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Senior Allen Plunkett of South Putnam and sophomore Brody Whitaker of Greencastle were among players honored this week by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association on its all-state boys’ basketball teams. Plunkett was given honorable mention on the Senior All-State team, while Whitaker was similarly honored on the Underclass All-State team...

Bloomington South standouts Anthony Leal and Noah Jager, who played against Greencastle at McAnally Center in February, were the only opponents of Putnam County teams chosen to the IndyStar boys’ junior all-star team. Leal is a member of the core group that will play in all three exhibitions involving the Indiana All-Stars, while Jager is on the “blue” group which will play in one game...

Chelsie Edwards is a senior at Cloverdale and participates in cross country and track and field. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Chelsie Edwards: “Family. Since fifth grade, I have had family issues at home. ...

Three Greencastle basketball players were among those student-athletes honored by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association for its academic all-state teams. Gavin Bollman earned honorable mention for the boys’ team, while Seelye Stoffregen and Bailey Shuee both earned spots on the girls’ honorable mention list...

Crawfordsville made a statement out of the gate with an 18-5 season opening victory over Greencastle on Tuesday in softball. The Athenians jumped out to an early 4-0 lead with a four-run second inning, added two more in the third, four in the sixth, and broke things wide open with an eight spot in the top half of the seventh frame...

CAYUGA — The South Putnam Eagle softball team made the long trip up North Vermillion on Tuesday evening to open their softball season against a talented Falcon team. The Eagles couldn’t overcome one bad inning and lost by a score of 11-6. The Eagles started with a lead, but a 10- run second inning by the host Falcons broke the game open...

Class 4A Also receiving votes: Columbus East, Columbus North, Elkhart Central, FW Northrop, Hobart, Indpls Cathedral, Jasper, Jeffersonville, New Albany, New Palestine, Roncalli, Southport, Terre Haute North, Terre Haute South. Class 3A Receiving Votes: Brebeuf Jesuit, Edgewood, Indian Creek, Peru, Providence, Sullivan, Washington, Yorktown...

Greencastle’s girls only won two individual events at the Western Indiana Conference indoor track invitational meet at DePauw University on Saturday, but had enough depth to win the team title. Jada Amis won the shot put and Kennedy Trigg won the long jump to pace Greencastle, which defeated second-place Northview by 16.5 points...

Tuesday Softball — Crawfordsville at Greencastle (5:30 p.m.), South Putnam at North Vermillion (5 p.m.) and North Putnam at Cascade, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday Baseball — South Putnam at Danville, 5:30 p.m. Thursday Baseball — Greencastle in scrimmage at Owen Valley, 5:30 p.m...

CLASS 1A Fort Wayne Blackhawk 74, Lafayette Central Catholic 51 Barr-Reeve 65, Bloomfield 39 CLASS 2A Andrean 73, Frankton 64 2OT Linton-Stockton 73, Shenandoah 56 CLASS 3A Culver Academy 57, Marion 44 Silver Creek 72, Indianapolis Attucks 69 CLASS 4A...

For a variety of reasons, I have come to know a lot of people throughout my life. Factors contributing to that circumstance include the fact that I am old and I have had a varied number of different careers throughout those decades that have brought me into contact with a lot of people...

Saturday was a great day at Greencastle’s McAnally Center, with countless thousands of people coming through the doors for three regional basketball games. The semifinal games did not go the way the two remaining Western Indiana Conference teams would have liked, with Greencastle falling to Beech Grove and Owen Valley losing to eventual champion Crispus Attucks...

CRAWFORDSVILLE — Before Saturday, Greencastle and Crawfordsville had played 118 times in the sport of boys’ basketball. I had only seen a fraction of those matchups, either one or two, but it is impossible to believe that any of the others could live up to the drama that Greencastle’s 52-51 overtime victory did...

1. Greencastle 2-1 (won on tiebreaker) 2. North Putnam 2-1 3. Cloverdale 2-1 4. South Putnam 0-3 Individual matches Cloverdale 51, Greencastle 48 North Putnam 51, Greencastle 42 Cloverdale 54, South Putnam 39 North Putnam 51, Cloverdale 42 Greencastle 58, North Putnam 48...

BAINBRIDGE — North Putnam and South Putnam split a pair of games on Thursday night in the Putnam County middle school girls’ basketball tournament. The Cougars won the seventh-grade title by a 20-10 margin, while South claimed the eighth-grade crown with a 24-15 win...

The South Putnam Lady Eagles swept a pair of games against the Cloverdale Clover junior high girls on Tuesday night at South Putnam. The seventh grade picked up a 16-11 victory, while the eighth grade advanced on 29-16 in the second game. Both teams will travel to North Putnam on Thursday to take on the Cougars for the middle school championship...

The National College Athlete Honor Society announced this week the creation of the Nick Mourouzis Postgraduate Scholarship endowment. The first honor society for college student-athletes, NCAHS (known as Chi Alpha Sigma) was founded in 1997 by Mourouzis — who served as DePauw University’s head football coach from 1981 through 2003...

INDIANAPOLIS — Three more members of the Florida Southern women’s swimming team added their names to the list of All-Americans last week as the Moccasins’ 800-freestyle relay team of senior Krystal Karas, junior Kyra Fraser, junior Mallary Meyer of Greencastle and senior Katie Moore finished 11th on day three of the NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championships...

TERRE HAUTE — From the outside looking in, the adjustments made in the batter’s box would seem to be the biggest change in the way DePauw University’s baseball team has been able to turn things around after beginning the season with four straight losses...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Colts general manager Chris Ballard reverted to his old free-agent playbook. He re-signed his own players first. Instead of making a big first-day splash, he barely made a ripple on the second day. And he’s probably not finished yet...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics recently announced the 28 winners of the Under Armour AD of the Year Award. Former Florida Southern College Director of Athletics Pete Meyer was one of four Division II athletic directors to win the award this year. ...

RIO GRANDE, P.R. — Chad Collins of Cloverdale finished 71st in the Puerto Rico Open played from Thursday through Sunday at the Coco Beach Golf and Country Club. Collins shot a one-under-par 71 and a two-over-par 74 on the first two days of the tourney to make the cut...