High School Sports

ROACHDALE - The North Putnam Cougars boys’ basketball team used a 20-0 run between the 3rd and 4th quarters to pull away from the Monrovia Bulldogs in a 76-52 non-conference victory at home Saturday night. The Cougars came out executing well on the offensive end, getting penetration from their guards and getting good looks for their shooters. ...

Following a disappointing loss at North Putnam Friday night, Greencastle looked for a bounce back effort against visiting Edgewood Saturday in WIC boys’ basketball play. The response was stunted by a dominant game from the Mustangs’ Caden Huttenlocker, who outscored the Tiger Cubs by himself with 31 points, along with a strong supporting role from Zach Sims, who scored 18 points, as the visitors rolled in a 67-30 win...

BAINBRIDGE – With no tournament play over the holidays and a game last week called off due to inclement weather, North Putnam spent the better part of a month waiting for a chance to get back on the court. Greencastle’s arrival Friday night ended a 23-day wait for the Cougar boys’ basketball team since its win over Cascade Dec. 21 and the hosts, brimming with energy, continued made it five wins in a row with a 69-40 win over the Tiger Cubs...

BRAZIL – Things weren’t looking great for Northview midway through the third quarter of Friday night’s boys high school basketball game against visiting South Putnam. The Knights were held scoreless for 4:10 and had seen the Eagles take their first lead after opening the second half on a 10-0 run...

CLOVERDALE – The Cloverdale Clover boys’ basketball team was coming off of a long layoff having not played a game since Dec. 29. The Clovers were not rusty as they shot over 50 percent from the field and got 42 points from senior Kyle Thomas as they were able to defeat the Cascade Cadets 65-55 on Al Tucker Court in Cloverdale...

BRAZIL – Over the last few games, slow starts have plagued Northview’s girls basketball team. And even though the Lady Knights have been able to dig themselves out of first half holes countless times, head coach Zack Keyes met with his group earlier in the week and hammered home the need to open games like they close them...

CLOVERDALE – The Class 2A No. 11 Cascade Cadets came down to Cloverdale on Friday night and showed why they are a ranked team in the state. The Cadets shook off a slow start and despite a gritty defensive effort by the Clovers, Cascade left with a 61-35 victory...

BAINBRIDGE – There were two very different Greencastle girls’ basketball teams that had been seen earlier in the week, one that was beaten soundly by Cloverdale and one that stunned North Montgomery. Which Tiger Cub team would show up on Friday night at North Putnam was rendered immaterial as the Cougars led by 21 at halftime and rolled to a 51-15 win...

Keeli is a senior at South Putnam and participates in one sport, swimming. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Keeli Pastore: “Sports for me, out of 10, are an eight, because I want to make sure I have everything organized for after high school. I definitely learned a lot of discipline from them, learning how to be humble and learning what things are good and not good for me.”...

Greencastle sophomore Jackson Buis was recently highlighted as a rising underclass lineman by Hoosier High School Football. Buis, listed at 6-3 290 lbs., is a two-year starter for the Tiger Cubs and was named All-County, All-WIC, All-Wabash Valley and Academic All-Wabash Valley as a sophomore...

SWITZ CITY – South Putnam junior Austen Branam was 0-4 from the field when he recovered the ball in the corner with time running out against White River Valley. Tied at 39, Branam dribbled once to get a better look at the hoop and sent up his floater. The result was a buzzer beating basket to give South Putnam a needed win, 41-39...

Many times, coaches say that playing soon after a particularly draining defeat is the best thing for a team, not allowing them to dwell on what had previously transpired in its last outing. Greencastle proved the adage to the fullest extent after a humbling loss at Cloverdale Monday night, turning around to play its most complete game of the season Tuesday against North Montgomery, knocking down 10 three-point shots and fending off a late Charger rally for a 59-48 win...

The South Putnam Eagles girls’ basketball team rallied from a 10-point halftime deficit, making 11-of-12 foul shots in the fourth quarter, to stave off the upset bid from the Riverton Parke Panthers 56-50 in non-conference action. The Panthers came in with only three wins on the season but did not play that way Tuesday night...

CLOVERDALE – Icy temperatures gripped Putnam County in the last few days, but that is nothing compared to the ice-cold shooting at Cloverdale on Al Tucker Court Tuesday night. The Lady Clovers hosted the West Vigo Vikings and the teams combined to shoot just 22 percent (15-of-68) from the floor as the Vikings defeated the home team 27-22 in Western Indiana Conference basketball...

CLOVERDALE — Icy conditions meant Saturday’s WIC girls’ basketball game between Cloverdale and Greencastle became Monday’s game instead. As the two teams had split the first two games against one another, the Clovers winning in the Putnam County Tournament and the Tiger Cubs at the Northview State Farm Classic, a third meeting would decide the season winner as well as who picked up a win in conference play...

The Edgewood Mustangs boys’ basketball team outscored the South Putnam Eagles 36-16 in the second and third quarters to pull away for a 61-40 Western Indiana Conference victory over the hosts on an icy Saturday night. The Eagles came out playing really well on both ends of the court. ...

