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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

Senior Garrett Stuckman (152 pounds), freshman Gavin Malone (138), junior Jace Alexander (126), sophomore Dylan Tom (120) and freshman Logan Stuckman (106) all took individual titles and Wawasee wrestlers won the Plymouth Sectional team championship Saturday.
Area Sports Recaps For Feb. 1

Tippecanoe Valley Gets Non-Conference Road Victory Over Winamac; Wildcats Roll At Home; Warriors Sink Lakers; Squires Fall To Concordia; Trojans Fall in Overtime; Lady Cougars Win Big; NLC Boys Swim Meet - Local Results
Lady Trojans Fall

Lexia Hostrawser had 14 points on 7-of-10 shooting, and Taren Yates added eight points, including a pair of field goals, for Triton in its 50-28 Hoosier North Athletic Conference girls basketball loss at Class 2A No. 9 North Judson Friday night in the regular season finale for both teams.

Abbey Viers added four points and her sister Alxya hit her only shot from the floor for two points.
Local Sports Recaps For Jan. 31

Lakeland Christian Falls At Fort Wayne Blackhawk, plus other area results from Wednesday and Thursday.
Local Sports Recaps For Jan. 28

Yates, Heckaman Lead Trojans To Win Over Elk. Christian; Wawasee Blows By Bruins; Wagner, Lady Vikings Roll Past Wawasee; Lady Squires Get Road Win; LCA Falls To Dragons

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Triton’s Miller Wins Scholarship, AOW

Triton senior Whytnie Miller was named the girls recipient of the W.B. Hawkins Award during Saturday's concluding evening of the boys and girls high school basketball Bi-County Tournament at LaVille High School.

For that and her actions in supporting her teammates under difficult circumstances, Miller has been tabbed the Times-Union Athlete of the Week for Jan. 20-25.
Lady Trojans Battle, But Drop Title Game To Bremen

Even with all its turnovers, and even without its top senior player, Triton threatened to emerge as girls basketball champion of the Bi-County Tournament for the first time ever Saturday night.

Bremen survived the scare, though, and repeated as titlist with a 31-22 victory over the Trojans at LaVille High School’s Dale Cox Gymnasium.

“I couldn’t be prouder,” Triton coach Adam Heckaman said afterwards of his players. “They fought and fought and fought. We just came up a couple possessions short.”
Local Sports Recaps for Jan. 24

Wawasee Battles For Conference Win Over Pilgrims; Squires rally for road win; Trojans win tourney consolation game; Vikings fall at Southwood; plus results from Thursday.
Despite Turnovers, Lady Trojans Advance To Bi-County Tourney Final

Triton finished with more turnovers than points. It didn’t matter, because the persevering Trojans also finished with more points than Glenn.

Charging back from a seven-point fourth-quarter deficit, Triton advanced to just its second-ever Bi-County Tournament girls basketball title game with a chilling 31-29 victory over the Falcons in Thursday’s second semifinal at LaVille’s Dale Cox Gym.
Trojans, Lancers Play Lopsided Bi-County Tourney Games

It was hard to imagine much topping the lopsided nature of the Triton girls’ 17-4 first-half against LaVille.

The LaVille boys, though, topped it in the very next game, and in fact stuffed an even more lopsided count into half as much time.
Local Sports Recaps for Jan. 14

Warsaw Gets Conference Wrestling Win Over Minutemen; Warriors fall to Eagles and more
Area School Sports Recaps For Jan. 12

Tippecanoe Valley Comes From Behind To Beat Plymouth; Trojans Cruise To Win; LCA Falls To Tri-Central; Panthers Handle Wawasee; Dragons Down Cougars; N. Miami Bests Manchester; Zebras Defeat Wildcats; Manchester’s Clifford Advances To IHSGW?Finals; Squires Narrowly Win East Noble Invitational; Vikings Win Guerin Catholic Invitational and more ...
Local Sports Recaps for Jan. 10

Vikings Roll Past Northfield In Three Rivers Conference Rout; Squires Balanced In Victory; Falcons Roll Past Triton plus recaps from Thursday.

