Local Sports

The IHSAA Executive Committee approved a basketball mercy rule for this season which is very similar to the one instituted for high school football this fall.  Once a team is up by at least 35 […]

The IHSAA has approved the Basketball Sectional Tournament sites for the upcoming 2021-22 hoops season. Of local interest for the girls, East Central will play at 4A Bloomington North.  That sectional also includes Bloomington South, […]

Greensburg successfully defended its 3A volleyball sectional title at Batesville Saturday with wins over the host Bulldogs and the Tigers of Lawrenceburg.  The semifinals and finals were heard on WRBI. It was the sixth championship […]

Saturday in Versailles, South Ripley won the 2A-45 Volleyball Sectional, its fifth overall and first since 2016. The Raiders run to the title began Thursday with a 3-0 victory over Austin: 25-19, 25-19 and 25-21. […]

The Batesville Lady Bulldogs won the 2021 IHSAA Girls’ Cross Country Regional at Franklin Community Saturday by one point over the tournament hosts.  East Central’s Lady Trojans finished third and the Batesville boys also placed […]

Franklin County AD Denny Dorrel has often referred to Wildcat boys’ tennis player Jack Stirn as “The Legend.”  High praise for sure, but deservedly so as the senior has now punched his ticket to the […]

At the Rushville Cross Country Regional Saturday, the host Lion boys’ team placed fifth to qualify for next Saturday’s Shelbyville Semi-State at Blue River Park. To qualify for a semi-state, a team must finish in […]

There were cross country runners from ORVC schools who particiapted at the Columbus North Regional Saturday.  While no conference teams advanced to the Brown County Semi-State next Saturday, some individuals did. To qualify for a […]

No local soccer program, boys or girls, made a deeper run into the 2021 state tournament than the East Central Lady Trojans.  Unfortunately, the ride ended at Saturday’s 3A regional championship to host Carmel.  The […]

Area volleyball programs came up empty in 1A and 4A sectionals.  Rising Sun and Shawe, two ORVC clubs, were the only area teams to make it to Saturday’s finals in those two classes. The Shiners […]

Only the East Central Lady Trojans made it to a soccer regional championship match Saturday.  See their details in a separate story.  Meanwhile, several sectional champions lost in a regional semifinal during the week. On […]