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Winds Blow Valley’s Way In Softball Finale

A Southwestern wind ranging from 10 to 25 miles per hour was blowing from home plate to center and right center field late Friday afternoon in the Tippecanoe Valley Vikings’ final home game.
Local High School Sports Recaps For 5/19

Baseball, Softball, Boys Track
Local High School Sports Recaps For 5/17

Baseball, Softball, Girls Track and Boys Golf
Local High School Sports Recaps For 5/16

Baseball, Softball and Girls Tennis
The Penalty Box: Of Resting Horses And Coaching Changes

This is one of those weeks where the generous space I am given to write into each week just isn’t enough for all I want to cover.

So forgive me for jumping around.
Local High School Sports Recaps For 5/14 & 5/13

Baseball, Softball, Boys Golf and Girls Tennis
Local High School Sports Recaps For 5/12

Baseball, Softball, Boys Golf and Girls Tennis
Local High School Sports Recaps For 5/11

Baseball, Softball and Girls Tennis
Local High School Sports Recaps For 5/10

Baseball, Softball, Track and Girls Tennis
Local High School Sports Recaps For 5/8

Baseball, Softball and Girls Tennis
Local High School Sports Recaps For 5/4

Baseball, Softball, Boys Track, Boys Golf and Girls Tennis
Local High School Sports Recaps For 5/2

Baseball, Softball and Girls Tennis
Valley Softball Captures Hosted Softball Tourney

The Tippecanoe Valley Vikings hosted Fort Wayne Concordia, South Bend Riley and South Central (Porter County) in a softball tournament Saturday with the hosts hoisting championship hardware after everyone dusted the dirt off their uniforms in the late afternoon.
Local High School Sports Recaps For 4/29 & 4/28

Baseball, Softball, Boys Golf and Girls Tennis
Local High School Sports Recaps For 4/27

Baseball, Softball, Track, Boys Golf and Girls Tennis
Local High School Sports Recaps For 4/26

Baseball, Softball, Track and Girls Tennis
Local High School Sports Recaps For 4/25

Baseball, Softball, Boys Golf and Girls Tennis
High School Sports Recaps For 4/23 & 4/22

Baseball, Softball, Track, Boys Golf, Girls Tennis
Local High School Sports Recaps For 4/20

Baseball and Softball
Local High School Sports Recaps For 4/19

Baseball, Softball, Track and Girls Tennis
Local High School Sports Recaps For 4/15 & 4/16

Baseball, Softball, Track and Girls Tennis
Local High School Sports Recaps For 4/14

Baseball, Softball, Track, Boys Golf and Girls Tennis
High School Sports Recaps For 4/12

Baseball, Softball and Track
Hard Work Earns Mellott Top Player Honors

The Tippecanoe Valley girls’ basketball program’s monopoly of the Times-Union Player of the Year award continues into the 2021-22 season, as Lady Vikings junior Kaydence Mellott becomes the fourth Tippy Valley player to win the honor.
NorthWood Squeaks Past Tippy Valley In Defensive Showdown

Faced with a tough semifinal matchup in IHSAA Class 3A Sectional 21, the Tippecanoe Valley Vikings went toe to toe with the No. 3 NorthWood Panthers, holding their own for a majority of the contest before eventually falling 38-33.
Valley Comes Up Big In 4th, Downs West Noble

The Tippecanoe Valley Vikings opened Class 3A Sectional 21 action last night by converting two big fourth quarter defensive plays into baskets and getting big contributions from two players off the bench.
Wawasee Thumps Tippy Valley In Regular Season Finale

The Warriors of Wawasee got a little boost as the team heads into the postseason after emerging from their regular season finale against Tippecanoe Valley with a 42-26 victory. Wawasee ends the regular season with an 8-14 record, while the Vikings finish at 13-9.
Tigers’ Dominant Third Quarter Leads To 56-40 Win Over Vikings

Isaiah 11:6 reads, “…and a little child shall lead them.” Warsaw freshman Carson Gould, the team’s backup point guard, was challenged by Tiger head coach Matt Moore to assemble a team to start the second half determined to reverse their fortunes. Gould the Younger had one quarter of eligibility left due to the periods he was used in the junior varsity game.
Eleven Local Girls Basketball Players Named To All-Conference Teams, Krebs Wins COTY

A plethora of local athletes as well as Warsaw head coach Lenny Krebs were honored with postseason accolades following the conclusion of girls basketball season in the area.
Vikings Can’t Catch Panthers In 55-45 Home Loss

