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COLLEGE REPORT: Bussing finishes fourth at Alice Lloyd Invite, earns RSC Golfer of the Week honor (3/27/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorThroughout her high school golfing career at Northview, Brooklee Bussing cemented herself as one of the top players in program history. That’s continued into her collegiate career at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, and that was on display again over the weekend at the Alice Lloyd Invitational at the Battlefield Golf Club in Richmond, Kentucky where Bussing fired rounds of 80 and 85, respectively, to finish in a tie for fourth place and help lead the Pomeroys to a second-place finish in the team standings.. ...
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SEASON PREVIEW: Northview looking to build off last year's championship-winning season (3/26/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorComing off one of the best track and field seasons in program history, Northview’s boys and girls teams are preparing to return to the top of conference and sectional totem poles this spring. On the girls side, the defending sectional champions return the majority of its roster, although as head coach James Grounds pointed out, after a trio of standout seniors, there’s a drop off in terms of experience. ...
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Eels, Knights gave Clay County a winter to remember (3/25/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAs we get set to put a close to the winter sports season, specifically basketball season with Class A No. 8 Bethesda Christian, which eliminated Clay City in the Washington Regional on March 9 and then defeated Greenwood Christian and Barr-Reeve in the Semi-State the following weekend, taking on Fort Wayne Canterbury in Saturday’s state championship at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, and turn our attention to the spring sports, it’s important to remember the runs Northview and Clay City went on that brought Clay County together.. ...
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Spencer dazzles at NJCAA Tournament (3/23/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAfter putting together a strong regular season that consisted of a 24-8 record to go along with five wins against top 15-ranked opponents, Lake Land College’s women’s basketball team qualified for the NJCAA Division II National Championship Tournament...
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Buck paces Northview's strong HSR State showing (3/23/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOn Saturday afternoon, Northview sent five track and field athletes to the Indoor Hoosier State Relays, which was held at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis. There, the quintet of Brenna Stallcop (girls long jump), Ellia Hayes (girls 3200), Gnister Grant (girls 3200), Jcim Grant (boys 3200) and Karsyn Buck (girls high jump) competed against some of best in the state, and each of them fared well against their respective competition...
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SEASON PREVIEW: Northview 'cautiously optimistic' about Knights can accomplish this spring (3/21/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorBy Northview baseball’s historic standards over the last decade or so, the 2023 season may be looked at as a ‘down year.’ And while the 8-16 record wasn’t anywhere near what head coach Craig Trout was hoping for, he noted that having so many inexperienced players get their first taste of playing at the varsity level was a positive for the Knights, and it should be helpful as they begin their journey into the 2024 campaign in the coming weeks...
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Dillman signs with Grace College (3/19/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorNorthview senior Douglas Dillman knew he wanted to run at the collegiate level at a young age. Dillman also knew there were only a few schools he would seriously consider to make that happen for himself. Among them included Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana...
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SEASON PREVIEW: New-look Knights to lean upon seniors, sophomores (3/19/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorDue to graduation and other reasons, Northview’s softball roster looks vastly different this year compared to last year. Northview saw seven Knights depart the program, leaving the group with a new identity, which will be led by a group of seniors in Mia Thompson and Kaela Beckley as well as a talented sophomore class that consists of Maggie Krause, Jenna Thompson, Jaelynn Thompson, Chloe Batchelor and Addie Modglin, all of whom will be leaned up as leaders this spring...
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COLLEGE REPORT: Koehler scores game-tying run in NKU's win over Oakland (3/18/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOver the weekend, former Clay City standout Charly Koehler and the Northern Kentucky University softball team opened up Horizon League play against visiting Oakland for a three-game series. Koehler appeared in each of the first two games as a pinch runner. ...
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Indiana State to host NIT opening round (3/17/24)Indiana State men's basketball earned a No. 1 seed in this year's National Invitation Tournament (NIT) as the tournament field was announced on Sunday night. The Sycamores accepted the invitation and will host Southern Methodist (20-12) inside Hulman Center. Tipoff for the first-round game between Indiana State and SMU is set for Wednesday, March 20, at 7 p.m. ET. The game will be carried live on ESPN+...
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Swearingen's junior season comes to a close (3/15/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAfter falling to Indiana Northwest in the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference semifinal on March 1, Olivet Nazarene University’s men’s basketball team had to wait to find out their fate for the postseason. It came a few days later when the Tigers were notified that they earned an at-large bid in the NAIA National Championship Tournament. They were matched up against Georgetown on Friday night...
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COLLEGE REPORT: Morris fares well in back-to-back outings for Screamin' Eagles (3/12/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorTabbed as the University of Southern Indiana’s No. 1 starting pitcher at the start of the spring, former Northview standout Gavin Morris faced his biggest challenge on the mound last Wednesday when the Screamin’ Eagles took on the University of Tennessee, the No. 8-ranked team in the country...
