Latest Montgomery County Basketball News
November 12, 2019
Bowers won their only basketball sectional in 1927. The first team outside of Crawfordsville and Wingate to win the Crawfordsville Sectional.
Even though Bowers Basketball ended in 1955, the Blackshirts had a proud run from the early days of Montgomery County basketball from 1913 to the last class of 1955. After the class of ’55 graduated, Bowers students went to Linden for a year (1956) and then to Darlington until consolid...
November 9, 2019
Seeger jumped out to a 20-6 lead after a quarter, and never trailed in a 56-39 win over Crawfordsville on Friday night in the Athenian’s season opener.
The Patriots, who improve to 2-0 on the season, scored six quick points to the start the game, while Kiley White stuffed the stat sheet with a 12-point first period. The senior led all scorers with 22 points.
“I knew from watching film from their first game they were in mid-s...
November 7, 2019
LIZTON — It took sophomores Isabelle Saylor and Kenna Kirby a bit to get going, but once they did the duo led Tri-West past Southmont 63-37 in the season opener for both teams.
Kirby led the Bruins with 17 points, while Saylor overcame a 0-of-6 start from the field to add 16.
Tri-West (1-0, 1-0 SAC) held a narrow 10-8 lead after a quarter, before Kirby and Saylor combined for 16 second-quarter points to put the Bruins up 31-...
November 7, 2019
First-year Crawfordsville girls’ basketball coach Tyler Smith is looking to his senior and sophomore classes to help turn the program around after a 4-20 season in 2018-19 — their fourth straight losing season.
The most important returning piece is senior and defending Journal Review Player of the Year Lauren Kellerman, who averaged 14.6 points per game last season, and is closing in on the 1,000-point mark.
“It’s huge to no...
November 7, 2019
CHALMERS — North Montgomery’s girls basketball team had the pieces together to pick up a season-opening win, but couldn’t get some late shots to fall as they fell to Frontier 31-30.
Trailing by as many as six in the second quarter, the Chargers got a bucket to make it a five-point deficit and they outscored the Falcons, who were also playing their first game, by six in the third quarter to make it 28-all going into the last e...
