Local Sports

Schools proactive in COVID safety

PLYMOUTH – As schools continue what has become an arduous task of keeping athletes safe in the hopeful return to the possibility of some sort of fall athletic season, two schools have had the first-hand experience in dealing with a ... Read more...

Ancilla baseball leads Academic All Conference picks

Ancilla baseball leads Academic All Conference picks DONALDSON – The Ancilla College baseball team placed 10 players on the 2019-20 MCCAA Academic All-Conference team to lead a group of 43 Chargers receiving the honor. Students had ... Read more...

Chaney happy with the Plymouth life

PLYMOUTH – You could say all things kind of worked out for former PHS Kizer Award winner Nick Chaney. After earning a degree in physics from Manchester College it all fell into place for a return to his hometown. “It ... Read more...

Basketball all skills camp still open

Basketball all skills camp still open PLYMOUTH – Bill Murchie’s July All Skills Basketball Camp, will resume Monday through Wednesday, July 27-29 at The Zone. The camp will be open to boys and girls in grades 3-8. The boys camp ... Read more...

Zone to open ‘Little Spikers Academy

PLYMOUTH – The Zone will launch its Little Spikers Volleyball Academy next week and there is still time to register so if you have a volleyball player who will be in grades 1-6 this fall. The registration deadline has been extended ... Read more...

Zone back to school leagues to start zone

Zone back to school leagues to start zone PLYMOUTH – The Boys and Girls back to school leagues will begin Sunday, Aug. 2. Teams will play doubleheaders once a week – on Sundays. The grade divisions for both boys and girls are ... Read more...

Argos names new girls basketball coach

ARGOS – The Argos Athletic Department is happy to announce that Mr. Scott Jennings is being recommended for approval to the Argos School Board, as the new head coach of the girls varsity basketball program. Jennings graduated from ... Read more...

Hite comes home to influence other generations of athletes

PLYMOUTH – You could actually say that there aren’t many people in Plymouth who don’t know Park Superintendent Mike Hite in one way or another. He is the longtime face of the Plymouth Park Department which is one of the ... Read more...

Zone events coming up

Bill Murchie’s basketball workouts on Wednesdays PLYMOUTH -Bill Murchie will continue his special Wednesday Co-Ed Basketball Workouts. You will get 90 minutes of training from 6-7:30 p.m. If you plan on attending, please contact Doug ... Read more...

South Bend Cubs Host Movie Night and Fireworks Show on July 10

The movie A League of Their Own will be shown on the video board at Four Winds Field with a special post-movie fireworks show. Concessions will also be available. SOUTH BEND – Join the South Bend Cubs for Movie Night at Four Winds Field ... Read more...

Riddle headed for Ancilla

Riddle headed for Ancilla ARGOS – Dino Vitale, coach of Ancilla’s inaugural lacrosse program has signed Jeremiah Riddle of Argos as part of that team. If will be the second time that Riddle will be an integral part of the new ... Read more...

Grant Becomes First Two-Time USAC Winner at Plymouth Speedway

Two days of fireworks and Flat Track motorcycle racing on tap for the holiday weekend at Plymouth Speedway By Greg Hildebrand PLYMOUTH—Justin Grant beat 22 of the nation’s top sprint car drivers and mother nature to become the first ... Read more...

Plymouth has lost one of a kind

  By Rusty Nixon PLYMOUTH – I met Russ Teall when I was a freshman in high school. His passing Thursday diminishes all of us who knew him. I guess it wasn’t “met” then in the traditional sense of making ... Read more...

USAC National Sprint Cars return to Plymouth Speedway Friday

PLYMOUTH – USAC non-wing sprint cars make their return to Plymouth Speedway Friday, June 26. Current series leader Justin Grant is looking to become the first two-time USAC winner at Plymouth. Grant picked up the win in April of 2017 ... Read more...

Brandon Clay Exposure Camp lights up the Zone

PLYMOUTH – The Brandon Clay Scouting National Training Academy came to The Zone along with dozens of potential girls college basketball players. Players from Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois attended. Some of the cities ... Read more...

Cripe and Hubbard repeat winners at Plymouth Speedway

USAC Sprints kick off doubleheader Friday night with make-up feature added to Saturday’s event By Greg Hildebrand PLYMOUTH—Several new faces made their way to the podium Saturday night as the season point race got underway at Plymouth ... Read more...

Second run for LaVille’s Czarnecki on IHSAA Advisory Committee

INDIANAPOLIS – The IHSAA has named eighteen high school student-athletes from across the Hoosier State to begin next school year as members of the 2020- 21 IHSAA Student Advisory Committee (SAC). Among those is LaVille High School ... Read more...

Barron happy for the help on his way to a lifetime of Plymouth football

PLYMOUTH – Over the years Plymouth head football coach John Barron has had a lot of help. Help that he’s been thankful for. “When I got here as a 22-year-old kid who just graduated from Butler I thought I knew it ... Read more...

Morrow honored with All State designation

  Sydney Morrow, from Plymouth HS, was selected to the 2019-20 Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association Academic All State Honorable Mention track ... Read more...

Lady Pilgrims honored as ‘virtual’ All-State

INDIANAPOLIS – A pair of Plymouth’s tennis team members were honored by the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association.  Kyla Heckaman and Audie Plothow were both honored by the ICGSA as “Virtual” All-Stars on the ... Read more...