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BLOOMFIELD -- The sky drizzled before the game, but the deluge came from White River Valley’s offense. The Wolverines (5-6, 1-1 in Southwest Indiana Athletic Conference play) scored seven runs in the fifth and nine in the sixth to post a 21-3 over host Bloomfield (1-8, 0-2) Monday night. The Wolve3rines rapped out 13 hits, including four doubles and winning pitcher Blaine Patterson’s solo homer in the third inning...

The Linton Miners fired the first shot and withstood one last Patriot charge, holding off the Terre Haute North Patriots to earn a 5-0 win Tuesday at North. “It was a good win against a good ballclub, year in and year out,” Linton coach Matt Fougerousse said. “Terre Haute North has baseball tradition so it was a good win for us.”...

The Linton-Stockton links squad bested three competing teams in a quadrangular match hosted bt West Vigo at Rea Park in Terre Haute. The Miners posted a collective score of 192, 14 clear of second-place White River Valley’s 206. Shakamak and West Vigo tied with 216...

BASEBALL The slide continues for the Bloomfield Cardinals. After double-digit losses to South Knox and North Daviess earlier in the week, Bloomfield lost its third straight game via the 10-run rule, 16-0 to the visiting Orleans Bulldogs Friday. “Right now we are playing bad baseball,” Bloomfield coach Jason Pegg said...

This story has been updated with pictures and coaches' comments. Some errors have been corrected in the initial events reported.

TENNIS Lady Cardinals finish fourth at Washington InvitationalSouth Knox dominated the Washington Invitational Tournament Saturday by winning the championship in four of the five positions. The Bloomfield Cardinals could only get into one championship match and couldn’t come away with a championship win...

South Knox dominated the Washington Invitational Tournament Saturday by winning the championship in four of the five positions. The Bloomfield Cardinals could only get into one championship match and couldn't come away with a championship win. The No. 1 doubles team of Maizy Gilliland and E.J. Priest defeated Britni Qualkenbush and Macey Weiling of South Knox 6-1, 6-1 but fell to Washington's Lauren Boyd and Bella Thorne, 6-4, 6-1...

The Linton Miners managed just two hits Saturday at Brown County. But two hits proved to be enough. Cory Anderson shut down the Eagles pitching one-hit ball and the Miners came away with a 3-0 win. Anderson went the distance, striking out nine in his one-hit shutout...

York’s big day leads WRV past Dugger A four-hit day for Dalton York propelled the White River Valley Wolverines past the Dugger Union Bulldogs 21-2 in the first game of a doubleheader Friday at Switz City. The Wolverines pounced all over the Bulldogs early leading 12-0 after the first inning and adding two more runs in the second. Six more in the fourth all but sealed Dugger’s fate...

JASONVILLE – Unfortunately someone had to lose. Saturday’s clash on the baseball diamond between the Sullivan Golden Arrows and the Shakamak Lakers produced a memorable classic. Ultimately the Golden Arrows prevailed. The teams were deadlocked in a scoreless tie through five innings. In the top of the sixth an error, back-to-back singles and a sacrifice fly put two runs on the board for Sullivan, ending the stalemate...

BLOOMFIELD – Coming off a lackluster effort in a 9-1 loss at North Knox Tuesday, the Bloomfield Lady Cardinals came to play softball today. Friday at the Northside Diamonds the Lady Cards bashed a dozen hits and crushed the Shoals Lady Jug Rox 11-1 in five innings. And after dropping several earlier winnable games Bloomfield (1-5) finally picked up its first win of the season...

The slide continues for the Bloomfield Cardinals. After double-digit losses to South Knox and North Daviess earlier in the week, Bloomfield lost its third straight game via the 10-run rule, 16-0 to the visiting Orleans Bulldogs Friday. “Right now we are playing bad baseball,” Bloomfield coach Jason Pegg said...

This story has been edited to correct the location of tomorrow's game. One sentence has been rewritten.

Despite a physical setback, Linton’s Skylar Tucker will have an opportunity to continue her athletic career beyond high school – at the NCAA Division I level. Tuesday morning Tucker signed her letter of intent to compete in track and field for the University of Evansville...

JASONVILLE -- This April 19 proved to be unkind to the Patriots. Shakamak (6-3) pounded the visiting Vincennes Rivet Patriots like a pair of bongos Thursday night, winning 12-1 exactly 243 years after the Battle of Lexington, the inaugural battle of the Revolutionary War...

After the Clay City Eels scored a run in the top of the third to tie the game Linton baseball coach Matt Fougerousse gave the Miners a stern talking-to. Whatever the Miner skipper said must have worked. Linton responded with four runs in the home half of the third. The Miners put up three more each in the fourth and fifth frame to bring about an early end to this Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference contest, 11-1 in five innings...

TENNIS Lady Cards edge Sullivan Bloomfield’s freshmen helped the Lady Cardinals edge Sullivan 3-2 on the road Thursday night. Kylee Shelton trailed in the first set, but rallied to post a 7-5, 6-1 win in the No. 2 singles match. In the No. 3 singles match. Brooklyn Bucher blanked Allie Arnett 6-0 in the first set, but had to rally from 3-0 and 4-1 deficits to win the second 7-5...

BLOOMFIELD -- It was a tale of two games Wednesday night and the Cardinals lost both of them. Visiting North Daviess (5-5) led 5-0 heading into the bottom of the fifth, but Bloomfield (1-5, 0-1 in the Southwest Indiana Athletic Conference) got on the scoreboard with a run, and the Cardinal faithful could dream of a rally as the hosts placed runners on first and third with one out. Then, not only the roof, but the whole darn sky fell on the Cardinals...

Bloomfield blanked visiting Linton 5-0 in tennis Wednesday afternoon. The Lady Cardinals (3-1, 2-0 in the Southwest Indiana Athletic Conference), won four close matches to pull off the shutout “Even though a 5-0 win sounds like a decisive victory,” Bloomfield coach Mike Canty said, “the match was much closer, with four of the five matches being closely contested.”...

With the wind blowing hard toward right field the baseballs were flying out of Roy Herndon Field. Six balls left the yard on this gusty day. Unfortunately for the Linton Miners four of those long balls belonged to the visiting Bloomington North Cougars...

A familiar face will be Eastern-Greene’s new head football coach. By a 7-0 vote, the Eastern-Greene School Board recently named current defensive coordinator Travis Wray to become the sixth head football coach in school history. He said he will maintain that focus on defense as head coach because of “the old adage: Defense wins championships.”...

LINTON -- Linton-Stockton could muster only two hits Tuesday night and fell 5-1 to visiting Washington. The Miners (5-2) trailed 5-0 going into the final inning as they rapped out one hit in the first six innings. They scored a run in the bottom of the seventh, but it was too little, too late...

The Lady Wolverines managed the hits, but not the runs Tuesday night as they fell 14-2 to visiting Bloomington South. White River Valley (4-4) rapped out 10 hits, but scored only two runs in the loss. Kassie Morrison batted 3-3 with an RBI and Samantha Axe hit 2-2 with a double and a run...

JASONVILLE – A big second inning was all the Shakamak Lakers needed to top the visiting White River Valley Wolverines in Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference baseball action. Shakamak sent 11 hitters to the plate in the second frame, tallying seven runs on seven hits. And the Lakers (5-3, 2-0 SWIAC) picked up their second conference win, 9-3 over the winless Wolverines (0-5, 0-2)...