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It didn’t take Avery Baker long to make her impact on the pitch.

Friday night’s win was all about balance for Columbus North girls basketball.

The Columbus Speedway Go-Kart Racing, which sanctions events at Tony Stewart Speedway, will conclude its 2023 racing season today with a full racing program. There will be a drivers meeting starting at 10 a.m. with practice, heat races, consy events and feature races to follow. Tony Stewart Speedway is located at the Bartholomew County 4-H Fairgrounds.

At some point in the life of most adults, the tradition of gifts exchanged at Christmas truly becomes more about giving than receiving. You know you’ve made the turn, when pure joy is derived from seeing excitement in others, especially children, and you recognize your own contentment with opening a box of socks. Deer hunting is similar.

Club Olympia Swim Team participated in a one-day closed invite meet Nov. 4 at the Chase Smith Natatorium at Indian Creek High School along with the host Indian Creek Swim Club, Flashes Aquatics of Franklin Central, Milan Aquatics and Seymour Swimming. There were no team or individual scoring awarded during the meet which consisted only of three mixed gender age group categories — 8-and-under, 12-and-under and Open.

GREENCASTLE — Brown County picked up its second win in as many games Friday, a 57-44 Western Indiana Conference girls basketball triumph against Greencastle.

SHELBYVILLE — Edinburgh got off to a slow start Friday in a 59-13 girls basketball loss at Shelbyville.

COMING UP

HOPE — It was a tale of two halves for the Hauser girls basketball team against Milan Thursday night.

Two Columbus North boys soccer players are listed on the Indiana Soccer Coaches Association All-State first team.