Tippecanoe Valley’s Tayde Kiser scored 17 of his game-high 19 points in the second half, but the hosts couldn’t get within fewer than seven points from their guests, Class 3A’s top-ranked NorthWood Panthers, who captured a 55-45 win over the Vikings last night.
Vikings Regain Patience In 63-48 Conference Win

The Tippecanoe Valley Vikings benefitted from the virtue of patience in their return to Three Rivers Conference (TRC) action last night with a 63-48 win over the North Miami Warriors on Rita Price Simpson Court. Patrick noted his squad made a marked improvement from Tuesday’s non-conference 43-40 win over LaVille.
Area Wrestlers Survive, Advance From Penn Regional

22 of 34 area wrestlers who battled in the Penn Regional Saturday will advance to the East Chicago Semistate this coming weekend. The Wawasee Warriors led the way among area teams with a third-place team finish (106.5 points) and 8 semistate qualifiers. Backyard rivals Penn (214.5 points), and 2022 Northern Lakes Conference (NLC) champion Mishawaka (176.5 points) finished first and second respectively.
Tippecanoe Valley Upset In Sectional ‘Ship By West Noble

When it comes to high school basketball, especially come playoff time, the phrase “anything can happen” will be said until the end of time.

Tippecanoe Valley girls basketball was on the wrong end of an upset Saturday night in the IHSAA 3A sectional 20 championship, falling 56-51 to a now 6-17 West Noble squad. The Lady Vikings end their season with a 17-8 record and a Three Rivers Conference championship.
Lady Vikings Fight Their Way Into Girls’ Sectional Final

The Tippecanoe Valley Vikings girls’ basketball squad trailed 36-22 with 56 seconds left in the third quarter before scoring five points to end the period, then finishing what resulted in a 19-0 run to overtake the Wawasee Warriors 42-41 in Class 3A Sectional 20 action at Northwood’s Panther Pit Friday night.
Tippy Valley On To Sectional Semis After Scare From NorthWood

Tippecanoe Valley girls basketball fended off an upset bid and shot at revenge by the NorthWood Panthers Tuesday night, defeating the host team of ISHAA 3A Sectional 20 33-30 in the first round.
Area Wrestlers Have Strong Sectional Showing

34 Times-Union readership area athletes among four schools had a strong performance in Saturday’s Plymouth wrestling sectional. These athletes advance to this coming Saturday’s Penn sectional at 9 a.m. The Wawasee Warriors (12 regional qualifiers) finished second in team scoring (249.5 points) to the host Plymouth Rockies (250.5 points), who clinched the team title with a major decision victory in the 285-pound championship bout, the afternoon’s final match.
Tippy Valley Comes Out On Top Of Heated Battle With Manchester

For all 32 minutes, the Tippecanoe Valley Vikings and Manchester Squires took turns playing hot potato with the lead. Neither team led by more than eight, the game was tied seven different times and the lead changed hands a staggering 12. But a late push in the final minutes of the game proved to be the difference as the Vikings emerged with a 55-49 victory over their Three Rivers Conference opponent Squires to earn its fifth straight victory.
Wawasee Uses Massive 3rd Quarter Run To Roll Past Tippy Valley

Leading by double digits earlier in the contest, the visiting Wawasee Warriors saw their lead turn into a one-point deficit to the Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings Tuesday night. The response was a 17-0 run to end the quarter and put an exclamation point on a 53-45 nonconference victory, Wawasee’s first regular season victory over the Lady Vikings since 2013. The Warriors move back up to .500 at 11-11, while Tippy Valley has its four game winning streak snapped and falls to 14-7.
Valley Feeling Victorious After Routing Rivals From Rochester

Spectators walking into the gym at Tippecanoe Valley High School Friday night would be able to tell very quickly that this was no ordinary game.
Lady Vikings Overcome Slow Start, Defeat NorthWood

It wasn’t the prettiest game for Chris Kindig and the Tippecanoe Lady Vikings, but after a slow offensive start in the first quarter, the team was able to do just enough to escape “The Pit” at NorthWood high school with a 46-33 nonconference victory over the Lady Panthers. Tippy Valley improves its record to 11-6 this season, and has won eight of its last nine games.
Warsaw Grapplers Hold On, Beat Valley 41-40

The dual wrestling meet between the Warsaw Tigers and the Tippecanoe Valley Vikings opened at the 106-pound weight class, and the Tigers clinched the meet win with Jaxson Walters’ pin over Valley’s Eric Burke in the 170-lb weight class. The Vikings, trailing 41-16 with four weight classes remaining, won each of those matches by pin before falling short to the Tigers 41-40 Wednesday night.
Lady Vikings Continue Winning Ways

The Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings continued their winning ways Thursday and will take quite a bit of momentum into 2022.

