Archive - May 2011
May 13th
CHURUBUSCO — A perfect ending for four seniors came Thursday as Churubusco softball held its final home game of the season.
The Lady Eagles came away with a 10-0 win in five innings over Westview.
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PIERCETON — A contingent of math and science teachers, along with other select faculty and administrators in the Whitko Community School Corporation were recently bombarded with today’s educational buzz phrase — “21st-Century Learning.”
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INDIANAPOLIS — Thursday, the Indiana High School Athletic Association held its drawing for softball sectional brackets to take place the week of May 23-28.
Among those drawn, three Whitley County teams found out their fate.
In two sectional tournaments, local teams will play the opening game.
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WABASH — For a third season in a row, Whitko girls’ track and field had to settle for second place at the Three Rivers Conference meet.
Thursday at Southwood High School, the Lady Wildcats had Wabash beat them for a third consecutive season 124-106 for the conference crown.
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PIERCETON — The recent introduction to technology in the classroom given to staff members of Whitko Community School Corporation was part of an ongoing process, according to Superintendent Steve Clason.
“Over two years ago, the state board of education and the department of education decided to push two major initiatives,” said Clason.
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COLUMBIA CITY — The one certain result of Thursday evening’s golf match between the host Columbia City Eagles and the New Haven Bulldogs was that one of the two teams was going to get its first Northeast Hoosier Conference win.
Which of the teams that would be was still in doubt after the first four golfers for each team turned in their score cards.
The No. 5 player for the Eagles carded a team-leading 43 to give the Eagles a 179-185 victory at the Links of Eagle Glen.
COLUMBIA CITY — Thursday’s tennis match at the DeVol Field courts was a good news bad news story for the host Columbia City Lady Eagles.
The bad news was that City lost to the visiting No. 22 ranked Carroll Lady Chargers 5-0.
The good news was that the Lady Eagles finished their best season in recent memory with a third-place finish in the Northeast Hoosier Conference.
AKRON — The runs were not hard to come by in Whitko softball’s road trip to Tippecanoe Valley Thursday.
Combining for 32 runs, the two rivals had a 10-run mercy rule decide the winner in five innings.
Whitko was on the winning side of the rule 21-11.
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Columbia City catcher Derek Lamle runs back to home plate after a meeting on the mound with infielders and pitcher Connor Reed, second from right. The Eagles played host to defending NHC and state champion Carroll Thursday and fell to the Chargers 18-4.
Post & Mail photo Nicole Ott
Churubusco middle school track and field played host to West Noble Thursday. From left, Seth Brown and Skylar Chambliss of ’Busco set for a long distance event. The Eagles went on to beat the Chargers 60-49 while the Lady Eagles fell by one point to the Lady Chargers 52-51.
Post & Mail photo / Andrew Shultz
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