EAST CHICAGO — Three Wawasee wrestlers punched their tickets to next weekend’s state finals with top four performances at East Chicago Central High School Saturday.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood boys basketball team won its third straight by topping Bethany Christian Saturday afternoon.

The winter storm is impacting the area high school basketball schedule for Friday, Feb. 9.

MIDDLEBURY – The NorthWood Middle School 8th grade girls basketball team lost to Northridge Thursday evening.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee used a balanced attack to knock off NorthWood, 30-17, Thursday night in boys freshman basketball.

EAST CHICAGO — The start of Saturday’s East Chicago Central Central Semi-State has been pushed back by two hours.

SYRACUSE — With nine wrestlers still alive in the state tournament, Wawasee travels to the East Chicago Semi-State this Saturday.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood boys basketball team defeated West Noble 59-34 Tuesday night.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Football Coaches Association released its Academic All-State list for the 2017 season, and a number of area players earned themselves the distinction.

WARSAW – Our Ink Free News All-Area Girls Basketball selections for First and Second Teams, led by Player of the Year Sophie Bussard of Tippecanoe Valley.

MISHAWAKA — Wawasee’s wrestling team had both hopes of winning a team regional title Saturday but had to settle for third place and nine semi-state berths at Penn.

MIDDLEBURY – The Wawasee girls swim team finished fourth in the Northridge Sectional Saturday.

BENTON – Wawasee and Fairfield both rallied to pull off victories in the semi-finals of the Fairfield Girls Basketball Sectional.

ELKHART — NorthWood’s boys basketball team used an explosive fourth quarter to snap a three-game NLC skid with a 51-24 win at Concord Thursday night.

Highlights from Thursday’s sectional preliminaries at the girls swim sectionals at Northridge and Warsaw.

GOSHEN — NorthWood and Tippecanoe Valley both advanced in their Fairfield Sectional openers Tuesday night, but for Valley, the victory came with a heavy cost.

BENTON – A look at the Class 3-A Fairfield Girls Basketball Sectional.

ELKHART — The NorthWood wrestling team collected six regional berths on the way to a sixth-place finish at the Elkhart Memorial Sectional Saturday.

DUNLAP – Warsaw’s Grant Knight and a host of area swimmers made noise at the NLC Boys Swim Championships.

NAPPANEE – Nolan Groninger was outstanding in pacing Warsaw past NorthWood 42-35 for its sixth straight boys basketball win Friday night.

WARSAW — Senior Emma Bohnenkamper hit the game-winner in her last game at the Tiger Den, and Warsaw’s girls basketball team closed out the regular season with a dramatic, 28-26 win over Northern Lakes Conferencer-rival NorthWood Thursday night.

DUNLAP – Both Wawasee and Warsaw will have a host of swimmers in championship positions for Saturday’s NLC Boys Swimming Championships.

WARSAW – The Warsaw freshman boys basketball team remained unbeaten in NLC play by defeating NorthWood Thursday night.

WARSAW – The Warsaw boys basketball team will look to extend its winning streak with a key NLC game at NorthWood Friday night.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood girls basketball team scored a season high in defeating Oregon-Davis 78-61 Tuesday night.

NAPPANEE – The Oregon-Davis at NorthWood girls basketball game set for tonight will be a varsity-only matchup.

NAPPANEE – Wawasee landed third, NorthWood sixth and Warsaw eighth at the NLC Wrestling Championships.

The pairings were made by the IHSAA for high school girls basketball sectionals Sunday afternoon.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood girls basketball team edged Goshen 30-28 in conference play Saturday night.

GOSHEN – Will Line dropped in 22 points to help Goshen upset NorthWood 48-43 Friday night.

MISHAWAKA – The NorthWood girls basketball team rallied late but dropped a 48-45 final at Mishawaka Marian Tuesday night.

MIDDLEBURY – Northridge swept all 12 events to barnstorm the NLC Girls Swimming Championships Saturday afternoon.

