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CLOVERDALE — Cloverdale hosted Linton-Stockton and Northview on Tuesday evening at Clover Meadows in girls’ golf action, finishing second in the triangular event. Northview won with a 196, while the Clovers shot a 230 and Linton-Stockton had a 233. Sammie Shrum, a 2018 regional qualifier, led the Clovers with a 50...

Putnam County’s football teams will have their final preparations tonight for the start of the regular season next week. Greencastle will host Southmont and Cloverdale will entertain a new scrimmage foe in Pike Central, after having played South Vermillion for the past several seasons...

Allison Stevens is a senior at Greencastle and participates in volleyball, basketball and track and field. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Allison Stevens: “Sports mean a lot to me. I’ve been playing sports my whole life, and they’ve taught me mental toughness, hard work and how to push through things. When you’re struggling with anything in life, you have to learn how to push through it and sports have helped me with that.”...

Lebanon shot a 180 to defeat North Putnam and Greencastle in a triangular girls’ golf match on Monday at Tiger Pointe. North Putnam was second with a 223, while Greencastle was third with a 242. Abby Simmerman led North Putnam with a personal best score of 45, and also shot a personal and overall team best of only 12 putts...

South Putnam opened its girls’ golf season on Thursday with a rain-shortened victory over Greencastle at the Oak Ridge Golf Course. The teams played seven holes, and South emerged as the winner with 176 strokes to 180 for the Tiger Cubs. Greencastle’s Molly Ramey was the medalist with a 38, while Alex Steffy led South Putnam with a 41...

CLAYTON — The Greencastle girls’ golf team opened the girl’s golf season with a loss to Monrovia on Monday. The Tiger Cubs traveled to Deer Creek Golf Club, where the host Bulldogs shot a 234 to Greencastle’s 251. Molly Ramey led the Cubs with a 57,followed by Kadence Shaner with a 62, Jennifer Scott and Allison Scott each with 66 and Rain Minartz 72...

Greencastle senior Allison Stevens verbally committed recently to play college volleyball for Kentucky Wesleyan University in Owensboro, Ky. Stevens made the announcement on Twitter last month. “I’m proud to announce that I will be continuing my athletic and academic career playing volleyball for Kentucky Wesleyan,” she said. “Thank you for anyone who has been a part of this amazing journey. I’m very excited to be joining the Panther family.”...

Greencastle junior-to-be Molly Ramey won the 16-and-under division of the Strawberry Festival tennis tournament recently in Crawfordsville.

There are multiple inspirational quotes that football coaches will use to motivate their players, but Tony Lewis lives this one to the fullest: “If you want to be great, surround yourself with greatness.” The 1986 South Putnam graduate has always done that in his coaching career. Lewis has coached in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Florida. The former All-State quarterback won a state title at Evansville Reitz in 2009...

Heat may have caused moved the annual Putnam County Fair Cheerleading Contest across town to Greencastle High School McAnally Center, but it was a Putnam County Fair fixture who still came away with the top individual prize. Cloverdale High School senior Gayle Baugh, one of the top 4-H exhibitors at the fair every year, was named the Outstanding Senior Cheerleader...

Here are some odds and ends as summer turns into fall, many predictably dealing with high school student-athletes in new places as the fall sports seasons get under way. • Northview’s defending Western Indiana Conference champion softball program got a huge boost over the summer with the addition of junior pitcher/first baseman Lauren Sackett from Terre Haute South...

One of the trends in high school sports increasing in frequency is mobility from school to school. Some are legitimately family-related, whether for parental separations or job changes. No one knows the reason for each move, although most people lump all of them into the same pool of people trying to find the best competitive athletic situations for themselves...

The Wednesday Night Ladies Bowling league at 3G Bowl in Greencastle is having a meeting at 6 p.m. today. The league is currently seeking more bowlers for the upcoming season. The league bowls on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. at 3G Bowl. Current plans are to have three bowlers on each team. At the meeting, league officials will decide if the number of players per team will need to change or if enough bowlers are interested to continue the league...

Dick Asbell scored his first hole-in-one on Tuesday at Tiger Pointe Country Club in Greencastle.

Greencastle Youth Football kicked off the 2019 season this week with Monday Night Football. GYF hosted Cloverdale in a jamboree style scrimmage to get the kids ready for the upcoming season. The evening included three halves of football (one half per age group) and raffle fund-raisers took place...

PUTNAMVILLE — The pits were full at Lincoln Park Speedway for the first race of the month of August. Ninety-seven cars were on hand chasing the checkered flag, but only four would go home successful in their chase. On this evening, Mario Clouser picked up his first sprint car win at LPS as James Walters (UMP Modifieds), Bryce Shidler (UMP Super Stocks) and Josh Litton (Bombers) picked up feature victories...

PUTNAMVILLE ­– The second running of the “Baily Hicks Memorial” race for the bomber division had a fitting winner on Saturday night at Lincoln Park Speedway. One of Hicks’s closest friends, Justin Litton, pulled away from his brother Josh over the final five laps to claim the 25-lap feature win. ...

PUTNAMVILLE – Round six of the NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week Series went to Kyle Cummins in a lights out performance on an evening the lights actually went out at Lincoln Park Speedway. Cummins wired the field, leading all 30 laps from the pole position to win his third career Indiana Sprint Week feature and his fourth overall USAC Sprint Car Series victory. After he reached victory lane, Cummins noted how important the victory was after battling through a tough 2018 season...