Due to inclement weather settling in this afternoon, North Putnam's Varsity/JV/Freshmen boys' basketball games at Fountain Central have been postponed. A reschedule date is TBA.

ROACHDALE - The North Putnam Cougar girls’ basketball team started the game with a 17-2 run and held on for a 49-45 Western Indiana Conference victory over the West Vigo Vikings. The Cougars came out firing on all cylinders from the opening tip. They were moving the ball, attacking the driving lanes and hitting the open three. ...

CLOVERDALE – Cloverdale hosted the Owen Valley Patriots in girls’ high school basketball action on Friday night. The Western Indiana Conference tilt saw the Patriots take an early lead then use solid free throw shooting late in the game to hold off the Clovers, 49-41...

With a week off after the Wabash Valley Classic, Greencastle returned to the court for its only game of the week, hosting Northview in boys’ WIC basketball action. Although the Tiger Cubs held the Knights to their second-lowest scoring total of the season, they couldn’t get their own offense on track, falling 47-25...

Having seen Northview just over two weeks prior at the State Farm Classic, Greencastle was looking for a better outcome in WIC girls’ basketball play Friday night. The Knights hit the same total from the first game but did so in a decidedly different fashion while the Tiger Cubs were only able to score three more points, falling 47-25...

Cloverdale has postponed its boys' varsity basketball game against Owen Valley Friday night. The game will be made up as a varsity/JV doubleheader at a later date. The girls' varsity basketball game between Cloverdale and Owen Valley will take placed as scheduled and remain a 6 p.m. tipoff...

Josh is a senior at South Putnam and participates in one sport, basketball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Josh Hammond: “I’ve learned several life skills playing sports. Both of my parents played sports and I’ve played them for a long time. ...

Cloverdale's 7-0 start was subdued by a defensive switch from North Central, which held the visitors scoreless the rest of the first quarter and a 15-5 second quarter allowed the hosts to take a 20-12 lead into the break. Cloverdale would hold North Central to 12 points in the second half but a frigid evening from the floor, going 3-of-27 inside the three-point line and 1-of-5 from the free throw line, kept the Clovers from closing the gap...

BAINBRIDGE – There wasn’t a lot of messing around on senior night at North Putnam as the hosts and Parke Heritage blitzed through an early January dual match Tuesday night. Of the 13 matches, only five saw the second period and one went the distance as the Cougars picked up eight wins in a 45-36 win over the Wolves...

CLAY CITY – Greencastle and Clay City entered Tuesday’s start of the New Year matchup with near identical records as well as similar offensive and defensive averages while also having the same amount of days off between their last outings – both of which came at the Jenni Marietta State Farm Holiday Classic before Christmas...

LINDEN — Coming off a disappointing loss in the Kitchen Classic Championship game to Delphi on Dec. 23, North Montgomery girls basketball wanted to get back on the winning track to begin 2022. The Chargers hosted North Putnam Tuesday looking to do just that. In what North Montgomery coach Ryan Nuppnau called ‘their most complete game of the year’, the Chargers picked up a convincing 59-43 win over the Cougars to improve to 10-6 (2-1 SAC) on the season...

For the past quarter of a century, finding a winning recipe for Cloverdale’s football program has proved a fleeting dream. Three seasons saw the Clovers finish 5-6, 4-5 in the regular season each time, but not since Jamie Steffy first took the head coaching role over has the football program managed to finish over .500 in a season since the 7-3 team of 1996...

Tyler is a senior at Greencastle and participates in three sports, soccer, basketball and golf ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Tyler Rodgers: “Sports are a huge part of my life and a big portion of what I watch on TV, what I do with my family and at school. ...

TERRE HAUTE — Looking to avoid an 0-3 run at the Wabash Valley Classic, Greencastle got its second taste of Illinois basketball, taking on Marshall in Wednesday’s consolation round. The Tiger Cubs started off 13-0 and never looked back, breezing past the Lions 50-27 in the first meeting between the two schools since a 61-51 win for Marshall in 2006...

TERRE HAUTE — Cloverdale knew that regardless of who appeared as the loser of the Linton-Bloomfield game Tuesday night, it would be an uphill battle to reach the fifth-place game in the Wabash Valley Classic set for Thursday. The Clovers would get a second crack at the Cardinals, who won earlier in the year 54-22, but the result remained the same as 12-0 start was plenty for the Greene County school to cruise to a 51-20 win...

TERRE HAUTE — Knocked into the lower bracket of the Wabash Valley Classic Monday, Greencastle went into Tuesday’s consolation rounds looking to win a pair of games to make it to Thursday’s consolation final. The first step would be to face Robinson (Ill.), a new matchup for the Tiger Cubs, one that was close through halftime until a 14-6 third quarter put the Maroons in a position that proved unassailable in a 58-43 win for the Illinois team...

TERRE HAUTE – The venue may have changed to Terre Haute South in the Wabash Valley Classic but the gap between Cloverdale and Edgewood did not from early December Tuesday night. Outscored in three of four quarters, the Clovers could not secure advancement to the semifinal, falling to the Mustangs 57-45...

