BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS

Sports Editor, RTC

Girls basketball

Argos 45, Plymouth 41 (Jan. 27): Samantha Redinger scored a game-high 18 points, and Morgyn Barcus scored eight of her 14 in the fourth quarter to lead the host Lady Dragons past Plymouth in their regular season finale.

Ellie Bollenbacher added nine, and Alydiah Leed had four.

Redinger, who finished fifth in the state with 86 made 3-pointers, did not hit a 3 in this game. Barcus, however, hit a career-high four treys.

Plymouth led 37-31 after three quarters before a 14-4 Argos burst in the fourth.

PLYMOUTH (41) (10-12)

Jones 1 0-0 2, Miller 2 2-2 6, Gantz 7 0-0 16, Mann 3 1-3 7, Allen 2 0-2 4, Sullivan 1 1-2 3, Sheedy 0 0-0 0, Edmiston 1 0-0 3

TEAM: 17 4-9 41

ARGOS (45) (9-12)

Samantha Redinger 8 2-4 18, Morgyn Barcus 5 0-0 14, Alydiah Leed 1 2-4 4, Leah Pizzuto 0 0-0 0, Ellie Bollenbacher 3 3-4 9

TEAM: 17 7-12 45

Three-point field goals:

Plymouth 3 (Gantz 2, Edmiston),

Argos 4 (Barcus 4)

Total fouls: Plymouth 17, Argos 8

Score by quarters

Plymouth 11 10 16 4 – 41

Argos 13 9 9 14 – 45

LaVille 54, Argos 32 (Jan. 23): Samantha Redinger scored 26 points for Argos in a road loss to LaVille on Jan. 23.

Redinger had 18 of Argos’ 20 points after the first quarter.

Jasmine Foster led LaVille with 18.

Argos failed to score in the third quarter as LaVille built a 24-point lead.

Argos has lost their last three meetings with LaVille.

LaVille went on to win their Class 2A sectional.

ARGOS (32) (8-12)

Samantha Redinger 7 11-16 26, Morgyn Barcus 1 0-0 2, Alydiah Leed 0 0-0 0, Aleasia Sarver 0 0-0 0, Ellie Bollenbacher 2 0-0 4, Leah Pizzuto 0 0-0 0, Grace Thomas 0 0-0 0, Kinzlee Kelly 0 0-0 0, Lexi Gibson 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 10 11-16 32

LAVILLE (54) (8-11)

Smith 3 1-2 8, Weil 1 2-3 4, Kuskye 1 0-0 2, Edison 4 0-1 8, Kwiatkowski 3 2-4 8, Deason 1 0-0 3, Singleton 1 0-2 3, Markin 0 0-0 0, Foster 8 2-6 18

TEAM: 22 7-18 54

Three-point field goals:

Argos 1 (Redinger),

LaVille 3 (Smith, Deason, Singleton)

Total fouls: Argos 15, LaVille 17

Score by quarters

Argos 12 7 0 13 – 32

LaVille 14 18 11 11 – 54

John Glenn 40, Argos 37 (Jan. 17): Samantha Redinger scored 19 points, including eight of her team’s nine points in the fourth quarter, but the host Lady Falcons prevailed in a Bi-County Tournament quarterfinal on Jan. 17.

Alydiah Leed added nine points on three 3-pointers, all in the first half.

Sophia Romer had 13, and Addison Reese added 11 for John Glenn.

Argos led 19-15 at halftime, but John Glenn came back to lead 32-28 after three quarters.

ARGOS (37) (8-11)

Samantha Redinger 6 3-6 19, Morgyn Barcus 2 0-0 6, Alydiah Leed 3 0-0 9, Aleasia Sarver 0 0-0 0, Ellie Bollenbacher 0 3-6 3, Leah Pizzuto 0 0-2 0

TEAM: 11 6-14 37

JOHN GLENN (40) (10-9)

Divine 1 1-4 4, Romer 6 1-5 13, Reese 3 2-4 11, Weddington 2 4-4 8, Bradley 0 0-0 0, Hurford 1 0-0 2, Nance 0 0-0 0, Johnson 1 0-0 2, Stanley 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 14 8-17 40

Three-point field goals:

Argos 9 (Redinger 4, Leed 3, Barcus 2),

John Glenn 4 (Reese 3, Divine)

Total fouls: Argos 18, John Glenn 13

Score by quarters

Argos 10 9 9 9 – 37

John Glenn 3 12 17 8 – 40

Argos 70, Lakeland Christian 36 (Jan. 6): Samantha Redinger drilled nine 3-pointers and scored 42 points, and Ellie Bollenbacher added 12 for the Lady Dragons in a road win over Lakeland Christian on Jan. 6.