MIDDLEBURY – The Northridge girls basketball team claimed its 20th straight Northern Lakes Conference win by beating NorthWood Saturday night.

NAPPANEE – Northridge outlasted host NorthWood 58-55 in triple overtime for a key NLC boys basketball win Friday night.

MIDDLEBURY – The NorthWood freshman boys basketball team topped Northridge Thursday night.

MIDDLEBURY – Warsaw’s Delaney Wihebrink was one of two non-Northridge swimmers to qualify first in the NLC Girls Swimming Championship preliminaries Thursday night.

NAPPANEE – A strong start and a fine finish carried No. 4 Tipppecanoe Valley to a 56-48 girls basketball win at NorthWood Tuesday night.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood girls basketball team remained unbeaten in the NLC by topping Wawasee 60-39 Saturday night.

SYRACUSE – NorthWood put together a solid 55-34 boys basketball win Friday night at Wawasee.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee continued its winning ways on the wrestling mat, 66-9, against NorthWood Thursday evening.

MIDDLEBURY – Savannah Feenstra hit the game winner as NorthWood edged Portage in girls basketball tourney action at Northridge Saturday.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood boys basketball team rolled to the championship of its own Dan Gunn Holiday Tourney Friday night.

MIDDLEBURY – The NorthWood girls basketball team went 1-1 Friday in The Bankers Holiday Classic at Northridge.

NAPPANEE — NorthWood’s boys basketball team returned from the holiday break with a lopsided, 77-32 win over Edwardsburg in the late semifinal at the Dan Gunn Holiday Tournament at The Pit.

ROCHESTER — NorthWood, Triton and Tippecanoe Valley got a good measuring stick at Friday’s John McKee Memorial Invitational, which pitted some of the area’s top wrestlers against one another in a 16-team tournament.

BREMEN — NorthWood’s girls basketball team made a few more plays down the stretch, and the Black Swish gave head coach Adam Yoder a 40-35 win at alma mater Bremen Thursday night.

Wawasee’s Elisha Tipping and Triton’s Drew Stichter headline the AP All-State football selections.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood swim teams competed in a triangular meet Tuesday night.

NAPPANEE – The Class 3-A No. 6 ranked Fairfield girls basketball team topped NorthWood 47-34 Tuesday night.

PLYMOUTH – The NorthWood girls basketball team remained unbeaten in conference play with a win at Plymouth Saturday night.

NAPPANEE – Brad Delio was the hero with the game winner for NorthWood in a thrilling 52-51 boys basketball conference win over Plymouth Friday night.

NAPPANEE – Maddy Payne led the way as the NorthWood girls basketball team topped Jimtown Thursday night.

NAPPANEE — NorthWood’s boys basketball team snapped a two-game skid with a comfortable, 56-21 win over visiting Jimtown Tuesday.

NAPPANEE – Wawasee mixed and matched its way to a pair of easy wins in the pool at NorthWood Tuesday night.

NAPPANEE – Luke Stephens had a big game as Fairfield knocked off NorthWood 45-42 in boys basketball action Saturday night.

ELKHART – The NorthWood girls basketball team picked up a win over Elkhart Memorial 51-37 in conference action Friday night.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Football Coaches Association released its all-state teams, and numerous area players were among the rolls.

TOPEKA – Westview made the most of the free throw line to edge NorthWood 61-55 in a clash of ranked boys basketball teams Thursday night.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood swim teams competed versus Plymouth in a conference meet Tuesday night.

BOURBON — NorthWood’s boys basketball team turned up the tempo on host Triton to remain unbeaten through three games with a 57-35 win over the host Trojans Friday night.

NAPPANEE – Warsaw pulled the double Thursday night, beating NorthWood in both boys and girls swims.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood girls basketball team topped Concord 54-45 in its conference opener Thursday night.

NAPPANEE- The NorthWood boys basketball team topped South Bend St. Joseph Saturday night.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood boys basketball team topped Lakeland 69-52 in its season opener Wednesday night.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood girls basketball team edged past Triton 30-28 Tuesday night.

