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Standing on the outer boundaries of LaVern Gibson Championship Course Halloween morning, Northview girls cros country coach Tim Rayle wasn’t sure if he was going to get a trick or a treat when the state finals results were posted. “It’s so hard to tell,” he admitted...

Like everything else, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused changes in the format of Saturday's Indiana High School Athletic Association cross country state finals at the LaVern Gibson Championship Course east of Terre Haute. The girls' and boys' races have traditionally been run consecutively, but this year the two events will be separated by a few hours to avoid having fans interested in both races to be on the site at the same time...

Sectional 1 Lafayette Jeff 45, Lake Central 7 Merrillville 39, Crown Point 0 Sectional 2 Chesterton 20, Penn 14 Elkhart 67, Portage 33 Sectional 3 Carroll (Ft. Wayne) 42, Warsaw 35 Homestead 28, Ft. Wayne Snider 10 Sectional 4 Fishers 34, Hamilton Southeastern 29...

Two changes in the Northview girls' basketball schedule have restored the season opener for the Knights to Tuesday, Nov. 3. The Knights were originally scheduled to host Mooresville on Tuesday to start their season, but that game was moved to Dec. 22 after the Pioneers came down with some issues related to COVID-19...

Northview coach Tim Rayle has been coaching cross country since the mid-1980s. He’s had a lot of success during his multi-decade career. But this season, with the group that he has, getting to the state finals means a little bit more to him than it may have when he first got started...

When Northview’s cross country teams qualified for the state finals last year, the excitement of reaching the sport’s pinnacle took over any nervousness that would typically be around. “Last year, we were just really excited to get there. We had never been there. It was a really young team. We didn’t have any seniors on varsity, so we were just really excited to get there. We were just trying to work together, do well and try to get to state. That was our main goal,” said Halle Miller...

Gnister and Jcim Grant have an unbreakable bond. The freshmen siblings not only are running partners, they’re also the best of friends. Northview girls coach Tim Rayle said it’s obvious how much they care for each other just by watching their interactions at the conclusion of meets...

Clay City girls high school basketball head coach Jason Sinders used the word different several times when describing what this year’s season will be like. Having COVID-19 around and the protocols that come with it are sure to make for a different year...

When the girls high school basketball season got going last year, Northview coach Zack Keyes was handed a roster full of guards and forwards. The personnel was much different than what he had in the past, which featured plenty of height and back-to-the-basket type of players...

On Wednesday evening, Northview’s Benjamin Goshen, a multi-sport senior student-athlete, took to his personal Twitter page (@Benjamin_Goshen) to break news regarding where he’ll be playing collegiate golf in the not-too-distant future. “Excited to announce that I have accepted an offer to continue my golf career at Marian University. Thanks to everyone that helped me up to this point in my career. I can’t wait to be able to fulfill my goal of playing college golf,” his tweet read...

With girls high school basketball schedules all over the place due to circumstances created by COVID-19, Northview was left with an open date for a scrimmage, but had no team to fill the slot as its opposition. That was until head coach Zack Keyes got on the horn with South Vermillion head coach Scott Jones. The two worked out the date, time and location and put it on the calendar...

The Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association recently announced its Academic All-State teams. Northview had four members of its 2020 roster earn a spot with Parker Gibbens and Kassidy Kellett being named to the Academic All-State First Team and Kaylee Lowe being named to the Academic All-State Honorable Mention Team...

Over the last two weeks of the IHSAA cross country state series, Northview’s boys team has been hampered by injuries and illnesses. Thomas Chapman, who had been one of the program’s top runners over the last two seasons, went down with a lower leg injury at the Western Indiana Conference championship meet and has missed every race since then...

Northview lost to Evansville Memorial 28-6 in the opening round of the high school football postseason Friday night, ending the most unusual season coach Mark Raetz has ever been a part of. Although the Knights saw their year come to an end earlier than they would have hoped, it was still quite successful, the eighth-year coach pointed out...

Northview’s girls cross country team stated its presence to the rest of the state over the past two weeks. The Lady Knights claimed sectional and regional championships and entered Saturday’s Brown County Semi-State as one of the top groups expected to advance to next weekend’s state finals...

Over the weekend, Northview wrestlers senior Madison Slaughter (120) and freshman Mercedes Tellechea (175) competed in the Full Throttle Duals tournament held in Greenwood. Tellechea was crowned champion in her weight class, while Slaughter was the runner up in hers...

