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Team Histories
Most towns have one team institution with a history deep enough to stand on its own. In New Carlisle that institution is not a school program but a backyard game that grew into a national tournament: The Wiffle®Ball Championship at Hometown Days and the Old Republic Wiffle®Ball League (ORWBL) it spawned. This section gives that institution its own home — its eras, its champions roll, its managers and its defining players — and carries the New Prairie Cougars' coaching successions and title-season players at the depth the record supports. The Sports leg keeps the survey of all town sport; this section keeps the deep history.
The Wiffle Ball Complex and Team Histories
The frame article
The rule: a team with a deep history gets its OWN page; the Sports section keeps the survey. A program earns a page of its own when it has a founding story, a grounds story, a champions roll long enough to argue over, and a hall…
The Wiffle Course, Era by Era
Season-era buckets, 2005–2026
Charter tournament seasons (2005–2006). The institution begins as a tournament only. In February 2005 Jason Maitland and Koby Keck pitched a wiffleball tournament to the newly formed Hometown Days committee; on 30 July 2005 the…
The Hometown Cup Roll, Year by Year, 2005–2026
The championship roll from the league's own records
Two titles are decided in New Carlisle's wiffleball, and the record keeps them distinct: the Hometown Cup, the championship of The Wiffle®Ball Championship tournament at Hometown Days each July, and the ORWBL World Series, the…
The Managers Complete: New Prairie Successions and the League's Own
Head coaches in order, with seasons
Football. Bart Curtis, 1997–2007 : 4–6, 6–4, 7–3, 8–3, 7–4, 8–4, 8–3, 12–2 with a regional title in 2004, 6–4, 11–2 with a sectional in 2006, 7–3 — then Mishawaka from 2008 and later Warsaw. The dug record does not establish the…
Defining Players I: Robakowski and Geyer, and the 2023 Softball Champions Whole
New Prairie softball, 2023
Abby Robakowski. The senior third baseman was the engine of New Prairie's first state title in any sport. Her 2022–23 finals-program line: a .589 average on 112 at-bats, 66 hits, 63 runs, 73 RBIs, 13 doubles, 3 triples and 23…
Defining Players II: Greenwood and Robinson, and the 2024 Baseball Champions
New Prairie baseball, 2024
Tyson Greenwood. The senior starting pitcher won the final the way aces are supposed to: at Victory Field in Indianapolis he threw 6.0 innings against Brebeuf Jesuit — two runs, one earned, two walks, seven strikeouts — and left…
Defining Players III: Christian Carroll, State Champion at 220
New Prairie wrestling, class of 2023
Christian Carroll is the New Prairie wrestler whose record outgrew the state. As a Cougar he won the 2022 Indiana state championship at 220 pounds with a 22–0 season — carried on his Iowa State roster biography as "2022 Indiana…
Defining Players IV: The Wiffle Ball Hall of Fame Rolls
The New Carlisle Wiffle Ball Hall of Fame, 2020–2022 rolls as published
The institution keeps its own roll of defining players. The New Carlisle Wiffle Ball Hall of Fame was established in 2020; its criteria weigh on-field performance together with impact on the founding and growth of The Wiffle®Ball…