Sports

at South Putnam (15-7) The coaches: Vance Edmondson is in his first year at North Central. Greg Dean is in his fifth year at South Putnam. Special events: The 1994 South Putnam sectional championship team will be honored at halftime. Also, senior Allen Plunkett needs two points to become the school’s all-time scoring leader...

HIGH SCHOOL Today Basketball (boys) – North Central at South Putnam, North Montgomery at Greencastle and Eminence at North Putnam, 6 p.m. (JV-V). Saturday Swimming – South Putnam’s Lee Haywood in state finals at IUPUI Natatorium, 9 a.m. (prelims) and 1 p.m. (finals)...

MECCA – South Putnam improved on its best season of this millennium on Tuesday night with a 75-63 victory at Riverton Parke, with the Eagles raising their record to 15-6 – their highest victory total since the 1994 sectional championship team. The Eagles came out of the blocks firing, pouring in 19 first-quarter points with nine from senior Allen Plunkett...

Lane Watson is a senior at South Putnam and participates in basketball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Lane Watson: “Sports have been really important to me. They have taught me to have a work ethic, and to work hard. I have met my best friends through sports, and I feel really close with the guys on the basketball team. It’s one of the five most important things in my life.”...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale Clovers and the Parke Heritage Wolves finished regular season play at Cloverdale Tuesday night. The two teams certainly competed like it was already the tournament with the Clovers holding on for 63-60 victory. “Both programs have faced some adversity this year. I thought you saw two teams that are playing their best basketball going into the state tournament,” Cloverdale head coach Patrick Rady said...

Some Putnam County teams will face teams to which they have already lost this year in first-round boys' basketball sectional tournament action next week, while one team got a bye and another plays a team it has not yet played. Here is a recap of each tournament involving Putnam County teams:...

This winter will mark 25 years since the South Putnam boys’ basketball team won the 1994 sectional championship, and the school will honor that team on Friday night at halftime of the varsity game with North Central. The South Putnam Athletic Department and AD Tom Starnes are proud to welcome back the 1994 boys’ basketball Sectional Championship team to the Eagles’ Nest for its Silver Anniversary...

The coaches: Rich Schelsky is in his first year at Parke Heritage. Patrick Rady is in his fourth year at Cloverdale. So far: Parke Heritage has alternated wins and losses over its last seven games. Cloverdale broke a two-game losing streak on Saturday with a win over Shakamak...

South Putnam senior Allen Plunkett was chosen as one of 10 members of the Hoosier Basketball Coaches Association all-District 1 team. Plunkett, who will play collegiately at DePauw, averages 18.2 points per game to lead the Eagles. He is also leading the team in rebounding at 6.6 per game...

PLAINFIELD — South Putnam placed fifth in the team standings at Saturday’s finals of the Plainfield boys’ swimming sectional. South’s Lee Haywood, a 2018 state finalist, placed second in the one-meter diving competition and will return tonight to Plainfield to compete in the diving regional...

TERRE HAUTE/OLNEY, Ill. — A rare double-dateline is deserving on a day when a rare college basketball doubleheader was witnessed on Saturday involving two former Cloverdale standouts. Even though neither ex-Clover happened to win his game, the defeats can definitely not be pinned on them...

Like them or not, the Benton Central girls’ basketball team will play for the Class 3A state championship on Saturday after winning the southern semistate title at Jasper on Saturday. The 26-4 Bison will play 26-3 Northwestern at 6 p.m. at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. All games will be telecast on the IHSAA Champions Network at ihsaatv.org...

Greencastle boys’ basketball coach Bryce Rector has won 41 games in his young basketball career. This weekend, Rector will face a pair of opposing coaches who have combined to win 1,304 more than his total in a combined 71 years on the bench. Tonight, Bloomington South’s J.R. Holmes brings his team to McAnally Center with 804 wins in 49 seasons — needing just two wins to tie longtime Loogootee coach Jack Butcher for first place on the all-time Indiana coaching leaders list...

Chet Clodfelter likes to stay active, just like many people his age. Yet while many other 55-year-olds take to the perhaps safer and timeless confines of a golf course to get in their exercise, Clodfelter runs, jumps and throws competitively at a national level against other athletes his age...

Greencastle hosted and swept Cloverdale in first-round Putnam County tournament boys’ basketball action on Monday night. The Tiger Cubs won the 7th-grade game 35-34 and the 8th-grade game 29-27 in overtime. Seventh grade The first half was evenly played, as the entire game was...

DePauw hosted first-round games on Tuesday in the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament, with the Tigers winning both games to advance to the final four of each tourney. DePauw’s 19th-ranked women’s team coasted to a 73-40 win over Allegheny, and will host the final four starting tonight. The Tigers will play Wittenberg at 5 p.m. today, with Denison and Ohio Wesleyan playing in the other semifinal game...

DePauw’s women’s basketball team put the finishing touches on the North Coast Athletic Conference regular season title with a 75-56 win over visiting Wooster on Saturday. The Tigers improved to 21-4 overall and 15-1 in the NCAC, while Wooster finished the season at 6-19 overall and 2-14 in the conference...

INDIANAPOLIS — Florida Southern College women’s swimmer Mallary Meyer of Greencastle has been chosen as one of a select number of student-athletes to attend the NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum in Orlando in April. The NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum engages a diverse and dynamic representation of student-athletes, coaches, faculty, and administrators...