SPORTS

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.

Tigers Beat Goshen To Advance To Sectional Title Game

After a tough offensive night in their first playoff game on Tuesday, the Warsaw Tigers returned to North side Gym for the semifinal round of 4A Sectional 4 on Friday night. Matched up with Goshen, Warsaw had no such issues scoring the ball in this one, lighting up the scoreboard …

The Penalty Box: What Drives Us Nuts About Sports Tickets

When I was driving home from Indianapolis last week, I had a couple of hours to think about a lot of different things.

Tigers Shake Off Slow Start, Advance To Sectional Semis

It didn’t take long for those in attendance to realize that Warsaw and Concord’s matchup in the opening round of 4A Sectional 4 was going to be a lot different from the Tigers’ 64-38 romp of the Minutemen back in January. Concord gave the NLC champs all they could ask …

Lancers Outlast Foresters To Win Crossroads League Tournament

Playing in the Crossroads League championship game for the fourth straight year, the Grace men's basketball team welcomed Huntington to the Manahan Orthopaedic Center for a rubber match after they split the regular season series. The game was a doozy, going back and forth for nearly all 40 minutes, but …