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The Eastern Greene football team has not had the season they wanted, coming into the final week of the regular season still seeking their first win, but found themselves inspired by senior night and the battle of the Thunderbirds and cruised to an easy 44-6 win over North Central...

WRV faced off with a familiar foe in a postseason conference matchup between Shakamak and the host WRV Lady Wolverines in the opening round of Sectional 57. The Lady Wolverines fed off of the home crowd early as they began the match on a 5-0 run with Mattie Thrasher serving...

The Bloomfield Lady Cardinals made quick work of the Clay City Lady Eels in the opening round of Sectional 57 at WRV, defeating Clay City 3-0. Bloomfield set the tone early in the match, jumping out to a 10-3 lead after a pair of aces from Cassity Harris and Elizabeth Combs...

In Indiana high school sports, you know that when the postseason comes around the blind draw for Sectionals can be your biggest ally or your greatest enemy. The Lady Miners got the short end of the draw when they drew a first round matchup with Barr-Reeve...

The Shakamak Lakers boys and girls cross country teams advanced to Regionals this past weekend after the boys finished fifth and the girls finished third at the Terre Haute Lavern Gibson course. The Lakers boys team was anchored by Damon Kesler who finished fourth overall with a time just over 17 minutes...

The 2019 senior class is the final class to be apart of the 2016 State Championship team. While these seniors were just freshmen at the time, they have learned and gained useful experience that has turned them into a group of team leaders who have brought the Miner football program back to their old winning ways...

The WRV men’s cross country team advanced to regionals next week after placing third at the Brown County sectional meet this past Saturday. Senior Christiane Davis and sophomore Patricia Soliday both qualified for Regionals as individual runners after Davis finished 18th and Soliday placed 25th...

The 47th annual IHSAA Football State Tournament is set to begin on October 25, with two Greene County schools looking to make their way back to Indianapolis. SECTIONAL 40 The Linton-Stockton Miners are coming into the final week of the regular season at 7-1 and riding a 7-game winning streak...

The Shakamak Lady Lakers volleyball finished their 2019 regular season at home against Eminence and finished in style with the 25-19, 25-21, 22-25, 25-23 win. Emma Booher set a new school record for digs in a match with 41, breaking the old record of 37...

The battle of Greene County was up for grabs Friday night as the Linton Miners and Eastern Greene Thunderbirds squared off in Little Cincinnati. T-birds have had little success this season, coming into the game still seeking their first win of the season showed glimpses of good things to come but ultimately fell to the highly-touted Linton Miner football team 68-12...

The Linton Lady Miners got their 11th win in a row Thursday night after defeating Mitchell; 25-16, 25-13, 25-21. The Lady Miners came into the night after playing each of the previous three days this week and looking to keep the winning streak alive no matter how tired they are...

The White River Valley Junior High boys soccer team just wrapped up their season in style with a tournament win this past weekend in Jasper. The Wolverines finished the year with a record of 14-1, with an undefeated 7-0 record in conference matches...

The White River Valley volleyball team celebrated senior night in style by getting the 3-0 conference win over North Central Wednesday night. WRV had to play from behind in the first two sets, but managed to pull it all together to defeat the Ladybirds; 25-22, 25-16, 25-23...

The Bloomfield boys' tennis team's run in the IHSAA tennis tournament series ended Wednesday afternoon at the Jasper regional championship. The Jasper Wildcats had too much firepower for the Cardinals. Jasper won their ninth straight regional title by defeating Bloomfield 5-0 without dropping a set...

The Linton Lady Miners volleyball team stayed hot, defeating the visiting Vincennes Lincoln Lady Alices. After losing to North Knox on Sept. 24, the Lady Miners have rattled off 10 straight wins. They have stayed hot despite an unrelenting schedule. Just this week, they played for the SWIAC championship on Monday night at rival Bloomfield, traveled up to Edgewood last night and played a tough Vincennes Lincoln team tonight...

The Linton Lady Miners continued their busy week of volleyball playing their second match in a four-day stretch of playing every day by defeating Edgewood on the road Tuesday night. Linton defeated the host Mustangs in four sets; 23-25, 25-11, 25-23, 25-15...

The Eastern Greene volleyball team suffered losses on their home court on back-to-back nights to start the week. The Lady Thunderbirds started off the week by hosting Shoals monday night, and dropped their match with them in 4 set; 15-25, 25-15, 18-25, 17-25...

The Bloomfield boys’ tennis team defeated Washington 4-1 Tuesday afternoon in the first round of the Jasper Regional. The Cards will face Jasper Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. for the regional championship. Jasper advanced to the final match with a 4-1 over Loogootee...

The White River Valley soccer team got a 4-3 win over Bloomfield in double overtime in the first round of Sectional play monday night at South Knox. WRV went into halftime tied with the Cardinals at 1-1, before scoring two unanswered goals in the second half...

The Lady Wolverines hosted Owen Valley monday night and took the 3-0 loss against the larger Lady Patriots. WRV held tough with Owen Valley in set one hopefully trying to set the tone for the rest of the match. The Wolverines pushed the set past the 25-point mark before Owen Valley took the 27-25 win...

The Linton Lady Miners kept their perfect record against SWIAC conference teams in tact Monday night after defeating host Bloomfield 3-0, 25-21, 25-17, 25-21. Bloomfield took the lead early in set one jumping out to a 4-1 lead, before Linton responded to take the lead at 5-4. The first set was the back-and-forth battle you would expect from a matchup of the conferences two best teams...

The WRV volleyball team took part in the North Daviess tournament Saturday morning and won 2 of their 3 games played. The Lady Wolverines won over host North Daviess; 25-17, 25-19, and over Wood Memorial 21-25, 25-15, 15-13. WRV lost to Sullivan 11-25, 19-25...

The SWIAC Cross Country meet Saturday morning was dominated by Greene County schools with Bloomfield, Eastern and WRV finishing 1, 2 and 3 in the boys race, and Shakamak taking second in the girls race. WRV’s Joe Records was the first across the line in the boys race finishing with a time of 16:15. Shakamak’s Damon Kesler and Eastern Greene’s Dustin Lester took second and third with a 16:36 time for Kesler and 17:11 for Lester...

The 2A #6-ranked Linton-Stockton Miners made the short drive to Bicknell to take on the North Knox Warriors and picked up the 28-13 victory. North Knox won the coin toss and chose to receive first. The Warriors came out with a game plan to attack the Linton defense and executed that plan marching down the field for the first touchdown of the game...

The Lady Wolverines came close to getting the win over Bedford North Lawrence but ultimately fell 3 games to 1. 24-26, 13-25, 26-24, 14-25. The Lady Stars got off to a fast start in the first set jumping out to a 6-2 lead early. WRV would not only respond and take the lead, but they seemed on the brink of putting BNL away, gaining a 19-14 lead late. Bedford came back with a 6-0 run, then saw the lead change twice before finishing set one on a 3-0 run, taking the 26-24 win...