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YORKTOWN – Nappanee’s Breanna Goss scored a runner-up finish at the TPC at Woodland Trails Thursday morning.

WEST LAFAYETTE – Chloe Johnson and her twin sister, Faith, went one-two to top the field at the Central Junior Masters golf tournament.

SOUTH BEND – St. Mary’s College women’s golfer Summer Stillson was named an Academic All-American for the third straight season.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood’s Brock Flickinger has chosen Huntington University to continue his basketball and academic career.

KENDALLVILLE – Keara Eder held off Cybil Stillson in a playoff to claim the title at the Northern Junior Masters golf tournament.

INDIANAPOLIS – The IHSBCA released its Academic All-State list Monday evening for the 2020 baseball season.

FORT WAYNE – Purdue Fort Wayne senior golfer Linnzie Richner has decided to return to the program for a fifth season.

WINONA LAKE – NorthWood’s Kate Rulli has chosen Grace College women’s basketball to continue her athletic career.

SOUTH BEND – Riley Kitson and Zach Leedy were among the division winners at the Lifestyle Junior Golf Tour event at Erskine Golf Course.

YORKTOWN – Nappanee’s Breanna Goss tied for third in tour play at the latest Howard Bailey Junior Golf Tour stop Monday.

INDIANAPOLIS – Greenwood’s Erica Shepherd outdueled Granger native Julia Potter-Bobb to win the IWGA State Amateur Championship.

WEST LAFAYETTE – Center Grove Legacy won the 2020 Boys Team Championship golf tournament while Cybil Stillson moved up the leaderboard at the State Amateur Championship.

WARSAW – Normalcy is what the sports world is longing for. But what’s our new normal as sports begin to crawl out from the rocks.

WEST LAFAYETTE – Plenty of area golfers are playing for championships this week in a pair of elite tournaments across the state.

NOBLESVILLE – Cybil Stillson led a trio of NorthWood golfers at the Howard Bailey Junior Golf Tour stop.

FRANKLIN – Two local golfers got one final high school golf match at Wednesday’s Class of 2020 Senior Open.

NAPPANEE – A basketball state championship and the Patricia L. Roy Mental Attitude award capped off the résumé for our IFN Athlete of the Year Maddy Payne.

NAPPANEE – Our 2019-20 IFN Athlete of the Year, Maddy Payne, huge a monster fall in a volleyball, as laid out in the first of our two-part series on the NorthWood senior.

NAPPANEE – Trevor and Nate Andrews are both in a state of tempered expectations as their football seasons are being figured out.

NAPPANEE – Jake Lone was an All-State selection in two sports, and sits at No. 2 on our athlete countdown.

INDIANAPOLIS – Former NorthWood and area softball coach Scot Shearer was part of the 2020 induction class for the softball wing of the ICGSA Hall of Fame.

INDIANAPOLIS – The NFHS released updated rules for the 2020-21 gymnastics season, which oversees the IHSAA.

NAPPANEE – IFN begins its countdown of the Top 10 athletes with our boys basketball Player of the Year, Trent Edwards.

NAPPANEE – There wasn’t much doubt in the choice for our IFN Team of the Year. Take a bow state champion NorthWood girls basketball.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood raised its status among the girls golf elite with a top-six finish at the IHSAA State Finals. The team swings in at No. 3 on our countdown.

GOSHEN – The Northern Lakes Conference issued its 2019-20 list for the Academic All-Conference for the NLC’s 20 varsity sports and cheerleading.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood volleyball lands at No. 4 on our countdown after an ultra-successful season chock full of championships.

NAPPANEE – Ending longstanding droughts in NLC and sectional tournaments plus a record run in the regular season lands NorthWood boys tennis at No. 5 in our countdown.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood boys basketball became the second hoops team from Nappanee to finish its season with a win, and a spot at No. 8 on our list.

