Local Sports

The following are girls junior high basketball recaps from Monday, March 7. In the first round of the girls junior high SEI Basketball Tournament, Batesville’s seventh grade advanced with a 45-13 win over Greendale.  The […]

The area track season got underway Saturday with the East Central Indoor Invitational. It was a non-team scoring event where individuals had a chance to qualify for the state indoor meet at Indiana University on […]

In Saturday’s IHSAA Gymnastics Regional hosted by Franklin Central, Connersville’s Jayci Allen scored 9.425 on beam to place fifth and qualify for state.  Allen also qualified as a state finalist in all-around by placing sixth […]

In a Friday’s 4A Sectional 14 semifinal at Martinsville, East Central’s season came to an end as defending champion Bloomington South beat the Trojans 60-42. EC struggled to score during the first three periods trailing […]

In 2A boys basketball sectional championship games from Saturday, there were any number of teams who could have won Sectional 44 at South Ripley, but after the final horn sounded Saturday night, it was Triton […]

For a second straight night at 3A Sectional 29 in Connersville, Lawrenceburg erased a double-digit deficit and, this time, knocked off Franklin County 45-39. Coach Mark Foster’s Wildcats pitched a 9-0 shutout in the first […]

For the first time since 2015, Jac-Cen-Del is a boys basketball sectional champion.  Saturday night at 1A-60 hosted by Southwestern Shelbyville, the Eagles defeated a determined Hauser squad to win 61-46. Only four times in […]

Updated 1 am Monday. Sixty four boys basketball sectional champions were crowned Saturday, March 5 and will compete in 16 regionals Saturday, March 12. Regionals of area interest are listed below which include any coverage […]

At 1A Sectional 60 Friday hosted by Southwestern Shelby, Jac-Cen-Del looked more like the Ripley County and ORVC championship team that Eagle fans have been used to seeing this season.  JCD powered its way past […]

Our second broadcast game Friday took us to the Spartan Bowl for a 3A-29 semi where Franklin County upended No. 10 Greensburg 51-35. It was 6-4 Wildcats at the end of the first quarter and […]

In one of our boys basketball sectional semifinal broadcasts Friday night, our first stop was in Versailles where South Ripley hosted South Decatur in 2A-44.  Thanks to a big second-half defensive effort, the Raiders beat […]

Updated 12:30 am Sunday. A total of 399 schools were entered into this year’s tournament which culminates with the state finals at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on Saturday, March 26.  Sixty four sectional champions […]