The IHSAA Executive Committee voted 18-0 to return the girls’ basketball state finals to Terre Haute’s Hulman Center for a second year. The one-year contract calls for the four state title games to be played Saturday, March 2, 2013, in the 10,200-seat venue.

The Hulman Center has hosted many IHSAA and NCAA tournament events over the years, and is home to the Indiana State University basketball teams.

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GOSHEN, Ky. — Hamilton Southeastern’s Taya Reimer and Brownsburg’s Stephanie Mavunga each posted double-doubles Saturday, pacing the Indiana Junior All-Stars to a 78-68 victory over Kentucky and a sweep of the first-ever two-game Junior series between the states.

Reimer tallied a game-high 24 points and added 11 rebounds while Mavunga contributed 15 points and game-high 12 rebounds as the Indiana girls overcame a 10-point halftime deficit with a dominating second half at North Oldham High School.

Indianapolis Pike’s Zavier Turner scored 14 points to lead four Indiana boys in double figures in the second game, but the Hoosiers dropped an 81-71 decision for a split in the home-and-home encounters.

The Indiana Juniors won both 40-minute games of the opening doubleheader on Friday in at Indianapolis’ Heritage Christian High School — 101-98 by the girls and 126-103 by the boys.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Christian Academy and Jeffersonville, Southern Indiana’s two participants in the 16th-annual Derek Smith Shootout, fell to 0-3 at the end of round robin play at Southern High School.

Scores from Saturday’s second and third rounds of pool play:

• Louisville Southern 73, Christian Academy (Ind.) 57
• Jeffersontown 83, North Oldham 81
• Lexington Catholic 77, Louisville Central 63
• Trinity I 61, Louisville Moore 45
• Louisville Butler 72, Jeffersonville (Ind.) 61
• North Hardin 68, Trinity II 61
• Collins 54, Louisville Moore 51
• Lexington Catholic 78, North Oldham 55
• Louisville Southern 67, North Hardin 60
• Trinity II 52, Christian Academy (Ind.) 48
• Jeffersontown 81, Louisville Central 78
• Trinity I 70, Louisville Butler 65
• Collins 55, Jeffersonville 47

Sunday’s schedule for elimination bracket play:

• Silver bracket quarterfinals: Collins vs. North Oldham and Christian Academy (Ind.) vs. Moore, 8 a.m.
• Gold bracket quarterfinals: Trinity I vs. Lexington Catholic and North Hardin vs. Butler, 9:45 a.m.
• Silver bracket semifinals: Trinity II vs. Collins-No. Oldham winner and Central vs. CAI-Moore winner, 11 a.m.
• Gold bracket semifinals: Southern vs. Trinity I-Lexington Catholic winner and Jeffersontown vs. North Hardin-Butler winner, 12:15
• Silver bracket final, 1:30
• Gold bracket final, 2

Jeffersonville only participated in the pool-play rounds and is not entered in Sunday’s elimination brackets.

LOUISVILLE — The Derek Smith Shootout, a summer high school team tournament currently in its 16th-consecutive year, got underway Friday at Louisville Southern High School.

Here are results from Friday’s pool play:

• North Hardin 69, Christian Academy (Ind.) 50
• Trinity II 65, Southern 61
• Jeffersontown 69, Lexington Catholic 68
• Central 69, North Oldham 56
• Trinity I 67, Jeffersonville 52
• Butler 69, Collins 60

Pool play will conclude Saturday at Southern, and single-elimination bracket play will begin Sunday morning:

Saturday: Christian Academy (Ind.) vs. Southern and Jeffersontown vs. North Oldham, 8 a.m.; Lexington Catholic vs. Central and Trinity I vs.Moore, 9:15 a.m.; Jeffersonville vs. Butler and North Hardin vs. Trinity II, 10:30 a.m.; Collins vs. Moore and Lexington Catholic vs. North Oldham, 11:45 a.m.; North Hardin vs. Southern and Christian Academy (Ind.) vs. Trinity II, 1; Jeffersontown vs. Central and Trinity I vs. Butler, 2:15; Jeffersonville vs. Collins, 3:30.

Sunday: Silver Bracket quarterfinals, 8 a.m.; Gold Bracket quarterfinals, 9:45 a.m.; Silver Bracket semifinals, 11 a.m.; Gold Bracket semifinals, 12:15; Silver Bracket final, 1:30; Gold Bracket final.

INDIANAPOLIS — Warren Central’s Devin Davis scored 24 points and Hamilton Southeastern’s Zak Irvin contributed 22 on Friday night, leading the Indiana Junior All-Stars to a 126-103 victory over Kentucky at Heritage Christian School.

Tony Wills, of Indianapolis Ben Davis, chipped in 16 points as the Indiana teams claimed both ends of the boy-girl doubleheader on the opening night of the home-and-home event — the first junior series between the states in the tradition of a senior series that dates to 1940.

The Indiana girls won the night’s first game 101-98.

V.J. Beachem (New Haven) tallied 13 points, Clay Yeo (Triton) added 12 points and Leo Svete (Penn) had 10 points as Indiana placed six players in double figures in the boys’ victory. Omar Prewitt (Montgomery County) scored 18 points and Darryl Hicks of (Louisville Trinity) had 16 to pace Kentucky.

The Hoosier boys also converted 13 3-pointers and made 19-of-22 free throws in the comfortable decision.

Kentucky took an early lead, but Indiana rebounded to seize a 63-57 advantage at intermission of the game with two 20-minute halves.

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Corydon sophomore-to-be Bronson Kessinger was featured Wednesday on a WHAS-11 sports segment. The television station reported the 6-foot-7 forward is receiving “serious interest” from Boston College, Indiana, Louisville, Purdue and Xavier, and that Kessinger will take a campus visit this weekend to Butler.