Sectional championship results for area boys and girls soccer for Saturday, Oct. 12.

SYRACUSE — The stands are only filled with family and friends. There are no cheerleaders, no pep band, no student section. Yet they are watching the most spellbinding game and example of sportsmanship they will see. It’s hard to pull yourself away. What they are watching is a unified coed game of flag football, now …read more.

Softball regional scores from Wednesday along with the conclusion of the baseball sectionals for the IHSAA state tournaments.

INDIANAPOLIS – The IHSAA released its sectional pairings for the 46th annual state football tournament.

Scores from area high school girls basketball sectionals from Friday night.

Scores from high school girls basketball sectionals around the area.

Both Lakeland Christian Academy and Tippecanoe Valley saw their boys soccer seasons end in sectional play Wednesday night.

Official practices for area high school fall sports teams are set to begin over the next several days.

Goshen advanced in sectional baseball action, while Tippecanoe Valley ended it season, Thursday night.

Bethany Christian claimed its second softball sectional title in program history Thursday night.

Results from the Warsaw and Concord boys swim sectional preliminary rounds from Thursday night.

A preview of this weekend’s girls swimming sectionals at Northridge and Warsaw.

A look at area high school football sectional games set for Friday night.

A look at week 10 of the local high school football season as postseason play kicks off Friday night.

WARSAW – NorthWood won the Warsaw Girls Golf Sectional with Wawasee second and Warsaw third on Saturday.

WARSAW — Jordan Anderson punched a ticket to regional Friday afternoon while the rest of the area’s golfers had a rough time.

WARSAW — A preview of Friday’s IHSAA Boys Golf Sectional at Rozella Ford.

A look around the area baseball sectional championship games.

WATERFORD MILLS – Fort Wayne Blackhawk ended Triton’s baseball season Monday with an 11-1 win at the Bethany Christian Baseball Sectional.

LAGRANGE — NorthWood eliminated Wawasee from the Lakeland sectional with a 13-0 win Friday night.

WABASH – The Whitko baseball team saw its season end with a sectional loss to Cass Wednesday night.

WARSAW – A strong effort came up just short for the Warsaw softball team in a 4-2 sectional loss to Northridge Tuesday night.

BENTON — Wawasee advanced to the Fairfield softball sectional championship game with a 12-1 win over NorthWood Tuesday night.

WARSAW – Elkhart Memorial and Concord posted wins in softball sectional play Monday night.

WARSAW – The semifinals of the Warsaw softball sectional are now scheduled for May 24.

FORT WAYNE — The season came to an end for the Lakeland Christian Academy boys basketball team Friday night.

BOURBON — The Trojans punched a ticket to the sectional championship Friday night.

NAPPANEE — Valley advanced to the sectional semi-finals with a win over Wawasee Tuesday night.

Boys basketball scores from area sectional openers Tuesday night.

Weekly prep basketball picks from IFN sports writer Nick Goralczyk.

Girls basketball sectional semi-finals from around the area.

Weekly prep basketball picks from IFN sports writer Nick Goralczyk.

Warsaw and Wawasee have championship aspirations after Thursday’s sectional girls swim prelims at Warsaw and Concord.

A preview of the upcoming girls swim sectionals at Concord and Warsaw.

PLYMOUTH — A brief preview for local wrestling teams competing at sectional tournaments on Saturday.

WARSAW – Scores from area sectional games.

Elkhart Memorial and NorthWood each won prep volleyball sectional championships on Saturday.

HUNTERTOWN – Fort Wayne Carroll, up huge in the second half, had to withstand a furious Warsaw rally to eventually pull off a 49-21 win Friday night in the Class 6-A No. 3 football sectional.

Weekly picks of local prep, college and pro football games from IFN sports writer Nick Goralczyk.

Soccer sectionals continued around the state Tuesday. Here is a recap of sectionals involving our area teams.

UNION MILLS – The Class 1-A baseball sectional No. 51 at South Central was postponed Saturday due to inclement weather. The games included Triton against Oregon-Davis and South Central against LaCrosse. Both games will be moved to Monday night, June 1, at LaPorte High School. The move in location is to accommodate South Central not …read more.

NAPPANEE – Wawasee senior pitcher Aaron Voirol has been on the short end of some tough decisions this season. Thursday, Voirol made the decision an easy one to make. Voirol pitched a complete game, holding Whitko to six hits and showed a lot of moxie in Wawasee’s 7-3 victory at the Class 3-A NorthWood Baseball …read more.

There was plenty of high school tournament action Wednesday night once the skies cleared. Northridge and Concord each picked up sectional semifinal wins in softball action at the Class 4-A Elkhart Memorial Sectional. The Raiders beat Goshen 11-1 and Concord stopped host Memorial 11-4. Northridge pitcher Sami Deisler had eight strikeouts in the Raider win. …read more.

