A couple of surprises last Friday night on area prep football fields have turned the final two weeks of the regular season into quite the drama-filled story in the Northern Lakes Conference. The crowded standings atop the league now boast four teams tied for the conference lead with Warsaw, Concord, Plymouth and NorthWood all 4-1. …read more.

Tippecanoe Valley lost a 3-0 final to Rochester in a Three Rivers Conference volleyball match Monday night. The Zebras defeated the Vikings 25-11, 25-22, 25-21 for the league win. Sara Alexander had six kills to lead the Vikings. Caylie Teel had four and Courtney Newsome, Kelsey Ball and Jade Hoffman each added three. Alexander also …read more.

High school football teams have had plenty to deal with this week in preparation for another Friday night of conference play The common theme around the area has been coaches and players trying to stay healthy as illness has hit at several schools. Tippecanoe Valley coach Jeff Shriver had to leave practice a little early …read more.

The Tippecanoe Valley volleyball team staged a great comeback rally Thursday night to edge Maconaquah 3-2. The Vikings rallied to post a 19-25, 14-25,  25-20, 27-25, 15-13 win. Kelsey Ball led the offense for coach Abby Turner’s team with 15 kills. Caylie Teel slammed down a dozen kills, while Sara Alexander had 10 and Courtney …read more.

The second phase of the 2012 high school football season begins in earnest for area teams Friday night. With a pair of non-conference contests in the books, the focus shifts to bigger things with the start of conference play. League championships may not be won the first week of conference action, but a loss Friday …read more.

Coach Ryan Moore fully expected his Tippecanoe Valley baseball team to be playing for a regional championship Saturday night. Sometimes, though, the game can be cruel. Winning pitcher Tyler Anderson hit a walk-off, three-run home run in the bottom of the seventh to lift Hamilton Heights past the Vikings 4-1 in a semifinal game of …read more.

The Tippecanoe Valley baseball team will take its next step in the postseason Saturday in the Bellmont Regional. The Vikings, in the regional for the third time in the last four years, face Hamilton Heights (19-9) in the first semifinal game of the Class 3-A event at 11 a.m. The second game pits host Bellmont …read more.

The Tippecanoe Valley softball team saw its season end Monday evening with a 10-0 loss to Lakeland in first-round play of the Class 3-A Fairfield Sectional. Ashlynn Grubb fired a no-hitter for Lakeland. She had seven strikeouts and one walk in the victory. Grubb also had three hits and three RBI. Kassidy Shepherd took the …read more.

GOLF TEAM LOSES TO VIKINGS The Whitko boys golf team dropped a Three Rivers Conference match to Tippecanoe Valley by a 167-184 final Tuesday. Colton LeTourneau led Whitko with a 42 in the match played at Sycamore Golf Club. Danny Zawlocki shot 43, Josh Busenbark 44 and Cole Bechtold and Matt Hathaway each had a …read more.

Pitching carried Tippecanoe Valley to a 6-0 prep baseball win at Whitko Wednesday. James Hackworth and Clayton Adamson combined to fire a two-hitter with 14 strikeouts as the Vikings won the TRC opener for both teams. Hackworth fanned 12 in six innings, while Adamson struck out two in the final frame. Jacob Ritchey smacked a …read more.