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Energized Eels show maturity in win over Monrovia (12/9/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorComing off its best win in several years on Friday – a 17-point victory over Class A No. 3 Bloomfield – and then having to battle it out with a physical Monrovia program the very next night set the trap for a potential let down game for Clay City’s boys basketball team Saturday inside the Eel Dome...
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Northview finishes second in annual wrestling invitational (12/9/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorEach winter, Northview’s wrestling team has a few dates circled on the calendar. Among them included Saturday’s annual Northview Invitational that brought six teams – Danville, Greencastle, Northview, Paoli, Terre Haute North and West Vigo – together for a round-robin tournament with one program and several individuals being crowned champions...
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Northview drops 2OT thriller to West Vigo (12/8/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorNorthview’s boys basketball team was riding a rollercoaster of emotions throughout Friday’s matchup against West Vigo inside the Jim Mann Green Dome. The Knights came back from a second half deficit to force overtime but were looking their third straight loss in the face before Brayden Goff saved the day by banking in a game-tying 3-pointer at the buzzer to force double overtime...
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Lady Knights find offensive footing in win over West Vigo (12/8/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorIn its three games out of Thanksgiving break, Northview’s girls basketball team has averaged 48 points per game – the same number it’s averaging for the season – but the eye test was telling head coach Zack Keyes and his staff that the Lady Knights needed to shore up that part of their game...
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COLLEGE REPORT: Simmons collects first college pin at Indiana Little State Tournament (12/8/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOn Nov. 20, in a dual match against Trine University, Ancilla College’s Dalton Simmons (197) made his collegiate wrestling debut. Simmons was defeated, but that didn’t cause Ancilla College head coach Mark Line to lose any confidence in the former Northview standout...
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Clay City can't get out of scoring rut in loss to Linton (12/7/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorStatistics don’t always tell the full story of a season. However, for Clay City’s girls basketball team, the offensive production in wins compared to that in losses is quite jarring. In wins, the Lady Eels have averaged 45.7 points per game. And in losses, they’ve averaged 31.1 points per game – the same number Clay City has scored per game during its three-game losing streak, all of which have come after the 11-day break during the Thanksgiving holiday...
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Northview falls short in dual match with Owen Valley (12/6/23)1By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorEarlier in the high school wrestling season, Northview head coach Tony Sanabria pointed to Wednesday’s dual match with visiting Owen Valley as a measuring stick moment. He thought, despite it coming in the first week of December, the match would highlight varying areas of strengths and others the Knights will need to work on in the coming months, citing the strong program the Patriots have built in Spencer over the last handful of years as one of the top competition Northview will see throughout the regular season.. ...
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Grant wins Garmin RunningLane Cross Country Championship title (12/6/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOver the weekend, members of Northview’s cross country teams made the trip to Huntsville, Alabama where they competed in the annual Garmin Running Lane Cross Country Championship held at John Hunt Cross Country Running Course. There, Northview entered its boys team, which was made up of Jcim Grant, Douglas Dillman, Clint Mager, Connor Propst, Camden Johnson, Daniel Russell and Noah Minett, in the Bronze Race...
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Clay City’s offense gets shut down by South Putnam (12/5/23)By Will Buchanan, For the TimesIt was a tough night for Clay City’s girls basketball team Tuesday night as they traveled to South Putnam for a non-conference matchup. Coming into the night, Clay City head coach Jason Sinders’ squad had dropped back-to-back games - both coming in the North Daviess Tournament on Saturday - and were looking to get back into the win column. Unfortunately, points were hard to come by for the Eels due, in part, to the strong defensive effort from the Eagles, which led to a 48-20 loss...
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Lee named to IFCA’s Senior All-State team (12/4/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOver the weekend, the Indiana Football Coaches Association released its 2023 All-State teams. Northview was represented by senior running back/defensive back Tyler Lee, who was named to the Class 4A Senior All-State team. Lee was named to the team as a running back...
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Knights open wrestling season at 'Old Barn Brawl' (12/2/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAfter spending the first month of the high school wrestling season working on conditioning and preparing for the rigors that come with the multi-week battle to be ready for the postseason, Northview opened the 2023-24 campaign Saturday at the second-annual Doug Abell Memorial ‘Old Barn Brawl’ held inside Huntingburg Memorial Gymnasium...
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Knights fall flat in fourth quarter, lose to Sullivan (12/2/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorFor the second time in as many games, Northview’s boys basketball team found itself holding onto a three-possession lead late into the fourth quarter. Hosting Sullivan, a talented program the Knights hadn’t beaten in a decade, Northview went up by eight points with 3:34 left on the clock when Brayden Goff, who scored a game-high 18 points and flirted with another triple-double, sunk a pair of free throws...
