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White River Valley has a new basketball coach as Michael Hopkins is the new man at the helm for the Wolverines. WRV formally introduced Hopkins as the new coach Monday in a school board meeting. Hopkins has previous head coaching experience and comes over as the lead varsity assistant at Southridge the past three seasons under Mark Rohrer...

The Linton softball team picked up a win at South Knox Monday, 5-3, thanks to three runs in the seventh inning. Abby Brownfield, who will play for Lincoln Trail next year, hit a triple in the inning. Sophomore Kylie Cooksey had a double and would score a run thanks a hit by Erin Elliot. It was Cooksey’s second run of the game...

Shakamak hosted a baseball and softball game Monday as the baseball team earned a conference win over North Central. The Lakers blasted eight runs in the second and nine in the third to win 17-1 in four and a half innings. Brady Yeryar would hit a home run as he ended with six RBIs and three runs. Logan Burris had three RBIs while three other Lakers had two RBIs each in Ethan Burdette, Brevon Fulford and Carson Jernigan...

Lincoln Hale not on the Indiana All-Star list Staff Report In a controversial snub, Linton senior Lincoln Hale did not make the Indiana All-Star team. Hale, became the career points leader for Linton in the first game of his senior season. He passed A.J. ...

Softball Thursday Linton 6, Owen Valley 4 Linton battled a quality team in Owen Valley Thursday at home and shut the Patriots down late to win 6-4. Linton sophomore pitcher Alex Overman came on in the third inning as Linton gave up just one run in the final four innings of the game...

Shakamak track and field is off and running and ready to do some damage in SWIAC and sectional meets. The numbers of the team are a little down but the talent remains high. “The boys are less than a second away from the school record in the 4x100 relay,” Coach Mark Messmer said...

Four county golf teams met at Phil Harris Golf Course Friday as Linton won and early season meeting of the teams. Andy Clark shot a 39 to the lead the way. Linton has a young roster but coach A.J. Poe is happy to have the largest team in the county...

LINTON- On a soggy afternoon, Linton junior Bracey Breneman brought sunshine to the Miners with a grand slam home run in the fifth inning to put Linton up 4-0. It was his first grand slam in his career. “I was looking for a base hit really,” Breneman said. “Then he hung a curve ball and I just sat back on it, hit it. Looking for a line drive. It wasn’t a line drive.”...

Bloomfield routed Eminence Thursday 11-0 to move to 4-2 on the year. The game took just five innings with the Cardinals winning by the 10-run rule. Boone Holtsclaw had the win on the mound. Wyatt Frye and Brett Sherrard both knocked it out of the park on two-run shots. Holtsclaw also had two RBIs as he went 2-2...

Linton battled a quality team in Owen Valley Thursday at home and shut the Patriots down late to win 6-4. Linton sophomore pitcher Alex Overman came on in the third inning as Linton gave up just one run in the final four innings of the game. Owen Valley had more hits in the game but also committed more errors. A clutch double play in the third prevented more runs for the Patriots in that inning...

Girls Tennis Monday Linton 5, White River Valley 0 In county tennis action, Linton swept WRV Monday 5-0. Singles No. 1 Ellie Brewer defeated Mattlyn Hollingsworth 6-2, 6-1. No. 2 Bailey Near defeated Julia Stumler 6-2, 5-7, (10-8) Doubles No. 1 Cassie Goodman and Henley House defeated Caroline Drinkrow and Ansley Robison at No. 1 doubles 6-1, 6-0...

Linton sophomore pitcher Alex Overman keeps building confidence as she pitched the full seven innings giving up just two runs. “I’d say I’ve worked pretty hard and that gives me the confidence to feel like I can do anything up on there,” Overman said on her pitching...

Scoreboard 4-12-21 Baseball Friday Bloomfield 5, Mitchell 6 Bloomfield lost to Mitchell on a walk-off hit by the Bluejackets. The Cardinals had a brief lead in the top of the seventh after a single by Ryan Schulte that drove in Kellen Luse. Eastern Greene 3, Wood Memorial 13...

For Coach Jamie Brown, the Linton tennis program has grown from nothing into something. “My first year we didn’t have tennis courts. Since then, we’ve gotten tennis courts and I feel that right there has shown how serious the program is becoming,” Brown said...

For White River Valley track and field, the 2021 season is a chance to make up for a lost season in 2020. “Last year was just weird not being able to have track,” Coach Conner Hill said. “I think the kids are excited. You can tell not having a season got them down too, which it did everyone. Things are looking back up and hopefully we will be able to do some good things.”...

Linton-Stockton sophomore Luke McDonald established himself as a new quality pitcher for the Miners as he threw a no-hitter against Eastern Greene Saturday. “It feels pretty good, I was just trying to throw strikes and let our defense work,” McDonald said...

The Laker baseball team earned its first home win of the year Friday night with a 10-6 win over North Daviess. Shakamak scored three runs in the first and blasted five runs in the second. The Lakers went through its entire batting order in the second inning. ...

Baseball Monday Shakamak 3, Terre Haute North 8 R H E TRRH 1 1 2 0 1 0 3 - 8 6 2 SHKM 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 7 1 RUNS: Ethan Burdette (1), Peyton Yeryar (1), Trevor Ellingsworth (1), RBIs: Oscar Pegg (2), Jaxon Cox (1), Thursday Linton 6, Sullivan 5 White River Valley 5, South Knox 6...

The young Linton-Stockton baseball team is off to a 1-3 start coach Matt Fougerousse is dealing with a roster with little high school experience. Linton dropped its home opener to West Vigo 9-6 Tuesday. “We just didn’t get it done in the field. We had five errors,” Fougerousse said. “I know of at least four possibly five unearned runs. When you give a good team extra outs in an inning, they are going to make you pay and that’s what they did.”...

Eastern Greene senior Sam Rees is all set to play college basketball at Point University. The Thunderbird swingman signed on Wednesday for the NAIA school in West Point, Georgia. “I’m really excited. They’ve got a great coaching staff. I really like the players down there.” Rees said...

The Bloomfield baseball team is seeking a return to the glory days as alumnus Jarrod Holtsclaw is thrilled to finally coach the Cardinals. “I love baseball. I invested four years as a player,” Holtsclaw said. “We were very competitive. Senior year we went 19-2 and ranked 14th in the state. We want to return to being competitive.”...

After defeating Mitchell Monday 7-3, the Linton-Stockton varsity softball team demonstrated its defense Wednesday as it blanked North Central 9-0 in the home opener. While the Thunderbirds were able to get a few hits, the defense of the Miners made sure they were scoreless. Linton used young pitchers in sophomores Kylie Cooksey and Alex Overman showing that Linton will have good players in the circle for the next three seasons...

The Hoosier Basketball Magazine released their list for the Top 60 senior basketball players in the state and a Linton-Stockton Miner is on the list. Lincoln Hale, who has already earned countless accolades, will represent Linton in the workout Sunday at Marian University...

Mia Marlow is finally her playing her favorite sport at White River Valley. The senior transferred from Dugger Union for her junior year but the season was denied due to COVID-19. “We had started practices and right after the beginning of practices we got the call that the season was cancelled,” Marlow said...

For many softball teams in the area, it is an uphill battle to fill holes in the roster with experienced players. Bloomfield is an exception, with seven returning starters from the 2019 team. “The talent in this group is there. We just got to get them to believe,” Coach Aaron Morris said. “We had 11 to 12 players the first two years and now if we didn’t have some injuries we would have 18 to 20. The numbers are up, the program’s building, we are getting it to where we want it to be.”...