By Will Willems will.willems@reporter.net – Feb 10, 2019 Speedway — The Western Boone girls basketball team ran into a well-oiled machine in the Speedway Regional final Saturday night. Defending state runner-up and fourth-ranked Winchester jumped out to a 13-3 lead and never looked back in a 65-41 victory over the Stars. “We definitely were tight on
By Will Willems will.willems@reporter.net – Feb 2, 2019 Cloverdale — The theme for the Western Boone girls basketball team all year has been “unfinished business.” They took a big step towards completely that business Saturday night. The Lady Stars held off a late charge from host Cloverdale, and won the sectional 44 title 62-56. “Our
By Will Willems will.willems@reporter.net – Feb 1, 2019 Cloverdale – Western Boone survived a major scare in the semifinals of Sectional 44 Friday night. Monrovia missed a point-blank put-back attempt at the buzzer, allowing the Lady Stars to escape with a 51-50 win. Head coach Megan Alexander knew after the game that her team got away
By Will Willems will.willems@reporter.net – Jan 25, 2019 Dover – Madison Jones got into a groove early Friday night in her last home game as a Lady Star. And once she got going, there was little North Montgomery could do to stop her. Jones scored 20 points in the first quarter, and finished with a Boone
By Will Willems will.willems@reporter.net – Jan. 23rd, 2019 Dover — With 15 minutes remaining in Tuesday’s match-up with Class 3A No. 6 Benton Central, Western Boone found itself down 25 points, and heading toward a third-straight defeat. Madison Jones had other ideas. The Western Boone senior scored a school record 50 points, 35 coming in
The JV and varsity Lady Stars traveled to face off against the Danville Warriors Friday night. The JV Lady Stars fell to the Warriors with a score of 25-42. The Varsity Lady Stars also fell to the Warriors with a score 57-59. The Lady Stars were led by Madison Jones with 27 points, followed by Tori
The JV and Varsity Lady Stars traveled to face off against the Hamilton Heights Huskies Tuesday night. The JV Lady Stars fell to the Huskies with a score of 19-43. The Varsity Lady Stars also fell to the Huskies with a score 53-64. The Lady Stars were led by Madison Jones with 29 points, followed
By Will Willems will.willems@reporter.net – Jan 11, 2019 Dover – The Western Boone Lady Stars got their second-straight big conference win Friday night, topping Frankfort 79-38 at Stephen A. Wall Gymnasium. But despite the 41-point win, there were still plenty of things to work on for Megan Alexander’s group, especially heading into a tough three-game week
By Will Willems will.willems@reporter.net – Jan. 8th 2019 Dover – There was never any doubt in the outcome of Tuesday night’s Sagamore Conference girls basketball showdown between Western Boone and Crawfordsville. The Lady Stars has defeated the Athenians 60-27 earlier in the season, and any thoughts of a reversal of the outcome were squashed when
The girl’s basketball team traveled on the 27th and 28th to Vincennes University to play in the Niehaus Classic. For the first round of the tournament on Thursday afternoon, the Lady Stars faced Whiteland and fell to the Warriors with a score of 52-61. Later that evening, the Lady Stars faced L.C.C and fell to the Knights with
