The fifth annual boys' basketball Champions of Character Classic is coming to Grace College on Dec. 18. Twelve elite high school teams will converge at the six-game classic, held at Grace's Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center.

Wawasee took the momentum away from visiting Manchester and earned a 52-45 non-conference boys basketball victory Friday, Dec. 3 at the Hardwood Teepee.

Indiana’s Mr. Basketball won’t be named until April, but the Warsaw Tigers got an up-close look at a legitimate candidate for the prestigious award Friday night. Six-foot-4 senior guard Fletcher Loyer of Homestead was as good as advertised, leading the Class 4A No. 5 Spartans to a 62-40 win over the host Tigers.

Triton lost a basketball game by 26 points Friday night — its most lopsided defeat since February 2019 — “and honestly, I don’t think we played terrible,” coach Jason Groves said afterwards.

The Whitko Wildcats boys’ basketball team encountered shooting and ball-movement woes against the visiting Bellmont Braves’ 1-3-1 zone trap defense in a 56-30 home loss to their guests from Adams County. The Braves’ 5’8” senior guard Isaiah Wellman scored 24 points including a 13-point steak in the second quarter to make matters worse for the Wildcats.

Grace’s Comeback Falls Short In NCCAA Semifinals

Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, “Slaughterhouse Five,” included aliens from Tralfamodor, a fictional planet, who referred to death with the salvo, “so it goes.” College football isn’t dead. However, it’s an evolving business, but still not as nimble as the NFL. Recent events remind me college football is a huge entertainment business, nonetheless.

The Warsaw Tigers wrestling squad held on to their 34-32 lead over the visiting Goshen RedHawks heading into the final match, the 285-pound weight class, in last night’s Northern Lakes Conference (NLC) meet in the Tiger Den.

The Warsaw Tigers girls’ basketball team hosted their Northern Lakes Conference opener against a NorthWood Panther squad who came in with only win, and an average of 29 turnovers per game.

Grace’s men’s soccer team took care of business in its opening game at the 2021 NCCAA National Championships.

The Northridge football taught us all something over the last month-and-a-half. I know, Middlebury is way north of this newspaper’s circulation area. But the lesson they have to offer is too good for geographic boundaries to get in the way.

Matt Moore established his way of doing things in his first season as head coach of boys basketball at Warsaw Community High School. In going 15-8 overall and 6-1 in the Northern Lakes Conference (tying Mishawaka for the conference crown) in 2020-21, the Tigers got off to a 7-7 start and put together an eight-game win streak before a narrow loss to Elkhart in the IHSAA Class 4A Elkhart Sectional.

The Manchester University men’s basketball team suffered a 95-59 setback in non-conference play against the Capital University Comets on Sunday.

Following a remarkable performance for Grace’s men’s basketball team, Frankie Davidson was named the NCCAA and Crossroads League Player of the Week on Monday.

Judah Simfukwe scored 17 points in the final nine minutes of Warsaw’s season-opening 62-54 victory over the Columbia City Eagles Saturday night. Simfukwe’s surge included eight straight points eliminating the Tigers’ 43-40 late third quarter deficit to move atop the Eagles 48-43 with 5:50 left in the contest. The Tigers never trailed again in a game with four lead changes and eight ties.

A big 4th quarter by Manchester University helped propel the Spartans past the Beloit College Buccaneers 75-69 on Saturday afternoon.

It’s easy to experience sports overstimulation during Thanksgiving weekend. There is so much going on luring me to the television or into a gymnasium, yet I still have some office work to, and some cleaning and preparation for decorating the house for Christmas.

The Triton Trojans are chomping to get their boys high school basketball season started. There’s no blaming them on at least a couple counts.

The 2021-2022 edition of the Manchester boys’ basketball quad is like an open canvas. Head coach Eli Henson’s squad has a completely different cast of characters who will make their imprint in the second year of Henson’s coaching tenure.

For almost three quarters, the Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings and the Maconaquah Lady Braves were locked in to a close, hard fought battle in their Three Rivers conference opener. But a strong third quarter push from junior Kaydence Mellott gave Valley the separation it needed to finish the game with a 61-46 victory. The Lady Vikings are now 2-4 this winter, 1-0 in the TRC.

A game that came down to the final possession saw Fairfield edge visiting Wawasee 44-42 Tuesday, Nov. 23 in season-opening non-conference boys basketball.

Warsaw Tigers girls’ basketball head coach Lenny Krebs is chock-full of appropriate analogies whether he and his Tigers win or lose. Krebs compared Warsaw’s 37-26 loss to the Penn Kingsmen to a dent, and furthermore noted there’s a takeaway when a team experiences a dent.

Grace’s men’s soccer team grabbed the No. 4 seed in next week’s 2021 NCCAA National Championships.

The Manchester University men’s basketball team found itself on the winning end of yet another dramatic finish on Saturday afternoon.

Grace’s men’s soccer team locked up its spot in the 2021 NCCAA National Championship on Saturday.