At least they tried. The softball sectional games scheduled for Tuesday night at Lakeland High School have been suspended and postponed until Wednesday night. Wawasee and Fairfield managed to play two innings before having play suspended. That game will resume Wednesday evening at 5:00 p.m. in the top of the third inning in a tie …read more.

LAGRANGE – It was sweet, sweet victory for the Whitko softball team Monday afternoon. The Wildcats tallied double digits in a 13-2 thumping of Lakeland on its home field to advance to the semi-finals of the 2015 IHSAA Class 3A Softball Sectional. Everything was clicking for Whitko from the start. Anna Ousley had a big …read more.

ELKHART – The Warsaw softball team saw its season come to a close Monday with an 8-1 loss to Goshen in the opening game of the Class 4-A Elkhart Memorial Sectional. The game, and more specifically the second inning, was a microcosm of the entire season for the Tigers. The combination of walks, wild pitches, …read more.

LAGRANGE – It was the fight the Lady Vikings needed to put up, but Fairfield fought a little tougher. The Tippecanoe Valley softball team watched its season draw to a close at the hands of the Lady Falcons in the opening game of the 2015 IHSAA Class 3A Softball Sectional at Lakeland High School. In …read more.

Will the third time be the charm? The Warsaw baseball team certainly hopes so. The Tigers will look to take advantage of a very favorable sectional draw as the state tournament series begins this week. Warsaw, which wrapped up regular-season play by going 1-1 Saturday in its own tournament, will face Elkhart Memorial on May …read more.

BOYS BASKETBALL SECTIONALS Class 4A At Merrillville Tuesday:  Portage 61, LaPorte 47 Tuesday:  Crown Point 37, Valpo 35 Wednesday: Merrillville 66, Hobart 54 Wednesday: Chesterton 87, Michigan City 68 Friday: Portage vs. Crown Point Friday:  Merrillville vs Chesterton Saturday: Championship At Penn Tuesday: SB Riley 83, SB Adams 81 Wednesday: Plymouth 49, SB Clay 46 …read more.

BOURBON – There was an uneasy feeling in the Trojan Trench Wednesday night. While a couple could cite the walking tacos, most Triton hoops fans had indigestion for a different reason. It took Triton into the fourth quarter to pull away from LaCrosse to avoid a colossal upset despite what looks like a 49-30 blowout …read more.

Thursday’s weather has affected the sports calendar. The Warsaw boys swim sectional preliminaries have been backed up one day to Friday with a start time of 5:30 p.m. The finals are still scheduled for Saturday at 1 p.m. The Wawasee gymnastics meet tonight at Wawasee with Huntington North has been postponed. A make-up date has …read more.

The roads to sectional swim glory, which ultimately will merge onto the highway to the IHSAA boys swimming state finals, will feature much different surfaces for the Warsaw, Wawasee and Tippecanoe Valley boys swim teams this weekend as the sectional swim tournaments begin around the state Thursday evening. Host Warsaw will likely have the easiest …read more.

GIRLS BASKETBALL SECTIONALS Class 4A Sectional 2 @ Michigan City Game 1: Merrillville 43, Crown Point 34 Game 2: LaPorte 46, Portage 41 Game 3: Valparaiso 72, Chesterton 35 Game 4: Hobart 37, Michigan City 36 Game 5: Merrillville 65, LaPorte 51 Game 6: Valparaiso 48, Hobart 33 Sectional Championship: Merrillville 65, Valparaiso 37 Sectional …read more.

BOURBON – Friday night’s semi-finals at the Class 1-A Oregon-Davis sectional was the end of the line for the Triton girls basketball team after a 40-34 loss to South Central. The game saw unique spurts by both clubs, where an even 13-13 first quarter had South Central come back and outscore Triton 15-5 in the …read more.

GIRLS BASKETBALL SECTIONALS Class 4A Sectional 2 @ Michigan City Game 1: Merrillville 43, Crown Point 34 Game 2: LaPorte 46, Portage 41 Game 3: Valparaiso 72, Chesterton 35 Game 4: Hobart 37, Michigan City 36 Game 5: Merrillville 65, LaPorte 51 Game 6: Valparaiso 48, Hobart 33 Saturday 8:30 – Sectional Championship: Merrillville vs. …read more.

The first wave of the girls postseason in nearly over. Can you believe that we are already this far along in the sports season? It seems like just yesterday I was standing in the frigid rain at the girls golf state finals. But tomorrow I’ll be standing on the deck at The Nat at the …read more.