WARSAW – IFN Sports is set to begin its countdown of the All-IFN Top 10 teams and athletes for the 2019-20 athletic season.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood senior Veshon Malone has chosen Manchester University to continue his football and academic career.

WARSAW – White Men Can’t Jump helped create a cult movement of movies about basketball culture.

WARSAW – Spring season previews wind up on the golf course with a look at boys golf.

WARSAW – Seniors were set to make a big statement in girls track this spring.

WARSAW – A lot of area boys track talent were left wondering as season previews moves to track and field.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood’s Jake Lone settled on a college choice, picking the University of Indianapolis to continue his wrestling career.

WARSAW – Season previews hit the hard courts to learn more about girls tennis.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood senior Ben Mestach made his commitment known, choosing to play football in college at Trine University.

WARSAW – Part two of IFN’s ‘season previews’ highlights high school softball and its seniors.

WARSAW – In the first of a series of ‘season previews’, IFN is letting the seniors tell the stories of their sports seasons that were canceled. Preview one will be high school baseball.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood senior Jack Wysong gained some interesting perspective as a broadcaster this past basketball season.

NAPPANEE – Mark Heeter is ready to get back into the basketball coach game after being named the girls head coach at NorthWood.

NAPPANEE – Mark Heeter will once again roam the sidelines after accepting the girls basketball head coaching position at NorthWood.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood senior Trent Edwards continues the basketball pipeline from Nappanee to Mishawaka after announcing his commitment to Bethel University to continue his basketball career.

WARSAW – The IFN Photos page has been updated through the end of the winter sports season.

INDIANAPOLIS – The IHSAA made it official Thursday afternoon in cancelling the 2020 spring sports season.

INDIANAPOLIS – Brielle Harrison of Warsaw and both Kate Rulli and Maddy Payne of NorthWood were Honorable Mention All-State girls basketball choices from the Associated Press.

Fun Film Friday: Hoosiers

March 27, 2020

WARSAW – Fun Film Fridays ties in a classic sports movie to local sports platforms. First up: Hoosiers.

INDIANAPOLIS – NorthWood’s Trent Edwards was among the selections for IBCA All-State in a series of lists issued Thursday afternoon.

LEBANON – NorthWood will enter the Hall of Fame Invite girls golf field for a fifth straight season.

INDIANAPOLIS – NorthWood’s Adam Yoder was voted a District 1 Coach of the Year by the IBCA.

GOSHEN – The Northern Lakes Conference drew up a tentative plan if spring sports are a go after the May 1 ruling by the state government.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood’s Jake Lone earned a Rollie Hoover Memorial Scholarship after his huge wrestling season.

WARSAW – Trent Edwards of NorthWood champions our picks for the 2019-20 IFN Boys Basketball All-Area selections.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood’s Trent Edwards created a senior season to remember, and justly, has been named the IFN Boys Basketball Player of the Year.

INDIANAPOLIS – Classroom performance was highlighted in a quartet of Academic All-State lists for the winter sports seasons.

INDIANAPOLIS – Warsaw’s Blake Marsh and NorthWood’s Jake Lone were both named to the North team for the IFCA North-South All-Star Classic football showcase in July.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood didn’t even get a chance to make a head start to regional, seeing its boys basketball dreams be put on hold…for now.

GOSHEN – Northridge leads both All-Sports tallies with Warsaw and NorthWood in close pursuit after the winter season.

GOSHEN – Northridge topped the list for the 2019-20 Northern Lakes Conference boys basketball awards.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood girls basketball head coach Adam Yoder turned in his letter of resignation Friday, stepping down from his post.

INDIANAPOLIS – The IHSAA has postponed the boys basketball regional tournaments across the state. Gymnastics state will carry on as scheduled.

NEW CASTLE – NorthWood is going to have to find a new norm if it wants to win the New Castle Boys Basketball Regional.

Middle school basketball results for Tuesday, March 10.

