MIDDLEBURY – The Warsaw girls basketball team was so close Saturday.

NORTH MANCHESTER – The Manchester Lady Squires will play for a girls basketball sectional championship tonight. Five-foot-6 senior Kennedy Fierstos made sure of it.

MISHAWAKA – The Grace College women’s basketball team completed a season sweep of rival Bethel, sinking the Pilots 79-66 on Saturday. The Lady Lancers (14-12, 8-6 Crossroads League) stretched their season-best winning streak to four games and continued to climb the league standings. Grace now sits in a three-way tie for fourth place with four games remaining in the regular season.

MISHAWAKA – Grace College’s men’s basketball team suffered its worst offensive output of the year in an 85-58 loss at No. 14 Bethel on Saturday. The Lancers scored their fewest points of the season, struggling in nearly every offensive category. Grace shot 38 percent from the floor, 19 percent from the three-point line and 54 percent from the foul line.

MISHAWAKA – James Snyder is the champion.

MIDDLEBURY – The cold weather limited the Warsaw girls basketball team’s practice time this week, but it didn’t keep the Lady Tigers from showcasing stellar defense Friday.

NORTH MANCHESTER – Played three days after it was originally scheduled, Friday night’s Class 2A Sectional 37 first-round game was definitely worth the wait for the Manchester Lady Squires.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee senior Casey Schroeder scored a team-high 18 points, but the Lady Warriors lost 53-33 to Lakeland in a Class 3A 21 Sectional game Friday at West Noble. 

WINONA LAKE – A dominant third quarter was all the Grace College women’s basketball team needed to beat Crossroads League rival Goshen Colle 69-43 on Tuesday.

WINONA LAKE – Grace College’s men’s basketball team ended a seven-game skid with a 76-67 win over Crossroads League fo Goshen College Tuesday at the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center.

Since I was 4 years old, I have been broadcasting games.

Local girls basketball sectional games scheduled for Tuesday, Thursday and Friday were rescheduled to Friday and Saturday. 

WINONA LAKE – In her first season of collegiate competition, Grace College’s Nordia Campbell was honored Monday as the Crossroads League Female Track Athlete of the Week.

BREMEN – The Lakeview seventh grade boys basketball team won 34-31 over Edgewood to win the NELMSC title Saturday at Bremen.

Sports and music are two of my greatest passions.

AKRON – Tippecanoe Valley senior Sophie Bussard had one focus last summer: improve her outside shooting game.

The Warsaw Lady Tigers are primed to stand tall in Class 4A Sectional 4 at Northridge High School.

AKRON – The Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings are looking to get back to the top.

NORTH MANCHESTER – To say the Manchester Lady Squires are taking some momentum into this week’s Class 2A Sectional 37, one that they will host, would be an understatement.

SYRACUSE – Sectional tournament time can be seen as a chance to leave the past behind. Wawasee’s girls basketball team will take that approach this year after an 11-game losing streak during the first half of the season left them with a less-than-stellar record.

BOURBON – After a regular season with more than its fair share of adversity, Triton’s Lady Trojan basketball team enters the Class 1A Oregon-Davis Sectional with another tough assignment.

SOUTH WHITLEY – The good news for the Whitko girls basketball team is it drew a first-round bye in this week's Class 2A Central Noble Sectional.

WINONA LAKE – Last season, Lakeland Christian Academy’s girls basketball team fell four points short of claiming its first sectional title, losing 41-38 to Lakewood Park in the title game.

The fourth time was a charm for the Warsaw Lady Tigers.

ELKHART – The Warsaw Tigers were strong in overtime Saturday.