High School Sports

Carson is a senior at Greencastle and participates in one sport, basketball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Carson Taylor: “I’ve learned leadership through sports and how to be a good teammate and to work with others.”...

Despite the Monon Bell game being a local institution, there are times where there has been a lack of local flavor in the game itself. South Putnam will try to help address the issue in the future, first at Wabash with Ethan Harcourt signing to join the ranks of the Little Giants on the gridiron starting in the 2023-24 school year...

While Elise Lausee will be going north to play softball at the collegiate level, teammates Sydney Lantzy and Emma Hunter will be heading east and west respectively to also keep their bats hot and gloves in play. Lantzy signed earlier this month to make the move to Mount Saint Joesph University while Hunter will go the opposite direction to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College for the 2023-24 school year...

Logan is a senior at South Putnam and participates in two sports, football and wrestling. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Logan Tomaw: “Sports are very important to me. I’ve learned leadership is a big part of sports and it was the main thing I learned, having been a two-time captain in wrestling. I had to run a couple of practices by myself. I am looking to come back and coach at some point if I am able to.”...

With the conclusion of the winter sports season, the Western Indiana Conference has released its list of All-WIC athletes. Athletes named to the boys’ and girls’ basketball teams are selected by the coaches of the WIC. Athletes in wrestling and boys’ and girls’ swimming are on the All-WIC team based on their performances at their respective WIC meets...

For a two-day stretch, Lucas Murphy would be hard pressed to find a better set of results outside of being at the IHSAA Wrestling State Finals. On Sunday, the North Putnam senior took part in the Indiana A/2A Individual State tournament, a single-day tournament for wrestlers from smaller schools to compete, winning the title at 170 pounds...

NEW MARKET – With four minutes left in Saturday’s championship game of IHSAA Boys’ Basketball Class 2A Sectional No. 44, North Putnam had its biggest round of momentum after taking a 27-25 lead over Parke Heritage. The Wolves took what had been an 11-2 run in stride and finished the game on a 12-0 run of its own to deny the Cougars a sectional title with a 37-27 win...

NEW MARKET – The North Putnam Cougars methodically and systematically did their job on Friday night at Southmont High School. The Cougars offensively and defensively made the plays needed to advance past the Riverton Parke Panthers 65-52 in the semifinals of the Class 2A Sectional 44...

NEW MARKET – The only time all season that Parke Heritage won while making less than seven three-pointers was against South Putnam Dec. 17. It happened again Friday as the Wolves made just six but went on to the Class 2A Sectional No. 44 final with a 65-40 victory over the Eagles...

Andrea is a senior at Cloverdale and participates in three sports, volleyball, basketball and softball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Andrea Nees: “Sports are very important to me because they teach me life skills time management and how to get a long with others as I play team sports. They really get me into an atmosphere where I affect how others perform.”...

The search for a new head football coach at Greencastle High School came to an end Monday evening with the hire of Dave Stephens. The Greencastle School Board approved the hire of Stevens as both a high school social studies teacher and head football coach, effective July 1...

NEW MARKET - In a game the resembled one from the movie 'Hoosiers', the North Putnam boys’ basketball team was able to escape with a 31-29 victory over the Southmont Mounties in the first round of the Southmont sectional Wednesday night. Ball possession and stingy defense was the name of the game from the tip. ...

NEW MARKET – Tournament play in Indiana high school basketball is just different. The intensity is higher, physicality is tougher, pressure is more intense and that was evident in the Game No. 3 of the Class 2A Sectional 44 contest between the Cloverdale Clovers and Riverton Parke Panthers. The Panthers advanced with a 43-37 victory over the Clovers to take on North Putnam in Friday night’s semi-final...

NEW MARKET – Things were looking up for Greencastle after eight minutes in the opening game of IHSAA Boys’ Basketball Class 2A Sectional No. 44 play against Parke Heritage. By halftime, things weren’t looking so rosy any longer as the Tiger Cubs were outscored 19-4 in the second quarter, falling in the opening round of sectional play to the Wolves 60-41...

