Sports

Several images from the summer sports season didn’t make it into stories about the events when they took place...

INDIANAPOLIS — Joey Paridaen and Cade Winslow were on opposing sides last month in the Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association All-Star game in Terre Haute. Paridaen, who coached Eastern Greene to the Class A state finals last fall before departing to coach Evansville North, was the head coach of the Gold Division team in the WVFCA game...

South Putnam’s football program will have its annual blood drive on Sunday at the Putnam County Fair. In conjunction with the Indiana Blood Center and the Indianapolis Colts’ Leadership Challenge, the Eagles will be accepting donations from noon to 6:30 p.m. at the Bloodmobile at the fairgrounds...

As things stand now, former Cloverdale basketball standout Cooper Neese will make his debut as an Indiana State Sycamore on Dec. 22 against Colorado in the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic. The schedule for the tourney was released this week, with UNLV, Rhode Island, Bucknell, Charlotte and Texas Christian joining the Sycamores and host Hawaii in the eight-team field...

A few tidbits from here and there as the fall sports season rapidly approaches: • Crawfordsville football unrest — Greencastle opens its football season on August 17 with a home game against Crawfordsville, a program which has lacked recent success and has gone through some turmoil this summer...

Greencastle’s football program will have a dinner and silent auction on Aug. 11 at the Moose Lodge in Greencastle (212 W. Franklin St.). Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m., with the Gray Auction running through 8 a.m. and the Purple Auction ending at 8:30 p.m...

Greencastle’s Cade Winslow will suit up for the South team on Friday in the Indiana Football Coaches Association North-South All-Star Classic at Indianapolis North Central High School. Kickoff is 7 p.m. The game will be broadcast online via the MTC Sports network, and can be accessed by going to: https://iscsportsnetwork.vhx.tv/browse...

The 2017-18 sports year for Putnam County officially ended in June when Greencastle’s Jake Bennett finished competing in the IHSAA boys’ golf state finals. The school year started off strongly, with Putnam County teams winning three sectional titles in the fall season — South Putnam in boys’ tennis and Greencastle in boys’ soccer and volleyball...

The Hitting Zone in Terre Haute sponsored South Putnam junior catcher Drew Bratcher this spring with a $20 donation to the charity of her choice for each home run the Eagle standout hit. Bratcher finished the year with a school single-season record of nine home runs...

Any Greencastle High School girls interested in playing golf this fall can call Coach Steve Paquin (765) 721-6709 to sign up for the 2018-19 golf season.

Polo Burguete of the men’s cross country and track and field teams and Sam McManus from the men’s swimming and diving squad have been selected DePauw’s top senior male student-athletes for 2017-18 by the University’s department of intercollegiate athletics as co-recipients of the Phil Eskew Award...

By Joey Bennett Sports Editor CLOVERDALE — Two-time state hurdles finalist Tyler Kaeff of Cloverdale will be taking his skills to DePauw University this fall. Kaeff, who qualified for both the high and low hurdles as a sophomore and in the high hurdles as a senior, will also be playing football for the Tigers...

Greencastle Youth Football, in a fundraising effort to help with equipment costs, is hosting a 4-Mile Run and 2-Mile Walk on Saturday at the DePauw Nature Park. Race begins at 9 a.m. with onsite registration opening at 8 a.m. Online registration is also available at www.runsignup.com...

The Greencastle Youth Football League will have a Run/Walk Fundraiser at 9 a.m. on Saturday at the DePauw Nature Park. Interested people may register in advance online at http://www.runsignup.com by searching for the term “Greencastle,” or register on the day of the event starting at 8 a.m...

The Greencastle Youth Football League will have a Run/Walk Fundraiser at 9 a.m. on Saturday at the DePauw Nature Park. Interested people may register in advance online at https://runsignup.com/Race/IN/Greencastle/GreencastleYouthFootball4MileRun2MileWalk or on the day of the event starting at 8 a.m...

PUTNAMVILLE – Thomas Meseraull invaded Lincoln Park Speedway Saturday night in his own self-described Frankenstein sprint car and took home the mid-season championship over Scotty Weir and AJ Hopkins. For James Walters (UMP Modifieds) and Larry Raines (UMP Super Stocks), the heat of the summer has seen them have great success on the dirt oval. ...

PUTNAMVILLE – Round two of the Bill Gardner “Sprintacular” at Lincoln Park Speedway didn’t disappoint in either talent in the pits or sheer volume of competitors on hand Saturday night. There were 112 total cars on hand with a whopping 42 sprint cars unloading to contest the Midwest Sprint Car Series sanctioned event that paid out $2,500 to Justin Grant at the end of the evening...

The fifth running of the “Slick Griffin Memorial” race for UMP Super Stocks highlighted Saturday’s jam-packed event at Lincoln Park Speedway. Greencastle’s Doug McCullough claimed his first win of the season by edging out current national points leader Jason Hehman of Brownstown. The win had a little extra meaning for McCullough, a long-time competitor and friend of Griffin, who passed away in March 2013...