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FISHERS — Two Putnam County basketball standouts were key players over the weekend as the Grand Park Premier 2021 Black squad finished second in the Summer Classic at the Best Choice Fieldhouse. Greencastle’s Brody Whitaker scored 26 points as GPP Black lost 80-77 in overtime to the EG10 17U team (sponsored by NBA player Eric Gordon) in the championship game...

Jordan Vaughn did not play high school basketball while attending South Putnam in the first four years of this century, but is a long-time fan of the sport and has a huge interest in its history. To help promote the history of Putnam County basketball, as well as to find answers to questions he has not yet solved, Vaughn has created a Facebook group titled “Putnam County Basketball: Then & Now.”...

North Putnam has promoted assistant football coach Ryan Burress to replace Sam Carnes as head coach of the Cougar squad. Burress has been serving as an assistant coach with the Cougars while teaching at Mooresville High School, and will now get to delete that 55-minute one-way trip from his daily schedule as he will be teaching special education at North Putnam...

Aidan Baker of North Putnam High School recently received his National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete Award with former Cougar coach Sam Carnes and his parents, John and Lori Baker. Recent Cloverdale graduate Kenzie Stoltz is the recipient of a Wabash Valley Officials Association scholarship for the 2019-20 school year...

Recent Greencastle graduate Trent Ross successfully opened his summer tennis season on Sunday with a championship in the West Indy Racquet Club Highland Series Clay Court Championships in Indianapolis. In the 18-and-under semifinals, Ross defeated John Graham by 6-3, 6-1 scores. Ross then defeated Kyle Doctor in the finals by the same score...

Cloverdale decided to stay ‘in house” to hire its new girls’ varsity basketball coach, as Clover athletic director J.J. Wade was hired earlier this week to replace Matthew Langdon. Langdon resigned in April after coaching the Clovers for nine seasons. He inherited a program that had won only seven games in the three previous seasons, and after a slow start with five straight seasons of double-digit losses Landon’s last four teams all had at least 10 wins...

The Indiana High School Athletic Association Inc. is pleased that the COVID-19 Health and Safety ReEntry Guidance has been provided to Indiana schools on Friday by the Governor’s Office and the Indiana Department of Education. This guidance also includes a three-phased pathway for the return of education-based athletics which coincide with the previously scheduled first practice date for girls’ golf (July 31) and practice for all other fall sports (August 3). ...

After being fired as Carmel’s girls’ varsity basketball coach in the spring of 2018, Greencastle was Tod Windlan’s first stop on his career revitalization effort. Windlan coached the Tiger Cubs for just the 2018-19 season, going 14-8. Since then, his path took him to Connersville for two months in the summer of 2019 and then to Kokomo in the fall of 2019...

DARLINGTON — Ken Eitel of Greencastle recorded a hole-in-one while playing Rocky Ridge Golf Club on Thursday afternoon. Hole No. 6 at the course in northern Montgomery County was playing 128 yards on Thursday. Eitel, a lifelong Greencastle resident and avid golfer, used an eight-iron on the shot...

The Greencastle Youth Baseball League has canceled its 2020 season due to health concerns related to the COVID-19 outbreak. League president Joe Downing announced the closure on the organization's Facebook page on Friday. The official release: "I am saddened to announce that the 2020 Youth Baseball season has been officially canceled. ...

Following an outstanding South Putnam swimming career in which she won several championships and set school records, recent Eagle graduate Evvie Timberman will continue her athletic and academic careers at Bethel College in northern Indiana. Bethel is an NAIA school located in Mishawaka which is moving this year into the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference as an associate member...

Recent North Putnam graduate Lucius Alexander chose Elmhurst College near Chicago to continue his education and football career this fall — in that order. Alexander, who tied for 18th in the state in interceptions last fall with six, will study to be a math teacher and really likes the program available in that area...

Following a stellar North Putnam football career in which he earned all-state honors as a defensive back and Putnam County Offensive Player of the Year honors last fall, recent Cougar graduate Aidan Baker will continue his football career this fall at nearby DePauw University...

Back-to-back nights of full USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car racing programs are on the horizon for a can't miss Independence Day weekend doubleheader this Friday and Saturday night, July 3-4, as part of the Bill Gardner Sprintacular at Lincoln Park Speedway in Putnamville...

The deals are done. The NBA is coming back. The season will resume on July 30 at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports complex in Florida. Here are 10 things to know about the restarted season: • THE RACE FOR 8 — There are six teams in the race for the No. ...

Tickets are now on sale www.usactickets.com for the next three upcoming USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship events in the state of Indiana. The four races include the 50th running of the Tony Hulman Classic at the Terre Haute Action Track on Wednesday, July 1, followed by two straight nights of the Bill Gardner Sprintacular at Lincoln Park Speedway in Putnamville on Friday, July 3, and Saturday, July 4 — both of which are co-sanctioned by the Midwest Sprint Car Series...