Category: Sports Archive 2017
WAWASEE — The Lady Warriors split at the Plymouth Classic Saturday, dominating Brebeuf Jesuit 63-12 before falling 52-44 to Norwell in the night game.
WINONA LAKE – Warsaw rallied to beat Fishers, 43-38, to salvage a win at the Champions of Character Classic at Grace College on Saturday.
ELKHART – Elkhart Central’s top two outdueled Wawasee’s top two at Saturday’s Elkhart Central Blazer Gymnastics Invite.
DUNLAP – A huge second half effort in the championship game carried the Tippecanoe Valley girls basketball team to the title of the Concord Invitational Saturday.
MIDDLEBURY – Savannah Feenstra hit the game winner as NorthWood edged Portage in girls basketball tourney action at Northridge Saturday.
WINONA LAKE — Host Lakeland Christian Academy’s girls basketball team came up a play short in the Cougar Classic championship, falling 32-31 to Kalamazoo at Grace College’s Manahan Orthopaedic Center Friday.
NAPPANEE – The NorthWood boys basketball team rolled to the championship of its own Dan Gunn Holiday Tourney Friday night.
SYRACUSE – St. Joe held off Wawasee, 34-30, to win the inaugural Wawasee Holiday Invitational.
MIDDLEBURY – The NorthWood girls basketball team went 1-1 Friday in The Bankers Holiday Classic at Northridge.
MISHAWAKA – The Warsaw wrestling team competed in the Al Smith Invitational Friday.
AKRON – The Tippecanoe Valley boys basketball team dropped a 56-51 final to John Glenn Thursday night.
NAPPANEE — NorthWood’s boys basketball team returned from the holiday break with a lopsided, 77-32 win over Edwardsburg in the late semifinal at the Dan Gunn Holiday Tournament at The Pit.
WINONA LAKE – A look at day one of the Cougar Classic hosted by LCA, including a personal milestone by Josh McDaniel.
MISHAWAKA – Warsaw will be one of the 32 teams in the Al Smith Wrestling Invitational set for Friday and Saturday.
DUNLAP – Concord has chosen Adam Kirkpatrick to coach its girls soccer team.
MISHAWAKA – Bethel College guard Ryan Lutz has been honored as the Crossroads League Player of the Week.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Purdue rallied for a 38-35 victory over Arizona in the Foster Farms Bowl on Wednesday night.
WINONA LAKE – Former Warsaw coach Al Rhodes will be honored at the Champions of Character Classic at Grace College Saturday night.
WARSAW — The Lady Tigers fell a little short to IBCA No. 20 Chesterton in a 40-39 loss at their home tournament championship Wednesday night.
FORT WAYNE — Wawasee wrestling went 4-0 at the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association Team State Dual Championships Saturday to win the Class 2A title.
A book review of The Score Of A Lifetime by Terry Boers
TOPEKA – The Warsaw boys basketball team lost to Class 2-A No. 2 and undefeated Westview 57-50 Saturday night.
WARSAW – Norwell used a big second-half rally to top Warsaw 54-50 in girls basketball action Friday night.
SYRACUSE – The Wawasee girls basketball team upset Class 2-A No. 9 Central Noble 44-39 Friday night.
AKRON – Undefeated LaVille topped Tippecanoe Valley 60-43 in high school boys basketball play Friday night.
CHICAGO – The Grace College women’s basketball team picked up its fifth straight win Friday night.
BOURBON — The Trojans showcased some offensive efficiency on the way to a 52-35 win over visiting South Bend Trinity Friday in Bourbon.
ROCHESTER — NorthWood, Triton and Tippecanoe Valley got a good measuring stick at Friday’s John McKee Memorial Invitational, which pitted some of the area’s top wrestlers against one another in a 16-team tournament.
WARSAW – The Edgewood Middle School boys basketball teams netted a pair of wins Thursday night.
BREMEN — NorthWood’s girls basketball team made a few more plays down the stretch, and the Black Swish gave head coach Adam Yoder a 40-35 win at alma mater Bremen Thursday night.
SYRACUSE – Northridge had too much firepower in toppling Wawasee in boys and girls swimming Thursday night.
