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Clay City’s Justin Hopkins capped off quite the high school golf career last week at the Washington Regional. The lefty was low medalist in each of the Eels’ dual matches and three-way matches, with the exception of one time, this spring. He finished in the top three of every invitational he took part in and was the Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference champion, as well as the Linton Sectional low medalist, which rounded out three years – his junior year was cancelled due to COVID-19 – of dominance by the senior.. ...

Even though the sectional victory did not get checked off the list, the Northview boys’ golf team headed into the Washington Regional with one mission: redemption. Last Thursday, the Knights along with Terre Haute North and Terre Haute South, headed to Country Oaks in Washington. Eighteen teams, along with individual qualifiers, made up a field of 108 golfers...

GREENWOOD — I have a friend who coached a high-level slowpitch softball team several years ago which won far more tournaments than it lost. When that team did lose a tourney, it normally finished in second place. My friend didn’t feel too great about that achievement, and legend has it that he would stop on the way home and smash his second-place trophies into tiny little bits or throw them into roadside lakes...

hen Clay City’s softball team took the field – for the third time after a series of weather delays – Friday night for the Class A state championship game hosted by Center Grove High School, the Lady Eels made school history. It marked the first time any team had competed for a state title...

As an outsider to the Clay County sports world, I was given a wonderful opportunity to witness some softball magic over the last couple of weeks as Clay City’s team made their run to the State Finals in Class 1A, while the Northview Knights advanced to the semi-state in Class 3A. ...

A few days after Northview was eliminated from the Class 3A Danville baseball Regional, four players – catcher/corner infielder Chase Aten, catcher/corner infielder Devon Barnhart, pitcher/infielder Gavin Morris and corner infielder/corner outfielder Nate Rissler – from the sectional championship team switched gears as they joined the Wayne Newton Post 346 team that is comprised of players from Northview, Terre Haute North, Terre Haute South and West Vigo...

Northview's boys basketball team got the summer slate of its schedule underway Saturday at the Pendleton Heights Shootout. The Knights, being one of several teams from around the state, as well as the Wabash Valley, played four varsity games – against Greenfield, Parke Heritage, Lawrenceburg and Pendleton Heights – and three junior varsity games – against Bedford North Lawrence, Winchester and Lebanon – throughout the morning and afternoon...

Your 2021 Outstanding Female Athlete goes to Maggie Lackey. Maggie has participated in two sports during her high school career. She is a member of the soccer and track teams, earning eight varsity letters and is a five-time WIC All-Conference Selection. ...

After putting on a summer round-robin girls basketball event in 2019, Northview coach Zack Keyes wanted to make it a yearly occasion. But as we all know, the summer of 2020 was nothing like anything before it’s time, which resulted in all high school sports activities being shut down until closer to the beginning of the school year...

On Friday evening, Clay City made its first-ever state finals appearance in any high school sport when it took the field for the Class A softball state championship game against Northfield. It took an extra 90 minutes for the Lady Eels to get play underway in front of the droves of fans in the stands and around the periphery of the outfield fence that were there to support them due to a lightning delay, as well as a pair of rain delays...

At Center Grove Elementary School Friday, June 11 Class A | Northfield (19-9) vs. Clay City (22-6) | 5:30 p.m. Class 3A | Guerin Catholic (25-2) vs. Boonville (20-6) | 8 p.m. Saturday, June 12 Class 2A | Pioneer (34-2) vs. Sullivan (28-4) | 4:30 p.m...

During Clay City’s Regional championship celebration at the softball field, the school also honored its Class of 2020 players — Stella Harrison, Jalynn Scott, Hayley Walton, Alisha Ledgerwood and Kendra Wertz — that were unable to suit up for the Lady Eels during their senior seasons due to COVID-19 forcing the IHSAA to cancel the high school spring sports seasons...

