Sports

Last year, Greencastle’s Tiger Cubs opened their football season with a 10-0 shutout victory at Crawfordsville. On Friday night, the Tiger Cubs almost identically repeated that outcome with a 9-0 homefield win over the Athenians. One major difference between the two games was that while last year’s game was played in bright sunshine on Crawfordsville’s artificial playing surface, this year’s rematch was a mudbath after a long day of rainfall that Tiger Cub coach Mike Meyer felt hurt both teams...

BAINBRIDGE — North Putnam opened its 50th season of high school football Friday night with physical display of offense, defense and mental toughness in a 28-12 victory over the visiting North Montgomery Chargers. Offensively, the Cougars rushed for 274 yards, led by Chris Murray with 147 yards and two touchdowns. ...

CLOVERDALE -- Cloverdale defeated Cascade 3-0 on Thursday night in high school volleyball to improve to 2-0 on the season and 1-0 in Western Indiana Conference play. The Clovers and Cadets battled back and forth in the first set with Cascade taking an 11-8 lead...

Adams Central 42, Bellmont 14 Alexandria 27, Wes-Del 8 Angola 31, DeKalb 20 Attica 16, Riverton Parke 0 Avon 44, Plainfield 13 Batesville 40, Jennings Co. 0 Beech Grove 34, Indpls Lutheran 26 Bloomington North 31, Greenwood 15 Bluffton 40, Northfield 12...

Due to weather, the starting time for tonight's South Putnam at Cloverdale football game has been moved back one hour to 8 p.m. No delays have been announced for other Putnam County games.

The coaches: Nathan Aker is in his fifth year at South Putnam. Tom Winders is in his second year at Cloverdale. History: South Putnam won 20-6 last year for its only win of the regular season. The Eagles have won 32 of the past 36 meetings, including the last 11 straight games...

South Putnam defeated Greencastle 5-0 in boys’ high school tennis on Wednesday evening for the first-ever regular-season win by the Eagles over the Tiger Cubs. “I am very proud of everyone’s performance,” South coach Johnny Briones said. “All three singles started out slowly and played a lot of defensive-type tennis. ...

South Putnam enters the 2018 Indiana high school football season as the 20th-ranked team in Class 1A, according to preseason polls released Monday by the Associated Press. The Eagles are coming off a sectional runnerup finish last year, and are in a three-way tie for 20th...

Trey Wood is a senior at Greencastle and participates in baseball, basketball and football. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Trey Wood: “Sports are definitely something that gets my mind off stuff, and is a gateway to just have fun. ...

LIZTON — Greencastle lost 3-0 at Tri-West on Monday to even its record at 1-1. “The team got off to a slow start in all three sets and struggled to make a good first contact, making it difficult to push points and pull ahead,” GHS coach Maggie Walters said. “Both middle hitters, Jada Amis and Allison Stevens, did a nice job of finding open shots on Tri-West’s side of the court.”...

CLEVELAND — After winning its league-leading 15th North Coast Athletic Conference football title last fall, Wittenberg has been tabbed to repeat as conference champion in 2018, based on the preseason coaches’ poll, released Thursday. The Tigers, who had a perfect 10-0 regular season in 2017, collected seven of the 10 possible first-place votes, totaling 96 points. ...

A total of 194 DePauw student-athletes have been named to the Tiger Pride Honor Roll for achieving at least a 3.40 grade point average for the 2018 spring semester. Among the honorees is North Putnam grad Brayden White, a member of the school’s baseball team...

For the eighth consecutive year, the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference has tabbed Franklin as its pre-season favorites, according to the league’s coaches. The Grizzlies went 8-3 a year ago, securing their 11th conference championship in the last 12 years with a perfect 8-0 mark in HCAC play. Franklin collected 87 points and six of the nine first-place votes from the league’s coaches...

The Greencastle Vipers 10-and-under travel baseball club will be having tryouts from 3-5 p.m. on Saturday at Big Walnut Sports Park in Greencastle. The time was recently changed due to a conflict with youth football activities. “Our mission as coaches is to help each athlete grow his baseball IQ, become a better player and teammate and strive to be a better player than the day before,” said Darren Hughes, one of the team’s coaches. ...

PUTNAMVILLE —There’s no doubt that Thomas Meseraull has Lincoln Park Speedway figured out this season. The San Jose, Calif., native swapped the early sprint car A-main lead with Brent Beauchamp and Colton Cottle before winning by several car lengths...

PUTNAMVILLE — Saturday was a night of firsts at Lincoln Park Speedway, as Paris, Ill., native Garrett Aitken captured his first career sprint car feature win and West Terre Haute’s Sydney Landes picked up her first career UMP Modified feature win. Aitken got his evening started on the right foot by recording a victory in his heat race with Jadon Rogers and AJ Hopkins each winning their respective races as well...

Greencastle High School senior Trace Thomas placed first on Sunday in the 4WD Pro Stock Division of the Indiana Truck Pullers event at the Putnam County Fairgrounds. Fifteen drivers competed in the 4WD Pro Stock Division. Other competition was conducted by the Illiana Pullers Association and the Illinois Stock Pullers...