Lady Squires 3rd, Wawasee 7th At Huntington North Tourney; Whitko Baseball Earns Academic Honor

NORTH MANCHESTER – There are usually two sides to every story.

This is always a bittersweet week for me and thousands of others whose lives are embedded in high school sports.

AKRON – Wearing a shirt with the words “Bring It Home” on the back, first-year Tippecanoe Valley?High School football coach Stephen Moriarty hopes to do just that.

SYRACUSE – Monday marked the beginning of a new era, not only for Wawasee football but for its new head coach, Mike Eshbach, and his family.

AKRON – Wearing a shirt with the words “Bring It Home” on the back, first-year Tippecanoe Valley?High School football coach Stephen Moriarty hopes to do just that.

NEW PARIS – For fans looking to see some of the best outlaw late model racers in the country, New Paris Speedway is the place to be Thursday night.

For the first time in Grace College history, every Lancer team received recognition from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) for academic success. Every varsity team on campus was named to the prestigious NAIA Scholar-Teams’ list. Grace had the 12th-most Scholar-Teams for the 2016-17 academic year, breaking the school’s record set a year ago. To be included on the list, an athletic program must record a GPA of 3.00 or higher. Eleven of the athletic programs finished in the top 25 for their specific sport and seven concluded the academic year in the top three in the Crossroads League per sport. As a whole, the Grace College athletic department ended the year with a 3.35 GPA.

Bob Schultz, known around the area for catching big fish, landed this 30-pound female flathead catfish Sunday at Pike Lake. Schultz released the fish back into the lake.

Head golf professional Kyle Starkweather hosted the Stonehenge Golf Club Junior Camp last week.

Squaring off against some of the better teams in the state, Manchester opened its girls golf season with a fifth-place finish at the Homestead Invitational Monday.

Attack Tryouts Saturday; YMCA Soccer Registration Open; Valley All-Sport Passes On Sale; K9 Klassic Coming This Month; Vikings Commemorating 1992 FB Sectional Champs; Sweet Sassy Classic Aug. 26

Experience, it’s been said, is the best teacher.

The Tony Elliott Foundation has announced a charity golf scramble to be held on September 18 at the Tippecanoe Lake Country Club in Leesburg.

GREENVILLE, S.C. – The National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) announced an agreement Thursday with Grace College to host the Track and Field National Championships in 2018 and 2019.

SYRACUSE – Kim Conrad and her son Stephen Conrad were known for giving back to the Syracuse community they dearly loved.

As you read this, my family and I are probably sitting in a 14-foot aluminum fishing boat in northern Minnesota.

Lake City Skiers Moving Up; Warsaw Boosters Selling Program Ads; Lake Games Begin Saturday; Sweet Sassy Classic Aug. 26; Valley All-Sport Passes On Sale

In the six-plus  hours it took to complete Sunday’s “NAPCAR” race in Indianapolis, I could have:

It was late fall in 2015.

YMCA Golf Camp Participants, Winners YMCA Golf Camp Participants, Winners Pictured above are the participants, with winners in the front row, of the YMCA Golf Camp hosted by Raccoon Run and teaching …

WINONA LAKE – Longtime coach Tom Roy will be an assistant coach for Grace College’s baseball team next season.

WINONA LAKE – There are athletic events popping up around the world designed to challenge athletes not only physically, but mentally. The inaugural Lake Games, set for July 29-30 on and around the Grace College campus, will feature five such events.

In 2016, the Elkhart School Board voted to approve the re-uniting of Central and Memorial into one high school again.

The game of basketball has taken Ray Davis around the world – literally.