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CLOVERDALE — Cloverdale poured in 20 second-quarter points to break open a close game on its way to a 47-28 win over Shakamak on Saturday night. With the win, the Clovers improved their record to 3-1 going into this weekend’s county tournament at South Putnam...

Brian Gardner knew his South Putnam Eagles would be in for a battle on Friday night against Edgewood. The Eagles had not played since routing Cloverdale last Friday, while Edgewood was coming off a 70-22 pasting against Bloomington South on Tuesday after winning its first two games...

The Cloverdale-Shakamak girls’ basketball game will be varsity only tonight, since the Lakers were unable to get enough players for a junior varsity game. The game will begin at 7 p.m. at Cloverdale.

Class 6A Carmel 31, Homestead 7 Center Grove 28, Warren Central 14 Merrillville 42, Warsaw 28 Ben Davis 28, Zionsville 7 Class 5A Bloomington South 40, Floyd Central 14 Ft. Wayne Dwenger 35, Lafayette Harrison 21 New Palestine 35, Indpls Cathedral 10...

North Putnam bounced back from its season-opening loss to North Vermillion last Thursday with a pair of victories this week. The Cougars (2-1) now have a week to get ready for the Putnam County tournament next weekend, when they will meet Greencastle at 7:30 p.m. on Friday...

Tray Dickison is a senior at Cloverdale and participates in football, basketball and track. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Tray Dickison: “I have learned to be a leader and the characteristics of being a better father and husband from all of my coaches. I have learned from [football] coach [David] Zorman to never give up no matter what.”...

The coaches: Gary Sims is in his 12th year at Edgewood. Brian Gardner is in his fifth year at South Putnam. So far: Edgewood beat West Vigo 50-16 and Greencastle 56-31 before losing 70-22 to Bloomington South. South Putnam beat South Vermillion 61-38 and Cloverdale 54-39...

CLOVERDALE - Cloverdale’s girls basketball team has seen plenty of ups, as well as some downs, in the first two games of the young high school season. Coach Matthew Langdon wanted to see his group start to string together multiple solid quarters together in a row in hopes of getting a complete game and a victory...

Crawfordsville at North Putnam, postponed to tonight Parke Heritage at South Putnam, postponed to Jan. 11 __Other score__ Owen Valley 48, Greencastle 31 (Full report in Friday's Banner Graphic)

CLASS 6A Warsaw [9-2] at Merrillville [10-1] Carmel [8-3] at Homestead [11-0] Ben Davis [7-4] at Zionsville [5-6] Center Grove [6-5] at Warren Central [8-3] CLASS 5A Valparaiso [11-0] at Mishawaka [8-3] Fort Wayne Dwenger [10-1] at Harrison (West Lafayette) [9-2]...

Indiana native Ryan Niemiller made a big splash earlier this year on the television talent show “America’s Got Talent” by placing third. The popular standup comedian makes no attempt to hide his disability, which basically left him without hands from birth...

You have probably heard of the officiating shortage the IHSAA is undergoing, and with the average age of an official being 55 that shortage is going to get far worse as time goes by than better. One example of the desperation of the IHSAA for state finals officials came last spring when I saw a veteran basketball official in his mid-60s who I know has had both knees replaced...

The opening week of high school football sectional action played out about the way most people expected for Putnam County teams. Greencastle, North Putnam and South Putnam all picked up victories, while Cloverdale showed a lot of fight in falling 60-20 to seventh-ranked Parke Heritage...

DePauw senior guard Sydney Kopp of Hinsdale South High School in Burr Ridge, Ill., has been chosen North Coast Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Athlete of the Week for her performances in DePauw’s three wins last week. Kopp averaged 26.3 points, 7.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists as the Tigers, ranked 10th in the D3hoops.com preseason poll and 12th in the coaches’ rankings, topped Earlham (69-43), Wisconsin-Stevens Point (66-61) and Wisconsin-Whitewater (70-69, OT)...

A 62-yard touchdown with 38 seconds to play gave DePauw University its first lead of the game Saturday in the 126th Monon Bell Classic. It was all the Tigers needed, as the defense did what it had done all day, holding Wabash College in check. The Tigers walked away with a 17-13 victory over the Little Giants, their first victory over the arch rival school in three years...

DePauw and Wabash will renew their bitter rivalry on Saturday for the 126th time as the Little Giants come to Greencastle to take on the Tigers. Wabash has won the last two meetings and leads the all-time series 62-54-9. Since the Monon Bell was introduced in 1932, Wabash leads the series 43-38-6...

Roger Penske was a car-loving, 14-year-old who regularly listened to the Indianapolis 500 on the radio when his father landed tickets to the 1951 race. They made the trek from Cleveland, and when Penske saw the cars zipping around Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 200 mph he fell instantly in love...

Brad Stevens, head coach of the NBA’s Boston Celtics and 1999 graduate of DePauw University, has guided teams that have “overachieved at overachieving,” according to the Wall Street Journal . On Monday, March 9, Stevens will return to DePauw to present a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture. The program will begin at 7 p.m., with the venue to be announced at a later date...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Series finally showed up back in Washington, 86 years later — and, sparked by José Altuve, the Houston Astros finally showed up in this World Series. Altuve doubled twice and scored both times, Zack Greinke repeatedly worked out of trouble, and the Astros made sure they wouldn’t go quietly despite looking listless while falling into a big hole at home, beating the Nationals 4-1 on Friday night to cut their deficit to 2-1 in the best-of-seven Fall Classic...