Neese, Coble among top scorers

Cloverdale's Cooper Neese tries to get around Greencastle's Ryan Coble earlier this season. Neese is the third-highest scoring player with 29 points per game and the only junior in the top five. Coble is No. 4 on the list with 26 points per game. (Banner Graphic/JAY LOCKETT)

Two of Indiana's top scorers this high school boys' basketball season call Putnam County home. While the two leading scorers, one from Seton Catholic and one from Gary 21st Century, are both scoring 30 points per game, Cloverdale junior Cooper Neese and Greencastle senior Ryan Coble are third and fourth on the list respectively.

Neese, the sharp-shooter for the 8-5 Clovers, is recording 29 points per game, shooting 44 percent from the field seven rebounds per game.

Coble is shooting 43 percent from the floor scoring 26 points per game for his 4-4 Tiger Cubs and he also grabs nine rebounds a game.

Greencastle has been off since before Christmas but will hit the court at McAnally Friday against it's WIC Western Division rival Northview (5-4, 3-0 WIC). The Tiger Cubs will be looking to give Northview its third consecutive loss as the Knights fell in the last two games of the Wabash Valley Tournament.

Cloverdale will be looking to bounce back after its two losses after winning the first game of the Wabash Valley Tournament. CHS will play its WIC Eastern Division rival Owen Valley (7-4, 3-0 WIC) who sits just above the Clovers at the No. 2 spot in the WIC division standings. Cloverdale will then take on Covenant Christian at Banker's Life Fieldhouse on Saturday.