Chase Spreen, a former star at Bedford North Lawrence who graduated in 2008, is having a great senior campaign at Lindsey Wilson College, a NAIA Division I program in Columbia, Ky.
Spreen is averaging 16.4 points and 4.8 rebounds per contest, and his No. 14-ranked Blue Raiders are 13-4 overall and 5-1 in Mid-South Conference play.
But Spreen’s biggest success came Saturday night as Lindsey Wilson played host to No. 5 Georgetown (Ky.).
Spreen, who finished the game with 23 points and nine rebounds, netted an 80-foot shot as time expired to lift the Blue Raiders to victory, 79-78. See the video, which was shown on ESPN Sports Center:
Jeffersonville Class of 2006 graduate Jeremy Kendle, who played a major role last season in Bellarmine’s run to the NCAA Division II championship, will graduate from the school Wednesday.
But because of multiple injuries that sidelined Kendle initially out of high school during a stint at Olney Central, a junior college in Illinois, his athletic career at Bellarmine will continue.
Kendle was featured Monday night on WDRB 41’s broadcast:
Jordan Burton is headed to IU South Bend following his senior year at Edinburgh, he confirmed tonight with Hoosier Hills Hoops.
Burton, a 6-foot-8 center, chose the Titans’ NAIA Division I program over serious consideration from Franklin, Huntington, IU East, Manchester and Mount Vernon Nazarene, among others.
“(IU South Bend) made me feel wanted from the get-go,” Burton said. “I will fit in the style they play very well, and I also love the coaches.”
The Indiana stars built a 50-38 halftime lead over Kentucky but couldn’t hang on down-the-stretch, losing 94-89 to Kentucky Saturday night in the Battle of the Bridges’ boys’ varsity contest at MidAmerica Sports Center in Louisville.
Jeffersonville senior-to-be Trice Whaley exploded for a game-high 27 points — including a near full-court shot at the first-half buzzer — to pace Indiana in the defeat. Whaley was named Indiana’s most valuable player for the second year in a row.
Borden’s Brandon Beam added 11 points and Rock Creek’s Keontez Malone 10 for Indiana. O’Brien Hobbs, of Louisville Fern Creek, led Kentucky with 19.
Other results
Kentucky also scored a victory over Indiana in the girls’ varsity match up, 75-50. Jeffersonville sophomore-to-be Haley Vogen, who was named Indiana’s MVP, led her team in defeat with 12 points.
In the boys’ future stars game, which primarily featured rising sophomores and juniors, the Indiana team rallied to make the final result respectable, losing 89-80. Henryville sophomore-to-be Andrew Jones was the team’s top performer, earning MVP honors for Indiana.
Kentucky breezed past Indiana in the boys’ rising freshmen game, 59-41. Corydon’s Bronson Kessinger, who is coming off a tremendous summer, garnered the MVP award for the Indiana stars.
New Albany’s Chris Whitehead, a Class of 2011 graduate, will attend Weatherford College, he told Hoosier Hills Hoops this afternoon.
Weatherford College is a junior college located in Weatherford, Tex.
Whitehead, who was an Indiana All-Star following his career at New Albany, expects to stay at the school for two seasons before jumping to a four-year institution, he said.
The Team Southern Indiana Travel Basketball Club will no longer offer travel teams beginning in 2012.
The Indiana stars built a 50-38 halftime lead over Kentucky but couldn’t hang on down-the-stretch, losing 94-89 to Kentucky Saturday night in the Battle of the Bridges’ boys’ varsity contest at MidAmerica Sports Center in Louisville.
New Albany’s Chris Whitehead, a Class of 2011 graduate, will attend Weatherford College, he told Hoosier Hills Hoops this afternoon.