The Ugly Crier

06/04/2026

🚨STATE SENDOFF🚨

Tomorrow, Kyler North and William Couse are headed to Indianapolis for the IHSAA State Track and Field Tournament!

Join us as we send them off from the Mississinewa High School track at 2:30 PM. Let’s show them the support of our community before they take off to Indianapolis!

All are welcome! Join us as we send them off!

06/03/2026

Congratulations to the Alexandria Lady Tiger Softball team on their (back to back) Regional Softball Championship Title 🐾 AlexAthletics

ALEXANDRIA—The Frankton Eagles returned to Alexandria seeking payback for a tough one-run loss to the Tigers in the Central Indiana Conference championship game less than two weeks ago.

06/02/2026

Good luck today to all of the teams this Ugly Cryer supports! 🥎🥎

06/01/2026

Proud Crier here. 3 of the schools I provide spirit wear for year-round are heading into IHSAA Regional Softball 🥎 games on Tuesday evening! Ladies, I played ball ages 4-18 so I am living vicariously through you. I have watched the majority of you play, and my old catcher (& 3b) bones def couldn’t do what you gals do today! Haha! Stay safe & stay hydrated! I am one of your biggest fans. Cheers. ✌🏻🥎
Frankton Eagles Athletics AlexAthletics Mississinewa High School Athletics

05/31/2026

Congratulations, lady Tigers! Back to back Sectional champions 🐅🥎 Great day to be a Tiger, Alexandria 🐾

05/30/2026

WHAT’S BIG, ROUND, AND COVERED IN THOUSANDS OF COATS OF PAINT?

If you said the World’s Largest Ball of Paint in Alexandria, Indiana you’d be right! We here at USI love discovering Indiana oddities and we couldn’t pass up sharing this Hoosier icon. Created in 1977 when local resident Mike Carmichael and his son began covering a baseball in house paint, you could say that the unique hobby soon became too big to handle, and Mike had to build the ball of paint its own barn.

Today the ball has more than 27,000 coats of paint on it and weighs about 2 ½ tons. Have you ever visited the World’s Largest Ball of Paint?

05/30/2026

Congratulations to the Frankton Eagle Softball team 🦅 🥎 Eagle earrings are always located at GypsySoul and the Alexandria Bakery for your school spirit needs✌🏻

TIPTON—Thanks in large part to a junior season lost to an ACL injury, Frankton senior Grace Kessinger had long anticipated the opportunity to win a sectional championship.