By GREG MENGELT Friday’s Hoosier Hills Hoops Game of the Night is a tale of two programs. Silver Creek is defending a state championship for the third straight year, while Eastern is off to its best start in a long, long time. The Dragons are 6-5 overall and 1-1 in Mid-Southern Conference play. The Musketeers […]

By GREG MENGELT Four Mid-Southern Conference teams and Lanesville merited preseason rankings, according to the Indiana’s girls’ basketball coaches. Defending state champion Silver Creek will start the 2021-22 season ranked No. 2 in the Class 3A ICGSA poll. The Dragons are behind only South Bend Washington, which the Dragons defeated 54-48 in last year’s Class […]

Former Eastern Pekin standout Jocelyn Mousty has left the Indiana University women’s basketball program and will transfer to a junior college in Florida. Mousty, a redshirt freshman for the Hoosiers, did not leave IU for disciplinary reasons, a school spokesperson said Thursday. The 6-foot-3 forward announced Friday on Facebook that she will continue her collegiate […]

By Justin Sokeland Story appeared in May 13, 2012, edition of The Courier-Journal. Leah White skipped her Providence prom Saturday night to play a basketball game. That choice might not be shocking in Indiana, where high school basketball is still the social highlight of winter weekends in most towns. And the game she picked over […]

By Rick Bozich Column appeared in May 12, 2012, edition of The Courier-Journal. When the 175 mph winds began turning Henryville High School upside down, both Mitchell Speedy and Matt Denison had the same concern: The safety of their friends, Perry and Kristi Hunter. Hunter coached the boys’ basketball team at Henryville. He and his […]