Chicago Cubs’ World Series Ring: more than the eye can see
Kain Myer, Sports Writer
April 19, 2017
Year after year, the MLB crowns a new team as the world champion. The champion team gets to experience many luxuries as a result of their postseason success: a hometown parade, a great deal of mass media recognition, and most importantly a brand new piece of jewelry in the form of a ring. Sports fans...
Spring sports preview
Daniel Jakes, Sports Writer
April 11, 2017
Filed under Sports
Baseball: With the spring starting up and athletics moving back to the outdoors, we prepare for another year of Oracle baseball, led by seniors Kain Myer, Jacob Clouser, Dalton Briles, Weston Windell, and Carson Noonkester Delphi looks to improve off of the success from the first year of Ryan Long’s re...
Austin Commits to Ripon
Kain Myer, Sports Writer
April 11, 2017
Year after year, Delphi has been consistent in sending a number of student athletes off to compete at the collegiate level. Marcus Austin, a member of Delphi’s graduating class of 2017, will maintain that trend with his recent commitment to Ripon College for tennis. Ripon is a small liberal arts i...
2016-2017 Winter Sports Review
March 13, 2017
Wrestling The Oracle Wrestling team continued its annual success this season under head coach Mike Atwood, an almost expected result. Delphi was competitive on the mats all season long and had multiple team members reach postseason success. Seniors Chase Wilbur, Evan Lehr, and junior Ty...
March Madness Predictions
Jake clouser, Sports Writer
March 2, 2017
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With March approaching quickly and sport fanatics gathering stats, it is the time of the year where madness is a common theme. March Madness is an energetic, fast paced, and heart pounding couple of weeks. It is the best of the best facing off, all looking to claim that NCAA national title. People lo...
NBA All-Star Weekend recap
Daniel Jakes, Sports Writer
February 27, 2017
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The NBA season came to a halt for at least one weekend as the league's best came together in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the 66 edition of NBA All-Star Weekend, the first event of the break took place Friday night during the Celebrity All-Star Game. The game itself wasn’t so much a game as it was enter...
Boys’ Basketball gears up for Sectional
Kain Myer, Sports Writer
February 23, 2017
Filed under Sports
In his second consecutive year back in the head coaching position, Brian McCammon has begun to bring back the old junkyard mentality that Delphi basketball was once all about. After grabbing only four total victories all of last season, the Oracles have greatly improved and will have a good chance at ...
Tyron Watson Advances to Semi-State
February 14, 2017
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Delphi grappler Tyron Watson, junior, advanced to this weekend’s semi-state wrestling tournament after easily winning the regional competition. With a total time of seven minutes and thirteen seconds of wrestling on Saturday, Watson made regionals look easy. Watson wrestled a total of three matches which...
Lady Oracles win Sectional Championship
February 8, 2017
Head coach Rainey Jones and the Delphi Lady Oracles ended the regular season with an impressive 14-8 record and opened up their postseason tournament last Wednesday, Feb. 1 at Knox High School. Heading into the tournament, the Lady Oracles knew they would be tested in all aspects of the game from the b...
Wrestling Sectional Preview
Daniel Jakes, Sports Writer
January 27, 2017
Filed under Sports
The Oracle wrestlers will compete in the Lafayette Jefferson sectional meet on Saturday, Jan. 28. The sectional hosts many tough opponents including Harrison, the sectional favorite, Lafayette Jeff, Central Catholic, Faith Christian, McCutcheon, Carroll, Rossville, Benton Central, and West Lafayette. Â...