Lady Squires Fall In County Tournament

The Warsaw wrestlers came up short of advancing to the placement rounds at the Al Smith Invitational at Mishawaka High School Friday. Leading the Tigers for the day were Brock Hueber and Jose Grimmett. Hueber (195 pounds) went 3-2, collecting pins against Hobart’s Drake Reicio and Lucas Waite of Prairie Heights in the consolation rounds. In the final round of the day, Hueber lost a 5-3 overtime decision to Dennis Weston of Merrillville.

For three quarters Tippecanoe Valley’s boys basketball team played as well as it had all season. But a brutal fourth quarter saw the Vikings score just two points, none in the last six minutes, and drop a 56-51 non-conference contest to visiting John Glenn Thursday night. Glenn scored the last 12 points of the game after Valley took its largest lead of the night at 51-44 with 6:05 to play. While it was still a one-possession game, Valley coach Chad Patrick had his team hold the ball with the intent of looking for the perfect opportunity to attack the Falcon defense. The strategy just didn’t work quite the way the coach had in mind.

Lady Cougars Win Twice In Tournament Play; McDaniel Scores 1,000th Career Point For Cougars; Whitko Falls Twice

Warsaw came within a bounce of winning the Lady Tiger Classic, but that Carom didn’t go the way of the home team in a 40-39 loss to Chesterton in the title game at the Tiger Den. The Lady Tigers held a 37-34 lead with 1:32 to go. The Chesterton comeback began when Sarah Dzierba had a prayer answered in the paint, then Maddie Scott converted both ends of a one-and-one to grab the lead for the Lady Trojans. After a Warsaw turnover, Kaylee Patton had to foul Courtney Krol, who hit both free throws with 12.4 seconds to play. After a timeout, Maddie Ryman went coast-to-coast uncontested to cut the lead to one with 6.3 seconds left. Warsaw then got a much-needed turnover when an inbounds pass bounced off a Chesterton player and out of play. After a timeout, Ryman took the inbounds pass and dribbled between the circles, where she was double-teamed. She found Patton to her left, and she fired a three that bounced off the back iron at the buzzer.

Manchester Junior Varsity Wrestling

Wawasee’s wrestling team went undefeated in Class 2A and won the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association tournament at Memorial Coliseum Saturday.

TOPEKA – Doug Ogle said he was encouraged by the way his team played in the middle two quarters of Saturday night’s non-conference game at Class 2A No. 2 Westview.

SYRACUSE – Aubrey Kuhn and Casey Schroeder had 14 and 10 points, respectively, and combined for an 8-of-8 effort from the free throw line in the last three minutes to lead Wawasee to a 44-39 upset of 2A No. 9 Central Noble at the Hardwood Teepee Friday night.

Friday night’s girls basketball game between Warsaw and Norwell was definitely a tale of two halves.

BOURBON – Triton started and finished strong, and got all it wanted from South Bend Trinity in the middle two quarters.

CHICAGO – A midseason surge continued for the Grace College women’s basketball team with a 61-54 win over Roosevelt University on Friday.

Unbeaten Lancers Down Tippecanoe Valley, 60-43; Lady ‘Cats Fall At Home; Squires 4th, Triton 10th, Valley 13th In Tourney

Four Lakeland Christian Academy fall sports student-athletes earned conference honors recently.

Northridge scored a pair of Northern Lakes Conference swimming wins over host Wawasee Thursday. The Lady Raiders took a convincing 147-36 victory, while the Warriors offered some competition before falling 104-79 to the visitors. Brady Robinson won the 200 individual medley and the 100 backstroke for Wawasee, and Dane Jenkins took the diving competition. Brett Willaman was second in the 100 freestyle and third in the 50 free, Jared Krugman was second in the 200 free and Jake Cowan third in the 500 free.

Bethany Christian got off to a 16-6 lead after the first quarter, and visiting Whitko could only cut the lead to four before falling 47-37 in a non-conference girls basketball loss Thursday night.  “We got off to a slow start, which was disappointing," said Whitko coach Rick Bragg. "We had some costly turnovers early, missed our first 10 shots and were outplayed. Unfortunately the slow start ended up being the difference in the game."

Triton held visiting Caston without a field goal in the first quarter, then went on to a 56-38 Hoosier North Athletic Conference girls basketball win at the Trojan Trench Thursday night. The Lady Trojans led 23-1 after the first eight minutes and expanded the gap to 31-4 in the second quarter. By the end of the third quarter the Lady Comets cut their deficit to 12 (40-28) before Triton outscored Caston 16-10 in the final period.

Manchester senior Kiera Stacy signed a letter of intent Thursday morning to continue her academic and softball careers at Huntingtion University.

Middle School Boys Basketball

CHICAGO – The Grace College women’s basketball team enjoyed its start to the Roosevelt Tournament with an 80-45 drubbing of Robert Morris on Thursday.

The way Warsaw played Wednesday night was exactly what coach Doug Ogle was looking for – and exactly what the doctor ordered.

WINONA LAKE – Four Indiana high school powerhouses will converge at Grace College on Dec. 30 for the first annual boys basketball Champions of Character Classic.

Freshman, middle school boys basketball

Like the series itself, Tuesday night’s girls basketball game against Triton was heavily lopsided in the Warsaw Lady Tigers’ favor.

SYRACUSE – Neither team left the Hardwood Teepee satisfied with its shooting effort. Columbia City was just a smidge better, enough so to take a 46-38 non-conference boys basketball win at Wawasee Tuesday night.