Amanda Bender was happy to hear some applause while wearing her officiating uniform.
When I wrote an open letter to former IHSAA commissioner Bobby Cox in June 2019, the response I received was a bit overwhelming.
In his first year as the commissioner of the Indiana High School Athletic Association, Paul Neidig faced a firestorm none of his predecessors ever have.
ELKHART — Andrea Bucher has announced her resignation as head softball coach at Concord High School due to a change in dismissal times at Elkhart Community Schools, which is her full-time employer.
ANDERSON — They say you don’t really know someone until you live with them.
The Indiana High School Athletic Association and its executive committee had a few things to say about the upcoming fall high school sports season on Thursday.
Vinny Ambrose just knew.
Is it August yet?
A clean slate.
DUNLAP — Jeff Petty has announced his resignation as Boys Golf Coach at Concord High School
Northridge High School senior Maddy Wienert was second in the state of Indiana in hitting this spring season (.663) and led the state in stolen bases (47).
NAPPANEE — Kyle Dijkstra has been named the new boys’ soccer coach at NorthWood High School, taking over after Brad Duerksen stepped down in May after 24 years.
We made it.
DUNLAP — Concord High School recently honored its spring athletes for the 2021 season.
Big changes are coming to the Northern Lakes Conference football schedule, thanks to the hard work of the conference coaches.
Five players from Northern Lakes Conference champion NorthWood, along with head coach AJ Risedorph, were honored by conference coaches earlier this week.
Jimtown golf coach Drake Berghoff was named the Northern Indiana Conference Coach of the Year after a vote of conference coaches.
Mia Pulianas is a state champion.
LAPORTE — Elkhart flirted fruitlessly with a pair of monster innings early. South Bend Adams closed the deal on a pair of them late.
CHALMERS — It was John Skibbe's worst nightmare.
CHALMERS — With their Class 2A semi-state game with Western Boone tied at 3-3, the Fairfield softball team decided to play follow the leader.
Derrick Woods admits he started thinking about winning the prestigious Tim Bringle Memorial Award the night he was among the Junior Bringle winners honoring elementary school athletes back in 2017.
MIDDLEBURY — The Northridge golf team posted a score of 328 on Friday to win the IHSAA boys golf sectional at Meadow Valley Golf Club.
Mia Pulianas – besides fittingly planning to study audiology – may be about to register the most auditory boom in Elkhart high school girls track and field history.
Six players and head coach Ray Caples from softball champion Northridge have been honored by the Northern Lakes Conference.
BENTON — Fairfield was already sailing before Jayslynn Hall ever got into the game.
MISHAWAKA — Northridge softball coach Ray Caples called Tuesday's regional game against Penn "a chess match."
The hugs were long and meaningful.
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Community Schools Board of Trustees approved Ryan Bales as the new athletic director at Northridge High School.
Elkhart High senior Leeah Wade was named to the All-Northern Indiana Conference softball team as a utility player – the only county player on either the softball or baseball first team.
MIDDLEBURY — Once Drew Pressler got the lead, the Elkhart High School pitcher knew what to do.
SYRACUSE — Even Northern Lakes Conference champion NorthWood’s one-dozen accomplished seniors couldn’t stop Wawasee from achieving a first in two-dozen years.
NorthWood will face Wawasee in the title game of the Class 3A Wawasee Baseball Sectional, after both teams posted wins in the semifinals on Saturday.
MIDDLEBURY — Lions and Tigers, and barely, oh my!
TOPEKA — With the wind blowing out — while also doing funny things with some of her pitches — Fairfield senior Kayla Miller was forced to make a few in-game adjustments during the Class 2A Westview Sectional title game.
MIDDLEBURY — The Northridge softball team’s desire to mix fun with work was put on full display midway through the sixth inning when one of the umpires needed a bathroom break that lasted some five minutes.
ELKHART — Elkhart High volleyball coach Jacquie Rost knew at a young age that Emily Anderson was a special talent.
ELKHART — NorthWood softball coach Mandy DeMien had a simple message for her team as they came to the plate in the seventh inning of their sectional title game, trailing Wawasee 12-5.
KOKOMO — Elkhart senior Derrick Woods has qualified for the IHSAA state finals in three events, after he helped lead the Lions' boys track team to a third place finish at the Kokomo Regional on Thursday.
MIDDLEBURY — Elkhart and Penn took different paths through different weather to the same destination, each arriving at three-run wins in Thursday’s opening round of Class 4A Northridge Sectional baseball.
Nick Carithers' RBI single in the top of the seventh inning was the game-winner Wednesday, as the Jimtown baseball team poasted a come-from-behind 3-2 win over Tippecanoe Valley in opening round action at the Class 3A Wawasee Sectional.
MIDDLEBURY — Bunting was an offensive weapon Wednesday for Goshen's softball team in its 8-1 win over Elkhart in Class 4A Sectional semifinal action at Northridge High School.
MIDDLEBURY — When the Northridge No. 1 doubles pair of Brynne Gayler and Peyton Kieper play tennis, Raider fans, as coach Austin Christner observed, “tend to gravitate towards that court just because they’re so fun to watch.”
GOSHEN — Elkhart girls track coach Bekah Shenk painted the scene Tuesday at the Goshen Track Regional.
ELKHART — After a tough 13-11 loss to NorthWood in the semifinals of the Class 3A sectional on her homefield, Jimtown coach Brandy Eberhart wasted little time in laying the blame at her own feet.
MIDDLEBURY — Liz Ramirez tossed a five-hit shutout and struck out 10, as Goshen defeated Warsaw 9-0, to advance to the Class 4A Northridge Softball Sectional semifinals.
As the current group of seniors were entering high school as wide-eyed freshman for the first time in 2017, I was taking over as the sports editor of The Elkhart Truth.
ELKHART — NorthWood softball coach Mandy DeMien couldn't remember the last time freshman Lily Shannon played a varsity game.
ELKHART — For Northridge's boys golf team, it was an unfortunate ending to the Northern Lakes Conference Tournament on Saturday at Bent Oak Golf Club.
There was silence on baseball and softball diamonds last spring because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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