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By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor TERRE HAUTE — Northview used all of the guts and guile of a senior laden volleyball team to rally off the mat to defeat rival Terre Haute North on Thursday evening, 27-25, 21-25, 25-12, 18-25, 15-13. In a match that was contested vehemently for nearly every point over the course of all five sets, the Knights scored the final five points to take the decisive fifth set. ...

Times Staff Report At Forest Park Golf Course on Thursday, Dean Cook shot a hole-in-one on the 150-yard fifth hole. He was playing with Alan Buell, Bennie Kiburis, Wayne Loughmiller and Steve Paquin.

Times Staff Report CLAY CITY — The Clay City volleyball team started its season off with a pair of victories, topping North Daviess and South Vermillion. The Eels won a five-set battle with North Daviess, 25-23, 23-25, 25-19, 17-25, 16-14 as Jenna Ream dished out 20 assists with seven digs and Ginger Rayle posted 20 assists six digs and served up three aces. ...

By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor The Northview volleyball team has piled up a plethora of regular and postseason victories over the last handful of seasons and will be expecting more of the same success in 2018. A strong senior class was part of a 31-5 mark last year and a berth in the regional championship match...

By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor Tuesday evening’s season opening volleyball match between Northview and Danville could easily be a postseason preview for a pair of teams with high expectations. The Class 3A 10th ranked Knights got off to a quick start and rode that momentum to a 25-12, 25-20, 25-21 win over the Class 3A 14th ranked visitors...

By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor TERRE HAUTE — Bloomington South’s boys’ team and the West Lafayette girls’ cross country teams both served notice Saturday morning that they would like to finish their season on the same course on which they began. Both the fourth-ranked boys from Bloomington South and the Red Devil girls, who are ranked sixth in the preseason, provided dominant efforts at the LaVern Gibson Course on Saturday. ...

By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor PUTNAMVILLE ‑ There’s no doubt that Thomas Meseraull as Lincoln Park Speedway figured out this season. The San Jose, Calif. native swapped the early sprint car A-main lead with Brent Beauchamp and Colton Cottle before winning by several car lengths. The victory came in his own No. 00 and was his second in as many appearances at LPS in that machine...

By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor TERRE HAUTE — The Friday night lights were blazing as Northview took to the gridiron at Terre Haute South for a controlled football scrimmage against the Braves. The situational scrimmage featured each team’s offense and defense squaring off for a set number of plays starting at various yard lines over the course of the match-up. While no score was officially kept, the team’s each scored a total of five touchdowns during the varsity portion of the scrimmage...

By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor There is strength in numbers this season for the Northview girls golf program this fall. The Knights are 12 golfers strong, the highest in several years, and the team returns four of its sectional golfers from a fifth-place finish last season...

By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor There is building excitement surrounding the Northview cross country programs this season and for good reason. Numbers are up a bit for the girls’ program and have skyrocketed for the boys’ team. The Knights are coming off a sectional team championship for the boys and the girls have designs on improving upon a sixth place sectional finish last season. ...

Cahill captures Riddell National Bank Brazil Open Times Staff Report Former Terre Haute South and Indiana Wesleyan University standout Drew Cahill shot a two-day score of 130 to capture the Riddell National Bank Brazil Open title at Forest Park Golf Course over the weekend. He was able to outlast the course’s Director of Golf, Troy Farris by one stroke...

Landes and Aitken claim first career feature wins at LPS By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor PUTNAMVILLE -- Saturday was a night of firsts at Lincoln Park Speedway as Paris, Ill. native Garrett Aitken captured his first career sprint car feature win and West Terre Haute's Sydney Landes picked up her first career UMP Modified feature win...

By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor PUTNAMVILLE — Young Bailey Hicks was a Paragon resident that loved to compete on the race track. However, he tragically lost his life in a vehicle accident on Ind. 142 in April of 2017. So it was fitting on Saturday night that his memory was honored on the race track with friends and family in attendance in the stands and on the race at Lincoln Park Speedway for the first running of the “Bailey Hicks Memorial” race. ...

Times Staff Report KOKOMO — Wayne Newton Post 346 opened American Legion State Tournament play with a 10-0 shutout win Thursday behind the stellar pitching of former Northview hurler Luke Lancaster. Lancaster spun a two-hit gem for Post 346, which ended the game via 10-run rule in five innings against Lake Station Post 100. Lancaster, who pitched for Vincennes University in the spring, needed just 51 pitches to get the win as he struck out three and walked just one...

By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor PUTNAMVILLE — The list of accomplishments on the race track for Lincoln, Ind. native Dave Darland is as voluminous as it is impressive. He heads the bulk of every AMSOIL National Sprint Car racing historical category already and he added another notch during Thursday’s “Indiana Sprint Week” stop at Lincoln Park Speedway...

By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor The Northview volleyball team has been preparing for the 2018 season with summer workouts and recently plied their trade at a camp held at Indiana University. Head coach Erica Garrison admitted that going into the camp that she wasn’t quite sure exactly how her lineup would shape up prior to the trip to Bloomington. However, she noted that the team’s stint with the IU coaching staff was highly beneficial...

By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor PUTNAMVILLE — Bloomington’s James Walters kept his red hot streak in the UMP Modified ranks alive Saturday night with his third straight win on the Lincoln Park Speedway dirt surface. The win was his fifth of the season in what has become a breakout season for Walters, who held off Jay Humphrey Jr. and Jake Humphrey for the victory...

By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor The gauntlet that is “Indiana Sprint Week” for the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Series is to tip off at Plymouth Speedway tonight before heading to Kokomo and Lawrenceburg over the weekend. The series breaks for two days before ramping right back up with a scorching set of races opening at The Action Track in Terre Haute on Wednesday, July 25 followed by Lincoln Park Speedway the following evening before wrapping up with a tilt on the red clay of Bloomington Friday and crowning a champion Saturday at Tri-State Speedway at Haubstadt.. ...

Clay County repped well on the diamond By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor While the Saints might not always go marching in, the Saint Paul Saints have gone streaking of late in the American Association summer race behind the hot bat of Brady Shoemaker...