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Ferry Signs With Northwestern Ohio

Triton senior Ty Ferry signed a letter of intent Thursday to continue his academic and baseball careers at Northwesterrn Ohio University in Lima.
Area School Sports Recaps For Jan. 8
Area School Sports Recaps For Dec. 20

Triton Never Seriously Challenged In Victory At Winamac
Area School Sports Recaps For Dec. 18
Local School Sports Recaps For Dec. 17
High School Sports Recaps For Dec. 14

Triton Lady Trojans Come From Behind, Hold Off Caston, plus girls and boys basketball, swimming, wrestling.
High School Sports Recaps For Dec. 13

Lady Vikings Roll To Three Rivers Conference Win At N. Miami; RedHawks Double Up Wawasee In NLC Contest; Big 4th Quarter Propels Pioneer Past Triton; Cougars Drop Home Game
Triton Pulls Away Late For GBB?Win Over Elkhart Christian

Plus recaps from Wednesday
Tippecanoe Valley Rolls To Non-Conference Win At Triton

Plus results from Tuesday
High School Sports Recaps For Dec. 7

Warrior Boys Basketball Earns Victory At West Noble; Cougars Down Marines; Wildcats Fall At Bellmont; LCA Girls Hoops Roll; Lady Vikings Cruise; Lady Squires Fall; Valley 3rd At Maconaquah Invite; Squires Go 3-2 In Wabash County Meet, Warsaw Swimming invitational results
High School Sports Recaps For Dec. 6

Squires Rally Late For Win At Wawasee’s Hardwood TeePee; LCA Wins In Double OT; Lady Cougars Fall; Vikings Fall On The Road; Panthers Roll Past Trojans, Thursday night results
High School Sports Recaps for Dec. 3
High School Sports Recaps For Nov. 30

Tippecanoe Valley Splits In Thanksgiving Classic
High School Sports Recaps for Nov. 26-27
Triton Plans To Be Aggressive On Offense

Fueled by an experienced group of varsity returnees, Triton boys basketball looks to be a high energy offensive club in 2019-20.

That’s the way Trojans head coach Jason Groves sees it as he welcomes back six lettermen to a squad that opens the season Wednesday at Oregon-Davis.
Inside Game Helps Lady Trojans Top Wawasee

Triton took the basketball inside the paint on a regular. basis and helped the visiting Trojans beat Wawasee 40-35 Saturday night in non-conference girls high school basketball at the Hardwood Teepee.
Coaches, AD’s Keys to Success In High School Sports

This fall, one school canceled the remainder of its football season after reports of hazing surfaced. There have been several incidents of high school student-athletes using racial slurs against members of the opposing teams.
Tuesday’s Girls Basketball Results
High School Sports Recaps for Nov. 15

Wawasee Gets Balanced Scoring In Win Over Westview; Triton Falls To South Central; Cougars Roll Past SB Career Academy
Argos Presses Its Way To Victory Over Triton

Both Argos and host Triton struggled mightily shooting from the floor in the first half. The difference in the game was, eventually, the Lady Dragon full court pressure forced Triton turnovers, which Argos converted into easy baskets in its 42-22 non-conference girls basketball win Tuesday night in the The Trench.
Area High School Sports Recaps For Nov. 8

Hostrawser Gets 10 Points In Triton's Win At Manchester; Vikings Open With Win; Tigers GBB Game At Valley Moved To Saturday
Lady Trojans Look To Rebound This Year

Coming off a season with the school’s fewest wins since the 2009-10 season, Triton’s girls basketball season has a lot of experience returning, and will be looking to be more sure of themselves in the season starting this week. Last year’s six-win season was played by many who were tasting varsity basketball for the first time, and head coach Adam Heckaman plans to put that gained experience to good use starting tonight.
Morgan Township Sweeps Triton In Volleyball Regional

Triton had nobody who stood nearly as tall as Morgan Township’s Emily Rastovski — not even figuratively, never mind literally.

