About 24 hours earlier, Drummond had gathered his players on the field at the end of an amazing odyssey.

Trailing by a run in the bottom of the fifth, the Indiana state champions loaded the bases with two outs against Pennsylvania ace Reagan Bills, the tournament’s dominant pitcher.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The kids from Indiana came to play — and they’re not packing their bags just yet.

For five innings, it looked like Floyds Knobs had picked up right where its dominant postseason left off.

That’s the new number keeping athletic directors up at night — the amount schools can now pay athletes annually in direct compensation under the NCAA’s House settlement, beginning July 1.

Lauren Campisano is showing that it can still be done and at a very high level. 

Trinity and Assumption high school are each two wins away from KHSAA state championships in baseball and softball, seasons that have provided quite the journey for the Sander siblings, Colin and Grace. 

Ballard became the first back-to-back state champion since Greenwood in 2007-08 and is only the third school in history to do so.