Baseball

Wawasee had its chances, not once or twice, but three times. And luckily, the third time was the charm.

After leaving the bases loaded in both the fifth and sixth innings of a tied game, then giving up a run in the seventh, Wawasee finally made its chances come through in a 6-5 win over Warsaw.

A sacrifice fly from Jared Hawley put the Tigers up 5-4 in the top of the seventh. The Tigers used RBIs from Michael Nunez and Kyle Kuhn to build a 3-0 lead in the second, and plated a run in the fifth on a sacrifice fly from Liam Patton.

Wawasee got RBIs from Kam Salazar, Levi Brown and Parker Young to keep pace through four innings, but left five runners in scoring position in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings. The rally in the seventh had Jacob Garcia and Jeremiah Bess both single and move around the bases on Warsaw errors, Garcia coming in on Bess’ knock. Jairus Boyer will have something to tell the grandkids after driving in Bess with a single to walk it off for the Warriors, who swept Warsaw in the home and home series.

Bess paced Wawasee with three hits and two runs scored while Hawley and Kuhn each had two hits for the Tigers.

Wawasee workhorse Blake Norris once again got the win, on the hook for eight hits three walks and five earned, but struck out seven.

Mason Reber took the loss for the Tigers, giving up all three hits in the seventh.

The Warsaw JV team outslugged Wawasee in a 17-7 final. The JV Tigers led 7-0 after two innings en route to improving to 11-1-1 on the season. Luis Alonzo was 2-4 with four RBI and three runs scored and Brayden Lane was 3-4 with three RBI for Warsaw. Jacob Hutcherson notched the pitching win for the Tigers.

Wawasee (7-7, 3-4 NLC) will visit Elkhart Memorial Thursday in a make-up game while Warsaw (3-10, 1-7 NLC) will host Goshen Friday afternoon.

Boys Golf

On a day when the temperatures soared into the 80s, Wawasee kept it in the 40s in its 176-219 win over Tippecanoe Valley at Round Barn.

A medalist 40 from Dillon Drake followed by two 44s from Zach Leedy and Evan Dippon and two 48s from Jared Krugman and Luke Weisser were much more fit for the day.

Valley couldn’t match Wawasee past the 41 from No. 1 Cade Brouyette. From there was a 51 from Carter Kistler, a 61 from Bryce Modeferd, 66 from Mason Purvis and 77 from Cory Fincher.

Wawasee improves to 4-3 overall in dual matches and will host Jimtown Thursday while Valley will look to recover at Saturday’s LaVille Invite.

Girls Tennis

Wawasee and NorthWood waged a good battle Wednesday in a Northern Lakes Conference dual at Wawasee, the Panthers coming out on top 4-1.

All five courts were competitive, NorthWood getting the better of the scoreboards oat one singles and one doubles, where Reegan Miller took down Kendra Doerr two and three while the tandem of Kennedy Wiens and Betsy Nunemaker came out on top of Kabrea Rostochak and Courtney Larson two and two.

Gretchen Adams had to take a first set tiebreaker 7-6 (2) before holding off Elizabeth Kleopfer 6-4 in the second at two singles. At three singles, Lauren Mikel also had to go extras, winning the first set 6-1 over Kennedy Church before a 7-6 (4) clincher.

At two doubles, Wawasee earned its lone court win with the duo of Brianna Haessig and Molly Jones pushing through a two and four win over Riley Graber and Alex Jesse.

The JV courts had Wawasee go 5-3 against NorthWood. Court winners for the hosts were Sailor Davis-York twice, Abby Morehead and Casey Yankosky in singles play, and Stephanie Ruiz and Ava Harker in doubles play. NorthWood saw Kate Stillson win a singles court, and duos wins from Caroline Mullet and Olivia Feller, and Paige Henschen and Abigail Richner.

Wawasee (4-8, 1-5 NLC) will visit Lakeland Friday while NorthWood (8-4, 3-3 NLC) will compete Saturday at the CGA Invite.

Boys Track

Goshen got the upper hand on both Wawasee and Elkhart Memorial in lopsided wins. Goshen’s 107-25 win against Wawasee and 95-37 triumph on Memorial left the RedHawks 6-1 in the NLC. The two wins, however, left Goshen one game back of Concord, which wrapped up the Northern Lakes Conference round robin title with a 7-0 mark after a lopsided win over Northridge.

Wawasee, which ends its NLC slate 0-7, had three event wins on the night. Luke Griner stepped out of his customary 800 run and entered the 400 dash, which he took at 50.92, beating Goshen’s Daveyon Sandford by less than a second.

In throws, Elisha Tipping was a double winner in shot and discus, his shot of 50-08 besting NLC throwing heavyweight Brock Tauteris of Goshen by three inches. Tipping bested Goshen’s Steven Worlds in discus with his top flight of 142-03, Worlds going 140-06 and Tauteris 139-10.

Wawasee will be off until next Tuesday’s NLC Championships at Goshen.