Stories from Saturday, December 29, 2007

For coaches and wrestlers, the toughest thing about an all-day wrestling tournament has less to do with the matches themselves than the mental and physical toughness that comes with trying to remain focused all day long. As he and his team hosted the Eagle Super-Six tournament Friday, South Putnam coach Todd Crosby was pleased with his team on both fronts...

TAMPA -- After a 10-day layoff, the DePauw Men's team will face Case Western in the first round of the Tampa Bay Shootout at 5 p.m. Saturday. The Tigers defeated Kenyon College 77-66 before the Christmas break as senior Stephen Schott provided the Tigers his best game of the season, scoring 22 points while hauling in nine rebounds...

ELNORA -- All season long, the Cloverdale boys' basketball team has struggled in close games. Contests with Clay City, Greencastle and Eastern Greene that were close at the end, all went the other way. Those three games had been the difference between being over .500, and the Clovers' 2-6 record heading into Friday...

In a meet where the focus was more on having fun than winning, South Putnam swimming coach Joe Condon was happy with how his team performed in Friday's Eagle Medley Relays. The event is a unscored invitational in which the kids swim less-than-conventional relays like the underwater relay, 1000-yard distance relay and individual medley relay. The invitational also features a number of coed events...

Behind an 11-of-14 team shooting performance from beyond the arc and a game-high 27 points from Kane Crabtree, the Brown County Eagles handed Greencastle its second loss of the season, 80-64. The first quarter saw the Eagles jump out to a 6-0 lead behind two threes from Bailey Howard. ...

The South Putnam Eagles rode the wave of a blistering first quarter surge and earned its first win of the season over North Vermillion in the second game of the Eagle Holiday Classic, 55-50 Friday. The Eagles came out revitalized after the break and proceeded to seize any opportunity that presented itself. The guards penetrated the defense and the big men down under battled intensely. In short, South Putnam has arrived...