Middle school girls basketball results for Monday, March 9.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood recreated history Saturday night in its 49-32 win over Wawasee to claim the Class 3-A Sectional 21 boys basketball title.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood and Wawasee are on a collision course after the semis of the NorthWood Boys Basketball Sectional.

Middle school basketball results for Wednesday, March 4.

INDIANAPOLIS – NorthWood’s Kate Rulli was among those chosen to represent the Hoosier Basketball Magazine Top 60 list.

INDIANAPOLIS – Maddy Payne of NorthWood was chosen as the District 1 IBCA Player of the Week.

ROCHESTER – Impatiently waiting for roast beef sandwiches made me appreciate the run NorthWood athletics is on right now.

INDIANAPOLIS – Relive some of the moments of NorthWood’s basketball championship weekend.

GOSHEN – NorthWood’s undefeated NLC season afforded it plenty of representation in the All-Conference selections.

NAPPANEE – Behind the scenes of the Class 3-A girls basketball championship run for NorthWood was a push for another title that means a lot to the Payne family and the NorthWood community.

SYRACUSE — Wawasee senior Aundreya Wegener made the cut out to regional on the floor exercise with a sixth-place score of 9.275, while the Lady Warriors, Warsaw and NorthWood bowed out of the season at the Wawasee Gymnastics Sectional.

INDIANAPOLIS – NorthWood put on one more defensive show to lock up its second girls basketball state championship, 37-29, over Salem Saturday night.

INDIANAPOLIS – Caden Jenkins and Grant Knight closed out their senior season with work at the IHSAA Boys Swim and Dive Championships.

Recap of the IHSAA Girls Basketball State Finals on Saturday.

Boys basketball results from Friday, Feb. 28.

INDIANAPOLIS – Warsaw is down to one bullet left after the preliminary round of the IHSAA Boys Swimming State Championships.

INDIANAPOLIS – The ICGSA released its Academic All-State and All-State girls basketball choices for the 2019-20 season.

NAPPANEE – State basketball is a new deal for most of the players, but state athletics isn’t for a select few in the NorthWood girls basketball program.

MISHAWAKA – For the third year in a row, NorthWood’s Caden Jenkins has qualified for the diving state championships.

NAPPANEE – Tickets for the girls basketball state title game will go on sale Tuesday at NorthWood.

The ink is drying for the 2020 IHSAA boys basketball state tournaments, released Sunday evening.

Warsaw claimed six event titles among Sectional Saturday in IHSAA boys swimming.

Panthers One Step Away

February 22, 2020

LAPORTE – NorthWood frustrated Benton Central on the defensive end to earn a 36-22 girls basketball semi-state championship.

Basketball Results: Feb. 21

February 22, 2020

Basketball results for Friday, Feb. 21.

Boys swim sectionals opened up Thursday at both Concord and Warsaw.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood is using a unique rallying method to fire itself up for tournament basketball.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood has used several different measures to reach the girls basketball semi-state. It will need solid basketball to beat No. 2 Benton Central this Saturday.

AKRON – NorthWood ran away from Valley in a 61-40 final Tuesday night in boys buckets.

Basketball Results: Feb. 18

February 19, 2020

Basketball results for Tuesday, Feb. 18.

The Payne Hurts So Sweetly

February 17, 2020

NAPPANEE – Sheer consistency and the penchant for playing big in big moments lead NorthWood’s Maddy Payne to earn the Ink Free News Girls Basketball Player of the Year.

WARSAW – NorthWood’s Maddy Payne headlines our selections for the 2019-20 IFN Girls Basketball All-Area selections.

ELKHART – NorthWood earned its first girls basketball regional championship in 15 years after beating Knox, 43-30, Saturday night.

Basketball Results: Feb. 15

February 16, 2020

Basketball results for Saturday, Feb. 15.

Girls basketball regional scoreboard and semi-state matchups.

ELKHART – NorthWood and Knox emerged victorious to make the regional final at the Class 3-A Jimtown Girls Basketball Regional.

Boys basketball results for Friday, Feb. 14.

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