Our final installment of the Top 10 lists features the five teams we feel had the best overall season in the 2013-14 calendar year. One just ended their season two weeks ago with one of its relay teams posting a second-place finish at the state finals while the other had an athlete take two second-place …read more.

BOURBON – Triton High School concluded its spring athletic season with its season-ending awards ceremonies Wednesday night. Awards for team and individual accomplishments were given for its six spring sports. CONFERENCE AWARDS Tennis All-Northern State Conference: No. 1 doubles Carrie Slabaugh and Holly Stogsdill; No. 1 singles Kaelyn Mason Softball All-NSC: Hannah Jennings – OF; …read more.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee High School closed out the 2013-14 athletic school year with the athletic awards banquet held Monday evening at WHS. The six spring sports were recognized in accomplishment. Baseball Warrior Way Award – Andrew Milligan Offensive Player of the Year – Gage Reinhard Defensive Player of the Year – Nik Anderson Pitcher of …read more.

FORT WAYNE – Whitko will have a little representation at the IHSAA Girls Track State Championships in June. Junior Elaine Warner joined an amazing nine jumpers from the Fort Wayne Northrop Regional to meet the state standard in the long jump, clearing exactly 17-6.5 to meet the mark good enough to reach the state finals. …read more.

[weaver_youtube Hi8D7jk3xwU rel=0] ROCHESTER – It was a huge night for a pair of local track athletes at the Rochester Girls Track Sectional. Tippecanoe Valley’s Jazzmine Brown qualified for four events and Triton’s Jaela Meister qualified for three events at next week’s Warsaw Girls Track Regional with their showings at Rochester. Needing to place fourth …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.

WARSAW – It was a very big night for both the Warsaw boys and girls track teams at the Northern Lakes Conference track championships. Warsaw won seven girls event championships Tuesday night en route to a 176-point finish in the team standings, the ninth consecutive team title for the Lady Tigers. The Warsaw boys won …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 – Memorial closed out its Northern Lakes Conference girls track round robin in style. Winning 10 of the 16 events, Memorial shut the door on Wawasee, 87-45, and Concord, 70-61.5, while Concord outpointed Wawasee, 81-51. Memorial moved to 5-2 in the NLC with Sierra Moore leading the way with wins in the 800 (2:23.68) …read more.

KENDALLVILLE – The John Reed Relays hosted by East Noble High School Saturday morning provided both the Wawasee boys and girls track programs an opportunity to see what its depth could do against quality opponents. Wawasee’s girls finished sixth overall in the 11-team field with 51 points. East Noble held its ground and won the …read more.

[weaver_youtube U16i8PKlFiU rel=0] NAPPANEE – It’s a phrase the Wawasee girls track program hasn’t exclaimed in eight years. “Win streak!” Despite the 35-mile-per-hour crosswinds across Andrews Field and periodic spurts of heavy, piercing rain, the Wawasee girls track team defeated NorthWood, 83-49, Tuesday evening to pick up its second win of the season. While it’s …read more.

[weaver_youtube 3p-xLHuMYis rel=0] GOSHEN – After nearly a month of cancellations, delays and more indoor practices, the Wawasee girls track team finally were outside and running against an opponent from another school. In the Northern Lakes Conference opener for Wawasee, Plymouth and host Goshen Wednesday evening, the meet was a chance for all three schools …read more.

It was 70 degrees Sunday, and snowed Monday night. Oh, Indiana, you never cease to amaze! Well, that being said, high schools are sending in cancellations for Tuesday ball games throughout the area. Up first, Wawasee High School. The girls track meet at Goshen with Plymouth, the Northern Lakes Conference opener for all three clubs, …read more.

Some familiar faces return to lead the way for the Tippecanoe Valley girls track team this season. The Vikings return five performers who qualified and took part in the regional round of the state tournament series a year ago. Coach Alysha Wachtmann’s team is set to be led by that handful of talented athletes. The …read more.

The weather forecasters got it right. The rains have come today and in Kosciusko its raining buckets this morning. Thus, athletic departments have been forced to make alterations to several pre-spring break plans. The first set of games washed out from the rain are a pair of track meets involving Wawasee High School. The home …read more.

WARSAW – If a good portion of you have felt betrayed this year, your feelings are historically justified. The weather has blown, spit, blanketed, stuck around too long. All of the above. I could go on all day, but you get it. The onslaught of winter on northern Indiana and the greater Midwest as a …read more.

ELKHART – The Jim Eger Relays will not take place this year. Elkhart Memorial has announced that the running of the boys and girls Relays have been cancelled due to weather conditions. The events will not be made up. Wawasee’s boys and girls track teams were scheduled to appear in competition. Wawasee’s track teams will …read more.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee High School has moved three athletic events scheduled for the coming days. The boys and girls track meets with West Noble were moved from this Thursday, March 27, to next Thursday, April 3. The start time is also pushed back to 5 p.m. to accommodate West Noble’s extended school day. The boys …read more.

