By GREG MENGELT The Hoosier Hills Hoops Girls’ Power Poll is a weekly feature each Sunday, ranking the top girls’ teams in Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Scott and Washington counties. 1. Silver Creek (7-0, Last Week: No. 1). The Dragons are the easy No. 1 so far. Next week: vs. Bowling Green (Friday at Owensboro, Ky.), […]

By GREG MENGELT When you’re a team that’s dominated your competition for a half-decade, the schedule-maker tends to test you. That’s the case with Salem. The Lions, who have won regional titles two of the last three years, will put themselves to the test Saturday when they travel to Brownsburg (3-5) to face a Bulldog […]

By GREG MENGELT Silver Creek is riding a rare 3-year reign as state champions. One of the state’s all-time great runs … with the 2020 postseason caveat, of course. Creek will look a little different this season. Trey Kaufman-Renn is now redshirting at Purdue and Kooper Jacobi is averaging 3.8 points and 4.3 rebounds as […]

By GREG MENGELT Silver Creek girls’ team improved to 5-0 last week with three impressive wins. The Indiana Basketball Coaches Association pollsters awarded the Dragons. The defending Class 3A state champions moved up two spots from No. 14 last week to No. 12 this week. The Dragons beat Charlestown 54-37, Jeffersonville 41-37 and New Albany […]

By GREG MENGELT The Hoosier Hills Hoops Girls’ Power Poll is a weekly feature each Sunday, ranking the top girls’ teams in Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Scott and Washington counties. 1. Silver Creek (5-0, Last Week: No. 1). Beating Charlestown, Jeffersonville and New Albany in successive games is a great week for any program. 2. Salem […]

By GREG MENGELT On Friday, Jeffersonville suffered its first loss of the season, but the Red Devils also showed they can compete with one of Southern Indiana’s top teams. Jeffersonville (5-1) lost 41-37 to defending Class 3A state champion Silver Creek (4-0) on Friday. The Devils led in the third quarter and never fell more […]