When the preseason high school football polls are announced in the next few days standing at the top of the heap may be Carmel, Warren Central and Center Grove. Ben Davis may not be far behind.
All are Metropolitan Conference teams.
So, what’s new?
The MIC has captured the Class 5A state championships each of the last six […]

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The Mid-Indiana Football Conference is a strange mixture of teams. Hamilton Heights, Western, Peru and Maconaquah are 3A. Northwestern, Cass and Taylor are 2A. There is even a 1A school, Eastern.
The way things usually work out is that some schools can be successful in postseason play and not so successful in conference play.
If football is […]

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When you look for non-Hamilton County teams which might give Hamilton Southeastern, Noblesville, Westfield and Fishers the most problems in the Hoosier Crossroads Conference football race this fall, the place to begin may be with Avon.
Avon has a veteran coach in place. That always helps. Dave Shelborne is in his 33rd season as a successful […]

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As promised in an earlier column, I’m reporting on the Jellisons’ family vacation. What made this vacation unique for us was that we drove – all 2,000-plus miles.
When I announced the plans to my wife, Mattijane, and to grandkids Drake, Shelby and Zack they all looked at me as if to suggest is was time […]

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When I began this series I had this great idea of writing about some of the outstanding teams and outstanding players who played during the 20-year period of the Howard Insurance baseball program.
So much for great ideas. I don’t know where to begin and where to end. I knew I would mess up when I […]

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I’ve been around the block a time or two when it comes to amateur baseball. Never, in all my years have I experienced, nor have I seen, anything like what the Howard Insurance team was in Noblesville in the 1970s and 1980s.
It was a team which consisted, for the most part, of 14- and 15-year-olds. […]

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At the Indiana North-South All-Star Baseball Classic Saturday and Sunday, Jake Hansen ended his high school baseball career the same way he played it for four years at Westfield High School.
Exciting. Successful.
Playing for the North Team in the second game of the Saturday doubleheader, Hansen made history by being the trigger man in the first […]

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If you didn’t live it, I would think it would be difficult to understand what summer baseball was like in Noblesville in the 1970s and 1980s.
The team I wrote about in Thursday’s column, Don Dunker’s American Legion team, was something special in this city. When Dunk’s squad won the Advance Babe Ruth state championship in […]

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I contend that Don Dunker’s 1972 Noblesville American Legion baseball team was the best summer team ever to play the game in this area.
As I wrote Wednesday, I wish Dunk was still alive today so I could ask him that question. I went to another source, Terry Coomer, who played on that team.
“It may well […]

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In my next few columns I’m going to write about how baseball was in this area back in the old days. I may miss a day here in the series and there as other sporting events leap into the spotlight.
I think some of you who lived those days might enjoy the memories. I hope the […]

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