Young Athenians see favorable sectional draw
Crawfordsville enters sectional play taking on Monrovia in the opening game of the Class 3A Sectional 25 at Danville. JOURNAL REVIEW FILE PHOTO Crawfordsville boys basketball is a young squad this season, and that youth has shown especially as of late. Down the stretch, CHS has won just a single game in it’s eight games as the Athenians ended the regular season with mark of 8-14. Now the slate gets wiped clean and CHS preps for a new season as on Tuesday Crawfordsville will o
Mounties look to make it two straight sectional titles
Southmont comes in as the hosts of the Class 2A Sectional 44 Tournament and are considered one of the favorites to cut down the nets again this season. The Southmont Mounties boys basketball team has yet again put themselves in a position to bring home a sectional title. South concluded the regular season with a 15-7 record and are considered one of the favorites to cut down the nets for what would be a second straight season. The Mounties get to host the Class 2A Sectional 4
Little Giants head to Cleveland for opening round of NCAA D3 Tournament
Wabash College Men’s basketball heads to the NCAA Division III Tournament with a 21-7 record. The Little Giants will travel to Cleveland, OH for their opening round game on Friday against University of Wisconsin White-Water. On Saturday Wabash College Men’s basketball secured their second straight trip to the NCAA Division III Tournament with their North Coast Athletic Conference championship win over Wooster 81-80. Fast forward now to Monday and the Little Giants found out w
The names, faces & memories of Old CHS
From L-R: Crawfordsville honored former coaches Brad Acton and Gary Lester, retired Athletic Director Bruce Whitehead, and Dottie, Debbie, and Dawn Curtis members of the Paul Curtis family. SUSAN EHRLICH/JOURNAL REVIEW What was advertised as a nostalgia game turned into a family reunion. The current Crawfordsville basketball team was the focus of attention in the old gym Friday night, as they battled Covington in the first varsity hoops game on the old floor in almost exactly
Little Giants advance to NCAC Title game
Vinny Buccilla lines up a three for Wabash during their 75-67 win over rival DePauw as the Little Giants punched their ticket to the NCAC Championship game. JOHN KEREZY FOR THE JOURNAL REVIEW WOOSTER -- Wabash won the first-ever contest against rival DePauw University on a neutral floor Friday night, besting the Tigers 75-67 in the semifinal game of the NCAC men’s conference championship tournament. The triumph gives the Little Giants their second straight 20-win season, some
Little Giants re-peat as NCAC Champions
For the 2nd straight season the Wabash College Little Giants are the North Coast Athletic Conference champions. They edged out Wooster 81-80 and punched their ticket to the Division III Tournament which begins the first weekend of March. PHOTO COURTESY OF WABASH COLLEGE ATHLETICS WOOSTER – Twelve lead changes. Eight ties down the stretch. Outcome riding on a last-second shot. That’s part of how No. 1 seed Wooster and No. 2 seed Wabash battled it out for the NCAC tournament c
Trojans earn win over Athenians on historic evening at old CHS gym
Senior manager Derek Gobel was able to live out his dream of playing in a high school basketball game for the Athenians on Friday. SUSAN EHRLICH/JOURNAL REVIEW You couldn’t have asked for a better scene in Montgomery County to conclude the boys basketball regular season on Friday. The old CHS gym was rocking as 1500+ fans packed inside to watch a game that was nearly 30 years to the day of the last game played there between one of the longest standing rivalries in the state a
Chargers can't hold late lead in regular season finale
Junior sharpshooter Jarrod Kirsch led the Chargers with 17 points. TRENT SCOTT FOR THE JOURNAL REVIEW GREENCASTLE – A long, challenging 2022-23 boys’ basketball regular season came to an end Friday night for North Montgomery with a trip to Greencastle on the docket. The Chargers led for a sizable portion of the contest but could not land the needed baskets to build on an eight-point lead in the third quarter nor could the visitors capitalize on the Tiger Cubs’ 0-of-5 time at
Athenians and Trojans ready for raucous Friday
This isn’t just your average regular season finale that will take place on Friday night between Crawfordsville and Covington. The two teams, who hold one of the state’s oldest rivalries, will play their final game of the 2022-23 season in the old CHS gym. The game will be the first game played there in nearly 30 years. It’s already a sellout crowd as the old gym will pack 1500 (and probably some extra) fans into the gym as they watch the Athenians and Trojans play on the hall
CHS Gym Memories — Coaches and Players
It is truly a hallowed place. The history of Indiana high school basketball started in Crawfordsville. The first game of basketball in the nation played outside of its Springfield, Massachusetts birthplace was in Crawfordsville. The first state champion was Crawfordsville. There is no stretch of the imagination that the gymnasium where the Athenians played for 53 years contains more memories than you can list in even a long setting. Yesterday we reminisced about the County To
