Sports

It took a few months longer than normal, but the Linton-Stockton girls basketball team finally received their state championship rings Monday night. “It’s a really good feeling,” Coach Jared Rehmel said. “It’s a lot of hard work and dedication and a lot of years of putting in a lot of long hours. Just really nice to get something to show for all the hard work. Obviously, it was a little later than expected and what we wanted to but we are just happy to get it in.”...

For Linton-Stockton Varsity Football Coach Brian Oliver, just getting back to practice in hopes of a full season is a victory. “It always feels good being able to come out here and get back to some football and being around the boys again and all the coaches and start doing what we love,” he said...

Last season the Linton-Stockton Boys Tennis team ended with a disappointing 5-0 defeat to the eventual sectional champion in Bloomfield. Coach Cory Beeson knows his team will be more competitive in 2020. “I think we will surprise some people this year. Last year this team was very young, very inexperienced,” Beeson said, “A lot of them out here for the first time and now they are coming back with experience.”...

The Linton-Stockton Miners varsity volleyball team received the 2019-20 American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic award for outstanding academic achievement. The honor is given to teams that have maintained a cumulative GPA of at least 3.3 on a 4.0 scale...

VINCENNES – Bloomfield graduate Elizabeth Combs is among three recent signings by the Vincennes University volleyball team. Combs, a middle blocker and opposite hitter, will be joined by Jamie Russell (East St. Louis, Ill.) middle blocker/outside hitter and outside/opposite hitter Amee Beedle (Wheaton, Ill.)...

The Indiana High School Athletic Association ended a long period of speculation about the 2020-21 fall sports season on Wednesday by announcing that all previous dates for practice and game competition will remain intact. The IHSAA announced the following on its Twitter account:...

INDIANAPOLIS – Linton-Stockton grad Kip Fougerousse started at third base and batted four times in Thursday night’s College Summer League All-Star Game at Victory Field. Fougerousse struck out his first time at bat, grounded out in his next two plate appearances and reached on an error in his fourth at-bat. He advanced to third base but was unable to score...

TERRE HAUTE — The game was delayed two days by weather. It was played two weeks later than normal due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the weather was hot. Some of the players scheduled to perform didn’t make it and many players played considerably more snaps than normally happens...

Linton-Stockton grad Kip Fougerousse was hoping to get to play baseball in Victory Field this year, and he will get his wish on Thursday when he competes in the College Summer League All-Star Game at the home of the Indianapolis Indians. Fougerousse would no doubt have preferred to play in one of the nation’s top minor-league parks with his Miner teammates during the IHSAA State Finals last month, but COVID-19 canceled the spring high school season...