NAPPANEE – A preview of the 2017-18 NorthWood boys basketball program.

OSSIAN – The NorthWood girls basketball team rallied in the final quarter to defeat Norwell 57-50 Saturday.

KNOX – The NorthWood girls swim team opened its season by going 1-1 Tuesday night.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood girls basketball team dropped a 58-49 contest in overtime to Elkhart Central Tuesday night.

GOSHEN – Selections have been made for football’s All-Northern Lakes Conference.

ROCHESTER — NorthWood’s girls basketball team survived a rough second quarter to win its second straight, 36-20, at Rochester Saturday afternoon.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood beat Mishawaka, 48-39, Tuesday night in an eventful girls basketball matchup.

WINONA LAKE – The Northern Lakes Conference held its Sportsmanship Summit Tuesday at Grace College.

WARSAW – The Lakeview Middle School boys basketball teams went 1-1 in their season openers Monday night.

The official start of the 2017-18 high school boys basketball season commences with first practices on Monday.

MISHAWAKA – The NorthWood girls basketball team dropped a 48-33 final at Penn Saturday afternoon.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood girls basketball team topped South Bend Riley in its opener Thursday night.

NAPPANEE – Undefeated Angola staged an improbable rally to upend NorthWood 28-21 in overtime in a sectional thriller Friday night.

Scores from local high school football sectional semifinal games Friday night.

NAPPANEE – A preview of the 2017-18 edition of the NorthWood girls basketball team.

The football trio of Warsaw, Triton and NorthWood are set for sectional semifinal games Friday night.

GOSHEN – The Northern Lakes Conference issued its lists for All-NLC volleyball, boys soccer and girls soccer.

GREENFIELD — The Warsaw, Wawasee and NorthWood cheer teams will all be among the field as the Indiana Association of School Principals hosts the 2017 Indiana Cheer Championship Varsity Prelims at Greenfield-Central High School on Saturday.

FORT WAYNE – Wawasee’s Luke Griner qualified for the IHSAA State Finals after his work at Saturday’s New Haven Cross Country Semi-state.

INDIANAPOLIS – The NorthWood doubles team of Brant Mast and Jared Hoffman lost in the quarterfinals at State on Friday.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood football team ran wild in a 54-3 blowout of DeKalb in a Class 4-A sectional opener Friday night at Andrews Field.

NAPPANEE – The NorthWood No. 1 doubles team of Jared Hoffman and Brant Mast are ready to play in the State Finals Friday.

A look at what teams from Warsaw and Wawasee, as well as a few select individuals, will be up against this weekend at two cross country semi-states.

LAPORTE – The NorthWood No. 1 doubles team of Brant Mast and Jared Hoffman are headed to the State Finals after winning a regional title Saturday.

NAPPANEE – Fairfield pulled off an emphatic 3-0 win over NorthWood to win the Class 3-A NorthWood Volleyball Sectional.

Scorelines and info from soccer regionals from around the area.

ELKHART – Wawasee’s boys team and a trio of girls survived the Elkhart Central XC Regional on Saturday.

PLYMOUTH – West Lafayette outgunned NorthWood, 6-0, Saturday morning in the semi-finals of the Plymouth Girls Soccer Regional.

NAPPANEE — The Black Crunch bounced back from last week’s disappointing loss in Warsaw with a feel-good 30-6 win over Plymouth at home at Andrews Field.

TERRE HAUTE – The IATCCC issued its Academic All-State awards which included a handful of Warsaw and NorthWood runners.

WARSAW – The Warsaw freshman football team lost to NorthWood 47-7 in its season finale Thursday night.

Cross country regionals this weekend will feature various levels of urgency.

Warsaw and NorthWood soccer teams are prepping for soccer’s regional round this Saturday.

A look at matchups for the final week of the regular season for area high school football teams.

A look around the area at sectional final scores for both boys and girls soccer.