Through nearly 12 hours, 88 events and 425 young swimmers from all corners of the local area, the annual Southern Indiana Swim Association championships produce more than a fair share of winners.
JEFFERSONVILLE — Jeff/GRC’s Chandler Dale can probably sell his services as some sort of protection plan.
Highlander Youth Recreation scored six runs in the final two innings, earning an 8-4 win over Center Grove and a berth in the 11-year-old All-Star state finals.
Hayley Koetter doesn’t feel like she made a mistake when she decided what college to attend. But she thinks her second choice maybe should have been first.
CHARLESTOWN — John Striegel knelt with his team near center field following its gutty 3-2 win over Jeff/GRC in the District V 9-10-year-old championship game and gave them a simple postgame pep talk.
It’s rare when a player gets a chance to get redemption in the same baseball game.
Hayden Robb and Chandler Dale got theirs in one inning.
Robb hit the first pitch of extra innings out of the ball park, Dale shut down Greenwood in the bottom of the seventh to give Jeffersonville/GRC an 8-6 win.
Highlander Youth Recreation’s 11-year-old All-Star team is one game away from the state championship round after a 5-3 win over Center Grove on Thursday.
HYR took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series and needs a win on Friday or Saturday to advance to the state finals in Terre Haute, which run from July 23-27.
CHARLESTOWN — Offensively, Trey Fulton has had one of the best performances of the District V tournament so far, crushing six home runs.
But the sweetest thing about Wednesday night was that his big bat wasn’t really necessary.
CHARLESTOWN — No other sport unites a family more than auto racing.
That’s evident in all forms of motorsports, especially in NASCAR where families like the Pettys and Earnhardts have become household names over the years.
On May 28, my son Bo and I, along with six other conservation officers from our district received life-saving awards from the director of the Department of Natural Resources.
CHARLESTOWN — Silver Creek showed why it’s the District V 9-10 All-Star favorite with a five-inning 11-0 win over Jeff/GRC on Tuesday at Charlestown Little League.
If you are an avid go-kart racer, then you need to be at the Clark County 4-H Fairgrounds outside of Charlestown tonight.
Jeff/GRC won its first District V championship since 1992 with a 4-1 win over New Albany on Monday.
It is the first time since 1993 — when Highlander Youth Recreation won the District V title — that any team other than New Albany will represent District V in the section tournament.
Jeffersonville’s 13-14 softball team avenged two earlier losses to Silver Creek and won the District V championship by defeating Creek, 9-1 on Monday.
Jeffersonville will play in the state finals at Fort Wayne later this month.
If you’ve been a loyal reader, you know one of my favorite things to do every year is sit down and watch the Major League Baseball All-Star game. It’s fun, I enjoy it and since my allegiance falls with the American League I typically walk away happy (the last N.L. victory in the Mid-Summer Classic came back in 1947 if I remember correctly).
Indiana’s 1995 Olympic Development Program came out on top at the weekend’s regional soccer camp in Rockford, Ill.
And helping them succeed were New Albany High School coach Dutch Vigar and Jeffersonville midfielder Pierce Crawley.
JEFFERS0NVILLE — It’s been arged that today’s video-game culture has produced the laziest generation in American history.
The District V Big League All-Star baseball team is one win away from winning a state championship and qualifying for the regional.
Scotty Hartfield has been in the business of winning things since he was barely out of diapers.
Maybe it was time to find a way to haul it all around.
Southern Indiana high school sports are coming back to WAVG-AM/1450.
On Friday, Cumulus Louisville and Cumulus Media Partners, which own WAVG, announced that the radio station will resume broadcasting area high school football and basketball games this season.
There’s been a running joke throughout the newsroom that Mike Hutsell has retired from column writing. In fact, general readers in the paper have even started to ask questions about where my picture (which people politely usually refer to as handsome) has disappeared to at the top of every paper section.
True, I’ve gone on a bit of a column-writing sabbatical in recent weeks — for no good reason other than simple vacation time.
