Prep sports notebook: Fall sports sectional hosts determined

The IHSAA announced the sectional hosts for the fall sports season in its latest executive committee meeting.

Columbus East will host a Class 3A girls soccer sectional that includes Columbus North. In Class A, Monrovia hosts a sectional that includes Hauser.

Center Grove hosts a 3A boys soccer sectional that includes East and North. In Class A, Southwestern (Shelby) hosts a sectional that includes Hauser.

The regional and semistate soccer host sites for both boys and girls soccer will be determined at a later date.

In volleyball, East and North are in a Class 4A sectional hosted by East Central. Hauser is in a Class A sectional hosted by Trinity Lutheran.

The IHSAA also released the hosts sites for the North and South volleyball regionals and semistates. The eight South regional host sites are Greenfield-Central, Cascade, Monrovia, Bloomington North, Loogootee, Mitchell, Edinburgh and Charlestown. The four South semistate hosts are Martinsville, Bedford North Lawrence, Jasper and Columbus East. Teams will be assigned to each regional and semistate location following the sectional and regional competition.

The boys and girls cross-country, boys tennis and girls golf postseason sites remain unchanged for the Bartholomew County schools.

Also discussed in the meeting, girls lacrosse now is officially an emerging sport.

Three Bull Dogs headed to Fargo

Three Columbus North wrestlers will compete in next week’s USA Wrestling Cadet/Junior Nationals in Fargo, North Dakota.

Incoming sophomore Cohen Long will wrestle in the Cadet 132-pound division. Incoming senior Justice Thornton will be in the Junior 144-pound class, and incoming senior Evan Saevre will compete in the Junior 190-pound division.

Cougars’ Scruggs commits to Anderson

Former South Decatur basketball player Jacob Scruggs has committed to play collegiately at Anderson University.

The recent graduate led the Cougars with 24.8 points, 5.5 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 3.6 steals as a senior.