High School Sports

ANDERSON – For some players, the format and structure of all-star basketball games perfectly fits their style. Lots more fast breaks leading to easy points, not nearly as much defense and much higher scores than normal high school games. Reggie Bass of Muncie Central, for example, has a game fit for such contests. ...

The 17th annual boys’ IBCA/IHSAA Underclass Showcase events will be Saturday at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis. This event is being held during the NCAA’s new “scholastic viewing period” in June this year after being held in July in previous years...

New North Putnam boys’ basketball coach Vince Brooks will be having a youth basketball camp next week for incoming boys in grades 1-5. The camp will be from June 17-20 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Cost is $25, which includes instruction, T-shirt, skill competitions and prizes...

Greencastle High School is turning to a former standout player at Roncalli High School and Marian University in Indianapolis as its next girls’ basketball coach. Kellie Kirkhoff, 23, played at Marian University from 2014-18 after a standout career at Roncalli High School...

ANDERSON – The Annual Indiana Class Basketball All-Star Classic celebrates its 11th year this weekend as more than 140 players from across the state put their talents on display over two days inside Anderson University’s Kardatzke Wellness Center. Greencastle’s Brody Whitaker, who helped lead the Tiger Cubs to a sectional title in March, will play at 6 p.m. on Friday in the Futures Game for players who were freshmen or sophomores last winter...

Northview, Edgewood and Indian Creek ranked 1-3 in the Western Indiana Conference all-sports standings through the winter sports season, and used strong spring performances to finish in that same order in the final overall standings. Northview swept the three girls’ spring sports titles (tennis, track, softball), placed second in boys’ golf and was fifth in both boys’ track and baseball...

MONTGOMERY — Greencastle knew it had a tough chore at hand on Thursday in the Washington Regional boys’ golf tournament, and the difficult Country Oaks course proved to be an even more rugged foe than the other 17 competing teams. The Tiger Cubs finished their season 15th in the regional, shooting a 360...

MONTGOMERY — Greencastle’s boys’ golf team will tee off at 9:20 a.m. on Thursday in the Washington Regional at Country Oaks Golf Club. The Tiger Cubs won their fourth straight sectional title on Friday at Attica, and their sixth in the last seven years...

BLOOMINGTON — Four athletes from Putnam County, along with a former county standout, competed in the Indiana High School Athletic Association girls’ track and field state finals on Saturday. While none of them was able to advance far enough to reach the medal stand, each of them leaves a legacy within her program...

Edgewood, South Vermillion and University all won high school baseball regional championships over the weekend and will compete in semistates on Saturday. The final four has been set for the IHSAA softball state finals, with Indianapolis Lutheran being the only Putnam County opponent to advance that far...

ATTICA — Greencastle’s boys’ golf squad continued its recent domination of the Attica Sectional on Friday, defeating runnerup Seeger by 11 strokes for its fourth straight title and sixth in the last seven years. The Cubs were led by Conner Taylor, who shot a solid 75 on the hilly and tight golf course, Tiger Cub coach Steve Paquin said...

BLOOMINGTON — North Putnam’s competitors in Friday’s IHSAA boys’ track and field state finals at Indiana University did not place among the top nine to earn all-state honors. Still, coach Joey Holt was in no way disappointed with how discus thrower Payton Patterson and 4x100 relay competed against schools with 10 to 20 times its enrollment to get this far...

Four Putnam County athletes from three different schools will descend upon Indiana University on Saturday for the IHSAA girls’ track and field state finals. North Putnam’s Ashley O’Neal (high jump), Cloverdale’s Kenzie Stoltz (100 hurdles) and Greencastle’s Sydney Lewis (pole vault) and Seelye Stoffregen (300 hurdles) each earned a state finals berth by placing in the top three in the Bloomington North Regional last Tuesday...

North Putnam, Greencastle and South Putnam will compete in the Attica Sectional today at the Harrison Hills Country Club in Attica. Greencastle has won the last three sectional team titles, and five of the last six. Seeger’s Peyton Snoeberger, who will play collegiately next year at Purdue, is one of the frontrunners for individual medalist honors...

BAINBRIDGE — North Putnam will be the only Putnam County school to have athletes participating in Friday’s boys’ track state finals at Indiana University. Cougar discus thrower Payton Patterson and 4x100 relay team members Chris Murray, Colton Clifford, Scott Proctor and Kalib Lawrence will all vie with the best from all over Indiana for a spot in the top nine and a place on the medal stand...

South Putnam’s girls’ 4x100 relay team won the Western Indiana Conference championship earlier this month to highlight Putnam County performances. The Eagles’ team of Bailey Brickert, Audrey Richardson, Josie Teipen and Hanna Teipen captured first as the Eagles finished fourth as a team...

By Joey Bennett Sports Editor BAINBRIDGE — Vince Brooks has coached high school basketball for several years, but the desire to become a head coach didn’t hit him until the middle of last season while serving as the varsity assistant at Westfield High School...

