Northview Knights

Over the weekend, Post 346 was eliminated in the championship round of the American Legion Regional hosted by Terre Haute North. Four current and former (graduates) Northview baseball players – Chase Aten, Devon Barnhart, Gavin Morris and Nate Rissler – played for Wayne Newton throughout the summer. It marked the first time the quartet suited up in the red, white and blue of Post 346...

Ever since he was a teenager helping out the Clay Youth League teams, former Northview baseball standout Jacob Harden has known there were two things he wanted to accomplish in the coaching world. The first was to be a part of a collegiate coaching staff, which he did this spring alongside long-time Rose-Hulman head coach Jeff Jenkins...

Unlike last summer, which was put on pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Northview’s football team was able to pack in the months of June and July with camps, 7-on-7 tournaments and scrimmages with other schools. On Thursday, the Knights capped their preseason portion of the year with an organized scrimmage with visiting Cascade...

Northview’s girls wrestling team recently took part in the 2021 Iron Sharpens Iron camp. While the Lady Knights were there, they were coached by national team member Lauren Louive for the three-day camp. “These girls are hard workers and will achieve their goals,” said Northview girls wrestling coach Sarah Tellechea. “For some, it’s high school state finals. For some [it’s] world team trials.”...

Clay Community Schools is approving the creation of a scholarship in honor and memory of Ernie Simpson. The CCSC Board of Trustees approved the $5,000 donation from Mrs. Christie Simpson, to establish the Ernie Simpson Memorial Scholarship at Northview High School...

Last week, Northview’s football team took the field against an opposing team for the first time since the Knights were eliminated by Evansville Memorial in the Class 4A sectional opening round. With plenty of new faces sliding into prominent roles after a large crop of starters and contributors were apart of the Class of 2021, the organized scrimmage against South Putnam was vital for the Knights as head football coach Mark Raetz and his staff put a plan into place...

On Tuesday night, the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association released its All-State teams. Clay City and Northview were represented in each of the Class A and Class 3A All-State teams with Nolan Harris being named to the Class A team as an outfielder while Gavin Morris was named to the Class 3A team as a second baseman. Northview’s Landon Carr was named to the Class 3A All-State Honorable Mention team as a shortstop...

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Coming off their trip to South Dakota for the annual Post 22 Firecracker Tournament during the Fourth of July holiday weekend, Post 346 returned home to Terre Haute North last week. Wayne Newton hosted Danville Post 210 on Wednesday and Byron Cox Post 72 on Thursday and were scheduled to take on Lake Station on Sunday, but the afternoon doubleheader was cancelled due to inclement weather...

On May 12, the National Federation of State High School Associations issued the following press release, stating the shot clock could be allowed for adoption for high school basketball as soon as the 2022-23 season: “Beginning with the 2022-23 season, a 35-second shot clock will be permitted in high school basketball games by state association adoption. A proposal for a national rule mandating a shot clock was not approved...

When Northview graduate Ilias Gordon made the two-hour trip to Anderson University on Tuesday to begin preparing for Friday’s Indiana Football Coaches Association North-South All-Star Classic, he was making history within the program he left his legacy with...

On Friday night, Northview graduate Ilias Gordon will strap the pads on one last time as he takes the field for the annual Indiana Football Coaches Association North-South All-Star Game hosted by Anderson University. Gordon will represent the Knights as a tight end on the South roster. It marks the third time a Northview football player has been invited to play in the prestigious All-Star Game (Joey Evinger and Mason Moon)...

Leading into the Independence Day holiday weekend, a pair of former Northview softball standouts signed their national letter of intent to play collegiate softball at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Utility player Madelyn Richey and left-handed pitcher Rylee Richey put pen to paper on the West Terre Haute campus during the afternoon of July 1, officially ensuring the two would have the opportunity to suit up for the same team again, just as they did in the 2019 Class 3A regional game as members of the Lady Knights.. ...

