Belton-Honea Path softball's Emma Evans is in her final season with the Bears – and she wants to make it her best.

Checking in with the Indianapolis area's top high school softball teams ahead of the first full week of games.

ELVING: The Pendleton Act banned the hiring of relatives ... ELVING: Elizabeth Linos is the Emma Bloomberg Associate ...

The last state track finals to be held in Bloomington were memorable for county athletes as Ava Jarrell captured the 3200-meter state championship for Pendleton Heights and Tremayne Brown of Anderson ...

ELVING: The Pendleton Act banned the hiring of relatives ... ELVING: Elizabeth Linos is the Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Political Policy and Management at Harvard's Kennedy School ...

Second team includes Waverly's Sadie Royster, Minford's Kerigan Davis and Marlee Pendleton ... In Division II, South Gallia's Emma Clary is Player of the Year. Joining her on first team are ...

North Central coach DeeAnn Ramey will direct both sessions. Hollie Anson-Eaves (South Knox), Lenny Krebs (Warsaw), Amy Selk (Beech Grove), Jason Simpson (Greensburg) and Stephen Thomas (Lawrence North ...