Northview Knights

It’s been about three weeks since we last filed a college report, so with a new month upon us, it’s time to do so again. Several former Clay City and Northview standout athletes put together noteworthy performances over the last few weeks. Their cumulative statistics for the entirety of their respective seasons can be found below:...

Growing up, Northview’s Gabe Stockrahm saw the way his father, John, was obsessed with the game of football, which caused him to fall in love with the sport at an early age as well. That continued on as he got older and his dreams of playing at the collegiate level strengthened...

Huddled around the television with his team and coaching staff a couple of weekends ago, Northview girls basketball coach Zack Keyes had some instant thoughts cross his mind when he saw the unveiling of the Class 3A Owen Valley Sectional. Northview was the lone team to receive an opening round bye, which on one hand guaranteed them a spot in the semifinal round for the second straight season. But on the other hand, it meant the Lady Knights would go 10 days without playing a game...

Tony Sanabria has had some solid teams during his tenure as Northview’s head wrestling coach, but this year’s group ranks near the top of that list. Coming off the program’s first conference championship in 11 years, the Knights entered Saturday’s Bloomington North Sectional among the teams vying for the top spot...

Throughout the boys high school basketball season, Northview head coach Michael Byrum has stated that his program sets a daily goal on game days. He wants them to win (goal No. 1) while also getting better at the same time (goal No. 2). For the last three weeks, Northview hasn’t been able to go 2-0 on those, but the sixth-year coach said that more often than not, his group has found a way to split the two and has steadily improved despite entering Friday’s contest with Cloverdale, which entered the evening on a long losing streak of its own, having lost five in a row.. ...

For most of the Blue Chip League season, Northview’s bowling team wasn’t pushed too hard by its competition. It led to the Knights cruising to an undefeated 10-0 regular season record and a sectional championship after that. However, last Saturday in the regional held at Vigo Bowl in Terre Haute, Northview found itself in a tightly contested roll off with McCutcheon for the title...

During Tony Sanabria’s tenure as Northview’s wrestling head coach, the program has entered the postseason with plenty of individuals that have had opportunities to extend their seasons. But this postseason, which will get underway Saturday at the Bloomington North Sectional, Northview brings a team that not only will compete for the team sectional title – something Sanabria said is always a team goal – but has the personnel to get it done if they wrestle to their potential, the sixth-year coach said, while also noting the difficulty of the task with the various teams they have to beat out to accomplish the feat.. ...

As has been the case for several years, the annual crosstown Clay County girls basketball rivalry game between Northview and Clay City takes place in the final week of the regular season, which was the case again Tuesday night inside the Eel Dome. Because of that, there was more to play for on each side of the ledger other than the two teams looking to either extend or end the current winning streak – Northview entered Tuesday having won three in a row over Clay City – of the other...

Northview kicked off the indoor track season over the weekend at the Indiana Runner Indoor Open held at Taylor University in Upland, Ind. Alongside girls track and field head coach James Grounds, the Knights brought seven runners – Gnister Grant, Jcim Grant, Douglas Dillman, Connor Propst, Hank Slater, Clint Mager and Camden Johnson – to compete in the season-opening event, which ended with all of them having positive feelings on where they are after a winter full of training...

On Sunday night, the IHSAA set the 2022-23 girls high school basketball state tournament brackets with the annual sectional draw hosted by the Champions Network. Teams around the state huddled together around their respective televisions or mobile devices awaiting word on who and when they’ll be playing beginning in the first week of February...

Northview’s boys basketball team, looking to snap a four-game losing streak, trailed for most of the first half Friday night against visiting Indian Creek. But at the 5:42 mark of the third quarter, after Christian Roembke buried one of his two 3-pointers on the evening, the Knights pulled within three points and seemed to have swung the momentum back onto their side...

Hosting Class 3A No. 4 Indian Creek in the penultimate game of the regular season, Northview’s girls basketball team was up for the challenge Friday night. Northview played the lengthy Braves play for play throughout the opening half of the game, and even possessed the lead for the majority of the time, but Indian Creek closed out the second quarter with a 6-0 run to pull ahead at the break...

If Northview’s girls basketball coach Zack Keyes could write the perfect script for Thursday’s Senior Night game against Edgewood, it probably would have gone just about the same as it ultimately turned out. After honoring its four seniors – Katie Buchanan, Grace Jones, Adria Schlatter and Audri Spencer – as well as team manager Karigan Krider, the Lady Knights jumped out to a double-digit lead within the first six minutes and only widened that the rest of the evening, which led to a 43-16 win over the Mustangs.. ...

When combing through Northview’s boys basketball schedule, it’s abundantly clear that the vast majority of games are played on the weekends – which includes Friday night games as well – like so many other teams around the state of Indiana. Playing 65 percent of its games on Fridays and Saturdays, the Knights are able to find a rhythm throughout the week that includes three to four practices and plenty of film study before competing against an opposing team to bookend the six-day stretch...

There’s a sizable gap between playing basketball in eighth grade and playing high school basketball at the varsity level, yet Northview has a pair of freshmen that have made that leap and with every passing day are growing more comfortable there. Brayden Goff and Avery Perry are among the most talented players within Northview’s program and have loads of previous experience on the hardwood during their upbringing...

