High School Sports

Local track athletes moving on to regional (05/16/12)
The IHSAA Girls' Track and Field Sectional at South Putnam featured a completely new field Tuesday night, as sectional realignment meant that the Putnam County schools welcomed the likes of the Terre Haute schools instead of Avon and Plainfield, amongst others...

Cloverdale rebounds for win Monday (05/16/12)
"Cloverdale showed up today. Greencastle was nowhere to be found." It was a quick line from Greencastle head coach Troy Remsburg, but one that summed up Monday's final WCC home game for the Tiger Cubs as they fell to Cloverdale 13-2. Having lost 10-0 two days prior, the Clovers gave themselves a chance to get a piece of the WCC regular season title...

Tennis sectional starts tonight (05/16/12)
The 2012 IHSAA Girls' Tennis Sectional begins tonight for Greencastle and South Putnam at Northview. Greencastle will face Owen Valley tonight at 5 p.m., while South Putnam will square off against the host Northview Knights Thursday at 5 p.m. South Vermilion received the bye and will await the winner of the Greencastle/Owen Valley contest. The sectional final will be played Friday at 5 p.m...

Eagles softball blanks Carmel (05/16/12)
CARMEL -- The South Putnam softball team defeated Carmel 2-0 on the road Tuesday. The Eagles, ranked No. 1 in class 2A, blanked the Class 4A Greyhounds with Brooke Boejter tossing a complete game shutout. She recorded four strikeouts and gave up two hits...

Cougars pounce on Riverton Parke (05/16/12)
The North Putnam baseball team blasted Riverton Parke 23-1 Tuesday. Beau Green went five innings, allowing two hits, while striking out two. He also went 1-for-4 with a double. Brodie Perrine was 4-for-4 with a home run, with Austin Day going 2-for-3 with a home run. Kyler Badten was 3-for-4 with a double. Jake Haste, Shane Beaman, Kaleb Belcher, Coy Flynn, Jordan Nauert and Bennett Hazlgrove all contributed hits in the win...

Clovers take one from Tiger Cubs (05/16/12)
On Monday, the Cloverdale softball team defeated Greencastle 7-1 on the road. Paige Gutierrez pitched six innings, allowing four hits, one run and had seven strikeouts. Jess Winders was 3-for-4 for the Clovers with two doubles and an RBI. Kara Knapp, Gutierrez, Meghan Helterbrand and Madison Smith all added hits in the Cloverdale victory...

South Putnam edges Cloverdale, 1-0 (05/14/12)
Fans expecting a high-flying, high scoring Putnam County softball tournament they came away very disappointed. For those looking for a set of games that kept everyone in suspense, you got your money's worth. In the end, South Putnam scored late in the championship contest against Cloverdale to be crowned the 2012 Putnam County champions with a 1-0 victory...

Greencastle crowned county champions (05/14/12)
In another classic North Putnam-Greencastle rivalry match up, the Tiger Cubs came away victorious on the baseball diamond to win the Putnam County Baseball Tournament 3-0 on Saturday. Hunter Mitchell threw seven innings of two-hit ball to pick up the win for the hosts...

Greencastle golfers dominate WCC (05/14/12)
CLAYTON -- Greencastle cruised to the WCC golf tournament championship on Saturday at Deer Creek Golf Club. Each of the team's five golfers had the low score of his threesome and finished in the top 8 of the tournament. The Tiger Cubs' Alec Davis posted the low round of 73 to win his third tournament of the season...

GMS captures conference title (05/14/12)
The Greencastle Middle School girls' track team won the conference meet Thursday at Cascade. The Tiger Cubs were first with 129, with South Putnam placing third with 50, North Putnam fourth with 40 and Cloverdale fifth with 21. Bailey Zapp won the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 18.39, while Katerina King won the 100-meter dash with a time of 14.24. King also won the 200-meter dash by edging out a Cascade opponent by a hundreth of a second with a time of 28.92 in the event...

NPMS places second at county meet (05/14/12)
CLAYTON -- The North Putnam Middle School track teams place second at the county meet held last Thursday. For the boys, Brad Hodges won the 110-meter hurdles, while Nick Bishop won the high jump. The team of Anthony Austin, Anthony Cooke, E.J. Westgate and Bishop won the 400-meter relay and broke a school record in the process. Their time of 48.7 edged the old mark of 48.9...

Greencastle runs away with conference title (05/12/12)
They say it's not how you start, but how you finish that counts. But when you start off your night by eclipsing a record by more than 15 seconds, you know the finish is going to be as sweet as the start. Greencastle road that hot start to a 64 point win in the West Central Conference meet Friday at South Putnam. GHS won with a total of 150, with Cloverdale placing fourth with 70 points, South Putnam placing fifth with 58.5 points and North Putnam placing sixth with a total of 41 points...

Greencastle holds off strong Cloverdale squad (05/12/12)
Friday's West Central Conference match turned out to be eerily similar to Tuesday's Putnam County Meet. Greencastle and Cloverdale found themselves trying to outduel each other, with the victor walking away with the conference title. Both squad posted four wins on the night, but Greencastle was able to place a few athletes higher and come away with a 124-97.33 win over the Clovers. South Putnam was close behind second with 88.33 points, with North Putnam finishing sixth with 48.33...

