Today's News

By LARRY GOFFINET
Sports Editor

TELL CITY—Rebuilding may not be a strong enough term for what Tell City is doing in girls golf this season, as the Marksmen are basically building a team from scratch.
They started last season with four girls, the minimum required for a team score, but canceled the rest of the season after only one match because only two girls remained on the team.
Only one of those two, Jenny Hess, returns this year. But new coach Amber Thomas has seven girls on the team.

By LARRY GOFFINET
Sports Editor

CANNELTON—Cannelton returns four of its seven players from last year’s 2-17 volleyball team but still has an inexperienced squad.
There are 10 girls on the team, including two seniors and two juniors. But one senior and one junior have not played high school volleyball before. The other senior and other junior have played only one year.
Add two sophomores and four freshmen and the team’s lack of experience is apparent.

By LARRY GOFFINET
Sports Editor

TELL CITY—Tell City Coach Dalonda Hayes thinks her volleyball team can contend for a third consecutive PAC title despite returning only three players who saw much varsity action last year.
Graduated are last year’s two varsity setters and the team’s leading hitter, McKenzie Hayes, who was among the state’s leaders in kills the last three years and now plays for the University of Memphis.
But Logan Flannagan, who was second on the team in kills with 196 last year, returns.

TELL CITY – A Tell City man who shared a mobile home with two others lost his life Friday afternoon when fire swept through their residence in a matter of minutes, trapping the 63-year-old inside.