Call it urgency. Maybe even desperation.
Friday, January 21, 2022
FAIRMOUNT — An impromptu game on the schedule turned into a good sectional tune-up for the Madison-Grant girls basketball team Thursday night.
FAIRMOUNT — Having to replace a head coach in the middle of a high school sports season is typically not an easy prospect.
Tickets are currently on sale for the premier of “The Forgotten Ones,” a documentary produced by Mark Fauser featuring the triumph and heartbreak of the 2008 Marion Giants boys’ basketball season.
Saturday
Kaylie Gunion
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Friday
Jeremiah Watts
A full slate of conference games await Grant County’s high school basketball team this weekend.
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Indiana Wesleyan held Taylor without a scoreless for more than five minutes and started with an 11-0 run. In Tuesday night’s Crossroads League men’s basketball game in Luckey Arena.
The walls in Bill Green Arena have witnessed numerous standout performances in the five-plus decades of the building’s existence.
Thursday
Peytonn Bowland
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
CONVERSE — The Oak Hill boys and girls swim teams continued their strong 2021-22 season on Saturday by defending their home pool and winning the Oak Hill Invitational.
Wednesday
Braxton Bowser
Monday, January 17, 2022
The Indiana Wesleyan men’s basketball team continued its best start to a Crossroads League season since 2010-11 with a win at Mt. Vernon Nazarene on Saturday.
CONVERSE — Oak Hill continued its dominance in Central Indiana Conference wrestling by claiming its ninth-consecutive championship on its home mats Friday and Saturday.
Tuesday
Hayden Ulerick
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Solving Oak Hill’s matchup zone defense has proven to be a difficult assignment for Golden Eagle opponents all season, and it was yet again Friday night for county- and conference-rival, Eastbrook.
Friday, January 14, 2022
The Oak Hill swimming teams each earned wins at Kokomo Thursday evening.
The Marion High School boys and girls swimming teams are dealing with some of the same issues as other Giants athletic teams have recently and too often faced: a shortage of participants.
Saturday
Mr’Mekhi Kyle
Thursday, January 13, 2022
The 11th-ranked Indiana Wesleyan women’s basketball team parlayed a dominant defensive and rebounding performance into an easy Crossroads League win Wednesday night at Huntington.
Boys basketball: Marion at Indianapolis Tech, 7:30 p.m., Oak Hill at Eastbrook, 7:30 p.m., Frankton at Madison-Grant, 7:30 p.m., Blackford at Mississinewa, 7:30 p.m.
Ashley Derry
Conference clashes rule the weekend of Grant County’s high school basketball as all eight games involving local boys and girls teams are league games.
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Seth Maxwell converted an offensive rebound into a game-winning put-back with 0.1 of a second to play, lifting No. 9 Indiana Wesleyan to a 73-71 win at Huntington Tuesday night.
Thursday
Brooklyn Bos
CONVERSE — Intensity is always in abundance when Southwood and Oak Hill get together on the hardwood and Tuesday’s battle between the reigning, respective, Wabash and Grant County champions provided another example.
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Wednesday
Ethan Brown
The NAIA’s fifth-ranked Indiana Wesleyan swimming team captured eight events en route to winning the Colonel Classic hosted by Centre College Friday and Saturday in Danville, Kentucky.
Monday, January 10, 2022
The Oak Hill wrestling team proved itself to be one of the top teams in Class 2A with a third-place finish in the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association Team State Duals held Saturday at Martinsville High School.
Boys basketball
Tuesday
Caleb Rex
Toughness was the order of the day in Luckey Arena on Saturday, but that’s typically the case when Indiana Wesleyan and Bethel get together on the basketball court.
Saturday, January 08, 2022
HARTFORD CITY — While the story of Madison-Grant’s 2021-22 boys basketball season is still being written, it will definitely have a chapter describing the poise and grit that is part of the Argylls’ DNA.
The Eastbrook girls basketball team continues to prove it is one of the top defensive units in Class 2A each time it steps on the court, but it was Northwestern’s defensive effort that turned the tide of Friday night’s game on the Panthers home court.
Friday, January 07, 2022
Most nights this basketball season, Marion’s first-year girls coach Julius Mays has found reasons to be encouraged about the effort and play he’s getting from his young and inexperienced team.
Saturday
Jorge Antonio-Maya
Thursday, January 06, 2022
A light Friday night locally turns gives way to a busy Saturday on the hardwood as the boys and girls high school basketball seasons fast break into 2022.
Ariel Dale poured in a career-high 24 points and Taylor Westgate chipped in 11 points and ripped down a career-best 21 rebounds to lead the Taylor women’s basketball team to a 100-85 win over Bethel in Mishawaka Wednesday evening.
Friday
Kolby Alvey
Wednesday, January 05, 2022
Though the Crossroads League men’s basketball regular season championship is a long way from being decided, Indiana Wesleyan took another big step towards defending its title and put itself in the driver’s seat Tuesday night in Winona Lake, Indiana.