A man has been charged in the fatal shooting of a man at a Coliseum Boulevard hotel last month. Joshua R. Mackin, 33, was arrested Friday for the murder of Samuel Douglas Westlake, who was found shot to death in a vehicle in the parking lot of the Suburban Extended Stay Hotel, 3330 Coliseum Blvd., on Feb. 19. According to a witness, Mackin shot Westlake, his half-brother, after an argument about a sexual ...
A passerby was able to help Taylor J. Radcliffe from his burning car after the 21-year-old man ran off a roadway and hit a tree stump early Saturday morning. Radcliffe was traveling westbound on the 4700 block of County Road 68 in DeKalb County when the accident occurred. The vehicle caught fire, with Radcliffe subsequently being assisted from the car. According to police, Radcliffe sustained face, head and ...
One man was killed and another critically injured in a single-vehicle crash in Kosciusko County last Friday. According to the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department, a 2008 Suzuki driven by Jeremy A. Hartzell of Nappanee was traveling northbound on 900 West near 700 North when Hartzell lost control, rolled into a yard and struck a tree. Hartzell was found unresponsive by emergency services and was pronounced ...
This week kicks off the 108th annual IHSAA Boys Basketball State Tournament with sectional play throughout the state. SHOOTER: Previewing and predicting the boys sectional basketball lineup News-Sentinel.com will update scores and the upcoming schedule here throughout. CLASS 4A EAST NOBLE SECTIONAL TUESDAY DeKalb 67, Snider 64 WEDNESDAY Carroll 66, Northrop 43 East Noble 59, Bishop Dwenger ...
South Side coach J.J. Foster remembers the first game Asher Blum played with the Archers. "It was the Leo game, our first game of the year," recalled Foster earlier this week. "He didn't play particularly well but had 13 points. After the game, his family came up to me and said, 'That's his career high.' "They put it in perspective for me." A year ago, Blum was a secondary scorer to Indiana All-Star Kyle ...
Greg Friend confirmed on Thursday night that he has stepped down as coach of the Snider girls' basketball team. He declined further comment to news-sentinel.com. Friend spent two years at the helm of Snider, compiling a 22-22 record including 8-15 this past season. Friend served as the head girls' hoops coach at Bishop Luers from 2007-2009, winning a pair of sectional championships with the Knights. He also ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Central Noble coach Josh Treesh was fretting about quite a bit entering Saturday's Class 2A state title game against Winchester. He was concerned about Winchester's size, with three girls in the rotation at 6-foot and above. He was worried about the versatility and big-play ability of Winchester sophomore Maddie Lawrence. But perhaps his greatest source of nervousness were ...
After 22 victories and the program’s first-ever semi-state championship, the Central Noble girls basketball team is preparing for the Class 2A title game against…itself. Sort of. The Cougars and Saturday’s foe Winchester (26-2) are near mirror images of each other. Both offenses are led by an exceptional point guard - sophomore Maddie Lawrence (19.4 points, 9.0 rebounds, 6.9 assists per game) for ...
Brent Cox isn't afraid to say what everybody else is thinking. "Our basketball program was terrible," the East Noble junior said last week. "Terrible" is a strong word, but there's no arguing the fact that basketball hasn't exactly been a beacon of excellence in the last 15-plus years. Since the program's last sectional championship in 2001, the Knights have finished with a winning record just four ...
If North Side looks a tad rusty when it opens postseason play on March 2, it will be for good reason. The Legends found out Sunday during the sectional draw for the IHSAA Boys Basketball State Tournament that they will face the winner of DeKalb and Snider on the Friday of sectional week at East Noble. That means North will go 14 days between games after concluding its regular-season schedule last Friday. "I ...
Bishop Dwenger is keeping it in the family. The school announced Thursday afternoon that Campus Minister Jason Garrett will replace the retired Chris Svarczkopf as the leader of the Saints' football program. Garrett has served on the Bishop Dwenger football staff for six years, most recently as the offensive coordinator under Svarczkopf the last two seasons. He has also headed up the baseball program for ...
KOKOMO — It was a tale of two offenses for South Side on Saturday night. For the first eight minutes of the regional championship game against Zionsville, the Archers looked magnificent on the offensive end. Mikeba Jones was deadly from the perimeter, knocking down a trio of threes and finishing with 11 points in the first quarter. Jaci Jones hit her first and only three-point attempt of the quarter, ...
Area girls' basketball teams will be looking to capture a regional championship on Saturday. Two wins gets you a title and a berth in the semistate round of the tournament. RELATED: All-SAC girls basketball teams announced This page will be updated throughout the day on Saturday with updated scores. CLASS 4A KOKOMO REGIONAL (at Memorial Gym in Kokomo) South Side 89, Carroll 61 Zionsville 54, Carmel ...
News-Sentinel.com’s Dan Vance joined Brett Rump on ESPN Fort Wayne’s Sports Rush on Friday to talk about high school basketball, including Saturday’s girls Regional play.
Angola coach Brandon Appleton had a simple request for one of the officials working his team's sectional game against Bishop Dwenger on Friday. "Hey, we need to get their bigs in foul trouble, look at us we are tiny!" said Appleton during a break in the action in the first half as the official chuckled. "What can you do to help us out with that?" The official continued to laugh, with Appleton joining in. ...
Just over three weeks since South Side and Homestead clashed in the regular season, arguably the two best teams in the area will do it again on Tuesday night. This time, it is win or go home. Coach Juanita Goodwell's Archers squandered a nine-point first half lead and lost 58-55 to the Spartans (19-2). What needs to be different this time? "We have to play with better discipline," Goodwell said. "We didn't ...
When asked if there was one thing he could tell himself 19 years ago as a rookie head coach at Garrett, Marty Beasley didn't hesitate much. "You got to pick and choose your battles," the current Carroll coach said. "When you're young, you're dumb." Nearly two decades later, Beasley is better in tune with what to say and not say on the sideline. He's also pretty darn good at his job, evidenced by the 257 ...
Bishop Dwenger and New Haven both continue to work the process as they search for their next head football coaches. According to Bishop Dwenger Athletic Director John Bennett, last Friday was the final day in which those interested could send in applications. As of late last week, close to 20 applications had been received. "Over the next two weeks we will narrow it down to a small amount to interview at ...
Imagine being a high school point guard crossing half court and examining your options. You can either take it to the basket or find a teammate in a better scoring position. Now imagine that your passing options include a standout post in 6-foot-8 senior Drake Thompson, a junior forward with an outside touch in Frank Davidson, an outside shooting ace in senior Luke Sassmannshausen and one of the state's ...
What's the best way to simulate sectional week? Well, play three good teams in a five-day span, of course. That is what Wayne did last week, with coach Aaron Rehrer's team going 3-0 in games Tuesday (vs. Norwell), Friday (Bishop Dwenger) and Saturday (South Bend Washington), the typical sectional week format. "We told the guys that with the schedule we had, it fit a sectional where we had to win them all," ...