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Barely fall short in roaring comeback versus West Side

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Season concludes All 64 Sectionals in Indiana high-school IHSAA boys basketball were in full swing across the state by Wednesday, February 28– with Frankfort’s 3A playoffs one of the featured area locations. On this sunny, late-afternoon midweek inside the FHS Everett Case Arena, Benton Central’s battling Bison confronted Hoosier Conference/arch-rival West Lafayette ‘s Red Devils for the 3rd/ “rubber” clash […]

Benton Central bests Berries

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Onward to Frankfort Sectional The regular-docket hardwood conclusion for Benton Central’s Bison boys’ basketball arrived on Friday night, February 23, where the Green and Gold guys ventured to soon-to-become Hoosier Conference (HC) rival Logansport’s new Berry Bowl on East Usher Street and jammed the hosting Berries (enjoying the own Senior Night) by taking a junior-varsity (53-43) and varsity (63-57) double […]

Good Luck at Sectional

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Bison draw West Lafayette for first round sectional game

The opening two weeks of pairings have been announced for the 114th Annual IHSAA Boys Basketball State Tournament presented by the Indiana Pacers and Indiana Fever. Sectional games are scheduled to begin Tuesday, Feb. 27, and run through Saturday, March 2 with regionals on Saturday, March 9. For the second year, the regional is a single-game championship, and the semi-state […]

Bison subdue Panthers in home season’s closer

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Draw West Lafayette for Sectional Opener Almost at the end of the 2023-24 basketball season are the Benton Central Bison guys (14-8), who recently hosted and trimmed Western’s Panthers, 43-36, in the Hoosier Conference’s (HC) inter-divisional playoffs (moved back to Saturday afternoon of February 17, due to Friday’s anticipated— but unexpected amounts—of snowfall). One game remains: next Fri., of the […]

Bison bear down on Bombers in Senior Night second-half landslide

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Lady Bison contest rugged Norwell at Caston Regional With Benton Central’s Bison boys now well into February and on the downward slope towards their regular-docket’s conclusion and onto the 3A Frankfort Sectional (Feb. 27-March 2), this just-wrapped-up week’s action was starlighted (on Thursday, the 8th) by recognition of 8 Bison hardwood seniors as part of the 2024 Senior Night (with […]

Luck of the draw

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Caliz wrestles at semi-state

Kaleb Caliz of Benton Central had an uphill battle against the eighth ranked Sontonio Sessa of Crown Point, the top ranked 4A wrestling team in the state. Caliz made the trip to the East Chicago semi-state over the weekend.

Lady Bison swimmers compete at sectional

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The Lady Bison Swim team competed in Sectionals this weekend at Crawfordsville. Overall the team finished in seventh place. Individual results for swimmers at the sectional were as follows: 200 Yard Medley Relay –6th Place: Harper Harrell,Ella Creek, Ainsley Honn,and Hannah Bice 200 Yard Freestyle –11th Place: Harper Harrell 200 Yard IM –8th Place: Ella Creek10th Place: Ainsely Honn 50 […]

Caliz headed for semi-state

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Benton Central WRESTLING

At Saturday’s wrestling regional contest at LaPorte, Benton Central’s Kaleb Caliz finished third at 132 pounds to advance to this weekend’s semi-state at East Chicago. Brayley Smoot at 106 pounds; Bryan Cortes at 120 pounds; Joseph Mendoza at 138 pounds; Caleb Kewlewski at 150 pounds; Owen Pearson at 175 pounds; Ronald Jenkins at 190 pounds; and Jackson Bunch at 285 […]

Bison repeat early victory over Mavericks

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Lady Bison contain Western in tight HC tussle The wintery weather hasn’t quite left this area, but even with a pair of game postponements for Benton Central’s hardwood clubs, they still made progress. The Bison boys under Head Coach Ben Lambeck trekked to McCutcheon’s Harold Resler Gym (Thursday, January 18) and snapped a 4-contest losing streak by corralling the Mavericks, […]

BC wrestlers advance to Regional

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Benton Central finished fourth as a team at the wrestling sectional on Saturday at Twin Lakes. Rensselaer Central won the Sectional as a team. At 285 pounds, B.C.’s Jackson Bunch was the sectional champ in his weight division. BC wrestler qualifying for Regional by finishing in the top four were: At 106 pounds BC’s Brayley Smoot finished third. At 120 […]


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