Sports

Parker Watts is a senior at Cloverdale and participates in football, basketball and baseball. ——— Banner Graphic: Sports are obviously a big part of your life. What would your life be like if sports had never been invented? Parker Watts: “I can’t even imagine what that would be like. As soon as I was old enough to be able to be active, my parents pushed me to be that type of kid and I just stuck with it. Here I am in my senior year, doing three or four sports a day.”...

North Putnam swept visiting North Montgomery 25-16, 28-26, 25-19 on Monday. “The Cougars played very well,” coach Bonnie Osborn said. “It was nice to get a second win in straight sets.” Cougar stats: Attacks: Bradi Gierke 18/26 with 10 kills, Kinzey Young 8/10 with 3 kills, Brie Miller 18/22 with 11 kills an Haley Stevenson with two kills...

Two Western Indiana Conference teams received votes in this week’s Associated Press high school football ranking, while several potential sectional opponents for Putnam County teams continue to move up. In Class 4A, Northview moved into the top 10 for the first time this season at the No. 10 spot. The Knights are 5-0, and include wins over Class 5A Terre Haute North and Class 3A No. 15 Sullivan on its resume...

South Putnam entered Saturday’s Western Indiana Conference crossover tennis championship match with the upper hand. The Eagles had just defeated Owen Valley 4-1 four days earlier, and appeared primed to win the school’s first WIC title since joining the league three years ago...

South Putnam recovered from a subpar performance at the recent Putnam County tournament to finish fourth in the Northview girls’ golf sectional on Saturday. The Eagles missed advancing to Saturday’s regional by one spot. Terre Haute South won the team title, while Terre Haute North was second and Northview was third...

Greencastle’s boys’ soccer team picked up a pair of wins last week to get back on the positive side of the scoreboard. On Saturday, the Cubs won a Western Indiana Conference match 8-1 over Sullivan. The Cubs had four goals in each half. In the first half, Ben Parsons and Jakob Foss each had two goals, while Hector Lezama and Ben Wilkerson each had two assists...

CLAYTON — The word “moody” generally refers to unpredictably changing human behavioral patterns. In the case of Greencastle running back Damon Moody, that description is inaccurate. The Tiger Cub senior only knows one way to play football — hard-nosed and non-stop...

BAINBRIDGE — After a meltdown at Sullivan last week the North Putnam Cougars bounced back in quick fashion Friday night, beating the Cloverdale Clovers 49-14 on their own field. The win keeps the Cougars in fourth place in the WIC West Division with a chance to climb up to first in a three-way tie with wins over Greencastle in week eight and over Northview next week...

Team speed is the greatest weapon on a football field. The South Putnam Eagles found out Friday night that the visiting Edgewood Mustangs had a lot of speed. The Mustangs scored three times from more than 70 yards out and added three more of more than 30 yards from the end zone in defeating the Eagles 40-16...

Greencastle’s tough luck in 3-2 boys’ tennis matches continued on Thursday, as Southmont defeated Greencastle by that score. The Cubs fell to 2-9 with the team defeat. No. 1 singles player Trent Ross won its sixth-straight match and imprmoved his record to 10-4...

By Joey Bennett Sports Editor Forty-one coaches and athletes from Putnam County high schools are known to be competing collegiately this fall. Earlier this month, South Putnam graduate Kieffer Vittetow was named the Great Lakes Valley Conference runner of the week...

DePauw’s defense held Hiram to just 196 yards on Saturday and the offense was as balanced as possible with 211 yards each on the ground and through the air as the Tigers picked up a 45-7 North Coast Athletic Conference victory over the Terriers. The Tigers moved to 1-1 overall and 1-0 in the NCAC, while Hiram dropped to 1-2 overall and 0-2 in conference play...

Game time: 1 p.m. Entering the game: DePauw Tigers is 0-1 on the season after last Saturday’s 16-10 loss to Central, while the Terriers are 1-1 following last week’s 47-13 win at Earlham. Series record: DePauw leads the all-time series, 5-0, after last year’s 55-28 win at Hiram. The Tigers have won both meetings in Greencastle with the last coming on September 24, 2016, by a 66-17 score...

In an effort to revive its once dominant wrestling program, Cloverdale has moved its youth wrestling season to attract more participants. “In an effort to build, grow, and enhance Cloverdale wrestling we are going to hold youth wrestling between Fall Break and Thanksgiving for students in grades 1-5,” CHS varsity coach Chris Kaufman said. ...

PUTNAMVILLE – Benton, Ill., native Shane Cockrum captured the “King of Non-Wing” sprint car special feature event on Saturday at Lincoln Park Speedway. Cockrum fended off a final charge from A.J. Hopkins to pick up the 25-lap A-main win, his fourth of the season. Alec Sipes won the second sprint car feature of the evening with Derek Groomer taking the UMP Modified main event. Wes McClara added another UMP Super Stock win to his 2018 results and Matthew Cooley won his first LPS bomber feature...