For the first time in the 2020 high school cross country season, Clay City didn’t have its team competing together as one unit. The Eels were eliminated from the IHSAA postseason state series in the regional round the week before. However, Jacob Hogg and Macy Tucker got out as individuals and represented their school at Saturday’s Brown County Semi-State...

EVANSVILLE - With the wind blowing, rain falling and temperatures dropping by the minute, the question asked by the many bundled up fans in the stands surrounding Evansville Bosse’s Enlow Field was how were Northview and Evansville Memorial going to put points on the board with the less-than-ideal conditions Mother Nature dropped on them Friday night?...

Sectional 13 Decatur Central 27, Terre Haute North 7 Sectional 17 Highland 38, Griffith 21 Hobart 56, Hammond Gavit 0 Lowell 21, Hammond Morton 0 Sectional 18 Culver Academy 21, Kankakee Valley 14 Logansport 40, S. Bend Riley 3 Plymouth 36, New Prairie 20...

Winning a sectional championship and a regional championship in back-to-back weeks, naturally, takes a team effort to accomplish. Northview’s girls cross country team embodies that each time they take the course together. The Lady Knights are a tight-knit group, coach Tim Rayle said...

Vinny Bonomo had a tough break – literally – to the start of his high school football career at Northview. In the scrimmage leading into his freshman season, Bonomo got tangled up with a tackler and broke his ankle. Leading into preseason camp his sophomore season, he got in a Polaris accident, breaking his foot and, again, ending his year before it got started...

At the end of every high school football game, Northview coach Mark Raetz gathers his team around him and his coaching staff. He then rolls through a litany of thoughts that sit at the top his mind before the group breaks it down with a ‘1-2-3, Knights!’...

Clay City girls basketball coach Jason Sinders stood with his arms folded across his chest Tuesday evening, watching his team go through practice drills. He had a black Clay City mask covering his nose and mouth. That was the only difference that could be seen or felt inside the high school’s auxiliary gym as the sounds of basketballs bouncing and sneakers squeaking on the hardwood echoed off the walls...

The high school girls basketball season officially got underway Monday afternoon. Northview took to the court and immediately began putting in the work for its season-opening game against Mooresville Nov. 3. However, this season will be unlike any that have taken place before it...

Over the weekend, in Lynwood, Ill., four members of the Northview and North Clay wrestling programs participated in the Preseason Nationals Invitational. Varzidy Batchelor (freshman) took home third place at 200 and was named an All-American. Joining her as an All-American was Madison Slaughtered (senior), who finished second at 122, and Mercedes Tellechea (freshman), who finished third at 164...

Clay City’s boys and girls cross country teams entered Saturday’s Bedford North Lawrence Regional looking to shock the state. The Eels entered as the smallest competing school and knew they would have to run their best race to move on as a team. That didn’t end up happening for a few reasons, girls coach Melanie Laswell said...

On Saturday, Northview’s girls cross country team accomplished something that had never been done in program history. Built around some of the top freshmen and sophomore runners in the state, the Lady Knights won their first ever regional championship...

Coming off last week’s sectional that had the Northview boys cross country team biting their fingernails in anticipation of the position in which it would finish amongst its Wabash Valley peers – Northview was crowned champions – the Knights wanted to prove they are one of the top teams in the state at Saturday’s Bedford North Lawrence Regional...

When Garicke Rubin took over as Clay City’s head volleyball coach in 2013, he inherited a group that was coming off back-to-back sectional championships, a regional title and a trip to semi-state. However, those teams were full of upperclassmen that were moving onto their collegiate careers when Rubin walked through the door...

When a team is looking to pull off an upset, taking advantage of any crack the opposition gives is paramount. Saturday night, Clay City was that team. The Lady Eels were looking to knock off Class A No. 10 Bloomfield in the Clay City volleyball Sectional championship...

When Northview’s girls soccer team was crowned champions at last weekend’s Edgewood Sectional, it came as a mild surprise to some around the Wabash Valley. It had nothing to do with the program the Knights had built over the last four years or the competition in which they were up against...

Indian Creek took away a chance for Northview to win back-to-back conference championships when the Braves defeated the Knights on their home field last season. That has been on the mind of the maroon and black since the scoreboard ran out of time ending the 2019 regular season...

WESTERN INDIANA CONFERENCE Northview 24, Indian Creek 7 Brown Co. 28, Edgewood 18 Greencastle 41, N. Putnam 7 Owen Valley 41, Cloverdale 12 South Putnam 27, Heritage Christian 18 Sullivan 38, West Vigo 14 STATEWIDE SCORES Adams Central 41, Woodlan 6...