After a long layoff between games due to inclement weather that forced cancellations, Post 346 made the trek out to Rapid City, South Dakota for the annual Post 22 Firecracker Tournament over the weekend. Between site seeing at Mount Rushmore and taking in everything the state had to offer, Wayne Newton played in five games out west and finished with a record of 1-4...

Northview’s boys and girls basketball teams finished out the month of June – and the moratorium week that went into effect on Monday – with strong play at various summer shootouts hosted by schools around the state. For the boys, Northview took part in the Artesian Shootout in Martinsville. There, the Knights swept a trio of strong teams in Beech Grove, Bloomington South and Martinsville...

Northview wrestlers Mercedes Tellechea and Varzidy Batchelor recently competed in the 2021 National Women’s Freestyle Duals in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The two Lady Knights were representing Team Indiana, which is coached by Jason DeLois (Director of Indiana Girls Wrestling), Paul Rademaker (Indiana Tech University head women’s wrestling coach) and Katie Kriebel (USA Wrestling Women’s Future Champ Camp Director and Clinician and Oklahoma City University assistant men’s and women’s wrestling coach) during their stay in the Sooner State with Tellechea wrestling in the 180 weight class and Batchelor slotting into the 225 weight class.. ...

The 86th Annual Rotary Celebration presented by the Brazil Rotary Club got underway Saturday morning with the YMCA’s Firecracker 5K. Several runners and walkers from around the Clay County area took part in the road race event, with 86 of them crossing the finish line...

Throughout Saturday evening’s Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association All-Star Game at Indiana State University’s Memorial Stadium, various awards and scholarships were presented to players from both the Black Division team and Gold Division team...

Saturday night’s Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association All-Star Game at Indiana State University’s Memorial Stadium marked the final time five Northview players would have the chance to take the field together. For Korbin Allen, Keegan Garrison, Ilias Gordon, Parker Jordan and Dylan Zentko, who represented the Knights for the Gold Division team, winning the game over the Black Division was important. ...

When Northview graduate Joey Price took part in the Indiana Masters and Queens bowling tournament, the sectional and regional champion was in search of finishing in the top 16 to become an Indiana All-Star. He did more than that, though. By finishing third in his division, Price not only was named an Indiana All-Star, he also was selected to be a captain and got to draft teammates to be a part of the team...

On Saturday night, Northview head football coach Mark Raetz will get to take the field one last time with the Class of 2021 when four Knights - Korbin Allen, Keegan Garrison, Ilias Gordon and Parker Jordan - take part in the annual Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association All-Star Game at Indiana State University’s Memorial Stadium...

Over the weekend, Post 346 hosted the annual John E. Hayes Invitational at Terre Haute North. And even though Mother Nature played her part in attempting to spoil the tournament with the buckets of rain she dumped on the Wabash Valley Friday night and Saturday morning, the invitational was able to finish Sunday night with the championship game between Post 346 and Danville Post 210...

At the beginning of May, Northview’s Drew Cook was announced as one of the players to be selected to participate in the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association Top 100 Showcase hosted by Ben Davis High School. On Saturday, the day came for him to compete with and against the best the Hoosier state has to offer on the hardwood...

Sarah Tellechea watched her son, Ian, compete in Special Olympics Indiana’s Summer Games in the past with the Vigo County team. And knowing Northview was putting together a Unified track and field team, which competed this past spring, she wanted to create a Clay County Special Olympics team...

Northview’s boys basketball team returns most of the group that brought home a sectional championship in March. But with starters Brevin Cooper and Caleb Swearingen graduating and returnees sliding into larger roles while new faces come aboard from the junior varsity roster or transferring in from another school, there’s a lot of chemistry to be built during the month of June, Northview coach Michael Byrum said...

Northview’s football team got its summer schedule underway last week when the Knights took part in Indiana State University’s camp held at Memorial Stadium. Northview coach Mark Raetz described it as a productive week, stating the experience they gained from the Sycamores’ coaching staff, as well as the information obtained from ISU head coach Curt Mallory, was something he hopes they will keep with them as they progress through preseason camp and then into the regular season this upcoming fall...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...