Sports

Linton junior Lincoln Hale was well on his way to leading the Miners back to Bankers Life Fieldhouse before the boys basketball tournament was cancelled last week. With the boys basketball season coming to a more than unexpected early end, it’s finally time to announce the postseason honors and Hale brought home a couple All-State honors to the Linton community...

Linton junior Vanessa Shafford was named an Indiana Junior All-Star and Underclassmen All-State Supreme 15 by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA) and Subway. The Junior All-Stars were selected by the IBCA all-state panel in conjunction with its selection of the IBCA/Subway Underclassmen All-State team...

During this odd time with no sports going on locally and beyond, it’s put a noticeable strain on sports writers across the country who don’t cover national sports like the NFL. With that in mind, we would like to hear from you, the readers, about what you would like us to cover or just general questions you have for us about covering Greene County sports this school year...

FIRST TEAM Lincoln Hale, Junior, Linton-Stockton Key Stats: 23.4 ppg, 6.1 rpg, 3.1 apg, 1485 career points Guard Lincoln Hale had as good a season as anybody in the Wabash Valley as he led the Miners in scoring en route to their 8th straight 20 win season...

Bloomfield Cardinal Turner Royal spoke to the Daily World Thursday afternoon just hours before the IHSAA’s announcement to cancel the boys basketball tournament, ending Royal’s basketball career at Bloomfield. “The past couple weeks have been pretty disheartening,” Royal said. “Especially because I am a senior and I could potentially be done with high school basketball.”...

With Thursday’s announcement from the IHSAA to cancel the remaining boys basketball tournament games, one local team, that happens to be one of the top teams in 2A, had their season ended prematurely. The Linton-Stockton Miners season ended at 24-2, but what a season it was...

Following today’s directive by Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb that all Indiana schools will be closed until May 1, the Indiana High School Athletic Association announces that this year’s IHSAA boys basketball state tournament is officially cancelled...

The current COVID-19 situation is difficult on everyone and two local basketball teams had their march toward a state championship halted for the time being, with no real timeline on when they will be able to resume play. Linton captain Lincoln Hale said, “We are all staying positive about the virus situation. We just really want to play the rest of our season.”...

In this interesting time we are currently living in, I get asked the same question a lot, what does a sports editor write about when there’s no sports? To be honest, I didn’t think I’d have to deal with that until the summer when schools let out and the spring season ends, but now I’m like a lot of other people in this country, just figuring this thing out as we go...

Question: How will the school closings affect spring sports? Charlie Karazsia: “We don’t go back to school until April 6th, our softball team began practicing last week, so all they need is four more practices and they can start playing games on the 10th. ...

Due to the number of schools closing after today for an extended period of time, it has become apparent the IHSAA boys basketball tournament series cannot be completed as scheduled. Subsequently, the boys basketball tournament is postponed immediately...

With Friday’s announcement that the IHSAA boys basketball tournament was being postponed that left two local teams in an awkward situation. The Bloomfield Cardinals and Linton Miners were preparing all week to play in the biggest games of their seasons to this point, before the announcement to postpone came out around noon Friday...

White River Valley senior Mia McDonald signed her letter of intent to continue her academic and athletic careers at Manchester University. McDonald will continue her volleyball career as a member of the Spartans and plans to study elementary education...

The IHSAA announced that the boys basketball regional games this weekend will be closed to all non-essential personnel Thursday afternoon. Bloomfield head coach and athletic director J.B. Neill, who has been preparing his team to play all week to play in front of a large and noisy crowd, responded to the announced changes this afternoon...

WIth the announcement today that the boys basketball regionals this weekend will be closed off to all non-essential personnel, Linton-Stockton High School Athletic Director Charlie Karazsia responded by saying the changes are “unfortunate but good”...

White River Valley senior Sydney Davidson signed her letter of intent Tuesday morning to continue her academic and athletic career by playing softball at Lincoln College in Lincoln, Ill, just over a 30 minute drive northeast from Springfield. “I really liked that all of the coaches interacted with the team a lot,” Sydney said. “The coaches were nice and welcoming at Lincoln and they had a really tight bond with all of the players, so I think that’s what made me decide to go with Lincoln.”...

The Greene County Daily World is proud to announce its 2020 All-Sectional 47 Team Sam Rees, Eastern Greene Kip Fougerousse, Linton-Stockton Lincoln Hale, Linton-Stockton Josh Pyne, Linton-Stockton Edric Cash, Mitchell Holtman Doades, North Knox Justin Fickling, South Knox...

The Greene County Daily World is proud to announce it's 2020 All-Sectional 57 team. Turner Royal, Bloomfield Baylin Graf, Bloomfield Tanner Denham, White River Valley Coy Gilbert, Shakamak Bryton Suggs, North Central (Farmersburg) Devin Stienstra, Shakamak...

The Linton Miners won their second consecutive sectional championship Saturday night, defeating the South Knox Spartans by a score of 48-45. It never seemed like a guarantee early on that the Miners would repeat as sectional champs, as the Spartans raced ahead to a 14-11 first quarter lead, despite turning the ball over 5 times in the quarter,...

The Bloomfield Cardinals are once again Sectional 57 champions after defeating host White River Valley 42-22 in what can best be described as a defensive slugfest. WRV struck first, scoring the first four points of the game before the Cardinals finally got on the board six minutes into the game...

The Eastern Greene Thunderbirds fell in the semi-final round of Sectional 47 to the South Knox Spartans by a score of 52-36. The Thunderbirds had to play without one of their starters, Sam Rees, who had to sit out tonight’s semi-final game due to be disqualified during Tuesday’s quarterfinal match-up against Mitchell...

The Linton Miners moved on the championship round in Sectional 47, defeating the North Knox Warriors on their own court by a score of 65-58. The win marks Linton’s 15th straight victory of the year and the second straight year the Miners have made it to the sectional championship...

Sectional 57 host White River Valley treated their hometown crowd to a postseason thriller Friday night as the Wolverines defeated North Central 60-49 in double overtime. WRV jumped out on North Central early and held a steady five-point advantage for most of the game...

The No. 13-ranked Bloomfield Cardinals caught fire from behind the arc in route to an 83-49 victory over Shakamak in the Sectional 57 semifinals. Bloomfield got going early, sinking six three’s in the first quarter, on their way to an astounding 30-point first quarter...

The White River Valley Wolverines were aided by a loud and energetic home crowd as the Wolverines advanced past Clay City 43-28 Tuesday night. The early stages of the game were very back-and-forth, with the first six made shots in the game coming from behind the three-point arc...