SYRACUSE – This will likely be a common theme in the next couple of weeks. Schools are cancelling sports in advance because of the weather. Wawasee isn’t messing around, already pulling the plug on the home boys and girls track meets Monday, March 24, with Columbia City. The softball scrimmage this Saturday, March 22, at …read more.

SYRACUSE – Trending upward is the hope for the Wawasee girls track program. After a rough 2013 spring season and returning just one senior for the 2014 campaign, head coach Scott Lancaster is hoping his team can find some identity as it grows through the final two months of the school year. “We’ve got great …read more.

SYRACUSE – Unable to provide snowless facilities, and even a crack at trying to reroute the boys and girls track meets to Kendallville, Wawasee and East Noble had to scratch its track meets scheduled for Tuesday, March 18. The meet will not be made up. Wawasee will participate in the Hoosier State indoor track championships …read more.

MARION – There is still over a foot of snow on the ground in most places, but spring sports are already underway. Wawasee’s boys and girls track teams haven’t begun to run outside yet, but competed in a pair of indoor settings this weekend and made impressions both nights. Saturday at the Hoosier State Qualifier …read more.

Warsaw volleyball begins our list of the Top 10 athletic teams for the 2012-13 season. 10. Streak Busters: August 23, 2012 should be a memorable day for a long, long time for the Warsaw volleyball program. That was the night a veteran, gutty Tiger team snapped Elkhart Memorial’s 76-match winning streak in Northern Lakes Conference …read more.

GOSHEN – The Northern Lakes Conference issued five of its official All-Northern Lakes Conference lists Wednesday, as well as its NLC All-Sports trophy final tallies for the 2012-13 boys and girls sports seasons. Lists for boys and girls track, softball, girls tennis and boys golf were released by Larry Kissinger, NLC Secretary. Baseball will be …read more.

GOSHEN – Wawasee hasn’t had much to show from its girls track season. But Saturday became a earmark for a trio of its track team members. Seniors Jordan Edington and Jen Slabaugh won titles while sophomore Courtney Linnemeier also won a title to highlight Wawasee’s output at the Goshen Relays. Edington tossed the shot put …read more.

MIDDLEBURY – On paper, this looked like it could be a competitive capper to the Northern Lakes Conference girls track round robin. When the stat sheets were hot from the printer, the scores were not even close. Warsaw demolished a very good Northridge team, 99-33, and smashed Wawasee in the process, 116-15. Northridge beat Wawasee, …read more.

Warriors Thump Bruins A double dose of Bethany Christian helped Wawasee medicate just a bit Saturday, as the Warriors swept a varsity baseball doubleheader with the Bruins in convincing fashion 17-1 and 18-2 in Waterford Mills. After falling in successive Northern Lakes Conference on walk-off losses to Plymouth and Goshen, Wawasee put the bat on …read more.

SYRACUSE — When it rains in northern Indiana, it pours. Another night of high school track faced less than stellar conditions as NorthWood and host Wawasee decided to forge ahead with its scheduled Northern Lakes Conference track meet Tuesday night. In many regards, the 73-59 final score by NorthWood over Wawasee was the brightest news …read more.

Wawasee High School wasted little time today saying ‘No’ to even trying any of its sporting events. The boys varsity track NLC meet at Goshen, with Concord also participating, has been moved from this afternoon until 5 p.m. Monday, April 22, at Goshen. The girls varsity track NLC meet at Plymouth, with Elkhart Memorial also …read more.

The weather continues to refuse to cooperate with the local high school athletic scene. Triton High School announced that three more contests scheduled for April 17 have been postponed. The girls tennis match at LaVille, along with the junior varsity softball game at Glenn and the junior varsity baseball home game, have all been postponed. …read more.

SYRACUSE — Concord didn’t need a full bus to bring enough talent to pick up two wins. The depth of Goshen was just what it needed to get a win over Wawasee. Concord brought just a mini bus full of girls track athletes Tuesday night, but swept both Wawasee, 75-56, and Goshen, 70-62. The Lady …read more.

SYRACUSE — The Wawasee athletic department decided to scrub two more of its scheduled events from the athletic calendar. The scheduled varsity and JV baseball games at Manchester for Thursday were officially scratched and will not be made up. The boys and girls track meets at East Noble, which were added earlier in the week …read more.

SYRACUSE — It was inevitable given how the weather has been this week, but Wawasee made it official with its three varsity sports scheduled for in-season matches this Saturday. The Jim Eger Relays at Elkhart Memorial have been canceled, which Wawasee were scheduled to have both the boys and girls track teams active. No make-up …read more.

By SCOTT DAVIDSON Sports Editor ELKHART – The Warsaw girls track team has made a habit of dominating the Northern Lakes Conference regular season lately. That trend continued in a big way for the Tigers Tuesday night as they capped another undefeated NLC season in appropriately dominating fashion. Ashley Erba and Ann Harvuot each won …read more.