ELKHART — Pitching and defense from Bryce Blondell helped Elkhart's baseball team beat Jimtown, 8-6, in a Northern Indiana Conference game on Monday.

Jimmy Arnett finally got the call.

Concord’s Shawn Kemp didn’t win Mr. Basketball for the state of Indiana following the 1987-88 season – which ended with the Minutemen in the Final Four.

Vinny Miranda is ready to move on with his life.

Treyton Harris has learned to be a good listener.

If past performance is any indication, the Penn boys golf team should be formidable again this spring.

It was the “Star-Spangled Banner” like I’ve heard thousands of times before in my career as a sportswriter.

Elkhart High School senior Leeah Wade and Jimtown freshman Kasey Kelley have a lot in common.

ELKHART — Every coach in any sport will tell you the improvement from game one to game two is a big part of how good your team can be.

Preston Phillips, a 2020 Jimtown High School graduate, announced on Tuesday that he will sign with the University of Evansville to continue his academic and athletic career with the Purple Aces basketball team.

GOSHEN — Dr. Ruth E. Gunden, professor emerita of physical education and director emerita of international education at Goshen College, died March 25 in Goshen at age 90.

With no 2020 high school baseball season because of the coronavirus pandemic, there are questions surrounding all local high school baseball teams.

The potential is there for great things to happen this year and in the future for the Elkhart High School boys track program.

The opportunity to participate in high school track didn’t exist for girls at the old Elkhart High School.

NAPPANEE — Next fall, Aaron Wolfe will begin his 25th season as a basketball coach.

Carter Stoltzfus garnered the most first place votes and nearly won The Truth’s Player of the Year Award last March, before being edged out in the final vote by Jimtown’s Preston Phillips.

ELKHART — When Ben Battjes was nominated for the Bringle Award in 2006 – which he would win later that spring – he admits to having no idea what that meant.

Despite her individual accomplishments this year as a volleyball player and student at Morgan State University, you can hear the frustration in Tylar Roberson’s voice.

NAPPANEE —The NorthWood High School community became like a family for Norm Sellers.

MIDDLEBURY — Tom Wogomon remembers the first time he met Chad Eppley.

NEW CASTLE — Down one point, NorthWood capped its relentless fourth-quarter rally by putting in the final basket of the game.

MICHIGAN CITY - Elkhart's boys basketball team encountered a wave of size and athleticsm Saturday in its Class 4A regional semifinal matchup against Gary West.

MICHIGAN CITY – You had a feeling early, that Gary West was just a better basketball team than Elkhart on Saturday.

NEW CASTLE — Cade Brenner said he had no idea he was scoring such a high percentage of NorthWood’s points.

Conner Gimson had extra incentive this year to excel as a wrestler.

Elkhart boys basketball coach Kyle Sears is worried about one thing heading into Saturday’s Class 4A Michigan City Regional game against No. 10 Gary West.

Elkhart’s record-setting halfback Derrick Woods and Northridge defensive tackle Carter Bach were each named to the North squad for the 2021 North-South All-Star game by the Indiana Football Coaches Association.

NAPPANEE — During his four years on the varsity boys basketball team at NorthWood High School, Ben Vincent has been given different roles.

BENTON — Fairfield High School announced on Monday that athletic director Mark Hofer will retire at the end of the 2020-21 school year.

LIGONIER — This was one bloody sweet win for NorthWood, and if you don’t believe it, just check Cade Brenner’s jersey, or Ian Raasch’s hand, or Brock Bontrager’s knee.

D’Arjon Lewis was a freshman the last time an Elkhart boys basketball team advanced to the Michigan City Regional.

ELKHART — During the 2021 Class 4A Elkhart Boys Basketball Sectional, sophomore Damarion Anderson grew up in front of our eyes to become 'The Man.'

WATERFORD MILLS — Fremont's Gabel Pentecost was a tough match-up Saturday for the Elkhart Christian boys basketball during the first half in the championship game of the Bethany Christian Class A Sectional.  

ELKHART — Cam’Ron Daniels just wanted a performance from his teammates and himself that would mirror the Elkhart Lions’ work leading up to it.

WATERFORD MILLS — Because of a knee injury, Elkhart Christian boys basketball player Matthew Elmerick didn't play in the regular season game against Bethany Christian. A game won by the Bruins, 60-53.

Hoosier Hysteria came back on Tuesday.

ELKHART — Penn High senior DelRontay Haywood scored just two points in his team’s Class 4A Elkhart Sectional semifinal game against Northridge on Friday night.

ELKHART — Hoosier Hysteria came in like an (Elkhart) Lion on Tuesday night in the Class 4A Elkhart Sectional.

SOUTH BEND — Jimtown’s rally abruptly crashed into a season-ending wall, but that wasn’t about to stop the Jimmies’ rookie head coach from finding a futuristic window.

ELKHART — Penn boys basketball player Markus Burton was a few feet behind the 3-point line and fired a shot that eventually stuck on the rim.

ELKHART — Can the king of the 3-ball emerge as the prince of the 3-peat?

Before he was the legendary men’s basketball coach at UCLA, John Wooden was much less known as the boys basketball coach at South Bend Central High School.

As the top three finishers in the 500 freestyle prepared to get their ribbons Saturday at the Elkhart Boys Swimming and Diving Sectional, I noticed a lady standing next to Concord’s Ben Ramer.