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Greencastle hosted and won the Tiger Cub Invitational cross country races on Saturday. The Tiger Cubs got a second-place finish from Clayton Wilson to win the boys’ race with 42 points. Crawfordsville was second with 59 points. Emma Wilson won the girls’ race in 18:29.8 as the Tiger Cubs scored 28 team points to 50 for runnerup Crawfordsville. The Tiger Cubs had three of the top five runners and six of the top 12...

CLOVERDALE — No Las Vegas casinos issue betting lines on Indiana high school football, but if they did you could have cashed in bigtime had you wagered that the Cloverdale Clovers would be leading their division in the Western Indiana Conference with two games to play...

The Greencastle boys’ soccer team kept rolling along on Thursday evening, defeating Owen Valley 2-0 for its ninth straight win and continuing the team’s momentum going into today’s Western Indiana Conference first-place crossover match at Edgewood. Seth Nichols and Evan Crowe had the goals for the Tiger Cubs, both unassisted and coming in the second half. Goalies Brody Watson and Ben Webb each made two saves in combining for the shutout...

DePauw senior quarterback Matt Hunt threw four touchdown passes, ran for one more and totaled 417 yards of offense as the Tigers moved to 3-0 overall and 2-0 in the North Coast Athletic Conference with a 66-17 victory over visiting Hiram. The Terriers dropped to 1-2 overall and 1-1 in the NCAC. The 66 points were the most by a DePauw team since November 4, 1939, when they scored 74 against Franklin...

Paced by Clauda Monnett’s winning performance and two other top-nine finishes, DePauw totaled 49 points to finish 19 points ahead of University of Indianapolis and win the little state portion of the Indiana Intercollegiates. Monnett, a Cloverdale graduate, covered the 5,000-meter course in 19:17.23 and won the individual competition by nearly 15 seconds. Lois Miller was eighth in 20:29.18 followed by Becca Conley in ninth in 20:29.40...

DePauw’s offense totaled 535 yards and garnered 28 first downs, while the defense recorded a score and forced four turnovers on the way to a 44-13 win over visiting Mount St. Joseph on Saturday in the Tigers’ season opener. The Tigers grabbed a 17-0 lead in the first as Marko Adams started the scoring with a 45-yard field goal just 2:35 into the season...

The high school fall sports season is moving along quickly, with sectionals already completed in one sport and the other seven state tournament competitions coming up in the next few weeks. Here is a summary of how things have gone for local teams, or how they will play out in the near future:...

North Putnam fell only slightly from a No. 9 state ranking in the Associated Press media poll last week following Friday night’s lightning-delayed loss at Sullivan. The 3-1 Cougars fell into a tie for No. 11 this week. The Cougars were also No. 9 in the Indiana Football Coaches’ Association poll last week, and dropped to No. 14...

After two weeks of play, the West Division of the Western Indiana Conference has clearly outperformed the East Division. Despite the addition of traditional small-school football power Indian Creek, the East Division has limped to a 1-11 record through the first two weeks. Its only victory came by Brown County in Week 1, a 21-20 triumph over Edinburgh in which BC trailed the perennial Class A lightweights 20-0 at halftime...

By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor PUTNAMVILLE – Lincoln Park Speedway put the wraps on the 2016 season with back-to-back nights of racing over the weekend after rain had claimed several events in a row. Shane Cockrum was crowned as the sprint car points champion after Friday night’s ninth-place run. ...

PUTNAMVILLE -- Lincoln Park Speedway kicked off the Labor Day Weekend in style Saturday evening with an action-packed night of racing that featured a massive total of 117 cars in the pits. A.J. Hopkins was one of 35 drivers on hand in pursuit of the $2,000 prize for the 'King of Non-Wing' champion in the sprint car division...