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Final Four Frustration: Marshall's run at state comes up short with semifinal defeat
The 2009 high school football season ended Saturday afternoon for the Lions as they lost to Maroa-Forsyth 31-14 in a Class 2A semifinal playoff contest. The Trojans will put an 11-2 record on the line against Morrison in the Illinois Class 2A championship game Friday at the University of Illinois, seeking their second state championship. ....more>>
Only 29 seconds remained Saturday afternoon when Marshall’s Lions finally realized their 11-game high school football winning streak had come to an end. Taylor Duncan’s fourth-down pass had fallen incomplete, visiting Maroa-Forsyth had the ball — and a 17-point lead — and the Lions’ offensive unit trooped dejectedly off the field.
After last year’s 62-10 loss to Purdue, the Indiana football team held a series of meetings. Coming off a 3-9 season, the Hoosiers wanted to rebuild the program by considering what needed to be done to make them a competitive football team before they hit the field again.
You can call him the Baltimore Ravens’ quarterback guru. That’s how Ravens head coach John Harbaugh views former Terre Haute South two-sport standout Cam Cameron, who is in his second year of being in charge of Baltimore’s offense. He’s also the team’s primary quarterback coach.
Behind the efforts of sophomore center Shannon Thomas and senior guard Kelsey Luna, the Indiana State women’s basketball team posted an 80-72 win over USC Upstate in front of 420 fans at the Hodge Center on Saturday night.
Pain tolerance can be a big part of endurance running, Indiana State coach John McNichols said recently, and Indiana State senior Eric Schulz and classmate Scott Keeney are two of the toughest runners McNichols has coached.
They don’t call it a Challenge for nothing. Colorado State made Indiana State’s first journey into the Mountain West-Missouri Valley Conference Challenge a daunting one as the Rams were neck-and-neck with the Sycamores into the final minute.
Hundreds of elite cross country runners will arrive in Terre Haute today for NCAA Championship. No runners developed in Terre Haute will be racing Monday, but there is one knocking on the door.