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Category: Sports Archive 2017

WINONA LAKE – Grace College softball pitcher Chandler Elliott has been honored by the NCCAA.

WEST LAFAYETTE – Mishawka native and Purdue women’s basketball coach Sharon Versyp has revealed that she is battling breast cancer.

MUNCIE – Former Concord star and Ball State senior Franko House earned third-team All-MAC basketball honors.

WARSAW – The WCHS baseball program will hold a skills camp on March 25 for those in grades 2-8.

AKRON – The awards program for the Tippecanoe Valley boys basketball program is set for March 15.

WARSAW – WCHS senior Kyle Mangas has been honored for his stellar play in leading the Tigers to a sectional championship.

BOURBON – Four from Triton’s boys basketball Hoosier North Athletic Conference championship team were named All-HNAC.

ROSEMONT, ILL. – Purdue pitcher and former Tippecanoe Valey star Tanner Andrews has been honored by the Big Ten.

MISHAWAKA – WCHS product Jordyn Coon hopes to lead his Bethel College men’s basketball team to a national championship.

ROCHESTER – TVMS had several place in the top two at the Rochester Wrestling Invite.

WARSAW – The WCHS Athletic Office will begins selling boys basketball regional tickets on Tuesday.

The Lakeview Middle School 8th grade girls basketball team ended its season Saturday.

LIGONIER – The Lakeview Middle School wrestling team had a strong showing in the West Noble Tournament over the weekend.

COLUMBIA CITY – The Edgewood Middle School 8th grade girls basketball team won the conference tournament title Saturday.

The Warsaw boys and girls track teams had some fine performances in season-opening indoor action over the weekend.

COLUMBIA CITY – The Edgewood Middle School 7th grade girls basketball team capped an undefeated season on Saturday with a championship.

SYRACUSE – Fairfield won its ninth boys basketball sectional championship with a 59-49 win over West Noble in the Class 3-A Wawasee Boys Basketball Sectional.

BOURBON – Oregon-Davis defeated Triton 42-31 in the championship game of the Class 1-A Triton Boys Basketball Sectional.

ELKHART – Warsaw defeated Goshen 49-32 Saturday night to repeat as champions of the Class 4-A Elkhart Central Sectional.

FORT WAYNE – On Friday, May 12 at 6:30 p.m., Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) will be hosting its Night Of Hope featuring Tamika Catchings and Kirk Cousins.

AKRON – Tippecanoe Valley soccer star Ivan Santiago signed his letter of intent to continue his career at Ancilla College.

MARION – The Grace College women’s basketball team lost at Indiana Wesleyan in an NCCAA Regional game.

Scores from area high school boys basketball sectionals.

BOURBON – Triton and Oregon-Davis both won Friday night in semi-final games, setting up the championship showdown at the Triton Boys Basketball Sectional.

HUNTINGTON — Wawasee junior Reagan Atwood punched a ticket to state at Friday’s gymnastics regional at Huntington North.

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – Grace’s eight-member crew competed at the 2017 NAIA Indoor National Championships on Thursday and Friday.

SYRACUSE – West Noble and Fairfield pulled upsets Friday night in the semi-finals of the Class 3-A boys basketball sectional at Wawasee.

ELKHART – Warsaw crushed Elkhart Central 71-36 Friday night in a semifinal contest of the Class 4-A Elkhart Central Sectional.

GOSHEN — Blackhawk rolled past Lakeland Christian Friday night in the semifinals of the Sectional 52 tournament at Bethany Christian.

ELKHART – Goshen topped Elkhart Memorial 65-56 Friday night to win a sectional semifinal contest.

WARSAW – The Warsaw Young Tigers football program is hosting sign-ups on three different dates in the coming month.

The young NorthWood team had numerous personal best times and multiple second and third place finishes for the night.

AKRON – Tippecanoe Valley’s archery program is off and running, heading to state in a week in just its second year.

AKRON – Rochester won a pair of games Thursday over Tippecanoe Valley in sixth grade girls basketball.

