LIGONIER – A breakdown of the Class 3-A Sectional 21 girls basketball tournament at West Noble.

BENTON – NorthWood improved to 11-2 overall with a 44-35 girls basketball win Tuesday night at Fairfield.

WINONA LAKE – Fairfield High School senior Makayla Bell has chosen Grace College to continue her volleyball career.

BENTON – NorthWood had no trouble in knocking off Fairfield 69-35 Saturday night in boys hoops.

SYRACUSE — Almost immediately, one would likely notice a picturesque view of Syracuse Lake when walking into this year’s house being built by Wawasee, Fairfield and West Noble high school building trades students. And it seems, though it is not literally true, one could also almost reach out of a window and touch the water of the lake.

SYRACUSE — The Fairfield Falcons beat the buzzer and Wawasee Tuesday night, leaving the Hardwood Tee Pee with a 42-40 victory.

BENTON – West Noble and NorthWood each won 3-0 Saturday to reach the championship game of the Fairfield Volleyball Sectional.

The Fairfield boys tennis team saw its season end in the semistate Saturday.

Culver Academies and Fairfield claimed boys tennis regional championships on Wednesday night.

Fairfield and Goshen were winners in boys tennis sectional semifinal action Friday.

GOSHEN – Fairfield knocked out NorthWood, 4-1, at the Goshen Boys Tennis Sectional Thursday night.

INDIANAPOLIS – The IHSAA has put into motion to charge admission for its state cross country tournaments, beginning with the sectionals on October 8.

GOSHEN – Rain postponed Wednesday’s Goshen Boys Tennis Sectional opening round match between Fairfield and NorthWood.

SYRACUSE — The Wawasee tennis team took one of three matches at Saturday’s duals held at Wawasee High School.

NAPPANEE – Summer Stillson led the NorthWood girls golf team to a win over Fairfield Tuesday.

SYRACUSE — A recap of Wawasee sporting events from Thursday, August 18.

BLOOMINGTON – A preview of the IHSAA Girls Track State Finals.

The trio of Penn, Fairfield and Marian all won softball regional championships Tuesday night.

A look around the area baseball sectional championship games.

BENTON — Fairfield earned back-to-back sectional titles with a 1-0 win over Wawasee Thursday night at Falcon Field.

While his classmates were sitting in Spanish, calculus or English classes, Chris Fox spent his high school days taking apart small engines, assisting in improving the school’s computer security system and experimenting with the basics of engineering. Fox, 22 year old Wawasee graduate, took advantage of the opportunities given to him and still credits these …read more.

WARSAW – All three Fairfield singles courts won in straight sets, two convincingly, as Fairfield claimed a 3-2 win over Warsaw Thursday afternoon.

SYRACUSE – An opportunistic Fairfield team defeated Wawasee 9-2 in softball action Monday night.

AKRON — Valley made it back-to-back sectional titles with a win over Fairfield Saturday night.

ROCHESTER – The Tippecanoe Valley boys basketball team lost to Fairfield 49-35 in tourney action Tuesday night.

GOSHEN — Fairfield opened the season with a 61-48 win over Wawasee in boys hoops action.

ELKHART COUNTY — Last year was the first time Wawasee and Fairfield’s high school building trades programs teamed up to do a project. This year the two schools are again partnering and will do so for a third time next year.

MILFORD — About 1,600 fifth-graders swarmed the confines of TruHorizons in Milford for the first Safety First days, a three-day event designed to teach safety on half a dozen topics. Twenty-seven tents were set up on the grounds, two large tents for the beginning and ending plenary sessions and lunch, and five villages of five …read more.

LAGRANGE – In the end it was the cream that rose to the top in the Lakeland Softball Sectional. Four straight days of softball action came to an end as the Fairfield Falcons claimed their second-ever softball sectional title by downing Whitko 11-1. The Falcons started their journey Monday with a win over Tippecanoe Valley, …read more.

LAGRANGE – The wins keep on coming for the Whitko softball team. The Wildcats picked up their second win of the postseason by downing West Noble 6-3 and punched a ticket to the Sectional 21 title game. “I’m so excited right now,” began a jubilant Aly Nicodemus, a Whitko senior. “In my time here we’ve …read more.

