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Clay County’s YMCA continued its annual tradition of hosting a Fourth of July 5K road race this year, although there were several alterations to the event. Instead of it taking place on the morning of July 4, the race was held Friday night with a start time of 8:30 p.m. The route was also moved from the roadways around the YMCA complex and moved to the cart path at Forest Park Golf Course...

Over the weekend, a pair of Clay County standout student-athletes simultaneously took part in prestigious All-Star games when Clay City’s Sophie Moshos was selected to play in the North-South Indiana All-Star Softball Game and Northview’s Landon Carr was selected to play in the North-South Indiana All-Star Baseball Game...

Last week, the Executive Committee of the Indiana High School Athletic Association voted to make a significant change to the format of the annual boys and girls basketball state tournaments. In its final meeting of the 2021-22 school year, the group of school principals and athletic directors voted 15-2 to make the regional round a single game and the semi-state round a two-game format beginning with next winter’s tournaments. ...

Northview’s football team has spent the mornings throughout the month of June preparing for the upcoming season as the Knights get themselves prepared for what they hope is another appearance in a sectional championship game. Throughout the summer training camp, Northview has spent each day going through drills against each other, so that made Wednesday’s three-way scrimmage in Brazil with Monrovia and South Putnam a welcomed sight as the Knights finally got to see an opposing team lined up across from them, Northview head coach Mark Raetz said.. ...

On Friday night, the eve of the 19th annual Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association All-Star Game, the WVFCA held its banquet to recognize the student-athletes participating the game while also passing out various awards and inducting the newest inductees – Union Health for Sports Medicine Coordinator Yvette Cress and former Terre Haute North assistant coach Jim Sutch – into the organization’s Hall of Fame...

Throughout Saturday night’s 19th annual Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association All-Star Game held at Indiana State University’s Memorial Stadium, former West Vigo coach Jeff Cobb and current South Vermillion head coach Greg Barrett would present various players from the Black Division team and Gold Division team with awards and scholarships, allowing the crowd on hand to give them a deserving ovation for their accomplishment...

Northview’s football team put together a historic season last fall, earning the program its first-ever trip to a sectional championship game. Because of that, as well as the robust talent that made up the Class of 2022, the Knights were well represented in the 19th annual Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association All-Star Game held at Indiana State University’s Memorial Stadium Saturday night...

If there’s a busier football coach in the Wabash Valley this week than Northview’s Mark Raetz, that person would be hard to find. Raetz is juggling being the head football coach of Northview, being the head football coach of the Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association All-Star Game’s Black Division team and hosting nearly 100 Clay Youth Football League players for a multi-evening camp held at Northview High School...

In high school sports, there are changes each and every year to the roster a coach has at his or her disposal. Over the last two years, Northview’s boys basketball team has had some noticeable differences from the 2020-21 season to the 2021-22 season...

Wayne Newton Post 346, Terre Haute’s Legion baseball team, hosted its annual John E. Hayes Best of the Midwest Invitational over the weekend with Terre Haute North, West Vigo and Indiana State University’s Bob Warn Field holding games throughout the multi-day event...

For the second straight year, Clay County was among those represented at the Special Olympics Summer Games held at Indiana State University’s Gibson Track and Field Complex over the weekend. Hundreds of athletes from around the Hoosier State flocked Indiana State’s campus for one of the biggest events of the year...

Northview’s boys basketball program has spent the month of June playing in various summer shootouts around the state of Indiana as the Knights prepare for the upcoming 2022-23 season, which marks the final year for sharpshooter Drew Cook donning the maroon and black...

There’s no denying Clay City’s softball team put together the program’s best-ever two-year running during the 2021 and 2022 seasons. Both springs ended with the Lady Eels losing to the eventual state champion. Clay City lost to Northfield by a score of 3-1 in the Class A state championship in 2021 and then lost to Tecumseh by a score of 3-0 in the Class A North Daviess Semi-State semifinal game in 2022. ...

Northview graduate Braden Allen showed his athleticism and ability to put the basketball in the hoop during his one-year stint in Brazil. Allen averaged 12.1 points per game on 45 percent shooting from the field. Most of his work came around the rim where he was able to use his jumping ability to soar through the sky, while also hanging in the air much longer than his defender, and get the ball over the rim and through the net at a high clip...

Nolan White only spent two years running for Northview’s track and field program. But during those two years, the now-graduated senior has etched his name alongside the best runners to ever walk through the school’s hallways. And on Saturday at the Midwest Meet of Champions held on the campus of Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, White competed for Team Indiana against Team Michigan...

The girls high school basketball season isn’t scheduled to tip off until Nov. 1, but for teams around the Wabash Valley, the preparation has already begun. That’s the case for Northview, which will look completely different than it did during the 2021-22 campaign as the Lady Knights lost 80 percent – Macey Timberman, Tara Pearce, Hanna Dawson and Sydney Maurer – of their starting lineup...

For the first six innings of Saturday afternoon’s Class 2A Mooresville Semi-State high school baseball game, Linton trailed Centerville. But in the top of the seventh inning, with the Miners facing a one-run deficit, their postseason magic kicked in again...

On Tuesday morning, after a 17-hour rain delay, Northview’s Lane Notter defeated White River Valley’s Jake Antibus in a playoff to snag a spot at the boys high school golf Washington Regional. It was a quick turnaround for Notter, who celebrated with his family, friends and coaches that made the hour-long trip back to Linton’s Phil Harris Golf Course for the second straight day after tapping his putt in to punch his ticket as the third individual out of the sectional...

When Jacob Harden was hired as Linton’s head baseball coach in July of 2021, he didn’t know much about the roster he would be inheriting but what he did know was that if the group he would be coaching bought into the program he wanted to build and poured every ounce of themselves into wanting to become the best possible ball player they could be, they’d have success...

At the start of the high school track and field season, Northview head coach James Grounds said the goal was to get as many athletes to the state finals meets that took place at Indiana University’s Robert C. Haugh Complex. Northview achieved that goal, moving four individuals and both 4x800 relay teams, but none of them were able to accomplish the ultimate feat in earning All-State honors with a top nine finish...

As Northview arrived at Linton’s Phil Harris Golf Course Monday morning for the boys golf sectional, it marked the first time any of the Knights aboard the bus had played in a postseason tournament. Neither Northview nor Clay City finished in the top three of the team scoring to advance onto Thursday’s regional held at Washington’s County Oaks Golf Course, but as the last of the scores were being written onto the big boards, it was determined Northview’s Lane Notter would be placed in a four-way playoff along with Linton’s Blake House and White River Valley’s Michael Solliday and Jake Antibus to see who would be the third individual to advance out of the sectional.. ...

Last weekend, during Clay City High School’s graduation ceremony, principal Jeff Bell unveiled what the basketball and volleyball court inside the historic Eel Dome will be referred to for the rest of time as the school named it after Dr. Forrest Buell...