The high school cross country season started on Saturday with the four-team Batesville Invitational. The host Bulldogs had eight runners in the Top 11 and won the girls race with 19 points, followed by runner-up East Central with 42. Batesville sophomore Ava Wade took the individual championship with a time of 20:36. East Central won the boys race with 35 points, followed by Batesville (40) and South Ripley (53). Carson Hartwell from Oldenburg Academy was the individual champ with a time of 18:37.
Batesville girls golf finished seventh at Saturday’s 18-team Franklin Invitational. The Bulldogs as a team fired a 361 and claimed the tie-breaker over eighth-place Plainfield.
East Central bested Oldenburg Academy 5-1 in boys soccer on Saturday. The Trojans LB Inderhees recorded a hat trick, and Jackson Engel added two more goals. Ray Walke found the back of the net for the Twisters lone tally.
Batesville volleyball went 2 and 1 at the East Central Invitational on Saturday. The Bulldogs lost to Bloomington South in three sets; defeated the host Trojans in three sets, and bounced Union County in two sets.
It’s the season premiere of Coaches Corner delivered by Ison’s Family Pizza this evening following the 5:00 news block on 103.9 FM, WRBI TV and the WRBI App. Rob Lafary will preview the 2026 high school football season with Batesville’s Evan Ulery, Jake Meiners from East Central, Franklin County’s Wes Gillman, Aarik Gault from South Decatur, North Decatur’s Steve Stirn and Ryan Langferman from Milan.
The Miami Marlins scored seven runs in the final two innings off Reds relievers to claim the 7-1 win in the rubber match of the three-game series in downtown Cincinnati as heard yesterday on WRBI. Nick Lodolo pitched five scoreless innings, allowed three hits and two walks while striking out two. Tyler Stephenson’s pinch hit home run in the bottom of the eighth was the Reds only run. It’s Stephenson’s 12th longball of the season, and it came on his 30th birthday. The homestand continues when the Reds open a five-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals with a split doubleheader. In this afternoon’s makeup game from the May 24 rainout, Rhett Lowder (4-8, 5.15 ERA) starts for Cincinnati. Airtime on 103.9 FM is at 1:10. Coverage for the regularly scheduled night game begins following Coaches Corner on 103.9 FM.
The Indiana Fever tipped off a five-game road trip with a 95 to 91 win in overtime over the Atlanta Dream on Sunday. It’s the Fever’s fourth straight win. Caitlin Clark led Indiana with 26 points. The Fever is back in action tomorrow night in Toronto against the expansion Tempo.
Marcus Ericsson took the checkered flag at the INDYCAR NTT series race in Toronto. Ericsson charged from sixth place in the final laps to claim his first victory of the season.
