Stories from Monday, November 28, 2005

With Chase Haltom hitting the outside shot and Luke Lovins blocking anything that came his way, the Cloverdale High School boys' basketball team coasted to a 67-54 victory over the Eastern Greene Thunderbirds Saturday. Haltom ended the night leading the Clovers' offense with 26 points while Lovins took care of business in the paint. Lovins finished the night with five blocks, and chipped in eight points...

November 27, 2005, Wilmington, Ohio - DePauw captured the Fred Raizk Memorial Tournament title and improved to 4-1 on the season following an 88-75 win over host Wilmington. Gretchen Haehl and Liz Bondi posted career highs with 25 and 24 points, respectively and Bondi grabbed a career-best 11 rebounds in the win. Bondi was named the tournament MVP, while Haehl earned a spot on the all-tournament team...

The Greencastle Tiger Cub boys' basketball team played its second game of the season at home Saturday night against a powerful Edgewood Mustang team. Both teams entered the game with identical 1-0 records, but after a hard-fought game that was tied-up with 3:26 left in the game, Edgewood handed Greencastle its first loss of the season, 60-53...

DePauw University starting point guard Michael Moore is only 5-foot-8 and a freshman, but he's already made a big impact four games into his college career. Moore scored seven straight points in overtime to lead the Tigers past Manchester (Ind.) College, 88-83, Sunday for the championship of the third...

DePauw had the scoreboard operator at Neal Fieldhouse working non-stop Saturday. The Tigers poured in their highest output in seven seasons in routing D'Youville 111-66 in the opening round of the third annual Mike Rokicki Community Versus Cancer Challenge...

The votes are in. Tara Thornbug and Olivia Miller are the 2005 Co-Putnam County Players of the Year for their efforts in the 2005 volleyball season. The award was voted on by the four Putnam County Volleyball Coaches. Each coach was asked to choose six players from the other three schools, along with four honorable mention selections to compose the 2005 All-Putnam County teams. ...