Sports

Tribune-Star/Bob Poynter Intense: West Vigo's #2 Lucas Fagg throws a pitch to the plate during Saturday's championship sectional game against South Vermillion.

• West Vigo back on top of Class 3A baseball sectional

  West Vigo won its sectional with a 6-4 victory over South Vermillion on a rainy night at Dick Ballinger Field.

  May 26, 2013 3 Photos  

• Seeking elite status

  Many stages are set in the long-running drama that is the Indianapolis 500.
  The 97th running on the famed oval today has the potential to provide a new four-time champion in Helio Castroneves or Dario Franchitti.
  A win for either driver would tie them for the all-time lead in the Indy 500 as A.J. Foyt (1961, ’64, ’67, ’77), Al Unser 1970-71, ’78, ’87) and Rick Mears (1979, ’84, 88, ’91) are atop that mountain with four wins a piece.
  While Castroveneves starts in the middle of row three, he and his team won the pit stop competition on Carb Day. The last time Castroneves won the pit stop competition, he won his third Indy 500.
  “The field is so close and we have at least 20 cars that are capable to win this race,” Castroneves said. “My previous win, it was actually won on that as well. We were able to execute in the right time and they were able to put me in a very good opportunity to execute.”

  May 26, 2013  

• South runs into ‘buzzsaw’ at girls tennis semistate

  Postmatch interviews don’t often begin with a coach and a reporter ready to blurt out the same word, but that was the case for Bill Blankenbaker and his interviewer Saturday morning after the Center Grove Semistate for girls high school tennis.
  Unfortunately for Blankenbaker’s Terre Haute South team, that word was “buzzsaw.”
  Greenwood’s Kawamoto twins made quick work of the top of the Braves’ singles lineup, so despite stellar efforts by both South doubles teams the Woodmen’s 3-2 victory didn’t seem all that close.
  Greenwood moves on to Fishers, where it plays Floyd Central or Jasper on Friday in the state quarterfinals.
  Also playing Friday, but at Park Tudor, will be South’s Miranda Camp and Nicole Howe, who reached the individual doubles finals for the second straight season by virtue of their 6-4, 6-2 win over the Greenwood team of Taylor Hudnall and Brittany Toney.
  “It’s really exciting,” said Howe of the prospect of a second straight finals trip, “but I wish our team could’ve gone with us.”
   

  May 26, 2013 2 Photos  

• Six Sycamores heading to NCAA Track and Field championships

  Three Indiana State seniors and a freshman punched their tickets Friday to the NCAA outdoor track and field championships in two weeks at Eugene, Ore. Two more got the job done Saturday on the campus of UNC Greensoboro in the East Preliminary.

  May 26, 2013  

• Redneck Quaker: Crappie bait available if you keep looking

  For those wanting to catch catfish on the river or crappie in a lake, there is a great place in town to pick up your live bait.
  Inland Aquatics is located at 10 Ohio St., at the intersection of the Wabash River and Ohio, but you can’t get to it from Ohio Street. It is easily accessed from Wabash Avenue cul de sac, directly behind the Courthouse. The alternate parking is at the other end of Fairbanks Park from the boat ramp with plenty of room for trucks pulling boat trailers.
  They have sold tropical fish for 20 years. There is always feeder goldfish and red wigglers available for the aquarium customers and a lot of fishermen stop to pick up some last-minute bait supplies. They became aware of the need of live bait in Terre Haute since Gander Mountain closed its bait shop.

  May 26, 2013  

• Top guns, again

  For the sixth time in his Indy career Friday, three-time Indy 500 champion Helio Castroneves won the Pit Stop Challenge on Carb Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

  May 25, 2013 4 Photos  

• Sycamores bow out of MVC Tournament

  Indiana State’s baseball was out of pitching, and after a loss to Wichita State on Thursday, the Sycamores were out of second-chances too at the Missouri Valley Conference baseball tournament. What the Sycamores weren’t out of was heart, guts and clutch performances from some unlikely sources. But in the end, Friday’s elimination game rematch against the Shockers was a sampling of ISU’s season overall — the Sycamores were out of luck.

  May 25, 2013  

• Freshman Hambrock, THS seek semistate tennis title

  Having already claimed Terre Haute North Sectional and Greencastle Regional championships in girls high school tennis, Terre Haute South will try to add a semistate title to its 2013 list of accomplishments today as the Braves battle No. 25-ranked Greenwood.

