Northview Knights

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...

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.. ...

On Thursday morning, former Northview standout Benjamin Goshen, who is a member of the Marian University men’s golf team, accomplished a goal he’s had for a long time. Playing at the Country Club of Terre Haute, Goshen carded a 72, tying Ryan Harmon for second place, to qualify for the Indiana State Amateur Tournament held at Pete Dye Course in French Lick on June 20-22...

At the start of the high school boys golf season, Northview head coach Samuel Grimes said the No. 1 goal for his young team was to be playing their best when the calendar flipped to June. On the second day of the month, the Knights accomplished an achievement they’ve been chasing since the first day of practice...

On May 14, Franklin College’s baseball team fell to Rose-Hulman in the HCAC Tournament’s Elimination Round game, ending the Grizzlies’ season. It also appeared to be the end of former Northview standout Alex Reinoehl’s, who set the Franklin College saves record this spring, baseball career...

Northview’s baseball team wasn’t given any favors with the Class 3A Crawfordsville Sectional schedule to begin with as it had state-ranked Crawfordsville on its side of the bracket with Lebanon, a team that has garnered votes in the polls during the season, waiting in the championship...

In his first three at-bats of Monday afternoon’s Class 3A Crawfordsville Sectional semifinal against the host Athenians, Northview’s Landon Carr was held hitless with a pair of pop ups to the second baseman and a strikeout looking. All three of those came against Crawfordsville starter Kale Wemer. But in the bottom of the seventh, after Peyton Lear worked a seven-pitch walk, Wemer had hit his pitch count, forcing the Athenians to bring in a new arm with the game on the line...

Looking at the heat sheets leading into Tuesday night’s girls track and field regional held at Bloomington North, there was a solid chance Northview would have an opportunity to make history. As it turned out, that’s exactly what the Lady Knights accomplished...

Entering Wednesday night’s Class 3A Owen Valley Sectional softball championship game, which was moved to Bloomington South due to inclement weather that wiped out most contests around the Wabash Valley, Northview and West Vigo were as familiar with each other as possible...

Throughout the high school softball regular season, Northview has battled a case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. On some nights, the Lady Knights showed up energized and ready to take down the opposition. And then on other nights, it was the exact opposite, head coach Kathy Vossmer said...

Leading into last Tuesday’s girls track and field sectional and last Thursday’s boys track and field sectional, both held at Terre Haute South, it was a known fact that in order to guarantee a spot at this week’s Bloomington North Regional, student-athletes must finish in the top three of their respective events...

In a normal spring, the Clay County baseball rivalry game between Northview and Clay City takes place in the first week of the season. However, this year has been filled with frigid temperatures and buckets of rain, forcing games to be moved all around the calendar...

There was nothing normal about Thursday’s boys track and field sectional held at Terre Haute South. To begin with, the meet was delayed by over an hour due to a thunderstorm that rolled through the Wabash Valley and forced all of the participating teams to huddle up in the South gymnasium until it passed...

Northview’s Christian Price spent the entirety of his high school athletic career on the soccer field. In his final season for the Knights last fall, Price led the team in goals scored and set a record for most goals scored in a game, which led to multiple collegiate programs reaching out to the senior about bringing him aboard...

Stormy skies decided to interrupt the IHSAA Greencastle Girls’ Tennis Sectional just as the first match between Owen Valley and South Vermillion was about to get underway, forcing the participants back to the DePauw University Indoor Tennis Center for a second-straight night...

Over the weekend, Northview sent a handful of wrestlers to the Freestyle Greco State tournament where the Knights not only had an opportunity to compete against some of the top wrestlers in the state, but also got to attend a clinic taught by two-time Olympian Jim Grunewald...

There was a slight delay to Tuesday’s Terre Haute South girls track and field Sectional due to a few buses getting stuck in traffic on I-70. However, for several Northview runners and a pair of Clay City athletes, the extra preparation time in the warm mid-May sun was well worth the wait as both schools will have representatives in next Tuesday’s Bloomington North Regional...

Last spring, when Northview’s boys track and field team won the Western Indiana Conference championship, it ended a long title-less drought for the Knights. They didn’t have to wait long for their next one as Northview was crowned WIC champions Thursday in Brazil after it dominated the conference competition. Edgewood was the closest foe behind the Knights but still was 43.5 points behind the hosts...

