La PORTE -- It's called small ball most of the time. Around Washington Township, it might be referred to as The Senator Way or, if you...

UNION MILLS -- As a 32-year old coach, Eric Speer doesn't take it as a good thing that his closet features a virtual rainbow of shirts....

BY CJ PETERS WASHINGTON TWP. – For Washington Township coach Randy Roberts, the difference in Friday’s game came down to his team’s...

It was the Saturday of regionals across Indiana. Rick Snodgrass and his wife Teresa drove down to Seymour to see their son Blake, the...

LACROSSE -- If at first you don't succeed... A failed suicide squeeze and fouled suicide squeeze didn't stop Ron Saunders from calling...

MERRILLVILLE -- There was no telling it from Thursday's hitting performance, but there was a brief early-season stretch when Brad White...

When Adam Hudak resigned at Wheeler, he hoped it wouldn't be the end of his time on a football sideline. "I wanted to continue coaching,"...

UNION MILLS -- The reference to the final scene of The Natural, when Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) smashed a game-winning home run into the...

ST. JOHN -- It wasn't by design that Conor Pangburn wound up in a late-inning role on the Lake Central pitching staff, it's just worked...

La PORTE -- The warmest day of the spring brought out the best in Lake Central. The hitting team that Indians coach Mike Swartzentruber...

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP -- It's the biggest danger in pitching, getting hit by a batted ball, but as any successful pitcher will avow, fear...

Karina James of Lowell won the 1,600 and 3,200 in Saturday's Dick Deardurff Invitational in La Porte. Her 1,600 time of 4:58.55 was a...

By CJ PETERS CROWN POINT – Playing in a 12-inning game that lasted three hours and 37 minutes – only to lose – can be quite the gut...

LACROSSE -- For LaCrosse, off to its best start in program history at 4-0, it was probably its biggest baseball game since 2002, when the...

HOBART -- It was the bottom of the fifth when Gavin Gallagher was made aware of the possible magnitude of the moment. "They said if we...

After having no baseball season last spring due to COVID, Valparaiso will be playing all of its 2021 schedule on the road. A construction...

La PORTE -- As valuable as his bat is -- and Jaden Deel's bat is pretty valuable for Hobart -- it's the senior catcher's work behind the...

UNION MILLS -- Sub-40 temperatures and snow flurries greeted Jeff Enright and Zach Coulter for their first games as coaches at their...

MERRILLVILLE -- Sidearm relievers with slick pickoff moves have been one of the lesser-acclaimed trademarks of Andrean's success in Dave...

KOUTS -- If not for a property transaction back in the late 1950s, the statistical legend of Keith Nuest may well have come to be a...