Stories from Saturday, December 23, 2017

As the last week in December rolls around each year basketball fans in the Greater Terre Haute area look forward to four days jam-packed with high school hoops in an electric tournament atmosphere. The 18th annual First Financial Wabash Valley Classic gets underway Tuesday, December 26 at Terre Haute North...

While one of our Greene County Daily World reporters was speaking with a source earlier this week, he said, “People just don’t realize how much Linton and Greene County have to offer.” With weeks like the one we have seen, those words could not be truer...

LITTLE CINCINNATI -- The big Dawgs ran over the Lady Thunderbirds Friday night at Eastern. Union (7-4) cleaned up the offensive boards and exploited the Lady Thunderbirds’ turnovers to hand Eastern (1-10) a 57-29 loss. Eastern coach Justin Burris pointed out the Lady T-Birds threw the ball away more than 30 times even though they knew the Lady Bulldogs would press and use a zone defense...

The University of Southern Indiana named a former White River Valley basketball standout to its Hall of Fame. USI will induct Marc Hostetter into the Hall of Fame on Feb. 2. Hostetter played point guard for the Screamin' Eagles from 1993 through 1997, leading the team to the 1995 NCAA Division II national championship. He is now head basketball coach at Mt. Vernon High School in Posey County and assistant principal of Mt. Vernon Junior High...