WARSAW – The Lakeview Middle School girls basketball teams went 1-1 in tourney play Thursday night.

Sectional semifinal and championship picks from IFN sports writer Nick Goralczyk.

WARSAW – The Edgewood Middle School girls basketball teams both won their tourney openers Thursday night.

SOUTH WHITLEY – Whitko High School senior Kaity Reed has signed on to continue her academic and volleyball careers at Southeastern University in Florida.

MANCHESTER – The Three Rivers Conference issued Thursday its selections for the 2016-17 winter sports Academic All-TRC.

INDIANAPOLIS – Legendary volleyball coach Steve Shondell has been named to the next class of the National High School Hall of Fame.

AKRON – The TVMS wrestling team beat Peru 60-48 and lost a hard fought battle to Wabash 61-30 Wednesday evening.

MISHAWAKA – Several local high school basketball players have been chosen to play in the McDonald’s All-Star games at Bethel College on March 28.

ELKHART – Elkhart Central rallied to stun Penn 75-73 in three overtimes in the Elkhart Central Sectional Wednesday night.

TOPEKA — Whitko simply had no answers for Central Noble’s Mason Smith during Wednesday’s quarterfinal matchup in the IHSAA Class 2-A Sectional Tournament at Westview.

WARSAW – The Lakeview Middle School wrestling team competed versus Edgewood Wednesday night.

ELKHART – Kyle Mangas hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to lift Warsaw past Northridge in first-round boys basketball sectional play Wednesday night.

Scores from area boys basketball sectionals Wednesday night.

KANSAS CITY – The Marian and Saint Francis women’s basketball teams are headed to the NAIA National Tournament.

KANSAS CITY – Four men’s basketball teams from the Crossroads League, including Bethel College, are headed for the NAIA National Championships.

WINONA LAKE – In the last game before the NCCAA National Championships, Grace’s men’s basketball team fell 94-80 to Ohio Christian on Wednesday.

BOURBON – Argos and Oregon-Davis moved on in the Triton Boys Basketball Sectional with wins Wednesday night.

MILFORD – The Milford Fire Department was able to raise $1,000 for Toys For Tots, and defeated the Lake City Media Hoopsters in a charity basketball game Wednesday night.

SOUTH WHITLEY — Whitko’s Brianna Cumberland signed her letter of intent Wednesday afternoon to continue her basketball career at the University of St. Francis.

INDIANAPOLIS – A host of area girls basketball players are part of the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association honors issued Wednesday afternoon.

AKRON – TVMS results for wrestling and girls basketball from Feb. 28.

AKRON – Tippecanoe Valley High School will hold winter sports awards on March 7.

ELKHART – Goshen rallied to defeat Concord 40-38 Tuesday night in the opening game of the Elkhart Central Sectional.

HUNTINGTON – A look at this Friday’s Huntington North Gymnastics Regional, which includes teams from Wawasee and Elkhart Central.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee and NorthWood were day one winners at the Class 3-A Wawasee Boys Basketball Sectional Tuesday night.

MISHAWAKA — In the final home game of Mike Lightfoot’s career, the Bethel College Pilots sent their coach out with a Crossroads League championship.

NAPPANEE — A recap of NorthWood Middle School’s swim team performance from Tuesday night.

BOURBON – Culver beat North Miami 72-55 in the opening game of the Triton Boys Basketball Sectional Tuesday night.

INDIANAPOLIS – Nineteen players have been selected, including Brooke McKinley and Leigha Brown, for the IndyStar Indiana girls Junior All-Stars for 2017.

WARSAW – Our Ink Free News All-Area Boys Basketball selections for First and Second Teams, led by Player of the Year Kyle Mangas of Warsaw.

WARSAW – WCHS senior Kyle Mangas is the IFN Player of the Year for the second straight season.

WINONA LAKE – Austin Baker of the Grace College baseball team was honored by the Crossroads League Monday.

WINONA LAKE – The Grace College men’s and women’s basketball teams will play in the NCCAA Midwest Region this week.

