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On Thursday night in Ellettsville, North Clay Middle School’s cross country teams concluded their strong seasons at the Western Indiana Conference championship meet. There, the boys team finished second behind only Indian Creek while the girls team finished third behind Brown County and Indian Creek, showcasing the talent the high school programs, which have fared well again this fall, have coming through the pipeline in the coming years...

When Northview’s girls track and field team got together at the start of the New Year to begin the process of preparing themselves for the upcoming season, there was a new face amongst the group of distance runners. It was Josie Lynch, who had never run competitively before but was interested in the sport after her siblings had done it before her...

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...

One play or one sequence of plays cannot summarize the entirety of a high school football game but late in the fourth quarter of Friday’s matchup between Class 4A No. 10 Northview and Class 3A No. 14 Cascade – the Week 7 marquee matchup around the Wabash Valley – there were consecutive possessions that came close to it...

Northview’s volleyball team got its season off to a fast start, winning eight in a row to open the year before falling in the Plainfield Invitational championship match against the host Quakers on Aug. 24. Since then? The Knights put together a jaw-dropping 18-game winning streak, all of which ended with the opposition failing to win a set...

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. ...

Shortly after Northview’s boys tennis team clinched the deciding point to take down No. 28 Terre Haute North in last week’s regular season finale, which also secured the program’s second Vigo County sweep in the last three years and marked the first time the Knights had defeated a ranked opponent, head coach Emily Goff knew that when – not if – her group would match up against the Patriots in the Terre Haute South Sectional it would be much tougher to beat them again...

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...

Northview’s volleyball team enters each year with a list of goals it would like to accomplish throughout the regular season and then into the postseason. And with Monday’s 3-0 sweep over Owen Valley on Senior Night, the Lady Knights checked off two more...

When Northview’s girls golf team finished third in the sectional championship tournament on Sept. 20, head coach Chris Hawk and the school’s athletic administration staff got to work on making plans for their first trip to Washington’s Country Oaks Golf Club, the host site for the regional tournament, in a couple of years...

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...

There were plenty of storylines – Mark Raetz facing the school he led as a quarterback in the mid-1990s and then as head coach in the late-2000s and early-2010s; starting quarterbacks Colton Bath and Brady Wilson, who have known each other since they were toddlers thanks to their fathers coaching alongside each other, battling it out for the first and only time in their high school careers; and the ramifications of Hurricane Helene postponing the game 15 hours – to go around for Saturday morning’s high school football matchup between Class 4A No. ...

With it being the final match of the high school boys tennis regular season, Terre Haute North made the executive decision to shake up its lineup. The Patriots filled it up with seniors who were playing on the north side of Terre Haute for the last time...

Throughout the school day on Wednesday, Northview’s Hannah Harrison and Camden Johnson had their minds on the inaugural Stuart Bennett Invitational held at LaVern Gibson Championship Course later that evening. The pair were determined to do whatever it took to win their respective races in honor of Bennett, a runner each of them hold in high regard...

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...

Over the last five days, Northview’s boys tennis team wrapped up the conference portion of its schedule against Edgewood, Indian Creek and Owen Valley. The Knights posted a winning record – just as they have for six straight years – going 2-1 in the trio of matches, all of which were nail biters...

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...

If one game could serve as a microcosm for a four-game stretch of the girls high school soccer season, Saturday’s 7-2 loss to Crawfordsville might’ve done just that for Northview. The Lady Knights showed glimpses of stellar play – just as they did in Monday’s win over West Vigo and in Tuesday’s loss to Edgewood in penalty kicks – but also had moments where their inexperience and lack of execution reared its ugly head – just as it did in Thursday’s loss to Monrovia...

Northview’s boys soccer team is not in the business of celebrating moral victories, and that didn’t change after dropping a 2-1 nailbiter to Crawfordsville on Saturday. But it did indicate that the Knights are on the right track, said head coach JP Arvin afterwards...

When Northview’s football team boarded the bus Friday afternoon and made the trip to Spencer for their Week 5 matchup against winless Owen Valley, head coach Mark Raetz emphasized what he wanted out of his group – for them to get back to playing to their standard...

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...

Dating back to when he was a teenager, Jeff Walker has always enjoyed longer runs, and as he put it, the results told the same story. “It all kind of stemmed from high school. Any time we would go for longer runs, I was always closer to the front of the group whereas when it came time for the shorter races, I was more towards the middle. ...

As the sun was setting and the five courts around him had cleared, Northview’s Gavin Roark, playing at No. 3 singles, found himself in the spotlight. Roark was taking on West Vigo’s Colton Enyeart in a third set tiebreaker to determine Wednesday night’s match winner, placing Northview head coach Emily Goff in a reminiscent mindset...

Over the last several years, Northview’s cross country team has dominated the annual Chad Smith Invitational hosted by Sullivan. That didn’t change on Wednesday night. Northview swept the meet once again as the boys blew past the field while the girls bested Eastern Greene by one point to bring home some more hardware for the program’s trophy cases...

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. ...

With so many inexperienced players slotting into the varsity lineup this fall, Northview boys tennis head coach Emily Goff admitted she wasn’t sure what to make of the roster other than pointing out that the team was full of some of the school’s best athletes...

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...

One of the first goals Northview’s volleyball team looks to accomplish every fall is winning the Western Indiana Conference championship. And while the Knights didn’t finish the job this week, they took three big steps closer to doing it. Class 3A No. ...

Looking at the box score from the first quarter – and even the first half, for that matter – of Friday night’s high school football game between Northview and West Vigo would have told a completely different story than that of the Jay Barrett Field scoreboard...

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...

All it took was one win for Northview’s boys soccer team to begin shifting their mindset in a positive manner, a change head coach JP Arvin and assistants Kevin Strahla and Will Rindone have been hoping to see from them over the last three years. After beating Brown County over the weekend to leave the field on the smiling side of the scoreboard for the first time this fall, the Knights entered Wednesday’s game against Sullivan with a different demeanor than they’d had throughout the first four weeks of the season.. ...

After defeating Indian Creek in the girls high school soccer season opener, Northview fell in three consecutive games by a combined score of 15-2. That could’ve, despite the losses coming to teams such as Terre Haute North, Jasper and Greencastle, put doubt into the minds of the Lady Knights. Instead, they’ve responded with back-to-back wins, the second coming in a 9-0 drubbing of Sullivan on Wednesday, to pull themselves back to the .500 mark for the first time since Aug. 20...

Over the weekend, Northview’s volleyball program added another championship trophy to their collection as the Lady Knights defeated unranked Indianapolis Lutheran and South Knox as well as Class 2A No. 6 Tecumseh in pool play before downing Class 2A No. 7 Evansville Mater Dei in the title match to claim the Barr-Reeve Invitational championship...

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...

Over the last week, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods’ volleyball team was matched up against the University of Health and Sciences in St. Louis before taking part in the Wiley University Invitational in Marshall, Texas. Winning all five matches improved the Pomeroys’ winning streak to 14 in a row, matching the program’s best start to a season since 2022...

If former Northview standout Braydon Tucker could have scripted a better finish to his first full professional season, it would have likely gone very similar to what took place on Saturday night in Aberdeen, Maryland. Taking on the Aberdeen IronBirds, the High-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, Tucker put together his best start since being signed as an undrafted free agent by the Philadelphia Phillies last summer...