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Sports · two state titles in two years, two lost football finals, and the game the town invented
New Carlisle's teams played for half a century before they won anything the state keeps: the town's high school closed into New Prairie in 1969, and the consolidated school's Cougars reached two football state finals and lost both, reached a softball final in 2006 and lost it — and then, in thirteen months across 2023 and 2024, won the school's first two state championships, in softball and baseball. Alongside the school record stands the town's own: a Wiffle Ball championship founded in 2005 that grew from fifteen teams in a park into a ninety-six-team tournament with its own league, its own grounds and its own hall of fame — the only team institution this town ever founded for itself. The titles below print at the IHSAA's strength or they do not print; where the association's rolls were not reached, the gap is named with its settler.
Two schools, one town team: New Carlisle High School to 1968, New Prairie from 1969
1860s–2026 · the frame; institutional courses in the Schools section
The town's school sport runs under two names: New Carlisle High School, whose yearbooks run 1950 to 1968 in the record the Schools section read, and New Prairie High School, opened 1969 for the consolidated New Prairie United…
Softball, 2023: the first state championship in school history
JUNE 2023 · IHSAA Class 3A final, Bittinger Stadium, Purdue — New Prairie 4, Tri-West Hendricks 2
The drought ended on a Friday night in West Lafayette: New Prairie's softball team defeated Tri-West Hendricks 4–2 in the Class 3A state championship game at Purdue's Bittinger Stadium, and the IHSAA's own account states the fact…
Softball, 2006: the first finals team, beaten 5–0
2005–06 SEASON · IHSAA Class 3A final — Boonville 5, New Prairie 0
Seventeen years before the title, the program reached the same game and lost it: the IHSAA's Softball State Championship Records Book carries the 2005–06 Class 3A final in its results table — Boonville, coached by Mike Wilson…
Baseball, 2024: the second title, a year after the first
JUNE 2024 · IHSAA Class 3A final, Victory Field, Indianapolis — New Prairie 7, Brebeuf Jesuit 2
The school's second championship took thirteen months to follow its first: New Prairie's baseball team defeated Brebeuf Jesuit 7–2 in the Class 3A state championship game at Victory Field. The head coach was Mark Schellinger …
Football: two state finals, both lost — and a ten-title sectional roll
1973–2026 · finals 2014 and 2022; sectional titles read from the IHSAA's all-time list
Twice the Cougars played for the championship, and the record is plain about both: in 2014 New Prairie reached the Class 4A state final and lost to New Palestine 77–42; on 25 November 2022, at Lucas Oil Stadium, the…
Girls' basketball: four sectional titles, and a coaching change printed as a change
TO APRIL 2026 · the fourth title 2024; the Curless appointment 27 April 2026
The girls' program's roll is counted by its own athletic department: New Prairie's girls won a Class 3A sectional championship in 2024, finishing 20–6 — and when the program's coaching office turned over in the spring of 2026…
Wrestling: one state champion, and the program's firsts
1980–2026 · the IndianaMat program record, re-dated at assembly
The wrestling program's state record is a short roll, kept whole by its own record-keeper: IndianaMat's team-firsts record for New Prairie counts 17 state qualifiers, 6 placers and 2 finalists in the program's history, and one…
The town's own game: the Wiffle Ball championship, Migley Field, and the Wiffle Kingdom
Every other team in this section was assigned to the town; this one the town founded: in 2005, as part of the newly formed Hometown Days festival (Fairs & Civic carries the festival whole), New Carlisle held a Wiffle Ball…
Bowling: the Black Cat, six lanes on Arch Street
AS OF NOVEMBER 2026 · the town's one standing games house; its early course a named gap
The town's bowling record is one small house, still standing: the Black Cat — Black Cat Lanes, with Meyers' Ice Cream — at 112 South Arch Street, a family-owned house of six lanes by its own listing (a reviewer's count says five…
Youth ball: the Little League and the Palace of Bourissa Hills
AT CARRIER STRENGTH · the town's youth diamond record is thin and prints thin
Below the school and the Wiffle Kingdom stands the children's game, and its record is mostly a name: the New Prairie Little League plays on the town's youth diamonds, and its T-ball field carries a nickname the Wiffle carriers…
The sports leg carried teams and titles and no players at all. This addendum builds the registers the checklist demands — born here, formed here, chose this ground, three rolls never merged — and works basketball and football down to their player records, tests the fight game, and prints the roll of the names this record does not hold.