Northview and Clay City will both be active in the latter part of this week in IHSAA sectional competition in volleyball, girls' soccer and cross country.

Growing up on the baseball field, former Northview standout and assistant baseball coach Jacob Harden played with and against Rose-Hulman head coach Jeff Jenkins’ son, Justin, who was quite the player at Terre Haute South and the University of Iowa...

Northview and Indian Creek are both undefeated through their first three Western Indiana Conference football games in the "Gold" Division, and will meet tonight at Jerry Anderson Field. Both teams are also 6-2 overall, with Northview losing its season opener 27-21 in overtime to Terre Haute North and also falling 19-0 in week seven to Guerin Catholic...

Early on in the high school volleyball season, when Northview made its first trip down to Edgewood for a conference matchup with the Mustangs, the game was rather lopsided in favor of the hosts. However, at that time, the Knights were in a state of flux as numerous members of the team were coming and going due to COVID-19 contact tracing...

Sarah Tellechea’s son, Ian, who has been a three-year member of Special Olympics Indiana, recently put together a team that participated in the Plane Pull Challenge at the Indianapolis International Airport’s Postal Hub. While there, Tellechea noticed that the group they brought for the event was the only one from Clay County...

On Wednesday afternoon, the Indiana Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches announced its Academic All-State teams. Northview seniors Braeden Knerr and Hunter Strain made the IATCCC Academic All-State First Team, while juniors Stuart Bennett and Miles Haviland made the IATCCC Academic All-State Honorable Mention Team...

There was a stretch of games during the high school girls soccer season that was crucial for Northview. At the time, it didn’t look like much other than the Lady Knights finding their groove after their preseason practices and scrimmages were impacted by COVID-19...

During the spring, prior to school shifting to eLearning, Northview volleyball coach Erica Garrison had the idea of a school project for her seventh-grade health class. She had them collect bottle caps that would eventually go to the makings of five blue and black benches in remembrance of Rylee Rogers, who played for Garrison during her freshman and sophomore seasons...

Over the weekend, while playing against Scottsburg in the North Montgomery Invitational, Northview senior Katy Anderson recorded her 1,000th career dig. Anderson, who has been a four-year player for the Lady Knights, has played the defensive specialist and libero positions...

With Saturday’s sectional championship victory over West Vigo, the Northview girls soccer team advanced to the Jasper Regional against Silver Creek with the game scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. EDT. Below is the ticket information provided to Northview’s Athletic Department:...

Northview’s No. 1 doubles tandem of Benjamin Goshen and Caleb Swearingen ended their successful, four-year run against Covington at the individual state tournament’s held in Crawfordsville. Goshen and Swearingen, who will continue their high school athletic careers in golf and basketball, dropped just two matches during the 2020 season and finished with a 40-15 overall record. Congrats on a fantastic run, Benjamin & Caleb!...

For the fourth straight year, Northview was back in the girls soccer sectional championship game. But this time, the Lady Knights weren’t at full health with Kassidy Kellett and Delani Wallen out with lower body injuries, and because of that, may have been more vulnerable to give back their crown than ever before...

Northview girls cross country coach Tim Rayle has made no qualms about what his team’s No. 1 goal is for the season. But to get to that achievement, there are a series of other goals that need to be accomplished along the way. And on Saturday, the first of those was checked off...

Coming into Saturday’s girls cross country sectional at LaVern Gibson Championship Course, Clay City coach Melanie Laswell knew it was going to be a battle between Owen Valley, West Vigo and the Eels to decide which two teams would earn a ticket to the regional round, while the other was left out in the cold...

All season long, Clay City boys cross country coach Cole Schroer said he wanted to see his team put everything together when the postseason rolled around. Saturday was that time. And by all accounts, the Eels did what their coach had been asking of them...

As the runners crossed the finish line at Saturday morning’s boys cross country sectional and made their way out of the chute and back onto the course to exit, Northview coach James Grounds congratulated his guys for their efforts. At the same time, he was wearing out the refresh button on his phone in hopes of finding positive results on timingmd.net...

Coming off a week that saw the offense get shut out by Guerin Catholic, Northview was looking for a burst of energy to get itself back on track Friday night at Edgewood High School. It came on the first play of the evening, as Vinny Bonomo hauled in the kickoff at the Northview 20-yard line and busted through a line of Mustang defenders before being taken down to the red turf at the Edgewood 39-yard line...