third quarter.
Faust finished with 9 points, Calderone, Ciriello and Brayden Hoover scored 8, and Brody Hartman finished with 5 for the Tigers. Cooper Thoman scored 8 for the Bears, Nick Fischer and Isaac added 5, Eli Davis scored 4, Farmer had 3 and Luke Coomes, Jackson Myers and Cord scored 2 each.
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SHS Courier Archive Highlights:
Dec. 5, 1930
Shelbyville High School students were volunteering at local churches to encourage members to buy Christmas Seals to fight “the white plague.” Shelby County had the highest number of Tuberculosis cases in the state, The Courier reported, and the highest death rate.
Evelyn Acres, technician at William S. Major Hospital, spoke with Courier staff about her job. She was in charge of lab work and x-rays. “People who are very observant of minute details and who have a keen sense of responsibility make the most successful technicians,” she said. “For this reason, I believe that there are more women in the field than men.”
“Was it snowing or was it merely Richard Ewing’s papers that fell from the third floor to both stairways below Wednesday noon?”
“From Rushville we learn that the Shelby team is called the Camels. For the last four years they have been Mackmen. But, thanks, Rushlite, for saying that we have one of the strongest teams in this section of the state.”
Over 100 boys had formed an intramural basketball league. Players were to furnish their own equipment. “All boys who are spectators will be seated on the east side near the north end,” a rules list said. “Girls will find seats on the west side near the north end.”
This Day in Shelby County History
News around Shelbyville and the surrounding area as reported on or about this date in history. Selections are curated by The Addison Times from Shelby County Public Library Genealogy Department materials.
2014: The Shelbyville Redevelopment Commission approved a resolution allowing the city to use Fairland TIF funds to help pay for two new fire trucks. The Shelbyville Fire Department served the area that had generated the TIF funds, including Indiana Grand Racing & Casino and the Pilot Travel Center.
With the Morristown branch of the Shelby County Public Library established, library officials would be reviewing the long-term plans for the bookmobile. The local bookmobile was one of only 27 remaining in the state. Library Director Janet Wallace had started her tenure with the library on the bookmobile, and said it was “a soft spot” for her, but she wanted to look at different ways of doing outreach in the county.
2004: Plans to knock down Shelbyville’s downtown fire station - and three buildings to the east of it - to make room for a new fire station were moving along. The city had recently signed an agreement with an architecture firm to design a two-story building to be located on West Broadway St. to include five bays, administration offices, living quarters and a community room.
1994: The Morristown Town Council scheduled three special meetings to discuss annexation and tax abatement for Central Soya Co. Inc. The town had agreed to replace sanitary sewers if Central Soya chose Morristown, and County Commissioners had agreed to improve roads near the proposed sites.
1984: A proposed local memorial to Vietnam veterans was struggling to get off the ground. No local veterans had come forward to help, Jerry McCall, city plan commission director who was organizing the project, said. The city hoped to obtain an out-of-service Vietnam-era jet fighter for the memorial.
Shelby County Judge Jonathan Palmer found himself on the other side of the bench when he appeared in a Marion County municipal court on a minor traffic charge. Palmer admitted he apparently disregarded a traffic signal in Indianapolis, but did so unintentionally. He paid $63 in fines and court costs and promised to be more cautious in the future.
1974: Sider’s Steakhouse ran ads promoting holiday and Christmas party reservations. The Monday Special steak dinner was $4.50.
Local post office officials said they must deliver Social Security and Veterans payments directly to addressees. The post office had a long-standing practice of allowing recipients to pick up the checks at the post office to preempt waiting for them to be delivered. In some cases, Postmaster Robert Meltzer said, check recipients were sending others to pick up checks on their behalf, which could lead to problems.
1964: Mayor Ralph VanNatta announced plans for the city to purchase ground on which the airport was located from the heirs of Melvin Bassett. The city was not purchasing the airport. “Shelbyville is not going into the airport business,” the mayor said. However, VanNatta said the land would give the city the possibility of having a new National Guard Armory constructed nearby.
1954: Degelow Engineering, operated by Jimmie Degelow Jr., was expanding its machine shop at 819 E. Jackson Street. Degelow, 34, a veteran of the Korean War and World War II, was tripling the floor space to purchase additional machinery.
Jim Buckley opened Standard Oil “super service station” on the south side of U.S. 421 about a quarter-mile east of city limits. Buckley lived at 334 Wellington Blvd. His nephew, Tom, would help at the station.
1944: Lt. Wilbur Francis Berauer, 27, pilot of a Navy torpedo bomber and flight officer, was killed in action in the South Pacific. His parents in Waldron received notice via telegram from the War Department. Berauer was a graduate of Waldron High School. He was the county’s 45th casualty in the war.
1934: Mrs. Roy Leffler, 828 Blanchard St., suffered severe burns after a quantity of crank case oil exploded when she threw it into the furnace.
Emmett Byard purchased a Shelby County farm with $20,000 received in an inheritance from a Cass County farmer who had taken him in from an orphanage and raised him. Byard, 20, had worked as a farmhand until receiving the money after the Cass County farmer died.
1924: Ralph Zell, 13, 637 Tompkins St., was taken to Indianapolis to see an eye specialist. Zell’s vision had been damaged after he contracted measles, and he had been forced to give up schooling due to his eye problems.
Work on the new St. Joseph Catholic School building was completed. A four-year high school course would be offered in the new space.
1914: A drain pipe was installed at the traction station to prevent the constant puddles of water that had surrounded the track.
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