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Bre Wheatley hadn’t seen a whole lot of action through the first 94 minutes of Tuesday’s girls soccer match against visiting Franklin, but as the Greenwood goalkeeper got set to go back out onto the field for the decisive penalty-kick shootout, her coach had just one simple ask.

As enrollment numbers continue to grow at Whiteland, one would think that there would be less need to use the same players on both sides of the football.

Mike Campbell has spent almost his entire professional life at Greenwood Community High School; there aren’t many people in the building who understand the soul of the Woodmen more thoroughly.

Girls golf

Franklin’s volleyball team suffered a pair of excruciating five-set losses to Greenwood last season, ending a series winning streak that had lasted more than a decade.

The jersey number doesn’t evoke images of a massive left tackle controlling his end of the line of scrimmage.

Girls golf

It had been 312 days since that game.

Reece Byerly remembers standing on Franklin’s high school football field as an eighth-grader, just after his team defeated Greenwood to cap an unbeaten season.

Cross country