Game One (Tuesday, 7 p.m.) Greencastle (7-16) v Parke Heritage (15-9) Last Meeting: Parke Heritage def. Greencastle 52-38, Dec. 28, 2022 (Wabash Valley Classic) John Harrell Prediction: Parke Heritage 57-43 The Southmont Sectional begins with the Tiger Cubs and Wolves facing off for the second time this season and the third time the teams have met on neutral floors in their four meetings...

Softball season is right around the corner and while practices haven’t officially begun, the buildup to the season is quickly getting into gear. Greencastle won a Putnam County Tournament title and reached the South Vermillion Sectional final with a strong group of juniors leading the charge a year ago...

In a 2022-23 season that has been trying at times, Greencastle has developed a winning formula at the right time of the season. The Tiger Cubs honored seniors Cole Hutcheson, Boyd Ensley and Carson Taylor Friday as part of senior night with North Montgomery visiting McAnally Center...

Brayden is a senior at North Putnam and participates in three sports, cross country, basketball and baseball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Brayden Monnett: “Sports are important to me. I grew up playing sports, played year-round sports since I was five or six years old, have met a lot of friends and I love competing. ...

LINDEN — North Putnam used a 10-0 run to end the third quarter to get a road win at North Montgomery 52-42 on Tuesday night. Trailing 29-27 at the 3:26 mark in the third period, the Cougars scored 10-straight, including back-to-back 3-pointers from Kaden Helderman and Brayden Monnett to take a 37-29 lead into the fourth...

Though Saturday would not play out how Greencastle had hoped at the IHSAA Shelbyville Girls’ Basketball Semi-State, the Tiger Cubs were sent off by a group of individuals they had a connection to, even if they may not have known it at first glance. Nine members of the 1980 Greencastle girls’ basketball regional championship team were in attendance at a pep rally held for the current squad Friday afternoon, mixing plenty of hugs and memories with words of encouragement for the current crop of those in purple and gray.. ...

SHELBYVILLE – On the biggest stage for the girls’ basketball program in nearly half a century, Greencastle took on defending 2A state champions Forest Park in the opening round of the IHSAA Shelbyville Girls’ Basketball Semi-State Saturday morning. The Foresters’ senior-led squad showed up ready to make its way back to Gainbridge Fieldhouse and took the steam out of a Tiger Cubs squad that couldn’t match the length of the champs early on, falling 65-48 to see their season end at 23-5...

PLAINFIELD – South Putnam finished fifth overall Saturday at the IHSAA Plainfield Boys’ Swimming and Diving Sectional to lead the Putnam County schools at the event. The Eagles (178) finished behind Cascade (195) and ahead of Danville (154) with North Putnam seventh (119), Cloverdale ninth (24) and Greencastle 10th (23)...

BAINBRIDGE – Some people thing that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. It is getting closer to have a third one in that North Putnam’s basketball team will spread the floor and turn a close game into a win late in the fourth quarter. The Cougars did that against Riverton Parke on Saturday night, picking up a 55-45 victory over the Panthers...

SPENCER – South Putnam traveled to Owen Valley on Friday night for a Western Indiana Conference high school basketball game that turned into a really good, pick-up basketball game. The two teams hoisted 60 three-pointers in a Patriot 70-62 win. The teams put together some impressive shooting, but not a lot of defensive plays...

With a week to prepare for Union County, Greencastle ran through plenty of scenarios for last week’s IHSAA Girls’ Basketball Southmont Regional. Leading by 19 at halftime was probably not one that was practiced too long. The Tiger Cubs (23-4) rode out an eventual rally from the Patriots to win 58-38 and advance to Saturday’s IHSAA Girls’ Basketball Shelbyville Semi-State, facing defending 2A state champions and No. 2 Forest Park (23-3) in the first game at 10 a.m...