LINTON - There was little doubt two of the Wabash Valley’s top golfers resided from Clay County. Whether it was seen through the scores they posted or their signings to play golf at the collegiate level earlier in the season, there was little doubt that Northview’s Benjamin Goshen and Clay City’s Justin Hopkins were among the area’s upper echelon...

Whew. What a day Saturday was. Actually, what a great last few weeks Ive had — tipping my toes back in the sports waters Clay City’s semistate championship on Saturday was hardly a shocking upset, but the Eels knew they would have to beat two good teams to make it to the state finals for the first time in school history in any team sport — and that’s exactly how it played out...

Northview entered the Class 3A Danville Regional playing some of its best baseball of the season. The Knights had outscored their postseason opponents by a margin of 34-4 and were seemingly clicking on all cylinders. But Saturday’s regional title tilt with No. 10 Brebeuf didn’t go their way. It was one of those nights where the other team simply outplayed them, and it led to a 17-2 season-ending loss in five innings...

NASHVILLE - The deeper a team goes into the tournament, the tighter the window is to get a victory. Boonville was able to end the Northview Knights magical season in the semifinal game of the Class 3A softball Semi-state with a 2-1 thrilling victory in nine innings at Eagle Park in Nashville. ...

While Northview waited for last weekend’s Class 3A North Montgomery first semifinal baseball game between the hosts and No. 3 Lebanon to reach its conclusion, the realization came over the Knights that if they took care of business against Frankfort, they’d likely be seeing the Chargers in the championship...

After getting through the Class 3A Cathedral Regional earlier in the week, Northview heads to a loaded Class 3A Brown County Semi-State this weekend. Joining the No. 14 Knights are No. 3 Danville, No. 10 Boonville and Greensburg. Northview will open Saturday’s semi-state semifinals with a matchup against Boonville, which marks the second time the Lady Knights have taken on a ranked team – No. 8 Edgewood in the sectional championship game – during their postseason run...

Four of the top 16 teams in Class A high school softball this season will do battle at North Daviess on Saturday in semi-state competition, with the winner advancing to next weekend’s state finals at Center Grove. In the opener, No. 5-ranked Loogootee battles No. 15 West Washington with No. 7 Clay City tangling with No. 11 Hauser in the second semifinal game...

Northview is set to take part in a tough Class 3A Danville Regional Saturday with three teams – No. 10 Brebeuf, No. 11 Edgewood and No. 16 Northview – ranked in the state’s latest top 20 poll. The Knights will be taking on Western Indiana Conference rival Edgewood in the second regional semifinal of the day (the game was originally scheduled for an 11 a.m. first pitch but has since been pushed back to 2 p.m. due to Edgewood’s Saturday morning graduation)...

CLAY CITY — Clay City’s players were predictably excited following Tuesday’s 13-3 regional championship victory over Bethesda Christian. Sophie Moshos was happy to be back on the field again, having suffered a knee injury in a loss at North Daviess in early May and missing a couple of weeks...

Each time Ellie Carter comes to the plate, the senior shortstop takes a step or two out of the right-handed batter’s box and scribbles a few letters in the dirt with the knob of her bat before checking coach Kathy Vossmer’s signs in the third base coaching box...

Northview senior Destiny Burns was ineligible to play for the Lady Knights throughout the entirety of the high school softball regular season. But behind the scenes, she put in the extra work to make up for the game repetitions she was missing out on...

The last time Northview’s softball program was celebrating a regional championship, none of the players on the 2021 roster had been born. That wasn’t at the top of the mind for Northview Tuesday night at the Class 3A Cathedral Regional, but it was a statistic that popped up and was discussed ad nauseam – and rightfully so – once Hayden Smith squeezed the final out on a Cathedral pop up as the Knights defeated the Irish 5-1 to become regional champions for the first time since 1995...

Northview’s Keegan Garrison grew up moving around the baseball diamond from position to position. One of those involved him getting behind the plate as the team’s catcher. But when he entered high school, the Knights had a few options ahead of him, which allowed his athleticism to be showcased in the outfield where he flourished with his speed and strong arm...