Thanks to some help from Highlander Youth and Recreation, New Albany will play for its ninth straight 11-12 District V All-Star championship on Monday.
Failing to qualify for next month’s Summer Olympics in Beijing has not dampened Ben Hesen’s determination to make the United States Olympic men’s swimming squad one bit.
CHARLESTOWN — The Silver Creek 13-14 softball All-Stars scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to score a 2-1 victory over Charlestown on Wednesday in the District V tournament. The win keeps Silver Creek stay on top of the 13-14 softball tournament standings at 2-0.
CHARLESTOWN — Jeff/GRC earned a spot in Monday’s championship game with a 17-0 win over Clarksville.
Jeff has outscored its four opponents, 56-5.
CHARLESTOWN — Defending state champion Silver Creek’s 11-12 All-Star softball team became the first District V champion of the year with a 4-1 win over Highlander Youth Recreation on Tuesday at Charlestown Little League Park.
Silver Creek advanced to the state championship tournament, which will be played from July 17-21 in Elkhart.
Leading Highlander Youth Recreation 3-2 after two innings, Jeffersonville 11-12 All-Star coach Derek Ellis pulled his team aside.
Ellis was unhappy with his team’s offense, which had produced 23 runs in Jeff’s first two games.
After a 16-6 loss to Highlander Youth Recreation on Thursday, the Jeff/GRC 11-year-old All-Stars were in desperate need of a win to stay in the title hunt.
Thanks to a solid pitching performance by Harrison Dale and some power hitting by its offense, Jeff/GRC got exactly what it needed — a 6-3 victory over New Albany on Monday.
Life as a Little League umpire can be pretty rough at times.
You have to make close calls in a split second, withstand the sultry weather of the summer months and put up with spectators who will dispute every call you make.
Ever since his University of Louisville baseball career ended in June 2007, Daniel Burton has been doing something most baseball players can only dream about — getting paid to play the national pastime.
Former Jeffersonville High School and Indiana University star Ben Hesen might not be a part of this year’s United States Olympic team, but he’s still finding ways to leave his mark on the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Neb.
With success comes expectations.
And the expectations are off the charts for New Albany and Jeffersonville in this year’s District V 11-12 All-Star tournament.
There is always life after basketball, but it doesn’t always take place on the court.
In Daniel Farmer’s cage, the thirst for competition had to be caged.
Jeffersonville native Ben Hesen’s pursuit to make the United States Olympic team came to an end on Friday. But he did not want to leave the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, Neb., without producing some excitement
For many the recent resignation of Indiana University athletic director Rick Greenspan was a welcome sight. For others a question of why did he have to go arises.
CHARLESTOWN — After getting help from Jeff/GRC on Wednesday, the Highlander Youth Recreation 11-12 softball team earned a spot in Tuesday’s championship game with an 11-5 win over Charlestown on Thursday.
Jeffersonville native Ben Hesen fell short in his second attempt to make the United States Olympic team at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, Neb., on Thursday.
Ricky West is a big kid for his age. And he hits like it, too
The New Albany 9-10-year-old All-Star warmed up by hitting a couple of towering foul balls before connecting on a three-run home run to put the punctuation mark his team’s 19-3 victory over Silver Creek in Wednesday’s pool-play matchup at Charlestown Little League Park.
Despite Ben Hesen failing to qualify for the Summer Olympics in the 100-meter backstroke on Tuesday in Omaha, Neb., his high school coach says the former Jeffersonville High School standout has nothing to be ashamed of.
For the third straight time in this week’s United States Olympic Trials, Ben Hesen set a personal-best time in the 100-meter backstroke.
CHARLESTOWN — Chase Smith’s opposite-field grand slam led to an eight-run fourth inning, an inning that keyed Highlander Youth Recreation’s 10-7 win over Silver Creek in the District V 9-10 All-Star tournament on Tuesday.
Earlier in the fourth, HYR had drawn even with Silver Creek with three runs. Kyle Peters opened the inning with a single and went to second on an error.
Since he started coaching basketball more than 30 years ago, Mike Broughton’s mentality has always been to chase down wins.
