The Silver Creek girls’ basketball team — missing most of its parts from the last two Class 3A title game runs due to graduation — got a baptism by fire in a contest against powerful Louisville (Ky.) Sacred Heart in the first-ever Kentuckiana Summer Basketball League Outdoor Night on Friday. “Matt (Denison) called and said […]

By GREG MENGELT No team wants to lose by 58 points. That goes double for a team that had won 26 games coming into Saturday’s Class 3A state championship game at Gainbridge Fieldhosue in Indianapolis. Reigning state champion Silver Creek expected to go up and have a chance to win another state championship against the […]

By GREG MENGELT Silver Creek finds itself in an unusual position as it enters Saturday’s Class 3A state championship game. Winners of the 59 of its last 66 games, Creek isn’t often an underdog. It certainly looks like that’s the case Saturday when the fourth-ranked Dragons (26-2) take on top-ranked South Bend Washington (26-3) at […]

By GREG MENGELT The 2020-21 Silver Creek girls’ basketball team was elite. The Dragons blew through the regular season, dominated the postseason and claimed the program’s first state championship. That team lost six of its top players. Yet, this week the 26-2 and fourth-ranked Dragons are preparing to return to Indianapolis to defend its state […]

By GREG MENGELT Silver Creek is going back to state. Of course, after losing six seniors from last year’s state championship team, this year’s Silver Creek squad is completely different than last year’s. On Saturday, the 2021-22 Dragons proved to be equally worthy of being a state finals team. The Dragons knocked off Bishop Chatard […]

By GREG MENGELT Last year at this time, Silver Creek was experiencing something new. The fourth-ranked Dragons won their first regional and semistate championship in program history en route to the state championship. This year, Silver Creek (26-2) is returning to the state finals after it defeated Indianapolis Bishop Chatard (18-11) 64-54 at Saturday’s Class […]