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Warsaw Baseball Falls To County Rival Tipp Valley

Warsaw’s baseball team came away with the short end of a 6-3 score when they faced the county rival Tippecanoe Valley Vikings Wednesday evening.
Wawasee Tops Valley In Sectional Opener

LIGONIER – Keaton Dukes and Caden Welty led the Wawasee Warriors on a fourth quarter surge to end the Tippecanoe Valley Vikings’ season with a 53-48 opening round Class 3A boys’ basketball sectional win.
Wawasee Gets Past Tippecanoe Valley 58-51

AKRON – The Wawasee Warriors exploited the Tippecanoe Valley Vikings’ poor passing to convert seven third quarter steals into five Warrior buckets on their way to a 58-51 non-conference win.
Valley’s Season Ends With NorthWood Loss

The Tippecanoe Lady Vikings lost 62-61 in overtime Friday, Feb. 5 in the semifinals of the IHSAA Class 3A Wawasee Sectional.
Warsaw Gets Revenge On Goshen In Sectional

Revenge round one was exacted by the Warsaw Lady Tigers last night as they won their Sectional open 33-29 over the Goshen RedHawks.
Warsaw Wrestlers Clinch 4th IHSAA?Sectional Title

The Wawasee Warriors wrestling team captured six of their eight Sectional championship finals matches to earn their fourth consecutive IHSAA Sectional title Saturday afternoon.
Vikings Get Much Needed Win Over Visiting Winamac

The Tipp Valley Vikings got a much needed 57-43 win over the visiting Winamac Warriors on Saturday.
Lady Vikings Fall In Season Finale

AKRON - In the final home game of her prep career, Tippecanoe Valley High School senior Sidney Wagner certainly tried to will her team to a thrilling win Saturday afternoon.
Quick Start Leads Squires Over Valley

NORTH MANCHESTER - The very thing first-year Manchester High School boys basketball coach Eli Henson said was the key to Friday night’s Three Rivers Conference game against Tippecanoe Valley turned out to be the difference in the contest.
Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings Get By Manchester 62-49

Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings Get By Manchester 62-49
Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings Dominate North Miami

Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings Dominate North Miami
Whitko Goes On Road To Subdue Tippecanoe Valley 61-50

Whitko Goes On Road To Subdue Tippecanoe Valley 61-50
Warsaw Grapplers Tangle With Tippecanoe Valley

Warsaw Grapplers Tangle With Tippecanoe Valley
Lady Vikings Stifle TRC Rival Whitko

SOUTH WHITLEY - Defense and the dynamic duo of sophomore Kaydence Mellott and senior Sidney Wagner led Tippecanoe Valley High School’s varsity girls basketball team to a 60-31 win at Whitko Saturday afternoon.
Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings Top Visiting Fairfield 42-29

Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings Top Visiting Fairfield 42-29
Warsaw Lady Tigers Dominate Tipp Valley 64-27

It took more than two minutes for either team to score but once the lid came off the basket, the Lady Tigers hit high gear in a hurry.
Lady Vikings Fight Hard, Come Up Short Vs. Plymouth

The Lady Vikings lost a non-conference game to visiting Plymouth Thursday night.
Kindig Predicts High Upside For Valley Girls

AKRON — Chris Kindig is expecting the unexpected. He’s also looking for plenty of improvement.
Preview: Valley Upbeat About 2020-21 Possibilities

AKRON — Tippecanoe Valley put a young varsity boys basketball lineup on the floor a year ago.
Lady Tigers Dominate NorthWood 68-34

The Warsaw Lady Tigers kicked off conference play Tuesday night with a dominating 68-34 win on the road against the NorthWood Lady Panthers. Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings Also Win Big
Tipp Valley’s Season Ends With Loss To Marian

The Vikings’ 2020 season came to a close with a 41-24 loss at Smith-Bibler Memorial Field.
Area High School Football Previews For Week 11

Fort Wayne Carroll (7-2) at Warsaw (7-2)
Tipp Valley, Triton Win Sectional Openers

AKRON - Tippecanoe Valley High football coach Steve Moriarty called his seniors together at halftime Friday night. He went on to challenge his team as a whole. The Vikings responded in a big way.
Tipp Valley Falls To Southwood

Coming into Friday night’s game, the Tippecanoe Valley Vikings had a chance to clinch at least a share of the Three Rivers Conference title with a win over Class A #3 ranked Southwood.
Volleyball Sectionals Begin With Sweeps By Tipp Valley, Wawasee

Tippecanoe Valley defeated Jimtown 3-0 in round 1 of the IHSAA Class 3A Sectional volleyball tournament.. 25-17, 25-18, 25-17.
VikingsThrottle Manchester

