Stories from Monday, February 25, 2008

CRAWFORDSVILLE -- Cloverdale Middle School's Zack Couse won the 180-pound weight class at Saturday's Southmont Invitational. Couse went 4-0 with three pins and a 7-6 decision in the championship match. At 95 pounds, Jacob Camacho placed second for the Clovers with a 3-1 record. Jacob Creasey went 3-1 to place third at 120...

GGUSBC STANDINGS (As of 2-16-08) Collier Pee Wee Youth (Saturday) High female scratch game -- Jalyn Duff 98 High female scratch series -- Jalyn Duff 168 High male scratch game -- Josh Minehart 115 High male scratch series -- Josh Minehart 199 W.O.T.M. Bantam Youth (Saturday)...

BAINBRIDGE -- The North Putnam Cougars boys' basketball team ended the regular season Saturday night, hosting the powerful Danville Warriors, while celebrating Senior Night. Danville raced-out to an early 13-2 lead in the first quarter, but North Putnam narrowed the Warriors' lead to 13-9, but that would be as close as the Cougars would get during rest of the game...

LINDEN -- Greencastle's boys basketball team nearly did something only two other teams have Saturday at North Montgomery. The Tiger Cubs led the Chargers 69-63 with 4:15 remaining in the fourth quarter. The Chargers, however, closed the game on an 11-2 run to come away with a 74-71 victory in the season finale for both teams. With the win, the Chargers finished 9-2 in home games, with their lone losses coming to Lafayette Central Catholic and Danville...

Coming off two well-played games recently where South Putnam scored in excess of 70 points, Coach Brian Gardner had reasons to be cautiously optimistic. Unfortunately Friday evening, powerful 3A Edgewood was not about to let the Eagles can a pittance of confidence...

EMINENCE -- Cloverdale trailed by as many as 10 points in their boys' varsity basketball contest at Eminence, and was tied with as little as two minutes remaining in Saturday's make-up contest. However, the Clovers took control late, en route to a 62-55 victory...

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Host Oglethorpe hit all six of its free throws in the final 33.8 seconds of the second overtime and defeated DePauw, 86-80, in a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference contest. DePauw dropped to 19-6 overall and 10-4 in the SCAC and enters the SCAC tournament as the third seed in the Eastern Division. The Stormy Petrels improved to 16-9 overall and 10-4 in the SCAC and are seeded second in the East...

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Cassie Pruzin knocked down two free throws with 6.4 seconds left and Oglethorpe's Katie Kulavic missed a two-pointer at the buzzer as the seventh-ranked DePauw women took a 76-73 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference win at 25th-ranked Oglethorpe...