Stories from Wednesday, April 17, 2013

BRAZIL -- The Cloverdale boys' golf team lost to Northview in a dual meet on Monday, 153-183. Chase Snyder and Rylan Mattocks led the Clovers, each shooting a 45. "Northview played well, and they're a pretty decent team," Cloverdale coach Doug Wokoun said. "Our group continues to struggle with inconsistency. We have stretches of good play, but then we take a double bogey, or worse."...

The Greencastle baseball team lost to West Central Conference opponent Cascade on Monday, 6-4. The Tiger Cubs (1-4, 0-3) battled back from a 5-0 deficit but the rally came up just short. Tanner Nicholson started for Greencastle and pitched three scoreless innings before finding trouble in the fourth...

The South Putnam baseball team lost both ends of a double-header to the Monrovia Bulldogs on Monday, losing game one 16-0 and game two 10-1. Nick Scott and Jake Carmichael each had hits for the Eagles in game one. Carmichael scored a run in game two, driven in on a single by Wyatt Nees. Tyler long had two hits...

Local middle school track and field athletes have had several competitions in recent days. At the Greencastle-South Putnam meet on Monday, the GMS boys won 77-32. The Tiger Cubs got wins in eight of the 13 events, sweeping the medal stand in three. Derek Ummel, Devin Clar and Drake Duff swept the long jump and Nate Hensley, Ummel and Bryce Whitney swept the 100-meter dash. Hensley, Ummel and Duff also swept the 200-meter dash...

LIZTON -- The North Putnam girls' track team finished second at the three-team meet at Tri-West on Monday. Metro also participated. Audrey Healey and Sam Lucas each picked up wins for the Cougars. Healey topped the long jump field at 14-9 1/2 and Lucas won the shot put with a distance of 37-1...

Cloverdale and South Putnam's track and field teams split a three-way meet with Owen Valley Monday night. In the girls' meet, the Clovers defeated the Eagles and Patriots 60-50-46. Paige Gruener and Claudia Monnet won two events each for the Clover girls. Gruener won the 100-meter dash and hurdles while Monet won the 800- and 3200-meter runs...

MONROVIA -- The South Putnam softball team won both games of a double-header on Monday, sweeping West Central Conference opponent Monrovia on the road. The Eagles (7-3, 4-2 WCC) got wins from both sophomore Ashlee Gibson and senior Mattie Varvel and moved to third-place in the WCC...

PLAINFIELD -- Duke Energy is urging its Indiana customers to be alert for a new bill payment scam. Under the scam, a customer receives an unsolicited phone call from an individual who falsely claims to be a Duke Energy representative. The caller falsely warns that Duke Energy will disconnect the customer's electric service if the customer fails to make an immediate payment -- usually within one hour...

A 26-year-old Clay County man, who previously served out a prison sentence for driving while intoxicated and causing a 2006 accident that killed his girlfriend, was back in court Monday. Michael W. Knight, Brazil, who had been on home detention since a January court date for violating his probation, was released from that home detention Monday in the hope he can begin repaying court-ordered restitution of more than $60,000...

The South Putnam School Board has been striving to make improvements throughout the corporation over the past several months. This month was no different as the board agreed to move forward with a new technology plan. Steve Ricketts of Five Star Technologies came before the board Monday night to offer his recommendations on a five-year plan for the corporation, which included wireless access, improving the infrastructure and virtualization...

Several people have been booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 3:20 p.m. Friday, Craig Ernest Young, 32, Greencastle, was arrested for theft. At 5:22 p.m. Cedric Austin Craig, 27, Terre Haute, was charged with operating while intoxicated and probation violation...

Micah Shrewsberry, an assistant basketball coach at Purdue University and a former DePauw University assistant, will be the featured speaker at a dinner program sponsored by the Purdue Club of Putnam County on Tuesday, April 23. The 6:30 p.m. dinner program at Autumn Glen in Greencastle is open to the public...

Russell Keith Leslie, 82, of Greencastle, passed away on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 after a battle with lung cancer. He was born on Jan. 7, 1931 in Greencastle to Albert (Bert) and Catherine Yankey Leslie. He attended Greencastle Schools and was a graduate of the United States Armed Forces Institute...

By ERIC BERNSEE Editor Amidst the great generalization that Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus, the male of the species is forever portrayed as the one refusing to ask directions and getting lost in the traffic shuffle. Although we allow that there's some truth to that TV sitcom-induced stereotype, I'd have to say I've always been pretty good at finding my way and reading a map (maybe not Lewis-and-Clark good, but at least Martin-and-Lewis quality)...

The North Putnam-Cloverdale baseball and softball games scheduled for tonight have been postponed due to weather. They were originally scheduled for Tuesday and delayed until today. No new date has yet been announced. Story will be updated.

BOSTON -- If not for a couple of twists of fate, Monday afternoon could have turned out tragically for the Rady family. The three men -- father Pat and sons Patrick and Michael -- were in New England for the two younger men to run the Boston Marathon...