March 28, 2020
Led by Cali Wetli, Southmont ended an 15-year skid in 2014 with its first IHSAA Girls’ Basketball Sectional title since 1999 with a convincing 56-35 win over Fountain Central on their own floor to win the Class 2A sectional crown.
Wetli, a senior who was later named the Journal Review Player of the Year, led all scorers with 26 points.
Both Alex and Aarika McKinsey were in foul trouble, which allowed Wetli’s post-play to mak...
March 24, 2020
Mandi Johnson helped make Crawfordsville girls’ basketball history with a second half effort for the ages back on Feb. 14, 2009.
The senior scored all 19 of the Athenians third quarter points and scored 24 straight to lift Crawfordsville past Danville 52-32 at Western Boone and to their first sectional crown in school history. It remains the only girls basketball sectional title in school history for Crawfordsville.
“I don’t...
March 24, 2020
Crawfordsville boys’ basketball has won 41 IHSAA Sectional titles, but it took the 2014 team getting hot in March to end a 25 year drought and give the Athenians their first crown since 1989.
‘Back Where It Belongs,’ the Journal Review read on March 10, 2014 after the Athenians defeated Western Boone 58-53 to claim the Class 3A title at Frankfort.
Hank Horner, a 2014 Crawfordsville graduate and later named Journal Review Pla...
March 4, 2020
Dave Nicholson followed Galen Smith and put together back-to-back undefeated seasons in 1968-69 and 1969-70. Nicholson’s Indians won 46 games and lost only two during his tenure. They won the County tourney both years and defeated Speedway 56-54 to win the Lebanon Sectional in 1969. The Indians won 41 regular season games without a loss under Coach Nicholson. In a four year span beginning at the end of the 1968 season continu...
