Local Sports

In the River States Conference volleyball preseason coaches poll, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods was picked fourth, and IU Columbus was picked 10th out of 12 teams.

It was a special homecoming for Hudson O’Neal of Hope on Wednesday night at Brownstown Speedway when he stormed to the $20,000 Castrol FloRacing Night in America presented by Kubota victory.

There are many great duck hunting destinations in the United States, but Arkansas is special. From vast flooded crop fields to the deep, dark timber the Natural State is famous for, Arkansas draws in duck hunters from far and wide. Now, thanks to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s (AGFC) Conservation Incentive Program, there are 12,000 new acres open to public hunting.

Columbus North’s homecoming football game against Terre Haute North scheduled for Friday night has been postponed to noon Saturday.

When Ilya Schwartzman was beginning his tenure as a girls soccer coach at Columbus East, his daughter Maria was playing for the Olympians.

COMING UP

BLOOMINGTON — No. 5-ranked Columbus North wrapped up another Conference Indiana boys tennis title Thursday with a 4-1 win at Bloomington North.

GREENWOOD — Columbus North won a close first set Thursday, then cruised in the final two for a 26-24, 25-15, 25-10 volleyball victory at Greenwood.

VERSAILLES — The Hauser boys cross-country team ran to the team title Thusday at South Ripley’s Great Pumpkin Invitational.

BLOOMINGTON — Class 3A No. 8 Bloomington South clinched the Conference Indiana boys soccer title with a 1-0 win against 3A No. 10 Columbus North on Thursday.