Sports

In the brief history of the Daily World’s Greene County sports replay series we have covered two high school girls games and a junior high tournament. The omission of the high school boys season to this point isn’t an indictment of the season that was, I’ve just had a difficult time figuring out the best game that I saw this past year to talk about first...

Bloomfield senior Hannah Walls was named one of only two recipients of the Patricia L. Roy Memorial Scholarship given out by the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association (ICGSA). The scholarship is named after Patricia L. Roy, who was the IHSAA’s first Director of Girls Athletics as well as the state’s first female Assistant Commissioner...

The 2020 Stephen L. Campbell Scholarship Fund announced in a statement this week that their annual golf scramble will take place as scheduled on June 20th. Up until a few days ago we weren’t sure if or when we would be able to host the 2020 Campbell Scramble, which funds scholarships for our White River Valley High School seniors, however we have decided to go ahead and have the Campbell Scramble as planned on June 20th, tee time of 9 a.m., the statement read...

Former Eastern Greene Thunderbird Mike Burris announced that he would be joining the coaching staff of the University of Indianapolis men’s basketball team after spending 19 seasons at Olney Central College in Illinois. Burris will serve as the assistant coach to incoming Greyhound coach Paul Corsaro who returns to UIndy after two seasons as assistant coach at Fort Wayne...

On May 21, 1910 the Linton High School track team competed in only the seventh track and field state championship meet and came away with the win by just half a point. Linton High School sent a five-man team of Elza Price, Frank Brantley, Emil Haseman, Lex Sherwood and Elmer Oliphant to compete at Ingalls Field on the campus of Wabash College in Crawfordsville...

One of the more interesting, non-high school sporting events I’ve gotten the pleasure of covering during my time with the Daily World so far has to be the Hawks in the Hall tournament at Assembly Hall. The Hawks in the Hall tournament was hosted by the Saint Charles School of Bloomington and the 2020 tournament was the 12th such tournament...

In the second edition of the Greene County sports replay, I will be discussing the Class 2A girls State Championship game between Linton and Frankton from this past February. This game was played just under the wire in retrospect as the IHSAA decided to postpone the boys basketball state tournament 13 days after the girls tournament finished in Indianapolis...

As the local sports scene continues to be empty, sports reporters like me are beginning to have to find new and unique ways to still connect with their audience. I was gifted the idea for ‘Senior Spotlight’ by Linton softball coach Beth Wernz and now after two months it appears like I have exhausted that idea...

Q: What led you to choose Hanover? Aubrey Walton: Hanover was the first school I visited and from day one I fell in love with it. The equipment for my major, kinesiology potential physical therapy and the campus was beyond beautiful. When I talked to coach Preocanin he mentioned things about the team it seemed like a family. ...

Linton senior lineman Tyler Mongeau signed his name on the dotted line to join the Hanover Panthers football team this fall. Mongeau played both offensive and defensive lineman for the Miners and was a three-year starter for Linton. Tyler was an anchor force on a dominant Miner defense in 2019 that only gave up an average of 15 points per game and finished the season 9-2...

Linton senior Aubrey Walton signed her letter of intent to continue her academic and athletic careers at Hanover College in the fall. Walton is coming off an impressive 2019 season that ended with a team-high 837 set assists and new career-high of 8.7 assists per set...

Spring sport: Baseball Main academic interest and/or college plans: Plan to go into the workforce Favorite color: Blue Favorite musical artist: J-Bird Favorite food: Pizza Favorite moment from your career: Winning baseball sectionals my junior year Favorite athlete: LeBron James...