Mt. Vernon’s Ellery Minch and New Palestine’s Isabella Gizzi go head-t0-head during the Class 4A Sectional 9 championship game.
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Led by three players from conference champion Mt. Vernon, Hancock County players made up one-half of the 12-member Hoosier Heritage Conference girls basketball team.
The league selected the team Monday.
Along with the three Marauder players, Mt. Vernon’s Julie Shelton was named HHC Coach of the Year.
Senior Khloe Patterson and juniors Ellery Minch and Easton Wampler were selected from Mt. Vernon.
Patterson averaged 7.5 points per game and led the Marauders in rebounding (7.3 per game) and assists (3.8 per game). Minch was the club’s leading scorer at 16.4 points per contest and added 5.3 rebounds. Wampler averaged 6.8 points and led the team with 34 3-point field goals.
Minch, a 6-foot-2 forward, was recently selected to the Indiana All-Stars inaugural “Futures Games” to be played in June as part of the Indiana-Kentucky All-Star series.
Sophomore Chaney Brown and senior Aryana Hibbard were the choices from Greenfield-Central.
Brown topped Cougar scoring and rebounding with averages of 14.3 and 6.0 per game, respectively. She also led with 2.3 steals per contest. Hibbard was the team’s second leading scorer at 9.8 points per game. She had the team’s most 3-point field goals with 45.
Senior Isabella Gizzi represented New Palestine.
At 23.7 points per game, Gizzi ranked eighth in the state in scoring. She averaged 5.8 rebounds and 2.6 steals to go with a team-best 49 3s.
This past season, Gizzi became the girls’ program and school’s all-time leading scorer with 1,676 points. She surpassed her mother, and head coach, Sarah (Haynes) Gizzi as the girls all-time leading scorer, and her brother, Maximus Gizzi, now playing at Marian University, as the overall leading scorer.
Other selections included, Pendleton Heights’ Kaycie Warfel and Whitney Warfel, Shelbyville’s Kylee Edwards and Ava Wilson, New Castle’s Emma Hart and Yorktown’s Amari Wright.
Mt. Vernon won the conference with a 7-0 record. Pendleton Heights was 6-1, followed by Greenfield-Central (5-2), Yorktown (4-3), New Palestine (3-4), Shelbyville (2-5), Delta (1-6) and New Castle (0-7).
Five teams had plus.-500 overall records. Mt. Vernon, winners of Class 4A Sectional 9 for the third straight year, finished 19-7. Shelbyville (15-9) and Pendleton Heights (15-10) each had 15 wins. Greenfield-Central finished 14-10 and New Palestine ended its year 13-12.
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All-Hoosier Heritage Conference Girls Basketball Team
Name;Grade;School
Chaney Brown;10;Greenfield-Central
Aryana Hibbard;12;Greenfield-Central
Ellery Minch;11;Mt. Vernon
Khloe Patterson;12;Mt. Vernon
Easton Wampler;11;Mt. Vernon
Emma Hart;11;New Castle
Isabella Gizzi;12;New Palestine
Kaycie Warfel;10;Pendleton Heights
Whitney Warfel;12;Pendleton Heights
Kylee Edwards;12;Shelbyville
Ava Wilson;11;Shelbyville
Amari Wright;12;Yorktown
2022-23 HHC Coach of the Year
Julie Shelton, Mt. Vernon
