stacey washington township high school 1996

The team did not have a home field up to standard on the school grounds (“It was basically three telephone poles and a chain-link fence for a backstop,” Newlin said) so it played its games at a renovated youth field in Bloomingdale. At the time, Turkey Run was a 38-year-old consolidated school of 208 students from Bloomingdale, Green Township, Marshall and Tangier.

It was - and still is - a remarkable story in the history of Indiana high school sports. “I’ll quote the ‘Blues Brothers,’” Falls said with a laugh. The story had so many similarities to the Cinderella 1954 small-school Milan basketball team - the team even visited “Plump’s Last Shot”, the Broad Ripple restaurant of Milan legend Bobby Plump, the night before the state softball championship in 1996.īut 25 years later, it is not a line from “Hoosiers” that former Turkey Run star pitcher Stacey (Newlin) Falls uses to describe that memorable championship season. View Gallery: IHSAA softball semistate: Roncalli beats Mt.

Stacey washington township high school 1996