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NASHVILLE – One county runner made it. Sophomore Jacy Collins of Shakamak finished 24th in the Brown County Semistate Saturday morning with a time of nineteen minutes, 2.4 seconds, a new personal record and a time good enough to qualify for the state . She ranked eighth of the runners who were not on teams advancing further...

MITCHELL - After falling nine points behind in the first set the Linton-Stockton Lady Miners rebounded to make a match of it the rest of the way. But in the end the Lady Miners couldn’t quite match the Lady Wildcats of Evansville Mater Dei. Mater Dei wound up winning the opening set 25-17. Linton-Stockton had chances to win the next two but fell 21-25 and 27-29, coming up short in its regional bid in Class 2A Regional 12 at Mitchell...

Shakamak golfer Noah Wisniewski wants to head to the land of koalas and kangaroos this summer to play golf, and he needs help. Wisniewski said he is raising funds to visit Australia this July to play in at least one 18-hole tourney. He said the trip will last 10 days...

Tecumseh erupted for four early touchdowns Friday night to blank the visiting Union Bulldogs 50-0. Union coach Rene Foli said the ‘Dogs (0-8) started out well, but Tecumseh (3-6) exploited poor blocking and some mistakes to rout them. “We didn’t do well,” Foli said. “We had a couple of good first series in the game. We couldn’t get a score, but we moved the ball pretty decent.”...

LITTLE CINCINNATI – The Thunderbirds wasted little time Friday night in placing the pelts of the Cougars upon their walls. Eastern (6-3) scored three touchdowns and a school-record field goal in the first quarter en route to a 57-0 pasting of North Daviess (1-9) in the first round of Sectional 48. ...

Friday’s Class 2A Sectional 40 first round tilt between the Linton-Stockton Miners and the visiting North Posey Vikings at Roy Williams Field was certainly a wild and woolly affair. The harrowing nailbiter came down to the final second - literally. The Miners needed 47 minutes, 59 seconds to repel the invading Viking horde from Posey County. ...

The Linton-Stockton Lady Miners volleyball team etched its name in the history books this past weekend at Mitchell, repeating as Class 2A sectional champions for the first time since the 2004 and 2005 seasons. Now the Lady Miners hope to continue making history Saturday in Class 2A Regional 12, also hosted by Mitchell...

Bloomfield romped over White River Valley Saturday morning to win one sectional semifinal. The Lady Cardinals (14-14) posted a 25-12, 25-13, 25-8 win over WRV (12-18). Bloomfield’s season ended Saturday night when the Lady Cards fell to Clay City in five sets...

Eastern will begin sectional play Friday night with a rematch against North Daviess. The unbeaten Thunderbirds will host North Daviess (1-8) at 7:00 p.m. during the first round of Sectional 48. Eastern pulverized the Cougars 63-7 when the teams met Sept. 2 in Elnora, scoring six touchdowns in the first half...

The 2016 Class A state champion Linton-Stockton Miners are set to embark on another postseason journey. The Miners will have a tougher row to hoe this time around. Linton-Stockton has moved up to Class 2A under the IHSAA’s tournament success factor. And the Miners have been assigned to a highly-competitive 2A Sectional 40...

LITTLE CINCINNATI -- Eastern will forfeit three or four football games from its perfect season. School officials were preparing the sectional roster last week, Eastern Superintendent Ted Baechtold said, when they learned that an academically ineligible player had played for Eastern in four games: Mitchell, Wood memorial, Edinburgh, and Perry Central, all games that the Thunderbirds won by sizable margins. He said the school informed the Indiana High School Athletic Association of the violation...

Shakamak couldn’t change the momentum Saturday afternoon in the second semifinal of the White River Valley Sectional. Clay City (23-4) swept the Lady Lakers (6-23) 25-17, 25-11, 25-12 and advanced to Saturday night’s championship game with Bloomfield...

White River Valley runners Dakota Sparks and Christiane Davis advanced out of Saturday’s Brown County cross country regional at Eagle Park in Nashville. Both will compete as individual qualifiers in next week’s semistate meet, also at Eagle Park. Sparks finished 27th overall in a time of 17 minutes, 24 seconds. Davis placed 28th in the girls race running in 21:49...

This story has been updated to add comments by Bloomfield coach Laura Rose, and it has been slightly rewritten in a couple of places.

This story has been updated to provide quotes from coaches and runners and to add more photos.

MITCHELL - They’ve done it again. The Linton-Stockton Lady Miners volleyball team has repeated as sectional champions. The defending Class 2A Sectional 47 champions made short work of host Mitchell, sweeping the Lady Bluejackets 25-17, 25-8 and 25-16 to claim Linton’s first back-to-back sectional titles since the 2004-2005 seasons...

MITCHELL - The Linton-Stockton Lady Miners dispatched the South Knox Lady Spartans in straight sets 25-23, 25-17 and 25-8 to advance to the championship round of Class 2A volleyball Sectional 47 at Mitchell. The defending sectional champion Lady Miners will face the host Lady Bluejackets, 25-6, 25-14, 15-25 and 25-20 victors over Eastern Greene in the afternoon semifinal...

It wasn’t a fantastic finish as far as the Linton-Stockton Miners were concerned. But it certainly kept the fans at Roy Williams Field on the edge of their seats to the very end. The visiting Providence Pioneers mounted a furious fourth quarter comeback, scoring four touchdowns on a kickoff return, a fumble recovery and a pair of TD strikes from Joe Denis to Manny Schmidt...

LITTLE CINCINNATI – Eastern came back from the dead Friday night to record the first perfect season in school history. The Thunderbirds rallied from two deficits to beat visiting North Central (8-1) 22-14 on Senior Night. The victory in the battle of the Thunderbirds gave Eastern a 9-0 record and the school's third straight Southwest Football Conference title with a 3-0 mark in conference play...

MITCHELL - The Linton-Stockton Lady Miners moved one step closer to a volleyball sectional championship repeat. The defending Class 2A Sectional 47 champion Lady Miners eliminated the North Knox Lady Warriors in straight sets 25-17, 25-17 and 25-19 in first-round sectional play Thursday at Mitchell...

The Union Bulldogs will venture to the home of the Braves Friday night in search of their first football victory. The ‘Dogs (0-8) will play Tecumseh (2-6) at 7:30 p.m. Friday. “We’re going to get ready for Tecumseh,” Foli said. “We’re going to try to go down there and play some good ball.”...

SWITZ CITY -- This time the second verse wasn’t the same as the first. One week after falling to North Central in five long sets, White River Valley (12-17) used nice serving and some long runs to dispatch the LadyBirds (7-20) in three sets, 25-17, 25-15, 25-20, and win the second game of the White River Valley Sectional. ...

SWITZ CITY – The Eminence Lady Eels couldn’t slither or swim past Bloomfield’s hitters Thursday, even on a flat night. Bloomfield (13-13) pounded winless Eminence (0-12) 25-13 , 25-10, 25-18 in the first game of the White River Valley Sectional. The Lady Eels simply couldn’t handle Bloomfield’s stable of hitters: Malea Toon, 14 kills; Elizabeth Combs, eight; and Kylee Shelton, eight. ...

The Cavaliers trampled Union 69-0 Saturday afternoon. Visiting Tri-County (7-1) took a 56-0 halftime lead as the Cavaliers blanked Union (0-8), thereby ruining the Bulldogs’ homecoming. Union coach Kyle Foli said he didn’t know if the homecoming ceremonies affected the Bulldogs’ concentration, but the players must learn to execute...

This story has been updated to correct the spelling of WRV coach Shawn Brown's name.