After an extensive search, Athletic Director Matt Binkerd hired just the third boys basketball head coach at Warsaw Community High School. The choice??Forty-year-old Grace College alum Matt Moore. The announcement came Saturday and is subject to school board approval, which is expected to come at its next scheduled meeting a week from today, April 27.

Despite the lack of a senior season, Warsaw baseball players Noah Burgh and Jacob Hutcherson announced Friday they will continue their baseball and academic careers are Purdue North-west and Trinity Christian College, respectively.

Special Olympics Kosciusko County (SOKC) has been suspended in keeping with current CDC social distancing guidelines for COVID-19. In light of this situation, this recap will provide information on the activities and benefits of SOKC.

The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) announced today the members of the 2020 NFF Hampshire Honor Society, which is comprised of college football players from all divisions of play who each maintained a cumulative 3.2 GPA or better throughout their college careers. Senior Alex Downard, a Campbell Trophy semifinalist back in the fall, was named to the NFF Hampshire Honor Society Tuesday.

Athletic director Eric Screeton announced Wednesday  former Squire assistant Alyx Brandewie is the new head football coach at Manchester High School. Brandewie is originally from Minster, Ohio, and was teaching and coaching football and baseball there the last two years. Before that he was an assistant coach and eventually the defensive coordinator under former coach Greg Miller from 2016-18.

We have all learned a lot over the past month. We’ve learned a lot about ourselves, the people we live with, the people we work with and the people who have been our friends. I want to use my space this week talking about some of the things I have learned over this month. Some of them are sports-related, and some of them are not. Some of them, I hope, you find humorous. Some aren’t funny at all.

This is the last of my series on the great Warsaw teams of all time. There are a few more teams that need to be mentioned. Again, these are teams that set themselves apart over the course of time and they are in no particular order.

Anthony Leal and Sydney Parrish can add one more award to their expanding trophy rooms — Indiana's No. 1 All-Star jersey. Leal was a runaway winner for the IndyStar Mr. Basketball Award, receiving 103 of 236 votes. Parrish earned 102 votes to edge Madison Layden for the Miss Basketball Award.

With several laps around 1st Source Bank Field, and a celebratory backflip to boot, sophomore Cole Voss concluded the last shift for the Grace College men’s soccer program at noon Wednesday, ending the team’s weeklong quest to raise money for COVID-19 relief.

The spring sports season will be one that is talked about for as long as high school sports are still talked about. It ended before it ever started. Just minutes after Gov. Eric Holcomb’s order last week that school buildings stay closed and educating be done remotely for the remainder of the school year, the Indiana High School Athletic Association issued their own statement saying that the spring sports season would never begin.

Warsaw senior Grayson Kilburn was named the female recipient of the The Don Dicken Golf Award for the 2019 season on Tuesday. The award recipients are chosen by Warsaw golf coaches and presented to the senior golfers who excel in leadership, academics, citizenship, and team effort.

Coaching staff assembled. Players selected. Jerseys printed. President and co-owner of Fort Wayne Football Club Erik Magner was eager to unveil a high level of soccer to northeast Indiana.

Thirteen players have been selected for the 2020 IndyStar Indiana Boys All-Stars, it was announced Monday. Those chosen to the team are scheduled to play three games in June -- one exhibition game against the Indiana Junior All-Stars as well as home-and-home contests against the Kentucky All-Stars.

Indiana Wesleyan men’s basketball junior Kyle Mangas added to his season accolades, being named the 2020 Clarence “Bevo” Francis Award winner, announced by the Small College Basketball and the National Awards Committee. This award is given to just one player within Small College Basketball per season. This marks the first time in program history a Wildcat has earned the honor.

In the later stages of the 2015-16 Warsaw boys basketball season, Warsaw’s quest for perfection was still very much intact as they traveled to Fort Wayne Northrop on a January Saturday night. Jan. 23, to be exact. They were trailing in the dying moments of the game, and they passed the ball to Kyle Mangas.

After learning Monday he had won the Bevo Francis Award as the nation’s top small college men’s basketball player, Warsaw native and Indiana Wesleyan junior guard Kyle Mangas took some time to reflect on how he began his journey to the top of the small college basketball world. “I started my Warsaw basketball career in second grade, playing on a third-grade level travel team in town with guys like Paul Marandet, guys like Riley Rhoades and Evan Schmidt who I’d go on to play high school ball.

MARION – Indiana Wesleyan junior and Warsaw Community High School alumni Kyle Mangas was named Saturday as one of 14 finalists for the Bevo Francis Award, given to the best small college basketball player in the nation.

They say you can’t run away from your problems, but Grace College’s men’s soccer team is putting one foot in front of the other in order to provide monetary relief for communities fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

So last Saturday I started to tackle the daunting task of looking back on the best Warsaw teams of all time. It’s daunting because there are so many teams worth mentioning, and because if you don’t mention a team that someone thinks should be mentioned, you open the door for trouble.

After Gov. Eric Holcomb’s order Thursday afternoon for all school building in Indiana remain closed for the remander of the academic year, the IHSAA followed by cancelling the spring sports season for 2020.

I had a feeling, and made a point not to say so in this space a week or so ago, that the spring sports season wasn’t going to happen. Thursday, in a statement far more brief than its impact, the IHSAA did what had to be done; cancelling the spring sports season. And it truly sucks. (* – I wasn’t sure the boss would like the word “sucks” in a headline, but this whole thing with the coronavirus does.)

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For me, there are times when items in the news become a little more real or personal. I find it fairly easy to compartmentalize things until those news items include people I know. It doesn’t have to be a close, personal friend. Over the course of a lifetime I’ve met hundreds, if not thousands of people, and I hope most of them, when my name is mentioned, smile. (No one bats 1.000 in that category, and I am by no means an exception to that rule.)

Sports has completely ground to a halt. There is nothing happening.

The Grace College men’s soccer team is planning a run to fight COVID-19. A very long run. The Lancers are organizing a 48-hour run this week in an effort to raise funds for pandemic relief.