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Greencastle’s girls only won two individual events at the Western Indiana Conference indoor track invitational meet at DePauw University on Saturday, but had enough depth to win the team title. Jada Amis won the shot put and Kennedy Trigg won the long jump to pace Greencastle, which defeated second-place Northview by 16.5 points...

Tuesday Softball — Crawfordsville at Greencastle (5:30 p.m.), South Putnam at North Vermillion (5 p.m.) and North Putnam at Cascade, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday Baseball — South Putnam at Danville, 5:30 p.m. Thursday Baseball — Greencastle in scrimmage at Owen Valley, 5:30 p.m...

CLASS 1A Fort Wayne Blackhawk 74, Lafayette Central Catholic 51 Barr-Reeve 65, Bloomfield 39 CLASS 2A Andrean 73, Frankton 64 2OT Linton-Stockton 73, Shenandoah 56 CLASS 3A Culver Academy 57, Marion 44 Silver Creek 72, Indianapolis Attucks 69 CLASS 4A...

Greencastle showed good balance across the board in the five winter sports to win the overall all-sports title with 84 team points. The strong performance allowed the Tiger Cubs to move up one spot to fourth place in the cumulative all-sports competition...

NEW YORK — Emma Wilson likes to start races quickly. On Sunday, the girls’ high school two-mile race in the New Balance Indoor Nationals at The Balance Armory facility in New York City started really quickly. Running for the “Miles to Go” club of Greencastle, Wilson placed seventh among runners from all over the country with a time of 10:23.05...

Two Putnam County football standouts have been named to the South team for the North-South Indiana All-Star game in July. Greencastle’s versatile Gavin Bollman, who was named to numerous all-state teams as a defensive end, was one of two tight ends chosen for the team by the Indiana Football Coaches Association...

Mckenzie Woodall is a senior at Greencastle and participates in volleyball and softball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Mckenzie Woodall: “Sports mean a lot to me. I’ve played since I was very little, and has taught me friendship, teamwork and working together.”...

Beech Grove coach Mike Renfro targeted guards Brody Whitaker and Benny Parmley of Greencastle as players on which his team needed to focus in Saturday’s Greencastle Regional opener. Renfro’s Hornets swarmed all over the Tiger Cub standouts, holding the pair to just a combined 15 points in a 52-37 win that ended Greencastle’s best season in a few decades.

Here are all of the scores from Saturday's boys' basketball regional tourneys, as well as pairings for this weekend's semistate round.

Indianapolis Crispus Attucks coach Chris Hawkins knew the Tigers were playing more than just another basketball team in the Class 3A regional championship game Saturday night. When the Tigers took the McAnally Center court at Greencastle High School, they were facing a Beech Grove team on a mission, playing for its coach, Matt English, who passed away in December...

Saturday was a great day at Greencastle’s McAnally Center, with countless thousands of people coming through the doors for three regional basketball games. The semifinal games did not go the way the two remaining Western Indiana Conference teams would have liked, with Greencastle falling to Beech Grove and Owen Valley losing to eventual champion Crispus Attucks...

CRAWFORDSVILLE — Before Saturday, Greencastle and Crawfordsville had played 118 times in the sport of boys’ basketball. I had only seen a fraction of those matchups, either one or two, but it is impossible to believe that any of the others could live up to the drama that Greencastle’s 52-51 overtime victory did...

There are numbers aplenty to dissect tonight’s Greencastle-Crawfordsville boys’ sectional championship game, which will be the 119th meeting between the two longtime rivals. That tidbit came from good friend, Banner Graphic correspondent and Montgomery County historian Barry Lewis...

1. Greencastle 2-1 (won on tiebreaker) 2. North Putnam 2-1 3. Cloverdale 2-1 4. South Putnam 0-3 Individual matches Cloverdale 51, Greencastle 48 North Putnam 51, Greencastle 42 Cloverdale 54, South Putnam 39 North Putnam 51, Cloverdale 42 Greencastle 58, North Putnam 48...

BAINBRIDGE — North Putnam and South Putnam split a pair of games on Thursday night in the Putnam County middle school girls’ basketball tournament. The Cougars won the seventh-grade title by a 20-10 margin, while South claimed the eighth-grade crown with a 24-15 win...

The South Putnam Lady Eagles swept a pair of games against the Cloverdale Clover junior high girls on Tuesday night at South Putnam. The seventh grade picked up a 16-11 victory, while the eighth grade advanced on 29-16 in the second game. Both teams will travel to North Putnam on Thursday to take on the Cougars for the middle school championship...

TERRE HAUTE — From the outside looking in, the adjustments made in the batter’s box would seem to be the biggest change in the way DePauw University’s baseball team has been able to turn things around after beginning the season with four straight losses...

While Jalen Moore and the Olney Central Knights were knocked out of the Region 24 tournament by eventual champion Kaskaskia, the Cloverdale graduate has picked up numerous post-season honors for his outstanding play. Moore was named to both the All-Great Rivers Athletic Conference team and the All-Region 24 team, and was also one of five players on the All-Region team to be nominated for All-American honors...

For Greencastle’s Callan Taylor, the end of her basketball career at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College might indicate that things will start slowing down. That’s not exactly the case. But she’s enjoying her foray into “adulting,” even though the rest of 2019 will be non-stop crazy for her...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Colts general manager Chris Ballard reverted to his old free-agent playbook. He re-signed his own players first. Instead of making a big first-day splash, he barely made a ripple on the second day. And he’s probably not finished yet...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics recently announced the 28 winners of the Under Armour AD of the Year Award. Former Florida Southern College Director of Athletics Pete Meyer was one of four Division II athletic directors to win the award this year. ...

RIO GRANDE, P.R. — Chad Collins of Cloverdale finished 71st in the Puerto Rico Open played from Thursday through Sunday at the Coco Beach Golf and Country Club. Collins shot a one-under-par 71 and a two-over-par 74 on the first two days of the tourney to make the cut...