The registers, separated by tie: born here / formed here / chose this ground
Built November 2026 · EACH NAME WITH ITS TIE STATED
Three rolls, kept separate because a tie is a fact and merging ties is how small towns steal athletes. Born here. The roll prints one name the record ties by birth to this ground at championship size — and it is a soldier's, not…
Basketball whole: the sectional roll settled in part, and the coaching line to April 2026
1990–2026 · THE IHSAA RECORD AND THE TRIBUNE'S REPORTING
The banked leg printed four girls' sectional titles with three of their years standing as residue; this section settles three of the four and dates the fourth's settler. New Prairie's girls' sectional championships stand in 1990…
Football whole: two finals, a ten-title roll — and the player lines at their true size
1969–2026 · THE TEAM RECORD WHOLE; THE PLAYER LINES UNREACHED
Football's team record is complete and its player record is not, and the article prints both facts. The team frame stands as banked: two state-finals appearances, both lost — 2014 and 2022 — and a sectional roll of ten titles…
The fight game: the test, printed whole
Tested November 2026 · NO STABLE, TRAINER OR CARD IN THE RECORD REACHED
No fragment had ever addressed boxing on this ground; the test is now run, and it returns none. The searches of this section across the banked set and the sports record as reached return no boxing stable, no trainer, no fighter…
Pointed elsewhere: the names this record does not hold
November 2026 · EACH NAME WITH THE CITY THAT HOLDS IT
A register of refusals, printed where a player-hunter looks. Christian Carroll's state titles — held by Jimtown High School, Elkhart: the wrestler was formed in part at New Prairie (a 2021 Fargo All-American under its name) and…
The survey leg opened at the two-schools frame and jumped to the title teams.
The baseball lineage, era by era — at the strength the record carries
To 1968 · 1969–2026 · THE SCHOOL FRAME WHOLE; THE TOWN-TEAM ERA AS RESIDUE
The lineage the checklist wants runs from a first club to the present one with no era skipped; on this ground the school frame is whole and the town-team era before it is a named residue. The eras as the record carries them: the…
The college champions across sports: one wrestler's course, and the test printed
2021–2026 · THE COLLEGE RECORD; THE CROSS-SPORT TEST
Across all sports, this ground's college-champions record is one wrestler — and his school tie is the set's standing lesson in how records lie. Christian Carroll's course, from the college record: an Elkhart native who wrestled…
The venues line: every ground the leg uses, with its dates
2006–2026 · FRANCHISES AND VENUES, PAIRED
A section's grounds, gathered: the town builds its own for its own game, and borrows the state's for its finals. Migley Field, 2006 — the Wiffle Ball ground the tournament's men built in the championship's second year, the New…
Sports Records: Corrections and Open Questions
November 2026 · CORRECTIONS AND OPEN QUESTIONS
Correction 1 — the wrestling champion's school. The firsts record names Christian Carroll New Prairie's state champion of 2022. Matthew Staples won the state title at 165 pounds in 2025 and again in 2026, the second at 39–0 — New…
November 2026 · THE APPARATUS THE SURVEY LEG OWED
One team in this survey is not a survey subject at all, and the leg now says so at its head. The Wiffle Ball championship — the Hometown Cup, Migley Field, the Newts, the Old Republic Wiffle Ball League from 2007 — is told inside the survey file at team-history depth, because the town founded the team, the league and the ground, and no other file could hold them. Every other subject of the survey — the school's title teams, the wrestling firsts, the sectional rolls — stands at survey depth and stays there. The distinction, printed once and governing the file, is the apparatus the checklist asks for.
Sources:
- Sports, nc-wiffle — the championship told at team-history depth inside the survey file, as banked.