CHARLESTOWN — New Albany and Jeffersonville/GRC continued on their collision course in the District V 11-12 All-Star tournament on Monday at Charlestown Little League Park.
Jeffersonville native Ben Hesen is one race away from making his Olympic dreams come true.
When Amanda Sizemore was hired as the head girls’ basketball coach at Paoli, she gave administrators her full commitment with one caveat — if the New Albany job came open, she would pursue it.
You may remember a piece we had in this column some months ago about the color red, and our suggestion that you might want to have a word with your coach about changing your strip if it was any other shade.
CHARLESTOWN — Kyle Bramble hit a walk-off triple to give Highlander Youth Recreation a 5-4 win over rival New Albany in both teams’ opener in the District V 13-14 All-Star tournament at Charlestown Little League Park on Monday.
Ben Hesen has proven himself against the best in Indiana, and he’s grabbed conference and national championships at the college level.
CHARLESTOWN — For Jeffersonville/GRC’s 11-12 All-Star baseball team, pitching and defense are givens.
If it hits, it’s hard telling how far it could go.
CHARLESTOWN — Highlander Youth Recreation came back from 4-0 and 6-2 deficits to pull off a stunning 7-6 win in eight innings over Jeffersonville/GRC in 11-12 District V softball tournament on Saturday.
CHARLESTOWN — Defending state champion New Albany showed that it is going to be a force to be reckoned with again in 2008.
A record number of Southern Indiana players showed off their talent at this week’s U.S. Youth Region II Championships in Rockford, Ill.
Whether you are a golfer with a low handicap or one who has just picked up the game, Clark and Floyd County residents have plenty of area courses to choose from to fit their respective handicaps.
Johnelle Hardin’s high school football career got off to a late start.
Turns out it will take just a little longer for it to wrap up as well.
Every summer, tens of thousands of players throughout the United States play on American Legion Baseball teams.
However, for the past several years, Southern Indiana has not had a Legion squad.
That has changed this summer.
D.J. Zipp has always loved volleyball, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t sometimes feel like work.
But the fruits of that labor will be evident on Saturday, when the head coach of the Borden volleyball team will host the 2008 edition of the Zipp Family Rumble on the River at Sacred Heart Church in Jeffersonville. The tournament will begin at 9 a.m.
Hannah Sullivan is never very quiet on the court, so this is likely a new experience for the former New Albany volleyball star.
I was a mischievous kid, prone to petty acts of vandalism and rebellion. So when I started high school, I was a little afraid of George Marshall.
For fans of Little League baseball, it’s like Christmas, Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July all rolled up into one.
But this is a holiday that lasts more than two weeks.
A collective groan from disappointed golf fans from across Kentuckiana could be heard last week when Tiger Woods announced he would be out for the rest of the season, including the Ryder Cup at Valhalla Golf Club, with reconstructive knee surgery.
However, local golf fans will still be able to see the best player in the history of golf up close and personal, thanks to Fuzzy Zoeller.
Six area players, including two from Jeffersonville High School, have earned honorable-mention honors on the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association All-State teams.
Two Southern Indiana players have made it to today’s U.S. Youth Soccer Midwest Regional Championship semifinals in Rockford, Ill.
With the high-school basketball season over for months and school out for the summer, New Albany center Donnie Hale has definitely earned some rest and relaxation.
Clarksville High School athletic director Troy Mitchell plays a lot of roles, but once a year he gets a to add another — event planner.
“I just gave a verbal commitment to Indiana,” said Baker. “That’s where I’ve been thinking I was going to go — it was just time to make it official.”
Becky Shafer almost calls it a gift.
The Jeffersonville High School softball coach loves the fact that her team gets an opportunity to continue playing games well into the summer months.
"Rondo was the star. He was the guy out there that made the plays, got the steals, pushed their offense into high drive and created havoc for us."
The biggest difference is athletic ability. Jordan is, hands down, the greatest athlete ever to grace the NBA hardwood. Kobe is merely a marvelous athlete.
