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NASHVILLE – One Greene County team and six individual runners made the field of the Brown County Semistate Saturday, but only one runner advanced. Shakamak junior Jacy Collins finished 18th overall with a time of 19 minutes, 20.4 seconds. She advanced to the state meet next Saturday as an individual runner...

MORRISTOWN – The Bloomfield Lady Cardinals came so close – agonizingly close. With Saturday’s regional volleyball match against the Hauser Lady Jets all square at one set apiece the Lady Cardinals saw a seven-point lead disappear. Now trailing two sets to one Bloomfield quickly fell eight points behind in the fourth. The resilient Lady Cardinals rallied forcing the set to extra points...

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FERDINAND – Neither rain nor the Forest Park Rangers could stop the Linton-Stockton express Friday night. The Miners (5-5) ran off five touchdowns in the first half to romp to a 42-7 win over Forest Park (1-9) in the first round of Sectional 40. Lance Dyer, who carried eight times for 53 yards, said the Miners played with mucho intensity because they knew a loss would mean sitting at home next week...

LITTLE CINCINNATI – For the Rock Creek Academy Lions Friday night was a “Welcome to postseason football” moment. And the visiting Lions couldn’t have drawn a much tougher opponent than the Eastern Greene Thunderbirds. Eastern Greene (6-3) put up six first-half scores and cruised to a 46-6 win in the first round of Class A Sectional 48...

Samantha Dinks doesn’t want other student-athletes to go through what she did. An avid softball player, Samantha developed rheumatoid arthritis in Sullivan Junior High. Not only did the disease keep her off the diamond, she couldn’t attend school. “I had to quit going to public school because of all of the walking,” Samantha said. Sometimes, her mother Tina Dinkins said, “she would go by a ball field and cry.”...

The tennis season of brothers Sammy and Silas Robbins ended Saturday on the courts of Bedford-North Lawrence. The brothers, both students at Linton-Stockton, fell to a pair of Greensburg players 6-4, 6-0 Saturday in the individual regional at Bedford...

The regular season has concluded and the second season begins. Sectional play commences Friday as the 46th Annual IHSAA Football State Tournament kicks off. The postseason quest starts for the Linton-Stockton Miners with a trip to Ferdinand to take on the Forest Park Rangers in the first round of Class 2A Sectional 40...

Some Lions will invade Eastern-Greene’s aerie this Friday. Rock Creek Academy (2-7) will come to Little Cincinnati to take on Eastern (5-3) in one of the three quarterfinals of Sectional 48. The winner gets to play the victor of the Springs Valley (3-6)-West Washington (7-2) game...

BEDFORD -- Cory Cramer gave himself a big birthday present Saturday morning. The Eastern-Greene senior placed 33rdin the Bedford-North Regional Saturday with a time of 17:30.17, his best ever at Bedford. The time proved good enough for Cramer to advance to the Brown County Semistate at 11:30 a.m. this Saturday. The top 10 runners who are not on an advancing team get to move on as individuals. Not only did he move on from the regional, Cramer celebrated his 17th birthday...

Shakamak lacked a full complement of players Saturday morning and Clay City easily prevailed in the second Clay City Sectional semifinal. The Lady Eels triumphed 25-8, 25-14, 25-20 over a Shakamak squad without four players. Cloe Hinkle and Mercedes Phillips missed the sectional because of injuries...

The Lady Cardinals opened sectional play Saturday morning by sweeping North Central. Bloomfield humbled North Central 25-11, 25-13, 25-12 in the first semifinal of the Clay City Sectional. Bloomfield coach Deanna Potts said the Lady Cardinals delivered a strong effort to beat their conference3 rival...

A trio of White River Valley runners will return to the site of this week’s cross country regional for next week’s semistate meet. Joe Records, Christiane Davis and Eli Crites all finished among the top 10 individuals not on an advancing team in Saturday’s Brown County Regional at Eagle Park earning the right to compete in the semistate one week later at the same venue...

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The time and location of Eastern-Greene's sectional game with Rock Creek Academy has been changed. The game will be played at 7:30 p.m. at Eastern-Greene.

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LITTLE CINCINNATI – The North Knox Lady Warriors vanquished the Eastern Greene Lady Thunderbirds in straight sets 25-14, 25-20 and 25-12 to lay claim to the Class 2A Sectional 47 championship Saturday night at Eastern Greene. It wasn’t a positive end result for the Lady Thunderbirds. But aside from Saturday night’s final score Eastern Greene coach Whitney Russell couldn’t have been happier with the way her team performed during the sectional...

LITTLE CINCINNATI – The Eastern Greene Lady Thunderbirds saved their best performance of the year for when they needed it most – Saturday’s sectional semifinal. In its most important volleyball match to date Eastern defeated the Mitchell Lady Bluejackets – who had swept the Lady Thunderbirds earlier in the season – in a thrilling five-setter to claim a berth in the championship round of Class 2A Sectional 47 on Eastern’s home court...

LITTLE CINCINNATI – The 2018 volleyball season ended sooner that the Linton-Stockton Lady Miners had hoped. Linton was thwarted in its bid for a sectional three-peat losing in straight sets to the North Knox Lady Warriors 25-18, 25-17 and 25-18 in Saturday’s second semifinal of Class 2A Sectional 47...

CLARKSVILLE – One year ago the Providence Pioneers nearly caught the Linton-Stockton Miners from behind. Trailing 32-6 early in the fourth quarter Providence mounted a dramatic comeback. The Pioneers scored four touchdowns but ran out of time as the Miners held firm, 40-34 at Roy Williams Field...

CLAY CITY -- The momentum swung back and forth like a demented pendulum Thursday night, but stayed long enough with Clay City for the Lady Eels to win the second quarterfinal of the Clay City Sectional. The Lady Eels (9-12) defeated White River Valley (13-13) 25-23, 16-25, 25-12, 25-17, notching their second win this season over the Lady Wolverines. ...

LITTLE CINCINNATI – The Linton-Stockton Lady Miners had their way with the North Daviess Lady Cougars in the first round of volleyball sectional play Thursday at Eastern Greene. The Lady Miners (15-15) won handily, never allowing the Lady Cougars to reach double digits in a 25-6, 25-9, 25-9 sweep advancing to the semifinal round of Class 2A Sectional 47...

This Friday’s game between visiting Eastern-Greene and North Central may be the last championship game for the Southwest Indiana Conference. Eastern coach Travis Wray said Tuesday afternoon that the conference’s coaches will formally vote Wednesday on whether to continue Southwest Indiana. Wray noted conference member Wood Memorial canceled its season after only 17 boys reported in July. He added that North Knox has decided to join another conference...

Eastern-Greene will have to stop a monster Friday night to win the Battle of the Thunderbirds. The Little Cincinnati T-Birds (5-2) will have to contain senior running back Dawson Basinger when they travel to Farmersburg at 7:00 p.m. Friday to take on the North Central Thunderbirds (6-1). Eastern will aim to ”four-peat” as Southwest Indiana Conference champions...

The regular season is in the rearview mirror and the postseason has arrived. Volleyball sectional play begins Thursday at two area sites. The regular portion of the schedule concluded Thursday. Teams have had at least a week to practice and prepare for the “second season.” And they’re anxious to get started...