BAINBRIDGE — Lukas Haworth was North Putnam’s boys’ varsity basketball coach for the 2013-14 season, compiling an 11-11 record that is the program’s best since its last winning season in 2003-04. The birth of his family’s first (and only) child necessitated a move toward the Indianapolis area, so that season was Haworth’s only one with the Cougars...

With the elimination of all Putnam County teams from softball and baseball sectional competition this week, track and field and boys’ golf remain the only IHSAA sports with county athletes still competing. Here are some early notes on both sports: • Patterson also a state finalist — North Putnam junior Payton Patterson received some great news on Friday, as he was “called back” to compete in next Friday’s IHSAA State Finals at Indiana University...

The Cloverdale High School football program will have a parent/player meeting on at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Cloverdale High School gymnasium. Parents and players will have the opportunity to meet new head coach David Zorman and see his vision for the football program going into the future...

BLOOMINGTON — North Putnam’s 4x100 relay team finished third in the Bloomington North boys’ track and field regional on Thursday, earning a spot in next week’s state finals at Indiana University. The quartet of Kalib Lawrence, Colton Clifford, Chris Murray and Scott Proctor turned in a time of 44.14, finishing .06 seconds behind runnerup Bedford North Lawrence and .09 behind the winning Bloomington North squad...

ROACHDALE— Thursday officially ended the Putnam County baseball season, with North Putnam and Cloverdale bowing out in the North Putnam Sectional to Monrovia and South Vermillion — who will play each other for a sectional championship at 1 p.m. Monday...

In a matchup between a powerful, experienced team with a strong history and a young squad playing in its first sectional championship in many years, South Vermillion defeated North Putnam 10-0 on Thursday evening to win its third straight sectional title...

Three Putnam County high school baseball teams were busy in high school baseball sectional action on Wednesday. Cloverdale stayed alive in the tourney by defeating Fountain Central 12-3 in the first game of the North Putnam Sectional. Greencastle met Tri-West at Danville in a game originally scheduled for Brebeuf Jesuit in Indianapolis, and fell 18-5...

Two Putnam County teams had their seasons end on Wednesday night in the Class 2A Sectional 44 semifinals, but one advanced to the championship game. North Putnam defeated South Putnam 7-5 on a walk-off home run, while Greencastle lost to defending sectional champion South Vermillion 11-1 in five innings...

BLOOMINGTON - Greencastle's Sydney Lewis (pole vault) and North Putnam's Ashley O'Neal (high jump) won regional championships at Bloomington North on Tuesday night. They will be joined by third-place finishers Kenzie Stoltz of Cloverdale (100 hurdles) and Seelye Stoffregen of Greencastle (300 hurdles) in the girls' state finals at Indiana University on June 1...

North Putnam’s 4x100 relay team and South Putnam high jumper Kain Gregory are the top-seeded Putnam County athletes for Thursday’s Bloomington North boys’ track regional. The Cougars are just .06 off the top seed, Terre Haute North, with their time of 43.91...

Schedules have been drawn for quite some time now for Indiana high school baseball and softball sectional tournaments. Exactly when those events will take place, though, is up to Mother Nature. Unexpected rain forced postponement of the Greencastle Sectional softball semifinals on Tuesday, moving those games to tonight...

Tuesday’s Class 2A sectional softball action at Greencastle High School has been postponed indefinitely. Rain forced the postponement of games between North Putnam and South Putnam as well as the late game between South Vermillion and Greencastle. No reschedule date has been set...

CLOVERDALE — Favored Greencastle emerged as Putnam County boys’ golf champion for the fourth straight year with its win on Monday evening at Clover Meadows. Having earlier won the Western Indiana Conference title, the Cubs seemed primed to continue their streak of county titles and accomplished that mission...

If all games in the Class 2A Sectional 44 softball state tournament are like the opening game between the South Vermillion Wildcats and the Cloverdale Clovers, then fastpitch softball fans are in for a treat the rest of the tournament. The defending champion Wildcats knocked out the Clovers for the second straight year with a 1-0 victory that had great pitching and defense on Monday night at Greencastle High School...

BLOOMINGTON — Twelve athletes from Putnam County schools will be competing in the Bloomington North girls’ track regional today. Both Kenzie Stoltz of Cloverdale (pole vault and 100 hurdles) and Ashley O’Neal of North Putnam (100 and high jump) qualified for regional competition in multiple events...

Tuesday Softball — North Putnam vs. South Putnam (5 p.m.) and Greencastle vs. South Vermillion (7 p.m.) in Greencastle Sectional semifinals. Track and field (girls) — Greencastle’s Claire Gillen, Sydney Lewis, Jada Amis, Seelye Stoffregen and Michayla Dinn, Cloverdale’s Kenzie Stoltz, Chelsie Edwards, Lily Monnett and Keeley Hughes and North Putnam’s Ashley O’Neal and Emily Gasho in Bloomington North Regional, 6 p.m...

