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There was nothing normal about Thursday’s boys track and field sectional held at Terre Haute South. To begin with, the meet was delayed by over an hour due to a thunderstorm that rolled through the Wabash Valley and forced all of the participating teams to huddle up in the South gymnasium until it passed...

Northview’s Christian Price spent the entirety of his high school athletic career on the soccer field. In his final season for the Knights last fall, Price led the team in goals scored and set a record for most goals scored in a game, which led to multiple collegiate programs reaching out to the senior about bringing him aboard...

Stormy skies decided to interrupt the IHSAA Greencastle Girls’ Tennis Sectional just as the first match between Owen Valley and South Vermillion was about to get underway, forcing the participants back to the DePauw University Indoor Tennis Center for a second-straight night...

Over the weekend, Northview sent a handful of wrestlers to the Freestyle Greco State tournament where the Knights not only had an opportunity to compete against some of the top wrestlers in the state, but also got to attend a clinic taught by two-time Olympian Jim Grunewald...

There was a slight delay to Tuesday’s Terre Haute South girls track and field Sectional due to a few buses getting stuck in traffic on I-70. However, for several Northview runners and a pair of Clay City athletes, the extra preparation time in the warm mid-May sun was well worth the wait as both schools will have representatives in next Tuesday’s Bloomington North Regional...

Last spring, when Northview’s boys track and field team won the Western Indiana Conference championship, it ended a long title-less drought for the Knights. They didn’t have to wait long for their next one as Northview was crowned WIC champions Thursday in Brazil after it dominated the conference competition. Edgewood was the closest foe behind the Knights but still was 43.5 points behind the hosts...

On Saturday, the Danville Area Community College softball team continued its historic season when the No. 1-ranked Jaguars were crowned the National Junior College Athletic Association’s Region 24 champions after they defeated St. Louis Community College by scores of 5-4 and 5-1....

Last spring, on a similarly warm May morning as it was Saturday, Clay City’s Demi Wolfe and Northview’s Lauren Sackett locked horns in a pitcher’s duel that will go down in the county rivalry’s all-time pitching matchups. Sackett ultimately got the best of the Eels as the current Indiana State University freshman no-hit Clay City to run the Knights’ winning streak against their cross-county rivals to six in a row...

There’s a confident swagger Northview’s baseball team plays with whenever staff ace Landon Carr is on the mound. Even when things start to go a little sideways, they know the senior right-hander will pick them up by keeping them in every game. That proved true in the second and third innings of Friday’s game at Terre Haute North...

As the temperature continues to rise in Clay County, the high school boys golf scores keep lowering themselves for Clay City and Northview. Both groups feature youthful rosters that are – for the most part – going through their first varsity season this spring...

Over the last several decades, Northview has had numerous top-of-the-line athletic programs. One of the best has been the softball team, which had multiple semi-state appearances over that span. So, as discussions began awhile back about naming the field after an influential person in the program’s history, there was zero doubt about who the school wanted to honor – Jan Gambill, the woman who coached the Lady Knights’ first game and hundreds of games after that and was a pioneer in starting girls sports in Clay County.. ...

There was plenty of excitement centered around Wednesday’s softball matchup between Northview and visiting Brown County. Northview named its field after Clay County girls sports pioneer Jan Gambill and then honored its two seniors Tara Pearce and Kendra Miller before the first pitch was scheduled to be thrown...

Throughout his time at Clay City, Blake Patterson has spoken highly – and openly – about his older brother, Bryce, and the bond they share. Patterson said he always wanted to follow in the footsteps of Bryce. So, when he signed to run track at Indiana State University a couple of years ago, it lit a fire underneath Patterson to do the same...

After dropping back-to-back matches against Terre Haute North and Owen Valley, Northview’s girls tennis team entered the Senior Night bout with visiting Parke Heritage looking to get back into the win column. And in front of a large crowd gathered behind the fencing on the parking lot side of the courts, the Lady Knights picked up a 4-1 victory in their penultimate match of the regular season...

