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NAPD in compliance with state, drops incident report fees
The New Albany Police Department stopped charging for incident reports this week.
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Youth Sports Weekly is looking for you
Got a team going places? Let us know it. Got a big event or camp on the horizon? Let us announce it.
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Billy Herman: Baseball Hall of Fame legend
Herman’s 100th birthday is Tuesday; Indiana’s First Lady remembers late grandfather
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DISTRICT V: 13-14 Highlanders stay unbeaten in pool play with 18-5 win
CLARKSVILLE — Highlander Youth Recreation’s 13-14 baseball team took advantage of Clarksville’s six errors, eight walks and four hit batters to improve to 2-0 in pool play with an 18-5 victory on Thursday.
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DISTRICT V: Favored HYR 11-12s crush three home runs, Silver Creek in impressive debut
CLARKSVILLE — Highlander Youth Recreation’s 11-12-year-old All Stars may very well be considered the favorite in their division. In their opener, it took exactly three pitches to understand why.
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LITTLE LEAGUE: New Albany gets it going
CLARKSVILLE — After watching a title that it had owned for most of the decade slip away last season, New Albany began its quest at reclaiming the 11-12-year-old baseball title at the Indiana District V Tournament on Tuesday.
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HIGH SCHOOL HOOPS: Jeff’s Clark headed to Wright State
Kegan Clark, a 6-foot-4 forward from Jeffersonville, said today he has verbally committed to Wright State.
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HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK: Vest, Metzger selected to 3A All-State team
Recent Charlestown High School graduates Damon Vest and Cameron Metzger have both been selected to the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Class 3A All-State first team for the 2009 season.
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District V Tournament: HYR off and running
CLARKSVILLE — Highlander Youth Recreation’s 11-12 softball All-Stars opened District V play with an easy 16-0 win over Clarksville on Monday.
HYR scored two runs in the first inning and three in the third, then exploded for 12 in the fourth to put the game away.
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KELLY: Regional champions a story you may not have heard
Last Wednesday was important for United States soccer.
Beating Spain — the No. 1-ranked team in the world — in the FIFA Confederations Cup by a 2-0 scoreline brought with it publicity not normally associated with the sport in this country.
Spain had not lost a game in its last 35, so it was a big deal. Really.
And it became water cooler talk. Or toilet talk, depending on where you like to have your work conversations.
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Jeff.GRC World Series roster scattered, but still playing together
When you do something once-in-a-lifetime, you have to be prepared for exactly that.
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BASKETBALL: Local squads keeping busy this summer
New Albany star Donnie Hale’s recent oral commitment to Purdue has been the talk of the area basketball scene. But with this weekend marking the end of IHSAA-allowed high school team play until later next month, the attention again returns to AAU for the July circuit of camps and tournament.
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BASKETBALL: Local stars return for Kentuckiana Pro-Am
Fans still clamoring for their recommended daily allowance of basketball are in for a treat this weekend.
For the first time in its 15 years of existence, the Kentuckiana Pro-Am basketball tournament is making itself a home at Nolan Fieldhouse.
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Hale pledges to Purdue
The New Albany star will stay in-state after his senior year of high school to play for Matt Painter’s Purdue program.
Hale, a 6-foot-8 forward, is relieved the recruiting process is behind him.
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BASEBALL: Floyds Knobs American Legion falls to Shelbyville
The Floyds Knobs American Legion Post 42 baseball team saw its roster get even deeper on Tuesday. Shelbyville, on the other hand, decided to simply go deep.
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KELLY: Kicking up their effort
Children in Kenya are replacing soccer balls made out of garbage bags for the real deal thanks to local generosity.
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GROWING UP VALENTINE: Kids help dad with family business
The basketball camp that he began years ago will probably always bear his name. But Robbie Valentine can envision a day where just maybe his name is all that he needs to give to keep the family business humming along.
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IN THE FAST LANE: Pre-vacation NASCAR thoughts
Well, it’s time for old Kev to take a little break from the trials and tribulations associated with community journalism.
For an entire week, I plan on enjoying some country living in my native east central Indiana.
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GOLF: Pioneers, Highlanders battle on final day of state
FRANKLIN — In a season in which both sides battled head-to-head from week to week, it only seemed fitting to see both Floyd Central and Providence once again standing side-by-side in the pairings at the IHSAA boys’ golf state finals.
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GOLF: Floyd, Providence reach final round at state, a first for Clark-Floyd area
FRANKLIN — Last Friday, the Floyd Central and Providence boys’ golf teams made history at the Seymour Regional. For the first time in 16 years, two Clark-Floyd area squads qualified for the IHSAA State Finals when the Highlanders placed second and the Pioneers were third at regional.
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ON THE SPOT: Trey Pfund
A year ago, Trey Pfund found himself contending near the top of the standings at the IHSAA State Finals in Franklin.
After the first day of last year’s state finals, Pfund was positioned for a run at the state title. He was within five shots of the leader, but could not carry over that momentum. Pfund shot 5-over par on the second day of competition at The Legends of Indiana Golf Course and finishing tied for 16th.
This year, Pfund is back at it again.
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KELLY: Benefits of staying put in Indiana
Last week, I touched on the issue of how the standard of soccer in southern Indiana could be improved if the will was there.
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ON THE SPOT: Mike Cason
In the spring of 2001, Floyd Central High School hired a new coach to take over its already solid boys’ golf program.
That man was Floyds Knobs resident Mike Cason.
Since then, all he has done is make the program even stronger.
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DENISON: Borden's Beam has signed with Olney Central
Recent Borden graduate Chris Beam will sign a partial scholarship today with Olney Central College, a junior college located in Olney, Ill.
The 6-foot-1 point guard expects to redshirt his first season.
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H.S. BOYS' GOLF: Floyd, Providence preparing for pressure-packed state
It goes without saying that both Floyd Central and Providence expect nothing but the best competition this week when each team travels to play in the IHSAA boys’ golf state finals.
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IN THE FAST LANE: What lies ahead for NASCAR?
I hope you realize that this is not your father’s NASCAR anymore.
Heck, it isn’t even your older brother’s NASCAR with all the changes to the sport this decade.
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Floyd Central gets slammed at state
INDIANAPOLIS — It took until the bottom of the sixth inning for the scoreboard to light up the evening at Ben Davis High School.
For the Floyd Central softball team, it would have been better to have left it off.
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Floyd, Providence each advance to state
Heading down the final stretch of holes at the Seymour Regional, Floyd Central coach Mike Cason knew it would be close.
The Highlanders were part of the groups that would be the last off the course, and Cason had a pretty good idea of what they would need to shoot to advance to the State Finals.
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Seniors shoot down juniors at New Albany
NEW ALBANY — Both New Albany’s Donnie Hale and Jeffersonville’s Kegan Clark had their share of moments on Thursday. But ultimately, it was the Indiana All-Stars proving why they are considered the best in the state.
GALLERY: New Albany opens new amphitheater with Independence Day celebration 
