Ryan O'Leary

A month ago, Henry Lyness was in the locker room at a TYR Pro Series meet in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, getting ready for one of his preliminary sessions.

With a sectional championship on the line Friday, all four players on the court at second doubles were a bit tight — even more so when the decisive third set went to a tiebreaker.

Center Grove coach Alyssa Coleman calls Brownsburg “a pain in our butt,” saying the fact that every meeting between the two teams seems to come down to the wire is precisely why the Trojans keep the Bulldogs on their schedule.

Greenwood Christian can look back with pride someday about making the title game of the Johnson County baseball tournament for the first time.

The highly anticipated rematch in the state 100-yard backstroke final didn’t quite go how Henry Lyness had hoped. After beating Bloomington South’s David Kovacs a year earlier, Lyness came up just eight hundredths of a second short of a repeat title (47.63 to 47.71).

Zach DeWitt says that one of the main reasons he got into coaching is because he’s intrigued by character arcs and personality development. The Franklin coach feels he got a feel-good ending out of Lili Ratzlaff’s senior season.

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Next Sunday evening, hundreds of millions of people worldwide will be gathered around television sets to watch the Super Bowl.

Indiana State Wrestling Association chairperson Pat Culp can still remember being approached by Hamilton Heights coach Gary Myers nine years ago about growing the sport of girls wrestling here in the Hoosier State.

At 200 pounds of solid muscle, Austin Lowden could easily have been cast as one of Ben Affleck’s roughneck pals in “The Town” or “Good Will Hunting.” He looks more like a seasoned bouncer than a high school soccer player.

SCOUTING THE SEMISTATE

In most sectionals, Isaac Lewis would essentially have a free ride to the state meet in the 100-yard breaststroke. Just show up and win, probably without a tech suit or a full taper, and save energy for the big show.

INDIANAPOLIS

Addy Matern is a pretty easy book cover to misjudge.

Editor’s note: This story is the second in a two-part series covering the waves of conference realignment rippling across central Indiana high school sports. More than half of Johnson County’s high schools have left one conference for another (or become independent) within the last two years, including three in just the past few months.

SCOUTING THIS WEEK’S SECTIONAL QUARTERFINALS

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SCOUTING THIS WEEK’S MATCHUPS

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Take Center Grove out of the equation, and Franklin is having a volleyball season for the ages, winning all 21 of its other matches and dropping just six sets across those wins.