As the collegiate baseball and softball regular seasons come to an end – or have ended – we went around the country to catch up on the former Clay City and Northview standouts that are shining on the diamonds. Below are the season statistics for each student-athlete:...

In cold and windy conditions in Greencastle, the Northview boys golf team competed in the Tiger Cub Invitational held at Tiger Pointe Country Club. The weather didn’t seem to bother the Knights, who were coming off their best round of the season earlier in the week against Terre Haute South and Linton at Forest Park, as they claimed second-place in the six-team tournament...

Last week, the IHSAA issued a press release regarding boys high school volleyball and girls high school wrestling being approved as an emerging sport by the Board of Directors, which helps both sports take a step towards being a recognized sport. “During its annual review of the by-laws on Monday afternoon, the Board of Directors of the Indiana High School Athletic Association, Inc. voted unanimously to add girls wrestling and boys volleyball to its new Emerging Sport Process...

There were several incentives for Clay City’s track and field team to get Thursday night’s Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference dual meet against North Daviess in despite the precipitation that splashed down throughout the afternoon and put it into serious jeopardy...

Throughout the first 14-plus years of his life, Northview’s Dillon White had no issues with his energy levels or keeping weight on. However, at the conclusion of his freshman football season, White, who was preparing to try out for the wrestling team, began to complain about constantly being thirsty and needing to use the bathroom often while also struggling to get through routine workouts that he was used to powering through multiple times per week...

On Jan. 8, Clay City’s Russell Butts was in a serious automobile accident with his older brother, Corbin, that left him with a broken mandible, elbow, spine, pelvis and ribs, as well as a pair of severely sprained ankles. Butts was sent to IU Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis where he began his long road to recovery alongside his family...

Each night the Northview girls tennis team steps onto the court for a match, first-year coach Joni Sutherland has a good idea that team will need to lock down two wins from the either of the three singles spots in the lineup or the No. 2 doubles spot to almost assuredly guarantee a victory for the Lady Knights...

Earlier in the week, the IHSAA released its new sectional assignments for the 2022-23 high school sports seasons. Clay City and Northview were both impacted in various ways. The new sectional assignments and the teams playing in the respective sectional are listed below:...

In Clay County, Kathy Vossmer is known as Northview’s head softball coach that’s led the Knights to great success over the last few years, including a semi-state appearance in 2021. However, before becoming an assistant coach at Northview and then the head coach after that, Vossmer was quite the standout player at the University of Southern Indiana...

As the start of the week began to unfold Monday with a win over Cloverdale, Clay City softball head coach Jason Sinders admitted this was an important stretch of games for the Eels as they hosted Terre Haute North on Tuesday before welcoming Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference rival North Daviess on Wednesday and then visiting Class 3A state runner-up Sullivan on Friday...

At the end of the 2021 high school baseball season, Northview head coach Craig Trout knew he needed to fill a few vacancies on his coaching staff. He had a few options in mind for various positions as the summer approached, but the person he wanted to take over the pitching coach duties had a decision to make six hours away in Kansas City...

After routing Monrovia on the road last Tuesday, Northview’s boys golf team seemed to have found its rhythm and were moving in the right direction as the spring season crept into the middle stages of the calendar. However, the Knights had six consecutive days without a match following the win over the Bulldogs, which could do one of two things: 1. ...

During the Fellowship of Christian Athletes’ recent sports banquet recently, Northview senior Braxton Sampson was presented with the West Central Indiana Fellowship of Christian Athletes Character award and scholarship. Sampson spent the fall playing for Northview’s football team and helped lead the Knights to their first-ever sectional championship game. He then spent the winter playing for Northview’s boys basketball teams and, again, helped lead the Knights to the sectional championship game...

During her record-breaking volleyball career at Northview, Kambree Lucas was a part of several moments that were a cause for celebration. On Saturday at the Ohio Vally Conference Beah Volleyball Championship final at Fazoli’s Breadstick Beach, the former Lady Knight standout was apart of her first celebration as a member of the UT Martin beach volleyball team...

