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Highlands coach knew his team was dead in the water — until it wasnt. "I was getting ready to tell them, You cant beat good teams like Crown Point and not execute," Bogner said. " ... Then all of a sudden we started chipping away, and when our last guy got hit (by a pitch) and we ended up winning on a walk off, the guys ran onto the field. I was just yelling, Mask up! Mask up!" Bogner, who is in his eighth year at the helm, was so concerned with his teams COVID-19 safety protocols that ...

  Hospitals in Northwest Indiana have been at the center of the Region’s response to COVID-19 throughout the yearlong global pandemic. They put off elective surgeries and other non-urgent treatments last year to repurpose space for extra intensive care beds during several peak periods of coronavirus infection. Currently they are injecting hundreds of people each day with the COVID-19 vaccine that everyone hopes will bring an end to the health care emergency. A rendering of the new Franc...

"That incident, weve moved on from it," Nichols said. "We dont even speak about it." Nichols, who was brought on as an assistant during the 2017-18 season, has stepped in as the Lions interim coach. The 1995 Roosevelt graduate shares a close relationship with Moore, and even though his "brother" cant be on the sidelines with him, Nichols has vowed to do everything he can to steer the team in the right direction. So far, so good. More than 12,000 Hoosiers have died from COVID-19 since March 2020...

Then, it all came crashing down. "I knew something wasnt right for sure just because I couldnt really put too much pressure on (my left knee)," Glass said. "But for the first week, I didnt even know that (my left ACL) was torn, and our trainers were telling me that it might have been something with my hamstring. I didnt find out until about a week later when I took an MRI. "Thats when they told me." Glass said he sustained his season-ending knee injury after catching a pass and planting awkward...

“She’s certainly one of the top all-arounders in the state."

"Thats what its all about, putting Region basketball on a platform for everyone to see."

Ethan Ferba had big plans for the offseason. The Hobart diver got a taste of competing against the best when he finished 26th at the IHSAA state swimming and diving competition last February in Indianapolis. When Ferba returned to Northwest Indiana, he sat down with Hobart diving coach Katharine Rinas and the two put together a summer workout plan that would allow the then-sophomore to take his diving to the next level. Then COVID-19 hit and pools around the Region shutdown, including Hobartâ�...

Nothing couldve prepared him for the news he would receive during his shift. "I actually got a text that morning from a college coach saying, Dwayne, congratulations! I saw you on (TV)," Johnson said. "It caught me off guard because I wasnt even aware of it. I just asked him, Where did you see it? And then I ended up getting a video sent to me by my mother." On Saturday, Calumets standout defensive back was announced as the recipient of the NFLs Way to Play award for a tackle he made on a kicko...

It was the seventh rejection that proved to be the most important. In the closing seconds of yet another tight matchup with Penn, Crown Points 6-foot-4 forward swatted a running right-handed shot by Kingsmen guard Grace Schutt to seal the Bulldogs 44-42 home victory Dec. 5. The Purdue commit fell to the floor as the final buzzer sounded, while the rest of her teammates jumped for joy. "I was actually on the ground when everybody else was celebrating, but they all lifted me up. Theyre great team...

Hammond coach Larry Moore Jr. knows Harold Woods wishes he had another chance. The Wildcats senior guard missed a short jump shot against Lawrence North that wouldve capped off an upset victory over the Wildcats, who are ranked as the No. 1 team in the state by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association. Instead, No. 20 Hammond left the Sneakers for Santa Shootout at Brownsburg on Dec. 5 with a 52-51 loss. Woods finished the game with two points on 1-of-8 shooting from the field. "He was defini...