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Tucker closes college career at Clemson Regional (6/6/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorPlaying in his first-ever regional at the college level, former Northview standout and current Lipscomb University graduate transfer Braydon Tucker got the ball to open Saturday’s Clemson Regional elimination game against Charlotte. Tucker got off to a strong start for the Bison as the hard-throwing right-hander worked around a leadoff single by retiring the next three in a row, which included a pair of strikeouts...
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Notter leads Northview to third-place sectional finish (6/6/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAs they sat on the patio around the Hulman Links Golf Course clubhouse, Northview’s boys golf team could see Lane Notter walking down the 18th hole’s fairway alongside his playing partners from Terre Haute North and Terre Haute South. Looking at the scores that had already been written on the leaderboard a few paces away from them, the Knights knew there were two scenarios that were going to play out in the next couple of minutes as the team’s No. ...
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Northview's 4x800 team sets record at state finals (6/4/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOver the last several years, the distance-running quartet of Gnister Grant, Ellia Hayes, Halle Miller and Katie Morrison has been instrumental in rewriting Northview’s cross country and track history books. And on Saturday evening at Indiana University’s Haugh Track and Field Complex for the state championship meet, they were together running for the final time as a part of the 4x800 relay team...
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Lady Eels unable to take down Tecumseh in semi-state thriller (6/3/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorIn the bottom of the first inning of Saturday’s Class A North Daviess Semi-State semifinal, Clay City scored two runs on a rare error by Tecumseh. Clay City second baseman Abi Shearer, with Faith Mitchell at third and Karlee Smith at second, lined a one-hopper to Tecumseh’s typically sure-handed Karsyn Flowers at third base. ...
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Knights get sectional preview in season finale (5/31/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorWith the location of next week’s golf sectional moving from Phil Harris Golf Course in Linton, a place that’s hosted the opening tournament of the postseason for several years, to Hulman Links Golf Course in Terre Haute, it made Northview’s regular season finale against Terre Haute North on Wednesday afternoon more important than it usually would...
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Lady Eels blow out Bethesda Christian to win third straight regional title (5/30/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorIt felt like a regular season game in the middle of April based on the way Clay City’s softball team was going through their pregame routine behind the third base dugout as they awaited the arrival of their opponent. With the boombox blasting hip-hop tunes, the Lady Eels stretched and played catch while others got a couple rounds of batting practice in the cage...
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Costly errors haunt Eels in season-ending loss to Shakamak (5/29/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorThroughout the high school baseball season, Clay City hung its hat on its lockdown pitching staff and the fielders behind them. It’s what placed the Eels atop the Class A state rankings and led the program to its first Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference outright championship since 1997. ...
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Eels win sectional pitcher's duel over Bloomfield (5/29/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAs soon as Clay City boarded the bus after taking down White River Valley in the opening round of the Class A White River Valley Sectional last week, the coaching staff began putting a blueprint together in preparation for Bloomfield starting pitcher Brett Sherrard...
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Tucker, Lipscomb headed to NCAA Tournament (5/28/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorWhile former Northview standout Braydon Tucker had a tremendous season at Lipscomb University as a graduate transfer, it looked all but certain that the right-handed pitcher’s collegiate career would be coming to an end after Lipscomb dropped its first two games of the ASUN conference tournament, putting the Bison on the brink of elimination...
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Hayes, Jackson among those to advance onto state finals (5/27/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorComing off its first sectional championship in over 20 years, Northview’s girls track and field team put itself in prime contention to advance multiple members onto the state finals in various events. And that’s exactly what they did. Competing in last week’s Bloomington North Regional, the Lady Knights got top three finishes from Ellia Hayes (800, 1600) and their 4x800 relay team of Hayes, Halle Miller, Katie Morrison and Gnister Grant to punch their ticket onto Saturday’s state finals...
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Knights run out of steam in season-ending loss to Vikings (5/26/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAfter outlasting Edgewood in the four-hour marathon game that started on Wednesday and bled into the early hours of Thursday morning, Northview’s baseball team had to sleep as fast as it could before boarding the bus to head back to Spencer later that same afternoon...
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Clay City cruises past Cloverdale to win third straight sectional championship (5/25/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAt the start of the high school softball season, Clay City head coach Jason Sinders acknowledged it was going to take his group a little while to find its footing. The reason? Clay City brought four freshmen into the mix and asked those with experience to step into more prominent roles on the team...
