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VOLLEYBALL White River Valley defeated visiting Union Thursday night. The Lady Wolverines swept Union 25-14, 25-10, 25-9 to boost their record to 7-17. “We had another good serving night and that helped us get the win. The girls really hustled and played hard the entire game,” WRV coach Shawn Brown said. “We spread the ball around and all the hitters had kills. It was a total team effort tonight.”...

JASONVILLE -- Kills, thrills, and spills abounded Thursday night as Linton swept host Shakamak in volleyball. The Lady Miners edged Shakamak in the first and third sets to win 28-26, 25-13, 26-24. Linton improved to 14-11 for the season with a perfect 6-0 mark in Southwest Indiana Athletic Conference play. The Lady Lakers fell to 4-12, 2-3, but coach Amy Robertson said she was pleased they played much better than they did in Tuesday’s night loss to Terre Haute North...

The Bulldogs aim to celebrate homecoming Saturday afternoon with a win over some Illinois invaders. Union (1-4) will host the Paris, IL, junior varsity team (3-2) at 2 p.m. Saturday for homecoming. The homecoming ceremony will be at 1 p.m. This will be the first time the two schools have ever met...

ELNORA —Thursday evening marks the fifth time in a row the Bloomfield boys tennis squad has won the sectional championship. The Cardinals faced Linton Miners for the sectional championship Friday and won 4-1. Prior to facing the Miners, Bloomfield won Wednesday evening against North Daviess...

SWITZ CITY - For 75 minutes, the White River Valley soccer team appeared well on its way to its second victory of the season, and some added momentum headed into next week’s sectional. But after being silent for most of the match, the Mitchell Bluejackets struck for two goals in the last four and a half minutes, handing the Wolverines a 2-1 loss here Thursday, spoiling Senior Night in the process...

WRV 6th grader to play in Junior All-American Games WRV 6th grader, Alex Overman, will be playing in the 2016 Junior All-American Games fueled by Gatorade in Venice, Florida over Thanksgiving weekend. The three day event will honor stand out softball players from all over the United States and Canada. ...

A fine season for the Sullivan Lady Arrows got just a little bit finer Tuesday at Linton. And the Linton-Stockton Lady Miners continued a season-long trend of starting strong but failing to sustain the momentum the rest of the way. The Lady Miners came out on fire and hustling, running away with the first set 25-13. The Lady Arrows played like the 20-3 team they are the rest of the match, coming away with a 13-25, 25-12, 25-14, 25-10 win over their Greene County rivals...

Eastern will try to tame the Wildcats at 8 p.m. Friday as it hosts Mt. Vernon on Alumni Night. The Wildcats (0-6) haven’t won a game, but coach Joey Paridean doesn’t expect an easy night. He said the Thunderbirds (5-1) will need to overcome the sluggish defensive starts that have hampered them in recent games...

JASONVILLE -- Terre Haute North administered a harsh lesson to their hosts Tuesday night by sweeping the Lady Lakers in volleyball. The Lady Patriots defeated Shakamak 25-6, 25-4, 25-16. The loss dropped Shakamak to 4-11 while Terre Haute North, a much bigger school, improved to 15-6. Despite the score Shakamak coach Amy Robertson said the game was a positive experience for the Lady Lakers...

Coming off a 3-7 2015 campaign, the North Knox Warriors are enjoying a bit of a resurgence this season. Friday’s Linton-Stockton homecoming opponent is fresh off a 20-18 win over 3A Vincennes Lincoln. North Knox (4-2) is riding a four-game winning streak after dropping its first two contests...

Eastern’s victory at North Central Friday night came down to an unusual twist on the most routine of scoring plays. Only 7:24 remained in the game, which had seen Eastern trail all the way, when Caleb Hamilton scored from the 11 to tie the score at 28-all. ...

ELNORA - Small, tightly-knit football communities all across America share a long-standing tradition of multiple generations playing for the hometown team. Sons have followed fathers and grandfathers in donning the school colors and taking the field under the Friday night lights...

