Clay City Eels

Over the weekend, hundreds of high school cross country programs flocked to Terre Haute’s LaVern Gibson Championship Course for the 2024 Nike Twilight meet. Both Clay City and Northview took part in the popular event, although the pair of cross county rivals were in different races under the lights...

During his four-year high school football career at Northview, Braxton Sampson was the leader of the defense in the middle of the field at his linebacker position. Sampson recorded one sack during his senior year in 2021. He matched that in Indiana State University’s 27-24 loss to Houston Christian University on Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium. ...

Clay City’s volleyball team, under a new regime and with multiple new faces entering the program, spent the first two months of the season figuring out its identity and the way it wanted to play. But with the calendar flipping to October on Tuesday, which means the postseason is right around the corner, first-year head coach Asie Jeffers informed her group that it’s time to find their groove if they want to have an opportunity to accomplish some of the goals they set out to do during the summer...

Clay City’s cross country teams wrapped up the regular season Saturday morning at the Shakamak Invitational where the footing was a muddy mess after the reminiscence of Hurricane Helene swept through the state Friday. Still, the Eels were able to have some strong showings as the boys team finished third behind only Cascade and Eastern Greene while the girls team finished sixth behind Eastern Greene, Owen Valley, North Daviess, Cascade and Sullivan...

When the inaugural Stuart Bennett Invitational was postponed due to inclement weather earlier in the month, Clay City’s cross country programs were keeping a close eye on when it would be moved to. Upon hearing that it would take place on Wednesday – and with the Shakamak Invitational, one of the prominent meets the Eels compete in each year, taking place on Saturday – head coaches Cole Schroer and Melanie Laswell had a choice to make with how they would approach things...

Kassidy Kellett etched her name into the Northview girls soccer history books by becoming the program’s all-time leading goal scorer while also doing her part to bring home multiple sectional championships. The senior forward, who missed the entirety of the 2023 collegiate season due to a knee injury, has returned to Lee University’s roster this fall and has been a consistent contributor already...

On Monday at 7 a.m., the official X account, formerly known as Twitter, of Northview’s volleyball team put up a post stating the importance of the annual Pink Game against cross county rival Clay City later that night. The reason? Both teams come together to honor and support those who have or are currently battling breast cancer. It also brings the entire community into one gym, making it one of the biggest stages either program will play on throughout the season...

When Clay City High School created the school’s first-ever girls golf team in the spring of 2019, the athletic department approached Elissa Daniel to gauge her interest in becoming head coach. Daniel, who had nearly a decade’s worth of experience leading the school’s cross country and track and field teams, was hesitant at first. ...

Coming off a pair of Chad Smith Invitational championships earlier in the week, Northview’s cross country teams competed in the South Knox Invitational. There, the Knights, competing against some of the state’s premier programs, finished fourth in the boys meet and fifth in the girls meet...

As Northview’s girls golf team sat at the picnic tables underneath the pavilion to the right of Forest Park Golf Course’s clubhouse, they felt confident the scores they put up at Friday’s sectional tournament would be good enough to advance themselves onto next weekend’s regional...

With the way the final week of the high school girls golf regular season fell, Tuesday night’s county rivalry match between Clay City and Northview at Forest Park Golf Course looked a little different. The Eels, playing in the Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference tournament at Phil Harris Golf Course in Linton on Wednesday while also needing a few of their golfers to play in one more match to earn varsity letters for the season, shook up the entirety of their lineup like a snow globe, flipping the bottom four to the top and the top four to the bottom.. ...

After being an integral part of Northview’s volleyball team that posted a .764 winning percentage (a record of 52-16) and won a pair of conference and sectional championships, Audrey Lee has fit in quite nicely at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The freshman outside hitter has appeared in each of the team’s first 16 games of the season, which included playing in six sets in Saturday’s doubleheader against Kentucky State University. ...

Clay City’s boys high school cross country team couldn’t have asked for a better week. The Eels won their annual invitational by placing eight of their runners in the top 16 and proceeded to carry that momentum into Saturday’s Washington Invitational, besting Shakamak – the meet’s runner up – by 13 points to win two titles in a four-day span...

As Clay City girls golf head coach Elissa Daniel put it, “It’s been tough this season for us.” Clay City entered Thursday’s dual match against visiting South Putnam winless. And with the sectional championship tournament scheduled for next week, Daniel knew the time was ticking on her group leaving the course victorious...

It had been quite awhile since Clay City’s boys cross country team defended their home turf and won the Clay City Invitational. How long? Clay City head coach Cole Schroer pondered that question Tuesday evening but wasn’t entirely sure of the answer...

The first time Clay City’s cross country programs paid a visit to LaVern Gibson Championship Course, the host site of the Terre Haute North Sectional as well as the State Finals, this season came at the annual Valley Kickoff on Aug. 17. The temperatures were hovering in the low to mid-90s and the competition was some of the best the Eels will season the entire season...

The number of sectional and regional championships, as well as state championship appearances, over the last decade speaks to how dominant Northview’s cross country programs have been. But on Friday night at the Sam Bell Invitational hosted by Indiana University, there was another sign of the level in which the Knights have seen their teams rise as four Division I runners – Gnister Grant (Indiana State University), Jcim Grant (Indiana State University), Ellia Hayes (Indiana University) and Halle Miller (Indiana State University) – competed against each other on one of the sport’s biggest stages to open the 2024 season.. ...

