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If you’re old enough to remember the “Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!” game from the original Nintendo Entertainment System in the late 1980s, you can still clearly recall images of Little Mac leaping to punch up against much bigger opponents.

The rather noticeable disparity between Jarrett Turner’s number of receptions and carries last season likely won’t be duplicated this time around.

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Girls golf

This wasn’t how Ely Detty’s story was supposed to go.

Special Olympics Johnson County hosted the state softball tournament on Aug. 6 at the Center Grove Lassie League Field in Greenwood. Twenty-eight teams from sixteen counties competed — nearly half of all Special Olympics teams in Indiana.

As her Center Grove girls soccer teammates walked off of their home field following a sectional semifinal shootout setback against Columbus North, Emily Karr remained on her knees at the midfield stripe, staring at the turf and soaking up the bitter disappointment.

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The volleyball banner in Greenwood’s gymnasium has an empty space on it where sectional championships would be listed.