TERRE HAUTE —
Indiana State grad Amy Lynn Hile will take her place in another Hall of Fame this year.
Inducted into the ISU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005, the former Sycamore standout has been named as one of the 2011 inductees into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
The 1983 Indiana All-Star set nine school records while playing at Fort Wayne Dwenger and remains the leading scorer in Fort Wayne girls basketball with 1,301 points.
She is the leading scorer and rebounder in the ISU record books with 1,944 points and 916 rebounds. She also is in the top 10 in games played, free throw percentage, steals, blocks and rebounding and scoring average.
A future Sycamore had a nice day last week in the Hall of Fame Classic. Makenzi Reasor plays for Mt. Vernon. The Marauders lost to powerful Penn 62-41 and defeated Roncalli 72-46. Reasor had 19 points against Roncalli and was named to the all-tournament team.
• Another tourney — High school teams were busy in basketball tournaments last week and some of them will be in action again this week in the Greene County Invitational that tips off tonight at White River Valley.
Eastern was the winner a year ago and is the leader in titles won in recent seasons. The Thunderbirds are tough again this season, taking a 6-1 mark into the competition. They lost their season opener to Owen Valley.
Two other teams also have lost just once this season. Clay City is 7-1 — losing for the first time last week — and WRV is 6-1, losing only to Bloomfield.
Shakamak took tourney honors in 2010 and 2008 and is 5-3, splitting decisions in the Pizza Hut Wabash Valley Classic.
Linton also was in the Classic and has a deceiving 3-5 record.
Bloomfield has not been in the tournament but may be in the event next season and may drop out of the Wabash Valley Classic.
At one time, most of the Greeene County teams competed in the same sectional at WRV but that no longer is true.
Tyler Talpas is one of the players for Union and again was in the top 10 in Indiana scoring totals last week with a 26.3 average.
Joe Reed of Center Grove was seventh in scoring at 24.1 and third in rebounding with 88 boards.
Greene County Invitational
Tonight’s games — Linton (3-5) vs. Eastern (6-1), 6 p.m., followed by North Central (1-4) vs. Union (2-8)
Wednesday’s games — Shakamak (5-3) vs. Clay City (7-1), 6 p.m., followed by WRV (6-1) vs. Vincennes Rivet (2-6)
• Tom-Cattin’ It — Former Heritage Hills quarterback Jay Cutler, now with the Chicago Bears, has donated $25,000 through his foundation for a summer diabetes camp at Princeton.
• Derek Hannahs of Robinson, Ill., will transfer from Ohio State to ISU — where his father, Mitch, won All-America honors — to play baseball.
• Brielle Drelick of Clay City has scored her 1,000th point in girls basketball.
• Ted Beard was one of the most popular players for the Indianapolis Indians in baseball in the 1940s and 1950s. He died last week at the age of 90.
• Terre Haute city golf courses closed last week for a couple months but local golfers have continued to get in some rounds at Geneva Hills.
• Missouri State is the early leader in Missouri Valley Conference men’s basketball with a 2-0 mark and will be in town to play ISU on Saturday.
Kyle Weems tallied 33 for the Bears at Creighton and had 22 Saturday against Drake at home.
The Valley is No. 7 in the RPI totals with six teams in the top 100.
• Indiana University has another commitment in men’s basketball for the Class of 2013. Luke Fischer, a 6-foot-10 player from Germantown, Wis., has chosen the Hoosiers over several other schools.
He is averaging 18 points and eight boards for his team that is 10-0.
Tom Reck may be contacted by telephone at (812) 232-3231, by email at tm_reck@yahoo.com or by mail at 4284 South 5th Street, Apt. 3, Terre Haute, IN 47802.
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RAMBLIN' RECK: Hile inducted into Hall
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RAMBLIN' RECK: Big Ten tourney wide open
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RAMBLIN' RECK: Big week for preps, ISU, Rose-Hulman
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RAMBLIN' RECK: No guaranteed wins in difficult Class 2A Casey regional
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RAMBLIN' RECK: Assessing the NCAA tournament jumble
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RAMBLIN' RECK: And now, on to the next beloved winter sport
The final football game finally has been played, meaning folks in the Valley can concentrate on basketball this week.
