Stories from Monday, May 9, 2016

Putnam County sent seven teams to the 2016 Indiana Academic Super Bowl state finals and none of them finished lower than fourth Saturday. Greencastle High School, continuing its long tradition of success in the annual contest staged at Purdue University, earned three more state championships, bringing home titles in English, Science and Interdisciplinary competition...

This week is a huge one for both Western Indiana Conference post-season action and the Putnam County golf tournament, the final leg of the intra-county series. Following is a sport-by-sport look at each sport, and where it stands in terms of conference and county tourney competition:...

Claudia Monnett of Cloverdale recorded her second win of the meet on Saturday and the DePauw Tigers women's team totaled 51 points on the way to an eighth-place finish at the North Coast Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Granville, Ohio...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Matt Roe likes his cross country and track athletes to come from small schools, and a large percentage of his Butler Bulldog roster has that background. Of the dozens of different athletes who compete for Roe in both sports at the Big East Conference school, only two hail from the same county -- junior steeplechase standout Colleen Weatherford of Greencastle and freshman hurdler/sprinter Ariel Higgins of South Putnam...