Stories from Saturday, January 18, 2020

BOYS East Division West Division Crossover games (Jan. 31) (At West Division team) 1st place — Indian Creek at Sullivan 3rd place — Undetermined matchup 5th place — Undetermined matchup 7th place — Undetermined matchup 9th place — Brown County at South Putnam...

The DePauw University men’s basketball team earned its first conference game win at home in an 89-79 victory over Denison University on Wednesday night. The Tigers got on the board first with an early steal by Nolan Ginther, who passed it out to Elijah Hales for a three, taking a lead DePauw would keep for the rest of the game...

CLOVERDALE — Homecoming festivities were a struggle on the court Friday night at Cloverdale as the girls’ and boys’ teams dropped a pair of contests to Cascade. The Clover girls fell to the Cadets 57-42, while the boys lost 68-52. Girls’ Game The Cadets set the tone early, getting out to a 12-8 lead after the first quarter and extending their lead to 27-15 at the half...

BRAZIL — On paper, it was clear there were two heavy favorites coming into Friday’s high school basketball doubleheader between Northview and South Putnam. The Eagle girls and the Knight boys, each sitting at or near the top of the Western Indiana Conference West Division standings, didn’t let it get to them, though...

BAINBRIDGE — Most nights, getting to shoot 34 free throws would be a bad occurrence for the North Putnam Lady Cougars. Shooting just 53 percent from the line for the season, the Cougars were able to cash in on 25 of 34 free throw attempts on Friday night to help record a 50-35 win over Greencastle...

BAINBRIDGE — The North Putnam Cougars retained the Putnam County “bucket” in an intense, typical Putnam County rivalry game on Friday night at North Putnam. The Cougars used a strong night at the free throw line and big second half to overcome a slow start to pick up the victory 53-50. The win improved the Cougars to 7-7 on the season and 3-2 in the Western Indiana Conference Western Division. Greencastle dropped to 6-3 and 3-2 in WIC play...

BOYS Putnam County Edgewood 69, Greencastle 54 Monrovia 63, N. Putnam 53, OT Parke Heritage 54, Cloverdale 35 Statewide scores Beech Grove 68, Indpls Scecina 46 Bloomfield 47, S. Knox 38 Bloomington South 78, Catholic Memorial, Wis. 24 Blue River 58, Randolph Southern 35...