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HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING PREVIEW: In the hunt
Even with the loss of 12 seniors, Floyd Central wrestling coach Brandon Sisson said he expects the Highlanders to reach goals of winning their sixth straight Hoosier Hills Conference championship and winning the sectional, in which they finished second to Jeffersonville a season ago.
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HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING PREVIEW: Even better
Several wrestlers return for a Jeffersonville team that won its fourth sectional championship in school history last season.
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HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP: Eve's six treys lead Pioneers to first win
Senior Megan Eve nailed a career-high six 3-pointers to lead the Providence girls’ basketball team to its first victory of the season on Tuesday at Shawe Memorial in Madison, 61-46.
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GIRLS' HOOPS: Cole’s shot lifts Bulldogs, 58-57
Down one point in overtime to Evansville North, New Albany Kayton Cole missed a potential game-winning shot in the lane. However, the junior followed her miss, got the rebound and put the ball in the basket as the buzzer sounded, giving the Bulldogs a 58-57 season-opening victory over the Huskies.
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GIRLS' HOOPS: Walker leads Mustangs past Clarksville
CLARKSVILLE — With Casey Johnson struggling to score in New Washington’s season opener, Katelyn Walker picked up the slack and led the Mustangs to a 67-39 win over Clarksville in their season opener on Saturday.
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NASCAR: Don’t give Johnson the Cup title just yet
Last Sunday in my lead to ITFL, I was surrendering to Jimmie Johnson.
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FOOTBALL: Floyd Central falls to defending state champs Center Grove, 42-7
GREENWOOD — The Floyd Central football team ran into a “machine” as it made its first trip to regional in more than a decade.
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Clark finds right fit with Wright State, Brownell
JEFFERSONVILLE — When he began his college search, Jeffersonville senior Kegan Clark wanted to find a basketball coach who was just like his high school coach, Tim LaGrange.
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Pioneers suffer disappointing loss to No. 5 Austin, 94-48
CLARKSVILLE — Providence girls’ basketball coach Brad Burden knew his squad faced a tall order as Class 2A No. 5 Austin invaded the Robert I. Larkin Center on Friday night, so he encouraged the Pioneer fans to wear white and make the atmosphere as raucous as possible.
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Dragons open with big win
The Silver Creek girls’ basketball team outscored Borden 21-5 in the the first quarter, and went on to a 58-32 victory over Borden on Friday in its first contest of the season.
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Dominant Opener
RAMSEY — In its season opener, Jeffersonville’s girls’ basketball team looked in mid-season form.
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Hale signs with Purdue
The hot rumor around Southern Indiana the last few seasons has been that Donnie Hale would become a Purdue Boilermaker someday. On Tuesday morning at New Albany High School, that rumor turned into reality.
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Guenther making opponents nervous
After missing four games with a shoulder injury, Floyd Central quarterback Max Guenther returned to the Highlander lineup with something he didn’t have before. Nerves.
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PAID OFF
For Floyd Central’s football team, an offseason of painstaking labor did pay off on Friday in its first sectional championship since 1998.
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HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP: Knox leads Hornets to early victory
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VOLLEYBALL: Floyd Central loses another heartbreaker at state semifinal
YORKTOWN — On Saturday at Yorktown High School, the Floyd Central volleyball team put forth its best semifinal effort in its third consecutive trip to the Class 4A State Finals.
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GALLERY: Floyd Central and Silver Creek compete in volleyball state finals
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VOLLEYBALL: Brebeuf overpowers Silver Creek in 3A state semifinal
MUNCIE — After 14 straight wins, Silver Creek’s late-season streak came to an halt at the state finals at the hands of Class 3A’s second-ranked team on Saturday.
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FOOTBALL: Floyd Central wins 5A sectional title
FLOYDS KNOBS — The Floyd Central football team rode 14 early points off two turnovers and never trailed visiting Castle in capturing the 5A Sectional 8 championship last night at Ron Weigleb field, 42-32.
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The 'Z' Team
Jeff Zimmerman knew before he even had the job.
He had a plan to be a varsity volleyball coach somewhere, at some time.
He also knew who the first spot on his coaching staff would go to — his brother Todd.
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Ramser is Dragons' junior leader
Danielle Ramser is a rarity in high school sports — a junior captain.
Despite Silver Creek having four seniors, the Silver Creek setter was tabbed to be the Dragons’ leader, along with senior LeAnn Osterhoudt.
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Floyd feeling different this time
Floyd Central heads to Delaware County Saturday with the expectation of winning its first volleyball state championship.
The Highlanders had the same expectation the past two seasons when they fell short in the state semifinals.
In 2007, the Highlanders were first-timers and played like it in a four-set loss to New Castle. Last year, Floyd won its opening set against Muncie Central, but dropped the next three in a 14-25, 25-22, 25-16, 25-21 defeat.
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Der could be Floyd's missing piece
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COLLEGE NOTEBOOK: Nov. 6, 2009
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
• Eric Schulz (Indiana State men’s cross country, New Albany graduate, Sr.) — top performance: fourth in the Missouri Valley Conference Championships last Saturday in Peoria, Ill., 26:11; notes: Schulz earned a spot on the all-conference squad in leading the Sycamores to the Missouri Valley title by one point over second-place Southern Illinois. Schulz was ISU’s top runner in the meet.
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Highlander football trying to keep up
It may seem odd for some to hear it, but the Floyd Central football team will be doing its best just to keep up with the mass of success at its school this Friday night.
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Maymon plays through pain, has SC in state semis
Silver Creek faced a daunting task at last Saturday’s Class 3A Jasper Regional.
