Local Sports

(Edited game report filed by Tom Snape.) As heard on WRBI Radio, the South Dearborn Knights held off the Batesville Bulldogs 24-17 in a competitive, back-and-forth EIAC interdivisional matchup Friday on the Field Turf at […]

Batesville Cross Country made a clean sweep of all the hardware from Thursday’s Ripley County Championships in Milan.  BHS won the boys team title 21 to 70 over Jac-Cen-Del and claimed the girls title 19 […]

North Decatur Volleyball will honor past players when the Chargers host South Decatur on Tuesday, September 7th. ND AD Scott Johnson says former Charger volleyball players can sign into the game and see the action […]

Franklin County’s volleyball squad got a Wednesday road win at Rushville by defeating the Lady Lions 3-1.  Final scores were: 25-17, 25-21, 22-25 and 25-23. FCHS coach Jill Mergenthal said, “We were again playing roles […]

A short-handed and young boys’ tennis team from Oldenburg was not able to keep up with undefeated Rushville Wednesday.  The Twisters had to forfeit two positions. “Oldenburg played hard and deserves credit for that,” said […]

While the East Central girls soccer team didn’t score in the second half of Wednesday’s home match with Harrison, the five goals they posted in the first half were more than enough as EC beat […]

Rising Sun scored the first two goals in Wednesday’s ORVC boys soccer match at South Ripley, but the Raiders responded with six unanswered goals to win 6-2.  Three Ripley netters came before intermission to give […]

Coach David Hertz of Shawe called Wednesday’s golf match “a nice mini ORVC tournament preview” as four conference programs faced off.  The ORVC Conference Championship will be Saturday.  The Hilltoppers won the tune up with […]

After a tough day Saturday at the Brownstown Central Volleyball Invite Saturday, East Central returned home Tuesday to defeat Franklin County 25-17, 25-16 and 25-21.  For Franklin County, it was a night of adjustments. “Though […]

The Lady Eagles bounced back after a difficult match Monday and played No. 4 North Decatur very tough.  But the Chargers were just too much as they claimed the match by scores of 25-19, 26-24 […]

Lawrenceburg’s varsity and JV volleyball teams won home matches against Batesville on Tuesday.  The Tiger varsity won 25-19, 25-23 and 25-19 while the LHS JV posted a 25-15, 25-12 victory. Lawrenceburg stat leaders from coach […]

Rushville was a 4-1 winner in boys tennis over Franklin County Tuesday. “We had two matches go three sets with the Lions Marlin Hershberger losing at #1 singles 6-3, 3-6, 3-6 in his first meeting […]