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Slow start for Knights ends in regional loss to Danville (3/10/24)By Trent Scott, For the TimesNorthview’s first time playing Danville on Feb. 7 saw the Knights make the Warriors sweat late in the game, despite eventually falling 79-58. Having won seven of eight games since then, Northview went into its rematch against Danville looking to take the game to the No. 3 team in 3A at the IHSAA Boys’ Basketball Lebanon Regional...
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REGIONAL PREVIEW: Late season surge spurred by worst practice of year (3/8/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorEntering his first season as the head coach of Northview’s boys basketball team, Shawn Nevill was hoping to get off to a fast start. It didn’t happen. Northview squandered second half leads in each of its first three games, all ending in gut-wrenching losses. Even after splitting two of its next four games as the team got past the holidays, their record wasn’t where they wanted it to be...
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REGIONAL PREVIEW: Goff’s leadership galvanizes Knights to go to battle (3/8/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAt a young age, with his dad, Alan, a part of the Northview boys basketball coaching staff, Brayden Goff closely watched the likes of Quinton Hayes, Dylan Hyatt and Brigham Booe. He liked the way they led the Knights, and even as a youngster, Goff imagined himself stepping into their shoes one day as that type of player. He envisioned himself leading Northview to championships...
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REGIONAL PREVIEW: Changes to starting lineup lead to success for Northview (3/8/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorTaking a full year off from coaching after five seasons at South Vermillion, Northview boys basketball head coach Shawn Nevill didn’t know a bunch about the roster he was inheriting in Brazil when he was hired last May. He got a better idea of the talent that was at his disposal during the summer months. ...
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Grant siblings sign with Indiana State University (3/6/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorIt didn’t take long for Jcim Grant and Gnister Grant to fall in love with the sport of running when they first got a taste of it in middle school. It was in those years that they became determined to become collegiate runners. But at what level could they reach? The siblings were unsure...
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COLLEGE REPORT: Goshen starts spring golf season strong at Music City Shootout (3/5/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorWith the calendar flipping over to March, and the temperatures rising into the mid-to-low 70s, the collegiate golf season recently got underway for many teams around the Midwest. That included Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, a program that rosters numerous former Clay County standouts (all of whom can be read about below). Among them includes Benjamin Goshen, who became a Pomeroy last summer after spending his first two years at Marian University...
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Northview repels charges from Mustangs to win sectional championship (3/2/24)By Gary Hazlett, For the TimesBasketball is a game that does not necessarily reward style points. You have to score more points through a hoop than the other team to win a game. Sometimes toughness, resilience and grittiness mean more than pretty shots, smooth offense, or highlight reel dunks...
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Northview outlasts Owen Valley to advance onto sectional title game (3/1/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorNorthview’s boys basketball team was in possession of the lead throughout the entirety of Friday night’s Class 3A Owen Valley Sectional semifinal against the host Patriots. However, holding onto an eight-point advantage with 5:30 left in the game, things started to get off track for the Knights...
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Northview prepared for semifinal matchup with host Patriots (2/29/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOn Tuesday evening, as the boys high school basketball postseason got underway around the state, Northview head coach Shawn Nevill had the opportunity to make the trip to Spencer – a drive he hopes to be making twice in the next couple of days – to watch the Class 3A Owen Valley Sectional opening round matchup between Owen Valley and West Vigo with the winner set to take on the Knights in Friday’s semifinal...
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COLLEGE REPORT: Moshos marvels in first appearances of season (2/28/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorComing off a phenomenal freshman year at Transylvania University, Sophie Moshos and the Pioneers kicked off their season against the College of Wooster and Spalding University over the weekend, and the former Clay City standout picked up right where she left off...
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Knights hold off Bloomington South in regular season finale (2/23/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorIn the leadup to Thursday night’s regular season finale against Bloomington South, Northview boys basketball head coach Shawn Nevill joked he had just a few less wins than the legendary leader of the Panthers – 839 less to be exact. The Knights’ first-year head coach only matched up against Holmes once in his six total years of walking the sidelines – Nevill and South Vermillion lost to Holmes and Bloomington South by a score of 56-35 in the 2020 Vigo County School Corporation Wabash Valley Classic – but hadn’t seen him in quite some time.. ...
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COLLEGE REPORT: Sackett serves up a pair of dominant performances at Tennessee State Tournament (2/21/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAfter being used predominantly in relief during the Houston Tournament to open Indiana State University’s season, Lauren Sackett was given the ball to begin a pair of games at the Tennessee State Tournament over the weekend, and the former Northview standout did not disappoint...