LAGRANGE – Maybe the expectations were too high. Maybe it was not meant to be. Maybe they just were not ready. A very promising season for the Wawasee softball team came to an abrupt end Wednesday night in the semi-finals of the Lakeland Sectional. Wednesday’s game picked up in the third inning after being suspended …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 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.

SYRACUSE – Tuesday’s 7-3 win against Fairfield might just have been the win the Wawasee Warrior baseball team needs as the postseason looms. With the sectional draw fresh on everyone’s minds and Wawasee and Fairfield on opposite sides of the NorthWood Sectional draw, Tuesday’s matchup would be a nice primer of what could be a …read more.

SYRACUSE – It wasn’t ideal, but it didn’t have to be. Less than favorable weather and less than favorable bounces still afforded Wawasee an easy double win over Fairfield and West Noble Monday evening. The Warriors posted a 157 on its home South Shore Golf Course to the neighboring Falcons (171) and Chargers (192). Jeffrey …read more.

BENTON – Coasting along for five innings, Wawasee looked like it was settling in for it’s fourth straight win to open the 2015 softball season. Then the sixth inning came along. Two errors in the bottom of the sixth inning allowed Fairfield to plate two runs which were huge in a 3-2 Falcons win over …read more.

It’s going to be a great weekend for Kosciusko hoops fans. The Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings will be playing for a state title and three boys teams are still in the running for sectional titles. This past week was not great for all area hoops fans as we closed the book on the seasons for …read more.

SYRACUSE – They were far from perfect but the Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings did just what they needed to to keep their season alive Tuesday night. The Valley girls basketball team began its postseason journey with a game against Fairfield in the opening round of the 2015 Class 3A Girls Sectional 21 Tournament at Wawasee …read more.

SYRACUSE – Fairfield managed the final minutes of the freshman boys basketball game Monday to hold off Wawasee, 28-25. The Warriors had Trevon Coleman score 14 of the home side’s 25 points and Jairus Boyer was held to five points. Wawasee’s freshman squad falls to 8-4 overall and next host Concord Thursday evening.

SOUTH WHITLEY – In a matchup of potential sectional opponents, Whitko used a big fourth quarter to get past Fairfield, 39-30, Tuesday night in girls hoops. Fairfield led the game 20-14 heading into halftime, but Whitko battled back to tie the game at 24 opening the fourth quarter. A 15-6 run by the Lady Wildcats …read more.

SYRACUSE – When Wawasee walked out of Fairfield’s gym last November, the Warriors were on the wrong end of a 78-57 decision. What a difference a year makes. Nearly a year to the day, the Warriors redeemed themselves on their home court against a tough Falcon squad that returned much of its roster. Wawasee excelled …read more.

And we’re back! (Later than I planned!) Okay, so my break went a little longer than I had originally said. I originally put the wrong date in my last article about when I was going to return and then some things happened last week that made me put this on the back burner. But now …read more.

[weaver_youtube qZpJu3wJ7Xg rel=0] SYRACUSE – Opening night of the girls basketball season for Wawasee and Fairfield had its share of jitters. A very green Wawasee team found itself hanging with Fairfield for a while before the visitors found a second gear to pull away with a 55-36 victory Tuesday at the Hardwood Teepee. The patience …read more.

The IHSAA held its volleyball regionals Tuesday night, and the local flavor was sliced to a scant few alive for semi-states this Saturday. Class 4-A Elkhart Memorial and Class 3-A Mishawaka Marian are still alive after winning regionals against Penn and West Lafayette, respectively. Memorial stormed out to a a 2-0 lead on Penn in …read more.

GOSHEN – Make room for another volleyball banner in the Fairfield High School gym. The host Falcons made it 11 straight sectional titles Saturday night with a 3-0 win over NorthWood in the Class 3-A Fairfield Sectional. Fairfield topped the Panthers by a 25-18, 25-21, 25-18 count to win the program’s 12th overall sectional championship. …read more.

Wawasee Tightens The Screws In the final test before the state tournament begins, Wawasee got one final round of competition at Maxwelton Golf Club Monday afternoon in a 185-205 win over visiting Fairfield. The Lady Warriors conclude the season 17-1 overall after the Fairfield win, which had Mikala Mawhorter and Elizabeth Jackson post 44s to …read more.

