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The Cardinals came up one point short Wednesday night on the road at North Daviess. The Cougars defeated the Cards 3-2, dropping Bloomfield’s record to 2-15, 1-2 in the Southwest Indiana Athletic Conference. Jeff Mayfield (ND) defeated Turner Royal 6-1, 7-5 in the No. 1 singles match. Bloomfield coach Mike Canty said Royal made a run in the second set, but couldn’t hold on to a lead...

Bloomfield got off to a slow start at Vincennes Lincoln Wednesday night and fell in four sets. The Lady Alices beat Bloomfield (9-11) 25-16, 25-15, 23-25, 25-22. Freshman Kylee Shelton led the Lady Cards with 10 kills, Malea Toon hammered eight, and Elizabeth Combs smacked seven. Shelton also tallied seven blocks and eight service points in her best match of the season...

SWITZ CITY -- White River Valley’s offensive woes continued Wednesday evening in a 2-0 loss to visiting South Knox. The Spartans, a potential sectional opponent, scored two goals, one in each half, to hand the Wolverines (1-4-4) another scoreless loss...

It’s Week Six and the 2017 football season has passed the halfway point. For the Linton-Stockton Miners the daunting, front-loaded early-season schedule is also behind them. Linton-Stockton ran the gauntlet of Southridge, Sullivan, Monrovia, North Vermillion and Indianapolis Cardinal Ritter, emerging with a 3-2 record...

Visiting Northeast Dubois blanked Bloomfield 5-0 in tennis Tuesday afternoon. Bloomfield coach Mike Canty noted the Jeeps are ranked fourth in District 7. He said only perennial tennis powers Jasper, Evansville Memorial, and Castle rank ahead of Northeast Dubois...

Eastern will try to remain unbeaten this Saturday when the Thunderbirds face an opponent they haven’t seen in several years. The Thunderbirds travel to Perry Central at 2:00 p.m. Saturday. Saturday’s game marks the first time Eastern has clashed with Perry Central during Joey Paridaen’s tenure as coach. ...

Life doesn’t get any easier for the Union Bulldogs. One week after falling 47-22 at Rock Creek Academy, the Dawgs (0-5) will travel to the Southside HomeSchool Crimson Knights (1-3) at 7:00 p.m. Friday. Last year, the Crimson Knights demolished the Bulldogs 46-6 at Union...

The North Knox Lady Warriors volleyball team has been on a roll of late. And there was little the Linton-Stockton Lady Miners could do to slow the Warrior express. North Knox, winners of 14 straight matches coming in, came away with No. 1 earning a hard-fought, tightly contested 25-23, 25-17, 21-25 and 25-22 Tuesday at Linton...

Bloomfield’s tennis team ran into some familiar faces Saturday at the Loogootee Tennis Invitational, and the results were the same. The Cardinals fell to Barr-Reeve and Linton by identical 4-1 scores. Bloomfield had lost to both schools earlier in the season. The losses give Bloomfield a 2-13 record as the Cards have lost nine in a row...

The Vikings came to Shakamak last Tuesday and conquered, finishing ahead of White River Valley in the boys’ race and Shakamak in the girls’ meet. West Vigo won the boys meet with 36 points, just four points ahead of WRV, 40. Bloomfield scored 68 points and Shakamak 80. ...

LITTLE CINCINNATI -- The Lady Thunderbirds came close Monday night, but still couldn’t notch a W in volleyball. Visiting Wood Memorial (3-10) edged Eastern (5-14) 25-21, 25-23, 25-21 in straight sets. Eastern coach Whitney Russell said the Lady Thunderbirds got off to a rough start in all three sets and couldn’t quite catch up to the visitors...

JASONVILLE - The Vincennes Lady Alices simply had too much firepower for the Shakamak Lady Lakers. The Alices’ front line of Grace Doane, Allison Hein and Chastity Trueblood attacked aggressively and kept the Lady Lakers off balance all night. The end result was a double-digit, straight-set sweep for Vincennes, 25-12, 25-14 and 25-13 Monday at Shakamak...