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It’s Super Bowl XLVI week … in Indiana for the first time.
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RAMBLIN' RECK: Hile inducted into Hall
Indiana State grad Amy Lynn Hile will take her place in another Hall of Fame this year.
Inducted into the ISU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005, the former Sycamore standout has been named as one of the 2011 inductees into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
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RAMBLIN' RECK: A long distance relationship
Indiana State’s trip out West to play basketball at Boise State brought back memories of one of the trips I made to that city.
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RAMBLIN' RECK: Indiana Mr. Football still has big decision to make
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RAMBLIN' RECK: No dearth of good basketball
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RAMBLIN' RECK: Big Ten-ACC challenge gets under way tonight
Conference championship football games and challenge action in basketball will make for a busy week for college teams.
Wisconsin and Michigan State will meet in the very first Big Ten football championship Saturday at Indianapolis. Kickoff is 8 p.m. and the action will be carried by Fox.
Michigan State nipped the Badgers in the regular-season contest at East Lansing. We like Wisconsin to win and earn a trip to the Rose Bowl.
Other games and picks:
SEC — LSU over Georgia on Saturday
Mid-American — Northern Illinois over Ohio U. on Friday
Pac-12 — Oregon over UCLA on Friday
ACC — Virginia Tech over Clemson on Saturday
Conference USA — Houston over Southern Mississippi on Saturday
Western Kentucky will not play for a championship but the Hilltoppers won seven of their last eight games to finish with a winning mark. That’s the same team that lost to Indiana State, you will recall.
Meanwhile, the hiring and firing already has begun with Urban Meyer coming out of retirement to accept the job at Ohio State. That was a no-brainer.
Illinois is bowl-eligible but Ron Zook is out. Ditto for Turner Gill at Kansas and apparently Dennis Erickson at Arizona State.
In basketball, the first games in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge will be played tonight. The biggie tonight is Duke at Ohio State. Miami of Florida is at Purdue and Illinois plays at Maryland.
On Wednesday, Indiana is at North Carolina State, Wisconsin is at North Carolina and Michigan State goes to Florida State.
Indiana State is at Boise State on Saturday for a Missouri Valley-Mountain West Challenge game,
It was fun and gratifying to be able to watch the Sycamores on national television as they took third in the Old Spice Classic. The team got tons of favorable publicity and comments from the three games.
And what a game for Jake Odum and his triple-double. Wow.
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n White honored — Taylor White of Casey has earned academic all-state honors in Illlinois football.
White was one of the top players at linebacker and fullback and was one of the captains on the team but did not play as the Warriors lost to Morrison in the Class 2A title tilt.
He was sidelined by injury in the game against Marshall and underwent surgery.
The Warriors gave Morrison all it wanted in the final game, concluding another banner season for coach Keith Sinclair and the team.
Nice work, Warriors.
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n Tom-Cattin’ It — Carmel was the only public school to win a prep football championship in Indiana and was impressive in its 54-0 victory over Penn in the 5A finale.
Other winners — all private schools — were Lafayette Central Catholic in A, Fort Wayne Luers in 2A, Indianapolis Chatard in 3A, and Indianapolis Cathedral in 4A.
n Sullivan puts its undefeated girls basketball record on the line tonight at West Vigo. Its victory over Terre Haute South last week was its first over the Braves since 1992.
n Terre Haute North grad Steve Weatherford, now punting for the New York Giants, was featured in a nice story in The New York Times on Monday.
He was singled out for his conditioning program and called the strongest player pound for pound — at 210 pounds — on the team that met the New Orleans Saints on Monday Night Football.
n Jim Rathman died last week at 83.
He won the Indianapolis 500 in 1960, edging Rodger Ward in a race in which there were a record 29 lead changes.
Rathman also was runner-up in the race in 1952, 1957 and 1959.
n Flora has been tabbed by one newspaper as the preseason pick to win the Little Illini Conference boys basketball championship and to make it to the Final Four.
The Wolves play Marshall, off to a 3-1 start, next week.
Tom Reck may be contacted by telephone at (812) 232-3231, by email at tm_reck@yahoo.com or by mail at 4284 South 5th Street, Apt. 3, Terre Haute, IN 47802. -
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