It was anyone's game through the first two sets of Thursday night’s Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference volleyball showdown between Clay City and North Daviess. The pair of conference unbeatens split the first and second sets, winning by identical scores of 25-23, making it a best-of-three match the rest of the way...

During the 2023 women’s college soccer season, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods goal keeper Lauren Rindone appeared in three games, all of which came in relief duty of starter Kaylee Thaler, and recorded nine saves. The former Northview standout surpassed each of those statistics in the season opener against Indiana State University at Memorial Stadium on Aug. 15 as the junior keeper got the starting nod, played the entire 90-minute game and came up with a career-high 13 saves...

For the second straight week, Clay City’ and Northview’s cross country teams spent their Saturday competing against some of the top teams in the state. For the Eels, they took part in the Harrier Invitational hosted by Brown County. There, both teams finished ninth behind the likes of Bloomington North, Bloomington South, Terre Haute South, Bishop Chatard, Avon and Guerin Catholic...

With a new coach (Asieavae Jeffers), multiple new players added to the varsity roster (Lillian Dewey, Chloe Youngblood, Kelli Riggs, Audrianna Ranard, Ellie Stoelting, Ali Evans, Emma Vansickle and Karlee Smith) and the implementation of a new system, growing pains were to be expected for Clay City’s volleyball team...

A mid-August mugginess hovered over the grounds of LaVern Gibson Championship Course on the eastern outskirts of Terre Haute Saturday morning as hundreds of runners took their spot at the start line to officially get the high school cross country season underway at the annual Valley Kickoff meet hosted by Terre Haute South...

Entering the 2023 high school cross country season, Clay City’s boys and girls programs weren’t entirely sure what to expect with the groups they had. Sure, the boys were bringing back a few returners, but some were coming off injuries and the others were going to slide up a few spots in the lineup after multiple seniors graduated, so there was still some unknown...

Playing volleyball at Clay City High School during the falls of 2008-2011, Asieavae Jeffers had an attachment to the program that she thrived in. So, when the head coaching position became open last spring, the CCHS alum decided to put her name in the mix in hopes of landing the job...

After seeing the final scores get posted at last year’s high school girls golf sectional tournament, Clay City head coach Elissa Daniel said she was disappointed with how the season went for her group. She pointed to a need for the Lady Eels to put in more work during the offseason and carry that into the 2024 campaign. And through the first few weeks of practice, she’s seen that...

With the calendar flipping to August, that means former Clay City and Northview standouts will be heading off to college in the near future – if they haven’t already – to begin their respective fall sports seasons around the country. As always, the Times will be there to keep those back at home up to date with their successes. Listed below are the former Eels and Knights set to compete on their respective playing surfaces:...

On Saturday afternoon at Forest Park Golf Course, the 14th annual Pierson DeHart Golf Scramble brought golfers from all over Clay County, as well as the Wabash Valley, together to show their love to Colson O’Neal, a 3-year-old son of Chris and Jaime O’Neal who suffered a serious brain injury when he was five months old. Due to the brain injury, he has cerebral palsy, epilepsy and cortical visual impairment. He currently does not walk, talk or eat by mouth so he receives his nutrition via g-tube...

According to baseballchasers.com, theirs is a 0.003 percent chance someone will see a triple play turned in-person. Whether those odds are accurate or not, the dozens of fans that spent their Saturday afternoon at Terre Haute North’s Don Jenning Field watching the American Legion Regional Tournament consolation bracket semifinal between Clay County Post 2 and West Terre Haute Post 501 could say they had seen a triple play with their own eyes...

When Clay County Post 2 left Terre Haute North’s Don Jenning Field after falling to Terre Haute Post 346 in the opening round of the American Legion Regional Tournament Friday night, they expected to be taking on Indianapolis Post 276 when they returned Saturday afternoon...

Entering the American Legion Regional Tournament, Clay County Post 2 manager Nathan Stoelting and assistant coach Andrew Kreiger had already mapped out the different pitching equations they’d be up against to finish as the champion or runner-up to advance onto next weekend’s state tournament...

Originally scheduled to play each other on July 9, Clay County Post 2 and Terre Haute Post 346 will have to wait until Friday’s American Legion Regional Tournament opener to lock horns for the first time in over five years. The pair will be in the second of Friday’s pair of openers held at Terre Haute North’s Don Jennings Field, which is slated to begin at 7:30 p.m. or shortly after the conclusion of the matchup between West Terre Haute Post 501 and the Indianapolis Hornets...

During her two-year stay at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, things went as well as former Clay City standout Sophie Moshos could’ve hoped. The left-handed pitcher posted a combined 17-5 record and 1.26 ERA in 30 appearances, 24 of which came in games started by Moshos, in 155.1 innings pitched. ...

With one week left in the American Legion regular season, Clay County Post 2 took part in the Byron Cox Post 72 American Legion Tournament held at North Montgomery High School over the weekend. There, Post 2 was matched up against Kokomo Post 6, Rantoul Post 287, Galesburg Post 285 and College Prep Post 94 in the pool play portion of the invitational...

High school softball coaches will be able to use electronic devices in the dugout for one-way communication to the catcher while the team is on defense beginning in 2025. This landmark change was the highlight of the NFHS Softball Rules Committee’s two rules recommendations, which were forwarded as a result of the committee’s annual rules meeting held June 9-11 at The Alexander hotel in Indianapolis. The NFHS Board of Directors approved both rules changes to take effect next year...