Alydiah Leed added three 3-pointers and scored nine.

Katie Reimink scored 12 to lead Lakeland Christian. Dayton Sibert added 11, and Anna Robertson had 10.

This marked the third time Redinger had scored at least 40 points in a game and the sixth time she scored more points than the entire opposing team.

Argos improved to 7-10 overall, and they finished Hoosier Plains play 4-1. Bethany Christian won the conference with a 5-0 mark.

ARGOS (70) (7-10, 4-1)

Samantha Redinger 10 13-17 42, Morgyn Barcus 2 0-0 5, Alydiah Leed 3 0-0 9, Aleasia Sarver 1 0-0 2, Ellie Bollenbacher 5 2-4 12, Leah Pizzuto 0 0-0 0, Grace Thomas 0 0-0 0, Lexi Gibson 0 0-0 0, Kinzlee Kelly 0 0-0 0, Haley Shafer 0 0-0 0, Alysa Bowering 0 0-0 0, Mackenzie Smith 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 21 15-21 70

LAKELAND CHRISTIAN (36) (9-9, 2-3)

Reimink 5 1-1 12, Robertson 4 0-0 10, Stendish 0 0-0 0, Wobrock 0 0-0 0, Sibert 5 1-2 11, Martinez 0 0-0 0, Calizo 1 1-2 3, Fick 0 0-0 0, Banadzem 0 0-2 0

TEAM: 15 3-7 36

Three-point field goals:

Argos 13 (Redinger 9, Leed 3, Barcus),

Lakeland Christian 3 (Robertson 2, Reimink)

Total fouls: Argos 13, Lakeland Christian 14

Fouled out: Reimink (LCA)

Score by quarters

Argos 19 22 10 19 – 70

Lakeland Christian 11 7 11 7 – 36

Argos goes 1-1 at Logansport holiday tourney (Dec. 30): The Argos girls basketball team went 1-1 at the Mike Anderson Auto Group Holiday Tournament at the Berry Bowl at Logansport on Dec. 30.

They lost to Northwestern 54-49 in the first round before coming back to beat Logansport 54-50 in the consolation game. They are now 6-10 on the season.

Samantha Redinger hit seven 3-pointers and scored 37 points against Northwestern, but the Lady Tigers rallied from a 19-point third-quarter deficit to stun the Lady Dragons in the first round.

Anna Bishir led Northwestern with 15, and Berkley Wray added 14.

Morgyn Barcus found Ellie Bollenbacher for a layup that tied the game at 49 with 2:15 left, but Northwestern scored the final five points to claim the win.

Lexi Hale’s steal and layup with 40 seconds left gave Northwestern the lead, and Hale split a pair of free throws with 28.2 seconds left.

After a Bollenbacher missed layup, Bishir secured the win by making two free throws with 1.6 seconds left.

Argos started with a 15-2 run and led by 11 after one quarter. Redinger outscored the entire Northwestern team 21-12 in the first half as Argos jumped out to a 16-point lead.

Two more treys from Redinger on consecutive possessions in the third quarter as the lead reached 34-15.

But Northwestern answered with a 21-4 run that Makenna Adams capped with a 3 from the top of the key 35 seconds into the fourth quarter. That cut the lead to 38-36.

Two more Redinger treys kept the lead at 44-38, but Aams hit a 3 from the right corner and a 19-footer from the top of the key. When Wray hit a lefty hook in the lane with 4:27 left, Northwestern had their first lead.

Alydiah Leed scored on a driving layup for Argos, but Wray banked in a leaner to put Northwestern back up 47-46. Bollenbacher tied with a free throw before a Wray putback put Northwestern back ahead.

Argos coach Scott Jennings said the team had a “letdown” in the second half. He also said the team was “not mentally tough.”

“They stepped up and knocked down some shots, and you have to give them credit for that,” Jennings said. “But defensively, our plan was to come out the first three minutes out of halftime and stick it to them, and we didn’t get the job done. We just let them line it up out there. Defensively, when they hit a couple shots, we’ve got to tighten it up a little bit. We didn’t do that.”

In the consolation game, Redinger scored 25 points, including a 3-pointer from the left corner with 2:41 left that put Argos ahead for good at 49-46.