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Northview goes cold in loss to Golden Arrows (12/1/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorThrough the first seven games of the girls high school basketball season, Northview has hung its hat on playing stout defense night after night, which has given itself plenty of opportunities to collect wins in the process. That remained true for the Lady Knights in Friday’s Western Indiana Conference showdown with visiting Sullivan. However, the offense went cold in a major way...
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Clay City overcomes sluggish start to down Riverton Parke (11/30/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorDuring his six-year tenure as Clay City’s girls basketball head coach, Jason Sinders has had the same routine during the 10-minute halftime intermission. Sinders and his coaching staff identify different areas they want to clean up and discuss those with the team rather quickly. It has typically led to the Lady Eels being in the locker room anywhere between three and five minutes, giving them plenty of time to return to the court and get some shots up as they prepare for the second half...
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SEASON PREVIEW: Northview to lean upon continuity, experience as expectations remain high (11/29/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorLosing four wrestlers that advanced onto semi-state the year before would typically give a hint that a program would be undergoing a rebuild of sorts. But that’s not necessarily the case for Northview. Despite seeing Seth Cowden, Tyler Lee, Richard Alexander and Dalton Simmons depart, the Knights bring back a strong contingent of wrestlers that head coach Tony Sanabria is confident will help do their part to move the group forward in a positive direction...
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Clay City's sizzling second half leads to win over Warriors (11/28/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorUsing a strong offensive attack in the opening stanza of Tuesday’s boys high school basketball game against North Knox inside the Eel Dome, Clay City led by as many as 13 points and was in full control of things. However, the Warriors found their shot behind the 3-point line in the second quarter – North Knox made four 3s in the quarter – to cut the deficit to six at the break...
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Northview draws Parke Heritage in Wabash Valley Classic opening round (11/28/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOn Tuesday morning, boys high school basketball coaches, administrators and media members from around the area converged on the First Financial Bank Conference Center in downtown Terre Haute for the 24th annual Wabash Valley Classic pairings luncheon...
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Lady Eels fall to WRV after long layoff (11/27/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorComing off a long 11-day break that went through the Thanksgiving holiday, Clay City’s girls basketball team returned to the court on Monday at White River Valley in a matchup of longtime Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference rivals. The Lady Eels knocked off the rust in the first quarter, putting up 10 points – seven of which came from LuLu Koehler, Clay City’s leading scorer – and holding the Wolverines to 13 points...
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Mager wins 2023 Turkey Trot road race (11/26/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOn a sun-filled – that had a bit of a holiday chill in the air – Thanksgiving morning, 237 runners took part in the annual Turkey Trot road race hosted by the Clay County YMCA. The race was broken down into several categories for various age groups, as well as the usual first to last placements, which are based on time...
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Northview squanders double-digit lead in loss to South Knox (11/25/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorIn Saturday’s high school boys basketball season opener at Terre Haute South in the third annual Gobbler Games Shootout, Northview entered the fourth quarter with an 11-point advantage – its second time pushing the lead over the double-digit threshold – over Class 2A No. 15 South Knox...
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Clay City clamps down on defense to beat Barr-Reeve (11/25/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorDating back to the 2011-12 boys high school basketball season, Clay City and Barr-Reeve had squared off six times, which included back-to-back meetings at the semi-state round of the postseason tournament in 2014 and 2015. In those matchups, the Eels were winless, falling by an average of 16.8 points...
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Northview opens Nevill era in third-annual Gobbler Games Shootout (11/24/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorLast week, Northview’s boys basketball team unofficially got the Shawn Nevill era in Brazil underway when it traveled to Bloomington South for a scrimmage. And on Saturday in the third annual Gobbler Games Shootout hosted by Terre Haute South High School, the Knights will take to the court in their first real game of the year...
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COLLEGE REPORT: Dawson, Spencer square off at college level (11/22/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorPlaying on the same side for three seasons in high school at Northview, Hanna Dawson, a sophomore forward at Lincoln Trail College, and Audri Spencer, a freshman guard at Lake Land College, were back on the court together on Nov. 18 – except this time, they were playing against each other...
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Second half surge lifts Eels past South Putnam (11/21/23)By Todd Stevens, For the TimesThe Clay City Eels boys’ basketball team came into the Eagles’ Nest at South Putnam and outscored the Eagles 44-21 in the second half to pull away to a 69-39 season-opening victory Tuesday night behind Ethan Edwards’ 22 points. The game started out like a season opener with both squads struggling on the offensive end, combining for 11 turnovers in the first quarter...
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Hayes has big day with Team Indiana at Mideast Cross Country Championship (11/19/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOver the weekend, Northview’s Ellia Hayes made the trip to Kettering, Ohio for the Mideast Cross Country Championship. Running as a member of Team Indiana, Hayes put an exclamation mark on her senior cross country season as Hayes finished 16th overall with a time of 18:50 to help lead her group to a second-place finish behind Team Michigan...
