High School Sports

Sullivan (4-0, 2-0) at Greencastle (4-1, 1-1) The coaches: Jeff Moore is in his 29th year at Sullivan. Bryce Rector is in his third year at Greencastle. On the air: WREB-FM 94.3 will broadcast the game. So far: Sullivan has beaten South Knox 57-50, Northview 61-45, Shakamak 55-47 and North Putnam 82-50...

Greencastle High School will join an elite group of Indiana schools tonight with the presentation of a banner from the Champions Together program. Greencastle will become the second Putnam County school to be so honored, as North Putnam already has earned the designation...

If the first few weeks of the boys’ basketball season have proven anything, it’s that games between Putnam County squads will be close and down to the wire. South Putnam has already played all three county opponents, losing in overtime to North Putnam and pulling away in the final minute to beat Greencastle...

Taking a look at some snapshots from Putnam County sporting events over the past week, ranging from a county basketball team champion to an individual academic honor for a student-athlete to a college coach being honored for her 600th win.

Alexandria 56, Taylor 44 Barr-Reeve 93, N. Knox 40 Central Noble 107, Hamilton 47 Chesterton 56, E. Chicago Central 46 Decatur Central 100, Indpls Herron 49 Eastside 57, Lakewood Park 47 Ev. Memorial 57, Ev. Bosse 45 Ft. Wayne Concordia 56, Ft. Wayne Canterbury 43...

The Associated Press Top 10 Indiana high school girls basketball teams, with first-place votes in parentheses, records, rating points and previous rankings: Class 4A Others receiving votes: Pike, Center Grove. Class 3A Others receiving votes: Lawrenceburg, West Noble, Northwood, Bellmont, Gary West, Indianapolis Bishop Chatard, Lakeland, Greensburg...

SPENCER – In order to win a high school basketball game, a team needs to have the balance of aggressiveness, speed, intensity, and patience. The South Putnam Lady Eagle basketball team had a problem balancing those requirements in Monday night’s 50-36 loss to the Owen Valley Patriots...

Kinzey Young is a senior at North Putnam and participates in volleyball and basketball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Kinzey Young: “I love sports. I have played volleyball and basketball since elementary school. ...

After being in the "also getting votes" category for several weeks, the Cloverdale girls' basketball team entered the top 10 of the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association rankings this week at No. 8. The 10-1 Clovers will play only one game this week, traveling to Brown County on Friday looking to improve their Western Indiana Conference record to 3-0...

After seeing a couple of lopsided boys’ basketball games the previous two times, Friday’s South Putnam-Greencastle game was a refreshing change in terms of enthusiasm, stellar play from both teams and a generally enjoyable evening. South Putnam eventually wore down Greencastle and won by 10 points. The Tiger Cubs will get their chance for revenge in the first round of the Putnam County tournament in February...

CLOVERDALE -- Overcoming Monrovia's considerable size advantage on Saturday night was a tough chore for the Cloverdale boys' basketball team. The Bulldog "twin towers" of 6-8 senior Max Newman and 6-7 junior Josh Smith combined for 48 points in a 67-54 win over the Clovers...

NEW MARKET – Greencastle survived a sub-par free throw shooting night and an outstanding individual effort by Southmont’s Justin Howard but still managed to beat the Mounties 60-55 Saturday night in boys’ high school basketball action. Hitting just 16 of 33 from the foul line, including just 10 of 22 in the second half, opened the door for the Mounties – who nearly rode a 41-point effort from Howard to make a big second-half comeback...

MARSHALL -- Taking on the Wolves of Parke Heritage Saturday in doubleheader play, the Cougar girls’ and boys’ varsity basketball teams from North Putnam came up short as they tried to spoil the Wolves’ first-ever home games at the new Parke Heritage Middle School...

PUTNAM COUNTY GIRLS Parke Heritage 44, North Putnam 40 BOYS Greencastle 60, Southmont 55 Monrovia 67, Cloverdale 54 Parke Heritage 66, North Putnam 51 STATEWIDE BOYS Adams Central 65, Ft. Wayne Canterbury 50 Alexandria 57, Cowan 28 Angola 50, Northridge 37...

South Putnam’s new basketball court had special meaning for the winning teams in Friday night’s Western Indiana Conference doubleheader with Greencastle. In the girls’ game, the Tiger Cubs were hoping to have a better performance than their last appearance on that court — in a big loss to Cloverdale in the county tournament championship game...

BAINBRIDGE -- The North Putnam and Sullivan basketball teams split a WIC West doubleheader Friday night, with victories for the Cougar girls and the Golden Arrow boys. Girls’ game The Cougar girls have been improving since the Putnam County Classic and picked up their second consecutive win Friday night with a 51-44 victory over the Golden Arrows...

Not playing on the same court or even in the same city Friday night, the Cloverdale and Indian Creek basketball teams played a conference coed doubleheader Friday night ... sort of. In an early girls’ game on the Clovers’ home court, the Clovers topped the Braves 44-43...

