The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Ind.

Paris junior Paedyn Keys won a first-round match at the Illinois High School Association girls tennis state finals Saturday, marking the school's first victory in the main-draw division of that event since 2000. Keys topped Macklin Metzger of Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin by set scores of 6-1, 6-1 in the opening round. Keys lost her second-round and consolation matches afterward and ...

Indiana State men's basketball coach Matthew Graves took time Tuesday to speak on the lessons learned from the exhibition slate. The Sycamores started with a closed-doors meeting at Notre Dame. ISU coach Matthew Graves said the Sycamores and Fighting Irish played 12-minute quarters. "We treated each quarter like it was the end-of-a-game scenario," Graves said. "So if it was close, then you'd ...

Second-round playoff games await five Wabash Valley high school football teams that won their postseason openers last week. Sullivan, Linton and North Central in Indiana, and Paris and Casey in Illinois, advanced to this week's round of action. Meanwhile, the two Indiana Class 5A teams had a bye last week, so Terre Haute South will play at Terre Haute North at 7 p.m. Friday. In last Friday's ...

Keyed by the heroic performance of quarterback Brock Zanetell, Rose-Hulman's football team grabbed sole possession of first place in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference standings by holding off Hanover 27-20 on Saturday afternoon at Alumni Stadium. Zanetell, a 6-foot-2 junior, completed 21 of 38 passes for 239 yards and rushed for 156 yards and two touchdowns. The Engineers (5-2 ...