INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — On Saturday night inside Mohegan Sun Arena, Fever guard Sophie Cunningham caught fire in crunch time.

Cunningham returned in Saturday’s road matchup against the Connecticut Sun after missing the previous game with a right elbow injury.

On Saturday, Cunningham scored 11 consecutive points in the final two minutes of Saturday’s 85-75 win against the Sun and hit a season-high three triples, all in the last two minutes.

Cunningham told reporters how she’s always prepared for the moment when her number is called.

“You just have to stay ready,” Cunnigham said. “I think that’s kind of been my whole career is you’ve got to control what you can control, and that’s about being a pro. You can’t always control when you’re going to be out there, who you’re going to be out there with. But you got to make it count, and so I did that tonight, but also shoutout to my teammates for getting me the ball when I was open.”

Both Cunningham and Caitlin Clark shared the floor down the stretch of Saturday’s double-digit win. Clark finished with 25 points and connected on five triples, her second-most threes in a game all season.

While it is usually Clark hitting the game-sealing type of shots most fans are used to, this time, it was Cunningham’s moment to put the game on ice.

Cunningham described how much energy she gets from playing alongside Clark and the rest of Indiana’s star-studded lineup.

“I like playing with C [Caitlin Clark],” Cunningham said. “I think that C is an aggressor, I think that AB [Aliyah Boston] is an aggressor, I think Kelsey’s [Mitchel] an aggressor. When you have three elite players like that who all can dominate a game and take over a game, it’s really up to you, so when you get the ball, you can do what you do. I think that you just have to have a feel for the game. Sometimes the energy is low, so you have to go out there and be the aggressor and bring the energy up. But when they already have it, you just got slide right in and don’t drop the energy.”

Cunningham is averaging 8.9 points, 2.4 rebounds, and 1.6 assists per game through 12 games played this season.

The Fever are currently 8-5 and will host the Toronto Tempo inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse this Tuesday, June 16th.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The state championship bracket for Indiana high school baseball has been set, with eight teams preparing for the chance of bringing home a state title.

A total of four state title games will be played between Friday, June 19th, and Saturday, June 20th. Classes 1A and 3A will play on Friday, and classes 2A and 4A will compete on Saturday.

All state championship games will be played at Victory Field, the home of the Indianapolis Indians.

The state championship matchups and times are as follows.

Friday, June 19th:

Class 3A state championship: 4:30 p.m. ET

• Guerin Catholic (27-3-1) vs Andrean (30-3)

Class 1A state championship: 8 p.m. ET

• Northeast Dubois (23-5) vs Kouts (31-1)

Saturday, June 20th:

Class 2A state championship: 4:30 p.m. ET

• Evansville Mater Dei (29-3) vs Bluffton (19-10)

Class 4A state championship: 8:00 p.m. ET

• Bloomington South (25-6) vs Lake Central (27-8)

INDIANAPOLIS (WRTV) — Thousands of people ventured to Military Park in Indianapolis Saturday for the 2026 Indy Pride Festival, including members of the LGBTQ community and their allies.

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John-Michael Riggs, of Tennessee, travels to several pride festivals across the country each year. He said they are important because “it gives people the confidence to be who they are, to show you can go out in public and still not be hated upon.”

Erika Holland-Lesch, who came to the festival with her wife, said, “Pride means everything. It literally feels like Christmas for our community… You feel supported, you feel accepted.”

Chris Bultman said it’s the sixth time he’s attended the Indy Pride Fest.

“It’s really important for me that my friends, my family, feel really valued in this city,” he said. “We show up for pride because pride matters to our city.”

For Rikki Wydra, it was her fifth Indy Pride Fest. She said this year’s festival seems bigger to her than in previous years, and she takes that as a sign that support for the LGBTQ community is growing in Indiana.

“You’ll never get any free expression like this any other time of the year in Indiana,” she said. “The vibe is the best.”

The festival came as Indiana Governor Mike Braun proclaimed June as Nuclear Family Month, defining the family as a husband, a wife, and children, causing backlash in Indiana’s LGBTQ community.

“That is absolutely ridiculous,” said Stefonya Shirhall. “This month is fully for the gay community as a whole. We have went through so much to get here and it is amazing to celebrate it.”

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Festival attendees proudly sported creative costumes, wore rainbow clothing, held rainbow flags, and even cooled down with rainbow fans, keeping vendors busy, like Freddy Reed, who has a business selling pride-themed merchandise.

“I do Pride every weekend in a different city,” Reed said. “It’s amazing. Every town we go to, the people are so happy, they have fun. There’s never fights. Everyone’s nice.”

The positive, festive energy at Indy Pride Fest worked in tandem with the seriousness of the cause of standing up for LGBTQ rights.

“It’s important for people, if part of the LGBTQ community, to attend these because of visibility,” Riggs said. “We need to be seen, we need to be recognized and we need to be celebrated. it’s also important for our allies to attend these events to… uphold and uplift the community and to make us feel like a community at large”