  May 25, 2013 1 Photo  

• Coach adds regional host to job description

  John Hayes has been a familiar face at high school baseball games this spring as he always is, enjoying the games but also looking for players who can help his Wayne Newton Post 346 American Legion team that will start its summer season shortly.

  May 25, 2013  

• Prep roundup: South Vermillion reaches baseball sectional final

  South Vermillion built an early 7-0 lead late Thursday night, then held off Owen Valley by a 10-4 score to advance to the championship game of the Class 3A West Vigo Sectional for high school baseball.

  May 25, 2013  

Local Interest

Tribune-Star/Bob Poynter Intense: West Vigo's #2 Lucas Fagg throws a pitch to the plate during Saturday's championship sectional game against South Vermillion.

• West Vigo back on top of Class 3A baseball sectional

  West Vigo won its sectional with a 6-4 victory over South Vermillion on a rainy night at Dick Ballinger Field.

  May 26, 2013 3 Photos  

• METRO ROUNDUP: Rose-Hulman's Evans honored as Great Lakes' top athlete

  Rose-Hulman senior Liz Evans earned her fifth career NCAA Division III Great Lakes Region Field Athlete of the Year honor, according to results released Wednesday by the U.S. Cross Country and Track and Field Coaches Association.

  May 23, 2013 1 Photo  

• Terry enjoys strong year with Wildcats, and still enjoying suiting up to play

  South Vermillion’s Tim Terry is the longest tenured coach in Wabash Valley high school baseball as his Wildcats are set to begin sectional play Thursday against Owen Valley.
  But on the Yankees, a 35-and-over team in the Terre Haute Men’s Senior Baseball League, Terry is “just a youngster” if you ask Larry Roesch, his 68-year-old teammate on the Volkers Group Yankees.

  May 22, 2013 4 Photos  

• Softball sectionals up for grabs

  All three Vigo County high schools and Northview appear to have a realistic chance of winning sectional championships in softball this week.

  May 20, 2013 1 Photo  

• Indiana State baseball series canceled

  Heavy rain from Thursday through Saturday has forced Indiana State and Tennessee Martin to cancel their three-game weekend baseball series in northwest Tennessee.

  April 27, 2013  

High School

• West Vigo back on top of Class 3A baseball sectional

  West Vigo won its sectional with a 6-4 victory over South Vermillion on a rainy night at Dick Ballinger Field.

  May 26, 2013 3 Photos  

• South runs into ‘buzzsaw’ at girls tennis semistate  
• Freshman Hambrock, THS seek semistate tennis title  
• Prep roundup: South Vermillion reaches baseball sectional final  
• West Vigo advances to sectional championship with walk-off win in ninth  

College

• Six Sycamores heading to NCAA Track and Field championships

  Three Indiana State seniors and a freshman punched their tickets Friday to the NCAA outdoor track and field championships in two weeks at Eugene, Ore. Two more got the job done Saturday on the campus of UNC Greensoboro in the East Preliminary.

  May 26, 2013  

• Sycamores bow out of MVC Tournament

  Indiana State’s baseball was out of pitching, and after a loss to Wichita State on Thursday, the Sycamores were out of second-chances too at the Missouri Valley Conference baseball tournament. What the Sycamores weren’t out of was heart, guts and clutch performances from some unlikely sources. But in the end, Friday’s elimination game rematch against the Shockers was a sampling of ISU’s season overall — the Sycamores were out of luck.

  May 25, 2013  

• Metro Sports: Chalk up No. 5 for Liz Evans

  Senior Liz Evans capped the top career in Rose-Hulman athletics history with her fifth national championship and eighth All-American award at Wisconsin-La Crosse on Friday.

  May 25, 2013  

• Four Indiana State athletes advance to NCAA outdoor track and field championships

  Three Indiana State seniors and a freshman have punched their tickets to the NCAA outdoor track and field championships in two weeks at Eugene, Ore., with their Friday efforts in the 2013 NCAA East Preliminary at Aggie Stadium on the campus of North Carolina A&T.

  May 25, 2013  

• Wichita State shuts out ISU to force elimination-game rematch

  Indiana State starting pitcher Greg Kuhlman did his best.
  Actually, he did far better than he ever has previously in an ISU uniform, but while Kuhlman’s gutty pitching effort spoke volumes, ISU’s bats remained ominously silent.

