Three Manchester University athletes were honored with weekly awards.

My brackets did not implode Thursday after suppertime as I predicted. They imploded during the round of 32 on Saturday and Sunday. Let’s start off with a look at where I was right, and where I was wrong.

After a year for the record books, Grace’s men’s basketball team picked up a number of individual national awards. Frankie Davidson highlighted Grace’s awards haul when he was named the NCCAA National Player of the Year. He was also honorable mention for NAIA All-American.

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The Tippecanoe Valley girls’ basketball program’s monopoly of the Times-Union Player of the Year award continues into the 2021-22 season, as Lady Vikings junior Kaydence Mellott becomes the fourth Tippy Valley player to win the honor.

MaxPreps, ESPN and CBS Sports are among numerous available sources for high school basketball stats. You’ll likely find plenty of stats for Warsaw’s Jaxson Gould, the 2022 boys’ basketball Times-Union Player of the Year, in MaxPreps at the very least.

Grace College’s baseball team dropped two contests to the Huntington Foresters on Monday afternoon. The first game was tightly contested, but Grace (10-14, 4-8 Crossroads League) would come up just short losing 8-7. Huntington (10-10, 8-4 CL) took the second game, winning 14-5.

Special Olympic basketball athletes from Kosciusko County participated in a regional “tune up” event in preparation for the upcoming Indiana state basketball tournament.

In the team’s final contest of the season, the Grace Lady Lancers battled hard for 40 minutes, but ultimately fell just short, losing 65-56 to the College of the Ozarks in the NCCAA tournament fifth place game Friday night.

The storybook postseason run for Grace’s men’s basketball team found its final chapter on Thursday. The No. 7 seed Lancers fell 71-66 to the College of Idaho in the Round of 16 in the NAIA National Championships.

After a tough performance in the opening round of the NCCAA basketball championships Wednesday night, the Grace Lady Lancers got back to their bread and butter, putting on a defensive clinic in a 68-54 victory over Columbia International University Thursday.

Whitko shot putter Gwen Howard had a very strong start to her high school track & field career at the Hoosier State Relay Qualifier at Indiana Wesleyan Saturday.

Grace’s softball team enjoyed its home opener thanks to a sweep of Bethel on Tuesday.

The Grace Lady Lancers basketball team’s hopes of cutting down the nets on their home floor were quickly put to rest Wednesday night, as the home team and No. 3 seed was upset in the opening round of the NCCAA Tournament by No. 6 seeded Southwestern Christian University 73-60.

For the tenth consecutive year, Grace College will play host to both the men’s and women’s NCCAA basketball championships this week, bringing the players, fans and coaches of 16 teams from colleges all over the country to Winona Lake and Warsaw.

The Hoosier Plains Conference honored three Lakeland Christian boys basketball players as members of the All-Conference and Academic All-Conference teams.

Grace College’s baseball team picked up a doubleheader split with the Spring Arbor Cougars on Monday afternoon. The Lancers (10-11, 4-4 Crossroads League) dropped the first game of the day 19-11 but bounced back with an 8-5 win in the second game.

Both the Northern Lakes and Hoosier North Athletic conferences announced their respective all-conference teams for boys basketball Monday, honoring five local area athletes.

Grace’s women’s basketball team has earned its spot to the 2022 NCCAA National Championships this week. The Lady Lancers earned the No. 3 seed in the eight-team bracket. Grace (19-14) will play No. 6 Southwestern Christian (18-14) on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the quarterfinals.

Grace College is gearing up to host the 2022 NCCAA National Basketball Championships for men and women next week.

The Class 1A Sectional 50 champions in Bourbon, the Triton Trojans, host one of two Northern Indiana boys’ basketball regionals Saturday. Tip-off is 10 a.m. for the first game, and the Trojans (18-7) will battle the Fremont Eagles (17-8) in the second game at noon in the Trojan Trench.

Grace Athletics has made a new addition to its staff, hiring Adam Basinger as the Director of Athletic Operations. Basinger is a familiar face at Grace, having graduated as a Lancer in 2011 and assisting Grace in recent years with various facility projects.

For the fifth time this season, Frankie Davidson was named the Crossroads League Player of the Week.

Manchester University first-year thrower Carley Camp has been named the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Female Field Athlete of the Week, the league announced on Monday. For the second time this indoor season, Manchester University junior distance runner Enrique Salazar has been named the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Male Track Athlete of the Week.

The Wawasee Warriors held tough, but two big second-half runs were enough for the Class 3A No. 3 NorthWood Panthers to hang on and win a sectional championship 40-23 on the Warriors home court Saturday night.