By CJ PETERS For JP On Preps LOWELL — Amidst a chaotic final minute of the first half, New Prairie found itself down by seven points as...

MICHIGAN CITY -- On the Michigan City football, he's simply known as just the kicker. "That's my name around here," Andrew Oleksiuk said....

By STEVE HANLON JP on Preps Correspondent CEDAR LAKE -- What a long, strange trip it’s been. Less than a decade ago, just a couple blocks...

TERRE HAUTE -- Who knows what kind of card player Lindsay Moskalick is, but it sure seems like the Chesterton coach is pretty adept at...

TERRE HAUTE -- Look, ma, no shades. Cole Raymond ditched the sunglasses that became part of his identity this season at the start of...

TERRE HAUTE -- It wasn't quite the fanfare of a year earlier, when Karina James won the state championship. Not that a sixth-place finish...

NEW CARLISLE -- Many had tried, but none had succeeded, at least not until Saturday. Perennial small school power Morgan Township finally...

NEW CARLISLE -- Uneasy lies the crown, so it seems. Karina James raced to another New Prairie Semistate title Saturday, a sub 18-minute...

NEW CARLISLE -- Nobody needed to give Cole Raymond any extra motivation for Saturday's New Prairie Semistate, but some message board...

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP -- The trip to Terre Haute for the state cross country finals is part of the annual routine for Valparaiso. At least it...

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP -- The face Lilly Zelasko shows at the starting line has the same expression for every step of the race. Even Saturday,...

Part of him wondered what could have been in Friday's 41-28 loss to Michigan City, but in the big picture, first-year Crown Point coach...

NEW CARLISLE -- As they turned the corner and headed toward the finish, the La Porte trio of Cole Raymond, Jay Pillai and Brayden Sobecki...

NEW CARLISLE -- Clear eyes, full heart, can't lose. OK, so Kaylie Politza didn't have the first clue about the Friday Night Lights...

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP -- A ripple of orange stretched through the lead pack of runners in Saturday's Duneland Athletic Conference championship...

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP -- Whatever the sport, most coaches don't mind having their team fly under the proverbial radar. They don't mind being...

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP -- Upsets are not common place in cross country, where form holds more often than not. Then you have what happened in...

HIGHLAND -- Many of the Region's top runners took Saturday off from competition. Wheeler's Emma Hellwege wasn't one of them. "I actually...

HIGHLAND -- For runners, sometimes the race they plan to run and the race they end up running aren't the same thing. "I remembered last...

HIGHLAND -- The hardest part of the recruiting process for Karina James was having to say no to all but one of her suitors. "Something I...