Greencastle’s wrestling team had its first home match of the season Wednesday night against North Vermillion, winning 57-18. Cauy Thomas, Trace Thomas, Austin Stockall, Jacob Fox and Jacob Baker all had wins by pin, while Schuyler Stone had a “great match,” coach Shane Thomas said, and won by decision...

Greencastle High School’s baseball program is having its third annual Holiday Hitting Camp later this month. The two-hour clinic will take place on Dec. 27, with students in grades 1-4 going from 1 to 3 p.m. in McAnally Center and students in grades 5-8 going from 3 to 5 p.m...

Greencastle’s Emma Wilson, the two-time defending Indiana state champion in the 3,200-meter run, will not compete for the Tiger Cubs this spring in what would have been her senior track and field season. Craig Jordan, who has served as Greencastle’s track and cross country coach since the fall of 2016, informed the Banner Graphic by telephone on Monday of Wilson’s decision...

Tipoff: 7:30 p.m. The coaches: Bryce Rector is in his third year at Greencastle. Greg Dean is in his fifth year at South Putnam. On the air: WREB-FM 94.3 will broadcast the game. So far: Greencastle has defeated Crawfordsville 67-55, Danville 58-48 in overtime and West Vigo 45-35...

NEW MARKET — Southmont’s wrestling team came away with a 63-12 victory over North Putnam at home Tuesday evening. Winning by forfeit for the Mounties were: Clayton Downey (106), Ty Welliever (170), Jud Van Cleave (195) and Bayley Baumer (Heavyweight)...

INDIANAPOLIS — If North Putnam boys’ basketball coach Collin McCartt could script in advance how a game was going to be played in terms of style, he wouldn’t have picked the style of Wednesday night’s game at Covenant Christian. The host Warriors pressed relentlessly, crashed the boards with reckless abandon and hit an incredible percentage from 3-point range in recording a 96-45 win to hand the Cougars their first loss...

Greencastle’s girls’ basketball team has approached the proverbial “hump” against its top opponents this season. But, as in previous defeats to Benton Central, Cloverdale and Tri-West, the Cubs could not get over that hump against Class 3A No. 7-ranked Danville on Tuesday night...

Jalyn Duff is a senior at Greencastle and participates in volleyball, basketball and softball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Jalyn Duff: “Growing up, my dad [Jarrod Duff] has always been a coach so he took my brother [Duke] and I to the gym to practice every day. ...

The Associated Press Top 10 Indiana high school boys basketball teams, with first-place votes in parentheses, records, rating points and previous rankings: Class 4A Others receiving votes: New Albany 29, Elkhart Memorial 25, Munster 22, Chesterton 19, Penn 18, Lawrence Central 15, Lawrence North 7, Mishawaka 6, Brownsburg 6, Hamilton Southeastern 6...

CLAY CITY — A frustrated South Putnam Eagle girls’ basketball team was coming off a tough one-point loss to county rival North Putnam on Friday. The Eagles took those frustrations out on the Clay City Eels by a 67-23 margin in Tuesday night’s non-conference high school basketball game...

GIRLS South Putnam 67, Clay City 23 Danville 43, Greencastle 34 BOYS Angola 48, Woodlan 41 Austin 70, Trinity Lutheran 65 Bellmont 51, Eastside 41 Bowman Academy 50, Lighthouse CPA 43 Charlestown 57, Henryville 49 Columbia City 68, Churubusco 55 Crawford Co. 61, Perry Central 44...

Three of Putnam County’s top senior football players brought home top honors on the 2018 all-Putnam County team. Greencastle’s Damon Moody was named the offensive player of the year, while teammate Gavin Bollman and South Putnam defensive leader Dalton Scott were named co-winners of the defensive player of the year award...

North Putnam defensive back Aidan Baker was chosen to the Indiana Football Coaches Association Class 2A junior all-state team. Baker was honored by the IFCA along with Gavin Bollman and Damon Moody of Greencastle and South Putnam’s Dalton Scott. Baker made 54 tackles (28 solos and 26 assisted) this season, while also deflecting two passes...

GIRLS No. 7 Danville (6-3) at Greencastle (7-3) The coaches: Kaley May is in her sixth year at Danville. Tod Windlan is in his first year at Greencastle. So far: Danville has lost to Avon and Brownsburg since starting the season 6-1. The Tiger Cubs have alternated wins and losses since starting the season 5-1...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Greencastle senior Emma Wilson competed in the Nike Cross National cross country meet on Saturday, running 15 seconds faster than her 14th-place time of a year ago. With increased competition and much faster, times, Wilson — representing the Miles to Go running club — finished 32nd in a time of 17:47 to miss out on repeating her All-American status of last year...

EMINENCE -- The South Putnam Eagle basketball team traveled to Eminence on Saturday night on the heels of a disappointing county loss to North Putnam the night before. The Eagles responded with a hard-fought 58-53 non-conference victory to improve to 2-1 on the season...

NEW MARKET - Cloverdale and Southmont went into Saturday night’s matchups on very contrasting paths, as the Clovers were blown out on Friday while the Mounties earned an emotional one-point overtime over a county rival. So the big question was would each team continue its path from Friday or would something change?...