Cockrill, Warriors Show Well At IWU Despite not defending team titles at the boys and girls Marion Cross Country Invitational, Wawasee still placed both its boys and girls teams in the top five and had a champion runner Saturday morning in the races held at Indiana Wesleyan University. Wawasee won both team titles in 2013. …read more.

[weaver_youtube mt8DhTrI6DE rel=0] GOSHEN – Thursday night’s game against Class 3A No. 10 Fairfield was one that showed just how far the Wawasee volleyball team has come and how far it still has to go. The 10-time defending sectional champion Falcons have had their way with Wawasee the past few seasons despite the growth on …read more.

MILLERSBURG – The Millersburg Lions Club is hosting its 10th annual golf scramble to help raise money for the Sonshine Day Care as well as the Fairfield High School boys and girls golf teams. The outing is July 27 with a 1 p.m. shotgun start for the scramble at Timber Ridge Golf Club. Teams of …read more.

KENDALLVILLE – A host of local golfers made the cut at Thursday’s Indiana Open Qualifier at Cobblestone Golf Course. Leading the charge in the 26-player field was McCormick Clouser shooting a three-under 69. Clouser’s brother, McCallister, also made the cut by shooting a 75 to finish in a tie for tenth place with Warsaw’s Tyler …read more.

SOUTH WHITLEY – The Wawasee baseball team finally ran out of magic on Saturday afternoon. A team that had made a habit of playing close games and sealing walk-off wins during the regular season met its match in a very strong Fairfield team in the semifinal round of the IHSAA Sectional 21 Baseball Tournament at …read more.

[weaver_youtube _YYShnZ5H04 rel=0] BENTON – Bob Shea may have become the architect to Wawasee softball’s tournament success. Shea, the author of the children’s book ‘Big Plans’, diagrams what it could be like to make it big through the eyes of a child. As Wawasee head coach Jared Knipper, a kindergarten teacher at Syracuse Elementary, read …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.

BENTON – It’s one down and two to go for the Wawasee softball team. The Lady Warriors opened up postseason play against Tippecanoe Valley on Tuesday night and shut out the Vikings 6-0 in the quarterfinals of the IHSAA Softball Sectional 21 at Fairfield High School. Wawasee starting pitcher Amber Lemberg was the beacon of …read more.

Golf Sputters At McCormick After a hot start to the dual season, Wawasee has fallen back of late in Northern Lakes Conference play. A 157 shot Tuesday at McCormick Creek left Wawasee 11 shots back of NorthWood (146) and four short of Plymouth (153) in the triangular. “We played well,” began Wawasee head coach Steve …read more.

SYRACUSE – The Wawasee High School athletic department announced several official notes this afternoon pertaining to its softball and baseball programs. The softball program’s rescheduled varsity and junior varsity games with Northridge will take place Thursday, May 22, at Northridge. The baseball program will host Northridge Friday, May 23, for its varsity and junior varsity …read more.

GOSHEN – Both Wawasee and Whitko were impressive at Saturday’s Goshen Relays. The girls track extravaganza in general was a memorable one which saw 23 of 28 event records fall and quite a team race for the Class A and B titles. In the A Class grid, Goshen held off Plymouth to claim the title …read more.

SYRACUSE – The conditions were far from ideal at South Shore Golf Course on Monday night but that did not stop the Wawasee boys golf team from playing its first home match of the season. The Warriors braved the cold and wind and showed that it will take a lot more than gloomy weather to …read more.

[weaver_youtube -o16EY29GhM rel=0] SYRACUSE – Remember when it was 70 degrees in Syracuse? Yeah, crazy how much 24 hours can change things. And with two softball teams returning from spring break, it was 3A No. 7 Fairfield that did better with the acclimation to the declining weather Monday night in a 7-1 victory at Wawasee. …read more.

Okay, so this two-part thing is not working my favor. So far, I’ve already missed three picks and have slipped into a deep pickpression. (Pickpression: Depression caused by underwhelming pick results.) But, let’s focus on the positives of Wednesday. The Wawasee-Tippecanoe Valley game was absolutely outstanding and if you were not there, then you seriously …read more.