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Goff named IBCA Player of the Week (2/20/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorIn his first two seasons at the varsity level, Northview’s Brayden Goff has strung together multiple strong games in a row, but last week’s pair of performances against Edgewood and Clay City – each resulting in wins – might have been the best. And on Tuesday morning, the sophomore guard was honored for those outings as he was named one of the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association/Franciscan Health Players of the Week along with Kankakee Valley’s Camden Webster and Twin Lakes’ Jamison Ousley...
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Knights grind out road win at Martinsville (2/20/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorThroughout the boys high school basketball season, Northview has used the mantra ‘gritty not pretty’ to describe its desired style of play. On Tuesday night at Martinsville, in the team’s penultimate game of the regular season, those three words rang truer than ever as the Knights struggled to get going out of the gates...
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Knights draw a bye to open sectional play (2/18/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOn Sunday evening, everyone involved with high school boys basketball turned their attention to the IHSAA sectional selection show as they waited to see the path they would have to take towards winning a championship. Northview was among those hundreds of teams...
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Northview recaptures county crown with win over Eels (2/17/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorFor the first time in nearly a decade, Northview’s boys basketball team entered the annual county rivalry game against Clay City as the underdog. The Knights heard the chatter and they saw John Harrell’s prediction. But most importantly, they remembered getting beat on their home court by the Eels last year...
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Knights, Eels peaking as rivalry game rolls around (2/15/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorFor the first time in a few years, Clay City and Northview will enter Friday's cross county showdown playing some of their best basketball of the season. Since the New Year, the Eels have won nine of their last 10 games with the lone loss coming last Friday to Terre Haute North, which is currently on a 16-game winning streak. ...
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COLLEGE REPORT: Wolfe locks down save in season opener (2/14/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAs a freshman last year, Wabash Valley College’s Demi Wolfe was a workhorse in the circle, throwing a team-high 160.2 innings. The former Clay City standout picked up where she left off, opening her sophomore campaign for the Warriors in strong fashion...
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COLLEGE REPORT: College baseball, softball seasons rapidly approaching (2/12/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorWith the New Year already reaching mid-February, that means the college baseball and softball seasons are set to get underway in the coming days. And in some cases, they got started over the weekend. Clay County will, again, be well-represented at various levels throughout the country, and as always, the Times will be there to keep those back at home up to date with their successes...
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Brewer, Orman finish seasons at semi-state's Round of 8 (2/11/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAs each high school wrestler entered the Ford Center on Saturday morning for the Evansville Semi-State, they all knew what was needed for them to advance their seasons onto next weekend’s state finals. Win the first two matches of the day and make a return trip to Evansville to wrestle for a state title. It was that simple...
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Northview gets back on track with homecoming win (2/9/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorIt had been so long since Northview’s boys basketball team had taken the floor in the confines of their own gymnasium – Jan. 13, to be exact – that head coach Shawn Nevill joked they had to dig the white uniforms out of storage for their homecoming matchup against Brown County...
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COLLEGE REPORT: Chapman duels with Light at ISU Blue-White Classic (2/8/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorWhen Saint Mary-of-the-Woods distance runner Thomas Chapman took his place at the start line of Saturday’s Indiana State University Blue-White Classic, there was a familiar face in a nearby lane. The former Northview standout was up against Indiana State’s Cael Light, a Terre Haute North graduate that served as a strong adversary at the high school level throughout the early parts of their running careers...
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Brewer, Orman ready to wrestle strong at semi-state (2/7/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOver the last several years, Northview’s wrestling team has penciled in their stay at the Ford Center during the first or second week of February into their calendars for the Evansville Semi-State. That tradition continues this weekend as the Knights will be sending a pair of wrestlers – Devyn Orman (215) and Brandon Brewer (285) – onto the third round of the postseason, both of whom are in search of their first state finals berths...
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Brewer, Orman punch tickets to semi-state (2/3/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorThe month of February can be a bittersweet time of the high school wrestling calendar for most teams around the state of Indiana. It’s when postseason wrestling is at its highest point and the victories are worthy of being celebrated, but it’s also when the seasons – and careers – for others come to a conclusion...
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Lear signs with Indiana Wesleyan University (2/2/24)1By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorSince the first time he picked up a baseball bat as a youngster, Northview’s Peyton Lear aspired to play at the collegiate level one day. It wasn’t until after the end of his freshman season in 2021 that Lear, who was the starting left fielder that batted at the top or in the middle of the Knights’ sectional championship-winning order, that he proved to himself that continuing his baseball career past high school was a legitimate possibility...
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Lady Knights come up short in sectional semifinal (2/2/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorWith two minutes left in the second of Friday night’s Class 3A Owen Valley Sectional semifinal against Northview and No. 6 Indian Creek, the Lady Knights found themselves down by just one point. And while they had seen their nine-point lead erased, Northview was in a spot where it felt like pulling an upset against the heavy favorite was more than possible...