Gnister Grant and Ellia Hayes burst onto the Indiana high school cross country scene in the fall with them becoming a dynamic freshman duo. That has translated onto the track this spring. Grant and Hayes have traded the 3200 school record back and forth with each other throughout the season and are poised to compete for it again at Saturday’s state finals hosted by Ben Davis...

Having camaraderie and being a selfless teammate is vital to being a successful high school track and field relay team. Northview’s 4x800 team checks both of those boxes with the quartet of Corbin Butts, Thomas Chapman, Jcim Grant and Nolan White. But it took time for the connectivity to come together, Chapman admitted...

CLAY CITY - "Chicks Dig the Long Ball" was a famous Nike advertising slogan a few years back, a few years before any members of the Clay City softball team were born. Whether aware of that catchphrase or not, the 2021 Eels definitely used it to their advantage on Tuesday evening in a 13-3 win over Bethesda Christian that gave the school its second regional softball title and a berth in Saturday's North Daviess Semi-State...

John Howes represented Brazil High School on the baseball field during the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was a pitcher on the team during his freshman and sophomore seasons before adding first base to his positional versatility when he became an upperclassman...

Shortly after Clay City had wrapped up its first sectional softball championship since 2014, former Lady Eel standout, and daughter of coach Jason Sinders, Harley Skinner was celebrating her first career sectional championship at Terre Haute South as the Avon Orioles knocked off Terre Haute North by a score of 7-0...

As Dylan Zentko walked to the plate to begin the top of the eighth inning, after Northview had scored one run in each of the sixth and seventh innings to send the game into extras, Landon Carr leaned over from his spot in the on-deck circle and told Seth Rounds, ‘He’s going deep,’ while motioning towards Zentko...

Having a two-headed monster at the top of the pitching rotation in Gavin Morris and Dylan Zentko has always made Class 3A No. 15 Northview a dangerous threat to make a deep run into the state tournament. The question surrounding the Knights throughout the entirety of the high school baseball season was whether or not they would score enough runs to back up that dynamite pitching...

Former Northview standout Alex Reinoehl made his 2021 Prospect League debut for the Terre Haute Rex Thursday evening at O’Fallon. He gave up one hit in a scoreless inning of work. On Friday, Rex manager AJ Reed called on the Franklin side-winding right-hander again and asked him to give the team multiple innings out of the bullpen...

When former Northview standout Jacob Harden hung up his baseball cleats, ending his playing career at Indiana State University, he immediately turned his attention to coaching. He had previous experience coaching at the Clay Youth League and at Clarksville High School when he was a student at the University of Southern Indiana. ...

Based on the heat sheets given to the spectators at Thursday’s Bloomington North boys track and field Regional – and could also be found online – Northview’s 4x800 relay team of Thomas Chapman, Nolan White, Jcim Grant and Corbin Butts looked as if it had a solid chance of receiving a ticket to Friday’s state finals at Ben Davis...

Although ominous clouds hovered over Switz City as the Class A White River Valley baseball sectional got underway Thursday evening, the sour weather couldn’t steal the shine of Clay City. The Eels got an early lead and never let go of it, which resulted in a 14-0 win over Eminence in five innings to advance them onto Monday’s sectional semifinal game...

Northview’s softball team entered Wednesday night’s Class 3A Edgewood sectional championship against the host Mustangs in search of winning back-to-back titles for just the second time in program history. The Lady Knights defeated West Vigo back in 2019 but weren’t able to defend their championship in 2020 due to COVID-19 cancelling the entire high school softball season...

CLAY CITY - Clay City took a 3-0 lead after sending just five hitters to the plate in the top of the first inning on Tuesday night, and pushed across seven in the of the sixth to seal a 14-4 win over Eminence in high school softball semifinal action...

