Event Preview: Battle At Memorial

<p>The 1st annual Battle At Memorial event is scheduled to take place this Saturday at Southridge High School. A four-game event that, pre-Pandemic, would have been a well-attended event with some of the best teams in Southern Indiana set to play.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Regardless, the games are setup well and should provide some great, late-season competition for some potential State Title contenders.</p> <p><b>2:00 PM ET - Evansville Day vs. Crawford County</b></p> <p>Evansville Day (4-4) is a very, very young team with only 3 Seniors on their roster. They take on Crawford County (2-7) who has been as tested as any 2A team in the state.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Crawford County is in sort a rebuild but Senior guard Noah Adams and Trevor Harvey are putting up more than 34 points combined each game. Day will rely on a wide swath of scoring but look for Noah Rugini and Tyler Myers to be the bright spots.</p> <p><b>4:00 PM ET - Linton-Stockton vs. South Decatur</b><br /> The tale of two season with South Decatur (4-4) with more of a backloaded schedule and still trying to figure their team out and Linton-Stockton (13-2) who is playing a normally difficult schedule and has most of their games completed already. Linton-Stockton is one of the best teams in the state regardless of class and a consensus Top 3 team in 2A this year. South Decatur has been up and down to start the season but has been in all but the first game of the season and is putting up monster numbers on offense. Their run-and-gun style with Hunter Johnson and [player_tooltip player_id="963906" first="Lane" last="Lauderbaugh"] should make for a fun game against Linton’s [player_tooltip player_id="783147" first="Lincoln" last="Hale"] and [player_tooltip player_id="868240" first="Joey" last="Hart"].</p> <p><b>6:00 PM ET - Southridge vs. Greensburg</b><br /> Host Southridge (6-5) has their best player back in [player_tooltip player_id="783142" first="Colson" last="Montgomery"] and have now won 4 of 5 and looking to extend it against Greensburg (9-2). Greensburg has been great this season after losing a ton of talent but they are getting great production from [player_tooltip player_id="874113" first="Lane" last="Sparks"] and [player_tooltip player_id="870278" first="Colin" last="Comer"]. They aren’t deep but they get after it.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Southridge, with [player_tooltip player_id="783142" first="Colson" last="Montgomery"] back in play has been seeing a spark in their offense after struggling early on. Will be interesting to see if anyone on Greensburg can matchup with the 6’5 multi-sport standout.</p> <p><b>8:00 PM ET - Heritage Hills vs. Barr-Reeve</b><br /> In one of the most anticipated matchups all season, Heritage Hills (9-0) will take on Barr-Reeve (12-2).<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Barr-Reeve owns just two losses and both have come against the best teams in the state in Carmel and Blackhawk Christian. Heritage Hills hasn’t been as tested so far but they have a ton of similarities to Barr-Reeve. Both teams are extremely Senior-heavy, both teams give up just north of 40 points per game and both score just about 60 points per game.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Both have DI bigs in [player_tooltip player_id="874112" first="Blake" last="Sisley"] and [player_tooltip player_id="783158" first="Curt" last="Hopf"] and both have a lot of depth in their guards. This could be a true battle and great test heading into the postseason.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>