Sports

North Putnam holds the early lead with seven points in the inaugural Putnam County Cup all-sports trophy competition after two sports have had their county tournament competition. The Cougars won the girls’ golf county title for the second straight year on Monday to earn four points, and placed second in volleyball on Saturday to add three more points...

Sammie Shrum is a senior at Cloverdale and participates in golf and basketball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? SS: “Sports are very important to me. I have learned how to be stronger, be a better teammate and to find what career I want to pursue someday. I have learned a lot about myself through sports, and a lot about other people. I learned I have a love of not only playing the game, but I want to coach it for the rest of my life.”...

South Putnam won a pair of boys’ tennis matches this week, marking four wins in the last five outings for the Eagles. On Monday, the Eagles traveled to Indian Creek and recorded a 3-2 victory. On Tuesday, the Eagles hosted Owen Valley and won by a 4-1 margin...

CLOVERDALE — Maggie Walters has been head volleyball coach at Greencastle for seven years. Her record in Putnam County tournament is now a sparkling 14-0 after a pair of wins on Saturday gave the Cubs their seventh straight county title. For the second straight year, Greencastle lost a regular-season match to Cloverdale nine days before the county tourney but rebounded to take the title...

North Putnam’s overtime victory over Sullivan last Friday night was one for the ages — at least North Putnam’s 50-year ages. The 42-41 homecoming win was rewarding for the 4-0 Cougars, and had to be heartbreaking for the 1-3 Golden Arrows. This game went from talking about the homecoming queen at halftime, when Sullivan led 28-13, to the nail-biting question: Do we have enough time left?...

CLAYTON — North Putnam sophomore Zach Huff was the overall winner as the Cougars took second place in the boys’ division of the Jon Mitchell Invitational at Cascade. Huff had a winning time of 16:39.64, more than 10 seconds faster than the runnerup...

BAINBRIDGE — The never quit North Putnam Cougars did it again Friday night, coming from a two-touchdown deficit to remain undefeated with a 42-41 overtime victory over Sullivan. And, oh yeah, it was homecoming too. After trailing 21-7 in the first quarter and 28-13 at halftime, North Putnam tied the game 35-35 with 4.2 seconds left in regulation play. ...

The South Putnam Eagles had a big night against their county rival, Greencastle, on Friday night. The Eagle football team coming off of their first loss of the season used a balanced attack and a stingy defense to improve to 3-1 with a 22-16 victory over the Tiger Cubs. It was a county rivalry, a Western Indiana Conference game and homecoming for the Eagles. South improved its WIC record to 1-1, while Greencastle is now 2-2 on the season and 0-2 in WIC play...

CLAYTON — Cloverdale quarterback Jake Smith scored a running touchdown in the fourth quarter to account for the lone Cloverdale score in a 51-6 loss to Cascade. The Cadets took a 14-0 lead after one quarter, a 21-0 lead at halftime and a 44-0 advantage after three quarters. They also added a touchdown and an extra point in the final period.

PUTNAM COUNTY North Putnam 42, Sullivan 41 (OT) South Putnam 22, Greencastle 16 Cascade 51, Cloverdale 6 OTHER WIC GAMES Northview 27, W. Vigo 6 Indian Creek 42, Brown Co. 14 Edgewood 26, Owen Valley 13 STATE SCORES Adams Central 46, Jay Co. 6 Alexandria 42, Madison-Grant 22...

In a day and age when some young people give their generation a bad name for their irresponsible behavior, it’s great to hear of positive things done by our young people. Two examples of such outstanding work took place involving football over the past two weeks...

As the Putnam County tournaments are completed throughout this school year, the county's athletic directors will be tabulating the results and keeping standings for the inaugural Putnam County Cup traveling trophy to be awarded at the conclusion of the school year...

While such an occurrence is unlikely, Putnam County high school football fans can at least hope that whichever game they choose to attend tonight is as thrilling and enjoyable as last week’s North Putnam at North Montgomery contest was. I truly enjoy high school football for every reason, from the buzz of activity surrounding the games, to the sound of the bands and cheerleaders and to the excitement shown by fans and cheerleaders. Even the smells are good...

The Wednesday Night Ladies Bowling league at 3G Bowl in Greencastle is having a meeting at 6 p.m. today. The league is currently seeking more bowlers for the upcoming season. The league bowls on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. at 3G Bowl. Current plans are to have three bowlers on each team. At the meeting, league officials will decide if the number of players per team will need to change or if enough bowlers are interested to continue the league...

Dick Asbell scored his first hole-in-one on Tuesday at Tiger Pointe Country Club in Greencastle.

Greencastle Youth Football kicked off the 2019 season this week with Monday Night Football. GYF hosted Cloverdale in a jamboree style scrimmage to get the kids ready for the upcoming season. The evening included three halves of football (one half per age group) and raffle fund-raisers took place...

Pella, Iowa — DePauw jumped out to a 13-0 first-quarter lead in its season-opening game at Central, but the Dutch scored four unanswered touchdowns for a 28-13 halftime lead on the way to a 45-19 win over the Tigers. Central moved to 2-0 with the win, while the Tigers are 0-1...

After having its “bye” week last week, DePauw’s football team will open its season today at Central (Iowa) at 2 p.m. (EST). The Dutch are 1-0. After a bit of a slow start last week, Central shook off the rust with a 42-12 conquest of the University of Northwestern-St. Paul (Minn.) Saturday...

PALO ALTO, Calif. – A pair of former Manchester University football players had the opportunity to attend the Third Annual William V. Campbell Trophy Summit earlier this month. South Putnam grad Zane Yon and former teammate Eric Beard were both national semifinalists for the Campbell Trophy, the Academic Heisman award during their final years at MU. Both Beard and Yon traveled to Stanford University for the three-day summit...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Colts coach Frank Reich still wants Adam Vinatieri to be his kicker. For now, he is. The NFL’s career scoring leader left the team complex Monday afternoon without speaking to reporters, though he promised a day earlier he would as speculation swirled that the 46-year-old might retire...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Adam Vinatieri has been Mr. Automatic for most of his first 23 NFL seasons. When he wasn’t Sunday, fans started wondering openly if the oldest player in the league might be slipping. The NFL’s career scoring leader missed his first extra point of the season to the right, his first field goal attempt to the left, and a 29-yard field goal attempt in the second half also to the left, all contributing to a season-opening 30-24 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Chargers...