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COLLEGE REPORT: Peals wins 3000-meter race at IUPUI Invitational (2/2/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOver the weekend, the University of Southern Indiana track and field teams split up with half of the group heading back to Louisville, Kentucky for the PNC Lenny Lyles Invitational and the other making the trip to Indianapolis for the IUPUI Invitational...
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Northview waltzes past Wildcats in sectional opener (1/31/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOver the last several days, Northview’s girls basketball coaching staff considered the best plan for Wednesday’s Class 3A Owen Valley Sectional opening round matchup against winless South Vermillion. Northview head coach Zack Keyes said they weighed a few different options, thinking through the various pros and cons of each...
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Northview to play in 100-year anniversary basketball game at Mishawaka High School (1/30/24)Press ReleaseThe “Cave” at Mishawaka High School is the oldest active high school gym in Indiana. The first game played in The Cave was Mishawaka vs. Brazil High School on Saturday, December 27, 1924. Mishawaka lost the game 33-15. Brazil High School later consolidated with two neighboring schools in 1984 to form Northview High School, which is located just west of Brazil...
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Lady Knights prepared to lean on their defense during postseason (1/29/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorThe last two weeks of Northview’s girls high school basketball season was unique to say the least. Northview had to move multiple games around due to the untimely weather Mother Nature sent through the state of Indiana that left the Lady Knights with a matchup against Class 3A No. 5 Indian Creek – the team they’ll likely see in the Class 3A Owen Valley Sectional semifinal on Friday if both teams take care of business in the opening round as it’s projected – in Friday’s regular season finale...
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Northview sends five wrestlers onto regional round (1/27/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorIt’s been an up and down season for Northview’s wrestling team in terms of having its most potent lineup available at the same time. But on Saturday, all of what did or did not happen earlier in the season was put behind them as they boarded the bus and made the trip down south for the Bloomington North Sectional...
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Notter signs with Wabash College (1/26/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorAlthough he didn’t earn a spot on the varsity team his freshman year, Northview golfer Lane Notter wasn’t discouraged about his path towards playing the game he loves at the collegiate level. Notter put his head down and worked every day and in doing so, the senior standout has placed himself on the program’s list of all-time greats...
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Timely shooting lifts Knights past Cloverdale (1/26/24)By Gary Hazlett, For the TimesIf you went to Al Tucker Court at Cloverdale on Friday night, you did not see an impressive display of offensive basketball in a Western Indiana Conference boys’ basketball game. The Northview Knights and the Cloverdale Clovers battled defensively as both teams struggled to consistently score, but the Knights were able to get some timely three-point shooting from Christian Bryan while the Clovers turned the ball over too many times, 23 in total, as the Knights picked up a 55-37 victory...
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Eldridge leaned upon for leadership on and off basketball court (1/26/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorTake a look at Northview girls basketball team’s statistics and you won’t find the impact Brooklyn Eldridge has had on the Lady Knights this year or the three years before the 2023-24 season. Sure, she helps on the court by scoring what is basically one basket per game and gobbles up a few rebounds per game while guarding the opposition’s best post players...
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COLLEGE REPORT: Morrison, Peals get indoor track season underway (1/26/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorLast weekend, another former Northview distance runner made their college indoor track and field debut when Katie Morrison and Indiana Wesleyan University took part in the Mastodon Invitational hosted by Purdue Fort Wayne. There, Morrison competed in the 3000-meter run for the first time in her running career. The freshman finished 14th overall with a time of 11:29.73 to help the Wildcats open the 2024 track season...
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Northview pushes Patriots to brink in road loss (1/24/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorNorthview’s boys basketball team was set to embark on its most daunting six-game stretch, with each coming on the road, of the season last week but Mother Nature intervened and pushed it back eight days. That meant the Knights began the first of their battles on Wednesday at Terre Haute North, a team that entered on a nine-game winning streak and were unblemished on their home floor...
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Northview escapes Eels' best efforts in Battle of Clay County (1/23/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorLosing the last four girls high school basketball matchups in the Battle for Clay County by an average margin of 20 points, Clay City entered Tuesday’s game against Northview as the heavy underdog once again. However, after going on a 9-0 run that lasted through the end of the third quarter and into the fourth quarter, the visiting Eels found themselves staring at the possibility of pulling off one of the biggest upsets in the rivalry’s long history...
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Girls hoops sectional unveiled (1/21/24)By Adler Ingalsbe, Times Sports EditorOn Sunday evening, girls high school basketball teams around the state, including Clay City and Northview who will square off in the cross county showdown on Tuesday in Brazil, huddled around their televisions and mobile devices to take in the IHSAA sectional draw...