Cougars Down North Miami For 1st Win Over 2A Team; Lady Cougars Cruise To Win; Squires Drop Tight Contest To Maconaquah; Lady Warriors Fall On Road; Wawasee Gymnasts Edge Lady Hornets; Rochester Swimmers Sweep Valley In TRC Meet

Middle school boys and girls basketball

Swimmers Julie Mishler of Syracuse Elementary School, and Kiah Farrington of Wawasee Middle School competed with Team Indiana in the MidStates All-Star Championships in Indianapolis over the weekend

Triton’s home girls basketball game with Winamac tonight, as well as Thursday’s boys game with Bethany Christian, will be played at Triton Elementary School

Lady Squires Come Back, But Fall Short At North Miami; Lady Dragons Trip LCA; Lady Warriors Fall At NorthWood In NLC Game; Hornets Edge Warriors; Lady ‘Cats Fall To Rochester; Pilgrims Drop Vikings; Freshman Boys Basketball – Manchester Tournament

Wawasee Swimmers Sweep Goshen In Regular-Season Finale; Concord Takes Two From Warsaw

Valley Wrestlers 4-1 At Wabash Tournament; Three Warsaw Wrestlers Win At W. Noble Tourney; Squires 6th At East Noble Invitational

Middle School Boys Basketball

In the words of first-year Warsaw girls basketball coach Lenny Krebs, you can't spot a team like Northridge a big lead and expect a good result. The Lady Tigers found that out the hard way Saturday night.

GOSHEN – The Grace College women’s basketball team continued its strong play of late with an 81-69 road win at Goshen College on Saturday. The Lady Lancers (9-9, 3-3 Crossroads League) were led by the dynamic scoring of guards Vironnica Drake, Micaela Box and Brooke Sugg. The trio combined to score 51 points against the Maple Leafs (1-17, 0-6 CL).

GOSHEN – Grace College’s men’s basketball team nearly came back from a 14-point deficit before falling 86-80 at Crossroads League opponent Goshen College on Saturday.

MIDDLEBURY – Doug Ogle wasn’t thrilled Northridge High School junior Jackson Erekson scored 25 points against his Warsaw boys basketball team Friday night.

NORTH MANCHESTER – The Manchester Squires opened the new year in impressive fashion Friday night.

ROCHESTER – Led by River West’s double-double, the Whitko Wildcats edged Three Rivers Conference host Rochester 59-58 Friday night in boys basketball action.

AKRON – Tippecanoe Valley dominated the middle two quarters Thursday evening, but Northfield got off to a good start and had an even greater finish to beat the Class 3A No. 4 Lady Vikings 53-52 in Three Rivers Conference girls basketball action.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee High School’s wrestling team continued its dominating season Thursday with a 66-9 win over Northern Lakes Conference rival NorthWood.

PLYMOUTH – Led by sophomore Kaylee Patton, the Warsaw Lady Tigers outlasted Northern?Lakes Conference rival Plymouth 68-60 in triple overtime Wednesday.

WINONA LAKE – A hard-fought Crossroads League contest went against Grace’s women’s basketball team in a 60-55 loss to No. 20 St. Francis. The Lady Lancers (8-9, 2-3 CL) struggled to shoot 33 percent on Wednesday but still led by seven in the third quarter.

WINONA LAKE – Grace College’s men’s basketball team could not find a solution to No. 2 St. Francis on Wednesday in a 94-71 loss. The Lancers (7-10, 0-5 Crossroads League) were efficient on offense, but the Cougars (15-2, 5-0 CL) were even better. USF shot 57 percent from the floor for the game, including a sizzling 64 percent in the first half.

SYRACUSE – After scoring just 20 points in the first half Tuesday evening, Wawasee High School’s varsity boys basketball team netted 22 in the fourth quarter.

OK, so occasionally I have to tread on thin ice when I write each week, and I am going to do that again today.

Warsaw used a newly-discovered toughness and a fourth-quarter rally to win 43-38 over Fishers in the nightcap of the Champions of Character boys basketball tournament Saturday night at Grace College. Finding itself in a 17-8 second-quarter hole to another team that calls itself the Tigers, Warsaw coach Doug Ogle said he urged his team to match te physicality of Fishers. “They’re a physical team. We were just trying to be physical, and I challenged our players to be more physical with them inside,” said Ogle. “We did a pretty good job with that for the most part. We got outrebounded, and that wasn’t good. “We’re just really happy with this win. We needed it badly.”

Tippecanoe Valley Wins Concord Invitational; Lady Warriors Split At Plymouth Shootout; Wawasee 2nd At Elkhart Central Meet; Two Wildcats Wrestlers Place

Sophomore Austin Miller hit four three-pointers for 12 points for Wawasee in its 34-30 loss in the finals of the Wawasee Holiday Classic boys basketball tournament at the Hardwood Teepee Friday night. Trevon Coleman had nine points, with Jairus Boyer, Jacob Hand and Aaron Evans rounding out the Warrior scoring with three points each. Hand had a team-high six rebounds.

Cougars Win; Finish Fifth