Redinger was fouled in the act of shooting a 3 and hit three free throws to increase the lead to six with 1:45 left.

Logansport played a box-in-one defense on Redinger.

“She’s obviously a great player,” Logansport coach Chris Keisling said of Redinger. “Certainly, she’s what keeps Argos going. I didn’t really say this to the girls, but I think she averages right at 30 a game, and I think we were averaging 32 as a team going into that game, so I said we will work on making sure we hold her down. Probably at least having 25 was a modicum of success. We were trying to get her below 20 if we could. But she’s just a darn good player. There’s no doubt about it.”

Leed added 13, and Morgyn Barcus and Bollenbacher added seven each for Argos.

Lydia Goad had 19 to lead Logansport. Rylinn Spradling added nine, and Aracyn Good had eight.

Argos led 44-31 in the fourth quarter after a Leed triple, but the Lady Berries answered with a 15-2 run to tie it. Goad had 10 points in the fourth quarter, and Good hit a pair of free throws with 2:59 left to equalize the score at 46.

“It’s still what we’re lacking,” Jennings said when asked what the win said about the team’s mental toughness. “We get a little bit of a lead, and then we let them come back in again. We’ve just got to be able to put 32 minutes. We’ve got to get better defensively. We see it in practice. We see glimpses of it for just a quick instance during games, but we’ve got to be able to put really good quarters together to beat good teams, and until that happens, we are just not consistent defensively. And we’re going to work on that. … Right now, we’re playing average basketball, and these teams with weaker records see that, and they look at that as an opportunity to beat us. And so until we take it to that next level and bring that pressure like we can and like we do in practice, we’re going to be average.”

The game was tied at 21 at halftime, but Leed scored nine points in the third quarter to help Argos take a 39-30 lead. She hit a 3 from the left corner and a 3 from the right wing and then drove coast to coast after a rebound and scored and was fouled and completed the 3-point play to give Argos a nine-point lead.

Leed and her teammates can sometimes get open looks just because of the attention that Redinger receives.

“I think we try really hard to get a lot of the pressure off Sam by screening and stuff, so getting those open shots for us can happen along the way,” Leed said.

Said Jennings: “Alydiah, when she can catch and get her feet set, she’s deadly.”

Northwestern went on to beat Wheeler 42-34 in the title game. Wheeler had beaten Logansport 43-36 earlier Saturday in the first round.

First round: Northwestern 54, Argos 49

NORTHWESTERN (54) (4-11)

Halie Koetter 2 0-0 6, Anna Bishir 5 4-5 15, Tessa Ortman 1 0-0 2, Lexi Hale 3 1-2 7, Berkeley Wray 7 0-1 14, Bella Newell 1 0-0 2, Makenna Adams 3 0-0 8, Izzy Arrick 0 0-0 0, Tessa Davenport 0 0-0 0, Maci Rody 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 22 5-8 54

ARGOS (49) (5-10)

Samantha Redinger 12 6-8 37, Alydiah Leed 1 0-0 2, Morgyn Barcus 1 0-0 3, Aleasia Sarver 1 0-2 2, Ellie Bollenbacher 2 1-2 5, Leah Pizzuto 0 0-0 0, Grace Thomas 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 17 7-12 49

Three-point field goals:

Northwestern 5 (Adams 2, Koetter 2, Bishir),

Argos 8 (Redinger 7, Barcus)

Total fouls: Northwestern 9, Argos 14

Fouled out: Leed (ARG), 2:42, fourth

Turnovers: Northwestern 13, Argos 10

Score by quarters

Northwestern 4 8 21 21 – 54

Argos 15 13 10 11 – 49

Consolation: Argos 54, Logansport 50

ARGOS (54) (6-10)

Samantha Redinger 4 14-15 25, Alydiah Leed 4 2-3 13, Morgyn Barcus 2 2-6 7, Aleasia Sarver 1 0-0 2, Ellie Bollenbacher 3 1-2 7, Leah Pizzuto 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 14 19-26 54

LOGANSPORT (50) (2-13)

Kellyn Cripe 1 2-2 4, Aracyn Good 3 2-4 8, Lydia Goad 7 2-5 19, Rylinn Spradling 4 0-0 9, Goldie Kitchell 3 0-0 6, Teagan Wolf 1 0-0 2, Taliyah McCray 1 0-0 2

TEAM: 20 6-11 50

Three-point field goals:

Argos 7 (Redinger 3, Leed 3, Barcus),

Logansport 4 (Goad 3, Spradling)

Total fouls: Argos 14, Logansport 21

Turnovers: Argos 17, Logansport 13

Score by quarters

Argos 14 7 18 15 – 54

Logansport 10 11 9 20 – 50

Bethany Christian 46, Argos 44 (Dec. 21): Samantha Redinger hit five 3-pointers and scored 31 points, and Morgyn Barcus added nine on three 3-pointers, but the visiting Lady Bruins pulled out a Hoosier Plains road win at Phil Weybright Gymnasium on Dec. 21.

