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HS Football Recaps for Sept. 17

Triton Downs Cavaliers; Wildcats Earn 1st Win Of 2021; Warriors Falls At NorthWood
Local Sports Recaps for Sept. 16

Thursday: Tippecanoe Valley Boys Soccer Defeats Peru; Warsaw Volleyball Takes Down Plymouth; Valley VB Defeats Manchester; Triton VB Extends Win Streak; Whitko VB Falls To Southwood; Warsaw Girls Soccer Drops Game To Penn; Wawasee Girls Soccer Loses to Elkhart Christian; Warsaw Boys Tennis Defeats NorthWood; Wawasee Boys Tennis Defeats Mishawaka; Valley Girls Golf Ties Season-Wins Record
Local High School Football Previews For Week 5

Northridge (4-0, 2-0 Northern Lakes Conference) at Warsaw (3-1, 2-0 NLC), Tippecanoe Valley (4-0 overall, 3-0 TRC) at North Judson (4-0, 3-0), Northfield (2-2, 2-1 TRC) at Manchester (1-2, 1-1), Triton (2-2, 1-1 Hoosier North Athletic Conference) at Culver (1-1, 0-1 HNAC), Wawasee (0-4, 0-2 Northern Lakes Conference) at NorthWood (2-2, 1-1 NLC), North Miami (0-4 overall, 0-3 TRC) at Whitko (0-4, 0-3)
Triton Turnovers Spell Defeat, 35-7, To Bremen

As soon as the football slipped out of control for the Triton Trojans, the fate of the 2021 chapter of the Triton Trojans-Bremen Lions Marshall County rivalry game also slipped away in a turnover-plagued 35-7 loss to the Lions Friday night.
Sports Briefs for Sept. 9

Triton VB Defeats Tippecanoe Valley; Whitko Volleyball Takes Down Manchester; Wawasee Volleyball Wins Against Goshen; Warsaw Boys Soccer Falls To Penn; Valley Boys Soccer Loses To Marion; Wawasee Boys Soccer Defeats Lakeland; Warsaw Boys Tennis Defeats Canterbury; Tippecanoe Valley Tennis Falls To Cass; Wawasee Boys Tennis Drops Match To Northridge; Manchester Boys Tennis Defeats Whitko; Valley Girls Golf Finishes 2nd In 3-Way Match
High School Sports Recaps

Boys soccer, volleyball and tennis
Local High School Previews For Week 4

Warsaw (2-1, 1-0 Northern Lakes Conference) at Mishawaka (3-0, 1-0 NLC), Manchester (1-1 overall, 1-0 TRC) at Tippecanoe Valley (3-0, 2-0), Bremen (1-2) at Triton (2-1), Whitko (0-3, 0-2 TRC) at Maconaquah (0-1, 0-1), Concord (2-1, 1-0 Northern Lakes Conference) at Wawasee (0-3, 0-1 NLC)
Triton Takes Down Caston In Emotional Game

It was an emotional week for Triton high school. One week after the death of senior lineman Cameron Fairchild, the school tried to return to a bit of normalcy on Saturday, taking on Caston at home. The Trojans put on a dominating performance, winning 35-16.
Family, Friends Remember The Life Of Cameron Fairchild

The beginning of the school year is usually an exciting time. Kids get to see their friends after summer break, friendships are renewed and the lights shine bright on Friday night football games. It’s a time of year most look forward to, and the memories can last a lifetime.

But for a large chunk of this community, that excitement has been overshadowed by heartbreak.
Local High School Previews For Week 3

Plymouth (0-2, 0-0 Northern Lakes Conf.) at Warsaw 1-1, 0-0 NLC); Wawasee (0-2, 0-0 Northern Lakes) at Northridge (2-0, 0-0 NLC); Tippecanoe Valley (2-0 overall, 1-0 TRC) at Peru (1-1, 1-0); Caston (1-1, 0-1 Hoosier North Athletic) at Triton (1-1, 0-1 HNAC); Rochester (1-1, 0-1 TRC) at Whitko (0-2, 0-1); Winamac (2-0) at Manchester (1-0)
Trojans, Comets FB Game Rescheduled

Friday’s Hoosier North Athletic Conference football game between Caston and host Triton has been moved to 1 p.m. Saturday. The Trojans will still be the home team.
Triton Comes Up Short In Overtime Thriller With LaVille

Regulation wasn’t enough to settle a defensive battle between visiting Triton and LaVille Friday night in a Hoosier North Athletic Conference football matchup.
Week Two Local HS Football Previews

Warsaw (1-0) at Michigan City (1-0); Northfield (0-1) at Tippecanoe Valley (1-0); Triton (1-0) at LaVille (1-0); Wawasee (0-1) at West Noble (0-1); Whitko (0-1) at Peru (0-1)
Triton Rallies For Win

You can hear blaring music from almost a mile away. You can smell the popcorn popping and the hot dogs grilling from the moment you enter the front gate. Once you get to your seat, all you can see is a sea of blue.

