Stories from Friday, October 25, 2013

ROACHDALE -- The North Putnam football team is coming off its first win of the season last Friday when it traveled to Cloverdale and came away with a 24-21 win. The Cougars look to keep that momentum when they face the Lafayette Central Catholic Knights (8-1) who are ranked third in class 3A...

CLOVERDALE -- Along with the Speedway Sparkplugs, the South Putnam volleyball team traveled to Cloverdale High School to partake in the first round of Sectional 44. Class 2A No. 3 Speedway (31-2) won in three sets 25-14, 25-7, 25-7. The Eagles (5-16) knew coming in that they would have to game plan against the Sparkplugs main hitter, sophomore Melanie McHenry, who leads the team in digs, with 644, digs, with 311, and blocks, with 57...

ELLETTSVILLE -- The Greencastle volleyball team's high-flying, turnaround season came to an end on Thursday when the squad lost to host Edgewood in the sectional quarterfinal. The Tiger Cubs showed only moderate improvements from the prior matchup between the two teams earlier this year, losing in the tournament match 25-22, 25-12, 25-17, but their coach said there is nothing to be disappointed about...

Ariel Higgins, 17, is an active junior at South Putnam High School. She is a member of the cheerleading, basketball, track and cross country teams. Along with junior Madison Egold, Higgins will compete in the cross country Carmel Semi-State this Saturday. ...

CLOVERDALE -- North Putnam's volleyball squad probably expected a stern test to come from Monrovia in its sectional opener Thursday. The Cougars, who had won in four sets in their previous meeting Oct. 1, instead needed just the minimum three sets to knock the Bulldogs out of the sectional 25-21, 25-20 and 25-11...

On Saturday, Oct. 26 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. the Greencastle Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public its seventh opportunity in three years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs...

While Greencastle and Tri-West haven't faced off on the football field this year, a rivalry has been brewing between the two teams since the Tiger Cubs won in the sectional semifinal last year. That game, a 20-14 win for the Tiger Cubs, was likely played very differently than this year's is shaping up...

Donna Jean Pratt, 81, of Jamestown, passed away at Hendricks Regional Health on Wednesday evening, Oct. 23, 2013. She was born on Oct. 21, 1932 at Indianapolis to Charles E. and Collinette Walters Garr. She was a machine operator at Western Electric and ATT in Indianapolis for 27 years...