LOCAL SPORTS
No Spring Sports, Yet We Must Carry On
The spring sports season will be one that is talked about for as long as high school sports are still talked about. It ended before it ever started. Just minutes after Gov. Eric Holcomb’s order last week that school buildings stay closed and educating be done remotely for the remainder …
Kilburn Wins Don Dicken Award
Warsaw senior Grayson Kilburn was named the female recipient of the The Don Dicken Golf Award for the 2019 season on Tuesday. The award recipients are chosen by Warsaw golf coaches and presented to the senior golfers who excel in leadership, academics, citizenship, and team effort.
Fort Wayne FC Prepares For ‘21 After NPSL Season Cancellation
Coaching staff assembled. Players selected. Jerseys printed. President and co-owner of Fort Wayne Football Club Erik Magner was eager to unveil a high level of soccer to northeast Indiana.
2020 Indiana Boys All-Stars Named
Thirteen players have been selected for the 2020 IndyStar Indiana Boys All-Stars, it was announced Monday. Those chosen to the team are scheduled to play three games in June -- one exhibition game against the Indiana Junior All-Stars as well as home-and-home contests against the Kentucky All-Stars.
Warsaw Native Mangas Wins Bevo Francis Award
Indiana Wesleyan men’s basketball junior Kyle Mangas added to his season accolades, being named the 2020 Clarence “Bevo” Francis Award winner, announced by the Small College Basketball and the National Awards Committee. This award is given to just one player within Small College Basketball per season. This marks the first …
Mangas Is A Natural Hero
In the later stages of the 2015-16 Warsaw boys basketball season, Warsaw’s quest for perfection was still very much intact as they traveled to Fort Wayne Northrop on a January Saturday night. Jan. 23, to be exact. They were trailing in the dying moments of the game, and they passed …
Former Tiger Remembers His Roots, In Life And Hoops
After learning Monday he had won the Bevo Francis Award as the nation’s top small college men’s basketball player, Warsaw native and Indiana Wesleyan junior guard Kyle Mangas took some time to reflect on how he began his journey to the top of the small college basketball world. “I started …
IWU’s Mangas Named Francis Award Finalist
MARION – Indiana Wesleyan junior and Warsaw Community High School alumni Kyle Mangas was named Saturday as one of 14 finalists for the Bevo Francis Award, given to the best small college basketball player in the nation.
Lancer Men’s Soccer Extends Marathon Relay By 5 Days
They say you can’t run away from your problems, but Grace College’s men’s soccer team is putting one foot in front of the other in order to provide monetary relief for communities fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Picking Up The Discussion Of Best Tiger Teams
So last Saturday I started to tackle the daunting task of looking back on the best Warsaw teams of all time. It’s daunting because there are so many teams worth mentioning, and because if you don’t mention a team that someone thinks should be mentioned, you open the door for …
IHSAA Cancels Spring Sports Season
After Gov. Eric Holcomb’s order Thursday afternoon for all school building in Indiana remain closed for the remander of the academic year, the IHSAA followed by cancelling the spring sports season for 2020.
Deep Down, We Knew ... And It Still Vacuums*
I had a feeling, and made a point not to say so in this space a week or so ago, that the spring sports season wasn’t going to happen. Thursday, in a statement far more brief than its impact, the IHSAA did what had to be done; cancelling the spring …
When Things Get Real
For me, there are times when items in the news become a little more real or personal. I find it fairly easy to compartmentalize things until those news items include people I know. It doesn’t have to be a close, personal friend. Over the course of a lifetime I’ve met …
