Local sports fans have a new website where they can go to read about their favorite high school teams.
For the past few weeks, sports editors and writers at The Republic, The (Johnson County) Daily Journal, The (Seymour) Tribune and The (Greenfield) Daily Reporter have been inputting stories, schedules and rosters from the fall sports at their area schools into a database.
Last weekend, hoosierprepsports.com went live.
When fans visit hoosierprepsports.com and sign up, they can click on schools from Bartholomew, Jennings, Brown, Johnson, Jackson and Hancock Counties, as well as South Decatur from Decatur County.
One of the features of the new site will be live tracking of selected football games through GameTracker. Fans will be able to follow play-by-play of Columbus East and Columbus North games, just like they can at other online sites for NFL and major college games.
Meanwhile, the Twitter accounts of James Pence and myself will continue to be the best place to follow live in-game updates for this weekend’s regional volleyball and semistate boys soccer games and for next week’s East and North sectional football games. Just follow @TSchultzSports or @jpencesports to have access to updates.
With the website, there may be a few kinks to work out at first, but we hope to be able to enhance the best local sports coverage you can find.
Boys, girls make All-District
Four players from the regional champion Columbus East boys soccer team have made this year’s Indiana Soccer Coaches Association All-District first team.
Olympian senior midfielders Eric Stiles and Jorge Nieto, senior goalkeeper Zach Roberts and sophomore forward Chris Quisenberry are on the first team. Columbus North forward Graham Keele made the second team.
Meanwhile, Columbus North sophomores Jenna Lang and Nitya Chenanda and East senior Lindsey Stoughton and junior Alana Dwenger are on the girls All-District first team. East senior Emily Stiles made the second team.
All-District players are eligible to be selected to the ISCA All-State squad, which will be determined in November.
Locals net academic honors
Four runners each from Columbus East and Columbus North have been named to this year’s Indiana Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches Boys Cross Country Academic All-State team.
Olympian seniors Colby Hertle, Matthew Novreske, Nick Walter and Kaleb Walters and Bull Dog seniors Trevor Lirette, Carson Littrell and Pranav Venkataraman and junior Gabe Wills made the first team, along with Jennings County senior AJ Siener. East senior Brandon Taylor is an honorable mention selection.
Walk to help cancer patient
Columbus East football, basketball and track athlete Seth Chandler is hosting the Inheritance of Hope 5K Run/Walk at noon Saturday at the East football field and track.
Chandler is raising money through Inheritance of Hope for Tony Pottorff, a teacher and cross-country coach who is battling breast cancer. Entry fee is $30 and includes a t-shirt.
Individuals can register and watch a video about Chandler and Pottorff at inheritanceofhope.org/walkitout
East golf hosting fundraiser
The 2019 Fall Chili-Dip Open fundraiser for the Columbus East boys and girls golf teams will be at 11 a.m. Nov. 2 at Otter Creek Golf Course.
Cost is $60 per person and includes greens fees, cart, chili and other goodies. Bonus package is $20 and includes three mulligans, a chance to win $300 cash and other raffle prizes. Proceeds go toward golf instruction for the winter months and to help purchase uniforms, golf bags and pay for expenses for the Olympian golf teams.
To sign up, contact Matt Steinwedel at 812-343-3003 or iusteiny@gmail.com.
Ted Schultz is sports editor for The Republic. He can be reached at tschultz@therepublic.com or 812-379-5628.