The 6-foot junior and Purdue University recruit blistered 17 kills, most of them reverberating off the John R. Nelson Gym floorboards, as the Cherokees swept the Trojans 25-11, 25-19, 25-16 in Saturday’s Class 1A Culver Regional volleyball semifinals.
Warsaw’s Kissling Advances To XC State Finals

Manchester, Tippecanoe Valley, Triton and Wawasee (in New Haven) had runners competing.
Red Zone Struggles Plague Triton In Loss To Northfield

Despite a strong showing by their defense against a talented Northfield running game, four failed red zone trips cost the Triton Trojans as they lost their 1A sectional football game 21-8 to the visiting Norse Friday night.
High School Football Sectional Previews

Tippecanoe Valley (6-3) vs. SB Washington (6-3); Wawasee (2-7) at NorthWood (6-3); Wawasee (2-7) at NorthWood (6-3); Whitko (0-9) at Prairie Heights (1-8); Northfield (5-4) at Triton (2-7)
Area High School Recaps for Oct. 19

Triton Wins Volleyball Sectional; Regional At Culver; 2 Wawasee Runners Advance To Semistate; Tigers Fall To Penn In 5 At Volleyball Sectional; Panthers Sweep Vikings In Volleyball Sectional
Area Sports Recaps for Oct. 18

Late Field Goal Sends Winamac Past Triton; Wabash Downs Whitko; Area CC Runners Honored; VB Sectional Results
Area High School Football Previews

Warsaw (7-1, 5-1 Northern Lakes Conference) at Concord (7-1, 5-1); Southwood (8-0 overall, 7-0 TRC) at Tippecanoe Valley (6-2, 6-1); Wawasee (1-7, 0-6 NLC) at Goshen (1-7, 0-6); Triton (2-6, 1-5 Hoosier North Athletic) at Winamac (3-5, 1-5); Peru (4-4 overall, 3-4 TRC) at Manchester (2-6, 2-5); Wabash (3-5 overall, 2-5 TRC) at Whitko (0-8, 0-7)
High School Football Recaps For Oct. 11

Valley Blanks Squires; Stays In Three Rivers Conference Race; Norse Blank Wildcats; Knox Ground Game Too Much For Trojans; Chargers Thwart Warrior Comeback Effort
Lady Tiger VB Beats Concord; Ashmore Records 950th Career Win

Plus volleyball, sectional girls soccer results, late Wednesday boys soccer results
Lady Tigers To Host 4A Basketball Sectional

Basketball sectional assignments for the 2020 Indiana high school postseason.
Area High School Football Previews

NorthWood at Warsaw, Tippecanoe Valley at Manchester, Elkhart Memorial at Wawasee, Triton at Knox and Whitko at Northfield
Vikings Fall From Conference Lead With Loss To Maconaquah

Bluejays Edge Trojans; LCA?Trims Trinity School
Area High School Football Previews

Previews of Wawasee at Warsaw, Manchester at Whitko, Tippecanoe Valley at Maconaquah and North Judson at Triton.
High School Sports Recaps For Oct. 2

M; anchester Soccer Teams Both Claim Conference?Titles, and much more!
IHSAA Boys Tennis Sectional Brackers
Friday And Saturday’s High School Sports Results

Recaps and statistics from high school football, soccer, cross country and volleyball.
Lightning Causes Issues With Area High School?Football Games

Of the five high school football games scheduled for Friday night involving teams from the Times-Union coverage area, three were postponed having never kicked off, another was delayed before finishing and the fifth ended early, all due to lightning from thunderstorms crossing northern Indiana.
Triton Earns HNAC Tennis Tourney Title

Triton claimed the Hoosier North Athletic Conference boys tennis tournament title Thursday at Knox High School.
Area High School Football Previews For Week 6
Warsaw, Wawasee Advance To Girls Golf Regional

Though NorthWood dominated Saturday's girls golf sectional at Stonehenge, the Wawasee Lady Warriors, Warsaw Lady Tigers and Whitko's Guinny Garr did exactly what they needed to do ... survive and advance.