Blake Osbourne
Columbus North senior Blake Osbourne has been named Academic All-State by the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association.
Players who are valedictorian or salutatorian of their class or have a GPA of 4.0 or higher automatically qualify for the IHSBCA Academic All-State team. Beyond that, a formula is used calculating a senior’s SAT score and GPA.
Meanwhile, North senior Connor Hensley has been named All-District G as both a hitter and a pitcher.
Jennings County senior Austin Byford also made the All-District team and was selected to play in the North-South All-Star Series. The South will play the North in two nine-inning games on Saturday and one nine-inning game on Sunday at Huntington University. Sunday’s contest will be a wooden-bat game.
Schools pick hoops, football coaches
Two area schools have hired new boys basketball coaches, and one area program has named a new football coach and girls basketball coach.
Former Borden coach Mike McBride has been named boys basketball coach at Jennings County. He replaces Rob Kent, who resigned after one season.
Josh Terwilliger is the new boys basketball coach at South Decatur. He replaces Maurice Buckner, who resigned after one season.
Former South Decatur coach Tony Bell has taken over as football coach at Brown County. He replaces Colton Sample, who coached the Eagles the past three years. Bell has been an assistant at Brown County and was head coach at South Decatur from 2015-17 and at Crawford County from 2020-23.
Brown County also has hired Bob Susemichel as its new girls basketball coach. He replaces Kamady Lewis, who resigned after two seasons.
Lovelace named North softball MVP
Senior Kelsey Lovelace has been selected MVP of the Columbus North softball team.
Sophomore Bailee Scruggs won the Bull Dog Mentality Award. Sophomores Ali Wooten and Avery Shehan were named co-Most Improved.
Eagles to compete in college
Two Brown County girls tennis players and one girls basketball player have announced their intentions to play at the collegiate level.
Anna Stogsdill is headed to Hanover, and Julia Burt is bound for Rose-Hulman to play tennis. Lexie Austin will play basketball at Aurora (Illinois).
Bull Dogs to play summer scrimmages
Columbus North football will visit Whiteland for a summer football scrimmage at 9 a.m. Thursday.
The Bull Dogs will host scrimmages against Mt. Vernon at 5:30 p.m. June 26 and Fishers at 9 a.m. July 17. North will participate in a team camp at Taylor University from July 22-24.
Revell to play in North-South game
Columbus North’s Luke Revell will play in the Indiana Football Coaches Association North-South All-Star Game at 7 p.m. July 12 at Decatur Central.
Revell, an offensive lineman, will play for the South team. North’s Paige Hatter will be one of the managers for the South squad.