North Putnam tames Bulldogs in 9-2 win (05/12/12)
ROACHDALE -- The North Putnam baseball team enjoyed a 9-2 win over Monrovia Friday. Jake Haste picked up the win for the Cougars, throwing six innings and allowing three hits, while striking out seven. At the plate, Austin Day was 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBI, while Coy Flynn was 2-for-3 with two RBI. Haste, Beau Green, Jordan Nauert all added hits on the night...

Greencastle wins county by 26 strokes (05/11/12)
CLOVERDALE -- Greencastle boys' golf continued their dominate season by winning the Putnam County Golf Tournament, blowing past North and South Putnam as well as hosts Cloverdale on the nicest tournament day any of the coaches could remember. Greencastle won with a 160, with South Putnam placing second with 186, Cloverdale third with 190 and North Putnam fourth with 194. Tiger Cub Brad Haussin came away with the night's lowest score, a two-over-par 38 for the medalist spot...

Cougars down Cadets (05/11/12)
The North Putnam baseball team defeated Cascade 6-3 Thursday. Kyler Badten recorded the win, pitching six innings and recording 12 strikeouts. He also gave up three runs on three hits and walked three. Brodie Perrine led the Cougars by going 2-for-3 at the plate. Austin Day, Jake Haste and Beau Green all contributed a hit...

Cloverdale softball continues strong play (05/11/12)
The Cloverdale softball team defeated Shakamak 5-3 Thursday for its 14th win of the season. Paige Gutierrez pitched a complete game, logging 13 strikeouts and allowing four hits. Bradanne Toney was 4-for-4 with three RBI, while Kara Knapp was 3-for-4 with two doubles, a single and an RBI. Heather Goss, Brianna Hoff, Gutierrez, Jess Winders, Adri Patterson and Kat Raisor all contributed hits...

GMS girls' win County Meet (05/11/12)
ROACHDALE -- The Greencastle Middle School girls' cross country team won the Putnam County meet Thursday at North Putnam. The Tiger Cubs won with a tally of 90, followed by North Putnam with 44, South Putnam with 41 and Cloverdale with 25. Greencastle's Katerina King won the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.6 and the 200-meter dash with a time of 29.0. ...

Par for the Course (05/10/12)
The Puckett brothers have struck again. Dan Puckett (left) and his brother Frank captured the 2012 Flight Championship this past week at the Horseshoe Bay Resort Stampede Golf Tournament. Dan is a resident of Cloverdale and plays golf regularly at Clover Meadows. ...

Cougars shoot well, come up short against Danville (05/10/12)
The North Putnam boys' golf team narrowly missed defeating Danville Tuesday, falling 181-192. The Cougars had been on a two-week hiatus without any competition since April 24, but kept the final score in suspense until the last group of golfers posted their scores...

Tiger Cubs, Clovers and Eagles compete in 4-way (05/10/12)
BRAZIL -- The Greencastle Middle School girls' track team capped a perfect regular season by winning a four-way meet at North Clay Monday. GMS won with a total of 89 points, followed by North Clay with 48, Cloverdale with 36 and South Putnam with 29...

Results from Tuesday's County track meet (05/10/12)
At South Putnam 2012 Putnam County Girls Track Meet 1. Greencastle 105, 2. Cloverdale 65, 3. South Putnam 52, 4. North Putnam 21 3,200 R -- 1. GHS (Gill, Stoffregen, Cash, Weatherford) 10:04.59, 2. CHS (Monnett, Stevens, Nally, Vauters) 10:47.47, 3. South Putnam (Egold, Lady, Glaze, Jones) 11:58.14, 4. North Putnam (Hudson, Fritz, Dean, Roach) 13:58.66...

Greencastle wins 13th consecutive county title (05/09/12)
Greencastle's Colleen Weatherford broke a record that stood for 30 years at Tuesday night's Putnam County Track meet at South Putnam. Weatherford set the new mark in the 800-meter run. She was also part of a record-setting 3,200-meter relay team. Greencastle rode the two record-setting performances to its 13th straight county title. Greencastle was first with a 105, followed by Cloverdale with 65 and South Putnam with 52. North Putnam placed fourth on the day with 21...

Tiger Cubs pull away late for County win (05/09/12)
Although the Putnam County boys' track meet features dozens of athletes in action Thursday, it was Greencastle and Cloverdale going mano-a-mano for the win. Through 13 events the two squad were tied at 63-points each, but the Tiger Cubs were able to pull away at the end to get the win...

Greencastle pounces on Eagles for 11-1 win, move to 6-2 in WCC (05/09/12)
The no-hit pitching of Greencastle's Hunter Mitchell had the Tiger Cubs in place to win the West Central Conference baseball game with South Putnam on Tuesday night. But the Tiger Cubs took no chances. Like a pop-up shower during the spring, Greencastle dropped eight runs on the South Putnam Eagles in the fifth inning, turning a tight, competitive game into an 11-1 victory...

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