It can only mean one thing: Triton football is back. The game itself wasn’t as pretty as the sights and sounds, but after the result, Trojan fans likely could care less.
High School Sports Briefs

Whitko Girl’s Golf Drops Close Match to Northfield; Cougar Soccer Comes Up Short in Season Opener; Tippecanoe Valley boys Soccer Starts Off Strong, Limps to Finish Line in Opener; Wawasee boys Soccer Shows Fight in Second-Half, Comes up Short Against Westview; Tippecanoe Valley Plays First Girl’s Varsity Soccer Game in School History, Loses to Culver; Wawasee Volleyball takes down Tippecanoe Valley, Improves to 2-0 on Season; Triton Sporting Events Going Cashless for 2021-22 Athletic Seasons
Triton Young Yet Progressing Heading Into 2021

Rodney Younis has witnessed improvement as he gets his Triton High School football team ready for the 2021 season.

“We’re not where we want to be, but progress has been great,” says Younis, who goes into his 14th year of leading the IHSAA Class 1A Trojans, including the third year in his second tenure. “We’re definitely going to be a young team. Of 42 players, there are only six seniors.”
Warsaw Golfers Compete At Dicken Invitational

Warsaw Black and Warsaw Orange golf teams finished fifth and ninth place respectively in the prestigious Don Dicken Invitational held at Stonehenge Golf Club Saturday.
Area Boys Named First Team All-NLC

Sophomore Jaxson Gould and junior Judah Simfukwe of Warsaw, and junior Keaton Dukes of Wawasee, have earned first team All-Northern Lakes Conference (NLC) honors.
Triton’s Season Ends With Loss To Kouts

BOURBON - The Triton Trojans’ season ended in the title game of the Class 1A boys’ regional tournament on Saturday.
Triton Preparing For Caston In Regionals

The Triton Trojans launch regional tournament action Saturday morning with a 9:30 a.m. tip-off time against a familiar foe from the Hoosier North Athletic Conference, the Caston Comets from Fulton.
Area Preps Honored As Academic All-State

A number of area high school girls hoopsters have been honored for their academic excellence by the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association.
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.
Triton Trojans Top Lakeland Christian Academy

The Triton Trojans won last night’s contest on the road at Winona Lake by a score of 65-47.
Area High School Football Previews For Week 11

Fort Wayne Carroll (7-2) at Warsaw (7-2)
Triton Falls To Kouts In Regional Volleyball

Triton fell to Kouts in regional volleyball competition on Saturday.
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.
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
Area High School Football Previews For Week 6
Triton Rolls Early In Big Win Over Culver Community

Triton only needed 16 plays, 238 yards and less than eight minutes of the game’s 24-minute first half to take a commanding 34-8 lead at halftime over the Culver Community Cavaliers. The boys from Bourbon scored on each of their five first half possessions and defeated their Hoosier North Athletic Conference (HNAC) foes in the Trojans’ home opener 48-8.
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!
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
High School Football Previews For Week 4
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.
Trojans, Wildcats Earn Conference Wins

Triton and Whitko earned conference road wins in football games Friday night.

Triton edged Caston 14-12 in Fulton in Hoosier North Athletic Conference play. Whitko won 28-7 at Rochester in a Three Rivers Conference game.

No statistics were available for either game as of press time.
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. 31

Wawasee Girls Golf Picks Up Two Non-Conference Wins, Triton Competes In 4-Way Girls Golf Match, plus JV volleyball and middle school scores.
Local sports recaps for Aug. 30

Lane’s Hat Trick Propels Lakeland Christian To Win At O-D, plus statistics from other competitions.
Local Sports Briefs for Aug. 26

Valley, Triton compete on the links with Bremen; Davis gets ace at Stonehenge
High School Sports Recaps For Saturday
Sports Recaps For Aug. 21

Triton Opens Its Football Season With A 3-Point Win At S. Central; Triton HNAC FB Game At LaVille Cancelled; Whitko Snaps Skid With OT Win Over Prairie Heights; Squires Roll To Opening Win; Late Thursday results.
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
Trojans Have Special Mantra For 2020

Triton High School football has adopted a mantra for 2020.

It’s “Get to Tomorrow.”

