Stories from Saturday, December 2, 2017

WEST TERRE HAUTE — The Greencastle boys rode their big gun to victory, while the GHS girls used balanced scoring to prevail in a Tiger Cub high school basketball sweep Friday night at West Vigo. Behind 30 points from leading scorer Colin York, the GHS boys triumphed 53-43 to move to 2-1 on the year in winning their WIC conference opener. The winless Vikings are now 0-3...

ELLETTSVILLE — The Cloverdale basketball teams saw their fortunes go in opposite directions Friday night, splitting the opening doubleheader of Western Indiana Conference action with Edgewood. The Clover girls topped the Mustangs 54-29, while in the boys’ game Edgewood won 78-60...

Sydney Kopp led DePauw with 17 points, while Kylie Morris posted a double-double of 11 points and 13 rebounds as the Tigers opened North Coast Athletic Conference play with a 56-47 win over Hiram on Friday night. The Tigers, ranked 15th in the latest coaches’ poll and 18th by D3hoops.com, improved to 5-1 overall, while Hiram dropped to 2-6 overall and 0-2 in the NCAC...

With his team trailing South Putnam 29-12 at halftime, North Putnam coach Collin McCartt knew something had to change. Quickly. McCartt had his Cougars to extend their man-to-man defense for all 84 feet of the court in the second half, and the tactic worked better than even he could have dreamed...