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CRAWFORDSVILLE – Tri-West’s explosive offense was too much for the Greencastle as the Tiger Cubs fell short in its first girls’ soccer sectional title 7-1 Saturday evening at Crawfordsville. The Bruins’ (16-1-1) high-scoring offense scored five goals in the first half and then added two more with in a 21 second period early in the second half to take a commanding 7-0 lead before Greencastle (12-5-2) avoided the shutout with a Raigan Chavez goal off an assist from Kennedy Trigg at the 57:23 mark of the match.. ...

NEW MARKET — It came down to the foot of a junior, and the hands of a sophomore. And the pair of Mounties delivered. In the 54th minute, Marissa Craig gave Southmont a 1-0 lead, and in the 66th minute, goalkeeper Belle Miller deflected a penalty kick shot to help seal the sectional title over North Putnam, and send the Mounties home with another Class A girls’ championship — their third in a row...

DANVILLE — Greencastle traveled to Danville on a beautiful Saturday afternoon to take on the Warriors in the championship game of the IHSAA Sectional in soccer. Unfortunately for the Tiger Cubs the No. 9-ranked Warriors put too much offensive pressure on the Cubs and came away with 6-1 victory ending the Cubs season...

Three of Putnam County’s football teams drew first-round home games for the start of the sectional tournament on Oct. 25. Greencastle (2-6) will host Indianapolis Manual (1-7), North Putnam (7-1) will host Speedway (3-5) and Cloverdale (1-6) will host No. 7-ranked Parke Heritage (7-1)...

BROWNSBURG — Steven Schnepp of South Putnam was fifth overall in the boys’ race and Cloverdale placed fifth in the girls’ team competition to highlight results from Saturday’s Brownsburg Sectional. Schnepp and nine other Putnam County runners, along with the Clover girls’ team, will advance to Saturday’s Ben Davis Regional...

Cloverdale will host Southmont at 7 p.m. tonight in the only first-round volleyball sectional matchup involving Putnam County teams. The remaining county squads will open sectional play on Thursday. The Clovers, who will take a 17-11 record into tonight’s match, lost 3-1 to Southmont on Sept. 16...

Friday night was the first cool night for high school football. The North Putnam Cougar football team cranked up the heat in the oven and “baked” the Greencastle Tiger Cubs 26-13 behind Aidan Baker’s 140 yards on 40 carries. The powerful rushing attack wore the Cubs down as North improved to 7-1 on the season and 4-1 in the West Central Conference as they finished second in the Western division. Greencastle fell to 2-6 on the season and 0-5 in conference play...

Soccer sectional championships will be decided today for both boys’ and girls’ teams, with all four Putnam County teams still alive. In boys’ action, both county squads will meet opponents ranked in the top 10 as Greencastle (12-2-2) plays at No. 9-ranked Danville (15-2-1) and North Putnam (8-6-3) meets No. 10 Bethesda Christian (14-3-1) at Cascade...

On a night when throwing the ball was difficult at best, Northview’s running game was far too strong for South Putnam in a 47-7 game. The victory sends the Knights into the WIC championship game next week at Indian Creek. South Putnam (4-4) will not participate in the conference crossover and will instead travel to Heritage Christian...

CLOVERDALE – With sheets of rain streaming across the field at Cloverdale High School on Friday, and temperatures plummeting into the low 40s, the Clovers suffered a tough loss on the gridiron against a stout Indian Creek squad by a score of 58-6. Though Indian Creek dominated the game in nearly every facet, the Clovers (1-7, 1-3 Western Indiana Conference) never gave in against the visiting Braves (6-2, 4-0 WIC)...

The Indiana High School Athletic Assocation announced the site assignments for the 2019-20 basketball state tournaments. Putnam County schools both came out ahead and got the short end of the assignments, which saw a lot of changes with the realignment of the sectional groupings for this year...

A huge high school volleyball match is set to take place Thursday night at North Putnam when Greencastle comes to town to take on the Cougars. For Greencastle, the stakes are not quite as high. Star hitter Allison Stevens was injured last month just as the Cubs were entering the meat of their conference schedule, and they have only won one of four Western Indiana Conference matches...

HIRAM, Ohio — Host Hiram scored on the opening drive of the game, but DePauw shut out the Terriers the rest of the way and came away with a 21-7 North Coast Athletic Conference victory. DePauw improved to 3-2 overall and 3-1 in the NCAC, while Hiram dropped to 0-5 overall and 0-4 in conference play...

DePauw overcame a 17-14 halftime deficit with 17 unanswered points and came away with a 31-26 Old Gold Day and North Coast Athletic Conference win over visiting College of Wooster on Saturday. The Tigers improved to 2-2 overall and 2-1 in the conference, while the Fighting Scots dropped to 2-2 overall and 1-2 in NCAC play...

Greencastle graduate Evan Crowe and the St. Mary-of-the-Woods College men’s soccer team will play at DePauw at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The Pomeroys are 8-2 this season, with defeats of Brescia, Eureka, Cincinnati Christian, Great Lakes Christian, MacMurray, Andrews, Welch and Franklin. The team’s only defeats were to Moody Bible Institute and Webster...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — When Andrew Luck made his surprise retirement announcement last month, some expected the Indianapolis Colts to revise their expectations. General manager Chris Ballard refused. After spending three off-seasons masterfully putting together a deep roster, he thought it was good enough to weather the loss of anyone — even a franchise quarterback...

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...