Stories from Saturday, September 8, 2007

DUGGER -- Monrovia turned missed tackles into two big plays as the visitors from Morgan County improved to 3- 1 with a hard-fought 20-15 victory over Union (Dugger) here Friday night in a nonconference high school football game. "You have to give the credit because they came up with some big plays," said Union (Dugger) coach Todd Gambill, whose Bulldogs slipped to 1-3. "But we did not do a very good job of making tackles in the open field...

MARENGO -- The Eastern Greene football team got a monkey off its back Friday night when the Thunderbirds roared back from a 19-point first half deficit to earn a 34-31 win over host Crawford County with less than ninety seconds to go in the game. "It was such a great team effort in the second half," said an emotional Eastern Greene coach Jeff Bond after the win. ...

WEST TERRE HAUTE -- Linton-Stockton had its ups and it had its downs Friday night in their road football contest at West Terre Haute against the Vikings of West Vigo, but in the end the scoreboard is the final judge of a team's success and when the No. 4 Miners saw the triple zeros in the fourth quarter they could breathe a sigh of relief after a 38-9 slow start victory to improve to 4-0 on the season...

ELNORA -- For the second straight year, Bloomfield tennis coach Mike Canty waited for two of his players to compete for the individual championship of the Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference tennis tournament, which led to the Cardinals winning their second straight SWIAC title Saturday in Elnora...