Local students honored at CIC luncheon

MARION — Some of the academic stars from the Central Indiana Conference schools were honored in a luncheon last Monday that was sponsored by the Central Indiana Ethanol (CIE) company. Each school was asked to bring its top 3 students to the event.

Frankton strands too many runners, loses to Mississinewa

FRANKTON --- In a season where the Frankton baseball team has been slow to develop, a new problem cropped up on Tuesday and it led to a 9-4 loss to Mississinewa. The Eagles stranded 15 runners over the seven inning, taking away opportunities to keep pace with the Indians, who rolled out to a 9-1 lead.

Frankton netters sweep Elwood 5-0

FRANKTON — Frankton evened its varsity girls tennis record to 5-5 and remained unbeaten in the Central Indiana Conference at 2-0 with a 5-0 sweep of Elwood here last Wednesday. Al five matches were decided in straight sets, though two of them were not quite as easy as that sounds.

Panthers defeat Lady Trojans 7-1

ELWOOD --- Neither Tri-Central nor Elwood handled the ball cleanly in the field of play, combining for nine errors in Monday’s varsity softball game here. The difference was the Panthers came up with some big and timely hits to spur them on to a 7-1 victory over the Trojans.

IHSAA releases softball, baseball sectional pairings

Although the softball and baseball sectionals do not start until the last full week of May, the Indiana High School Athletic Association conducted the draw on Sunday and released the match-ups back-to-back pairings shows.

Duncan earns 2 blues, Eagles finish 2nd at TI

Cooper Altherr and Evan Long won two events each to propel the Tipton High School boys varsity track and field team to a second-place finish in its own invitational on Friday night. Sydney Duncan swept the throwing events to lead Frankton’s Lady Eagles to the runner- up finish at the same Tipton Invitational.

Parker, Eagles shut out Oak Hill 10-0 in 6 innings

FRANKTON — Frankton remained unbeaten in the Central Indiana Conference (3-0) on Thursday night. Powered by two home runs and the pitching of Paige Parker, the Eagles shut out Oak Hill 10-0 in six innings.