Stories from Saturday, January 11, 2014

The Greene County Invitational has been reformatted due to the winter storm that has wreaked havoc on the area. According to both White River Valley High School athletic director/GCI tournament director J.B. Neill and Media Five Sports Productions head Keith Doades, the tournament will now begin on Thursday night...

Tamera D. Crosley, wife of accused murderer Randal Crosley, was taken into custody Friday evening after warrants were issued for her arrest late Friday afternoon in two separate cases. Crosley is accused of not telling the truth and attempting to mislead officers investigating the death of Katelyn Wolfe last June...

SWITZ CITY -- You couldn't tell it by the way Briar Martindale and Trevor Yoho opened the 2014 Greene County Invitational, but the Eastern Greene Thunderbirds hadn't had a lot of practice in recent days as they waited out the weather to begin the tourney at White River Valley High School in Switz City Saturday morning...

Bloomfield scored 17 of the first 23 points as the host Lady Cardinals defeated Loogootee 61-32 in a high school girls basketball game Saturday at Glover Gymnasium. Alicia Hasler almost outscored LHS by herself as she poured in 27 points, including hitting a pair of 3-pointers and making 11 free throws...

North Knox outscored Eastern Greene 34-21 over the final two quarters as the host Lady Warriors defeated the Lady Thunderbirds 59-37 in a high school girls basketball game at Bicknell Saturday. EGHS dropped to 4-8 with the loss. "They are a great team with a great coach and a great staff," said EG coach Zack Stevens. "Not to take anything away from them, but we shot ourselves in the foot. We had 24 turnovers and you are in for a long day when you give a good team 24 extra possessions...

SWITZ CITY -- It took almost a week, but the first game of the 2014 Greene County Invitational proved to be worth waiting for here Saturday morning. Class 2A No. 12 Linton-Stockton straddled the halftime intermission with a 13-0 run to erase an 11-point White River Valley first half lead, then survived double overtime to post a 58-56 win in the opening round's first game...

SWITZ CITY -- Shakamak missed 10 free throws and committed 16 turnovers as the Lakers suffered a 55-41 loss at the hands of Clay City in the opening round of the Team Raydar Greene County Invitational here Saturday afternoon. There were three ties and three lead changes. Shakamak's largest lead was 12-8 in the first quarter, but the Eels closed the period on a 5-0 spurt, taking a 13-12 advantage over the Lakers (2-7), who never led over the final 24 minutes...

SWITZ CITY -- Union only managed 25 points in the final 24 minutes as Bloomfield pulled away for a 61-42 in a first-round game at the Team Raydar Greene County Invitational here Saturday afternoon. Bloomfield, which defeated Union 58-37 to open the season on Nov. 27, pushed a 18-17 lead after the first quarter to 40-25 at the half and 52-32 after three quarters...