One of the difficult things about sports is also the best thing about it.

The pilgrimage to Kansas City is secured again for Grace’s men’s basketball team.

Picking the pocket of the Blazers’ Vaughn Rael-Kludt with time winding down in a tied ball game, Landon Patrick’s swipe led to a breakaway for Gage Riffle, who laid the ball in as time expired to give the Trojans a 53-51 victory, as well as their second straight regional championship. 

We are already at the preseason scrimmage portion of spring scholastic sports. Fans, parents, friends, and the athletes they’re supporting and cheering will begin regular season competition around the time the state boys’ basketball finals take place at the end of this month.

The opening round of the NAIA men’s basketball tournament may have looked extremely favorable for No. 1 seeded Grace, going up against No. 16 Johnson. However, the Royals gave the Lancers everything they had, sticking around for the first 20 minutes and even taking the lead twice in the second half. However, Grace stuck to its gameplan, punishing their opponent down low and eventually winning 88-80 after dominating the final 10 minutes. 

Having earned a No. 1 seed in the NAIA tournament for the third time in the last four years, the Grace men’s basketball team will once again enjoy the privilege of hosting a total of three first and second round games at the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center.

With five straight conference tournament titles, four straight conference championships and a No. 1 seed in the NAIA national tournament in three of the past four years, the Grace men’s basketball program isn’t just going through a period of great success, it has become the standard of success. 

There are things in life that we know are coming, and we still are not and cannot be prepared enough to experience them anyway.

A night after exacting revenge on an Elkhart team that defeated them earlier this year, the Warsaw boys basketball team looked to avenge an early season loss to Northridge on Friday night as the team sought its third straight sectional championship at Elkhart’s North Side Gym. In a physical, back and forth contest, the Tigers gave their opponent everything they had, but the Raiders proved to be too much in a 49-37 win for the green and gold.

I was wondering why I haven’t been gravitating to the NBA as much as I had among several post-COVID seasons.

Going up by as many as 17 points in its sectional semifinal game against Elkhart, it looked as if it would be smooth sailing for the Warsaw boys basketball team on their way to another sectional championship game. However, a furious second-half rally by the Lions saw the hosts briefly take the lead in the final minutes. But it was the Tigers with the last laugh, as four crucial free throws tied the game and put them in front for good in what was a 37-35 victory for the orange and black. 

NorthWood flexed its defensive muscles and Wawasee saw its 2025-26 boys basketball season come to a close Friday, March 6 in the semifinals of Class 3A Columbia City Sectional 20.

The Warsaw community will be well represented in New York at the Nike Indoor National Track and Field meet on March 12th through the 15th.

The lone area team competing in the sectional tournament on Wednesday night, Lakeland Christian made the trip up to Goshen to take on Hoosier Plains Conference rival and hosts Bethany Christian. The Cougars stuck around for a majority of the first half, but the Bruins separated in the second, ending LCA’s season with a 46-32 win. 

Grace’s men’s basketball team cemented a half-decade of dominance on Tuesday night.

Even though it’s rainy this week, the warmer temps and the ending of basketball season for most schools have us all thinking about spring and the spring sports season.

The first night of the Indiana boys basketball tournament pit two local teams against each other on Tuesday night, as Wawasee and Tippecanoe Valley met at Columbia City’s Birdcage. The Warriors led for a majority of the game, and while the Vikings were able to keep things from getting out of hand, it was Wawasee advancing with a 49-38 win. 

The final dive of Ian Parrott's high school career is one he will never forget.

Grace’s men’s basketball team is headed back to the Crossroads League Tournament championship game for the fifth straight season.

As some winter sports (girls’ basketball, girls’ and boys’ wrestling, boys’ and girls’ swimming and diving) have reached or already completed their state finals, folks are celebrating achievements and also evaluating how well next year’s team and individual sports will fare.

In the regular season finale for both teams, the Whitko and Lakeland Christian boys basketball teams looked to build a little momentum before beginning postseason play next week. Playing at home for the final time this season, the Wildcats started strong and never looked back, shooting lights out in a 53-26 win.

Grace’s men’s basketball team opened the postseason with another win, defeating Spring Arbor 88-72 on Wednesday in the Crossroads League Tournament quarterfinals.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Grace College’s women’s basketball team saw its season in the quarterfinals of the Crossroads League Tournament. The Lancers (12-17) were facing the top-seeded Marian Knights …

Teams have slogans they rally around, and the older you get the less slogans influence you.

The Warsaw boys basketball team has made its push toward the postseason by playing its best ball of the year at the right time. On Tuesday night, the team put together perhaps its most complete outing of the year, going wire-to-wire in a 67-40 victory that spoiled the senior night of rival Tippecanoe Valley.