[weaver_youtube HUnby-_Q3k0 rel=0] SYRACUSE – The Whitko boys basketball team’s 2013-14 season came to a close on Tuesday night in the opening game of the IHSAA Boys Basketball Class 3A Sectional 21 Tournament at Wawasee High School. The Wildcats faced a very tough West Noble team and could not match the talent and efficiency of …read more.

SOUTH WHITLEY – Sectional basketball tournaments will officially tip-off all over the great state of Indiana on Tuesday evening. Coaches and players have carefully scouted out their opponents and sectional fields, trying to find every weakness and advantage the other team may have. But what about the teams like Whitko? What advantage could a team …read more.

[weaver_youtube wK11f_HHutk rel=0] NAPPANEE – It’s one down and two to go for the Tippecanoe Valley girls basketball team. The Lady Vikings fought off a determined Fairfield team for the duration of their game in the quarterfinals of the IHSAA Class 3A NorthWood Sectional. The Falcons had to fly the coop and State Tournament following …read more.

Amazing Grace CollegeHow sweet thou victories are… After going an embarrassing 4-6 three weeks ago, I rebounded with a solid 8-2 with my picks just two weeks back. Some tech issues held me up from getting any picks up last week, but now I am back with even more picking ability! Yes, I have a …read more.

BENTON – Wawasee and Fairfield are only seven road miles apart, but both seemed to be in two completely different worlds Friday night. Wawasee looked mentally lost and were physically outworked by Fairfield in girls buckets, 45-22. The matters of execution were telling from both head coaches. “They move their hands well, but they forget …read more.

BENTON – If your opponent gets hot from behind the arc, it could end up being a long night no matter the time or place. Trying to stop a team with a hot hand is like trying to stop a freight train roaring down the tracks. On Tuesday night Fairfield welcomed in Wawasee for the …read more.

Sophomore girls from six local high schools — Wawasee, Fairfield, Tippecanoe Valley, Warsaw, West Noble and Whitko — attended the 11th annual Nontraditional Employment for Women opportunities workshop Thursday at Quaker Haven near Dewart Lake. The workshop gives students often still undecided on career choices opportunities to consider careers traditionally dominated by males. More than …read more.

LIGONIER – Make it 10 in a row for the Fairfield volleyball program. The Falcons made it a perfect 10 in their sectional championship streak in impressive fashion Saturday. The No. 6 Falcons flew high to top Tippecanoe Valley 3-0 in the title tilt of the Class 3-A West Noble Sectional. Coach Carla Herschberger’s team …read more.

LIGONIER – The fun, exciting and sometimes frustrating adventure that was the 2013 Lady Warrior volleyball season came to its conclusion on Thursday night. Wawasee fell at the hands of Class 3A No. 6 Fairfield 3-0 in the quarterfinal round of the West Noble Sectional. The Falcons, whose program has captured nine straight sectional championships, …read more.

ELKHART – Simply put, conditions were ugly for the first round of a hopefully deep postseason run for Wawasee’s boys’ and girls’ cross country teams. Rainy weather led to a muddy course to help set the scene Tuesday night at Ox Bow County Park in Elkhart for the IHSAA Sectional Championships. As ugly as the …read more.

Ladies Add Two More ‘W’s To Résumé In a match that wasn’t originally on the schedule, Wawasee saw a pair of old foes at Maxwelton Tuesday night and added a couple of wins to the ledger. Matching its best season output at 179, Wawasee beat Elkhart Central (189) and Fairfield (198) on the rolling hills …read more.

[weaver_youtube xYczanuv5n0 rel=0] SYRACUSE – In the record book, it will show up as a 3-0 Fairfield volleyball win Thursday night at Wawasee, but inside the spectator gymnasium, the gap between the two teams was much, much closer. In a series that Fairfield has overwhelmingly dominated in recent memory, Wawasee made a statement by not …read more.

[weaver_youtube RmBbG_TMNvg rel=0] NAPPANEE – It’s very early to tell much of anything in the cross country season, but small indicators were ever-present all over the Stauffer Park course Tuesday night. Wawasee senior Adam Doll made a huge statement by running away with the boys race against foes from host NorthWood, Fairfield and Bremen in …read more.

