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Northview dominated winless Owen Valley from the get-go, scoring on its first five drives to build a 35-0 lead by halftime. That was significant, as the 35-point differential invoked the mercy rule, aka "the running clock," which is new to Indiana high football this season...

Northview recognized seniors on its girls and boys soccer teams during Senior Night at Jerry Anderson Field on Tuesday. The girls teams honored its four seniors, goalkeeper Sydney Brock, midfielder Sarah Bryan, midfielder Mercedes Hoke and fullback Jaycee Kellett prior to its Western Indiana Conference match with Edgewood...

Solid defense throughout the season and an improving offensive output have Northview on a two-game winning streak, with a 2-2 record, heading into a home game against winless Owen Valley tonight. After scoring zero points in its first two games, the Knights have rallied with similar 28-7 and 27-6 winning results the past two weeks at Sullivan and at home vs. West Vigo...

Kambree Lucas and Katy Anderson both set school records, enabling Northview to rally from a 2-0 deficit to defeat host Greencastle 3-2 in a Western Indiana Conference volleyball match on Wednesday. Lucas bested her own school record of 35 kills with 40, while Anderson erased Taylor Hess’s previous assists mark of 48 with 49. All were needed, as it turned out...

Football coaches can always use an extra set of eyes, with some wisdom thrown in for good measure, with so much going on nowadays in game preparation, even at the high school level. When that need arose for Northview head coach Mark Raetz, he had just the man in mind, his dad, former Indiana State University head coach Dennis Raetz...

Northview turned in a solid performance, defeating visiting West Vigo 3-0 in a Western Indiana Conference volleyball match on Monday. The Knights, who recorded 11 aces as a team, swept its three games by scores of 25-22, 25-18, 25-20. One of those aces was by Katy Anderson to earn the winning point in the first game. Maizie Pell closed out the match with a tip kill...

Northview cross country runners Stuart Bennett and Evie Noel paced their boys and girls teams, respectively, in the Elite Division of the Brown County Eagle Classic in Nashville on Saturday morning. Bennett placed 36th overall with a time of 16:23.6 as the boys placed 11th of 16 teams, just 13 points shy of eighth place...

Playing inside a large venue like Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis might be a daunting task for a high school team, but not for the Northview girls team. The Knights were very impressive in blanking Danville 3-0 on Saturday morning. “It was probably our best game of the season so far as a team,” Northview girls head coach Don Bryan assessed. “The chemistry was good. Just a lot of solid play from everybody. The kind of thing you’re looking for, especially at midseason.”...

Except for a four-play flurry at the outset of the game, the Northview defense effectively bottled up the West Vigo offense to earn an impressive 27-6 victory in their Western Indiana Conference football game at Jerry Anderson Field on Friday. The Northview faithful were a bit shellshocked, not even having had time to settle in their seats, when the Vikings marched 70 yards in the game's first four plays. ...

CLAY CITY — A sweltering Clay City Invitational contained few surprises Thursday night, just more dominating performances by the top cross country runners in Greene County. Damon Kesler of Shakamak finished first in the boys race with a time of 17:29.1, placing ahead of rival Joe Records. However, Records’ second-place finish of 17:48.7 helped White River Valley win the boys meet...

Northview volleyball received a big assist — 47 of them in fact — from junior Katy Anderson to lift the Knights to a 3-1 victory over visiting Sullivan in a Western Indiana Conference match on Thursday. The Knights split the first two games 25-23, 23-25, then closed out the match with wins of 25-21, 25-18...

Northview girls soccer endured a 0-0 first half, then got the offense rolling after intermission for a 5-0 victory at Sullivan in a Western Indiana Conference match on Wednesday. “The Golden Arrows brought their A-game and parked the bus in front of the net,” Northview head coach Don Bryan described the first half...

For the Northview football team, what a difference a week makes. Heading into last week’s road encounter and Western Indiana Conference opener at rival Sullivan, the Knights were sitting ignominiously with an 0-2 record. Making matters worse was the fact they hadn’t scored a point in those first two games, albeit against Class 5A Terre Haute North and Class 4A No. 4-ranked Evansville Memorial...

A name synonymous with Northview football, and Brazil too for those a wee bit older, will be forever linked to the two schools. A ceremony naming Northview’s football field “Jerry Anderson Field” for the school’s former teacher, coach and athletic director will take place at 6:45 p.m. on Friday, prior to their home football game vs. West Vigo set to kickoff at 7...

