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TERRE HAUTE -- One more game and then Ben Burris gets to serve coach Uncle Sam. Burris, who graduated Linton-Stockton this spring, will block on the offensive line for the Gold team Saturday night during the Wabash Valley Football Conference Association All-Star game. Burris then leaves Wednesday, July 3, to join the U.S. Army...

TERRE HAUTE -- Jaden Evans is learning to play some new spots this week. Evans, who graduated Eastern-Greene this spring, has been playing safety and linebacker during the practices for Saturday night’s Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association All-Star Game. Evans played cornerback and wide receiver for the Thunderbirds last fall...

Ball State University sophomore Abby Denham was recently named to the Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Academic All-Mid-American Conference Team. Denham, a former standout at White River Valley, was one of 14 Cardinals named to the team. Athletes who were named to the team had to have at least a 3.20 cumulative grade-point average and to have participated in at least half of the contests of their sport...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Lincoln Hale and Turner Royal took their game to the next level Saturday afternoon at Ben Davis High School. Hale, a junior at Linton-Stockton, and Royal, a Bloomfield senior, played Saturday in the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association Underclass Showcase at Ben Davis High School. They played three scrimmages of hoops before scouts from various colleges...

WORTHINGTON -- Just 62 more miles to go. Chris Franich of Worthington is riding a unicycle 100 miles this month in order to raise money for curing cancer. He said he learned of the Great Cycle Challenge USA from Facebook. Participants ride 100 miles in June to raise money to fight children’s cancer. Franich said he committed to raising $500 and has brought in $585 so far, people making their donations through the Facebook page...

The 2019 Steve Campbell Scholarship Scramble was postponed due to rain. It has been rescheduled for June 29 at 9 a.m. If you signed up a team to play on earlier please confirm you would still like to play June 29 so your team’s spot can be reserved. You can confirm by calling Phil Harris (812) 847-4790, or by texting/calling Charlotte Blankenship (202) 302-1648...

The basketball season just never seems to end for some players. The Indiana Basketball Coaches Association has invited three Greene County players to participate in the IBCA/IHSAA Underclass Showcase events. The boys’ workout is scheduled for this Saturday, June 22, at Ben Davis High School, 1200 N. Girls School Rd., Indianapolis. The girls’ workout is slated for Monday, July 15, at the same high school...

Varsity and junior varsity basketball teams from 22 high schools convened in Linton Monday and Tuesday for the Miner Shootout, two days of summer basketball hosted by Linton-Stockton High School. Now in its eighth year, the annual mid-June event raises funds for the Linton basketball program.

ANDERSON – Three Linton-Stockton basketball players joined a select group of 140 Indiana high schoolers who put their talents on display Friday in the Indiana Class Basketball All-Star Classic, a two-day showcase at Anderson University’s Kardatzke Wellness Center...

LINTON -- Megan Eberhardt will continue a family tradition. She graduated Linton-Stockton High School this spring and will leave Greene County Aug. 6 to join the U.S. Air Force. Eberhardt will follow in the footsteps of many relatives who have served their country that way...

Linton-Stockton sophomore standout Lincoln Hale has received his first official offer to play college basketball at the Division I level. Hale was extended an invitation to play for the Indiana State University Sycamores and Coach Greg Lansing. Hale announced Wednesday on Twitter: “I am blessed to have received an offer from Indiana State University! Thank you Coach Lansing and the rest of the coaching staff!”...

Another baseball season has come and gone. And for two Greene County teams – the Linton Miners and the Shakamak Lakers – the season didn’t last quite as long as either hoped. Both enjoyed fine seasons. The Miners ended up with a stellar 22-7 record, ranked fifth in Class 2A. The Lakers finished 15-8 and won the 25th sectional championship in school history...

Now celebrating its 11th anniversary, the Indiana Class Basketball All-Star Classic takes place this weekend on the campus at Anderson University. More than 140 Indiana high schoolers will put their talents on display in the two-day showcase at Anderson University’s Kardatzke Wellness Center...

The Greene County Stingrays are preparing to swim into a new season. The swim club, now in its 52nd season, paddled off its season last week as its swimmers began practice at the A.M. Risher Aquatic Center in Linton. “We’ve only been in the water for four days,” said coach Kyle Kirchner...

Pictures have been added from the Jun 11 SWIAC banquet. This story has been edited to correct an error about which school Luke Lannan attends.

Linton-Stockton’s junior high track teams just concluded a smashing season. Both teams, boys and girls, won the Southwest Indiana Athletic Conference meets on May 11. Members of the teams went on to compete May 18 in the state junior high meets at Terre Haute South...

MONTGOMERY – It wasn’t quite the finish Eastern Greene golfer Devin Moss was hoping for in his final competitive high school tournament. Still, having the opportunity to tee it up at Country Oaks Golf Club in the Washington Regional was a fitting culmination to a fine high school career and a just reward for the player who tied for second in the Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference tournament and was the second individual qualifier to advance from the Phil Harris sectional...

Nicole Fougerousse, NF Softball Performance, will be hosting the fourth annual All Skills Softball Camp at the Linton Youth Complex in Linton, Indiana on Tuesday, June 18. Instructors include coaches from Transylvania University, Centre College, and former professional player for the Chicago Bandits, Rachel Folden...

A former Thunderbird is returning to the nest. Jamie Hudson, a 1995 Eastern Greene graduate who most recently coached at Bloomfield has been hired as the new varsity boys basketball coach at Eastern. When Jon Neill stepped down last month after six seasons at the Thunderbird helm Eastern Greene didn’t have to look very far to find its next coach. He was already in the building...

From Montenegro to Bloomfield to Missouri. Aleksa Markovic will play basketball at Missouri Southern next fall. A transfer student from Montenegro, Markovic helped the Bloomfield Cardinals make their run to the Washington Semistate last season. Missouri Southern is in Joplin, Mo., located in southwestern Missouri, right on the Missouri-Oklahoma state line. Last season, the Lions finished with a 25-8 mark and a trip to the NCAA Division II Sweet Sixteen...

Eastern Greene track athlete Farrah Young will have a chance to continue her track career at the next level. The Lady Thunderbird senior recently signed her letter of intent to run for the Franklin College Grizzlies. And she is grateful for the opportunity. “My dad never got the chance to run in college so I figured I’d run for him.”...

Monday’s IHSAA boys golf sectional at Phil Harris Golf Course wasn’t a complete shutout for Greene County’s five high school golf teams. Eastern Greene linkster Devin Moss made sure of that. Although none of the five teams will advance to Thursday’s regional, Moss will...

BLOOMINGTON -- She plans on returning next year. Linton-Stockton sophomore Vanessa Shafford finished 22nd in the discus Saturday afternoon at Indiana University in the state track meet. Her best throw was 115 feet, seven inches, a bit below the throw of 125-4 that earned her third place in the Bloomington North Regional and the throw of 128-1 that earned her first place in the sectional...

This story has been updated with comments from Clayton Hoover.

MORRISTOWN – The University Trailblazers started strong, finished stronger and finished off the Shakamak Lakers 9-0 in the championship game of the Morristown Regional Saturday. The Trailblazers pounded out 10 hits, scoring three in the first and putting six on the board in the sixth...