Stories from Friday, February 14, 2014

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- DePauw traveled to 15th-ranked Wittenberg tonight in a North Coast Athletic Conference battle of the tigers and, just like their first meeting this season, DePauw dominated the contest and grabbed a 71-49 victory. With the win DePauw improved to 16-6 overall and 11-4 in NCAC play, while Wittenberg dropped to 17-5 on the year and 11-4 in the conference. DePauw and Wittenberg join Ohio Wesleyan in a three-way tie for second in the NCAC standings...

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- Paced by four double-figure scorers, the No. 1 DePauw women remained perfect on the season with a 73-48 North Coast Athletic Conference win at Wittenberg. DePauw improved to 23-0 overall and 14-0 in NCAC play, while Wittenberg dropped to 12-9 overall and 7-6 in conference play...

ROCKVILLE -- The Greencastle Tiger Cubs boys' basketball team traveled to Rockville to take on the Rox Thursday evening. A Rockville fourth quarter surge led them to the win, 46-39. "The defensive end was not the difference, the difference was we were not able to get scores on the offensive end when we needed to," GHS coach Troy Greenlee said...

GREENCASTLE -- Thursday night, the Northview Knights traveled to South Putnam to partake in a boys' basketball match up. The Knights used a big second half to win 68-52. The Eagles (3-13 0-5 West Central) played a strong first half, keeping right up with the Knights (10-8 5-1 Western Indiana). Eagle senior Trey Moore pounded 14 of his team's 27 first half points...

CLOVERALE -- Cloverdale's dominant season continued Thursday as the host Clovers rode a sizzling hot first half to a 69-39 win over Southmont and moved their record to 15-1 for the season. The numbers the Clovers put up in the first half rival a complete game by most other squads. Cloverdale put up 49 points, shot more than 50 percent from the floor, including 40 percent from three-point range and showed a cohesion every coach likes to see late in the season...

Trevor Troyer, 18, is a student athlete at North Putnam High School. He was born on Sept. 11, 1995 to Kathy Troyer. He is an only child. In school, Troyer's favorite subject is biology and his favorite teacher is Eric VanHaaften...

EMINENCE -- North Putnam's boys' basketball squad only had one game this week but needed eight extra minutes of play to finally dispatch Eminence on the road, winning 60-54 in two overtimes. Cougar coach Luke Haworth said the players knew they would have to be ready for a battle against the Eels...

Nancy Ann (Towsley) Knetzer, 81, Goshen, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. She was born in Indianapolis on Aug. 10, 1932, the daughter of Paul G. and Mary Frances (Groff) Towsley. Nancy loved animals, especially her dogs and horses. She was an active member of the Greencastle Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution and also designed the Indiana DAR state logo...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale Town Council met for its monthly session Tuesday evening following a town meeting involving all town boards and committees held last Thursday. Clerk-Treasurer Cheryl Galloway came before the council to update members on several items, including the possibility of charging a usage fee on credit and debit cards for utility bills...

The second of two Legislative Update programs sponsored by Putnam County Farm Bureau Inc. during the 2014 session of the Indiana General Assembly is set for Saturday morning. The program will begin at 8 a.m. in the Greencastle Farm Bureau boardroom, 1001 N. Jackson St...

It's time to rebuild. McCullough Excavating was out on Thursday clearing the debris that was left after the fire that engulfed Lifesping Christian Church located on the corner of U.S. 231 and County Road 500 North.

Barbara G. Fagan, age 84, Derby, Kan., also known to friends and family as Jeri Moore, Mimi and Sis, traveled to Her Maker's home on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. Barbara was born Oct. 27, 1929 in Greencastle. She was very spiritual and was active in her religion of Eckankar...

Heavier-than-expected snowfall has forced the postponement of a Friday night girls' basketball sectional game and a pair of Saturday boys' hoops games. The Speedway Sectional, in which South Putnam will take on Covenant Christian in the second semifinal, will play in a regional-type format on Saturday...

A reputation for going the extra mile and putting her students' needs first has earned Tzouanakis Intermediate School teacher Cami Hopper the January Teacher of the Month award. Following some congratulatory posts from her peers on Facebook, Hopper was in shock after learning that she was chosen as last month's winner...

BRAZIL -- A 21-year-old Clay County man is facing charges after leading police on a two-county pursuit that ended with the suspect going the wrong way on U.S. 40 before crashing in western Putnam County. As a result, Joseph Dahlstrom, of Brazil, faces three felony counts of criminal confinement, felony and misdemeanor counts of resisting law enforcement and misdemeanor counts of criminal recklessness and failing to stop after an accident...

Mt. Zion Baptist Church will celebrate its fifth Heritage Diversity Day on Sunday, Feb. 23. All are welcome to share their heritage the 11 a.m. service at 802 Crown St. The special speaker will be a former resident of this community, Minister Sean Pack, who graduated from South Putnam High School and the University of Evansville...

The widely recorded DePauw University Faculty Woodwind Quintet will present three works of great contrast by Czech, Russian and American composers on Monday, Feb. 17. The 7:30 p.m. concert will be staged in the Green Center's Thompson Recital Hall, located on the DePauw campus...

BROOKE LEWIS of Greencastle graduated from Ball State University following the fall 2013 semester. Lewis is the daughter of Wayne and Kathy Lewis. Four Putnam residents were among the 3,400 students receiving degrees from Purdue University following the fall 2013 semester...

The homeowner involved in a June 2013 methamphetamine bust near Reelsville has been sentenced to four years of home detention for her involvement. Ronda Deal, 54, appeared in Putnam Superior Court Friday for a change of plea and sentencing hearing. In pleading guilty to possession of methamphetamine (more than three grams), a Class C felony, Deal was given an eight-year sentence, with four years to be executed on home detention...

Roy C. Peters Jr., age 67, of Cloverdale, passed away late Wednesday night, Feb. 12, 2014 at Putnam County Hospital. Born Nov. 1, 1946 in Hamburg, Iowa, he was the son of Roy Peters and Betty (Howes) Peters. He married Sandra Howell, and she survives...

It was a true buzzer-beater, as the last two women made their way through the door right before the first meeting of 100 Women Who Care, Putnam County began. The goal of the group was to get 100 women at the first meeting so that they could reach the goal of having $10,000 for the local charity that was chosen...

CLOVERDALE -- The Town of Cloverdale has a lot to celebrate this year with it being its 175th birthday and that's just what they plan to do this summer. Rockwell Foundation members Cathy Tipton and Dennis Padgett came before the Cloverdale Town Council during its monthly meeting Tuesday to present a Fourth of July celebration idea...

PUTNAMVILLE -- Troopers from the Putnamville Post were kept busy Friday afternoon and evening, responding to multiple crashes and slide-offs along Interstate 70. With four or five inches of snowing falling throughout the area, the I-70 trouble spots developed mostly in Putnam and Clay counties, as well as along U.S. 41 in Vigo and Sullivan counties and State Road 63 in northern Vigo and Vermillion counties...