Northview is back to its winning ways, improving to 9-1 for the season, after defeating host West Vigo 4-1 in a Western Indiana Conference boys tennis match on Monday. Tyler Hess (No. 2 singles), Franco Singulani (No. 3 singles) and both doubles duos were victorious for the Knights...

The Northview girls soccer team shut out host Brown County 7-0 in a Western Indiana Conference match on Saturday morning. Leading the Knights was Kassidy Kellett with three goals and an assist. The junior now has a school record 78 goals for her career,...

The present and future of Clay County cross country runners was on display — and both performed quite well — in the Terre Haute Savings Bank State Preview Meet at LaVern Gibson Championship Course on Saturday morning. Both the boys and girls squads from Northview and Clay City competed against several highly ranked teams in this prestigious event...

Northview finally dented the scoreboard for the first time this season, then scored rapidly in the middle of the first half en route to a 28-7 victory over Sullivan at Sportland Field on Friday. It was the first win of the season for the Knights and also provided a...

The Northview Lady Knights rode into Linton on Thursday, but they couldn’t conquer the Linton-Stockton Lady Miners. The Lady Miners won the jousting duel on the volleyball court, taking the climactic fifth set with a come-from-behind effort to win 18-25, 25-18, 25-20, 17-25, 15-12...

Balanced scoring led Northview to a solid 6-3 victory over visiting Greencastle in a Western Indiana Conference girls soccer match on Thursday. The Knights had five different goal scorers, led by Kassidy Kellett with two, extending her career goals scored record to 75. Other goals were by Jolee Kellett, Ava Dorsertt, Sarah Bryan and Delania Wallen...

The Linton-Stockton Lady Miners made short work of the visiting Clay City Eels Tuesday night, winning all three sets by double digits in a 25-14, 25-7, 25-10 sweep in Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference volleyball action. The Lady Miners’ taller front row gave the Lady Eels matchup problems all night...

Terre Haute South blanked Northview boys tennis 5-0 in a battle of unbeatens in Brazil on Tuesday. Northview did not win a point in its three singles matches, while their two doubles duos both won just three points. “Terre Haute South always has a strong program and they showed that today,” Northview coach Emily Goff told the Tribune-Star. “I am proud of the way our boys came out in this matchup and didn’t back down from the challenge.”...

Northview and Sullivan football teams have had difficulty scoring in their first two games of the season. That said, the two rivals are set to meet again on the gridiron at 7 p.m. Friday, this time at Sportland Field in Sullivan, in an Western Indiana Conference game...

Northview girls soccer has a new career leader in goals scored. What is unusual is that this occurred just two games into her junior season. So the sky’s the limit? Kassidy Kellett set an all-time mark of 65 during a home match against West Vigo last Wednesday. She scored a second goal later in the match, upping her mark to 66 in the Knight’s 5-2 win...

For Northview baseball, their next two years in sectional play are definitely tilted to the north. The IHSAA Executive Committee approved sectional assignments in baseball and softball for the next two school years recently. The executive committee accepted the recommendations of the realignment committee which determined the sectional groups for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years...

Brady Shoemaker of the St. Paul Saints has been named to the American Association Postseason All-Star Team for the second straight year. The 32-year-old graduate of Northview High School and Indiana State is hitting .320 with 18 home runs and 71 RBIs in 97 games. He has a .453 on-base percentage, best in the league, and a .543 slugging percentage for a .997 OPS...

Clay City dropped a pair of 2-0 volleyball decisions at the Bloomfield Round Robin on Saturday. The Eels lost to West Vigo 25-13, 25-19, then to host team Bloomfield 25-20, 25-8. Highlights for the Eels vs. West Vigo: Jaylynn Scott had four kills; Emily Hyatt two kills, 10 digs; and Ginger Ryle 11 assists and four digs...

Northview girls golf coach Josh Trout set two goals for his team this season -- win the Western Indiana Conference tournament and win the sectional. Check off box No. 1 for the Knights. Northview dominated the WIC tournament, winning by 20 strokes, at Forest Park Golf Course on Saturday...

SOCCER Both the Northview girls and boys soccer teams recorded home victories over Vincennes Lincoln on Saturday. The girls won easily 8-0, while the boys won a close battle, 2-1. For the girls, Kassidy Kellett led the way with four goals, advancing her top school career total to 70. ...

VOLLEYBALL Northview outlasted visiting Edgewood 3-1 (25-17, 23-25, 25-21, 25-18) to win their Western Indiana Conference match on Thursday. Once again, the Knights' Kambree Lucas set another school record, this time with 35 kills. Northview 3, Edgewood 1...

