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SPENCER – Greencastle won a varsity wrestling meet at Owen Valley on Tuesday by a 59-19 score. Joe Baker, Jacob Fox, Mark Roberts, Chase Carrington, Logan Carrington, Brach Carrington, Ryan Beauchamp, Austin Stockall and Zayden Bright all had winning matches...

Brianna Robinson is a senior at South Putnam and participates in volleyball and tennis. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Brianna Robinson: “Sports are very important to me. They have allowed me to become the person that I am and to have the characteristics that I do. They have allowed me to get close to the friends that I have now.”...

By Joey Bennett Sports Editor While the Western Indiana Conference championship games have already been set in both boys’ and girls’ action, lots of scrambling to fill the remaining spots in the divisional standings will take place tonight. Greencastle travels to North Putnam, with the boys’ teams meeting for the first time this year and the Tiger Cubs girls looking to avenge a 36-29 loss in the Putnam County Tournament in November...

CLOVERDALE — The past several weeks have not been pleasant ones for the Cloverdale girls’ basketball team. After starting the season 5-1, including a successful defense of their Putnam County championship, the Clovers have fallen on tougher times in losing 10 of their next 11 games...

The way the Greencastle Lady Tiger Cubs shot the ball in the first half is cause for concern for the school’s athletic budget, as athletic director Doug Greenlee may have to replace the nets more often if the Cubs keep burning them up in that fashion...

South Putnam’s girls kept rolling along on Tuesday night, with six players scoring nine points or more on the way to a 78-25 win over Riverton Parke. The win was South’s fourth straight and eighth in the last nine games. South scored 20 points in the first quarter in holding a 20-10 advantage at the first stop...

BAINBRIDGE — North Putnam celebrated senior night on Monday with a split with Cascade in high school swimming. North won the boys’ meet 104-57 and Cascade won the girls’ meet 117-54. Seniors honored were Taylor Hensley, Josie Lyons, Madison Trotter, Matthew Trotter and Kyle Young...

(Records through Monday's games) 3A Sectional 25 at Greencastle 2A Sectional 43 at Southmont 3A Sectional 25 at Danville 2A Sectional 44 at Cloverdale (Sectional draw is Jan. 26 The Associated Press Top 10 Indiana high school boys basketball teams, with first-place votes in parentheses, records, rating points and previous rankings:...

(Full results will be in Wednesday’s Banner Graphic) SEVENTH GRADE Monday semifinals At North Putnam Cloverdale 46, North Putnam 22 At Greencastle South Putnam 32, Greencastle 23 Wednesday finals At Cloverdale Middle School 6 p.m. — South Putnam vs. Cloverdale...

The South Putnam Eagles played a solid first half, but the defensive pressure of the Edgewood Mustangs derailed any hope of a victory for the Eagles. Edgewood won Saturday night’s contest 75-47 to drop the Eagles to 1-10, while Edgewood improved to 7-6 on the season...

One of my few regrets of the sports coverage provided to Banner Graphic readers is my inability to include everything interesting that comes up through my many travels. Just not enough room or time for everything. I would like to write columns like today’s more often, and will try to get caught up ASAP. All-state football awards and all-county volleyball have been included recently, and we still have several college signing stories to get in as well as College Report updates...

You may not have noticed during the hectic holiday season, but we have made a couple of slight adjustments recently to some staples of Banner Graphic sports coverage that we want to make sure you know about. I work hard and long hours to make coverage of Putnam County sports as even and equitable as possible...

The South Putnam Eagles swept a pair of games from the Greencastle Tiger Cubs on Monday night at Greencastle Middle School in the Putnam County boys’ middle school basketball tournament. The seventh grade Eagles advanced to the championship game with a 32-23 victory, while South’s eighth graders took care of the Tiger Cubs 36-19 in the second game...

Seventh-ranked DePauw University’s women’s basketball extended its win streak to 10 and improved to 14-1 overall and 6-0 in North Coast Athletic Conference play with an 82-44 win over visiting Wooster on Saturday. The Fighting Scots dropped to 4-10 overall and 0-5 in conference play...

There are two national championship banners hanging over the Neal Fieldhouse court that the DePauw University women have to look at every day. That is the ever-present goal. And Saturday, as the Tigers entered the fieldhouse they were confronted with the name and legacy of Amy Hasbrook, one of DePauw’s all-time great players and role models. The game was played in her honor. The goal was set. Hiram just happened to be the opponent...

Defense and rebounding don’t take the night off on good basketball teams. And that’s a good thing for the No. 6-ranked DePauw Tigers women, or they would have been in trouble Friday night. Playing at Neal Fieldhouse for just the second time this season, DePauw rolled over Allegheny 69-50 for its eighth straight win of the season...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Coach Frank Reich admits the Indianapolis Colts simply haven’t been good enough this season — especially the past seven games. Now there’s no sugar-coating it. After enduring Monday’s embarrassing, playoff-eliminating 34-7 loss at New Orleans, the Colts spent the trip home pondering their fate and their future...