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Any Greencastle High School students interested in playing girls’ golf this fall are asked to contact coach Steve Paquin at (765) 721-6709 before practice begins on Aug. 2. • South Putnam sets blood drive — South Putnam’s football team will have its annual blood drive from 1:30–6 p.m. on Sunday at the Bloodmobile at the Putnam Co. Fairgrounds...

Monrovia has hired South Putnam's Nathan Aker as its head football coach. The Bulldogs had a mid-summer opening when long-time head coach Kevin Hutchins departed to take an assistant coaching position at Center Grove. Aker, 35, comes to Monrovia after five seasons as head coach at South Putnam, where he was an assistant coach for the previous seven years...

Any Greencastle High School students interested in playing girls’ golf this fall are asked to contact coach Steve Paquin at (765) 721-6709 before practice begins on Aug. 2. • South Putnam sets blood drive — South Putnam's football team will have its annual blood drive from 1:30–6:00 pm. on Sunday at the Bloodmobile at the Putnam Co. Fairgrounds...

INDIANAPOLIS — Sammie Shrum plays with some quality teammates at Cloverdale and on her Indy Magic AAU team. But on Monday, the level of talent was ramped way up as Shrum competed with numerous Division I-bound players in the IBCA Underclassman Showcase at Ben Davis High School...

INDIANAPOLIS — A pair of Putnam County basketball standouts helped the Grand Park Premier Black 2021 boys’ basketball team win the 16U Platinum Bracket championship in the Adidas Invitational last weekend. North Putnam’s Mason Brooks led the team with 18 points, including 6 of 6 at the free throw line, in a 60-39 win over Indiana Elite Hoop Dreams. Greencastle’s Brody Whitaker added 15 points...

INDIANAPOLIS — Greencastle’s Gavin Bollman and South Putnam’s Dalton Scott officially brought their high school careers to an end on Friday night in the Indiana Football Coaches Association North-South All-Star Game at North Central High School. While their South team lost 25-24 despite leading 24-15 with 10 minutes to play, both enjoyed their second week of competing together this summer...

Cloverdale pitching standout Macie Couch and South Putnam slugger Alex Steffy won the top awards for the 2018-19 all-Putnam County softball team. Both Couch and Steffy had previously been honored as second-team all-state selections for Class 1A-2A. Couch had a 13-4 pitching record and a 1.47 earned run average in 114 innings of work. She struck out 100 batters while walking just 32...

South Putnam’s Aidan LeBlanc and Greencastle’s Nick Sutherlin received to honors for the 2018-19 all-Putnam County baseball team. LeBlanc was the county’s player of the year, after a standout senior season in which he batted .328 with two home runs, one triple, three doubles, nine RBI and 11 runs scored...

Putnam County will be represented by two players at Friday night’s Indiana Football Coaches Association North-South All-Star Game. Greencastle’s Gavin Bollman and South Putnam’s Dalton Scott will both compete for the South team in the annual contest at North Central High School in Indianapolis...

Cloverdale senior-to-be Sammie Shrum will be the only Western Indiana Conferfence player participating in the 17th annual IBCA/IHSAA Underclass Showcase on July 15 at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis. Shrum helped lead the Clovers to a 22-4 record last year and the Western Indiana Conference title, as well as a sectional runnerup finish...

INDIANAPOLIS — Edgewood’s Mustangs have proven to not only have a lot of talent on the baseball field but also to be a fundamentally-sound team that does not beat itself. Unfortunately, some defensive errors in the final two innings proved fatal in a 2-1 loss to Andrean — which successfully defended its Class 3A state title...

TAMPA, Fla. – A 2003 North Putnam High School graduate recently competed in the 2019 Department of Defense Warrior Games from June 21-30. Engineman 1st Class Matthew Parker competed for Team Navy during the games, held in Tampa, Florida. He participated in wheelchair rugby, wheelchair tennis, wheelchair basketball and sitting volleyball...

South Putnam graduate Kieffer Vittetow and Greencastle’s Heather Poynter won individual running titles on Thursday in 28th Mike Rokicki Memorial “Castle Classic” 5K Run/Walk. Dan Leach of Bedford won the overall men’s walking title, while Nia Stewart of Indianapolis won the women’s walking title...

The Greencastle Youth League 6U baseball all-star team recently won the USSSA state tournament. Members of the team are (from left, front) Easton Patterson, Griffin Goodpaster, Noah Spidel, Mason Heavin and Krae Ames; (middle) Brody Smithers, Rowen Tyson, Dalton Hughes, Aiden Dayhuff and Colton Hill; (back) coaches Derrik Patterson, Josh Goodpaster (head coach), Kyle Ames and Matt Tyson.

Kristina Corona, DePauw women’s soccer head coach, has resigned to accept a position as the 15U-19U Girls South Director of Coaching for the Colorado Rapids Youth Soccer Club. Corona, who took over the DePauw program in January of 2018, led the Tigers to a 4-11-1 record in her lone season with the Tigers with seven of the defeats coming by one goal each including all five in North Coast Athletic Conference play...

DePauw University head women’s basketball coach Kris Huffman is among the 2019 inductees into the University of Northern Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame. A 1990 graduate of UNI and the coach of two national championship teams at DePauw, Huffman and the other honorees will be inducted in ceremonies on Sept. 21 in the McLeod Center...

By Joey Bennett Sports Editor Cloverdale graduate Jalen Moore will be looking to increase his exposure to Division I men’s basketball coaches next month when he attends the All-American JUCO Showcase in Atlanta. The event will take place July 13-14, and features more than 100 players from junior colleges all across the United States...

Over time, several Putnam County athletes, coaches and parents have started following me on social media. Much of what I share is about Putnam County athletes and teams, but I’m sure some of those followers see names of people they don’t recognize. Either during interviews or in the process of setting up those encounters, several athletes recently have been surprised to find out that I do not live in Putnam County despite all the time I spend here...

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — Chad Collins of Cloverdale had one of his best rounds of the season on Thursday, shooting a four-under par 68 in the PGA Barbasol Championship. Collins had four birdies and an eagle in shooting a five-under 31 on the back nine. He was one stroke over par on the front nine...

PUTNAMVILLE — The 32nd edition of the “Putnamville Clash” for sprint cars might have been delayed for a couple of months after rain claimed the original May 4 date. However, Shane Cottle topped the field in dominant fashion Saturday night to pick up a $3,200 payday...