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LAPORTE â The clock was winding down in the first quarter Saturday, and Jessica Carrothers had the ball.
Crown Point s star guard could ve been conservative, but this was the Class 4A LaPorte Semistate, and she wasn t leaving any chances on the table against Fort Wayne Carroll.
So, what did Carrothers do? I looked at the clock really fast and I think there was like 1.2 seconds left, so I just launched it, Carrothers said.
Carrothers prayer was answered as she drained a heave from beyond half court to give the Bulldogs their first lead of the game. When the ball went through the net, she screamed in excitement as her dad, Mark, jumped for joy on the sidelines.
In his 41 years as a player, coach and general manager in Washington, Mitchell was one of the Black players that helped integrate the team alongside Ernie Davis. And upon retiring, he became the first African American to work in an NFL front office.
But before all of that, Robert Cornelius Mitchell was a multi-sport athlete from Hot Springs, Arkansas. Growing up, he played football, basketball, baseball and ran track. To put in perspective the caliber of athlete he was, it s still difficult to say which of the four he was better at.
Mitchell turned down an offer to play professional baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals, choosing instead to accept a scholarship and attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he ran track and played football.
As Illinois K-12 teachers and staff line up for COVID-19 vaccinations as part of Phase 1B, higher education faculty continue to wait for their shot.
The heads of colleges and
Bishop Noll star Courtney Blakely had no clue about her latest recognition until the messages started rolling in. Somebody texted my phone, and they were like, Congratulations, Courtney! and I was like, On what? with like five question marks because I was confused, Blakely said. Then I looked at my Instagram (account) and was like, Wow.
Blakely is one of four Region natives that were announced as McDonald s All-American Games nominees Thursday morning, accompanied by teammate Rose Fuentes, Michigan City s Trinity Thompson and Lowell s Christopher Mantis.
Throughout her senior campaign, Blakely led the state in scoring at 31.7 points per game and was the 10th leading scorer nationally, according to MaxPreps.