SPORTS

Chip Shots: Channeling NSYNC, Bye Bye Bye… Bye

The Hoosier State has a problem with its basketball class alignment affecting its postseason product, Hoosier Hysteria.

Lancers Split Doubleheader With Walk-Off Win

Grace’s baseball team celebrated its third walk-off win of the season to kick off the four-game series with Trinity Christian on Thursday afternoon.

Lancers Roll By USF Into CL Tournament Semifinals

Grace’s men’s basketball team flexed its muscles during a 90-61 win over St. Francis on Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the Crossroads League Tournament.

Warsaw’s Rastrelli Nominated For Girls Cross Country Runner Of The Year

Warsaw cross-country runner Josefina Rastrelli has been nominated for the Indiana High School Sports Awards Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year.

Lady Lancers Set Win Record In CL Quarterfinal Victory

Grace’s women’s basketball team picked up a 61-46 win over Taylor, during Wednesday's Crossroads League quarterfinal matchup.

Local High School Sports Recaps For 2/22

Boys Basketball

Last Second Shot Earns Vikings First Win At Tiger Den Since ‘06

In the series between Warsaw and Tippecanoe Valley, it hasn’t gone the way of the Vikings very often.

The Penalty Box: Sports Should Always Be About Merit

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Local High School Sports Recaps For 2/21

Girls Basketball

Lady Viking Run Comes To An End At Semi-State

It may not have ended the way the Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings wanted, but players left the court after dropping their opening game of the Semi-State round 54-33 to Fairfield on Saturday afternoon with their heads held high.

Wawasee’s Miller Places Sixth At State Meet

Hunter Miller’s senior wrestling season at Wawasee High School wound up with him climbing the awards podium at the IHSAA State Finals.

Lancers Claim First Outright Conference Crown In Decade

For the first time in 10 years, Grace’s men’s basketball team can call itself Crossroads League regular season champions.

Valley Wins Conference, Holds Off Late Triton Surge For Win

Despite the final score being somewhat lopsided, the Triton Trojans gave the Tippecanoe Valley Vikings a run for their money Friday night at the Trojan Trench. A two-point game in the fourth quarter, a last minute run by the Vikings was all the team needed to escape Bourbon with a …

Lady Vikings Continue March Into Semi-State Round

Just 32 teams, eight in each of the state’s four classes, remain and have hopes of hoisting a state championship trophy in just over a week in Indianapolis. One of those teams, the Tippecanoe Valley Lady Vikings, will head to LaPorte High school Saturday afternoon for the newly revamped Semi-State …

Chip Shots: The Midwest Is Stuck With Me

Happy 88th birthday to my Uncle Hal, Harold Alonzo Esterwood, Jr., known as Mr. E. among people in Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood since the 1960s, and among generations of fourth-graders in a Cleveland suburb where he taught for decades. I get excited about his birthday because his longevity defies the …