Four area wrestlers earned a place in the 2020 IHSAA State Finals with their semistate performances Saturday. At East Chicago, Wawasee senior Garrett Stuckman (16-0) went 4-0 with a pin in the finals.

Grace’s track and field team tackled the 2020 Crossroads League Indoor Track and Field Championships over the weekend, taking place Friday and Saturday at Indiana Wesleyan.

Indoor Track and Field Wraps up Competition at DePauw; Spartans Topped by Transy; Wrestling Battles Regional Foes at Mid-States

Grace College’s men’s basketball team notched a statement win over No. 15 St. Francis on Saturday. The Lancers’ 82-68 victory caps off a season sweep of the Cougars (19-9, 8-8 Crossroads League). Grace also successfully defended its spot in the conference standings, remaining alone in third place.

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Grace women’s basketball team fell to No. 10 St. Francis 62-56 on Saturday afternoon. The Lady Lancers (18-10, 9-7 Crossroads League) had a 32-26 lead at the half, but after the intermission were unable to hold the No. 10 Cougars at bay. The highlight of the afternoon happened just minutes into the second quarter. Vironnica Drake scored to pass Juaneice Jackson (1,893 points) to become the all-time leading scorer in Grace women’s basketball history. The senior scored 15 points, giving her a career total of 1,898 points.

It wasn’t for the Northern Lakes Conference Championship, like Warsaw’s boys basketball matchup with Plymouth has been so many times over the years, but it turned out to be a much-needed win for the host Tigers. Wrapping up the league schedule with a 49-36 win over the Pilgrims Friday night, Warsaw snapped a three-game losing streak and improved to 11-6 overall and 4-3 in the NLC.

With Three Rivers Conference play winding down for the Tippecanoe Valley boys basketball team, they looked to end that slate on a high note. While it may have been a disappointing season in the TRC for the Vikings, things were also lackluster for the visiting North Miami Warriors — who have dealt with a coaching change recently.

Wawasee, supported by a strong performance from senior Austin Miller, fended off a late surge from Goshen to defeat the RedHawks 49-47 in a Northern Lake Conference boys basketball clash Friday night.

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Grace’s track and field team started the 2020 Crossroads League Indoor Track and Field Championship on Friday at Indiana Wesleyan. On Friday’s opening day of competition, Grace set multiple school records and had one All-League event.

The Manchester University wrestling team won a hard-fought 27-23 dual against Trine in the team’s home finale on Thursday evening in Stauffer-Wolfe Arena.

Grace’s women’s basketball team picked up a critical late-season win on the road, beating Spring Arbor 71-65 on Wednesday. Kyannah Stull led all players with 24 points, and Vironnica Drake stuffed the stat sheet with 23 points, 6 rebounds, 3 steals and 2 assists. With 18 wins this season, the Lady Lancers (18-9, 9-6 Crossroads League) already have the fourth-most wins for a season in program history. Grace is well within reach of the all-time record of 20 victories.

Men’s Hoops Falls

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A last-second shot by Spring Arbor sunk Grace’s men’s basketball team by a score of 82-81 on Tuesday. The Lancers (17-10, 9-6 Crossroads League) and Cougars put on an efficient offensive performance. Each side shot over 50 percent from the floor and 43 percent on 3-pointers, and the teams had single-digit turnovers apiece.

Area Results from Tuesday Tuesday Results Boys Basketball Manchester 64, Northfield 47 Manchester (9-8, 4-2 TRC) – Thane Creager 14, Kreeden Krull 13 (12 rebounds), Max Carter 13 (11 rebounds), …

Over the roughly five years that I have been writing for the Times-Union, you all have been very open to giving me ideas of new columns, and I have appreciated that very much. Most of them were good ideas, and many of them I ended up turning into a column. Some of those ideas were too obscure to write into the space I had, and others were just offered out of their own personal agenda (like “you should write about how X coach at X school should be fired”). But I cannot put this one off — not anymore.

Grace College’s softball team is days away from kicking off the 2020 campaign. The Lady Lancers, led by second-year head coach Sarah Harman, are aiming to turn the corner this spring. Grace struggled to finish close games last year, losing 16 contests by one or two runs. Harman maintained that a change in mentality could make a big difference on the diamond in 2020.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A day after being honored as the Player of the Week for the NCCAA and Crossroads League, Vironnica Drake added one more award on Tuesday.

Last week, the girls’ IHSAA basketball state tournament got underway, with more than 400 teams participating in the Sectional round of tournament play. There were some really nice performances by the ladies, but sprinkled in were some standout showings by the gentlemen as well. Central Noble sophomore Connor Essegian, Western Boone senior Cortez Stoudemire, Scottsburg senior Nicholas Sebastiao, South Bend Washington sophomore Mila Reynolds, Franklin Central senior Rachel Loobie, and Greenwood Christian junior Isabella Reed were selected as recipients for the week of Feb. 3-Feb. 8 in the recognition program coordinated by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association.

Johnson earns first award; Crossroads League Athletes of the Week

Choked up by emotion, third-year Warsaw girls basketball coach Lenny Krebs couldn’t have been any more accurate with his description of Saturday night’s 45-44 loss to No. 6 Penn in the championship game of Class 4A Sectional 4 at the Tiger Den.

Emma Garriott’s strong performance was not enough Saturday night, as Manchester suffered a narrow, 39-33 defeat to Rochester in the Class 2A Lewis Cass girls basketball sectional title game. Garriott, responsible for succeeding in the role of both creator and scorer, managed to break the full-court press on several occasions. Her insistence on driving towards the basket before attempting a layup or dishing off a pass to a teammate caused mayhem for the Zebra defense all night. “She’s like a one-man fast break and press-break,” said head coach Josh Troyer with a chuckle. “She’s one that had trouble last game against them. I thought mentally she just wasn’t in it.”

Wawasee tied for third place, Warsaw came in sixth, Tippecanoe Valley. eighth and Triton tied for 12th Saturday at the Penn Regional wrestling tournament.