Area Sports Results From Wednesday, May 8th

Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 5:27 AM

By Larry Duke

Madison hires news boys basketball, no surprise here

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL:

Madison falls 7-0 to 4A No. 3 Columbus East in the consolation semifinals of the HHC tournament. Cubs will play Seymour for 7th place on Friday.

Shawe beats New Washington 4-3.

Switzerland County fell 9-1 to 1A No. 4 Rising Sun

South Ripley over Milan 6-3

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL:

Madison over Lawrenceburg 11-0

Southwestern beats Eastern (Pekin) 5-1

Shawe falls 10-0 to New Washington

Trimble Co. falls 15-0 to Oldham Co.

Milan defeats South Ripley 7-5

Carroll Co. over Eminence 9-5

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS TENNIS:

Madison falls to Columbus East 4-1 in the Hoosier Hills Conference Tournament consolation semi-finals. Lady Cubs will play for 7^th tomorrow.

To no one's surprise, last night the Madison school board announced the hiring of their new boys’ varsity basketball coach. Former Shawe coach Sherron Wilkerson was hired by a 5-0 vote by the board. Wilkerson coached one season at Shawe with a 4-19 record. He replaces Mark McFarland, who was 21-27 in two seasons with the Cubs.