By Jace Martin - Friday, April 29, 2022 12:23 PM
A couple of miles north of the Grant County town of Sweetser is an old farmhouse that shares a property with a pair of barns. The barn that sits closer to the road is an old dairy barn with wooden slats covered in sheet metal. The other is a sleek, new pole barn.
Both barns are actually basketball courts, and they tell the story of a married couple that turned a simple love for the game into one of the most elite basketball training businesses in the state, reaching into Huntington and the surrounding counties.
Thursday, April 28, 2022 3:24 PM
The Huntington North boys track and field team placed second at the Muncie Invite Saturday, April 23.
Delta won the meet with 113 points, followed by the Vikings with 87.5 points, Yorktown with 78, Muncie Central (72), Kokomo (69.5), Anderson (41), and Jay County (32).
The Vikings only first-place win was in the 4x800m relay where the team of Harrison Niswander, Tony Decker, Brayden Voght, and Gavin Byerly crossed the finish line first.
Thursday, April 28, 2022 3:21 PM
The Huntington North softball team had an easy time with Northridge but had a rough night at Kokomo last week.
HN 14, Northridge 2
The Lady Viking softball team defeated Northridge 14-2 in five innings Thursday, April 21.
Ava Poulson picked up the win on the mound.
From the plate, Emma Helvie, Reece Douglass, Poulson, Mara Hendryx, Megan Stephan, and Madison Ptak each had two hits with Stephan and Douglass blasting homeruns.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:31 PM
Nearly 22,000 trout are being stocked by the DNR Division of Fish & Wildlife in 16 different streams across Indiana for inland trout season, which starts on Saturday, April 30, at 6 a.m.
The stocked trout come from Curtis Creek Trout Rearing Station near Howe in LaGrange County and average 11 inches in length.
Trout will bite on a variety of artificial baits such as spinners and flies, but natural baits such as worms and bee moths tend to be the most popular.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 12:08 PM
After sweeping Marian (17-19, 9-13) in their first meeting several weeks back, the Huntington University (HU) baseball team felt the sting of a returned favor on Tuesday, April 12, by suffering a pair of losses, 5-2, 19-5, to the Knights to make for a 2-2 regular season series draw.
HU’s bats were relatively quietly all day at Forest Glen.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 12:07 PM
In a tight match, the Huntington North girls tennis team lost a 4-1 decision to Adams Central Thursday, April 14.
Adams Central won two key 3-set matches that proved to be the difference in the match.
At No. 2 singles, Mallory Kline lost a 6-1, 6-7 (6), 6-1 decision, while the No. 1 doubles team of Morgan Betterly and Avery Bonewitz lost 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 12:05 PM
Harrison Niswander competed in the Boys Mile at the Franklin Central Flashes Showcase and finished with a time of 4:30.57 (4:28.92 for 1600 meters), to place 10th in Race 2 and 48th overall out of 83 of the best high school distance runners in the state.
Meanwhile, at the North Side Relays, the Vikings placed 11th out of 16 teams.
In the A Individuals division, Caleb Reust placed fourth in the 300m hurdles with a time of 42.50, while in the 110m hurdles, Micah Plemons finished fifth in 16:31, and Brayden Voght tied for fifth in the high jump with a score of 5’ 8”.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 12:04 PM
Huntington North (HN) has announced its schedule of athletic summer youth camps. They are as follows:
Boys basketball: grades seven and eight, Monday, May 16 through Thursday, May 19, from 3:30 to 5 p.m., at the HN fieldhouse. Registration deadline is Wednesday, May 4.
Friday, April 15, 2022 12:12 PM
Twenty-five seniors gathered on Tuesday, April 12, for the Senior League Scramble at Etna Acres Golf Course.
Closest to the pins were Randy Musselman and Gary Sweet.
The long drive was made by Bob Hoch. The lone chip in was by Randy Musselman
Three teams shot 33.
Winning with a bird on number 15 was the team of Don Conley, Bob Bishop and Greg Kniss.
Second place team members were Randy Mussleman, Larry Sprowl, John Ayers and Josh Shearer.
The third place team included Bob Hoch, Kevin Cox, Bob Clabaugh and Brad Farlow.
Friday, April 15, 2022 12:11 PM
In his first varsity match, Huntington North golfer Javin Gray shot a 39 to earn medalist honors and led the Vikings to 176-191 win over Northfield at Honeywell Golf Club in Wabash Tuesday, April 12.
Behind Gray were Chase Mickley with a 44, followed Ethan Vaught with a 46, Cole Collins with a 47, and Austin Williams with a non-scoring 50.
The JV team also defeated the Norse by a 205-235 score.
Kai Richison and Kambden Lahr each shot 48 to lead the JV team.
Friday, April 15, 2022 12:10 PM
The Huntington North baseball team opened its season with a doubleheader split at McCutcheon Saturday, April 9.
McCutcheon edged the Vikings 2-1 in the first game while Huntington North rebounded in game No. 2 with a 4-3 win.
McCutcheon took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning of Game No. 1 but the Vikings cut the lead to 2-1 in the top of the first on an RBI from Cam McCarver, scoring Jack Eckert.
From that point on, it was a pitchers’ dual as neither team crossed the plate again.
Friday, April 15, 2022 12:08 PM
The Huntington North boys and girls track and field teams swept Bellmont on Tuesday, April 12.
The boys defeated the Braves, 94-37, while the girls team was victorious by a 102-30 margin.
In the 100m dash, Brayden Voght won the event (11.77 seconds), followed by Tatum Brooks in third in (12.87).
In the 200m dash, Noah Wagner placed first (24.79) and Carlos Cuadrado (25.54).
Wednesday, April 6, 2022 12:03 PM
In an offense-driven clash with Goshen, the Huntington University (HU) Forester softball team came up short twice, 11-3, 14-10, to their visitors Friday afternoon.
The Maple Leafs (14-10, 4-6) pieced together two big frames to notch the first win. They spent the fifth racking up five runs to turn a fairly tight game into ten run-rule outing. Before that it was a 6-3 ballgame with HU striking first when Mackenzie Walker knock-ed in Jenessa Hasty who had tripled to kick off the home half of the first.
Wednesday, April 6, 2022 12:01 PM
The Huntington baseball (HU) team swept Marian, 10-6, 14-12, Saturday afternoon at MU Ballpark for a pair of impressive road wins that move them to 14-12 overall, 12-6 in league action.
The Foresters have scored double-digit runs in six of their last seven contests. On this given day, HU got their work done early in the opener by scoring eight times in the first three frames to enjoy a lead that wouldn’t be challenged.
Friday, March 25, 2022 12:53 PM
Taylor University (9-9, 6-1) is currently one of the hottest-hitting teams in the league with the HU softball team their latest victim Monday afternoon at Gudakunst Field.
The Trojans have strung together five straight wins which includes a pair of run-rule games, 9-1, 12-1, against the Foresters.