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High School Sports Recaps for Aug. 24

Wildcats Down Eagles; Whitko Beats Wabash; Squires Compete With N. Miami; Warsaw JV Wins


Sports Recaps For Aug. 21

Triton Opens Its Football Season With A 3-Point Win At S. Central; Triton HNAC FB Game At LaVille Cancelled; Whitko Snaps Skid With OT Win Over Prairie Heights; Squires Roll To Opening Win; Late Thursday results.

Sports Recaps For August 18

Lane, McKeever Lead LCA To Boys Soccer Season-Opening Win; Wawasee VB Sweeps Valley; Squires Rebound For TRC?Win; Whitko Downs LCA; Manchester, Triton Compete On The Links

Wildcats Enter 2020 Football Season With Cautious Optimism

Head coach Phil Jensen looks at his Whitko High School football program as it heads into the 2020 season with cautious optimism. “I like the guys we can put on the field,” says Jensen, who is entering his second season. “The key is that we’ve got to stay healthy.

Sports Briefs

Manchester Girls Golf Opens At  Homestead Invitational; Rochester Schools, Athletics Closed Until at least Aug. 24

Along With The IHSAA, Refs Ready For Fall

If the Indiana High School Athletic Association can remain full speed ahead amid the COVID-19 pandemic in offering a full menu of high school sports this fall — an intention that it declared on Wednesday — then it appears game officials won’t be getting in the way, at least not …

Manchester Hires Whitko Boys Hoops Coach Eli Henson

Athletic Director Eric Screeton had a wide-ranging search for a new Manchester Squires boys basketball coach, but got his man from a neighboring school and Three Rivers Conference rival. Screeton presented Whitko boys basketball coach Eli Henson to the Manchester  Community Schools Board of School Trustees. The trustees approved the …

Mays’ Road Takes Him From Lexington To South Whitley

After playing big-time college basketball, first at North Carolina State and finishing his master’s degree at Kentucky, Julius Mays finds himself going from playing in front of thousands of fans in Lexington’s Rupp Arena to being the new athletic director at Whitko. The population of the entire school district is …

NFHS Releases Guidance For State Associations To Consider In Re-Opening HS Athletics, Activities

The National Federation of State High School Associations has released guidance for its 51 member state high school associations to consider in re-opening high school athletics and other activity programs across the nation. The guidance document was developed by the NFHS Sports Medicine Advisory Committee, a 15-member advisory committee composed …

Julius Mays Named Whitko AD

Whitko Community Schools approved the hire of Julius Mays as the new athletic airector Monday evening during the Whitko School Board Meeting.

HS Wrestling Rules Changes Address Weigh-in Procedures, Hair Length

As the result of a concerted effort to accommodate the growing number of female wrestlers, the 2020-21 high school wrestling rules changes are headlined by significant adjustments to weigh-in protocol and appropriate hair length requirements. The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Wrestling Rules Committee met April 5-6 …

IHSAA Cancels Spring Sports Season

After Gov. Eric Holcomb’s order Thursday afternoon for all school building in Indiana remain closed for the remander of the academic year, the IHSAA followed by cancelling the spring sports season for 2020.

IHSAA Boys Basketball Tournament Cancelled

IHSAA Hopes To Have Abbreviated Spring Seasons

After Schools Close, IHSAA Opts To Postpone Boys Hoops Regionals

After many school corporations in Indiana, including most in the Times-Union coverage area, the IHSAA and its commissioner, Bobby Cox, announced the boys basketball regionals scheduled for today have been postponed.