  May 24, 2013  

Sports Columns

• Redneck Quaker: Crappie bait available if you keep looking

  For those wanting to catch catfish on the river or crappie in a lake, there is a great place in town to pick up your live bait.
  Inland Aquatics is located at 10 Ohio St., at the intersection of the Wabash River and Ohio, but you can’t get to it from Ohio Street. It is easily accessed from Wabash Avenue cul de sac, directly behind the Courthouse. The alternate parking is at the other end of Fairbanks Park from the boat ramp with plenty of room for trucks pulling boat trailers.
  They have sold tropical fish for 20 years. There is always feeder goldfish and red wigglers available for the aquarium customers and a lot of fishermen stop to pick up some last-minute bait supplies. They became aware of the need of live bait in Terre Haute since Gander Mountain closed its bait shop.

  May 26, 2013  

• RAMBLIN' RECK: Sunday promises to be big day in Indy  
• TRACKSIDE: Local drivers, owners looking to have strong night at Tony Hulman Classic  
• Shooters compete to fight cancer  
• TILL IT'S OVER: Terre Haute Triathlon's new race director seeks more events for his hometown  

Pro Sports

• Seeking elite status

  Many stages are set in the long-running drama that is the Indianapolis 500.
  The 97th running on the famed oval today has the potential to provide a new four-time champion in Helio Castroneves or Dario Franchitti.
  A win for either driver would tie them for the all-time lead in the Indy 500 as A.J. Foyt (1961, ’64, ’67, ’77), Al Unser 1970-71, ’78, ’87) and Rick Mears (1979, ’84, 88, ’91) are atop that mountain with four wins a piece.
  While Castroveneves starts in the middle of row three, he and his team won the pit stop competition on Carb Day. The last time Castroneves won the pit stop competition, he won his third Indy 500.
  “The field is so close and we have at least 20 cars that are capable to win this race,” Castroneves said. “My previous win, it was actually won on that as well. We were able to execute in the right time and they were able to put me in a very good opportunity to execute.”

  May 26, 2013  

• Luck having fun with his first OTAs  
• Colts hoping for more high marks on draft picks  
• Colts in wait-and-see mode for tonight’s NFL draft  
• Colts sign Matt Hasselbeck to back up Luck  

Terre Haute Rex

Consultation: Rex manager Brian Dorsett talks with his pitcher and players during a time-out Sunday, July 15, at Sycamore Field. (Tribune-Star file/Bob Poynter)

• 2012 an up, down season for Rex

  The Terre Haute Rex went through plenty of trials and tribulations during the summer of 2012.
  The team got off to a sluggish start to settle for third place during the first half of the Prospect League race, but manager Brian Dorsett rallied the troops to a second-half title.

  September 5, 2012 1 Photo  

• Metro Roundup: Dorsett, Rex players honored in Prospect League postseason awards  
• Rex out of playoffs  
• Rex mix, match their way to win  
• Rex turn eye to Prospect playoffs  

Colts

• Luck having fun with his first OTAs

  A year ago, quarterback Andrew Luck was unable to attend the Indianapolis Colts’ organized team activity practices due to school commitments at Stanford.
  Luck, though, went on to have a stellar year for the Colts despite the lack of summer work with the team. Still, in a sense, he is a rookie during this year’s OTA workouts.
  “These are my first OTAs. I missed these last year, so I think it’s great. It’s great to get on the field with the defense and trouble-shoot some stuff. Obviously, some of us ran some of this stuff [offense] at Stanford [under new offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton]. But to get out there with the defense and trouble-shoot some stuff is good,” Luck said Wednesday as the team wrapped up its first week of on-field voluntary practice sessions.

  May 24, 2013  

• Colts' coordinators enjoying getting rookies acclimated  
• Werner, 36 others open Colts’ mini camp  
• Colts hoping for more high marks on draft picks  
• Werner at top of game  

Auto Racing

IndyCar driver Helio Castroneves, of Brazil, stands in his team pit box as he waits for the start of the final practice session for the Indianapolis 500 auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Friday, May 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

• Top guns, again

  For the sixth time in his Indy career Friday, three-time Indy 500 champion Helio Castroneves won the Pit Stop Challenge on Carb Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

  May 25, 2013 4 Photos  

• Looking for Indy breakthrough, Kanaan enjoying role as team mentor  
• TRACKSIDE: Local drivers, owners looking to have strong night at Tony Hulman Classic  
• Carpenter arrives as Indy 500 threat  
• Carpenter wins Indy 500 pole  

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