BOYS Cloverdale 56, Southmont 46 South Putnam 58, Eminence 53 (Allen Plunkett 33 points) BOYS Adams Central 53, Madison-Grant 52 Anderson 66, New Castle 57 Argos 79, N. Judson 39 Barr-Reeve 62, Orleans 30 Bedford N. Lawrence 57, Terre Haute North 45...

BAINBRIDGE — The North Putnam Cougars hosted their county rival from South Putnam Friday night in the Western Indiana Conference opener for both girls’ basketball teams. Scoring was at a premium as the host Cougars avenged an earlier loss (56-39 in the Putnam County Classic) to the Eagles by winning a physical, tough game 32-31...

The coaches: Todd Hanni is in his first year at Eminence. Greg Dean is in his fifth year at South Putnam. So far: South Putnam beat Clay City 67-50 and lost 44-40 in overtime to North Putnam. Eminence lost 63-50 to Monrovia and 65-43 to White River Valley, beat Riverton Parke 49-47 and beat North Central 74-67...

CLOVERDALE — Both Edgewood and Cloverdale had a team entering the night at No. 12 in the state rankings on Friday night, and the favorites justified those positions with big wins in the Western Indiana Conference season-opening doubleheader. In the girls’ game, the Clovers never trailed after being down 4-3 and went on to record a 55-33 victory...

The Greencastle girls and boys basketball teams opened Western Indiana Conference play Friday night with a pair of impressive victories over West Vigo at McAnally Center. Greencastle’s girls matched their season high scoring with a 73-27 victory over West Vigo while improving to 7-3 on the season...

***Western Indiana Conference games __BOYS__ North Putnam 44, South Putnam 40 (OT) Greencastle 45, West Vigo 35 Edgewood 88, Cloverdale 47 __GIRLS__ Cloverdale 55, Edgewood 33 Greencastle 73, West Vigo 27 North Putnam 32, South Putnam 31

CLINTON — With just one senior on the roster and four of his top seven players being just sophomores, South Putnam girls’ basketball coach Brian Gardner knows his young team needs to pick up big road wins to grow as a team. The Eagles picked up a huge one on Wednesday night, hitting 13 of 16 free throws in the fourth period to hang on for a 46-44 win over a potent South Vermillion team...

Cloverdale will have a unique doubleheader next Friday. The Clovers were scheduled to host Indian Creek in a normal girls’/boys’ doubleheader, as happens five nights each season, with the girls playing at 6 and the boys at about 7:30. But when the chance came up for the boys’ game to be played at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Cloverdale jumped at the opportunity...

South Putnam (1-0) at North Putnam (1-0) The coaches: Greg Dean is in his fifth year at South Putnam. Collin McCartt is in his fifth year at North Putnam. On the air: WREB-FM 94.3 will broadcast the game, and www.iscsportsnetwork.com will stream the game online...

The Cougars hosted Southmont and North Vermillion Tuesday night. The Cougar girls and boys both lost to Southmont but beat North Vermillion. “We are seeing improvement already since last week while trying to figure out where best to utilize our athletes,” North coach Jeremy Tidd said...

CLOVERDALE — The Cloverdale Lady Clover basketball team was able to overcome an improving North Putnam Cougar basketball team on Tuesday night, 60-45 in girls’ high school basketball. The Clovers were able to methodically pull away from a resilient Cougar squad behind 27 points from Sammie Shrum and a big double-double night, 18 points and 20 rebounds, from Tori Combs...

By Joey Bennett Sports Editor LIZTON — Self-inflicted wounds. Unforced errors. Pick your own metaphor. Greencastle’s 25 turnovers and inability to corral missed shots on Tuesday night cost the Tiger Cubs a game they had a chance to win, a 74-67 loss to Tri-West...

Jaxon Parmley is a senior at Greencastle and participates in golf. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Jaxon Parmley: “Sports have definitely taught me a lot. I play golf pretty much all day every day when the weather allows during the season. ...

The pair of former Putnam County football coaches who took teams to Indianapolis last weekend for the state finals wound up on the short end in two very different games. On Friday, former South Putnam coach Troy Burgess saw his team battle Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger to a scoreless tie through regulation in the 4A title game, and eventually lose 16-10 in a state finals-record four overtimes...

A huge overtime victory on Saturday night over previously top-10 ranked Danville has vaulted Greencastle into the “others receiving votes” category in the weekly Associated Press boys’ basketball rankings. The Tiger Cubs are in a four-way tie for 17th place along with Batesville, Danville and South Bend Washington...

Nick Sutherlin may be a sophomore with little varsity experience, but he obviously isn’t afraid of the big moment, the big stage or the big shot. After going scoreless and attempting just four shots from the floor for nearly four quarters of play, the Sutherlin packed 12 points into the closing minutes of regulation play and four minutes of overtime in Greencastle’s 58-48 overtime victory against Class 3A No. 7 ranked Danville...