Class 2A final preview: Parke Heritage vs. Westview different styles, same results
Class 2A state championship between Parke Heritage and Westview looks like an even matchup.
Before Parke Heritage’s semistate game on Saturday, Triton Central coach Mark James called the Wolves “a unicorn” for Class 2A basketball. “We have post (players) and throw the ball to the posts,” Parke Heritage coach Rich Schelsky said. “In the modern game of basketball, you don’t see that very often.
” Fourth-ranked Parke Heritage (26-4) has size, experience and – despite just eight years since the school was formed as a consolidation of Rockville and Turkey Run – plenty of tradition. When the Wolves take the floor against No. 3 Westview (27-1) on Saturday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, it will be the second state finals appearance for the program (the other was 2021) and first for the current group that had been knocking on the door for the previous three years.
Unlike the previous three years, the path did not end at the semistate round. The Wolves knocked off No. 6 Triton Central (44-38) and No.
8 Linton-Stockton (66-53) to clinch their ticket to Gainbridge Fieldhouse. “We felt like we knew what it took no matter who was in our way,” Parke Heritage senior Treigh Schelsky said. “We were going to take it one game at a time, be really focused and have a good game plan.
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