Wish I could bottle it

The Corydon Central girls softball team once again proves that at crunch time, when it counts, particularly in tournament play, it's intensity, spirit, enthusiasm, will-to-win, being winners that is the most important ingredient for victory. The Panthers were all fired up for the game with Madison, slapping high-fives even during the introductions and jumping up and down with anticipation. They jumped in the first inning, too, on Madison, for four runs. Their intensity never diminished and they were never really threatened, though Madison did pull within one run with their own big inning in the second. After that, Jenna Keinsley and her support team held them scoreless. Jenna had 13 strikeouts and a big double play in the bottom of the fifth inning. The Ladies move on to regional play with their 6-3 win.

Worth noting -- after the game, Jennifer McCarty, who didn't get to play, thanked the team for making it all so much fun. Teams that have fun playing almost always do well. Those who achieve great heights often are successful because they do it just for the joy of it.

Wish I could figure out just what it is that gets teams fired up, believing that they're winners, and bottle it. You could make a fortune.

I need to repeat here that Life in Corydon is a small venture, without any big financial backers, so we can't afford to travel to many events that aren't at Corydon. So although we're excited that the Lady Panthers are going to the regional, we won't be there, and will have to root for them from here.

Congratulations to Meghan Bussabarger and Gretchen Zimmerman for making it to the state finals.

Track & field

Track & field is a lot harder to shoot than, say, basketball, or the Easter Bunny coming to downtown. There's so much going on at once, and it's spread out all over. There's also the tricky little photo business of timing and focus, but it's still fun.

We just finished sectional coverage for both girls and boys. Both teams dominated the jumps -- high jump, long jump, pole vault, and hurdles, too, if you stretch the definition of a jump event. The boys finished second to 5-time sectional champ Floyd Central and the girls were third, losing to Floyd Central and New Albany. Looks like both teams could use some help in the shot put and discus.


Check out the picture of Harrison Mann's incredible tie for third in the 3200 meter run. They run for 3200 meters and the finish for third can't even be determined with a photograph (not mine, they had an official one at the track.)

For that matter, check out the stats for the boys. If you've ever tried to find prep sports stuff online the day after an event, you've been frustrated. I have. I don't really do much else but pictures. (I'm now touting Life in Corydon as the website that was turned down for media credentials by the IHSAA for not having enough words.) But I do like to get results in. The C-J website has them. Sometimes. Somewhen. Never in a timely fashion. So I stayed Thursday night to get official results and then spent way too much time getting them into the computer and posted. Be so much easier if I could point you to the Courier's results. Or the Democrat's, but that's only changed once a week. I just found the C-J results for the girls sectional. I'll get those up later today.

Congrats to Michael Uhl and his staff. Those two sectional meets were as efficiently executed as I've ever seen.