Entering Tuesday on a three-game losing streak, Northview’s boys basketball team returned home where it drew another tough task in visiting Terre Haute North. North, a team Northview head coach Michael Byrum described as ‘one of the best defensive teams on our schedule,’ played at a high level on both ends of the floor, the sixth-year coach noted...

Northview’s Blue Chip bowling team couldn’t have done any better during the regular season, posting an unblemished 10-0 record, placing the Knights as the heavy favorite entering Saturday’s sectional held at Imperial Lanes in Terre Haute. Competing against Terre Haute North, Terre Haute South and West Vigo, Northview bowled three rounds in the singles tournament, which advanced four onto the regional round of the postseason...

On the eve of last season’s Western Indiana Conference wrestling championship, Northview had an unfortunate case of COVID spread through its room, forcing numerous fixtures in the lineup to miss the tournament and thus spoiling any chances of the Knights ending their conference title drought before they even ascended on Edgewood High School the next morning...

She had done it before, and therefore, knew what to expect Friday night. Northview’s Varzidy Batchelor, the reigning girls wrestling 195-pound state champion, was back in the state championship match Friday night inside Mooresville High School’s Newby Gymnasium...

Tough is a word that many teams use, but South Putnam embodied that word Friday night in picking up a 73-67 Western Indiana Conference victory against the Northview Knights at the “Eagles Nest”. South was able to will their way to win with balanced scoring and big plays to offset Drew Cook’s 35 points...

A 16-0 run to start a game sets the tone for a basketball game. The Northview Knights sprinted out to a 16-0 first quarter lead enroute to a 44-26 victory over the host South Putnam Eagles in a Western Indiana Conference girls’ basketball game Friday night...

Last January, Northview’s Gelissa Reginald came up short in her quest to reach the girls wrestling state finals. Discouraged by the outcome, Reginald thought to herself about what went wrong. Her conclusion? She wasn’t ready to win yet. “I was really upset and disappointed in myself,” said Reginald. “Me losing made me feel really awful. It just made me feel like I wasn’t ready to be a winner.”...

In a roundabout way, the outcome of Wednesday night’s final dual match of the high school wrestling season was exactly what Northview needed as it heads into the postseason. Walloping West Vigo by a score of 57-21 showed the Knights are trending in a positive direction in the most important part of the year...

At the end of the first half of Tuesday night’s girls high school basketball contest against visiting Cascade, Northview held a slim one-point advantage. After trailing for most of the first and second quarters, possessing the lead at intermission would typically be a positive to take into the locker room...

With the holiday season in the rearview mirror, it was time to check in with the former Clay City and Northview student-athletes that are playing winter sports at the collegiate level around the country. Among them to see action in the New Year included former Northview standout Macey Timberman, who is a freshman guard on the Parkland College women’s basketball team...

At the start of the week, Northview wrestling coach Tony Sanabria told his team he wanted to see them go unbeaten in their seven dual matches. With wins over Greencastle and Terre Haute North, Northview had an opportunity to do just that with five more wins at Saturday’s Sullivan Duals...

Based on the brackets that came out earlier in the week, Northview’s girls wrestling coach Sarah Tellechea eyed a path for three to five – and maybe even six depending on how things went – of her wrestlers to get out of Friday’s Franklin Community Regional and onto the state championship stage...

She didn’t need a reminder. Audri Spencer was more than aware of how close she was to scoring her 1,000th career point, and so too was everyone in attendance at Northview Friday night. Her family made up a portion of the lower bowel of the seating around the hardwood. Her teammates and peers in the student section both had signs placed under their seats, waiting for the moment they could pull them out when Spencer entered her name into the program’s history books...

It was just a dozen days ago when Greencastle and Northview battled it out in the opening round of the First Financial Wabash Valley Classic held at Terre Haute North. Then, the two conference rivals went down to the wire with Northview walking away as nine-point victors...

After witnessing Greencastle’s girls basketball team dispatch Parke Heritage and Terre Haute North to win the second annual Jenni Marietta State Farm Holiday Classic on Monday, and then seeing the Tiger Cubs return the next night and sink 18 shots from the 3-point line in a win over Clay City, Northview’s coaching staff went to work on a game plan to slow down Greencastle’s explosive offense...

At the start of the girls high school wrestling season, Northview head coach Sarah Tellechea foresaw a handful of wrestlers getting through the regional round of the postseason, giving them an opportunity to battle it out in the state finals. After finishing up the regular season last week at Mooresville, her stance on the topic remains the same...

Coming off a disappointing stint at the Mooresville Holiday Classic last week, Northview wrestling head coach Tony Sanabria met with his team and told them to use the upcoming week to reset their minds. He wanted them to put what transpired in Mooresville behind them and using this week – which featured dual matches against Greencastle and Terre Haute North as well as the Sullivan Duals over the weekend – as a preview for the conference championship and then the postseason after that...

Entering last week’s First Financial Wabash Valley Classic, Northview – like all 16 participating teams – had a goal of cutting down the nets as the last one standing. Northview gave itself an opportunity to do just that by defeating Greencastle in the opening round to advance onto the winner’s side of the bracket...

