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1 week ago | 
greenfieldreporter.com | Steve Heath
Regional champions New Palestine and Greenfield-Central, along with Mt. Vernon, combined for 11 of the 21 selections on the 2025 All-Hoosier Heritage Conference softball team. New Palestine had five of its members chosen, sophomore third baseman Payton Dye, senior shortstop Maddie Engle, senior second baseman Jersi Gross, senior first baseman Katie Hirschy and junior pitcher Sadey Hughbanks.
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1 week ago | 
greenfieldreporter.com | Steve Heath
Runner-up in this year’s standings, Eastern Hancock had four selections on the 2025 All-Mid-Eastern Conference softball team. The Royals finished 6-1 in MEC play. Shenandoah, which had a conference-high five selections, won the MEC with a 7-0 record. Eastern Hancock was represented by junior infielders Lilli Ringer and Addisyn Trackwell, and seniors, pitcher Kenna Stewart and catcher/outfielder Emree Truitt.
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1 week ago | 
greenfieldreporter.com | Steve Heath
JASPER — New Palestine (24-4) managed just two hits, and struck out 11 times, against University of Alabama-bound right-handed pitcher Tate Troxell, and had its baseball season come to an end with a 2-1 loss to Guerin Catholic (19-12) in the Class 3A South Semi-State at Ruxer Field in Jasper Saturday.
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2 weeks ago | 
greenfieldreporter.com | Steve Heath
New Palestine is hoping a long trip leads to a long day at the ballpark. Regional champions for the third straight year, New Palestine’s baseball team traveled two-plus hours to Southern Indiana to play in today’s Class 3A South Semi-State at Ruxer Field in Jasper.
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2 weeks ago | 
greenfieldreporter.com | Steve Heath
Baseball players from Greenfield-Central, Mt. Vernon and New Palestine made up one-half of the recently released All-Hoosier Heritage Conference baseball team. Ten of the 20 players selected were from the three Hancock County schools. In addition, from HHC champion New Palestine, Shawn Lyons was named the conference’s coach of the year. The Dragons and second-place Mt. Vernon had four selections each. Two players were chosen from Greenfield-Central.
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2 weeks ago | 
greenfieldreporter.com | Steve Heath
YORKTOWN — With one-third of the 15-team field among the Top 20 in the final Indiana High School Golf Coaches Association poll and only three qualifying positions — along with three individual spots —available for next week’s IHSAA Boys Golf State Finals, Hancock County competitors had little room for error at Thursday’s Muncie Central Regional at The Players Club at Woodland Trails in Yorktown.
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2 weeks ago | 
greenfieldreporter.com | Steve Heath
With a stacked field and limited spots available for next week’s IHSAA Boys Golf State Finals, many Hancock County golfers and golf teams hope to use course familiarity to their advantage at today’s Muncie Central Regional at The Players Club at Woodland Trails. Greenfield-Central, Mt. Vernon and New Palestine have all played multiple times on the course located in Yorktown, which was the site of last month’s Hoosier Heritage Conference tournament.
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2 weeks ago | 
greenfieldreporter.com | Steve Heath
GREENFIELD — Mt. Vernon’s second straight boys golf sectional title didn’t come easy. The Marauders were not in a regional qualifying position [top three] at the turn, but a strong back nine was the difference in claiming the tournament’s hardware — along with a place in Thursday’s regional — at the Greenfield-Central Sectional at Hawk’s Tail of Greenfield on Tuesday. Unofficially, after nine holes, eight teams were within eight strokes of first place, five were within four shots of the top spot.
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2 weeks ago | 
greenfieldreporter.com | Steve Heath
MOORESVILLE — Senior ace Rigg Mahurin threw a no-hitter, and the New Palestine offense — after leaving the bases loaded in two previous innings — broke free for a four-run sixth and three-run seventh in a 9-1 victory over Cascade in the Class 3A Mooresville Regional baseball tournament Saturday. Mahurin retired 12 in a row after a pair of first-inning walks. He hit a batter in the fifth and walked a batter in the seventh.
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2 weeks ago | 
greenfieldreporter.com | Steve Heath
GREENWOOD — Greenfield-Central’s 11-game winning streak, and season, came to an end Saturday. The Cougars softball team lost 6-1 to Floyd Central in the first of two semifinal games of the Class 4A South Semi-State at Center Grove High School’s Russ Milligan Field. The Cougars answered Floyd Central’s two-run first inning with one in the bottom half, but had no response when the Highlanders added another run in the second and three more in the third.