Not only did the Dragons have to face strong Jasper and Sullivan programs, but it appeared that they would have to do it without their best offensive player.
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KELLY: IHSAA should consider putting another class into session
Every year, there is chatter about whether the format of the IHSAA soccer tournaments should be changed.
And every year, it remains the same.
Now that the dust is settling on another high school soccer season, maybe it’s time for the powers that be to consider some alterations.
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CLASS 4A REGIONAL: Highlanders make it three straight
Floyd Central had a goal for Saturday’s Seymour Regional: get in, get out, get to state.
The Highlanders had little trouble advancing to next Saturday’s Class 4A State Finals in Muncie for the third straight year.
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CLASS 3A REGIONAL: Dragons roll past Sullivan in championship
JASPER — When he arrived at Silver Creek High School three seasons ago as the head volleyball coach, Jeff Zimmerman promised his sophomores, who are now seniors, that he would guide them to the IHSAA State Finals before they graduated.
On Saturday, the former New Albany assistant coach came through for his four seniors.
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Mustangs stumble in Class A semifinals
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CROSS COUNTRY: Dogs place 24th at state meet
New Albany’s season finished on Saturday with a 24th-place showing at the IHSAA State Cross Country Meet in Terre Haute.
The Bulldogs, who grabbed the final spot at state by placing sixth at the Brown County Semistate last weekend, had two runners finish in the top 100.
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5A FOOTBALL: Floyd Central tops New Albany in semifinal, 34-28
FLOYDS KNOBS — Two key fourth-quarter defensive stops by the Floyd Central football team ended New Albany’s chances of scoring a second win over the Highlanders in three weeks on Friday night at Ron Weigleb Stadium.
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2A FOOTBALL: Pioneers’ season ends with an 8-7 setback at muddy Paoli
PAOLI — The Paoli football team has never been more proud of a sloppy win.
On a night better served for ark construction and a field that resembled the Everglades, Paoli scored a decisive two-point conversion after a penalty and held off Providence 8-7 in the Class 2A Sectional 31 semifinal at Cook Field.
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VOLLEYBALL: Season-changing performance
Floyd Central’s volleyball team has been victorious 33 times this season, but it may have been one of its three losses that turned the Highlanders into the squad that dominated last Saturday’s Seymour Sectional.
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VOLLEYBALL: New Wash looks to go beyond first round at regional
In last week’s sectional, the New Washington volleyball team accomplished a rare feat. The Mustangs defeated three teams to whom they had lost in the regular season en route to winning their third straight sectional championship.
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VOLLEYBALL: Dragons have unfinished business this season at Jasper
All season, the Silver Creek volleyball team has lived by one motto — unfinished business.
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CROSS COUNTRY: Dogs continue their stellar season
The New Albany boys’ cross country team has not hid from lofty expectations this season. The team said before the year started it would be the first to win a Hoosier Hills Conference title in school history — which it did. It said it would reserve a second-straight spot in the IHSAA state finals — which it claimed last weekend at the Brown County Semistate.
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HUTSELL: At least October still has high school football
Remember when October was great for sports? The glorious time when this month meant good things were going on in the world.
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Friday's night football capsules
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FOOTBALL: Providence faces rejuvenated Paoli program in sectional semifinal
Not long ago, a sectional semifinal matchup against Paoli was cause for celebration.
Facing the Rams meant an easy week and an easy victory.
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KICK IT: 2009 Teams of the season are unveiled
So here it is: “Kick It’s” boys’ and girls’ high school soccer “Teams of the Season.”
And they probably bear little resemblance to your own teams, but isn’t that what it’s all about — opinions?
In fact, just on that point: If we’d picked teams straight after the regular season, they wouldn’t look remotely like what you’re reading before you today.
Congratulations to all and we would be interested to hear what your lineups would be.
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VOLLEYBALL: Floyd Central wins third straight sectional title
JEFFERSONVILLE — About three weeks ago, the Floyd Central volleyball team decided it was time to make the season fun again.
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SEMISTATE ROUNDUP: NA boys’ CC heading back to state
One area cross country team was able to advance to next Saturday’s IHSAA State Finals at Saturday’s Brown County Semistate. As for one area individual, he came up just short of going to state himself.
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FOOTBALL: Whitehead, defense lead New Albany to Sectional 8 triumph, 33-21
NEW ALBANY — New Albany played its best quarter of the season, outscoring Evansville North 20-0 in the second period to advance in Class 5A Sectional 8 play with a 33-21 victory over the Huskies at Buerk Field.
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FOOTBALL: Floyd Central's near perfect offense no match for Jennings
NORTH VERNON — Floyd Central’s offense was near perfect.
Jennings County’s defense had no answer.
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FOOTBALL: Pirates shut out in sectional opener
CHARLESTOWN — Early missed opportunities proved costly to Charlestown on Friday as it fell 20-0 to Class 3A No.6 Indian Creek in the opening round of Class 3A Sectional 23 at Dutch Reis Field.
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FOOTBALL: Castle ends Jeff’s season once again
JEFFERSONVILLE — On Friday night at Blair Field, the Jeffersonville football team got its chance to avenge last year’s loss to Castle in the Class 5A Sectional 8 championship, but failed to take advantage of that opportunity in a 21-14 loss.
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VOLLEYBALL: Showdown set
JEFFERSONVILLE — Both the Floyd Central and New Albany volleyball teams had little trouble on opening night of the Class 4A Jeffersonville Sectional on Thursday.
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SOCCER: Dogs take turnaround to semistate
The Washington High School boys’ soccer team is 19-1-1, has only been scored on 11 times in 21 matches, is ranked eighth in the state, has won 13 sectional titles in the last 15 years and has captured seven regional crowns in school history.
