WESTVILLE – When Kenny and Kaden Pepper square off out in the backyard, the games can get intense.

WESTVILLE – At 5-feet tall, Kayley Bowley has always had to go to much greater lengths to get by in athletics, so the Westville junior guard adopted a do-whatever-it-takes attitude.

WESTVILLE – Postponements have set back the start to Westville’s boys basketball season to Dec. 11, but with a roster brimming in inexperience, Drew Eubank isn’t complaining.

MICHIGAN CITY – At 6-foot-2, 250 pounds, Javant Hodges looks like a football player in a slightly undersized basketball jersey.

MICHIGAN CITY – After working on his 3-point shooting all off-season, Jamie Hodges, Jr. wanted to show it off against Marquette on Saturday, when the Michigan City sophomore guard hoisted seven treys in the first quarter alone against the Blazers.

UNION MILLS – After Brendan Carr averaged nearly 15 points and 11 rebounds a game last season, the question for South Central’s 6-foot-8 center is, what’s his ceiling?

LaCrosse has put its varsity and junior varsity boys basketball teams on pause until Dec. 14 after a player tested positive for COVID-19.

UNION MILLS – Too cool for school?

MICHIGAN CITY – From a group of spare parts to state and regional champions, Michigan City’s Pop Warner 12U football team has come a long way from the group that David Smoot II and some other dads cobbled together several years ago.

MICHIGAN CITY – Tacos for everybody!

NEW CARLISLE – The elements for an upset percolated Saturday night at New Prairie.

NEW CARLISLE – Size, experience, versatility and coaching continuity could all add up to a breakthrough season for a New Prairie program defined by mediocrity and change dating back to its last sectional title in 2003.

Like most coaches, Drew Eubank is a creature of habit.

NEW CARLISLE – Basketball runs deep in the Flagg family, going back to grandpa Mike, who played at Rolling Prairie, followed by his son Jason and daughter-in-law Brandee (Sinka), who both played at New Prairie.

Saturday’s Marquette Catholic game with Michigan City was supposed to mark the first time that the Blazers hosted the Wolves in the on again, off again history of the cross-town match-up.

MICHIGAN CITY — It was a script Mike Megyese had seen before, only the outcome this time was much different.

LACROSSE -- Based on one night's performance, Ben Garwood and Kyle Gorski could be one of the better combinations in the Porter County Conference that doesn't wear a Kouts uniform.

MICHIGAN CITY — Flipping the switch.

MICHIGAN CITY -- Is it possible for 84FAST to press the pedal even harder in its second season?

KOUTS -- As the fouls on Kaden Manna mounted, Ray Tarnow kept looking down at his depleted Marquette bench, hoping a viable option would magically appear.

LACROSSE – With only a couple schools in the Porter County Conference who have football teams, there aren’t too many basketball players who look like they’ve ever been in a weight room.

LACROSSE – On his way to school every day, Carter Burkholder passes by South Central High School a couple miles down County Road 600 West from his home.

La PORTE – Plenty of points, roughly 80 percent of La Porte’s scoring went out the door of Slicer Gym after last season, ushering in a new look for a new season with a team of new faces and a new style.

La PORTE — The lighted half-court concrete slab at the Ott-Large house has been the site of some competitive basketball over the years.

UNION MILLS -- After South Central's second one-possession loss to a larger-school opponent, Wes Bucher wasn't content with the old college try. 

La PORTE — Shooters shoot.

MICHIGAN CITY – Every sports schedule is tentative in today’s COVID-19 world, so even though Michigan City lists Gary West Side as its final home opponent on Jan. 29, Senior Night was celebrated Thursday just to be on the safe side.

QB – Gio Laurent, Michigan City

MICHIGAN CITY – Defense first.

MICHIGAN CITY – Last season was a baptism by fire for most of Marquette Catholic’s young roster.

The All-La Porte County football team, selected based on coaches’ recommendations, statistics and writer observations, is listed below.

If you’re out and about at Kesling Park and see somebody really getting after it in a workout, chances are it’s Collin Bergquist.

When an athlete is playing junior varsity as a junior, two things can usually be inferred.