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Sinders' career-high strikeout night leads Eels to sectional title game (5/24/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAt the start of the week, Clay City’s softball team came in one with thing on their mind – win another sectional championship. But in order to give themselves an opportunity do so, the Lady Eels knew they would have to take care of business in the first two rounds of the tournament first...
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Northview outlasts Edgewood in four-hour sectional marathon (5/24/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorWith cottonwood fluttering through the pitch-black Spencer sky, Brayden Kreiger got Edgewood’s Nolan Hudson to flail at a fastball on the outside part of the plate at 1:13 a.m. on Thursday morning to keep Northview’s season alive. In a game that had enough twists and turns to make the biggest rollercoaster enthusiast queasy, Northview outlasted Edgewood in a four-hour marathon, winning by a score of 15-12 in eight innings to advance onto the Class 3A Owen Valley Sectional semifinal...
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Northview's bats go cold in season-ending loss to Edgewood (5/23/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOver the course of the high school softball season, Northview has had a hard time putting up runs in bunches on a consistent basis. That’s led to its demise a few times, and that turned out to be the case again in Tuesday’s Class 3A Northview Sectional semifinal against Edgewood...
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Harris' multi-homer game propels Clay City onto sectional semifinal (5/22/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAsk any high school softball coach around the state of Indiana when is the time they’d like to be peaking and playing their best. The answer almost every time? When the postseason rolls around. Clay City seemed to be doing that, winning three of its final four games – the only non-win came in the regular season finale against West Vigo in a game that wasn’t finished due to inclement weather that rolled through West Terre Haute in the fourth inning and wasn’t able to be restarted – entering Monday night’s Class A Clay City Sectional opener against Dugger Union.. ...
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Koehler, Moshos have seasons come to a close in NCAA Regionals (5/21/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAfter winning their respective college softball conference tournaments last week, former Clay City standouts Charly Koehler (Northern Kentucky University) and Sophie Moshos (Transylvania University) got their first taste of playing in the NCAA tournament over the weekend...
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Lucas announces transfer to Eastern Kentucky (5/20/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAfter spending the last three years playing volleyball and beach volleyball at the University of Tennessee at Martin, former Northview standout Kambree Lucas announced on Thursday that she would be transferring to Eastern Kentucky University where she will continue her college career...
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Northview unable to tame Tiger Cubs in title match (5/19/23)By Trent Scott, For the TimesGrey skies cast a need for urgency ahead of the final of the IHSAA Greencastle Girls’ Tennis Sectional between the hosts and Northview Friday afternoon. The Tiger Cub No. 1 singles and doubles members got the memo and quickly put away their matches but across the other three points, the Knights were not willing to yield, taking all to three sets...
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Simmons signs with Ancilla College (5/19/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorGrowing up, Northview’s Dalton Simmons didn’t have any idea about the sport of wrestling. That was until one of his childhood friends told him to come out to a practice in sixth grade. From there, Simmons fell in love with wrestling and made it a big part of his life...
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Edwards narrowly misses out on advancing to regional (5/18/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorClay City entered Thursday’s boys track and field sectional hosted by Terre Haute North hoping to get a couple of its athletes onto the regional round of the postseason. That didn’t end up happening, although Ethan Edwards was on the cusp of doing so in multiple events. The sophomore finished fourth in discus, seventh in the 300 hurdles and ninth in shot put and the 110 hurdles, bringing an end to a remarkable second year for Edwards...
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Lady Knights sweep Owen Valley, return to sectional championship (5/18/23)By Trent Scott, For the TimesThere was a little more drama at No. 1 singles than the night before for Northview in its second match of the IHSAA Greencastle Girls’ Tennis Sectional. No spot in the final was on the line as the other four matches for the Knights had come and gone against Owen Valley in around an hour, ensuring the team would reach Friday’s final against the host Tiger Cubs...
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Garrison, Grant have memorable nights for Northview at sectional (5/18/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorNorthview’s boys track and field projections showed a third-place finish at Thursday’s sectional held at Terre Haute North. And while the Knights were hopeful their numbers would be off and they could exceed those expectations, similar to that of the girls program on Tuesday night, the meet played out just about the same as the coaching staff anticipated...