LIGONIER – “Good teams find a way to make you pay for mistakes and the mistakes came back and got us here tonight.’ Wawasee head coach Eric Screeton may have summed up the thought of every Warrior fan with his post-game interview. “We were excited, we believed we could get this one done tonight but …read more.

LAGRANGE – When it rains in Lagrange, it pours. A rain delay surrounded a steady reign from Fairfield Tuesday at the Lakeland Softball Sectional as the Falcons left the Tippecanoe Valley Vikings all wet in a 16-3 drubbing in the first game of the sectional semis. Fairfield jumped on the board in the first inning …read more.

LAGRANGE – A lead-off triple and a fielder’s choice. Mathematically, that’s all it took for Fairfield to advance in the Lakeland Softball Sectional Monday night. Kaela Miller’s ringing triple leading off the game followed by an RBI groundout by Alexis Zook gave Fairfield all it needed to beat Wawasee. But the Falcons kept humming all …read more.

SYRACUSE – Maybe a message was sent, maybe it was just good fortune. Either way, Fairfield set down a full house in a 10-2 win at Wawasee Tuesday night in a sectional baseball preview. Fairfield, which upped its mark to 14-3 this season, stormed out to a 9-0 lead after three innings and never looked …read more.

SYRACUSE – Lucky number seven? Not so much. The par three number seven at South Shore did nothing but cause problems for the Warrior golf team on Monday night. The poor performance on the hole was a big part of the 166 team score that the Warriors posted. Despite the off night, Wawasee was able …read more.

BENTON — It took one swing to completely flip the softball script Monday afternoon at Fairfield. DJ Martz crushed a two-out, two-run double to plate the first two runs of an eventual 5-0 Fairfield win over Wawasee. The double reversed what had been an all-Wawasee game up to that point, which included the Lady Warriors …read more.

SYRACUSE — Wawasee kept chuckin’ the ball and eventually put away Fairfield. Hoisting a dizzying 50 three-point shots, Wawasee nailed 15 of them and several came at key moments of a 80-61 boys basketball win by the Warriors in the season opener for both clubs. The new school Warriors were alive and well opening the …read more.

SYRACUSE — A huge third quarter from KiLee Knafel, who scored 14 of her game-high 34 points in the frame, pushed Wawasee past Fairfield 64-43 Saturday night at the Hardwood Teepee. Knafel hit two of her five three-pointers in the third as Wawasee outscored the visitors 22-13 to break open what was just a five-point …read more.

Golfers Take On Local Powers Wawasee knocked off one undefeated golf team, while a once-beaten team trumped the Lady Warriors in a triangular at South Shore. Elkhart Central moved to 12-1 overall after firing a 181 to beat Wawasee’s 189 and host Fairfield’s 191. The Lady Warriors are now 10-6 on the season while Fairfield …read more.

Boys XC Claims Marion Title A tour-de-force at the Marion Invite Saturday had the Wawasee boys team take six of the top 15 spots to run away with the team title. Adam Doll won the race with an overall time of 16:55, with teammate Reid Stichter runner-up at 17:07. Fellow Warriors Austin (9th, 17:38), Joey …read more.

Wawasee Braves Bruins The Lady Warrior volleyball program took two steps in the right direction Thursday night, picking up sweeps in the varsity and JV games at Bethany Christian. Alli Ousley had 11 digs, 10 assists and seven kills to lead Wawasee (3-2) to a 25-15, 25-21, 25-19 win over the Lady Bruins in Waterford …read more.

BENTON — Wawasee had no grand illusions heading into Thursday night’s volleyball matchup with Fairfield. Having to face the defending 3A sectional champion, which also had been to five consecutive 2A state finals before moving up a class, Wawasee knew its hands were full. The scoreline read much like one would expect – 25-7, 25-8, …read more.

BENTON — It was hard to get a definitive answer from Wawasee cross country head coach Jerid Stoffel Tuesday afternoon along the rolling hills east of Fairfield High School. While his boys displayed enough firepower to topple a trio of teams, his girls didn’t fare nearly as well. Hence the variance of opinion after the …read more.

BENTON — The route through the Fairfield Softball Sectional is a familiar one for the six teams involved. As just about all of the teams have faced one another throughout the season, familiar conference foes met in the semi-finals Tuesday, pitting NECC and NLC rivals. In the end, more than conference bragging rights were on …read more.