BOURBON — The Lady Trojans put up a season-high just two nights after scoring a season-low at Warsaw, and Triton moved to 3-1 in the Hoosier North Athletic Conference with a 56-38 win over visiting Caston Thursday.
CHICAGO — Grace’s women’s basketball team enjoyed its start to the Roosevelt Tournament with an 80-45 drubbing of Robert Morris on Thursday.
Wawasee’s Elisha Tipping and Triton’s Drew Stichter headline the AP All-State football selections.
NORTH MANCHESTER – Manchester High School senior Kiera Stacy signed her letter of intent to continue her softball career at Huntington University.
There will be plenty of high school hoops action over the holidays at several tournaments on both the boys and girls side.
WARSAW – The Lakeview Middle School boys basketball teams picked up a pair of wins over Carroll Wednesday night
WARSAW — Warsaw’s boys basketball team ran away from Whitko with a 21-9 fourth quarter, snapping a five-game losing streak with a 67-49 win over the Wildcats in the two teams’ first game since 2007 at the Tiger Den Wednesday night.
WINONA LAKE – Warsaw boys basketball will play Dec. 30 for the inaugural Champions of Character Classic.
NORTH MANCHESTER – Manchester High School senior Sydney Day signed her letter of intent to continue her softball career at Indiana Wesleyan.
NAPPANEE – The NorthWood swim teams competed in a triangular meet Tuesday night.
SYRACUSE – Wawasee wrestling is on a roll, and heading to its first Team State this weekend in Fort Wayne.
WARSAW — A stingy Warsaw defense combined with a struggling Triton offense to produce a lopsided, 46-14 Lady Tiger victory at home Tuesday night.
CULVER — Five Valley players scored in double figures on the way to a 72-56 victory on the road at Culver Community Tuesday.
WARSAW — Warsaw’s girls and boys swim teams both won their dual meet with Columbia City Tuesday night, but they did it in different fashions.
SYRACUSE – Mitchell Wilson scored 21 points to lead Columbia City to a 46-38 boys basketball win at Wawasee Tuesday night.
LAKE WALES, FLA. – The Grace College men’s basketball team dropped a 99-79 final to Warner Tuesday night.
FORT WAYNE – The Edgewood Middle School boys basketball teams won two games Tuesday night.
NAPPANEE – The Class 3-A No. 6 ranked Fairfield girls basketball team topped NorthWood 47-34 Tuesday night.
WARSAW – WCHS girls cross country coach Matt Campbell announced his resignation on Tuesday.
WINONA LAKE – Grace College volleyball standout Alexa Hill has received a pair of All-American honors.
WARSAW – The Lakeview Middle School boys basketball teams won a pair of games Monday night.
WINONA LAKE – Kaiden Pence led the Squires with 13 points as Manchester’s ‘C’ team defeated LCA’s JV boys basketball team, 38-15, Monday night.
GARY – The Grace College women’s basketball team picked up its third straight win Monday night.
SYRACUSE – Freshman basketball results for Wawasee on Monday, Dec. 18.
BABSON PARK, Fla. – Grace’s men’s basketball team kicked off its trip to the Sunshine State with a 92-90 win at Webber International.
ROLLING PRAIRIE – The Dunes Volleyball Club will hold youth sessions on Saturdays in January.
INDIANAPOLIS – Former WCHS football star Tristan McClone has been honored for his success in the classroom at Marian University.
WARSAW – The Warsaw freshman boys basketball team claimed the championship of its own tournament on Saturday.
WARSAW – The Warsaw boys basketball team dropped a 55-50 final to Crown Point Saturday night.
PLYMOUTH – The NorthWood girls basketball team remained unbeaten in conference play with a win at Plymouth Saturday night.
ROYAL CENTER — Triton’s girls basketball team snapped a three-game skid with a 46-32 HNAC victory at Pioneer Saturday.
AKRON — Class 3A, No. 3 Tippecanoe Valley’s girls basketball team put up season-high points production while dominating Whitko 87-25 for the Vikings’ ninth straight win Saturday.
SYRACUSE – Lenny Krebs’ Warsaw squad held off Matt Carpenter’s Wawasee team, 43-33, in a battle of former girls basketball coaching mates.
WATERFORD MILLS – LCA went a collective 1-3 at the Bethany Christian boys and girls basketball tournaments.