AKRON -- There were so many penalty flags thrown during last night’s football matchup between Tippecanoe Valley and Manchester fans in attendance were surely left wondering if Friday is the new laundry day.
HS Football Sectional Pairings Announced

Warsaw drew a home date against No. 11-ranked Carroll when the IHSAA conducted the blind draw for its 48th annual state football tournament Thursday night.
Area High School Football Previews For Week 8

Warsaw (6-1, 5-0 NLC) at NorthWood (2-3, 2-2); Manchester (2-5, 2-4 TRC) at Tippecanoe Valley (5-2, 5-1); Wawasee (2-5, 0-5 NLC) at Mishawaka (3-3, 3-1); Knox (3-4, 2-2 HNAC) at Triton (3-3, 2-2); Northfield (4-4, 4-2 TRC) at Whitko (4-3, 3-3)
Sectional VB Pairings Announced

Besides shooting for a perfect Northern Lakes Conference volleyball season when it hosts Concord on Thursday night — Warsaw will get a bye when it hosts a Class 4A sectional next week.

Pairings for the 49th annual state tournament were drawn Sunday evening by the IHSAA.
Recaps for Oct 2

Tippecanoe Valley Comes Back For Win Over Maconaquah; Trojans Fall To Bluejays
Area High School Football Previews For Week 7
Despite Start, Vikings Roll To TRC?Win Over Wildcats

Coming off of big wins last week, both the Tippecanoe Valley and Whitko football teams look to pull themselves up in the TRC standings with three games remaining in the regular season after Friday night.

Despite a 15-6 lead for the host Wildcats after the opening quarter, Valley would roar back and find their footing as they romped their way to a 57-24 victory Friday night.
Area High School Football Previews For Week 6
Local sports recaps for Sept. 21

Manchester Gets TRC?Girls Soccer Win Over Rochester; Unified Football sectional bracket, and more!
Warsaw, Valley, Wawasee’s Cripe Advance To Golf Regional

NorthWood dominated Saturday’s high school girls golf sectional at Stonehenge in a big way.

In the survive and advance world of the postseason, however, the Warsaw Lady Tigers, Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings and Wawasee’s Taylor Cripe had reason to smile.
Football Recaps for Sept. 18

Vikings Explode In Second Quarter, Rout Rochester plus other TRC games; Panthers Blank Warriors
Area High School Football Previews For Week 5

Previews of all six high school football games in the Times-Union readership area.
Recaps for Sept. 15

Lakeland Christian Boys, Culver Community Play To Draw; Triton VB Postponed and more!
Vikings Win Unified Football Battle Over Warsaw

Unified flag football launched its third season as a sanctioned IHSAA varsity sport Monday night at Fisher Field. Two of the state’s 25 charter teams from 2018 engaged in a high-scoring contest resulting in a 44-34 win for the Tippecanoe Valley Vikings over the host Warsaw Tigers.

Unified flag football partners students with and without special needs for a blend of competition, fellowship, and fun. Tiger head coach Fred Parrett, a Warsaw fireman, talked about what he hopes the kids will gain from the experience.

Parrett said, “We want the athletes to just come out and have fun, and let these childr
Local sports Recaps for Sept. 11

Tippecanoe Valley Rolls To Big TRC Victory Over N. Miami; Braves Score Last In Win Over Whitko; Lions Roar Past Triton; Wawasee-Concord Suspended; Lakeland Christian Girls Soccer Falls To South Bend Trinity
Recaps for Sept. 10

Lakeland Christian Boys Soccer Falls In Clash Of Ranked Squads; Warriors Trim Lakers; Eastbrook Doubles Up Manchester; Valley Splits In TRC Golf; Wawasee Edges Fremont; Raiders Sweep Warriors
High School Football Previews For Week 4
Sports Recaps for Sept. 9

3-Set Win At No. 1 Singles Gives Wawasee Tennis A Win Over West Noble; Wawasee Golf Falls To Eagles; Vikings Best Squires
Sports Recaps for Sept. 8

Tippecanoe Valley Gets First Soccer Win In A Rout; Blackhawk, LCA Draw; No. 11 Panthers Down Wawasee; Wildcats Sweep Tigers; plus boys tennis,m girls golf and middle school results.
Peru Holds Off Tippecanoe Valley In Three Rivers Play
Local sports recaps for Sept. 3

Valley Soccer Falls To Maconaquah In Overtime; Warrior VB Falls To Plymouth and more!
HS Football Scouting Reports for Week 3

Warsaw at Plymouth; Northridge at Wawasee; Manchester at Wabash; Peru at Tippecanoe Valley; Whitko at Rochester and Triton at Caston
Area Sports Recaps for Sept. 2

