AKRON — Tippecanoe Valley’s girls basketball team is really rolling.

As of Saturday night’s 87-25 rout of visiting Whitko, the Class 3A, No. 3 Lady Vikings are winners of nine straight and getting better all the time. Facing a two-week layover before the Concord Tournament on Dec. 30, head coach Chris Kindig is understandably reluctant to take too much time off for the holidays.

“It concerns me a little bit because you kind of have two weeks before your next game,” he said.

“It’s one of those things where we’re just going to play it by ear a little bit, try to get some work in and just give them a little time off and get them completely healed. We’ve really got a lot of momentum right now, and we want to keep working on it and keep getting better. We’ve really improved a lot over this past five or six games.”

Valley’s girls were simply dominant in Saturday’s Three Rivers Conference contest, completely dictating the pace of play while winning every statistical category by comfortable margins.

The Vikings (12-1, 4-0 TRC) won the battle of the boards 39-30, turned the ball over just nine times while flustering the Wildcats (1-12, 0-4 TRC) into 20 turnovers and converted at a 38-of-67 (57 percent) clip from the field while holding their opponents to woeful 5-of-42 (12 percent) shooting. The home already led by 20 points with Makenzie Woodcox’s post-up bucket on an Emily Peterson short corner pass with a full 6:41 remaining in the first half. And with Valley holding a cushion of more than 50 points after three quarters, the Vikings JV lineup even outplayed Whitko’s varsity in the fourth period.

“We needed to play to our level and not somebody else’s level, whatever that is. And I thought we were able to do that,” said Kindig. “I thought we continued to maintain our intensity in that fourth quarter, which was really good to see. And I thought that some of those girls that played some JV time actually looked better than what they did on JV.”

Valley got double-digit scoring from four different players on its way to a season-high 87 points, six more than the team’s previous season-high of 81 versus Culver Girls Academy Nov. 7.

Woodcox finished with 10 points off the bench, Peterson knocked down 4 of 8 3-pointers on her way to 16 points, Addy Miller scored on half of her shots en route to 17, and Sophie Bussard stole the show with 23 points on 10-of-15 shooting, 12 rebounds, two steals and four assists. Bussard already had a double-double of 20 points and 10 rebounds at the break and took just two shots in the third quarter before sitting out the entire fourth, preferring to pass first in the second half. Her unselfish play was typical of the Vikings Saturday, as they recorded 21 assists led by four apiece from Bussard, Miller and Olivia Trippiedi and three from Asia O’Connor, ball sharing that led to nine total players in the scoring column and 25 points off the bench paced by Woodcox’s 10 and eight points on 4 of 5 shots by Sydney Wagner in the fourth quarter.

“We really were able to get the ball in the middle or places that we wanted to get it and kick it out. Our shooters were shooting well tonight,” said Kindig. “It’s just a really nice thing to see when we’ve got that kind of ball movement. That’s part of being a team, and the girls were comfortable tonight. It was a nice win for us.

“Everybody came to play hard, too, even we brought the JV players pretty much in that fourth quarter. They played extremely well too, still ran the floor well.”

There was little the Vikings could do wrong, and there was little the Wildcats could do against them.

The visitors made just one field goal over the entire first half and were able to add only four more after the intermission. Three of those buckets came from Ellie Snep, who led Whitko with 14 points and 15 rebounds. The Wildcats tried to make up for their shooting woes at the line, where they went 14 of 27 Saturday. They drew a full 12 of those trips to the stripe drawing contact in the fourth period alone.

“We were overwhelmed tonight but will use this experience as a benchmark in terms of where we would like to go,” said first-year Whitko coach Rick Bragg. “As always, we played as hard as we could until the very end, and this is all I can ask of the kids.”

Valley’s JV won its game 28-21. Wagner led the team with 15 in that contest. Carissa Beck scored seven, and Augusta Garr notched six for the Wildcat JV.

Valley resumes play at the four-team Concord Tournament on Dec. 30, playing West Noble in the late semifinal at 11:45 a.m. following the opener between Lakeland and host Concord. Whitko returns to action at Bethany Christian next Thursday at 7:30 p.m.