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Metro Roundup: ISU’s Hutson named Indoor Field Scholar Athlete of the Year
Indiana State’s Kylie Hutson added another honor to her illustrious career at Indiana State as she was named the Indoor Field Scholar Athlete of the Year by the US Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Wednesday. This was the second straight year that Hutson has received the award.
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ISU football coach Miles will hire OC to replace Walters
Troy Walters resignation from Indiana State’s football staff won’t leave the Sycamores a coach down once football season starts. Though ISU players report for practice in a week, ISU coach Trent Miles said he does plan to fill the open offensive coordinator position left vacant when Walters took the job as wide receivers coach at Texas A&M on Monday.
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Mother Nature only thing that can slow down North TH 11-12s
The North Terre Haute 12-year-old Little League team hasn’t been stopped by any foes at the Indiana state tournament. Mother Nature, however, is another story.
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Late night, tough loss: Nashville tops Terre Haute in 13-inning marathon
The formula for extra innings for the Terre Haute Rex is simple. If the day ends in a “y” you have a good chance to see free baseball at Bob Warn Field. Tuesday’s game against Nashville was no exception. The Outlaws forced extra innings with a two-run ninth inning and the game was decided in the 13th when Nashville broke through for an 11-9 victory in a game that lasted 4 hours, 41 minutes and which ended at nearly midnight.
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Forget Texas, this cowboy’s a Hoosier: Rinard one of four from Indiana set to compete for national high school bull riding title
When one pictures the most likely place to experience a real, live, rootin’-tootin’ rodeo, first thoughts would likely be Texas or Oklahoma. Maybe Wyoming or Montana. The likelihood of choosing Indiana would probably be far down your list of possibilities. Did you know that there is an Indiana High School Rodeo Association? Did you know we have a bonafide IHSRA bull rider right here in our own backyard, in nearby Sullivan County? Well, believe it.
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Trackside: Talented young racer Blake Fitzpatrick savoring USAC success
The dust has long settled. The congratulatory phone calls and handshakes are becoming less frequent but that first taste of victory remains as fresh and sweet as ever for the U.S. Auto Club’s newest first-time sprint car feature winner.
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Wayne Newton rolls 15-2 to regional title
About the only prize Kokomo Post 6 wound up with at American Legion baseball’s Terre Haute Regional was an extra day in the host city. But whether they knew it or not, the players from that team took something else home with them Monday afternoon — a healthy dose of gratitude from the players of Wayne Newton Post 346.
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TH Women's City: Rachael Pruett needs 20 holes to edge recent Sycamore
Ball State and Indiana State needed overtime to settle their differences Monday afternoon at Rea Park. Actually, this wasn’t basketball and neither university was officially involved. But both were proudly represented in the entertaining championship-flight finale of the Terre Haute Women’s City Match Play Championships as two extra holes were needed to determine a winner. Linton resident Rachael Pruett, a senior-to-be on the Ball State women’s golf team, won her third straight women’s city title by chipping in from 18 feet on the 20th hole (No. 2 on the course) and edging recent ISU graduate Mackenzie Mack 1 up.
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TH Women’s City provides family fun for Putnam County pair
They didn’t return to Putnam County with any giant-sized hardware Monday. But 17-year-old Chelsea Samuels of Greencastle and her grandmother, Gloria Curtis of Cloverdale, made the Terre Haute Women’s City Match Play Championships a fun family affair at Rea Park Golf Course.
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Ramblin' Reck: Chip Ganassi, you had the best weekend ever
If anyone had a better weekend in auto racing than Chip Ganassi, we haven’t heard about it.
The personable car owner went into the record books Sunday when one of his drivers, Jamie McMurray, won the Brickyard 400. He earlier had won the Daytona 500 and one of Ganassi’s IndyCar Series drivers, Dario Franchitti, won the Indianapolis 500. - More Sports Headlines
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Metro Roundup: ISU’s Hutson named Indoor Field Scholar Athlete of the Year