TERRE HAUTE — Greencastle and Cloverdale picked up where they left off just nine days ago in another gritty, calculated contest as part of the Wabash Valley Classic Monday afternoon. The Clovers had the better start but struggled from the field the rest of the way while the Tiger Cubs closed a seven-point first quarter gap, only to run out of steam in the final quarter as the defending champions fell 36-32...

South Putnam was at the peak of its volleyball power in the 2020 season yet it came to a screeching halt once postseason play began. With a large core of seniors departing, it fell to the returning group to try and repeat as county champions, WIC champions and find a way to make a mark in the sectional...

BRAZIL – The final game for Greencastle in the 2021 portion of the girls’ basketball season gave the team a chance to finish third in the Northview State Farm Classic Thursday afternoon. Facing a West Vigo side that one the first meeting between the two schools 30-27, the Tiger Cubs struggled heavily from the field in the first three quarters, netting only two field goals as the Vikings cruised to a 40-25 win...

BRAZIL – The fifth-place game at the Northview State Farm Classic was a classic tale of two halves as Cloverdale took on South Vermillion Thursday. Despite holding the Wildcats scoreless in the second quarter, the Clovers only netted seven points themselves and when South Vermillion bounced back in the second half, Cloverdale couldn’t go the distance, falling 41-36 in the final girls’ basketball game for the school in 2021...

Veronica is a senior at Cloverdale and participates in two sports, basketball and softball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Veronica Carter: “Sports are very important to me. They make up a large part of my life. They’ve taught me how to be mentally tough, strong and a better person, to help out where I can and how to be responsible.”...

Just over a month ago, Greencastle thought it had found its first win of the 2021-22 girls’ basketball season against Cloverdale at the Putnam County Tournament. A late rally by the Clovers then scuppered the win but that was not the case Wednesday at Northview as the Tiger Cubs held their county counterparts to 10 points across the first three quarters en route to a 35-26 win in the opening round of the State Farm Holiday Classic...

For the first time in school history, South Putnam got the better of Greencastle and won its first Putnam County swim title Saturday morning at DePauw’s Charles P. Erdmann Natatorium. North Putnam also walked out with hardware after taking the boys’ Putnam County title in a close meet with the Tiger Cubs and Eagles...

North Putnam claimed its first county wrestling title since 2006 as part of a runner-up finish at the Russ Hesler Invitational Saturday at Greencastle. The Cougars defeated South Putnam 70-9, Cloverdale 69-9 and Greencastle 39-34 to win its pool and the county title...

BRAZIL — Zack Keyes knew his Northview Knights were in for a battle against North Putnam on Friday night, and they were. The home team was able to hold off a late charge by the visiting Cougars and escape with a 63-59 Western Indiana Conference victory...

RAZIL — Trailing by seven points at halftime, North Putnam’s boys dominated the second half by a 37-26 margin to pull out a 62-58 win at Northview. The Cougars won 62-46 on their home court last year in the Western Indiana Conference matchup...

CLOVERDALE – On another night, Greencastle and Cloverdale might have been willing to push the tempo, play with a bit more freedom or look to try and press advantages where they could. But with the Tiger Cubs coming off a long trip to Sullivan, the Clovers playing their third game in five days and a rematch in the not-so distant future, the teams played at a very deliberate pace, one the visitors were able to finish better with, taking a 38-33 win back up U.S 231...

Next man up has become one of the most commonly embraced axioms in sports and no sport refers to it more than football. Because of the emphasis on the team side of the game, it’s vital that every team have players ready to be able to jump into the fray, knowing their role and assignments lest they let the other 10 players on the field down...

CLOVERDALE - Kyle Thomas and Brady Koosman combined for 42 points as the Cloverdale Clovers picked up their third win on the season with a 63-47 Western Indiana Conference victory over the visiting Brown County Eagles. The game was tight early on as both squads were very deliberate with their offenses. The Eagles led 11-9 when Kyle Thomas went baseline and threw down a two-hand slam to get the crowd into it...

It is hard to win a game when you shoot only 23 percent and score just one point in the third quarter, but the South Putnam Lady Eagles used a big effort in the final period to pick up a 38-31 victory over the visiting West Vigo Vikings in Western Indiana Conference girls' basketball play Friday night...

CLOVERDALE - Veronica Carter scored 17 points and grabbed 16 rebounds as the host Cloverdale Clovers picked up their sixth win on the season with a 36-28 victory over the Brown County Eagles Friday night. It was a cold shooting first half for both squads as they combined for just 26 points. ...

SULLIVAN – Despite being down 10 points in the opening quarter and trailing by as much as 15 just before halftime, Greencastle kept getting after Sullivan Friday night in a WIC boys’ basketball tilt. The Tiger Cubs hauled back the Golden Arrows to within five points in the third quarter and six point in the fourth quarter but the veteran know-how of the 3A No. 10 Golden Arrows carried the day, closing the game with a 13-1 run for a 65-47 win...

West Vigo visited South Putnam in a high school boys' basketball contest on Friday night and used a hot start and excellent free throw shooting to hold off the Eagles and defeat the hosts 57-43 in a Western Indiana Conference contest. The Vikings jumped out to a quick 14-2 lead and then maintained that lead throughout most of the game. ...