Tuesday Daily Dive: (1/13)

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Week 8 of the Indiana high school basketball is officially underway and we had a big slate of high school hoops going on last night in Indiana. Let us dive on in and take a look at a few highlights of Tuesday's night of hoops.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>First round of Marion County Results</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The first round of the always great Marion County took place last night with 8 teams advancing. Below are the results plus some player performances. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Decatur Central defeated Speedway 77-61 behind [player_tooltip player_id='2140420' first='Nash' last='Sigmund'] dropping 24 points.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Park Tudor defeated Lutheran 60-37 behind [player_tooltip player_id='2538865' first='Brody' last='Bluiett'] dropping 14 points.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Franklin Central defeated Southport 63-49. Alfonzo Graves had 12 points. </li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Lawrence North beat North Central 72-52. </li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Roncalli beat Perry Meridian 72-47. [player_tooltip player_id='2414734' first='Will' last='Hegwood'] and [player_tooltip player_id='2850399' first='Luke' last='Feldman'] had 16 points each. </li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Pike beat Brebeuf 57-50, [player_tooltip player_id='2538892' first='Landon' last='Lampley'] had 12 points </li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Ben Davis beat Warren Central 55-46. [player_tooltip player_id='2471408' first='Sherman' last='Moss-Wright'] had 16 points for the Giants. </li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Lawrence Central beat Beech Grove 60-46. [player_tooltip player_id='1561118' first='Doron' last='Harris'] and [player_tooltip player_id='2477117' first='Dayton' last='Stephens'] each had 14 points. </li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>[player_tooltip player_id='2932419' first='Mack' last='Welker']s goes off</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Arguably the best single player performance last night came in the Fort Wayne Wayne area with Homestead's [player_tooltip player_id='2932419' first='Mack' last='Welker'] having a big time performance in their win over Blackhawk Christian 65-48. Welker would finish that game with a double-double of 39 points and 10 rebounds. His teammate [player_tooltip player_id='2054869' first='Jake' last='Coolman'] also finished with 17 points. Homestead improves to 9-2 on the season. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->