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Batchelor, Brown lead Lady Knights at Ben Davis Invitational (11/18/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorNorthview’s girls wrestling team opened the 2023-24 season on Nov. 4 at the New Palestine Invitational where the Lady Knights finished seventh out of the 27 competing programs. They’ve continued their busy month over the last two weekends by making appearances at the Purdue Polytechnic Invitational on Nov. 11 and the Ben Davis Invitational on Saturday...
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Northview beats Brown County to open conference action (11/17/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorComing off Tuesday’s energy-zapping win over Parke Heritage that ended when Carlee Schrader banked in a buzzer-beater from the top of the key, Northview’s girls basketball team was glad to have an extra day – Northview opened the season with two straight weeks of games taking place on Tuesday and Thursday – of rest to get itself ready for Friday’s Western Indiana Conference opener against visiting Brown County, which likes to play a physical style that has the Eagles soaring around the court at all times.. ...
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Clay City wrangles win away from West Vigo (11/16/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorComing off a tough loss on Tuesday at Shakamak that snapped its two-game winning streak, Clay City’s girls basketball team returned to the Eel Dome on Thursday for a non-conference matchup with visiting West Vigo. During Wednesday’s practice, as well as in the locker room before coming out for warmups, Clay City head coach Jason Sinders’ message to the group centered around one thing – keeping the same intensity they played with against the Lakers and using that to its benefit, especially on the defensive side of the floor.. ...
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COLLEGE REPORT: Allen records first collegiate points against hometown Sycamores (11/16/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOn Nov. 27, 2021, then-Northview senior Braden Allen scored 13 points inside Indiana State University’s Hulman Center in the inaugural Gobbler Games hosted by Terre Haute South. Fast forward nearly two years and Allen was back at the recently renovated Hulman Center, although this time, he was donning a red IUPUI No. 14 uniform...
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James signs with Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (11/15/23)1By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAt a very young age, Northview’s Kambree James fell in love with the game of soccer. She poured her heart and soul into the sport, and as she got older and had success at the high school level, the senior standout hoped to turn that into an opportunity to play in college...
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Streaking Shakamak defeats Clay City to secure sixth straight win (11/14/23)By Luke Morey, Daily World Sports EditorOn Tuesday night, the Shakamak girls basketball team clinched their sixth straight victory with a 47-33 win over conference foe Clay City. The Lady Lakers are now 6-1 on the season as Clay City falls to 2-2. The Lady Lakers got out to a strong start in the first quarter, with sophomore Aubrie Lambermont hitting two 3s to start the game as the Lady Lakers led 10-4 after the first quarter...
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Schrader's game-winner propels Northview past Parke Heritage (11/14/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAs Northview girls basketball head coach Zack Keyes drew up a play for his team in the waning seconds of Tuesday night’s game at Parke Heritage, he said it felt like déjà vu. It was 728 days ago when he was doing the same thing inside the Rock-a-Dome that led to Audri Spencer knocking down a game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer...
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SEASON PREVIEW: Northview to play with a 'gritty not pretty' mentality (11/13/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorNorthview’s boys basketball program is centering everything they do around three words for the upcoming season – gritty not pretty. It’s a motto that describes the personnel group the Knights have at their disposal and a mentality they plan to go into every game with, said first-year head coach Shawn Nevill...
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SEASON PREVIEW: Clay City focused on keeping its 'winning window' open for multiple years (11/13/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAfter seven straight losing seasons, Clay City’s boys basketball team put together a year to remember last winter when the Eels won 17 games, marking the most for the program since 2014-15 when they reached the semi-state round of the postseason. And because of that, there are higher expectations surrounding the Eels entering the 2023-24 season...
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Multiple Knights thrive at Nike Midwest Meet (11/12/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOver the weekend, thousands of runners from around Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio made the trip to Terre Haute’s LaVern Gibson Championship Course where the Nike Midwest Regional Meet took place. There, several Northview student-athletes competed in various races – and were quite successful...
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Hayes named an Indiana All-Star (11/12/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorA few hours before Northview’s Ellia Hayes signed her letter of intent to run at Indiana University, it was announced by the Indiana Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches that the senior standout had been selected as an Indiana All-Star. Hayes, along with 11 other runners from around the Hoosier State, will compete against All-Star teams from Illinois, Michigan and Ohio in the Mideast Cross Country meet in Kettering, Ohio on Nov. ...
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Harris signs with Danville Area Community College (11/11/23)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorSince the first time she picked up a bat as a toddler, Clay City’s Hannah Harris knew she wanted to play softball at the collegiate level. And after spending dozens of weekends at showcases and tournaments around the country, as well as putting up a .377 batting average to go along with 24 home runs, 19 doubles, 92 runs scored and 98 runs driven in her first three seasons in high school, the senior catcher caught the attention of numerous schools that were interested in bringing her into their program.. ...