By Trent Scott Sports Editor As with any unknown situation, there were bound to be nerves going into the IHSAA Girls’ Basketball Southmont Regional last week. Leading by 19 points at halftime was a surefire way to calm most of them but Greencastle also came out of its 58-38 win against Union County learning several lessons about postseason basketball ahead of the IHSAA Shelbyville Semi-State this Saturday...

Stephanie is a senior at Greencastle and participates in three sports, soccer, basketball and track. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Stephanie Morales: “They are super-duper important to me. I use sports to get away from work and stress. I work two jobs right now, but I do that after practice. Sports are an escape for me.”...

As with any advancement in the postseason or after any game, the common refrain from coaches is to enjoy the evening and be ready the next day to prepare for the next game. Greencastle girls’ basketball head coach Doug Greenlee didn’t get the chance to bask in the afterglow of Saturday’s Southmont Regional championship until Sunday morning...

Greencastle will face Forest Park in the opening contest of the IHSAA Girls' Basketball Shelbyville Semi-State this coming Saturday. The Tiger Cubs (23-4) and the No. 2 Rangers (23-3) will play in the first game scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday. No. 1 North Knox (27-1) and No. 8 Eastern Hancock (23-3) will play in the second game at 12 p.m...

NEW MARKET – The Greencastle train keeps rolling right along. As part of the second game at the IHSAA Girls’ Basketball Southmont Regional, the Tiger Cubs took on Union County, building up a 19-point lead by halftime and withstanding the inevitable Patriot rally to claim the school’s second regional title in the sport with a 58-38 win...

EVANSVILLE — Greencastle senior Chase Carrington and North Putnam senior Lucas Murphy saw their high school wrestling careers come to an end Saturday at the IHSAA Evansville Wrestling Semi-State held at the Ford Center. Carrington won his opening round contest at 152 pounds 5-1 over North Posey’s Wyatt Gamblin, securing late takedowns to end the first and second periods before seeing out the final period for the win...

In the Regional 13 Final, WIC power Indian Creek cruised to a 63-28 win over upstart Purdue Polytechnic. Lauren Foster poured in 22 points and three Braves finished in double figures to advance to semistate, with the location to be determined. Indian Creek is now 26-1 and the Techies finish their first full season as IHSAA members 22-6...

When it came to time to crown the winner of the Putnam County Classic, North Putnam and South Putnam rose to the occasion and played out the best basket of the two-day tournament. A back-and-forth first three quarters saw the Cougars take a small lead into the fourth quarter, one that was nurtured and grown into a 13-point gap that an exhausted Eagle side could not cut into quickly enough as the defending champs made it three titles in-a-row in a 67-58 win...

McAnally Center was host to an exciting, albeit offensively-challenged, consolation game in the 2023 boys’ Putnam County Classic. The Greencastle Tiger Cubs overcame a 14-minute scoreless stretch to squeak by the Cloverdale Clovers 40-38 in double overtime on Friday night...

After breaking a 10-year drought for postseason success, Greencastle has a new goal on the table. That would be to bring home hardware that only one other girls’ basketball team in school history has to its name: a regional title. To do so, the Tiger Cubs (22-4) will need to knock back the similar aspirations of Union County (16-9), a school looking for its first girls’ basketball regional title, when the two teams meet Saturday at the IHSAA Girls’ Basketball Southmont Regional set for 4 p.m...

Two Putnam County wrestlers will get the chance to make the leap to the IHSAA Wrestling State Finals next week if they can make their way through the field at the Ford Center during this Saturday’s IHSAA Evansville Wrestling Semi-State. Greencastle’s Chase Carrington will be looking to replicate what older Brach Carrington did two years ago while North Putnam’s Lucas Murphy is entering uncharted territory for the school this weekend...