Both Clay City and Northview got through their semifinal round victories on Tuesday night in high school softball sectional action after receiving first-round byes. Clay City got seven runs in the top of the sixth inning to break open the game and record a 14-4 win over Eminence, while Northview led 12-0 after two innings and cruised to a 17-0 win over Brown County...

Northview was well represented at Tuesday’s Bloomington North girls track and field Regional with nine individuals or teams taking part in the meet. The Lady Knights will have representations at next weekend’s state finals hosted by Ben Davis as well...

Northview saw its first-ever unified track and field season come to a conclusion last Saturday at the Bloomington North Sectional. The Knights had five athletes – Blake Wright, Grant Johnson, Ian Tellechea, Shanna Martin and William Hughes – that were among those competing in running events such as the 100, 400 and 4x100 relay and fielding events such as shot put and long jump alongside their 13 partners – Ava Dorsett, Blake Wright, Braxton Sampson, Christian Roembke, Gabe Stockram, Jacob Fowler, Kennady Harden, Kiya Foxx, Lauren Rindone, Parker Jordan, Raelee Everhart, Van Mace and Kassidy Kellett.. ...

Even though last Friday’s regular season finale victory over North Central gave Northview’s softball team 21 wins – the most the program has had in a several years – coach Kathy Vossmer made sure her group wiped the slate clean and started the postseason with the mindset of being a hungry team in search of its first win...

This past weekend, the Wabash Valley Golf Association conducted the Senior Classic for players 50 and older along with a super senior division for players 60 and over. Players played at Rea Park on Saturday and then at Forest Park on Sunday. Troy Ferris from Brazil was the overall champion with a score of one under par 142. ...

Northview jumped out to an early lead and then cruised in a 21-3, five-inning victory over the Cloverdale Clovers on Monday night in Western Indiana Conference baseball action. The Knights scored in four of the five innings got a 7-RBI, two home run game from Gavin Morris to put up an impressive number of runs. A pair of freshmen, Caden Schrader and Nathan McEwen combined to limit the Clovers to just two hits and three runs in the five innings...

Every year, the Knights Boys’ Golf Team plays in the Washington Invitational. Due to a scheduling conflict, the team would not be able to participate this year. Coach Chris DeHart reached out to Washington and was able to participate in a Quad-Match. Along with Northview and the host Washington, Vincennes Rivet and Bloomington South (JV) played an 18 hole match Saturday at Country Oaks Golf Course...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - - It was a day full of awards for the Ball State softball program, which saw three members of the squad earn National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division I All-Region accolades. After a record-breaking season, junior standout Faith Hensley was named to the NFCA All-Great Lakes Region First Team. In addition, senior catcher Stacy Payton and freshman shortstop Kayla Lissy were named to the NFCA All-Great Lakes Region Second Team...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - - The Ball State softball team saw its run to a program record 31 Mid-American Conference victories rewarded Thursday (May 20), with six student-athletes earning MAC postseason honors as voted on by the league's 11 head coaches. Leading the charge were a trio of All-MAC First Team selections in junior outfielder Faith Hensley, senior outfielder Haley Dominique and senior catcher Stacy Payton. ...

On Tuesday, Clay City's boys golf team had the chance to compete on Linton's Phil Harris Golf Course – the site of sectional play – in a three-way match with Bloomfield and Edgewood. The Eels walked away with a tie with the Mustangs, as both programs put up scores of 175...

From the outside looking in, the first six innings of Friday’s game against North Central – before a max exodus of substitutions in the seventh that altered the final score – looked as if it was the style of play Northview’s softball team was looking for...

After coming off the Western Indiana Conference Championship, the Knights' boys golf team was back in action Thursday night. They hit the road for a conference match-up with Sullivan. The team had a nice showing at the No. 1 and No. 2 spots. Seniors Benjamin Goshen and Chase Nuckols had an exciting moment at Hole No. 5. The duo both knocked in back-to-back birdies on the par 3...