Stories from Saturday, April 25, 2015

ELLETTSVILLE -- The Eagle tennis team has been steadily improving but coach John Briones wants to see a more aggressive South Putnam team. Briones was happy at the effort of his Lady Eagles despite the 4-1 loss at Edgewood Thursday. "The team played a lot better than the previous night," Briones said. " They were more confident and more aggressive. They played some of their best tennis."...

The Greencastle Middle School girls' track team defeated Cascade and Cloverdale in an away meet on Thursday. Final scores for the meet were Cascade with 19 points, Cloverdale was second with 40 and Greencastle closed the night with 84. Top place finishers for Greencastle were throwers, Claire Gillen in the shot put with a throw of 31-8 and Jada Amis in the discus with a throw of 71-7...

After earning an early lead against Tri-West, Greencastle fell behind in the later innings, falling 12-7. The Tiger Cubs played well at the onset of its match with the Bruins. Greencastle jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first when Trey Scanland earned two RBI by knocking in Noah Cook and Tanner Nicholson...

It was one big inning that made the difference in the GHS softball game with Danville. Unfortunately for the Tiger Cubs the big Warrior fifth inning helped Danville to a win 6-5 win in eight innings. GHS had the chance to take the lead with runners in scoring position but could not earn the win late...

By Johnathon Goode For the Banner Graphic ROACHDALE--North Putnam's Sabrina Surber pitched her first career perfect game Friday night against the Crawfordville Athenians and her softball team won 10-0 in six innings. "It felt good," NPHS coach Benny Ault said. "We're on a roll now. We had a win at Northmont the other night and no errors the other night and no errors tonight...

'You don't do it by yourself' In four years at Stanford University, Andrew Luck proved to be part of a dying breed -- a true student athlete. While leading the Cardinal to 31-8 record in three seasons as a starter and twice finishing second in Heisman Trophy voting, Luck also earned a 3.48 GPA on his way to an architectural design degree...