Lady Chargers cold shooting dooms them vs Warriors
FRANKFORT – Due to the impending weather, both North Montgomery girls and boys basketball teams concluded play of the Indiana Kitchen Classic a day early on Thursday afternoon. The Lady Chargers got things going first as they took on Winamac in the 5th place game. The Chargers offense couldn’t find much rhythm as the Warriors came away with a 44-25 win. The boys after surviving in the semi-finals in double-overtime vs North Newton squared off against Frankfort in the champion
Chargers un-able to hang with Hot Dogs in title game
Shooting and defense are two things that North Montgomery boys basketball can do very well. Unfortunately for the Chargers on Thursday afternoon in the championship game against Frankfort, those two things were their downfall in their 53-34 loss. It started from the opening tip as the Chargers were getting good looks, but were just unable to knock them down. At halftime they were shooting 5-22 and trailed 29-14. Meanwhile the Hot Dogs relied heavily on junior big man Jayce St
Chargers win 2OT thriller, advance to title game
DELPHI – North Montgomery needed two extra periods to defeat North Newton 49-47 in the semi-final game of the Delphi Kitchen Classic. Junior Ross Dyson scored on a short jumper as time expired in the game to propel the Chargers to today’s championship. Charger Coach Chad Arnold said the winning shot happened because his team ran the play he drew out during the final timeout. The Chargers had 14 seconds to get the last shot off, and they used it all as Dyson’s winning bucket b
Chargers snap skid with blowout of North Newton
FRANKFORT – The facial expressions showed all business for the North Montgomery girls basketball team Wednesday evening. The Chargers got down to business early, especially defensively and rolled to a 45-21 win over North Newton in the Indiana Kitchen Holiday Classic at Frankfort High School’s Case Arena. Chargers coach Ryan Nuppnau was proud of his team. “For the second game in a row they embraced the defensive assignments, they executed them and it showed,” Nuppnau said. “W
Athenians grit out win over Sparkplugs
Crawfordsville boys basketball wrapped up the 2022 portion of the schedule on Tuesday evening as the Athenians welcome the Speedway Sparkplugs to CHS. The young Athenians battled the Sparkplugs for what was an entertaining back and forth game which saw CHS come out on top 57-49. Trailing 29-20 at halftime, the visiting Sparkplugs came out of the third quarter and cut the CHS lead to just two at 35-33 heading into the final eight minutes of action. With both offenses seemingly
Charger boys hot three-point shooting leads to opening round win
ROSSVILLE – While Christmas break is officially here for all three Montgomery County schools, that doesn’t mean the action the court has stopped. Both North Montgomery girls and boys’ basketball teams made the trip to Rossville on Monday for the opening round of the Delphi Kitchen Classic as they took on the Hornets. The Charger girls got things going and fell to the Hornets 38-31 while the boys took home their second straight win in a 55-40 victory. North Montgomery boys’ ba
Charger girls show good effort in opening round loss
ROSSVILLE – While Christmas break is officially here for all three Montgomery County schools, that doesn’t mean the action the court has stopped. Both North Montgomery girls and boys’ basketball teams made the trip to Rossville on Monday for the opening round of the Delphi Kitchen Classic as they took on the Hornets. The Charger girls got things going and fell to the Hornets 38-31 while the boys took home their second straight win in a 55-40 victory. Despite the 38-31 loss, N
Chargers earn bounce back win at Covington
Colton Zachary led the Chargers in a bounce back 48-35 win over Covington as the senior scored 18 points. COVINGTON – Saturday North Montgomery traveled to Covington and came home with their second win of the season. The Chargers hit shots that had not been falling for them since their first win against Speedway two weeks ago. The Chargers defeated the Trojans 48-35. Senior Colton Zachary led the way for North Montgomery by scoring a game high 18 points. Zachary hit five of t
Mounties defense leads to SAC win over Stars
South coach Jake Turner best summed up the 36-28 conference win. “I told the guys I’d rather win ugly than lose pretty, and we won ugly tonight.” Holding the Stars to a South defensive season-low was offset by the Mounties scoring nearly at a season-low. South moves to 6-2 on the season, and 2-1 in the Sagamore, while the Stars fall to 1-6 and 0-3 in the league. As it was during the girls game, defense ruled the night. “We did a good job of guarding them,” Turner said, “and o
Stars best Mountie girls down the stretch
NEW MARKET — Defense was the name of the game in both games of the Western Boone - Southmont basketball doubleheader at Bob Tandy Gym on the Southmont campus Friday night. Sagamore Conference, Sugar Creek Classic and sometimes sectional foes squared off and neither team gave an inch defensively which prompted the two low-scoring affairs. In the girls game, the Stars denied the Mounties enough looks at the basket by forcing some turnovers, and then got to the line more than So
