Eighteen boys teams and 14 girls squads competed at the Greensburg cross country Invite Thursday evening. The Batesville boys came in 11th overall, led by senior Jaden Basler’s 46th place finish. Lawrence North was the boys meet champion with 20 points. The host Greensburg Pirates won the girls race with 31 points. Batesville was second with 41, led by freshman Francesca Myers’ 6th place finish.
Batesville Middle School cross country won both ends of the Ripley County Meet. Bulldog 8th grader Cael Luhman became a three-time Ripley County Meet champ with his first place finish. BMS scored a perfect 15 while Milan had 50. Jac-Cen-Del and South Ripley did not field complete teams….The host Bulldogs won the girls race with 18 points. South Ripley finished 2nd with 45. JCD and Milan did not have complete teams. Batesville 8th grader Ana Shane came in 1st overall.
Best of luck to Batesville and East Central senior Rowan Pies as they tee off in the IHSAA Girls Golf State Finals at Prairie View Golf Club in Carmel.
It’s Week 7 of the high school football season and we have a pair of games tonight on the Sports Voice. Batesville visits Greensburg as those two teams renew their longtime rivalry on Homecoming night in the Tree City. Rob Lafary and I will have the call on 103.9 FM, the WRBI App and WRBI-TV starting with pregame at 6:40…East Central hosts Connersville at Trojan Field in St. Leon. Rob Moorhead and Jerry Stenger will call it on the WRBI App starting with pregame at 7:10…
Elsewhere around the area tonight, Franklin County travels to South Dearborn; North Decatur welcomes in Eastern Greene; Milan hops the bus to Eastern Hancock; and Lawrenceburg journeys to Rushville. As we reported earlier this week, the Homecoming game at South Decatur vs. Switzerland County was canceled due to low roster numbers among the Cougars and concern for player safety.
Former Cincinnati Bengals Ken Anderson, Isaac Curtis and Lemar Parrish and former Indianapolis Colt Chris Hinton are among 52 Senior candidates for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026.
Colts kicker Spencer Shrader is the AFC Special Teams Player of the Month for September. Shrader booted 13 field goals and made 12 PATs for 51 points last month.
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark spoke about her health and the state of the league in her exit interview Thursday afternoon at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. The current WNBA Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) is set to expire October 31 and is currently under negotiation as players seek improved salaries and benefits. Napheesa Collier, vice president on the Women’s National Basketball Players Association executive committee, said earlier this week that she has not had a positive experience lately with WNBA Commissioner Cathy Englebert. According to Collier, Englebert claimed Clark would not be making millions of dollars off the court if it weren’t for the WNBA.
