The Northeastern Knights basketball team traveled to Knightstown on Saturday, Jan. 17, for a Tri-Eastern Conference game with the Panthers. The Knights led 13-7 at the end of the first quarter, but they were outscored by the Panthers 23-5 in the second quarter and never recovered. The Knights made a furious attempt to retake the […]
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Lady Knights are 7-peat champions
The Northeastern Lady Knights and the Hagerstown Lady Tigers squared off on Saturday, Jan. 10, for the Wayne County Championship in a game played at Robert E. Clark Gymnasium on the campus of Hagerstown High School. The talented and confident Lady Knights took an 11-6 lead after one quarter and increased it in each subsequent […]
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10 local wrestlers advance to regional
Richmond led the area teams with a second-place team finish and had three weight class champions at the Eastern Hancock girls wrestling sectional. Centerville finished ninth with one weight-class champion, and Northeastern finished 12th. Richmond Claire Abbitt won the 120-pound weight class, Ambria Tate won the 135-pound weight class and Key’Aysha Golden won the 155-pound […]
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Knights finish 8th
The Northeastern Lady Knights hosted their annual Wings and Rings Winter Classic on Monday, Dec. 29, and Tuesday, Dec. 30. The tournament, which was named the top girls tournament in Indiana by the Indianapolis Star, drew top teams from all enrollment classifications around the state. The first two rounds were played on Monday, Dec. 29. […]
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Knights undefeated in TEC with win over Hagerstown
The Northeastern Lady Knights basketball team hosted Hagerstown in a Tri-Eastern Conference game on Wednesday, Dec. 17. There was some concern before the game about how the Lady Knights would perform because they were playing for the first time in 12 days and had not been able to practice regularly because of inclement weather. The […]
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Richmond hosts Thomas Hill Memorial Invite
Richmond High School hosted the annual Thomas Hill Memorial Wrestling Invitational on Saturday, Dec. 13. The event honors the memory of a 1959 Richmond High School graduate who was an outstanding football player and a state champion wrestler for the Red Devils. Richmond boys highlights Robert Peacock compiled a record of 3-0 on the day […]
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4 players named 1st-team all-state
The Indiana Football Coaches Association recently announced its selections of senior First-Team All-State players. The elite selections come from across all enrollment classes. There were four seniors named from Wayne County high schools. 1A: Leyton Berger (Hagerstown), offensive lineman 1A: Isaac Schmitz (Hagerstown), wide receiver 2A: Charles Shaffer (Northeastern), defensive lineman 2A: Ethan Vecera (Centerville), […]
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Northeastern knocks off South Adams
The Northeastern boys basketball traveled to Berne on Saturday, Dec. 6, for a nonconference game with the South Adams Starfires. Coming off of a loss two days prior, the Knights showed no lingering effects, defeating the Starfires 59-51. The Knights led at the end of every quarter and held off a late Starfire rally in […]
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Coach Keiser lets his ‘Dogs out
On Thursday, Dec. 4, the Centerville boys basketball team hosted longtime rival Northeastern in a matchup of state-ranked teams. A near-capacity crowd finally got an answer to the question raised in 2000 by the Baha Men with their song “Who Let the Dogs Out?” Centerville head coach Brian Keiser not only let his dogs out, […]
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Lady Knights top visiting Patriots
The Northeastern Lady Knights hosted Jay County in a nonconference game on Wednesday, Dec. 3. Neither team had played in 10 days and play in the early stages of the game reflected that with turnovers and fouls. The Lady Knights held a 19-15 lead at the end of the first quarter before the Lady Patriots, […]