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The 2019 volleyball season saw the five teams from Greene County compete with everything they had to the very end. The five schools combined for a 74-72 record this season, with two teams finishing with over 20 wins on the year. Bloomfield had an impressive postseason run, which began with recapturing their sectional crown. The highlight of their postseason was winning the regional championship down 2-0 in the championship match...

The Dugger Union Lady Bulldogs began their 2019-20 season with a true test in the Southern Roads Conference Tournament at Medora Saturday. Dugger began their day by taking on Columbus Christian in the first round of the tournament. The game began as a defensive battle, with the Bulldogs holding a 4-3 lead after the first quarter...

The Shakamak Lakers 2018 season ended with a 6-20 record, which has continued the downward trend in the past couple of seasons, but the 2018 season wasn’t viewed as a disappointment, as the Lakers found themselves one win away from a Sectional Championship in March...

The Linton Lady Miners entered the 2019-2020 season with high hopes thanks in part to receive enough votes to be tied for the number two spot in the 2A rankings, tied with North Judson. Saturday night they justified their ranking against 1A opponent West Washington...

Tonight's Bloomfield girls' basketball game at Northview has been rescheduled to Nov. 16. The two teams were scheduled to have a JV game at 6 p.m. and varsity game at 7:30 p.m. this evening. The scheduling change was confirmed through the IHSAA.

The White River Valley Wolverines are looking to learn from last year’s mistakes and turn out a more successful season in 2019. WRV’s season last year came to an end with a heart-breaking three-overtime thriller against Shakamak in the opening round of Sectionals...

The Shakamak Lady Lakers traveled to West Vigo Thursday night as they looked to begin the new season with an impressive win over the 3A Lady Vikings. Shakamak got off to a slow start, trailing 16-7 at the end of the first quarter, but kept working at it as the game went along, never giving up...

The Linton Miner boy’s basketball team is coming off of a historic season in 2018, where the Miners reached the State Finals for the second time in school history. Head Coach Joey Hart is returning several players from last year’s team that finished 27-4 on the season, and made a return appearance to Bakers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis for the first time since 2013...

The 2019-20 Bloomfield Cardinals will be looking to have another successful postseason after reaching Semi-State last year. Bloomfield will begin the new season under new head coach J.B. Neill who has had plenty of winning seasons over his ten year coaching career at WRV, Shakamak and Edgewood, including winning a Sectional Championship in 2018 as head coach at Edgewood...

The Dugger Union Bulldogs basketball team is coming off a 9-15 season in 2018, and is looking to learn from their mistakes, and improve as a team this season. The Bulldogs are bolstered by the returning trio of Ben Dobbins, Blake Simpson and Russton Gilstrap...

Eastern Greene opened their season with a win for the fifth time in a row with the 63-24 win over Bloomington LIghthouse tuesday night. Eastern jumped out on the Lady Lions early, holding a 31-9 lead at halftime. The Lady Thunderbirds defense was a big factor in the early stages of the game, holding Lighthouse without a made field goal in the second quarter of play, and allowing only one point in the eight minute period...

Head Coach Jamie Hudson takes over as head coach of the Eastern Greene Thunderbirds for the 2019-20 season. This will be Hudson’s 14th season as a head coach, having previously coached at Vincennes Rivet, Bedford North Lawrence and Bloomfield. Hudson is also a graduate of Eastern Greene High School. “I am very familiar with the SWIAC conference,” Hudson said. “I’m excited to be back home leading a program that I have so much passion for.”...

The South Knox pressure defense caused the Lady Wolverines fits all night, as WRV committed 33 turnovers in their first game of the season. South Knox propelled themselves to victory with a dominant stretch from the second quarter to the third quarter...

The Bloomfield Lady Cardinals’ season came to disappointing end in the semi-state round of the IHSAA 1A playoffs at the hands of the top ranked Trinity Lutheran Cougars. Early on, it appeared as though Bloomfield was ready to upset the Cougars. Bloomfield found themselves up 10-7 early in the first set, forcing a Trinity Lutheran time out. ...

The Shakamak Cross Country duo of Jacy Collins and Damon Kesler represented Greene County well while competing at the State Championship meet Saturday afternoon. When competing at the State finals level in a sport such as Cross Country that has not adopted the Class system we see in football and basketball, small schools are normally rarely seen...

Chances are, if you spot senior Elizabeth Combs walking around Bloomfield, you would mistake her for a basketball player. “It’s the first thing people ask me.” And that could not be more wrong. “My brothers play basketball in college, but it is not my thing. I am terrible at it.”...

The Bloomfield Lady Cardinals basketball team has been on a tremendous run the past few seasons, reaching the sectional championship game each of the last four years, resulting in three championships for the Lady Cards. Head Coach Ron Knepp is entering his fifth season at the helm in Bloomfield and will be looking to replace five seniors from last year’s team...

The White River Valley Lady Wolverines are going through their final preparations before the season starts next week, and will have some key pieces to replace from last year’s team. WRV graduated four seniors, three of were starters, and are looking to replace their two leading scorers from 2018...

Believe it or not, this friday is the first day of Novemeber and as the football and volleyball postseasons are already in full swing, parts of Greene County are getting set for basketball season. With the first day of practices looming under two weeks away, make sure you are fully prepared to cheer on your favorite high school boy’s basketball team by marking your calendars with their 2019-2020 schedules listed below...

Former White River Valley pole vaulter Matt Campbell was inducted into the Missouri Southern State University Athletics Hall of Fame on Oct. 19. Campbell was inducted along with teammates and fellow pole vaulters Kyle Rutledge and Chris Turner. Campbell, Rutledge and Turner were described as “one of the most dominant groups of pole vaulters that the NCAA Division II has ever seen”...

The Bloomfield Lady Cardinals found themselves in another postseason match-up with Hauser, this time in the championship round of the Morristown Regional Saturday night. Hauser ended Bloomfield’s 2018 season at Morristown in the opening round of regionals a year ago, and Bloomfield was looking to exercise some demons and get over the Hauser hump...

Greene County was well represented again this weekend with four school sending at least one runner to Semi-State, and one Greene County team running at Brown County. Bloomfield was represented by Adalyn Wiseman who had a good showing at Saturday’s semi-state race. Wiseman finished 139th with a time of 22:56.2...

The Bloomfield Lady Cardinals advanced to the Regional Championship in Morristown after defeating Indianapolis Lutheran in four sets. Bloomfield came out on a mission jumping out to a huge lead early. The Cards reached a lead as big as 21-7 in set one...

The Linton Miner football got past their sectional quarter-final opponent, the North Posey Vikings, by a score of 51-0. The game represents a very important first step in the Miners' quest of seeking their second state championship, and first as a 2A school...