Northridge Doesn’t Give An Inch

Northridge’s girls tennis team didn’t concede much Tuesday in its Northern Lakes Conference dual with Wawasee. The Raiders were very impressive in its 5-0 win on its home turf.

The trio of singles players from Middlebury gave up just three games and the pair of doubles tandems were even sharper, giving up just one game.

Kylie Frauhiger held down the one singles against Jada Antonides 6-1, 6-1. Taylor Sellers shut out Nealy Thanasrivanitchai love and love at two singles while Chase Kieper beat Chelsea Carolus 6-0, 6-1 at three singles.

Emily Hughes and Kenzie Martin were perfect against Charity Parker and Ashley Larson in a shut out at one doubles. The two doubles pairing of Vanessa Raber and Kenzie Kauffman had no trouble with Jazlyn Gehlhausen and Kabrea Rostochak love and one.

Northridge improves to 7-2 overall and 3-1 in the NLC while Wawasee falls to 1-6 overall and 0-3 in the NLC.

Wawasee had a little more wiggle in the JV matches, but still dropped all seven courts to Northridge.

Jasmine Morehead and Courtney Larson had the top showing on the doubles courts in an 8-4 loss to Sarah Hartman and Carlee Schroeder. Lauren Horn gave Alysha Homewood a run in the top singles match, but Homewood came out on top 8-3.

Memorial Takes Two On Track

Elkhart Memorial held firm on its own track Tuesday night in the Northern Lakes Conference triangular with Concord and Wawasee. The Chargers crushed both the Minutemen 84-48 and the Warriors 85.5-46.5. Concord earned the split, besting Wawasee 73-59.

Ally Bailey was the superstar for Memorial, winning three individual events and helping Memorial to a 4×100 relay win. Bailey claimed honors in the 200 (27.78), the 100 hurdles (16.6) and 300 hurdles (49.19) and anchored the relay to a 51.85 winner.

Brooke Moore gave Memorial wins in all three distance events, taking the 800 (2:24.88), 1600 (5:21.69) and 3200 (11:59.50), continuing to assert herself as one of the premier track distance runners in northern Indiana.

Deanna Cornelius paced Memorial in the pits, taking the shot put (42-3) and the discus (124-0.5).

Memorial won 11 of the 16 events to dominate the meet.

Wawasee had one lone win Tuesday, coming from Taylor Busse in pole vault. Her clearance of 8-0 was matched by two other competitors, but Busse achieved the height first, taking the tiebreaker for the win.

The Lady Warriors had four individuals finish second on the night, highlighted by Shelby Swartz in the 100 hurdles (16.73), Leigh-Ann Shrack in the 200 (27.85), Maddie Birch in the 3200 (12:10.88) and Hannah Winters in discus (106-7.5).

Wawasee falls to 1-4 in the NLC duals and will next be in action Saturday at the John Reed Relays hosted by East Noble.