SYRACUSE – Wawasee finally lost a dual, albeit a tough one to Northridge, at its December Duals on Saturday.
LaPORTE – Wawasee opened its gymnastics calendar with an appearance at the LaPorte Pairs Saturday morning.
LAKEVILLE — Triton’s wrestling team went 5-0 at the LaVille Super Duals Saturday, pushing the team out to a school record-tying 15 wins in the process Saturday.
KENDALLVILLE – Race results from the Tinsel Trot in Kendallville.
WINAMAC — Winamac knocked down 7 of 10 3-pointers on the way to a 34-17 halftime lead, then held on for a 52-42 win over visiting Triton Friday night.
WARSAW — Wawasee’s boys basketball team claimed a hard-fought, 28-20 win at the Tiger Den Friday night, ending two significant NLC streaks in the process.
SOUTH WHITLEY – Career nights from River West and Brett Sickafoose helped Whitko to a 65-46 win over Tippecanoe Valley Friday night.
Area scores from high school boys and girls basketball games from Friday night.
NAPPANEE – Brad Delio was the hero with the game winner for NorthWood in a thrilling 52-51 boys basketball conference win over Plymouth Friday night.
SOUTH BEND – Newly promoted Chicago Cubs bench coach Brandon Hyde will headline the South Bend Cubs Foundation’s First Pitch Banquet on Wednesday, Jan. 17.
WINAMAC — Tippecanoe Valley’s girls basketball team won its eight straight — and fifth straight on the road — with a 58-33 victory at Winamac Thursday night.
WINONA LAKE — The Grace College lost its third straight to physical No. 6 Indiana Tech at home at the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center Thursday night, 92-63.
WARSAW – The Edgewood Middle School boys basketball teams defeated Lakeview Thursday night.
DUNLAP – Wawasee piled up a 56-9 NLC wrestling win Thursday at Concord.
SYRACUSE – Wawasee athletic results for Thursday, Dec. 14.
NAPPANEE – Maddy Payne led the way as the NorthWood girls basketball team topped Jimtown Thursday night.
ROCHESTER – A brisk fourth quarter helped Rochester to a 32-28 over Triton in girls buckets Wednesday night.
WARSAW – The Warsaw swim teams rolled to conference wins over Plymouth Wednesday night.
WARSAW – Warsaw will put its conference winning streak on the line Friday night when boys basketball league action commences.
NORTH MANCHESTER – Tippecanoe Valley used at least a half dozen wins on both sides of the event sheet Wednesday to dispatch Manchester in boys and girls swim duals.
WINONA LAKE – A trio of Grace men’s soccer players received NCCAA All-American accolades.
WINONA LAKE – LCA and North Miami have rescheduled its boys basketball game for Jan. 9
WARSAW — Registration is going on now for the YMCA’s Youth Basketball League.
NAPPANEE — NorthWood’s boys basketball team snapped a two-game skid with a comfortable, 56-21 win over visiting Jimtown Tuesday.
AKRON — Tippecanoe Valley’s boys basketball team struggled to score and got off to a slow start on the way to a 60-36 loss to visiting Peru Tuesday night.
WARSAW – The WCHS Athletic Department will honor longtime announcer Ron Henry this Friday night.
COLUMBIA CITY – Defense carried the Warsaw girls basketball team to a win at Columbia City Tuesday night.
NAPPANEE – Wawasee mixed and matched its way to a pair of easy wins in the pool at NorthWood Tuesday night.
AKRON — Tippecanoe Valley’s sixth grade boys basketball teams earned a pair of wins over Argos Monday.
BOURBON — Triton senior Baylee McIntire has signed her letter of intent to run cross country and track at Manchester University next fall.
WINONA LAKE – Three members of the Grace College women’s soccer team, including Abby Schue, have earned All-American honors.
Two Notre Dame football lineman were named AP All-Americans while a Ball State receiver was tabbed as a top freshman.
A list of postponements for area high school athletic events for Tuesday, Dec. 12.
WARSAW – The Edgewood Middle School boys basketball teams were both winners Monday night.
AKRON — A make-up date for the Tippecanoe Valley boys basketball game with John Glenn has been announced.