Mariah Stoltzfus scored 19, and Zoe Willems had 13 for Bethany Christian, last year’s Class 1A state runner-up.

Bethany Christian led 21-20 at halftime and 33-30 after three quarters. Redinger and Barcus combined to hit four treys in the fourth quarter.

Bethany Christian would go on to win the Hoosier Plains with a 5-0 conference record. They also went on to win Class 1A, Sectional 51 before losing to Caston in the regional.

BETHANY CHRISTIAN (46) (11-1, 3-0)

A. Chupp 0 0-0 0, Horning 0 0-0 0, Crume 3 1-2 7, Stoltzfus 7 1-4 19, Willems 4 4-6 13, Kern 0 0-0 0, M. Chupp 0 0-0 0, Borgmann 3 1-2 7

TEAM: 17 7-14 46

ARGOS (44) (5-9, 3-1)

Samantha Redinger 11 4-8 31, Morgyn Barcus 3 0-0 9, Alydiah Leed 1 0-0 2, Aleasia Sarver 0 0-0 0, Ellie Bollenbacher 0 0-0 0, Leah Pizzuto 1 0-0 2

TEAM: 16 4-8 44

Three-point field goals:

Bethany Christian 5 (Stoltzfus 4, Willems),

Argos 8 (Redinger 5, Barcus 3)

Total fouls: Bethany Christian 14, Argos 21

Fouled out: Bollenbacher (ARG)

Score by quarters

Bethany Christian 10 11 12 13 – 46

Argos 11 9 10 14 – 44

New Prairie 75, Argos 30 (Dec. 19): Samantha Redinger was held to a season-low 11 points, and Ellie Bollenbacher and Alydiah Leed added six each for Argos in a road loss to New Prairie on Dec. 19.

Jolie Johns had a game-high 20 for New Prairie. Morgan White added 16, Jayden Flagg had 12, and Maci Ernsperger had 10.

New Prairie led 24-4 after the first quarter and extended the lead to 43-13 at halftime.

New Prairie went on to win the Bi-County Tournament and Class 3A, Sectional 19.

ARGOS (30) (5-8)

Samantha Redinger 2 7-10 11, Morgyn Barcus 1 0-0 3, Alydiah Leed 3 0-0 6, Aleasia Sarver 1 0-0 2, Ellie Bollenbacher 1 4-6 6, Leah Pizzuto 0 0-0 0, Grace Thomas 0 0-0 0, Lexi Gibson 0 0-2 0, Kinzlee Kelly 1 0-0 2

TEAM: 9 11-18 30

NEW PRAIRIE (75) (12-1)

Ernsperger 3 4-4 10, Johns 8 0-0 20, J. Flagg 5 0-0 12, White 7 0-0 16, Willoughby 0 1-2 1, Hoggard 0 3-6 3, Hawkins-Wasner 1 0-2 2, Abbott 1 0-0 2, M. Flagg 1 0-0 2, McBride 0 0-0 0, Armato 1 0-0 3, Trobaugh 2 0-0 4

TEAM: 29 8-14 75

Three-point field goals:

Argos 1 (Barcus),

New Prairie 9 (Johns 4, J. Flagg 2, White 2, Armato)

Total fouls: Argos 11, New Prairie 15

Score by quarters

Argos 4 9 11 6 – 30

New Prairie 24 19 21 11 – 75

Argos 80, South Bend Career Academy 6 (Dec. 14): Led by Samantha Redinger’s 31 points, all five Argos starters scored in double figures in a rout of host South Bend Career Academy on Dec. 14.

Morgyn Barcus added 14 points, Aleasia Sarver had 13, and Ellie Bollenbacher and Alydiah Leed had 11 each.

Argos led 54-2 at halftime.

Argos is 5-7 overall and 3-0 in the Hoosier Plains. Redinger has outscored the opposing team by herself in all three conference wins.

