LOCAL SPORTS
Local High School Previews For Week 9
Warsaw (7-1, 6-0 Northern Lakes Conference) at Concord (7-1, 6-0 NLC), Southwood (4-4 overall, 4-3 TRC) at Tippecanoe Valley (8-0, 6-0), Peru (5-2 overall, 5-1 TRC) at Manchester (4-3, 4-2), Triton (3-5, 2-4 Hoosier North Athletic Conference) at Winamac (6-0, 4-0 HNAC), Wawasee (1-7, 1-5 Northern Lakes Conference) at Goshen …
The Best Laid Plans
I was watching the baseball playoffs and football games this weekend and I was reminded of a simple, basic rule of sports and life. Sometimes, the perfect plan still doesn’t work out.
Grace Women's Golf Wins Battle At The Henge
Grace Men's Golf Compete in Michigan
Two Spartans Honored By HCAC
Manchester University sophomore linebacker Jamaal Hubbard has been tabbed as the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week, the league announced on Tuesday.
Area Football Teams’ Second Season Set
Six area football teams have their beginning paths set for the second season, the IHSAA Sectionals beginning Friday October 22 for classes 1A-4A, and a handful of Class 5A squads. Each school’s head coach will tell, in different words, the media and their own gridders the best approach toward success …
Tiger Girls’ Soccer Season Ends in Shootout
The second-ranked Spartans and the NLC co-champion Tigers ended regulation tied at one goal apiece and carried their one-all tie through two 7-minute overtime periods before two rounds of five-player one-on-one shootouts. Homestead hoisted the sectional title trophy netting eight of their ten shots to Warsaw’s seven makes, among ten …
Warsaw Boys, Girls Continue XC Sectional Title Streaks
Different year. Same result. For the 11th consecutive season, Warsaw’s boys and girls cross country teams both won sectional titles Saturday.
Sawyer Helps Tigers Stay Perfect In Northen Lakes Conference
Listed on Warsaw’s football roster as 5-foot-6 and 140 pounds, Jayce Sawyer was far from being the biggest player on the Fisher Field turf Friday night. The junior fullback, however, played much larger than his stature and turned in a monster performance as the Tigers stayed unbeaten in Northern Lakes …
Valley Rolls Past Wabash, Improves To 8-0
Tippecanoe Valley’s special season continued on Friday night, as the Vikings rolled past Wabash to the tune of a 54-0 victory to improve to 8-0 on the season.
Grace Spikers Earn Two Sweeps To Start Tourney
Grace Men's XC Races Against the Elements; Women's XC finishes runner-up at Bethel
Time To Treat The Symptoms Of NLC Disparity
I had a recent phone conversation with someone, and throughout the conversation I couldn’t stop asking myself - in fact he and I could not stop asking the rhetorical question to each other – what’s wrong with the disparity of competitiveness among all high school sports?
Local Sports Briefs For Oct. 8
Manchester Girls soccer Wins Sectional Match Over Blackford; Tippecanoe Valley Girls Soccer Drops Sectional Match; Lakeland Christian Girls Soccer Falls In Sectional Match; Warsaw Volleyball Defeats Concord; Manchester Volleyball Falls To Blackhawk Christian; Whitko Volleyball Drops Match To Rochester; Wawasee Volleyball Falls To NorthWood; Tippecanoe Valley Volleyball Drops Match To …
Lakeland Christian Boys Soccer Drops Sectional Match
Lakeland Christian boys soccer dropped its opening match of the sectional tournament to Wabash Wednesday, falling 5-0. The Cougars finish their season with a 5-10 record.
Tiger Girls’ Soccer Advances To Sectional Final With 9-0 Win
The Warsaw Tigers struck early and often in their 9-0 Class 3A Sectional 7 semifinal victory over the Fort Wayne Wayne Generals to set up a rematch between Warsaw’s and the Homestead Spartans.
