High School Sports

Northview hosting baseball camp (05/15/08)
Northview's High School baseball coaching staff is conducting an instructional camp for youth league players from June 2-5. The camp is for players from pee wee to Babe Ruth and emphasizes fundamental skills. The camp will include Northview High School coaches and alumni of the Knights' program...

Northview tennis team advances in sectional (05/15/08)
Staff Report GREENCASTLE -- Northview's tennis team marched on in sectional play with a 5-0 sweep over Linton on Thursday evening. In match moved to DePauw University's indoor facility in Greencastle, the Knights proved just as hard to beat against the Miners, an earlier season victim of Northview...

Rainy weather can't dampen county sectional efforts (05/15/08)
By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor TERRE HAUTE -- There wasn't much that was appealing about the weather at Thursday's boys' track sectional held at Terre Haute North, but both Clay City and Northview's coaches found their teams' efforts very pleasing...

Sectional draw made for high school baseball teams (05/15/08)
Staff Report The end of the month of May not only means the Indianapolis 500, but baseball sectionals as well. Clay City and Northview have the luxury of drawing the bye bracket this season, which is always a bonus when considering what could potentially be a very long road to a championship...

Tennis sectional change (05/15/08)
Thursday's tennis sectional match between Northview and Linton has been moved to the DePauw University indoor facility in Greencastle due to weather and will begin at 5 p.m.

Mustangs down Knights with walk-off single; Clay City teams win (05/14/08)
Staff Report ELLETSVILLE -- Edgewood's Max Walton hit a two-run single in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the Mustangs a 5-4 walk-off win over Northview on Tuesday. Knights' hurler Brock Lawson had kept Edgewood in check over the first five innings, allowing just a third inning run as Northview took a 4-1 advantage...

Northview and Clay City boys set for sectional (05/14/08)
By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor Determination and mental toughness will go a long way in determining how things play out for both the Northview Knights and Clay City Eels in today's Terre Haute North Boy's Track and Field Sectional. The Knights would like to say that they have a stranglehold on third place behind defending champion Terre Haute North and Terre Haute South, but several other teams have designs on that spot according to coach Jeff Gambill...

Special efforts at high school sectional (05/13/08)
By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor TERRE HAUTE -- Plenty of things went as expected at Tuesday's Terre Haute North Girls' track sectional. The host team won its seventh straight championship with an impressive 174 points and both North Central (Farmersburg) sophomore Shelby Higginbottom and the Patriots' Amy Hamilton had big meets...

Northview girls claim fourth consecutive conference title (05/12/08)
Staff Reports The Northview girls' tennis program has quietly become one of the school's most successful. On Monday night, the team added its fourth consecutive Western Indiana Conference championship with a 5-0 win over Sullivan and sets its sights on a repeat sectional championship beginning on Thursday against Linton...

County girls set to contend at sectional (05/12/08)
By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor The quest for the state finals begins this week for boys' and girls' track teams around the state. Clay County teams compete at Terre Haute North High School this week with the girls competing today beginning at 5:30 p.m. and the boys on Thursday evening...

County golf teams compete in conference tourneys (05/11/08)
Staff Reports SULLIVAN -- The Northview Knights got All-Conference efforts from Kade Baker, Drew Snyder and Matt Williams to place second at the Western Indiana Conference meet on Saturday at the Sullivan Elks course. The Edgewood Mustangs got a score of 315 to claim top honors by nine strokes over the Knights South Vermillion's Jordan Lowry shot the low medalist score of 70...

Mixed results for Northview boys in WIC meet (05/11/08)
By STEVE FIELDS For the Brazil Times Coach Jeff Gambill wasn't sure how to answer when asked to evaluate the Northview Knights' performances in the Western Indiana Conference Track and Field Championships on Saturday at Northview High School. With the shot put and pole vault still unscored, most teams boarded buses for home knowing Edgewood, with six conference champions, was clearly the winner for the sixth straight year with 181 points...

Unbeaten weekend for county softball teams (05/11/08)
Staff Reports FRANKFORT -- The Clay City Eels won a pair of softball games to claim the Clinton Prairie Classic championship. The Eels downed host team 6-4 in the opening contest, getting a 2-for-4 game at the plate from Tasha Collenbaugh, who also had two stolen bases with an RBI...

Patience a winning virtue for Northview baseball team (05/09/08)
By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor Fourteen strikeouts and earning a pitching victory. If your Brock Lawson then that's a pretty nice way to celebrate your birthday and he's got the weekend to savor a 14-4 Northview win over Owen Valley on Friday night...

Patience a winning virtue for Northview baseball team (05/09/08)
By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor Fourteen strikeouts and earning a pitching victory. If your Brock Lawson then that's a pretty nice way to celebrate your birthday and he's got the weekend to savor a 14-4 Northview win over Owen Valley on Friday night...

Big inning powers Knights by Patriots (05/09/08)
By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor The weather may have left plenty to be desired, but a Northview conference win, 10-1 over Owen Valley, sent the fans home happy on Friday night. A steady drizzle left just about everything soaked at Northview High School, but still couldn't dampen the Northview fans spirits...

Sectional draw made for softball teams (05/08/08)
By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor The postseason paths were chosen for softball teams around the state on Thursday as the IHSAA drew sectional opponents for all four classes. In Clay County, both Northview and Clay City found out what opponents stand between them and a sectional championship...

Records fall at North Clay track meet (05/07/08)
Staff Report North Clay's track teams earned a split against Riverton Parke and Cascade Tuesday evening. Damon Hyatt broke a pair of school records with his time of 4:53 in the 1,600 and 55.11 in the 400 meters as North Clay posted a winning team score of 60 to Cascade's 54 and Riverton Parke's 23...

Knights earn diamond split at South Vermillion (05/07/08)
Staff Report CLINTON -- One Northview team returned home from Clinton with a victory on Tuesday night. The Knights' baseball team scored a run in the seventh inning to take a 4-3 Western Indiana Conference win over the Wildcats. The softball didn't fare quite as well as Nikki Fuqua held the Knights scoreless in a 1-0 victory for South Vermillion that kept them unbeaten in the WIC...