Schedules for the Greencastle softball sectional and baseball sectionals at North Putnam and Brebeuf Jesuit.

TERRE HAUTE — Six individuals and three relay teams from Putnam County will be advancing to Thursday’s Bloomington North boys’ track regional after recording top-three finishes in Friday’s Terre Haute North Sectional. The event was postponed a day after serious storms went through the area on Thursday, but was run in hotter — but infinitely safer — conditions with no issues...

ROCKVILLE — If the goal of athletic teams to be playing their best when it comes time for the post-season tournament, Greencastle’s baseball team is following that strategy perfectly. The Cubs shut out Parke Heritage 2-0 on Friday evening for their sixth straight win, improving their record to 12-11...

What was universally anticipated when Tod Windlan took the Greencastle girls’ basketball coaching job last June came to fruition this week, as the well-traveled coach was hired by Connersville to coach the Lady Spartans. Windlan has won 235 games since 2004, an average of 16.7 per season...

Severe storms on Thursday caused postponement of scheduled sectional competition in boys’ track and girls’ tennis until today. Weather permitting, the boys’ track sectional will start at 5:30 p.m. at Terre Haute North involving athletes from all four Putnam County teams...

Three Putnam County athletes will enter Thursday’s Terre Haute North boys’ track and field sectional as the top seeds. The top three finishers in each event advance to Tuesday’s Bloomington North Regional, plus any other meeting the designated participant standard...

TERRE HAUTE – Putnam County had three individual champions in Tuesday evening’s Terre Haute North girls’ track sectional and had 10 total regional-qualifying performances on the night. Highlighting the county contingent was North Putnam’s Ashley O’Neal, a double winner in the 100 and the high jump, and Greencastle’s Seelye Stoffregen – who set a school record in winning the 300-meter hurdles...

SULLIVAN – Cloverdale improved to 14-4 with a win over Sullivan in the WIC crossover game for fifth place. “Macie Couch pitched really well and forced Sullivan's high-scoring offense into fly balls and ground balls that we were able to handle and hold Sullivan to one run,” Clover coach Jim Spencer said. “Macie made a great 2-2 pitch to strike out the batter in the bottom of the seventh with the tying run on third base.”...

Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Wyatt Helterbrand: “Sports have taught me a lot of things, from forming my personality to working hard. Coaching and sports have always done that. They have taught me to have respect for others, and that sportsmanship is key.”...

SPENCER — Greencastle’s Tiger Cubs won their third consecutive WIC golf tournament Saturday at Rolling Meadows GC. Led by Conner Taylor’s 76 and Jaxon Parmley’s 77, the Cubs shot a score of 323 to beat runnerup Northview by 13 shots. Benton Parmley added a 82, while Vincent Martoglio shot a 88 and Tyler Rodgers had a 94...

Several individual athletes and relay teams from Putnam County are seeded in the top three for today’s Terre Haute North girls’ track sectional. The top three finishers in each event advance to Tuesday’s Bloomington North Regional, plus any other meeting the designated participant standard...

Tuesday Baseball — Brown County at South Putnam (5:30 p.m.), Cloverdale at Greencastle (5:30 p.m.) and Owen Valley at North Putnam (6 p.m.) in WIC crossover games. Golf (boys) — South Putnam at North Putnam, 4:30 p.m. Softball — Cloverdale at Sullivan (6 p.m.), Indian Creek at North Putnam (6 p.m.), Cascade at South Putnam (5:30 p.m.) and Owen Valley at Greencastle (5:30 p.m.) in WIC crossover games...

Edgewood ran away with the team title in the Western Indiana Conference’s boys’ track and field meet on Friday night at South Putnam. The Mustangs racked up 138 team points to easily outdistance runnerup Brown County’s total of 76. North Putnam was third with 61, while Cloverdale was fourth with 58, South Putnam finished in a three-way tie for sixth with 42 and Greencastle finished 12th with 12...

CLOVERDALE — Greencastle sophomore Brody Whitaker pitched a no-hitter to lead the Tiger Cubs to a 16-0 win over Cloverdale in high school baseball action. Whitaker struck out four batters and walked three, also adding a pair of singles, two RBI and a run scored at the plate...

The Western Indiana Conference has set its crossover matchups for Tuesday’s playoff round in baseball and softball. In softball, Northview and Brown County will meet at Brazil for the league championship for the second straight year. The Eagles won last year’s title...

ELLETTSVILLE — After the Western Indiana Conference girls’ track and field meet was re-scored on Tuesday to fix several errors in field events, Putnam County competitors emerged even more dominant than originally thought. A story in Wednesday’s Banner Graphic did not reflect the modified results since they were not received until the day after the meet...

BRAZIL — A night after losing 5-0 to powerful Northview in Western Indiana Conference baseball action, South Putnam traveled to Clay County on Wednesday and won a non-conference matchup 4-3 over the Class 4A Knights. Tanner Pistelli pitched a complete-game victory for the Eagles, allowing seven hits and striking out four hitters while walking just two...