Warsaw’s Nolan Groninger leads our boys basketball selections for the 2017-18 Ink Free News All-Area Team.

SOUTH BEND – Josh McDaniel scored 32 points and LCA captured the outright Hoosier Plains Conference title with a 56-49 win at South Bend Career Academy Thursday night.

WINONA LAKE – Josh McDaniel notched another scoring mark in Thursday’s 68-56 loss to Lakewood Park Christian.

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

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.

WINONA LAKE – LCA’s girls basketball team finished third and the boys fourth at the two-day LCA Cougar Classic.

PORTAGE — LCA downed Portage Christian behind Josh McDaniel’s 20-point outing and a pair of double-doubles.

WINONA LAKE – Lakeland Christian Academy kept pace with South Bend Community Baptist for a little over a half, but fell off pace in a 58-39 win by Baptist Tuesday night in boys hoops. LCA trailed just 29-21 going into halftime and withstood a shooting barrage from Devon Schock, who hit five threes in the …read more.

AUBURN – It was a hot shooting night for Lakewood Park Christian. Just what Lakeland Christian Academy didn’t need. LPC had 11 boys score at least a basket in a 90-45 win over LCA in basketball at LPC. Adam Owens led the charge for the Panthers with 16 points, 13 of which came in the …read more.

ARGOS – Another tough road lesson for the Lakeland Christian Academy boys basketball team. The Cougars ventured into Marshall County Tuesday night, only to find a solid Argos team waiting. As a result, the host Dragons pounded the Cougars 71-36. A 19-5 burst in the first quarter by the Dragons was extended to a 39-22 …read more.

WINONA LAKE – Young. That’s the word that perhaps best describes the Lakeland Christian Academy boys basketball team this season. Everything about the program comes back to it being young. The Cougars upcoming 2014-15 season is just its third as an IHSAA sanctioned program. LCA will have one senior this year and three juniors while …read more.