AUBURN – The third time did not prove to be the charm for the Lakeland Christian Academy girls basketball team Tuesday night. Bethany Christian’s Jordan Helmuth made sure of that. Helmuth poured in 24 points as the Bruins topped the Cougars 44-22 in the opening game of the Class 1-A Lakewood Park Sectional. Bethany notched …read more.

[weaver_youtube vrShz7SaTCg rel=0] MIDDLEBURY – In order to leave the Northridge Natatorium without any regrets, the Wawasee girls swim team knew exactly what it needed to do Saturday afternoon. After all was said and done, Wawasee swimmers punched tickets to the IHSAA State Finals in six events at the Northridge Sectional Finals. The Warriors team …read more.

MIDDLEBURY – The stage is officially set for Saturday’s girls swimming sectional finals at Northridge High School. 11 teams gathered at Northridge’s natatorium Thursday night for the sectional preliminaries and, as expected, Saturday’s title will come down to Wawasee and Northridge. The Warriors will enter Saturday’s finals with 15 girls racing for sectional titles and …read more.

There will either be pure joy or pure agony this weekend for swimmers around the state. Thursday night rings in the beginning of two judgment days of girls swimming, with sectional preliminaries leading into Saturday’s championship meets. Golden tickets will be handed out for winners to advance to state, as well as those able to …read more.

[weaver_youtube 4Gs79M7xH-s rel=0] BOURBON – The only person who was happy to see a sideways snow and 30 mile-per-hour winds minutes before kickoff of the sectional football game between Triton and LaVille was LaVille head coach Will Hostrawser. With an offense perfect for bad conditions, the Lancers did exactly what Hostrawser wanted in a grinding …read more.

The good news is that I hit on every pick last week, a perfect 7-0. The bad news is that many of my picks went against local teams. So, it was a relatively bad week for the local athletes. The best news, however, is that I was successful in beating Ink Free’s very own Mike …read more.

BOURBON – It was a time of celebration last Friday for the Triton football program. To continue the celebration, Triton will need to come up with one of the bigger wins in recent program history. Triton (3-7) will host LaVille (7-3) in the IHSAA Class 1-A sectional 41 semi-finals, a 7 p.m. kick-off, for two …read more.

[weaver_youtube b3MUB6F4is4 rel=0] WARSAW – The looks of relief likely matched the number of elated looks on the faces of the girls soccer team from Warsaw. After defeating Culver Academy, 2-1, in the Warsaw Girls Soccer Sectional championship, the maximum effort Warsaw put in to hold off the Academy was written all over the hometown …read more.

[weaver_youtube D50EGYXF7kU rel=0] WARSAW – There could not have been a better start to the Plymouth Boys Soccer Sectional than what Culver Academies and Warsaw gave fans Monday night at Kindt Field. A thrilling contest between two of the area’s most competitive programs could not be contained in the regularly slated 40 minutes of play. …read more.

The fall sports season is nearing its end. IHSAA State Finals for girls golf start this weekend, soccer and cross country sectionals start next week, tennis regionals take place next week and football conference races are finally starting to shape up. I usually ramble on for way too long with my article as a whole, …read more.

WARSAW – Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Warsaw tennis team was victorious once again. The Tigers completed the run to their third consecutive sectional title in dominating fashion. After waiting nearly two hours for the match to start after rain had passed through the area, Whitko and Warsaw finally began to play for …read more.

WARSAW – The stage is set for the 2014 Warsaw Boys Tennis Sectional Championship. After an evening full of competition between five local schools, the Whitko and Warsaw tennis squads emerged as the two best and will square off Thursday night at Warsaw Community High School. The Tigers made quick work of Tippencanoe Valley, dumping …read more.

We are currently in the thick of sectional week for both baseball and softball and it is madness, games started on Monday for local softball teams and the fields are thinning daily. I debated what to do for my picks this week and have decided to go ahead and pick the remaining games on schedule …read more.

[weaver_youtube ujwjjdHQRrs rel=0] BENTON – It took a little longer than usual, but the Fairfield softball team eventually got the result it was looking for. Whitko played host the Falcons on Tuesday night and after a 65-minute lightning delay interrupted the game in the fifth inning, Fairfield claimed a 4-0 victory in an IHSAA Sectional …read more.

NEW HAVEN – Whitko will have four athletes alive for next week’s Fort Wayne Northrop Girls Track Regional after advancing from Tuesday night’s New Haven Girls Track Sectional. Whitko did not have an individual champion, but did have four girls place within the top four places, qualifying for the regional round of the state tournament. …read more.

The Warsaw baseball team will have a short route to try and earn a sectional championship. The Tigers drew a first-round bye for the start of postseason play. The IHSAA conducted the pairings for the 48th annual state tournament series this morning in Indianapolis. Warsaw will play Northern Lakes Conference foe Northridge in the semifinal …read more.