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TERRE HAUTE -- Every June the top senior players from western Indiana and eastern Illinois gather at Indiana State University’s Memorial Stadium for the annual First Financial Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association All-Star Classic. For the players it’s a week of fun, friendships and football. Every year the players universally agree All-Star week is filled with team-building, camaraderie and fun...

TERRE HAUTE -- All-Star week presents a unique set of challenges for coaches. Whether it’s football or basketball coaches generally have a week or less to spend with their all-star squads. The coaching staff has only a few days to implement offensive and defensive schemes and formulate a game plan. And there’s little time to evaluate the available talent to determine who best fits where...

Clay County American Legion Post 2 Junior team pounded out 15 hits, including three-hit nights from Kendrick McKee and Cole Pierce to record a 14-0 win over visiting Jasonville Post 172 on Wednesday evening. Clay City youngster Bailey Hasler pitched a five-hit gem for Post 172, striking out four in tossing the complete game shutout...

Evan Slover’s driving layup with 20 seconds to play pulled the host Linton-Stockton Miners within one point of the Class 2A State Runner-up Crawford County Wolfpack. But Crawford County answered immediately with a breakaway layup and escaped with a 44-41 win in Tuesday’s basketball shootout at Linton...

Greene County welcomed home a native son Tuesday, if only for a day. Former Eastern Greene player and coach Levi Carmichael brought his Crawford County Wolfpack basketball team back to his old stomping grounds. The Wolfpack embarked on a whirlwind tour of Greene County with stops at Linton, Shakamak and Eastern on the summer shootout circuit...

TERRE HAUTE -- In 2015 there were four. Last year there were six players chosen to represent Linton-Stockton in the 12th annual First Financial Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association All-Star Classic. And the number keeps growing. This June, eight graduated seniors from the Miners’ 2016 Class A state championship squad will take the field once again for an encore after being selected for the 13th edition of the annual midsummer All-Star Classic at Indiana State University’s Memorial Stadium...

Four new teams joined the Linton-Stockton Miners for the second day of the annual Miner Shootout Saturday. The Shakamak Lakers, Attica Red Ramblers, Loogootee Lions and Riverton Parke Panthers played in a round-robin format along with the host Miners...

The 2017 track season just concluded with county kids setting passels of personal bests, one team winning the conference for the first time in 20 years, and four athletes making it to the state finals. The Daily World recognizes these four superlative athletes who excelled in track and field. They are:...

With the exception of the IHSAA baseball State Finals at Victory Field this weekend, spring sports season has concluded for high schools throughout Indiana. But it’s always basketball season in the Hoosier state. Seven high school basketball teams laced up the sneakers in the annual Miner Shootout at the Linton-Stockton gym Friday...

Every area baseball team had its share of ups and downs this season. But there was no shortage of talent on the field. And there was no shortage of power either. Three different players connected for five home runs this season. Collectively, the 2017 Greene County Daily World All-Area roster combined for 28 homers, 88 doubles and 13 triples...

LINTON -- Coaches, athletic directors, parents, and friends honored the top athletes of the Southwest Indiana Athletic Conference Tuesday night at a banquet at Linton High School. Before presenting the individual awards, White River Valley Principal LeAnne Kelley acknowledged the schools that captured titles in each sport...

It has become almost commonplace for Greene County high school athletes to receive offers to compete collegiately - usually at the NCAA Division III level or at a nearby junior college. But it’s rare for a local product to be offered a scholarship to a major conference Division I program...

Powerful hitters, dominating pitchers, and deft fielders comprise the Greene County Daily World’s 2017 All-County softball team. Here are its members: Peyton Bland, Linton The freshman led the county in home runs, knocking five over the fence, including the first hit at Linton’s revamped softball field...

Sullivan recently named former Linton quarterback Blaine Powell as its new head football coach. Powell, who has been the Golden Arrows‘ offensive coordinator the past five seasons, will assume the Sullivan helm for the 2017 season. A warehouse supervisor for Peabody Energy’s Bear Cub Mine, he has lived in Sullivan since 1999...

The story has been updated to correct an error. Because of incomplete information, it did not list the names of Kassi Morrison and Tyralee Frye of White River Valley, both of whom made the All-SWIAC softball team.

LINTON -- White River Valley recognized its outstanding runners, throwers, and jumpers Tuesday night at a banquet at the First Christian Church of Linton. The school honored participants in the boys and girls’ track teams at a pitch-in supper. During the meal, a slide show present highlights of the 2017 season...

MONTGOMERY -- An otherwise perfect sunny day turned out to be a disappointing day on the links for Greene County’s two representatives in the Washington Regional at Country Oaks Golf Club. Linton-Stockton’s Zach Hall and Bloomfield’s Jaekob Ham both endured their fair share of troubles in Thursday’s round...

JASONVILLE -- She has been a standout three-sport athlete at Shakamak High School. And for the past couple years, Alyssa Garo has been arguably the Lady Lakers’ best on the basketball and volleyball courts as well as the softball diamond. But it’s in softball where Garo will make her mark at the next level...

SWITZ CITY -- White River Valley’s girls’ track team will really miss them next year; it’s as simple as D-E-F. This spring saw the graduation of Abby Denham, Rylee Ellett, and Kyra Frye, three seniors who have led the Lady Wolverines the past four seasons. They have racked up a long list of accomplishments, including earning trips to the regional and all-conference honors...

In one sense it wasn’t a great day for defending sectional champion Linton-Stockton at Monday’s Phil Harris golf sectional. The Miners were unable to repeat as sectional titleist. That honor went to Terre Haute South. The Braves shot a collective score of 310 - six shots better than second-place Northview - to claim the IHSAA sectional championship at Phil Harris Golf Course in Linton...

This story has been updated to include a quote by Shakamak coach Mark Messmer.

CLARKSVILLE – South Spencer scored four runs in the fifth inning Saturday afternoon to break open a close game and defeat Linton 8-1 in the first semifinal of the Providence Regional. Linton coach Matt Fougerousse said the Miners (22-8) put forth a great effort, but faced a formidable foe in the Rebels (27-5)...

MORRISTOWN -- The wild ride began for the White River Valley Wolverines Memorial Day. WRV turned the tables on the Sectional 57 field. The Wolverines avenged double-digit regular season losses to Clay City and North Central to claim the first-ever baseball sectional crown in school history...

Stephen L. Campbell Scholarship Fund Golf Scramble The end of the school year is just around the corner which means two things for the Stephen L. Campbell Scholarship Fund; we have the honor of awarding two outstanding White River Valley High School seniors with scholarships to help fund their college careers, and we have our annual golf outing to plan!...

BLOOMINGTON – Brennan Hughes of Bloomfield ended his high school track career Tuesday in the state championship. The senior placed 21st in the discus with a throw of 147 feet, seven inches. "Brennan was excited to make the state meet," said Bloomfield coach Caleb Dunkerly. "The nerves definitely got the best of him, but that is expected when you are performing on the biggest stage in your last ever high school meet."...