By GREG MENGELT Silver Creek senior Branden Northern completed his Player of the Year-type season with 53 points and 16 assists in the final two games of the Dragons’ regular season. Northern helped Creek beat Salem 110-35 with 24 points, nine assists, three steals and two rebounds. He went 9 for 11 from the field, […]

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 We may be beating a dead horse at this point, but this hasn’t been the year Jeffersonville basketball expected. The defending sectional champion Red Devils were viewed as outside state championship contenders when the season began, but due to circumstances — many of them out of their control — they started the […]

By GREG MENGELT This is exactly what the rest of the Salem Sectional field didn’t want to see. Two-time defending — and 3-year reigning — sectional champion Silver Creek is getting hot at the right time of the season. On Tuesday, the Dragons beat Austin 84-47. Then came perhaps Silver Creek’s biggest win of the […]