Warsaw Posts Best Nine-Holer Of Season

Warsaw picked a pretty good time to post its best nine-hole girls golf score of the season. Thursday’s 177-206 win by Warsaw over Manchester at Sycamore Golf Course bested its top score by 15 strokes.

Madi Graham had one of her finer scores of her career, shooting a one-over 37 to lead the charge. Graham birdied one and had bogeys on just holes five and six to compile her stellar round. Page Desenberg also posted one of her better efforts in shooting 44 and Morgen Fuentes continued to shine in the No. 5 spot with a 45. Madison Martz added a 51 and Delaney Wihebrink finished at 57 for the Lady Tigers.

Manchester had a 48 from Kelsey Eichenauer and was followed by a 51 from Madyson Ulrey, 52 from Lydia Little and a pair of 55s from Madison Hire and Leiah Brandenburg.

Izzy Ray and Madeyln Ray each shot 56s to lead Warsaw’s JV, which trumped Manchester 239-257. Miriam Hagg had a 60 and Shelby Paseka a 67 for Warsaw while Megan Sites led the Lady Squires with a 59. Rachel Cave had a 60, Morgan Stroud a 67 and Cora Barnett a 71 to round out the JV scores for Manchester.

Warsaw (7-5 overall) will take part in the Northern Lakes Conference Championship this Saturday at Meadow Valley Golf Club in Middlebury, teeing off at 9 a.m. Manchester (8-7) will compete in the Three Rivers Conference Championship at Norwood Golf Club in Huntington, also a 9 a.m. tee.

Canterbury Supreme In Tennis Sweep

Fort Wayne Canterbury were superb Thursday in a boys tennis dual at Warsaw, sweeping the Tigers 5-0.

Canterbury swept all five courts in two sets, with only two sets passing 10 games.

At No. 1 doubles, Jake Allen and Hunter Jewett needed an extra game to get past David Homme and Chris Herendeen, 7-5, then slowed the Warsaw pair down with a 6-2 winner. At No. 2 singles, Peter Dun ran past Colton Lind in the first set, 6-1, and won a seesaw second set 6-4.

Otherwise, the other three courts were cut and dry. Niko Rongos beat Justin Stout two and one and No. 1 singles and Rohan Paidi defeated Andrew Gauger two and love at No. 3 singles.

At No. 2 doubles, Evan Gize and Arnie Lal raced past Hayden Steger and Hudson Snyder one and love.

Canterbury also showed muscle in the JV matches, winning 10 of the 12 courts. Results were as follows:

#1S: Eric Pomp-Marques (C) def. Nolan Knight (W) 8-0
#2S: Davis Lamm  (C) def. Brandon Chan (W) 8-2
#3S: Jashan Patel (C) def. Diego Miguel (W) 8-1
#4S: John Langmaid (C) def. Jacob Grimm (W) 6-3
#1D: Nish Reddy & Shafer Garrett (C) def. Spencer Britton & Reuben Williams (W) 8-2
#2D: Ben Elliott & Sam Witwer (C) def. Nick Marsh & Kyler Bartol (W) 9-8 (7-3)
#3D: George Sun & Ryan Boyd (C) def. Ethan Hoff & Keeton Bartol (W) 6-4
#4D: Akash Meesa & Ryan Walulik (C) def. Bryce Pequignot & Darrin Knisley (W) 7-5
#5D: Eric Baumgartner & Jarod Barber (W) def. Carols Hofer & Yintae Wyss (C)  6-1
#6D: Bailey Buhrt & Grant Wolf (W) def. Hunter Kirgis & Michael Liu (C) 6-4
#7D: Sean Walulik & Liam Ward (C) def. Tanner Lockridge & Dawson Vilamma (W) 6-4
#8D: Ben Elliott & Sam Witwer  (C) def. Jarett Orr & Noah Hutton (W) 6-1

Warsaw (5-5 overall) will host the Warsaw Tennis Invite Saturday. The Tigers are among eight teams taking part with matches starting at 9 a.m., joined by Fort Wayne Bishop Luers, Crown Point, Fishers, Huntington North, Merrillville, Munster and South Bend St. Joseph’s. A blind draw will decide matchups for the opening round of the tourney.

Warsaw Keeps Rolling Along

A stout defensive effort and a pair of timely goals lifted Warsaw to a 2-0 girls soccer victory Thursday against Concord.

Warsaw used a pair of goals in the first half and made the lead stand up in the annual grudge match between Northern Lakes Conference heavyweights. The Lady Tigers scored in the sixth minute when Anna Grill headed home an Alex Koontz corner kick for the 1-0 lead. Another conversion off a free kick gave Warsaw its second goal, this time in the 27th minute when Breck Jackson sent a free kick into the box, which Elizabeth Van Wormer buried for the goal.

Warsaw dug in from there, holding the previously unbeaten Lady Minutemen out of the net. Warsaw moves to 9-0 on the season and 5-0 in the Northern Lakes Conference. Concord slips to 4-1-1 overall and 3-1 in the NLC.

Chloe Snow made all seven stops to record her fourth shutout of the season.

The JV game went to the Lady Tigers, a 2-1 victor over Concord. Kennedy Patton scored the first goal of the game in the first minute, but Warsaw needed a goal from Janae Jimenez with 45 seconds left in the contest to pull the game out. Patton assisted on the game winner.

Warsaw will next play Monday at home against Fort Wayne Northrop.

Frosh Football Loses To Plymouth

The Warsaw freshman football team dropped a 35-6 final to Plymouth in Warsaw Thursday night.

Bryce Garner had a 90-yard touchdown run for the Tigers.

Warsaw, now 1-2 overall and 0-1 in the NLC, will play at Elkhart Memorial next Thursday at 5:30 p.m.