Lady Tigers Fall To Class 4A No. 3 Homestead In Tiger Den; Lady Vikings Victorious; LCA Girls Fall In Road Game; Cougars Drop Close Game, and more!

Grace men’s basketball team lost a heartbreaker Tuesday night to No. 2 Indiana Wesleyan, falling 87-85. This is the second straight NAIA Top-10 team the Lancers lost by two points or less.

At the Whitko Community Schools board meeting Monday night, it was revealed Josh Mohr, Whitko High School athlletic director, has resigned. The board approved fo

Senior Haley Clifford entered Friday night’s competition with one motto on her mind: “Be fast, be tough, and be aggressive.” That formula served her well, as she finished in fourth place in the 120 pounds weight class for Manchester in the Indiana High School Girls Wrestling state finals. The victory over her first-round opponent, highlighted by a first period pin, guaranteed her a spot in the winner’s bracket, and subsequently, a top four finish.

Grace’s track and field team continued its indoor season with the Indiana Wesleyan Invitational on Saturday. The Lancers set two school records and had an NAIA “A” qualifier in the indoor meet.

Grace’s women’s basketball team notched a crucial road win on Saturday, defeating Mt. Vernon Nazarene 74-72. Kyannah Stull paced the offense with 24 points, including four 3-pointers.

Grace’s first game this season as a ranked team was a barnburner.

As the temperatures and snow fell outside Friday night, Warsaw’s varsity boys basketball team heated up inside the Tiger Den. In a 49-39 Northern Lakes Conference win over the Goshen RedHawks, Warsaw went from shooting 44 percent in the first half to making 59 percent of its attempts in the second half, improving to 9-3 overall and 2-1 in league play. To the contrary, the RedHawks shot 44 percent from the field in the first half, but just 31 percent over the final two quarters, as they fell to 7-4 overall and 1-2 in the NLC standings.

Trio Of Vikings Find Double Figures In TRC Win Over Rochester

It was not too long ago, Dec. 28 to be exact, that Manchester and Wabash, two in-county rivals faced off. It was lopsided, with the Apaches rolling past the Squires 80-45 in the Wabash County Tournament.

In a fast-paced game that remained close until the end, the Wawasee Warriors boys basketball team fell to Elkhart Memorial 59-51 in Northern Lakes Conference action Friday night. The Warriors got off to a hot start, hitting their first three shots from the field en route to a 6-2 lead. After an Elkhart Memorial flurry from midrange, though, they ended up facing a 16-6 deficit. Wawasee hit the final two baskets of the period, and the score stood at 16-10 heading into the second quarter.

Warsaw Community High School alum and Spring Arbor University senior Paul Marandet has been named to the Top 100 Watch List for the 2019-20 Bevo Francis Award presented to the top player in Small College Basketball, awarded by SmallCollege-Basketball.com. The honor is awarded to a deserving player whose university is affiliated within NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, NAIA Division I, NAIA Division II, USCAA and NCCAA.

Bobby Cox, Commissioner of the Indiana High School Athletic Association, Inc. since 2011, announced to the IHSAA Executive Committee his intention to retire effective Aug. 1.. Cox’s announcement came Thursday morning as part of the group’s January meeting.

Sometimes, numbers or statistics in sports can be misleading or perhaps even meaningless. Often, they simply do not tell the whole story. Such was not the case, however, with the massive number of 10,000,000 announced last week by the National Federation of High Schools. As in 10 million online education courses that have been taken by high school coaches, administrators, officials, students, parents, performing arts educators and others since the inception of the NFHS Learning Center in 2007.

Wawasee Wrestlers Easily Handle St. Joseph Indians; Tigers Trim RedHawks; Squires Sweep Trojans; Wildcats Fall To LPC

Teams in all sports know to feed the ball to the player with the hot hand, and Warsaw’s Lady Tigers did just that in their 66-30 win over Elkhart Memorial in the final Northern Lakes Conference girls basketball matchup between the two schools.

An impressive defensive performance led Grace College’s women’s basketball team to an 85-47 victory over Spring Arbor on Wednesday.

Under the direction of first year head coach Scott Moore, Grace’s men’s basketball team has earned a spot in the NAIA Top 25 Coaches’ Poll.

Tippecanoe Valley freshman Paul Leasure continued his solid season with a pair of double-digit scoring performances and hit a pair of free throws to win a game last week. For those efforts, Leasure is the Times-Union Athlete of the Week for Jan. 6-11.

Small college basketball has once again released it’s Bevo Francis Top 100 Watch List, and for the third straight season, Warsaw Community High School alum and Indiana Wesleyan junior Kyle Mangas has earned a spot.

The Manchester University women’s basketball team overcame a slow start and battled past visiting Defiance College on Wednesday night in Stauffer-Wolfe Arena. The Spartans trailed 10-1 four minutes into the game before outscoring the Yellow Jackets 53-30 the rest of the way en route to a 54-40 victory.

Lady Squires Drop Tight Three Rivers Conference Game At Peru; Recaps from Tuesday

Lakeland Christian Academy held visiting Fort Wayne Canterbury without a made shot from the floor for more for the first nine minutes of their girls basketball game. The Cavaliers trailed by as many as 16 points late in the first half before cutting the lead to five late in the third quarter, making the home team sweat out a 41-28 win Tuesday night.

I was not there, but I have seen the video of the last-second foul called on the 3-point shooter in Saturday night’s Tippecanoe Valley-Plymouth boys basketball game. I watched it about 50 times — at regular speed and in slow motion.

After Tippecanoe Valley virtually skunked NorthWood in the second quarter, the Panthers bounced right back to completely skunk the Vikings in the third.