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Northview sweeps South Putnam in sectional opening round (5/17/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorIt had been an up and down season for Northview’s girls tennis team, which was full of inexperience to begin the spring. But as time went by, the Lady Knights found their groove and had their season trajectory pointed upwards as they began sectional play Wednesday evening against South Putnam at Greencastle High School...
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Clay City sends Jackson, Tucker onto regional (5/16/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorClay City girls track and field head coach Cole Schroer’s No. 1 objective for his team entering the postseason is to help guide as many individuals out of the sectional – and then the regional after that – while also trying to put up as many team points as possible...
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Northview captures first sectional championship since 2001 (5/16/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAs he does before every big track and field meet, Northview head coach James Grounds sat down and crunched the numbers to see where the Lady Knights were projected to wind up at the end of Tuesday’s sectional meet held at Terre Haute North. Grounds punched in the worst-case scenario for his group to see how the chips would fall – at least on a computer – if their top opponents (Terre Haute North and Terre Haute South) raced at their tip-top performances of the season and Northview had their worst.. ...
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Eels looking to make history in SWIAC finale (5/15/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAs Clay City’s baseball team warmed up for its game against Class 3A No. 5 West Vigo on Thursday, a few of the players and coaches had their phones locked into the Bloomfield-Shakamak showdown taking place 34 miles away from them in West Terre Haute...
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Tellechea, Wright have tons of success at Special Olympics Spring Games (5/14/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOver the weekend, Clay County Special Olympics athletes Ian Tellechea and Blake Wright made their way to Rose Hulman to take part in the Special Olympics Spring Games as a part of Region No. 7. There, Tellechea and Wright had loads of success in multiple events...
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Krause’s walk-off completes Northview’s comeback win over Clay City (5/13/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorThrough the first five innings of Saturday’s annual high school softball county rivalry game between Clay City and Northview, the Lady Knights struggled to get any offense going against Lizzy Sinders. In the sixth, though, Northview loaded the bases against the sophomore right-hander with two outs. Sinders wiggled out of the jam by getting a groundout to third to preserve Clay City’s two-run advantage...
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Evans signs with Manchester University (5/12/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAccording to scholarshipstats.com, a little more than seven percent of high school athletes go on to play a sport at the collegiate level. So, naturally, the number of high school athletes that play multiple sports at the collegiate level is even smaller than that...
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Knights unable to finish off victory over Terre Haute North (5/12/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorIt was just eight days ago when Northview, taking on a bigger program in Plainfield at home, squandered a three-run lead in the top of the seventh inning. It ultimately led to a tie in 11 innings due to the drop-dead time rule on a school night. Fast forward to Friday night and Northview, after putting up six runs in the fourth inning, found itself just three outs away from picking up a win over visiting Terre Haute North...
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Northview names Nevill its next boys basketball head coach (5/11/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorEver since former Northview boys basketball head coach Michael Byrum turned in his resignation letter last month, the talk of the town has been who would be the person to take over the program as it moves into the future. After sifting through numerous applications and then whittling that down to a handful of in-person interviews, the Northview interviewing panel collectively came to an agreement on who that would be. ...
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COLLEGE REPORT: Ellis shining bright during sophomore season (5/11/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorWith all of the happenings taking place in the high school spring sports season, it’s been far too long since we last checked in on the former Clay City and Northview standouts that are playing at the college level. In this edition of the College Report, we’ll take a peek at the season statistics for each of the baseball and softball players, which can be found below:...
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Lady Knights drop home finale to Danville (5/10/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorWith one week left until the high school girls tennis postseason gets underway, Northview was looking to make some strides in the program’s home finale against Danville on Wednesday. The result was a 3-2 loss, although head coach Joni Sutherland said there were positives to take away from the night. She also noted there are areas that will need to be cleaned up before sectional play begins at Greencastle...
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Northview knocks off North in dual match at Hulman Links (5/9/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorThe start of the week worked as a measuring stick of sorts for Northview’s boys golf team as it enters the final few weeks of the regular season. On Monday, the Knights traveled to Greencastle for a dual match against a formidable conference rival in the Tiger Cubs. And while the Knights admittedly did not play their best golf of the spring, they were able to come away victorious in a tiebreaker...
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Koehler delivers go-ahead hit to snap Clay City's losing streak (5/8/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorClay City softball head coach Jason Sinders has always echoed the sentiments of the school’s former principal Jeff Bell, who used to famously get on the microphone during pep sessions and inform the crowd that the Eels would play any team at any time on any field or court...