Stories from Monday, August 27, 2007

Greencastle's early season football struggles continued Friday as the hosted Speedway. The Sparkplugs took a 32-0 advantage at halftime, and held out in the second half to win 39-7. Jaron Avance topped 100 yards rushing for the Sparkplugs for the second straight week with 104 yards on 12 carries...

Greencastle volleyball dropped its record to 1-4 on the season with a loss to Speedway Saturday morning at McAnally Center. The loss moves the Tiger Cubs to 0-1 on the season. After losing their first two games 25-20, 25-19, the Tiger Cubs found the resilience to win game three 25-20. However, the Sparkplugs finished them off in game four, 25-14...

CRAWFORDSVILLE -- The Cloverdale volleyball team went 1-2 in its matches at Saturday's Crawfordsville Invitational to place third in the event. The Clovers opened the day with two losses. They fell to Crawforsville in two games, 26-24, 25-16, and to Northview in two games, 25-15, 25-13...

BAINBRIDGE -- North Putnam Head Coach Dave Pasch knew that Southmont would bring their best effort to Saturday's rescheduled contest. He told his players so after the game. After all, Southmont was fresh off a solid performance in a close, overtime loss to over highly-regarded 1A Fountain Central last week, and the Mounties seemed to be playing with a great deal of emotion and intensity under first-year Head Coach Dessun Hannum...