Local sports roundup: May 9
Boys volleyball
Greenwood baseball rallies to defeat Franklin
Last-minute motivators need not be conjured up in order to add juice to the Franklin-Greenwood rivalry.
Local sports roundup: May 8
Boys volleyball
Greenwood-Franklin softball halted due to storms
A potentially exciting softball game will have to wait until Wednesday to be completed after storms moved through Johnson County on Tuesday.
Center Grove pole vaulter Pheifer getting his groove back
The toughest bar for Carter Pheifer to clear has often been inside his own head.
Center Grove softball hangs on to beat Whiteland
Center Grove coach Alyssa Coleman would rather not walk the high wire almost every time out, but her team seems to be getting pretty comfortable when it’s up there.
Local sports roundup: May 6
Boys golf
Franklin College gets $1 million gift toward ‘Wonder Five Court’
The Wonder Five have long been the stuff of legend here. Now, the famed basketball squads of a century ago will be a permanent part of the hardwood at Franklin College.
Brandon Butler: Enjoying the heart of Midwest turkey season
We’re in the middle of Midwestern turkey mania. A lot of birds have been tagged, meaning there might not be as many gobblers in your woodlot as there were a couple of weeks ago, but those birds still left are busy. They’re covering a lot of ground in search of receptive hens. This is the time of the season when you need to have a backup plan, and you must be ready to use it.