Stories from Saturday, November 19, 2016

The drop in temperature was huge and the rapid change made for an intense storm Friday evening. But the local effects of the storm that rolled through Putnam County and most of the state were minimal. At the height of the storm, between 5:10 and 5:40 p.m., a number of reports of weather-related mishaps came to Putnam County 911 dispatch, including trees or branches down on East Washington Street in Greencastle, U.S. ...

It may have seemed --- well, a little crazy -- for an Olympic silver medalist to hand over his priceless medallion to about 40 people he’d never met before and let the object of his world-class accomplishment at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio wander its way around the room from hand to neck to the next eager hands...

DePauw University trailed by as many as 10 in the second half, but outscored Birmingham-Southern 23-8 in the fourth and finished the game on a 14-0 run to take a 54-43 win over the Panthers in the second game of the DePauw Tipoff Tournament. Rose-Hulman topped UT-Dallas, 55-53, in the opening game and will face the Tigers in today’s 5 p.m. championship contest...

The statistics are predictably not pretty from Friday night’s first semifinal game of the Putnam County girls’ high school basketball tournament at South Putnam, in which Greencastle defeated North Putnam 38-7 to advance to tonight’s championship game against the host school...

Cloverdale girls’ basketball coach Matthew Langdon couldn’t have been more pleased with the way Friday night’s second semifinal game of the Putnam County girls’ basketball tournament started out. His young Clovers hit a trio of 3-pointers in the first five minutes on their way to an early 11-5 lead, and led 11-7 at the first stop...