Fall Sports Previews 2015

If you do something once people may call it an accident. But do it a second time and people will start to believe. The Bloomfield volleyball team has won regional championships two years in a row under the guidance of head coach Ashlea Dunkerly. The third-year coach is hoping her Lady Cardinals can repeat for a third time, but with those high expectations, comes a great deal of pressure...

DUGGER -- Dugger Union Community School may not be a member of the Indiana High School Athletic Association again this year, but that's not stopping the Bulldogs football team. Twenty players return from last years team who went 5-4 and three more new players join the experienced group, coached by longtime football coach Kyle Foli...

LITTLE CINCINNATI - Last year Eastern Greene head football coach Joey Paridaen set goals for the team - or "quests" as he called them. One was the quest for the first winning season in the history of the Eastern Greene football program since its inception in 2003. The second was a quest for the Southwest Conference title...

JASONVILLE -- The Shakamak girls cross country team is hoping the third time will be the charm, while the boys team will be looking for a four-peat this season. The last two seasons the girls team have reached the team regional, only to see its goal of reaching the semistate be dashed away by Salem...

The 2014 cross country season saw the Bloomfield girls and boys teams advance to the Bedford North Lawrence regional as a team. Parker Ramsey advanced to the semistate and Alli Workman made her second consecutive state finals appearance, finishing 44th...

LITTLE CINCINNATI -- With six of its top seven runners returning from last years team, the Eastern Greene boys cross country team is looking for big things this season. The Thunderbirds, who won the Greene County Invitational last season, will be led by all-conference returnees John Kirts and Justin Terry...

SWITZ CITY - After a solid 2014 season which saw three runners advance to the Brown County Regional meet, White River Valley boys cross country coach Mike Karr is excited about his team's prospects for this season. Everyone returns from last year's team and as Karr said, "we have a very strong nucleus returning and really good senior leadership."...

So far just three runners have started practice for coach Jeff Franklin's Linton-Stockton High School boys cross country team. Sophomore Cameron Parola and freshman Austin Gordon join senior standout Janzen Franklin on the roster. Franklin isn't overly concerned with the light turnout...

Coming off a highly-successful 2014 campaign (20-2), including Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference and sectional championships, Bloomfield tennis coach Mike Canty has an optimistic outlook for this season despite losing his top two singles players and half of the No. 2 doubles team to graduation...

Veteran Linton-Stockton tennis coach Brad McKinney enters the 2015 season having to replace half of last year's lineup. At the top of the lineup the Miners lost Zack McGill who had played the past two years at No. 1 singles and lost half of the No. 1 doubles team in Alex Wilson and half of the No. 2 doubles team with Dalton Van Patten...

Winning four straight sectional titles is not satisfying enough for the Linton-Stockton football team. The Miners caught a glimpse of what it takes to reach the elite status and play for a state championship in their season-ending loss to North Vermillion last year. The Falcons, who won the regional contest over the Miners 31-8, went on to win the Class A state title a few short weeks later.....

DUGGER -- It's a new season for the Dugger Union Community School volleyball and the program also has a new coach. April Webb, a 2012 Sullivan High School grad, takes over the reins of the Lady Bulldogs and is optimistic about this seasons team. DUCS did not have a senior on last years roster and will have seven upperclassmen this year.....

SWITZ CITY -- There's an old adage, when one door closes another one opens. Such is true for White River Valley coach Jason Chestnut. Just a couple weeks before the start of the new school year, Chestnut was making practice schedules for the Lady Wolverines golf team. But now instead of teaching girls how to swing the club, he will be teaching boys how to swing a racket...

SWITZ CITY -- After a 9-16 mark and a first-round exit from the sectional a season ago, the White River Valley volleyball team is looking for bigger things this season under fourth-year coach Shawn Brown. The Lady Wolverines will be lead by five seniors this year...

LITTLE CINCINNATI -- For the first time in 12 years there will be a new face roaming the sidelines during Eastern Greene volleyball matches. Whitney Richardson takes over for the departed Gina Ingram. Although a new era is underway, don't expect many things to change from the old coach to the new one...

Last season the Linton-Stockton Lady Miners captured the first sectional title in coach Jill Fougerousse's six-year tenure, winning the Class 2A Eastern Greene sectional before losing at Perry Central in the regional. "I don't want to talk about last year at all," she said. "I'm excited about this year and what's happening on the floor right now."...

JASONVILLE - Kirk Buckley has coached a lot of different sports at Shakamak. Now, he gets to coach another. The 2000 Sullivan High School graduate will be taking over the high school volleyball program replacing LuAnne Anderson. Anderson coached for two seasons...