“Hopefully we can get through all of them,” says 13th-year head coach Rodney Younis of the games on the IHSAA Class 1A Trojans’ schedule. “We want to make memories for these seniors.”
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
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.
HS Wrestling Rules Changes Address Weigh-in Procedures, Hair Length

As the result of a concerted effort to accommodate the growing number of female wrestlers, the 2020-21 high school wrestling rules changes are headlined by significant adjustments to weigh-in protocol and appropriate hair length requirements.

The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Wrestling Rules Committee met April 5-6 and recommended 11 rules changes to take effect next school year. In accordance with current health safety guidelines, the rules meeting was held in an online format. All rules revisions recommended by the Wrestling Rules Committee were approved by the NFHS Board of Directors.
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.
IHSAA Boys Basketball Tournament Cancelled

IHSAA Hopes To Have Abbreviated Spring Seasons
Locals Earn IBCA Academic Honorable Mention

Tiger DB, Coach Selected for IFCA?All-Star Game
2 Tigers And A Warrior Tabbed All-NLC

Trojans Land 2 On All-HNAC Squad
After Schools Close, IHSAA Opts To Postpone Boys Hoops Regionals

After many school corporations in Indiana, including most in the Times-Union coverage area, the IHSAA and its commissioner, Bobby Cox, announced the boys basketball regionals scheduled for today have been postponed.
Triton’s Oviedo Repeats As T-U Athlete Of The Week

Triton sophomore guard Ashton Oviedo was the Times-Union Athlete of the Week during the final week of boys basketball season. After leading his team in scoring in three sectional games, Oviedo repeats as the winner, this time for the week ending March 7.
Argos Outlasts Trojans With Buzzer-Beater

In a night consisting of resolute team defense, Argos boys basketball scraped by Triton 28-26 after a buzzer-beater from Michael Richard stole the show on in the IHSAA Class 1A Sectional 50 championship game Saturday night at The Trojan Trench.

With the game winding down and deadlocked at 26, Caleb Ellis passed to Richard in the corner. He drove to the hoop and released the last shot of the game as time expired.
Trojans Roll Into Sectional Final

After a decisive victory Tuesday against West Central, the Triton boys basketball team looked to stay for at least one more night on their home floor. Standing in their way is LaCrosse, who drew a bye in the opening round of sectionals.
Oviedo Tabbed Athlete Of The Week

Triton sophomore guard Ashton Oviedo led the Trojan boys basketball team to a pair of wins last week, clinching a winning season for the team and giving the squad some needed momentum heading into this week’s sectional tournament.

For that effort, Oviedo has been named the Times-Union Athlete of the Week for Feb. 24-29.
Triton Rolls To Easy Sectional-Opening Win

Triton head boys basketball coach Jason Groves wanted his team to get off to a fast start in its Class 1A Sectional opener against West Central Tuesday.

Mission accomplished.
Triton Warms Up For Sectional With Win Over Knox

Tyson Yates hit eight of 13 shots inside the three-point arc to finish with a game-high 23 points, helping Triton to a 63-45 non-conference win over visiting Knox in the boys basketball regular and Hoosier North Athletic Conference season finale for both teams.
Trojans Pull Away In Middle Quarters To Win

Plus gymnastics and middle school basketball results
IHSAA Sectional Brackets
Valley Comes From Behind For OT Win Over Trojans

Despite trailing for the first three quarter of the game, the Tippecanoe Valley boys basketball team defeated Triton 51-48 in overtime in non-conference action Friday night.

The comeback victory was spearheaded by freshman Paul Leasure, who scored 28 points on 10-13 shooting, including 4-5 from three-point range.

The first quarter was a tight defensive battle, with Triton up 9-6 at the end of the quarter.
Zebras Nip Trojans At The Buzzer

Plus middle school basketball results
Stuckman, Stroud Lead Wrestling State Qualifiers

Four area wrestlers earned a place in the 2020 IHSAA State Finals with their semistate performances Saturday.

At East Chicago, Wawasee senior Garrett Stuckman (16-0) went 4-0 with a pin in the finals.
Area High School Results for Feb. 8

Wildcats Win Overtime Non-Conference Thriller Over Lakewood Park; Cougars Get 4th Win; Trojans Fall In OT; Braves Hold Off Vikings; local girls swimming sectional results
Five Area Grapplers Earn Regional Championships

Wawasee tied for third place, Warsaw came in sixth, Tippecanoe Valley. eighth and Triton tied for 12th Saturday at the Penn Regional wrestling tournament.
Recaps for Feb. 6

Trojans Win Trench-Burner Over Dragons In Non-Conference Play; Area Postponements
Area Sports Recaps for Feb. 4

Lady Squires Roll To Sectional-Opening Victory; Trojans Fall To Dragons; and results from Monday.
Wawasee, Warsaw, Valley, Manchester Produce Sectional Champs