White River Valley’s team got off to a slow start three times Saturday, and the result was four losses at the Paoli Invitational. The Lady Wolverines (7-13) played sluggishly in the first set of three of the losses. Paoli defeated WRV 25-9, 25-20. Springs Valley triumphed over the Lady Wolverines by a 25-10, 25-20 margin...

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VINCENNES - It was a long, hot day of golf for the Linton-Stockton Lady Miners at Country Club of Old Vincennes Saturday. The Lady Miners competed in the IHSAA girls golf sectional posting a team score of 466, 35 strokes higher than last year’s eighth-place total...

VERNE - On a steamy Saturday in Knox County the Eastern Greene, Linton-Stockton and Shakamak boys and girls cross country teams laced up their spikes and ran in the annual South Knox Invitational. The Eastern Greene boys finished seventh in the field of 22 teams leading all area teams...

LITTLE CINCINNATI – Everybody got a piece of the action Friday night as Eastern celebrated homecoming with a romp over visiting Wood Memorial. The 5-0 Thunderbirds, ranked sixth in Class 1A football, held the Trojans to 98 total yards, the same amount Eastern picked up through the air, and six first downs. Eastern head coach Joey Paridaen said the Thunderbirds got every player in the game...

The Indianapolis Cardinal Ritter Raiders invaded Roy Williams Field with an aerial assault unlike anything the Linton-Stockton Miners had seen - and are unlikely to see again. Ritter quarterback Diomoni Small completed 12-of-14 passes for 237 yards and four touchdowns. Small’s air show - combined with four Miner turnovers - were too much for the Red and Blue to overcome as the Raiders dealt the host Miners a 42-22 setback...

LITTLE CINCINNATI - Eastern Greene came out like a house afire in the first set against visiting Linton-Stockton in Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference volleyball action. The Lady Thunderbirds captured the back-and-forth opening set 28-26. But the visiting Lady Miners regrouped and came back to take the next three 25-14, 25-20 and 25-14...

SWITZ CITY -- White River Valley’s volleyball team started slowly Thursday night, but they gained spirit and energy to sweep visiting North Daviess in straight sets. The Lady Wolverines boosted their record to 7-9, 2-3 in Southwest Indiana Athletic Conference play, with a 26-24, 25-15, 25-17 victory over the Lady Cougars. WRV coach Shaun Brown said great enthusiasm proved to be the key to the team’s win...

SWITZ CITY-- White River Valley’s tennis team ran into two tough customers this week, and the results were the same: 5-0 losses. Visiting Edgewood trounced WRV 5-0 Thursday night at home. A trip to Terre Haute South Wednesday night resulted in another 5-0 loss...

Both Bloomfield junior high cross country teams won the Bloomfield Invitational Wednesday night. Bloomfield runners took the top five spots as the boys won their meet with 15 points, followed by Linton, 53; Washington, 60; and Washington Catholic, 113. Shoals sent individual runners to the meet. Justin Beard of Bloomfield won with a time of 11 minutes, 23 seconds...

Eastern’s cross country teams ran in the middle of the packs Saturday morning at the Whiteland Invitational. The Lady Thunderbirds finished fifth and the Eastern boys placed sixth in the invitational. Whiteland won the girls’ meet with 40 points, followed by New Palestine, 45; Rushville, 63; Greenwood, 120; Eastern 166; Southwestern Shelbyville, 169; Waldron, 198; and Hauser, 232. ...

Friday will give the Thunderbirds a chance to improve their game when conference rival Wood Memorial comes to town at 7:30 p.m. Eastern (4-0) is coming off a 48-18 victory over Mitchell. North Knox pounded Wood Memorial (0-2) 43-22 last week. Some might think this game would be a cakewalk, but Eastern head coach Joey Paridaen said he wants the Thunderbirds to focus on making themselves a better football team this Friday...

SWITZ CITY -- Bloomfield’s hitters and servers proved too strong for White River Valley Tuesday night as the Lady Cardinals swept three sets in volleyball. The Lady Cards (8-9, 5-0 in the Southwest Indiana Athletic Conference) used powerful spiking and serving to beat WRV 25-20, 25-11, 25-20...