On Saturday, the Danville Area Community College softball team continued its historic season when the No. 1-ranked Jaguars were crowned the National Junior College Athletic Association’s Region 24 champions after they defeated St. Louis Community College by scores of 5-4 and 5-1....

Last spring, on a similarly warm May morning as it was Saturday, Clay City’s Demi Wolfe and Northview’s Lauren Sackett locked horns in a pitcher’s duel that will go down in the county rivalry’s all-time pitching matchups. Sackett ultimately got the best of the Eels as the current Indiana State University freshman no-hit Clay City to run the Knights’ winning streak against their cross-county rivals to six in a row...

There’s a confident swagger Northview’s baseball team plays with whenever staff ace Landon Carr is on the mound. Even when things start to go a little sideways, they know the senior right-hander will pick them up by keeping them in every game. That proved true in the second and third innings of Friday’s game at Terre Haute North...

As the temperature continues to rise in Clay County, the high school boys golf scores keep lowering themselves for Clay City and Northview. Both groups feature youthful rosters that are – for the most part – going through their first varsity season this spring...

Over the last several decades, Northview has had numerous top-of-the-line athletic programs. One of the best has been the softball team, which had multiple semi-state appearances over that span. So, as discussions began awhile back about naming the field after an influential person in the program’s history, there was zero doubt about who the school wanted to honor – Jan Gambill, the woman who coached the Lady Knights’ first game and hundreds of games after that and was a pioneer in starting girls sports in Clay County.. ...

There was plenty of excitement centered around Wednesday’s softball matchup between Northview and visiting Brown County. Northview named its field after Clay County girls sports pioneer Jan Gambill and then honored its two seniors Tara Pearce and Kendra Miller before the first pitch was scheduled to be thrown...

After dropping back-to-back matches against Terre Haute North and Owen Valley, Northview’s girls tennis team entered the Senior Night bout with visiting Parke Heritage looking to get back into the win column. And in front of a large crowd gathered behind the fencing on the parking lot side of the courts, the Lady Knights picked up a 4-1 victory in their penultimate match of the regular season...

As the collegiate baseball and softball regular seasons come to an end – or have ended – we went around the country to catch up on the former Clay City and Northview standouts that are shining on the diamonds. Below are the season statistics for each student-athlete:...

In cold and windy conditions in Greencastle, the Northview boys golf team competed in the Tiger Cub Invitational held at Tiger Pointe Country Club. The weather didn’t seem to bother the Knights, who were coming off their best round of the season earlier in the week against Terre Haute South and Linton at Forest Park, as they claimed second-place in the six-team tournament...

Last week, the IHSAA issued a press release regarding boys high school volleyball and girls high school wrestling being approved as an emerging sport by the Board of Directors, which helps both sports take a step towards being a recognized sport. “During its annual review of the by-laws on Monday afternoon, the Board of Directors of the Indiana High School Athletic Association, Inc. voted unanimously to add girls wrestling and boys volleyball to its new Emerging Sport Process...

Throughout the first 14-plus years of his life, Northview’s Dillon White had no issues with his energy levels or keeping weight on. However, at the conclusion of his freshman football season, White, who was preparing to try out for the wrestling team, began to complain about constantly being thirsty and needing to use the bathroom often while also struggling to get through routine workouts that he was used to powering through multiple times per week...

Each night the Northview girls tennis team steps onto the court for a match, first-year coach Joni Sutherland has a good idea that team will need to lock down two wins from the either of the three singles spots in the lineup or the No. 2 doubles spot to almost assuredly guarantee a victory for the Lady Knights...

Earlier in the week, the IHSAA released its new sectional assignments for the 2022-23 high school sports seasons. Clay City and Northview were both impacted in various ways. The new sectional assignments and the teams playing in the respective sectional are listed below:...

In Clay County, Kathy Vossmer is known as Northview’s head softball coach that’s led the Knights to great success over the last few years, including a semi-state appearance in 2021. However, before becoming an assistant coach at Northview and then the head coach after that, Vossmer was quite the standout player at the University of Southern Indiana...