Blown out three straight times by Jimtown, Tippecanoe Valley hasn’t managed to engage in a competitive football game against the Jimmies since Viking head coach Steve Moriarty was last involved. Of course, Moriarty was a player that last time, a quarter of a century ago. Coincidentally, so was Jimtown coach Mike Campbell.

Three Rivers Conference announced its all-conference volleyball selections Wednesday.

Young Named NCCAA Golfer Of The Week

Lakeview Middle School in Warsaw announced its Athlete of the Month awards for October on Tuesday.

Because the weather was dreadful last Saturday, I watched a lot of football on TV. I watched a lot of coaches make a lot of decisions every 30 seconds that impacted every play of every game and every team’s season. It’s a hard job, and those coaches (even the ones who aren’t very good at it) get paid a lot of money.

The Crossroads League Athletes of the Week were announced on Monday, recognizing the top athletes from the week of Oct. 21-27. Sports Information Directors from the league nominate student-athletes for the award and vote on each week’s winners.

VB Program Honors Seniors In Finale; Men’s Soccer Topped By Rose-Hulman

Lancer Cross Country Gets Final Tuneup In Michigan

Triton had nobody who stood nearly as tall as Morgan Township’s Emily Rastovski — not even figuratively, never mind literally. The 6-foot junior and Purdue University recruit blistered 17 kills, most of them reverberating off the John R. Nelson Gym floorboards, as the Cherokees swept the Trojans 25-11, 25-19, 25-16 in Saturday’s Class 1A Culver Regional volleyball semifinals.

Manchester, Tippecanoe Valley, Triton and Wawasee (in New Haven) had runners competing.

Despite a strong showing by their defense against a talented Northfield running game, four failed red zone trips cost the Triton Trojans as they lost their 1A sectional football game 21-8 to the visiting Norse Friday night.

A few minutes south of the University of Notre Dame’s campus, the Tippecanoe Valley Vikings football team was soaking everything in as they visited South Bend for the first time in school history. The coaches and players walked around and talked about how amazed they were by the atmosphere. Alas, they were not there to tour, but they had one goal in mind: Win. They did just that.

The NorthWood Panthers, behind the arms and legs of junior quarterback Nate Newcomer, ended the visiting Wawasee Warriors season with a 49-3 defeat in a Class 4A sectional football game.

Squires Drop Close Sectional Game To Bremen; Wildcats Fall On The Road

Lakeland Christian Academy held its annual Fall Sports Awards ceremony Tuesday in the school auditorium.

Lancers Net Four To End Regular Season

Men’s Soccer Falls; Volleyball Falls To Bluffton

Grace’s women’s basketball team enjoyed a 73-52 victory over Cincinnati Christian on Tuesday to kick off the 2019-20 season. The Lady Lancers (1-0) used a relentless defensive effort in the win. The Eagles (0-1) were forced into 24 turnovers, and a career-high 27 points from Kyannah Stull propelled Grace at the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center.

A total of six Warsaw cross country runners, three each from the Tigers and Lady Tigers, were named to the All-Northern Lakes Conference team Wednesday.

A sweeter script could not have been written. Grace women’s golf. National champions. The Lady Lancers claimed their first national championship on Wednesday, winning the 2019 NCCAA National Championships by two strokes at Hammock Beach Resort’s Ocean Course.

Tippecanoe Valley (6-3) vs. SB Washington (6-3); Wawasee (2-7) at NorthWood (6-3); Wawasee (2-7) at NorthWood (6-3); Whitko (0-9) at Prairie Heights (1-8); Northfield (5-4) at Triton (2-7)

This week is the nine-year celebration of my wife and me travelling to China to meet and adopt our first child. I know a lot of you remember that time, too, because you held our hands through the five years of waiting for our adoption packet to make it to the top of that stack.

Grace College’s Shooting Sports Club took second and third place in the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) Collegiate Nationals competition this past weekend. The team took second place in bunker (Olympic-style) trap and third place in 5-stand competition.

The Northern Lakes Conference announced its all-conference selections for boys and girls soccer and volleyball Tuesday morning.

Men In 4th After Two Rounds