Warriors Earn Split In Conference Girls Golf Match, plus middle school volleyball and a bunch of state stuff from Tuesday.
Sports Recaps for Aug. 28

Tippecanoe Valley Gets TRC Road Win At Northfield; Wildcats Fall To Tigers; Cougars Blast Oregon-Davis
Local sports recaps for Aug. 27

Lakeland Christian Falls To Bruins In Matchup Of Ranked Teams; Bruins Down Warriors, plus late Wednesday results
High School Football Previews For Friday

Michigan City (1-0) at Warsaw (1-0); West Noble (0-1) at Wawasee (1-0); Bluffton (1-0 overall) at Manchester (1-0); Peru (1-0 overall, 0-0 TRC) at Whitko (1-0, 0-0); Tippecanoe Valley (0-1 overall, 0-0 TRC) at Northfield (0-1, 0-0)
Local Sports Briefs for Aug. 26

Valley, Triton compete on the links with Bremen; Davis gets ace at Stonehenge
Tiger Boys 1st, Girls 3rd In Paul Sibray Invitational Cross Country Meet

The beginning of high school cross country season came Tuesday for Warsaw Community High School and other teams.

While Jacob Kissling and Wini Barnett were again the top WCHS runners, the 2020 Warsaw Tiger Paul Sibray Invitational looked different than the 2019 version in other ways.
High School Sports Recaps For Saturday
Eagle QBs Riddle Vikings In Valley’s Opening Loss

There’s an old football adage stating that if you think you have two quarterbacks, you probably don’t have any.

Culver Academy appears as if it will be able to dispute the adage in 2020, and Tippecanoe Valley wound up in no position Friday night to argue otherwise about the Eagles.

With junior Jimmy Pisani and sophomore Cooper Farrall splitting QB duties, Culver blanked the Vikings 16-0 in each team’s season opener at Smith-Bibler Memorial Field.
Despite Roster Changes, Vikings Looking For 3rd Straight Winning Seaso

Strictly statistically, Tippecanoe Valley football appears to be starting from scratch in 2020.

Consider that 93% of the Vikings’ rushing yards last season were compiled by players who have since graduated, as well as 99% of the passing yards — nearly all those in the person of versatile two-year starter Tanner Trippiedi — and 71% of the receiving yards.

Over on the other side of the ball, six of the top seven tacklers have departed. Gone largely within that group are 26 of the 29 takeaways that the Valley defense racked up and 20 of the team’s 23 sacks.
High School Sports Recaps For Aug. 20.

Warrior Boys Soccer Gets Win At South Bend Riley; Wawasee Splits 3-Way Match; Vikings Beat Bluejays; Late results from Wednesday
Sports Recaps For August 18

Lane, McKeever Lead LCA To Boys Soccer Season-Opening Win; Wawasee VB Sweeps Valley; Squires Rebound For TRC?Win; Whitko Downs LCA; Manchester, Triton Compete On The Links
High School Sports Recaps for Aug. 17

Wins In Doubles Play Leads Wawasee To Tennis Win Over Valley; Warrior Girls Golf Defeats West Noble; Viking Girls Golf Beats Bremen, Falls To Pilgrims; Warriors, Lakers Play To A Scoreless Draw; Eagles Blank Squires; Trojans Drop Heartbreaker; Saturday results
High School Sports Briefs

Vikings Victorious In TRC?Opener; Squire Golf Edges Peru
Sports Briefs

Manchester Girls Golf Opens At Homestead Invitational; Rochester Schools, Athletics Closed Until at least Aug. 24
Along With The IHSAA, Refs Ready For Fall

If the Indiana High School Athletic Association can remain full speed ahead amid the COVID-19 pandemic in offering a full menu of high school sports this fall — an intention that it declared on Wednesday — then it appears game officials won’t be getting in the way, at least not around the Warsaw area.

Jimmy Arnett, first-year president of the St. Joseph Valley Officials Association, and Lou Brown, who presides over the Northern Indiana Officials Association, each say there has been minimal opting out for the coming season among their respective memberships.
NFHS Releases Guidance For State Associations To Consider In Re-Opening HS Athletics, Activities

The National Federation of State High School Associations has released guidance for its 51 member state high school associations to consider in re-opening high school athletics and other activity programs across the nation.

The guidance document was developed by the NFHS Sports Medicine Advisory Committee, a 15-member advisory committee composed of medical doctors, certified athletic trainers, high school coaches and officials, research specialists and state high school association executives that regularly develops position statements related to medical aspects of conducting high school athletics.
Valley Exploring E-Sports Club For This Fall

Tippecanoe Valley School High School announced at its Thursday board work session that an E-sports club is in the works for the 2020-21 school year.

Valley would join the Indiana High School E-Sports League (IHSEN).