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GOSPORT – A complete roster can make a world of difference in the way a team plays. Greencastle had been shooting competitive scores for most of the boys’ golf season but was just a little bit behind where it wanted to be with Keaton Parmley out of the lineup...

BRAZIL – Northview won its second-straight boys’ track and field title Thursday night, the only team to surpass the 100-point mark with 136, 43.5 points ahead of second place Edgewood, which was 30 points clear of third-place West Vigo. Greencastle finished fourth to lead the county schools, two points back of the Vikings and a point ahead of fifth-place Sullivan. North Putnam finished sixth on 51 points with Cloverdale 10th on 25 points and South Putnam 11th on 21.50 points...

Karlynn McKinney drove in four runs and pitcher Emma Norman allowed only three hits as the visiting Parke Heritage Wolves handed the South Putnam Eagles a 7-1 loss on senior night. Pitching was the name of the game early on. The Wolves scratched out a run in the first. Abbi Henderson led off with a walk, stole second, advanced to third on a passed ball and scored on a sac fly...

Keifer is a senior at Greencastle and participates in three sports, football, basketball and baseball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Keifer Wilson: “Sports is a major part of my life. I’ve been around sports all my life. ...

--Greencastle 21, Brown County 1 (5) The Tiger Cub bats, having had a week off, exploded back into life with five runs in the first and fourth innings and eight runs in the second inning Tuesday night. Ben Huff brought in four runs with a pair of doubles while Keifer Wilson added three more at the plate. Chase Carrington, Treyten Clark, Evan Alexander, Ethan Hamm, Boyd Ensley, John Poulton, Cooper Williams and Wade Hamilton all knocked a run in...

A late inning offensive surge by the Greencastle Tiger Cubs was enough to support an excellent pitching performance by Keifer Wilson and Treyten Clark in a 4-2 victory over the Sullivan Golden Arrows in a Western Indiana Conference baseball game Wednesday evening. Greencastle scored all four of its runs in the sixth inning to rally and pick up the win and improve to 12-8 on the season and 4-5 in the WIC. Sullivan dropped to 6-13-1 and 2-7 in conference play...

The Sullivan Golden Arrows softball team scored 11 runs in two innings, the fourth and the sixth, to pull away from the Greencastle Tiger Cubs 12-1 in Western Indiana Conference action Wednesday evening. Avery Wiltermood had a huge night for the Arrows. She led off the game with a single and advanced to third on an error. Gracie Shorter drove her home with an RBI groundout. Starter Haley Iseman for Greencastle kept Sullivan at bay until the fourth...

ELLETTSVILLE – An appealing evening of weather greeted the teams participating in Tuesday WIC Girls’ Track and Field Championships at Edgewood High School where the hosts and Northview battled back and forth for conference supremacy. The Mustangs would use their strength in the field events to ultimately fend off the nights, winning 149.75-132.5 with West Vigo finishing a distant third...

The South Putnam Eagle softball team exploded late in the game and got a solid pitching outing from Sabrina Leonard to pick up a victory in Western Indiana Conference action against the Northview Knights. The Eagles broke open a tight game with a six-run sixth inning and used some sterling defense late in the game to get the 10-5 victory...

The Northview Knights baseball team pounded out eleven hits and took advantage of several Eagle errors to defeat South Putnam 14-2 on National Guard night. Northview got one early to start things off. With one out, Peyton Lear singled and stole second. Landon Carr then promptly brought him home with a single for the game's first run...

Katie White and Blair Hall combined for nine runs batted in, while Hall and Hannah Gore pitched six innings of five hit ball, as the No. 10 ranked Berry Vikings defeated the DePauw Tigers in the opening round of the division three NCAA regional. Three top-15 teams were placed in the DePauw regional, two of those were squaring off in the nightcap Friday evening. ...

Sixth-ranked DePauw was two outs away from being just the second team in North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament history to win four games in the loser’s bracket, but Hiram rallied for five runs in the seventh of game seven and claimed the tourney title with a 5-2 win over DePauw. Top-seeded DePauw dropped to 34-9, while the Terriers improved to 24-14...

The schedule for the 2022 NCAC Softball Tournament has been adjusted to account for incleement weather. The Tournament, hosted by top seed DePauw University, will now be played on Saturday, May 7, and Sunday, May 8. As the top seed, DePauw (15-1) meets fourth-seeded Wooster (8-8) in the opening round of the double elimination tournament on Saturday at 11:30 p.m. ...