Southmont’s Sidney Veatch repeats as Girls Basketball Player of the Year
New coach, same philosophy. Get the ball in the middle to Sidney Veatch, and let her dominate on the boards. That’s what Southmont girls’ basketball game-plan was this past season and it paid off with a 12-5 record, including a 10-0 start. For a second-straight season Veatch averaged double-figures, including 13.5 points per game and 7.9 rebounds per game — which followed a double-double average her junior season. Veatch scored 498 points in two seasons of varsity basketball
Basketball Heritage Project, Inc. Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary
Ten years ago, on April 16, 2011, an Historic Marker was erected near the intersection of West Main and South Washington Streets in Crawfordsville. The marker was dedicated to preserve and promote the rich basketball heritage of Crawfordsville and Montgomery County, IN. It was funded by the Basketball Heritage Project (BHP) and the Montgomery County Basketball Hall of Fame. In addition to the marker, there is a collection of basketball memorabilia from Crawfordsville High S
An Elegy for the Little Giants by Kinnard White
Wander the backroads of west-central Indiana today and you will see rusted basketball goals nailed to the sides of rotting barns, relics of a time when little giants once lived here in this sea of cornfields, dotted by isles of small towns four or five miles apart. Before super highways crisscrossed this area, before TV could provide a picture that wasn’t dominated by snow, before the internet provided national and international news as it happens, people living in these smal
MCMURRY: The entire NCAA tourney and Indiana’s everlasting impact
There’s a reason the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four is played regularly in Indianapolis. And it’s the same reason the NCAA, with headquarters located in downtown Indianapolis, chose to host the entire 2021 tournament in Indiana when the COVID-19 pandemic continued to force changes just a year after the entire tourney was canceled. James Naismith introduced the game of basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1892. But that’s merely the date of its birth. The most importa
Haas to officiate 1st boys basketball state finals, 11th overall
“It’s pretty neat,” he said. “I’ve been fortunate. My gosh 11 state finals, I’m 46 years old. I started officiating when I was 23. I’ve had some amazing partners and crews over the years and I appreciate their efforts and their critique. We all look out for each other and it’s a brotherhood that’s truly second to none.” The 46-year-old Crawfordsville native spends his Saturday afternoons in the fall officiating Division I football and over the last two decades has officiated
Crawfordsville senior Jesse Hall earns third-straight Player of the Year
Crawfordsville senior Jesse Hall led the Athenians with 18.9 points per game, earning a third-straight Journal Review Player of the Year. Jesse Hall left the Crawfordsville basketball program better than he found it. But that’s not the most important part. Jesse Hall will graduate from Crawfordsville High School this spring a better person than when he first donned the blue and gold as a scrawny freshman. “It’s for sure changed me as a man,” Hall said. “I definitely came in h