Chase is a senior at Greencastle and participates in four sports, football, wrestling and baseball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Chase Carrington: “Sports are really important. I’ve grown up playing sports with Brach and Logan and it’s helped create a brotherhood with all my teammates. It’s like no other feeling that you get.”...

In what was a far more methodical pace to the first meeting at McAnally Center on Jan. 13, Greencastle and North Putnam tested each other all 32 minutes of the second game of the Putnam County Classic Thursday night. The teams were never further apart than two points in the final quarter until the last five seconds where a pair of late free throws forced a last-ditch three attempt from the Tiger Cubs that was short, allowing the Cougars to advance to the final with a 37-34 win...

Halftime of a high school basketball game can be important. Thursday night it was never so evident as the South Putnam Eagles exploded in the third quarter to blow open a tight game and defeat the Cloverdale Clovers 55-40 in the opening game of the Putnam County Classic...

As the minutes began to tick away in the fourth quarter, the strain of what had been a hard-fought battle began to melt off the faces of Greencastle’s players and coaches. The draw of IHSAA Girls’ Basketball Class 2A Sectional No. 44 allowed for a rematch with Parke Heritage, the top two teams in the field, though by the end of Saturday night there was one clear winner as the Tiger Cubs won their first postseason title in a decade with a 54-32 win over the Wolves...

AVON – South Putnam opened and closed Saturday’s IHSAA Avon Girls’ Swimming and Diving Sectional with two third-place relay finishes while Kallie Pastore finished runner-up in the 100 breaststroke for the top overall finish among Putnam County Swimmers...

MOORESVILLE – Chase Carrington avoided the pitfall of falling to the same opponent he beat the previous week to finish as champion at 152 pounds at the IHSAA Mooresville Wrestling Regional Saturday. The Greencastle senior won three decisions in one of the more competitive weight classes at the regional and will be joined at the Evansville Semi-State by North Putnam’s Lucas Murphy, who finished fourth at 170 pounds...

After dispatching Southmont Tuesday, Greencastle took on Cloverdale, holders of the bye, in the semifinal round of IHSAA Girls’ Basketball Class 2A Sectional No. 44 Friday night. The offense took some time to get warmed up but the Tiger Cubs eventually found their stride, holding the Clovers to 20 points through three quarters and advanced to the final with a 59-37 win...

The South Putnam Lady Eagles’ season ended on Friday night in the Class 2A Sectional No. 44 semifinal as they could not keep Parke Heritage off the boards and struggled to keep the athletic Wolves squad from getting to the basket as they fell 68-46 at McAnally Center...

Ethan is a senior at South Putnam and participates in four sports, football, wrestling, baseball and golf. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Ethan Harcourt: “I absolutely love sports. The biggest thing I’ve learned is dedication and what they can teach you in life. If you show dedication to your work and show you’re committed, great things will happen to you and your life will show what you put in to it.”...

MONROVIA – The Greencastle Tiger Cubs came close, but no cigar on Thursday night at Monrovia in a boys’ high school basketball contest. The Cubs struggled down the stretch and fell to the Bulldogs 50-47. Greencastle, playing without four of its main varsity contributors, was able to battle the Bulldogs and led the game with 1:22 left, but four turnovers in the final stretch doomed the Cubs to fall to 2-15 on the season, while Monrovia improved to 4-13...

The South Putnam Eagles have, over the last six seasons, been a tough out come tournament time in girls’ high school basketball. Wednesday night at McAnally Center was a testament of that as the Eagles avenged an earlier 40-25 to the Riverton Parke Panthers in Class 2A Sectional No. 44 opening round play. The Eagles advanced with a 57-37 win and will take on the Parke Heritage Wolves in the semifinals Friday night...

The short-handed North Putnam Lady Cougars struggled to take care of the basketball or keep the Parke Heritage Wolves off the glass in their opening game of the Class 2A Sectional No. 44 at McAnally Center. North’s season came to an end with a 68-43 loss to Parke Heritage...