Lady Warriors Cruise To Win At Warsaw

The Wawasee softball team avenged a loss from 2014 in a very big way Tuesday evening. The Lady Warriors blasted rival Warsaw 25-6 in the conference opener behind a 24-hit effort.

Wawasee was led by five hits from Paige Hlutke. The lone Wawasee senior also had a pair of RBIs. Danielle Gunkel had three hits and four RBIs for the Lady Warriors thanks to a three-run home run. Cristina DeLaFuente added another four hits and four RBIs for the visiting squad.

Riley Bloemendaal and Sidney Hernandez each homered for Warsaw (0-6, 0-1 NLC), accounting for five of the six runs driven in for the Lady Tigers.

Wawasee (6-2, 1-0) has now won its last three games and will travel to Elkhart Memorial tomorrow evening. Warsaw will visit Goshen tomorrow.

The JV softball team downed Warsaw 10-8 and are now 3-3 on the season. Nicole Cannon drove in four runs to lead Wawasee.

Concord Sweeps Tennis Match

It was a rough night on the court for the Wawasee girls tennis team. The ladies suffered an 0-5 loss to Northern Lakes Conference foe Concord Tuesday night in Syracuse.

Jenna Landis took the No. 1 singles court for Concord over Wawasee’s Jada Antonides 6-0, 6-0 while at No. 1 doubles the same score led to a victory for Holyn Eldridge and Mandy Meserve over Wawasee’s Charity Parker and Ashley Larson.

The junior varsity team took a 1-6 loss to Concord’s JV team. Brianna Haessig was the lone Lady Warrior to win on Tuesday as she won 6-0 over Aubrey Hanes. The JV team is now 0-3-1.

Wawasee (1-4, 0-2) will play its next varsity match Thursday at Manchester.

Boys Golf Navigate Wind, Cougars

The best part of Tuesday’s match for the Wawasee golf team was that it ended. The Warriors started their nine-hole season by welcoming Central Noble to South Shore Golf Club while the howling winds and 50-degree temperatures left both teams with plus-40 scores. Wawasee was able to escape with a 171-199 victory, but that score was far from the team’s goal.

“It was just so tough with the winds tonight,” began Wawasee head coach Steve Coverstone. “The wind was just relentless. Then you have the cold weather and we had a little rain mixed in there as well. It affected our short game a little bit. The guys said that the wind would wobble the ball a little on the green. It just wasn’t a great night. I actually thought we shot the ball well, the scores just weren’t where we wanted them.”

Mason Germonprez led Wawasee with a 41. Germonprez highlighted his round with pars on holes two, four, five and six. Jeffrey Moore and Cal Heinisch both turned in a 43 for the Warriors while Maclain Herr shot a 44 and Tristen Atwood finished with a 47. Kaleb Smith led Central Noble with a 46.

Wawasee (1-0) will play this coming Saturday in the Whitko Invitational at Sycamore GC in North Manchester.

Wawasee Wins Baseball Game With Football Score

The Wawasee C-team picked up its first win Tuesday night. The Warriors traveled to Plymouth and outlasted the Pilgrims for a 33-22 victory. No, this was not a football game.

Wawasee was led by good hitting from Jacob Garcia while Blake Norris and Cayden Wegener threw consistent games for the visiting team. Zak Linnemeier also contributed to the win with solid defense and good at-bats, according to coach Taylor Burkhart.

Wawasee (1-3) will host Warsaw next Tuesday night.