Sports

The Indiana High School Athletic Association boys’ tennis sectional tournaments will take place this week, while the boys’ and girls’ soccer tourneys will be next week. Pairings have been drawn for all three events. In tennis, South Putnam enters the Northview Sectional as the defending champion and is 12-0 in dual matches this season...

INDIANAPOLIS — Three Putnam County golfers competed in the IHSAA girls’ regional at the Smock Golf Club on Saturday. None of the three was able to make the qualifying score of 78 that was necessary to advance to the state finals. Senior Bailey Shuee of Greencastle had the top score among the county trio with a 106, shooting a 57 on the front nine and a 49 on the back nine...

SULLIVAN — Greencastle posted a shutout in the second half, outscoring host Sullivan 13-0 in the final 24 minutes as the Tiger Cubs remained undefeated with a 29-28 victory at Sportland Field on Friday night. “This was a big win for us,” said Greencastle coach Mike Meyer. “It was good to go on the road and get a win against a very good team.”...

South Putnam and West Vigo both started Friday night with three-game losing streaks and looking for an elusive victory in the tough WIC West Division. South Putnam now had a four-game losing heading into next week’s long ride to Sullivan. Two turnovers and a big mistake in the opening quarter led to a 22-0 deficit and to a 44-8 West Vigo victory on Mark Wildman Field...

CLOVERDALE — Logan Abner and the other nine Cloverdale seniors knew two things going into Friday night’s football game with visiting Brown County. They were tired of losing, as they had done in their first five games of the season, and they were not going to lose on their Senior Night...

BRAZIL —The Northview Knights set themselves up for a pivotal Western Indiana Conference match-up next weekend with a 41-21 victory over visiting North Putnam Friday night. A massive crowd was on hand for homecoming, but a 4-1 Cougar squad gave the Knights plenty of fits during a tight first half that ended with Northview holding a 20-7 edge...

The coaches: Randy Minniear is in his third year at Brown County. Tom Winders is in his second year at Cloverdale. On the airwaves: WREB-FM 94.3 will air the game. So far: Brown County won its opener 58-8 over Edinburgh, and since then has lost 41-13 to Jennings County, 42-20 to Cascade, 55-0 to Indian Creek and 58-14 to Beech Grove. Cloverdale has lost 6-0 to South Putnam, 28-18 to Greencastle, 45-6 to Edgewood, 14-8 to Cascade and 49-14 to North Putnam...

With the air scheduled to turn cooler this weekend, the post-season for the eight IHSAA fall sports is either upon us or rapidly approaching. Football is exactly at the halfway point of its season, having played five weeks with four more and the sectional first-round games over the next five weeks. More information is available on football than other sports, courtesy of John Harrell’s website, but we will take a look at each one as best as possible...

CLOVERDALE — Cloverdale’s volleyball team picked up a pair of wins this week to improve to 14-5 on the season. On Thursday, the Clovers hosted North Putnam on Grandparents and Pink Out Night, and won 25-7, 27-25 and 25-10. On Tuesday, the Clovers defeated Brown County 25-21, 25-16 and 26-24 to improve their Western Indiana Conference records in the East Division to 2-1...

The 1973 athletic sports year was a pretty special one at Greencastle High School. Two of the best athletic teams in GHS history will be honored on Oct. 12 at halftime of the Cubs’ regular-season football finale. This year is the 45th anniversary of the 1973 “Perfect Purple” GHS football team, as well as the 1973 GHS volleyball team that went to the final four of the state tournament...

WOOSTER, Ohio — DePauw committed five turnovers which led to 17 Wooster points and the Fighting Scots held on for a 24-21 North Coast Athletic Conference win over the Tigers. DePauw dropped to 1-2 overall and 1-1 in the NCAC, while the Fighting Scots improved to 2-2 overall and 1-2 in conference play...

Game info: The College of Wooster football team (1-2, 0-2 North Coast Athletic Conference) hosts DePauw University (1-1, 1-0 NCAC) on Black and Gold Weekend. Kickoff from John P. Papp Stadium is set for 1 p.m. Last week: Wooster turned in one of its top defensive performances under sixth-year head coach Frank Colaprete last Saturday, but the Fighting Scots came out on the wrong end of a 9-7 contest at Ohio Wesleyan University. ...

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...

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 – Saturday was champions night at Lincoln Park Speedway as all four classes crowned the points victor on the next-to-last race of the season. Three of the four classes came down to the wire as Bryce Shidler won the UMP Super Stock points title by a scant 10 points (892 to 882), finishing fourth in Saturday’s feature as points runner-up Larry Raines was involved in a crash and fell back to 16th in the A-main to place second in points...

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...