LOCAL SPORTS
Triton Uses Three Point Barrage To Cruise To Regional Title
Having the opportunity to host 1A Regional 26 at the Trojan Trench on Saturday afternoon, the Triton boys basketball team made the most of it. Facing off against Lakewood Park Christian, the Trojans took the lead early on and never surrendered it, cruising to a 63-40 victory to advance to …
Chip Shots: NAIA Basketball, For A Change
Looks like the three-week “real” NCAA Division I (D1) season starts this coming Tuesday.
Lancers Dominate Carolina In NAIA Tournament Opener
Hosting the first two rounds of the NAIA Tournament, the Grace mens’ basketball team wasted no time asserting their dominance on their home floor Friday night, getting out to an early lead and growing it throughout the game to defeat Carolina 121-69.
Tigers Take On Riley In Second Straight Regional Title Game
The Warsaw boys basketball team enters the regional championship round of the state tournament for the second straight year after snatching victory from the jaws of defeat in last week’s sectional championship game. With three seconds left in the game and the team down by three, it looked as if …
Triton Plays Host To Regional Against Lakewood Park Christian
Since head coach Jason Groves took over at the end of the 2004-05 season, the Triton boys basketball team has had plenty of success. State champions in 2008. Three more appearances in 2009, 2011 and 2013. That 2013 season was the last time the Trojans won a regional, a statistic …
Manchester Looks To Continue Season Against Tipton
After years of early playoff exits, the Manchester boys basketball team finally broke through last weekend, winning its first sectional championship since the 1994-95 season. Now, the Squires turn their attention to the regional round, where they will look to capture the first regional title since 1993-1994.
Local Lancers Prepare To Host NAIA Opening Rounds
It’s no secret in Kosciusko County that the Grace mens’ basketball team has had plenty of success over the course of the program’s history. The latest iteration of the Lancers recently won the Crossroads League Tournament for the fourth straight time and will head into the NAIA national tournament as …
Justice Forces OT, Where Tigers Thwart Northridge For Sectional Title
The year of the Tiger continues.
Local High School Sports Recaps For March 8
Boys and Girls Basketball
Two Seperate Buzzer Beaters Doom Valley In Sectional Final
With a 25-foot Columbia City 3-pointer right before the regulation horn to tie it, then a Columbia City bucket at the overtime horn to win it, just how gut-punchingly, heart-stabbingly painful did Tippecanoe Valley’s 45-43 loss to the Eagles in Saturday night’s Class 3A NorthWood Sectional basketball championship feel?
Lancers Earn Spilt in Weekend Series Against Capital U
Grace College’s softball team earned a series split with Capital University on Saturday afternoon.
Chip Shots: No Matter What, Appreciate
Friday night, the last Friday night for high school boys’ basketball games this postseason, the Times-Union readership had six teams in IHSAA boys’ basketball sectional semi-finals. Each had either a clear shot or a puncher’s chance at making and advancing last night and even winning its sectional title tonight.
Stifling Defense Earns Manchester Sectional Final Berth
The Manchester Squires boys’ basketball team tipped off at 6 p.m. in Wabash’s Coolman Gym for the first of two IHSAA Class 2A Sectional 38 boys’ basketball semifinals’ games last night, ending the Rochester Zebras’ season with a 71-46 win.
Valley Gets Past Wawasee To Advance To Championship
Tippecanoe Valley’s Big Three made like a Big Tree that Wawasee never could quite climb, and if that wasn’t enough, the Vikings’ hawking defense in the second half left the Warriors stumped.
