Lawrence North High School baseball playerBrad Bettswas expected to be moved to Community Hospital East on Wednesday to start rehabilitation after the thoracic vertebrae in his back dislocated Saturday when a tree fell on a barn in which he was taking cover during a storm. Betts, a junior pitcher, has no feeling below the waist, according to his brother,Andy Betts, who said he has a 1 to 3 percent chance of walking again.

Lawrence North’s season ended Friday with a 6-5 first-round sectional loss to Class 4A No. 2 Cathedral.

“He’s staying positive,” Andy Betts said of his brother, who is communicating with friends through text messages and Facebook. “His mind-set is that baseball starts in eight months. He’s young, athletic and the surgery couldn’t have gone better, so we’re hoping for the best.”

According to Andy Betts, his brother and some of his friends were watching the storm roll in around 9 p.m. when it started to hail and they took cover in the barn. The biggest tree in the yard, however, fell on the building. Andy Betts said he had just gotten home from work and was about to take a shower when he heard a boom and ran outside, following his brother’s screams through the rubble to pull him out.

“It was like a jungle and fighting through trees,” Andy Betts said. “All I remember is seeing nothing but white. I threw stuff off of him, picked him up and made my way through it.”

Andy Hearn, a senior and Lawrence North’s starting first baseman this season, also was injured, possibly suffering knee ligament damage, according to Wildcats coachRichard Winzenread.

Since joining its current sectional lineup in 2004, Plainfield softball “always had a good, strong, competitive team,” according to coachBrad Beaman. The problem was, the six-team tournament might as well have been dubbed the Martinsville Sectional, considering the Artesians won it four out of five times and went on to win the 4A state title twice.

So the Quakers’ first sectional title since 1995 — which came courtesy of an 8-2 win over Mooresville in last week’s Northview Sectional — was “amazing,” Beaman said.

Next up for the Quakers (16-7), who Beaman said are “playing some of the best softball we’ve played,” is Evansville North (19-8) in the 11 a.m. semifinal of Saturday’s Floyd Central Regional.

Floyd Central and Columbus North play in the other semifinal. The winners meet at 7 p.m.

The Greenfield-Central softball team will play Harrison (22-7) on Saturday in the 1 p.m. semifinal of the 4A Pendleton Heights Regional. The Cougars (25-6) will play at a facility they’re familiar with in Pendleton’s Legends Field, where they won the program’s first sectional title since 1989 last week

“Our girls are comfortable (at Pendleton),” Greenfield-Central coachJason Stewartsaid. “They’re used to the routine of getting on a bus and going up there. They know how to play the field. It’s a bandbox up there and the balls fly out, but our kids know how to handle it.”

The Greenfield-Central/Harrison winner plays the DeKalb/Homestead semifinal winner in the 7 p.m. championship.

Park Tudor seniorHeidi Chenwill be competing in two state championships this spring.

In lacrosse, she scored the overtime goal that allowed Park Tudor to beat Zionsville 8-7 in the state tournament’s semifinal. Culver Academy defeated Park Tudor 6-3 for the state title.

In track and field, Chen will run on the 1,600-meter relay team in Saturday’s state meet at Bloomington. She never ran track until this year but was persuaded to come out by coachRyan Ritz.