Stories from Saturday, October 15, 2016

Football games can be decided by inches, but Friday night’s Western Indiana Conference football game was decided by a foot — the foot of senior kicker Ben Webb. Webb knocked through his second field goal of the game with just :07 left to propel the Greencastle Tiger Cubs to a 13-10 victory over the Owen Valley Patriots...

Western Indiana Conference volleyball teams will conclude their regular seasons today with the crossover matches to determine the final standings. Teams in the East Division will serve as the host schools, and each contest will begin with a junior varsity match at 10 a.m. followed by the varsity battle...

BRAZIL — Cloverdale came out on the short end of a 50-0 result on the road at Northview High School on Friday night in the Western Indiana Conference Cross-over contest. The Clovers wrap up the regular season at 3-6 and finish sixth in the WIC race...

ROACHDALE — It’s not often that you see two teams meet twice in the same regular season but that was the case as the Cascade Cadets (2-7, 2-3 WIC) traveled to North Putnam (6-3, 2-3 WIC) in a showdown for seventh place in the Western Indiana Conference on senior night to take on the Cougars...

The difference between finishing 11th or 12th in the Western Indiana Conference football standings is truthfully not that huge of a factor, other than that the winner of the crossover matchup is able to avoid finishing last. South Putnam’s 30-0 win Brown County on Friday night not only allowed the Eagles to escape the cellar after finishing last in the unquestionably tougher West Division, but also provided a nice sendoff for the team’s 11 seniors and gave momentum going into the sectional to a team that had lost three straight games and four of its last five.. ...