Having a couple of Saturday invitationals under her belt this spring, first-year Northview girls tennis coach Joni Sutherland knew what she her group needed to do to accomplish their goal of winning the annual Northview Invitational. She told the Lady Knights that winning their first match of the tournament-styled invitational was important for them to not only win their respective individual title but earn more points for the team to be crowned champions...

Each year Clay City hosts the annual Keith Jones Classic track and field invitational, it serves as a ‘where are we’ meet as several of the Eels’ Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference and sectional opponents participate in the event. This year, however, it was even more important for the programs to see where the stack up against the local competition, Clay City head coach Cole Schroer said...

Entering the week, Clay City’s baseball team was ranked No. 7 in the Class A MaxPreps and Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association polls. A big reason for the Eels’ standing around the state has come from a trio of freshmen in Logan Stoelting, Zain Keller and Wyatt Johnson that have been thrown into the varsity baseball fire and have fared extremely well...

Former Northview standout Braydon Tucker has had two longtime home ballparks through the majority of his baseball career. The first being at Northview’s Athletic Complex on the high school’s campus. The second being Indiana University’s Bart Kaufman Field in Bloomington...

Even though Northview sat atop the Western Indiana Conference baseball standings alongside West Vigo entering Wednesday’s game against visiting North Putnam, it was still in search of figuring itself out after dropping three of its last five games. Northview head coach Craig Trout shook up the lineup and shifted different Knights around the diamond in hopes of figuring out the right recipe to right the ship behind the team’s No. 1 starter in Landon Carr...

Over the last three days, Northview’s girls tennis team has been matched up against some of the state’s top talent when the Lady Knights competed in the Athenian Invitational hosted by Crawfordsville over the weekend before taking on Terre Haute South in a dual match on Monday...

Last Wednesday, Clay City’s Sophie Moshos signed her letter of intent to play softball for Transylvania University. Moshos had dozens of supporters in the Eel Dome to celebrate one of the biggest accomplishments of her life. The senior left-handed pitcher and outfielder credited each and every one of them for helping her get to the point of becoming a collegiate athlete...

In one month’s time, Northview’s boys and girls track and field teams will have a chance to bring a pair of sectional championships home. In order to accomplish the feat, the Knights will have to battle several worthy opponents, one of which they got a glimpse of Monday night when they made the trip to Terre Haute South...

During the high school girls soccer season in the fall, Northview senior Lauren Rindone said she was sitting in one of her classes one afternoon when a thought crossed her mind. She was the starting goal keeper for the four-time reigning sectional champions and wanted to see if her athletic career could continue onto the collegiate level...

There’s something about Clay County baseball and softball teams throwing no-hitters through the first half of their respective seasons. It was Northview’s Landon Carr twirling back-to-back no-no’s first. And on Friday, it was the freshmen combination of Lizzy Sinders and Abby Shearer that no-hit Shakamak to pick up the Eels’ third straight win...

Northview’s Drew Cook put together a memorable junior campaign which helped get the Knights to the Class 3A Edgewood sectional championship game. And because of that, the awards and honors have followed. Cook’s most recent honor came recently when he was invited to particpate in the 14th annual Indiana Class Basketball All-Star Classic held at Anderson University on Saturday, June 18...

Two weeks ago, the Northview boys golf team hosted its annual Northview Invitational at Forest Park Golf Course to kick off the season. On that particular Saturday, the temperature hovered in the low to mid 30s with clouds, which had rain and snow falling from them, covering the sky...

Clay City opened the high school baseball season with five consecutive wins, marking the best start to a spring in head coach Larry Shaw’s five-year tenure. And while the Eels have scuffled as of late, dropping two of their last three entering a Saturday afternoon matchup with visiting Owen Valley, the six wins they’ve tallied are one shy of matching last year’s total...

North Clay Middle School’s track and field program, like every other team around the state of Indiana, has had to deal with the frigid spring temperatures throughout its season. The home portion of the Knights’ schedule came to a conclusion Monday evening against Honey Creek. The four – two boys and two girls – teams battled through the wind and cold with North Clay winning the girls meet by a score of 73-49 and the boys falling to the Bees by a score of 89-34...