Playing in the West Noble Classic, Valley’s varsity girls basketball team defeated Lakeland 54-42 in the first round, followed by a 45-27 victory over the host Chargers that upped their season record to 10-5.
High School Sports Recaps For 12/18

Whitko at Tippecanoe Valley, Triton at Pioneer
High School Sports Recaps For 12/16

Boys & Girls basketball, Wrestling
2nd Half Offensive Surge Leads Tippy Valley Past Whitko

Those in attendance to see the Three Rivers Conference matchup between Tippecanoe Valley and Whitko Friday night got their money’s worth. The exciting back and forth game ended as a 55-41 Viking victory, but the game was closer for far longer than the final score would indicate. Valley improves to 3-3, 1-1 in the TRC, while Whitko falls to 2-5, 0-1.
Costly Droughts Keep Tippecanoe Valley From Defeating Peru

In a game of runs, Tippecanoe Valley boys basketball was at the receiving end of the two biggest ones of the game. The end result: a 54-46 loss to Peru in a tightly contested Three Rivers Conference match up.
High School Sports Recaps For 12/11

Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, Wrestling, Swimming
Tippecanoe Valley Uses Big Second Half To Hold On Against Triton

It was all about second half adjustments, Tippecanoe Valley girls basketball coach Chris Kindig told me after his team's 48-40 win over Triton Tuesday night.
Valley Separates In 3rd Quarter, Beats Maconaquah

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.
Local Sports Recaps

Tippecanoe Valley Defeats Logansport; Wawasee Picks Up Win Over Lakeland; Manchester Falls To Adams Central; Whitko Falls To Peru
Northwestern Too Much For Lady Vikings
Second-Quarter Surge Lifts Lady Tigers Over Valley

Warsaw girls basketball coach Lenny Krebs admitted he had some questions heading into Friday night’s game at Tippecanoe Valley.

The Lady Tigers provided some answers for the veteran coach.
Tippecanoe Valley Opens Slate At Home Thursday

Tippecanoe Valley opens the 2021-22 girls basketball season Thursday, Nov. 4 against visiting IHSAA Class 2A Bremen on Rita Price Simpson Court.
Vikings Fall To Marian In Sectional Semifinal

After outscoring their previous 10 opponents 442-78, it was the undefeated Tippecanoe Valley Vikings that were on the wrong end of a lopsided high school football score Friday night.

Hosting the 12th-ranked Marian Knights in the semfinal round of Class 3A Sectional 26, the seventh-ranked Vikings struggled offensively on a muddy Smith-Bibler Field and saw their season end with 29-0 loss.
Tippecanoe Valley Looks To Avenge 2020 Sectional Loss To Marian

Coach Steve Moriarty says, and all-state right guard Wade Melanson begrudgingly confirms, that the Tippecanoe Valley Vikings may have been intimidated in their Class 3A sectional semifinal football showdown against Marian a year ago.

This year’s semifinal rematch, however?

Entirely different, Melanson insists.
Jones Comes Up Big In Valley Win Over Garrett

To say that Wade Jones had a hand in Tippecanoe Valley’s sectional-opening win at Garrett High School Friday night would be a huge understatement.

The 6-foot-5, 186-pound sophomore caught passes from quarterbacks on both teams, setting a school record for interceptions in a game with four and added 31-yard touchdown catch, as the Vikings beat the host Railroaders 22-8 and set up a 3A Sectional 26 semifinal game with Mishawaka Marian next week at Death Valley.
Local High School Previews For Week 10

Tippecanoe Valley (9-0) at Garrett (4-5), Bremen (6-3) at Manchester (4-4), DeKalb (1-8) at Wawasee (1-8), Whitko (1-8) at Central Noble (7-2)
Warsaw Boys, Girls CC Win Regional Championships

Wawasee’s Season Ends At Elkhart Regional
Tippecanoe Valley Down Knights; Finishes Perfect Regular Season

The Tippecanoe Valley Vikings football team moved ahead early with a 28-point first half to convincingly clinch the Three Rivers Conference crown outright 56-25 over the Southwood Knights on the muddy turf in Death Valley last night.
Sports Briefs For Oct. 15

Seven Local Soccer Players Make TRC All-Conference Team; Triton Drops Regular Season Finale To Winamac; Whitko Drops Close Game To Wabash