The Jeffersonville baseball team opened the 2008 National High School Baseball Tournament without victory or defeat. Instead, Jeff found itself in the middle by earning a tie.
Here’s the kicker: Indiana still drew more than twice the fans Kentucky did two days later when it was time for them to play the role of host. Those hoops-loving Bluegrassers, all 2,200 of them, were treated to a pair of Kentucky wins.
Column: This was arguably the most lopsided championship series in NBA history that wasn't a sweep.
But this beauty belonged to the guys who really made it happen, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen. That's right, "The Big Three." It's a moniker this newest version earned. You win a championship, well, you are Big with a capital "B."
Floyd Central High School graduate Dallas Sims has landed on the mound in a new league — the Frontier League.
Sims, who just completed his collegiate career at Lee University in Tennessee, recently signed on as a member of the Windy City Thunderbolts.
Jeffersonville will serve as a host site this week for the 2008 National High School Baseball Tournament at Don Poole Field.
A record number of Southern Indiana players will travel to Rockford, Ill. this week to participate in the U.S. Youth Soccer Regional Championships.
They will be part of teams from Javanon, United 1996 and Mockingbird, which recently won the Kentucky State Open Cup in their respective age groups at the end of May.
LOUISVILLE — Braydon Hobbs wasn’t much of a factor, but then again neither were his Indiana All-Star teammates.
The former New Albany star played sparingly, spending most of the game watching the Kentucky All-Stars score from the inside, the perimeter and the 3-point line in Sunday’s 95-78 win over the Hoosier stars at Louisville Gardens.
The Celtics were banged up — center Kendrick Perkins didn't play because of a shoulder strain and point guard Rajon Rondo's ankle is still subpar — but L.A. deserves some credit.
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Ben Hesen had a senior year to remember at Indiana University.
The Hoosier swimmer was the star of the Big Ten Championships and capped off his final collegiate season by winning a coveted national championship.
Jeremy Hutslar is ready to leave his college baseball career in the past. He’s already begun making plans for the future.
But after a wildly successful and accolade-filled senior season at Lee University, the former Floyd Central star still had one more award left to collect.
William S. Johnson, Jr, a former Indiana All-Star at Jeffersonville and the son of the legendary Red Devil coach with whom he shared his name, passed away in Louisville on Thursday. He was 67.
Austin Hines is just one of those kids who can’t sit still.
Summer hardly means vacation time for the Jeff/GRC Little Leaguer, it’s just an extension of an already crowded sports slate for the 12-year-old.
INDIANAPOLIS - New Albany's Braydon Hobbs finally got an opportunity to play at Conseco Fieldhouse on Friday night.
And it was enjoyable.
A look at the Evening News and Tribune's top sports stories of the Spring
I did enjoy watching the Lakers fold like a cheap card table in Game 4 in front of all the Hollywood celebs, so it hasn't all been for naught.
Pierce, the L.A. kid who grew up loving the Lakers and despising the Celtics, simply put, bettered the best player in the world, Kobe Bryant. His block of Bryant's baseline jumper in the third quarter and then steal was a play I had never seen before against Bryant.
Braydon Hobbs has heard all the stories, now he’s living the life firsthand.
Hobbs, a recent graduate of New Albany High School, is basking in a life of stardom this week — a week he’s spent touring with the Indiana All-Star team.
Auto racing column: The lawsuit filed against NASCAR by a former employee ought to be a concern to the sport.
FRANKLIN — Entering Wednesday’s action in the IHSAA boys’ golf state finals at The Legends of Indiana Golf Course, Trey Pfund was one of the hottest golfers in the state.
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Sports column: Professional baseball’s juiciest storyline of the season is the one yet to be penned. It’s hanging over home plate like a Tim Wakefield changeup just waiting to be knocked out of the park.
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FRANKLIN — The Providence boys’ golf team must wait a day to find out the answers to two important questions.
One, will the Pioneers advance to the final round of the IHSAA State Finals at The Legends of Indiana Golf Course?
