Stories from Saturday, March 1, 2014

County Jail Three people were booked into the Putnam County Jail on Thursday. At 5:31 p.m., Cody Mason Poissant, 24, Greencastle, was charged with theft and possession of paraphernalia. At 6:30 p.m., Steven Neal Burrows, 46, Danville, was charged with operating while intoxicated...

The first preseason meeting of the Putnam County Church Softball League will be on Monday, March 10 at 7 p.m. at the Greencastle Church of the Nazarene. The league will not be taking any more teams after April 1, so for more information call Wayne Tharp at 720-0204. Leave a message if he is busy...

Two local high school wrestlers and recent regional qualifiers competed at the Indy Nationals Wrestling Tournament last weekend. Trae Carrington, a freshman at Greencastle High School, finished first at the 120-pound weight class and Ryley Cook, a junior at GHS, took home second at the 113-pound weight class...

LINDEN -- A second-half comeback following a slow first half wasn't enough for the Greencastle boys' basketball team Friday night. The Tiger Cubs fell to North Montgomery 48-41 in their regular season finale. Greencastle had trouble hitting the basket in the first half. The Tiger Cubs only connected on 4-of-18 field goals including 1-for-6 from behind the three-point arc...

WOOSTER, Ohio -- After a quarterfinal win over Wabash on Tuesday night, the DePauw men's basketball team traveled to Wooster, Ohio to take on Wittenberg in the semifinals of the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament. Wittenberg hit three late free throws to seal a 63-61 victory over DePauw, sending Wittenberg to the NCAC championship game on Saturday night...

A slow opening 10 minutes was no hindrance to No. 4 DePauw's aspirations for a third straight NCAC women's basketball crown Friday night as the Tiger knocked off Kenyon for the third time in the 2013-14 season 88-60. DePauw head coach Kris Huffman said that getting past Kenyon was no easy feat...

INDIANAPOLIS -- On a fast night in a fast pool, the Greencastle Tiger Sharks were just that: Fast. On a night when five state records fell, Greencastle swimmers set two school records in the IHSAA State Finals preliminary round. The 200 freestyle relay team of Nash Firebaugh, Nathan Gardner, Taylor Secrest and Elijah Brattain set a new GHS standard with a time of 1:29.30, breaking the previous record they set last week in sectional...