VOLLEYBALL Northview outlasted visiting Edgewood 3-1 (25-17, 23-25, 25-21, 25-18) to win their Western Indiana Conference match on Thursday. Once again, the Knights' Kambree Lucas set another school record, this time with 35 kills. Northview 3, Edgewood 1...

Northview football failed to score for the second straight game to open the season, this time being blanked by visiting Evansville Memorial 24-0 in its first home game played on the new synthetic turf field on Friday. "Memorial is a really good team," Raetz said. "There's been a reason they've been in the state championship game the last two years."...

Northview emerged as a sectional favorite following their victory over rivals Terre Haute North and Terre Haute South in a three-way girls golf match at Forest Park on Thursday. Last year, the Knights slipped into the third and final sectional qualifier slot behind South and North to advance to the regional...

Northview outlasted visiting Edgewood 3-1 (25-17, 23-25, 25-21, 25-18) to win their Western Indiana Conference match on Thursday. Once again, the Knights’ Kambree Lucas set another school record, this time with 35 kills. Northview 3, Edgewood 1 Northview highlights -- Katy Anderson had 3 kills, 42 assists; Maizie Pell 1 kill, 2 blocks; Maddie Kooistra 2 aces, 4 digs, 11 kills, 2 assists; Rylee Richey 1 ace, 3 digs; Natalie Bell 1 ace, 2 digs; Olyvia Notter 3 digs, 1 assist; Lauren Sackett 3 aces, 10 digs, 2 assists; Kambree Lucas 10 digs, 35 kills, 1 block, 2 assists; Izzy Horrall 2 kills, 2 blocks; and Destiny Burns with 2 digs.. ...

Northview girls and boys soccer teams played the first games on the school’s new synthetic turf field on Wednesday. First, the Class 2A 19th-ranked Northview girls overcame a 1-0 halftime deficit by dominating the second half in a 5-2 victory over visiting West Vigo...

Northview football coach Mark Raetz has previously stated the first two games of this season’s schedule would be a challenge. Game one saw the Knights perform well defensively, but struggled mightily on offense in a 7-0 loss at Terre Haute North last Friday...

Northview officials unveiled its much anticipated multi-use synthetic turf facility with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday. So much anticipated, several hundred community members turned out nearly filling the east bleachers at the football field, anxious for the ceremony to conclude and be allowed access to the field for their own up close and personal inspection...

Contributed photo The North Clay seventh-grade volleyball team defeated Woodrow Wilson 25-5, 25-9 last week. Leading the Knights were Brynlee Clarke with 17 serving points, 9 aces; Keira Lucas 15 serving points, 4 aces, 3 kills; Bradee McDonald 6 serving points, 1 ace, 3 assists; Rachel Rounds 3 serving points, 3 aces; and Mya Johnson one serving point...

Northview volleyball earned a thrilling victory in a five-set marathon match over visiting Parke Heritage 25-22, 23-25, 25-13, 26-28, 18-16 on Monday night. Only one set in the 3-2 victory was easy for the Knights, winning the third set 25-13. All the others were decided by two or three points, the last two going overtime...

You hear high school coaches all the time comment about the benefit of having senior leadership. But what is unusual for the Northview girls golf team? Their 5-0 start has been largely fueled by a freshman and sophomore. Sophomore Brooklee Bussing and freshman Karsyn Kikta have been regularly atop the team’s leaderboard, much to the delight of coach Josh Trout...

Northview volleyball was 2-2 competing at the Plainfield Invitational on Saturday. The Knights defeated Terre Haute North 25-15, 25-19 in the opening match, a team they defeated 3-0 at home just two days earlier. Northview then dropped its next two matches, 25-12, 25-21 to host Plainfield and in three sets to Indianapolis North Central 25-19, 20-25, 15-7, before bouncing back in the their fourth match, topping Greenwood Community 25-7, 25-20...

Northview High School is inviting everyone to a ribbon cutting/community night for its new turf field. The ceremony will take place at 6 p.m. on Tuesday. The field will be open to the public until 7. The school previously announced a ceremony naming Northview’s football field “Jerry Anderson Field” had been set...

Northview named a new boys soccer coach earlier this month and he has hit the ground running thanks to prior knowledge of the team. Meanwhile, the Northview girls team started the season ranked No. 20 in the Indiana Soccer Coaches Association Class 2A preseason poll...