AKRON – Tippecanoe Valley beat LaVille and Rochester among its middle school wrestling detail this past weekend.

WARSAW – A preview of Warsaw as part of the Elkhart Central Boys Basketball Sectional.

BOURBON – A preview of Triton as part of the Triton Boys Basketball Sectional.

NAPPANEE – A preview of NorthWood as part of the Wawasee Boys Basketball Sectional.

SYRACUSE — A preview of Wawasee as part of the Wawasee Boys Basketball Sectional.

AKRON – A preview of Tippecanoe Valley as part of the Wawasee Boys Basketball Sectional.

SOUTH WHITLEY — A preview of Whitko as part of the Westview Boys Basketball Sectional.

WINONA LAKE – A preview of Lakeland Christian Academy as part of the Bethany Christian Boys Basketball Sectional.

MONROEVILLE — The Whitko boys basketball team slipped by Heritage 44-38 Saturday night.

MISHAWAKA – The Bethel College men’s basketball team topped Spring Arbor Saturday in a semifinal of the conference tournament.

INDIANAPOLIS — A recap from Saturday’s IHSAA Boys Swimming and Diving Championships at the Indiana University Natatorium.

LAGRANGE – Elkhart Central won its third straight sectional team trophy Saturday at Lakeland, and will be joined by Wawasee and East Noble at the regional next weekend.

INDIANAPOLIS – The Grace College women’s basketball team lost to top-seeded Marian in the league tournament Friday night.

KNOX – Triton won its first HNAC boys basketball title Friday night after a 50-37 win at Knox.

WARSAW — The Warsaw Tigers dropped their season finale Friday night to visiting Carroll.

AKRON – Alec Craig scored a game-high 32 points to lift Tippecanoe Valley to a 53-42 boys basketball win over Wawasee Friday night.

INDIANAPOLIS — A recap from Friday’s prelims at the IHSAA Boys State Swimming Championships including times of area swimmers from Concord, Northridge, Tippecanoe Valley, Warsaw and Wawasee.

High School Hoops Scoreboard

February 25, 2017

Scores from area high school boys basketball games Friday night.

ELKHART – Highly-respected high school official Kirk Robinson was honored Friday night prior to his final regular-season game at Concord.

WARSAW – The Lakeview Middle School 7th grade girls basketball team picked up a win Thursday night.

Valley Middle School Results

February 24, 2017

AKRON – Tippecanoe Valley middle school sports results for girls basketball and wrestling against Triton.

WARSAW – The Edgewood Middle School girls basketball teams picked up a pair of wins Thursday night.

SOUTH WHITLEY — Whitko’s Kennedy Krull officially signed with Huntington University Thursday afternoon to continue her softball career.

INDIANAPOLIS – WCHS girls basketball coach Michelle Harter will be an assistant for the Indiana All-Star team this summer.

Former area prep basketball standouts Paul Marandet of Spring Arbor and Clay Yeo of Bethel have been honored by the Crossroads League.

INDIANAPOLIS – Four area girls basketball players were named to the Hoosier Basketball Magazine Senior Top 60.

GOSHEN – The Northern Lakes Conference issued its All-NLC girls basketball selections on Thursday.

WINONA LAKE – Braxton Linville and Erik Bowen earned recognition on the postseason All-Crossroads League Team.

UPLAND – The Spring Arbor men’s basketball team topped Taylor 75-73 in the Crossroads League Tournament Wednesday night.

WINONA LAKE – Haley Richardson and Vironnica Drake of the Grace College women’s basketball team have been honored by the Crossroads League.

INDIANAPOLIS – Area swimmers will have their work cut out for them at this weekend’s IHSAA Boys Swimming State Finals.

MISHAWAKA – The Grace College men’s basketball team lost at No. 3 Bethel in the Crossroads League Tournament Wednesday night.

KALAMAZOO – The Grace College baseball team dropped a 9-1 final at Western Michigan Wednesday.

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