Ryan O'Leary

Gracyn Gilliard is, as the kids say these days, a bucket.

From the time Erica Buening was an elementary schooler playing in the Indy Girls Hoops League, all she has really ever known is winning. A lot.

Greenwood hadn’t won a game at Center Grove in four decades, but no drought lasts forever.

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.

Depending on which heats she’s placed in, a swimmer might have less than 10 minutes between state preliminary swims in the 100-yard butterfly and the 500-yard freestyle.

Billed as “Wednesday Night Dyno-Mite” within the MeetMobile app, the annual three-way meet between Greenwood, Indian Creek and host Whiteland offered the three county rivals an opportunity to size one another up and fight for some early-season bragging rights.

Ava Grant admitted that she didn’t think she was supposed to shoot when she found herself open in the right corner with her team up by two points in the final minute.

With his team having lost three of its first five games, Franklin coach Adrian Moss decided to shuffle his lineup a bit to change the energy going into Friday night’s game against Mid-State Conference rival Greenwood.

The comfort of returning home seems to suit Max Hite pretty well.

Because every school’s winter training calendar is different, the Johnson County meet is seldom a perfect indicator of what to expect come sectional time. But the two teams expected to take home the hardware in February also did so on Saturday, with Center Grove’s boys blitzing the field and Franklin’s girls holding off the host Trojans.