ARGOS (80) (5-7, 3-0)

Samantha Redinger 13 2-3 31, Morgyn Barcus 7 0-0 14, Alydiah Leed 5 1-2 11, Aleasia Sarver 5 1-2 13, Ellie Bollenbacher 4 3-4 11, Leah Pizzuto 0 0-0 0, Lexi Gibson 0 0-0 0, Haley Shafer 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 34 7-11 80

SOUTH BEND CAREER ACADEMY (6) (1-10, 0-4)

Faber 1 0-0 2, Cooper 1 0-0 2, Wright 0 0-0 0, Machowiak 0 2-4 2, Hopkins 0 0-0 0, Holman 0 0-0 0, Finch 0 0-0 0, Horston 0 0-0 0, Kelley 0 0-0 0, Miller 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 2 2-4 6

Three-point field goals:

Argos 5 (Redinger 3, Sarver 2),

South Bend Career Academy 0

Total fouls: Argos 6, South Bend Career Academy 8

Score by quarters

Argos 28 26 14 12 – 80

SB Career Academy 2 0 4 0 – 6

Culver Academy 49, Argos 29 (Dec. 8): Samantha Redinger scored 19 points, but the host Lady Eagles knocked off Argos on Dec. 8.

No other Argos player had more than five points.

Freshman Jimara Combs scored 25 to lead Culver Academy, including all eight of her team’s points in the fourth quarter.

Culver Academy led 27-16 at halftime and bumped the lead to 41-26 after three quarters.

ARGOS (29) (4-7)

Samantha Redinger 4 10-13 19, Morgyn Barcus 0 1-2 1, Alydiah Leed 0 2-2 2, Aleasia Sarver 2 1-2 5, Ellie Bollenbacher 1 0-0 2, Sophia Austin 0 0-0 0, Kinzlee Kelly 0 0-0 0, Leah Pizzuto 0 0-0 0, Grace Thomas 0 0-0 0, Lexi Gibson 0 0-0 0, Haley Shafer 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 7 14-19 29

CULVER ACADEMY (49) (7-4)

Seddelmeyer 1 1-2 4, V. Miller 5 0-0 11, Herron 2 0-0 4, Combs 8 5-10 25, Kerr 0 0-0 0, Binkley 1 2-2 4, Stein 0 0-0 0, Treber 0 0-0 0, Smith 0 1-4 1, K. Miller 0 0-0 0, Clemens 0 0-0 0, Kresser 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 17 9-18 49

Three-point field goals:

Argos 1 (Redinger),

Culver Academy 6 (Combs 4, Seddelmeyer, V. Miller)

Total fouls: Argos 14, Culver Academy 20

Score by quarters

Argos 6 10 10 3 – 29

Culver Academy 15 12 14 8 – 49

West Central 61, Argos 56 (Dec. 2): Samantha Redinger hit four 3-pointers and tallied 30 points, but Argos lost at home to West Central on Dec. 2.

Morgyn Barcus added nine points, and Ellie Bollenbacher had eight.

Liza Allen scored 16 points, and Annika Smith and Kailee Bishop had 12 points each for West Central. Smith and Bishop had six points each in the fourth quarter.

West Central led 18-11 after one quarter, but Barcus hit two treys in the second quarter as Argos crept within 26-25 at halftime. West Central maintained a 40-39 lead going into the fourth.

WEST CENTRAL (61) (3-6)

B. Mellon 2 1-2 6, Allen 4 7-8 16, Bishop 4 4-6 12, Sharpe 4 1-4 9, Smith 5 2-2 12, Bunger 1 0-0 2, Scholz 2 0-0 4, DeMoss 0 0-2 0, S. Mellon 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 22 15-24 61

ARGOS (56) (3-6)

Samantha Redinger 8 10-13 30, Morgyn Barcus 3 0-2 9, Alydiah Leed 2 0-0 4, Aleasia Sarver 2 0-2 4, Ellie Bollenbacher 4 0-1 8, Sophia Austin 0 1-2 1, Lexi Gibson 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 19 11-20 56

Three-point field goals:

West Central 2 (B. Mellon, Allen),

Argos 7 (Redinger 4, Barcus 3)

Total fouls: West Central 20, Argos 21

Fouled out: Bishop (WC), Bollenbacher (ARG), Leed (ARG)

Score by quarters

West Central 18 8 14 21 – 61