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South Putnam moved up two spots from last week in the Indiana Football Coaches Association Class 1A rankings. The undefeated Eagles were seventh last week, and have moved up to fifth this week. The Eagles also moved up one spot from seventh to sixth in the Associated Press poll...

Sectional pairings were drawn on Monday for high school boys' tennis and both boys' and girls' soccer. Action begins on Wednesday at Northview in tennis, while all four Putnam County soccer teams will compete next week at different locations. Here is a look at each tourney:...

CLAYTON – Cascade led 7-6 after one quarter and held on for a 27-13 win over North Putnam on Friday night. The Cadets led 14-6 at halftime and 21-6 after three quarters. Cascade added six points in the final period, while the Cougars put seven points on the board...

CLOVERDALE - On the surface you see a game between two winless teams, but in reality you have 52 kids on the field playing their hearts out in a game they love. Derron Hazzard compiled 313 yards of offense and four touchdowns to lead Riverton Parke to a 38-20 victory over the host Clovers on Homecoming night in Cloverdale...

WEST TERRE HAUTE – Class 1A No. 7-ranked South Putnam stayed undefeated on the season with a 36-12 victory at West Vigo on Friday night. The Eagles have clinched the Western Indiana Conference “Green Division” title.

The Greencastle Tiger Cubs had lost four in a row with the latest three of the losses by either one point or in the final minute. That can be rough on a team, but the host Tiger Cubs used a strong second half to punish the Brown County Eagles 48-14 on Friday night on John Fallis Field. The win improved Greencastle’s record to 2-4 and 1-2 in Western Indiana Conference play. The visiting Eagles fell to 3-3 and 1-2 in conference action...

PUTNAM COUNTY South Putnam 36, West Vigo 12 Greencastle 48, Brown County 14 Riverton Parke 38, Cloverdale 20 Cascade 27, North Putnam 13 WESTERN INDIANA CONFERENCE Northview 26, Indianapolis Lutheran 25 (2OT) Sullivan 48, Owen Valley 12 Indian Creek 27, Edgewood 7...

For only the second time this season, all four Putnam County teams will be playing out-of-county opponents tonight. South Putnam can win the “Green Division” title of the Western Indiana Conference tonight with a win at West Vigo. A win would put the Eagles at 4-0, and they have beaten both teams (Brown County and North Putnam) who could potentially tie them...

Several current and former Putnam County athletes have recently been honored for their athletic and/or academic successes. Here is a summary of each accomplishment: Lilly Meyer, Greencastle Meyer surpassed the 1,000 career mark in digs last week as the Tiger Cubs went 3-0 in Western Indiana Conference volleyball action...

Mason Brooks is a senior at North Putnam and participates in basketball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Mason Brooks: “Sports are very important to me. I’ve learned a great deal of life lessons through sports, and they have always been a constant in my life. I have moved several places in my life, but basketball has always been the constant. It’s always been a love of mine.”...

It hasn’t been perfect, but the high school sports season has gone off far better than many people anticipated to this point in regards to the COVID-19 coronavirus. Some football games have been postponed due to COVID-19, which was expected, but the total number is much lower than I would have expected...

MARION — Greencastle graduate Emma Wilson made a big splash on Saturday in her first race for Huntington University in the Indiana Wesleyan Twilight meet. In addition to running away from the field, with more than 50 seconds between her and the next finisher, the University of Illinois transfer also broke new teammate Hannah Stoffel’s course record from last year by clocking in at 17:01.6 and rewrote the HU record books with a new program-best 5K time...

The NBA bubble has held. So has the NHL’s double bubble. The WNBA and MLS, no leaks. In this unprecedented landscape of sports in a pandemic world, one indisputable fact has emerged: bubbles work. Thousands of tests, minimal to no positive COVID-19 test results...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Bam Adebayo woke up on Monday with the realization that only two teams still have a chance to win this season’s NBA championship. Goosebumps kicked in at the thought. What was once a 22-team bubble at Walt Disney World is down to the final two, with Adebayo and the Miami Heat set to take on LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals that start on Wednesday night. ...