Area Sports

The Riverton Parke boys basketball team used some hot shooting from behind the three point line to pick up a pair of wins this past weekend. Friday night, February 12, RP defeated North Vermillion 86-45 in a WRC game. The Panthers made five three pointers in the 1st period as they jumped out to a…

  SEVENTH GRADE DOMINATES. Riverton Parke 7th grader Sean Vester (white jersey with ball) drives in for a basket in the Panthers’ win over Attica on Monday night. Pictured defending for Attica are: Abe Remaklus #12, Layne Wilson #22, and Denton Simmons #44. (photo submitted)

The Parke Heritage Girls ended their game against the Crawfordsville Athenians with a win of 44-37. Lady Wolves played to their advantage with the use of Hannah O’Brien and Grace Ramsey against Crawfordsville. With half of the third quarter gone they were able to put away a 10 point deficit thanks to Bethany Wilson who…

As part of the doubleheader that took place Saturday, December 2, Parke Heritage Boys’ Basketball team took the win over Crawfordsville 60-52. The Parke Heritage boys’ went on to take charge of the overtime that had 15 lead changes. For the full story, see this week’s edition of the Parke County Sentinel.

  SHOOTING FOR IT. Riley Ferguson put the ball up for two during Saturday evening’s game against visiting Crawfordsville. The Wolves defeated the Athenians 60-52 in overtime. (Photo by Grace Johnston)

LADY PANTHERS SCORE. Riverton Parke’s Alyssa Fellows goes up to score two of her team high 11 points in the Lady Panthers game on Friday night. (photo submitted)     The Riverton Parke girls basketball team lost two very close games in the Banks of the Wabash Tourney this weekend. Friday night Parke Heritage’s Lexi Jones made a three…

Postponements continue to occupy most high school athletic director’s days as the pandemic plays havoc with winter sports schedules. Riverton Parke is still out until December 1 at the earliest. Last Thursday’s game at Dugger and last night’s (Tuesday, November 24) game at Covington have been shelved for now, as well as the Saturday game…

Riverton Parke will send a runner to the Brown County Cross-Country Semi-State this Saturday following his performance at last weekend’s Bedford-North Lawrence Regional. Sophomore Brandon Todd placed 65th overall in the field of 80 runners, but was the tenth place individual competitor not advancing on a top-five team. All runners on the top five teams…