Coming off a difficult loss to Terre Haute North in the semifinal round of the second annual Jenni Marietta State Farm Holiday Classic earlier in the day Monday – which forced Northview’s girls basketball team to use every last ounce of energy they had within themselves to get to the finish line – the Lady Knights had to turn around three hours later for the third-place matchup with Parke Heritage...

On Dec. 13, Northview and visiting Terre Haute North battled down to the final seconds in girls high school basketball action with Audri Spencer drilling the go-ahead 3-pointer to lift the Lady Knights onto a one-point win. It was hard to imagine those two programs could put together a sequel that was just as entertaining, yet on Monday morning – on the same court as the first matchup – in the resumption of the second annual Jenni Maritetta State Farm Holiday Classic, they did just that...

Northview’s wrestling teams spent the days after Christmas competing in the annual Mooresville Holiday Invitational. This year, however, the two-day tournament that’s held for the boys had a wrinkle thrown into it as on Day 2, a girls tournament took place as well...

At the conclusion of the 23rd annual First Financial Wabash Valley Classic’s championship game between Linton and Bloomfield, the 10-player All-Tournament team was unveiled inside Terre Haute North’s gymnasium. Among those to earn the honor, which was voted on by the media members in attendance throughout the four-day tournament, was Northview’s Drew Cook...

As Northview’s girls basketball team jogged onto the Gainbridge Fieldhouse court – the same place the Indiana Pacers and Cleveland Cavaliers had played 20 hours earlier – Friday afternoon, the Lady Knights couldn’t help but look around at their surroundings as they got set to take on Bloomington North in the Holiday Classic...

The rims inside Terre Haute North’s gymnasium weren’t kind to Northview during the first two days of the First Financial Wabash Valley Classic. That remained true on Wednesday as well. Northview, like it had throughout its three-day stay on the north side of Terre Haute, fell behind early and despite making multiple runs throughout the day, the Knights weren’t ever able to catch up to West Vigo...

On Monday, in the opening round of the First Financial Wabash Valley Classic held at Terre Haute North, Sullivan downed Casey-Westfield to secure head coach Jeff Moore his 500th career win. Throughout his 33 years leading the program, the Golden Arrows have been a fundamentally sound ball club that hangs its hat on the defensive end...

Northview found itself in a bad place with 3:08 left in its opening round game of the First Financial Wabash Valley Classic Monday afternoon against Greencastle held at Terre Haute North. With a floater that swished through the net, the Tiger Cubs tied the game at 48-48...

With Christmas officially in the rearview mirror, that means one thing around these parts of basketball country in the state of Indiana: the start of the 23rd annual First Financial Wabash Valley Classic. Northview won’t have to wait too long to take the floor at Terre Haute North on Monday as the Knights were placed in the third of the eight-game slate against a Western Indiana Conference rival in Greencastle...

In what has become an annual tradition on Christmas, the Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association announced the All-WVFCA First and Second Teams, as well as the All-WVFCA Academic Team. Northview was well-represnted in each category. Earning placements on the All-WVFCA First Team included defensive lineman Gabe Stockrahm and punter Luke Marlow...

For several years now, Northview’s girls head basketball coach Zack Keyes has wanted to figure out a way to get his team up to Indianapolis and into Gainbridge Fieldhouse – it has also been called Conseco Fieldhouse and Bankers Life Fieldhouse during his tenure – for a game...

Entering Tuesday night’s match against Terre Haute North, Northview’s bowling team had already guaranteed it would be sitting at the top of the Blue Chip regular season standings. But the Knights have had bigger plans in mind. Among them includes finishing out the regular season unbeaten while also working through various things in order to be best prepared for postseason play, which is right around the corner...

Northview, the host Lady Knights were matched up against a conference opponent in Cloverdale, which was one of two winless programs among the eight-team field. With that in mind, Northview knew what it needed to do to take care of business and punch its ticket to the holiday tournament’s semifinal round for the second straight season...

With the holidays right around the corner, it was time to check in on the college happenings for the former Clay City and Northview standouts playing winter sports around the country. Among them includes Northview’s No. 3 all-time boys basketball scorer Caleb Swearingen, who moved into Olivet Nazarene University’s starting lineup around Thanksgiving and has taken full advantage of the opportunity presented to him...

There are very few girls high school basketball tournaments held in the Wabash Valley during the winter months, but on Wednesday, the second annual Jenni Marietta State Farm Holiday Classic tips off at Northview, bringing plenty of excitement to the final two days leading into Christmas...

The home court rims were not kind to the North Putnam Lady Cougars on Friday night in a Western Indiana Conference game against Northview. The Cougars hit just 4-of-29 shots and managed just 13 points as the Knights dominated the contest in a 48-13 win...

The Northview Knights were ‘Cooking’ at North Putnam high school in Friday night’s Western Indiana Conference matchup against the Cougars. Senior Drew Cook knocked down an efficient 35 points, making him the eighth member of the 1,000-point club, and the Knights held off a furious fourth-quarter rally by North Putnam to escape with a 68-64 victory...