LITTLE CINCINNATI - The Eastern Greene Lady Thunderbirds fought gamely and hung with Bedford North Lawrence for most of the match. But the Lady Thunderbirds couldn’t match the Lady Stars’ firepower up front. BNL’s athletic attackers eventually took over and the Lady Stars pulled away for a 25-13, 25-17, 25-17 sweep in volleyball action here Monday...

BLOOMFIELD -- The Lady Cardinals overcame their errors Monday night to defeat visiting South Knox in volleyball. The Lady Cardinals (9-11) swept South Knox 25-15, 25-18, 25-22. Coach Laura Rose said Bloomfield’s passing was mediocre and the hosts made too many errors on serve receive. However, she said they compensated for the errors at the net...

Linton-Stockton finished as runner-up in Saturday’s Speedway volleyball invitational, winning two matches but falling in the championship match. The Lady Miners defeated host Speedway 25-17, 25-15 and won 2-19, 25-17 over Tri-Central. In the championship match Linton Stockton faced Covenant Christian. The second-ranked team in Class 2A topped the Lady Miners 25-14, 25-19...

Both Thunderbird teams cracked the top five of the Shakamak Cross Country Invitational Saturday morning. The hosts didn't do too badly themselves as the Laker girls finished third as a team and the boys placed fifth.

DUGGER - On a hot Saturday afternoon in Dugger the combination of the heat and the Tindley Tigers were too much for the Dugger Union Bulldogs to overcome. The mercury read 92 degrees for the 2 p.m. kickoff. And the heat - and the Tigers’ high-powered spread offense - eventually exacted its toll...

FARMERSBURG -- The toe of a kicker decided the battle of the Thunderbirds Friday night at North Central. Eastern tied the game at 28-all when Caleb Hamilton danced in from the 11 with 7:24 left in the game. A penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct moved the ball back to the North Central 25. ...

ELNORA - For the second week in a row, it didn’t take the Linton-Stockton Miners long to overpower an undermanned opponent. In a dominant performance, the Miners put up 35 first-quarter points en route to a 68-7 drubbing of the winless North Daviess Cougars in Cougar Valley...

DUGGER -- The Lady Bulldogs staged a tremendous rally Thursday night to win the third set, but it didn’t prove enough as they fell to visiting Martinsville, IL, in volleyball. Union fell 10-25, 15-25, 25-21. 15-25 to the Lady Bluestreaks (8-7). Union coach Tiffany Sanders said the Lady Bulldogs continue to learn and improve...

The Bulldogs will try to tame the Tigers as Union hosts Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School at 2 pm Saturday in football. Union (1-3) has never beaten the Tigers (1-4) in four football games in as many years and Union coach Kyle Foli very much wants to change that...

ELNORA - The Linton-Stockton volleyball team got off to yet another strong start, this time against Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference foe North Daviess here Thursday. And has been the trend in recent matches, they let the Lady Cougars hang around...

SWITZ CITY — During their regular season match Wednesday Washington and the WRV boys tennis teams ended up raising a total of $557.50 as apart of the Cancer Challenge. WRV ended up raising the most money, $377.50, and Washington raised $180. By having his team raise the most money, WRV Coach Jimmy Beasley Sr, wore the Pink Coaches t-shirt throughout the entirety of the match...

LOOGOOTEE — Through the combined efforts of Loogootee and Linton-Stockton’s tennis teams, the squads were able to contribute $700 to Savannah Boone in order to help her pay for treatment during her struggle with cancer. The check was presented to Boone Wednesday evening when the teams held Smash Cancer event. The event was supposed to take place last Saturday at the Loogootee tournament, but due to rain it had to be cancelled...

VOLLEYBALL Bloomfield took visiting Vincennes Lincoln to five sets , winning the first two before falling 25-22, 25-21, 10-25, 23-25 and 14-16. “We played very well tonight,” coach Laura Rose said. “I was excited to see the girls fight so hard. We just couldn’t finish the last set.”...