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Brownstown prides itself on getting better in the weight room, and the following athletes were the Braves’ winter weightlifting winners.

INDIANAPOLIS — This was the Great American Novel of basketball games, complete with more twists than the Mississippi River and a return to life from a pulse so low no doctor could read it.

Ruthie Bingham got a late start to her volleyball career, not participating in the sport until seventh grade.

It took a total team effort for Brownstown Central to get to this point, and it’s going to take a total team effort for the Braves to continue their postseason run Saturday afternoon at Greencastle High School.

Brownstown’s Eli Wischmeier was selected to participate in the North/South All-Star game on Friday, July 15.

Drew Hillian remembers a specific moment coaching the third grade girls basketball team as part of the Little Lady Owls program this past season where they realized they were on the verge of doing something special.

While Maddy Hackman was helping the Brownstown Central girls basketball team win its third-straight sectional championship this season, she also accomplished a milestone in her career.

Trayce Jackson-Davis, the 6-foot-9 Indiana forward, has become a basketball philosopher.

Music was blaring and the energy was palpable inside Brownstown Central’s weight room on Monday night as members of the Braves’ football team competed in a friendly weightlifting competition between Bedford North Lawrence and West Washington.

Lillie Wessel grew up playing soccer in Seymour, and when the Owls lost in the sectional last fall, she knew that wasn’t going to be her final match.