Stories from Wednesday, May 8, 2019

LITTLE CINCINNATI -- Eastern-Greene played a conference doubleheader Tuesday evening, partially to make up rained-out games, and their foes unleashed deluges on the Lady Thunderbirds. The Lady T-Birds (0-16, 0-6) played both Bloomfield and Linton-Stockton. Bloomfield (3-8, 2-3) unleashed a 15-2 storm, and Linton (11-8, 6-0) needed only five innings to win 18-1...

Baseball HATCHETS 8, CARDINALS 0 At Bloomfield Tuesday The Washington Hatchets put three runs on the board in each of the last two frames to down the Bloomfield Cardinals (1-14). “It was much better than an 8-0 game,” Bloomfield coach Jason Pegg said. “The kids played well.”...

Amy Wadhwan, White River Valley’s freshman sponsor, spent a morning and afternoon with her charges recently at Lyons Town Park, where approximately 70 WRV freshmen completed a total park clean-up, picking up trash, raking and bagging leaves, piling sticks in a burn pile, sanitizing tables and toys, sweeping off tennis courts and basketball courts, sweeping the shelters, tightening the tennis net and picking weeds from the tennis court...

The Bloomfield Cardinals gave the Edgewood Mustangs a gallop for their money. But ultimately Edgewood had the horses. Bloomfield brought its most impressive offensive performance of the season to the diamond Wednesday. Unfortunately the offensive display wasn’t enough to take down the fifth-ranked team in Class 3A...

The Linton Miners jumped all over Brown County early, leading 11-0 after two innings of play to clip the visiting Eagles’ wings 14-4 in four-and-a-half innings Wednesday. The Miners came out ready to hit, putting up four runs in the first inning and busting loose for seven in the second frame...

This story has been updated to correct the name of Eastern's opponent.

Lawrence “Larry” H. Ehrmann, age 78, of Coal City, passed away peacefully at 8:10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, at Aperion Care of Spencer. He was born in Chicago, Ill. on September 19, 1940, the son of Henry and Margaret (Morris) Ehrmann. Larry worked as a self-employed sales engineer and part-time police officer in Hazel Crest, Ill. and in Spencer. He was a member of the Fraternal Order of Police of Spencer and an active Knights of Columbus Father Ryan Council 6679 in Linton...

After 48 years at Bloomfield legendary basketball coach Ron McBride has decided to move on to the next phase of his life. WTHI-TV 10 Sports reported Wednesday McBride informed the station of his intentions to retire as Bloomfield’s boys basketball coach and Athletic Director, effective at the end of the school year...