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Valley Girls Finish Sixth

NORTH MANCHESTER - As the announcer read off the places where the girls finished, Terry Screeton paced at the bottom of the hill behind the sea of people gathered for Saturday's cross country regional at Manchester High School. The Tippecanoe Valley cross country coach kept his head bowed, looking at the ground as he walked back and forth.He was hoping for the best, but preparing himself for any disappointment. He heard the announcer say (read from worst to first) Columbia City, Western, Marion and Eastern.Then he heard him say Tippecanoe Valley. The Vikings finished sixth.If they would have finished fifth, the whole team would have competed at the Manchester Semistate next Saturday.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Tigers Face The Year After

It is the year after for the Warsaw Tigers. The year after - a trip to the Final Four, Mr.Basketball Kevin Ault, and the six seniors who returned some pride and dignity to the Tiger basketball program.Warsaw is indeed starting out fresh this season. "It has been a very interesting preseason," Warsaw coach Al Rhodes said."Kevin Ault has been in our practice for four years and to have him gone along with his senior classmates, who have been there for three years, was tough.It just seemed like we had a whole lot of new faces as we started off." With his 31 points a game, Ault led the Tigers to the IHSAA Final Four in the RCA Dome before getting knocked off by a talented New Albany squad.It was a good ride for Warsaw, who along the way overcame a lot, including a black eye put on the program the year before.
Greg Jones, Times-Union Sports Editor- | July 28, 2016

NorthWood Whips Mishawaka Marian

SYRACUSE - The two guys sitting in the student section, they weren't going to let NorthWood lose this one. After the Panthers won the West Noble Sectional last week, NorthWood coach Peg Bough did nothing to hide her disappointment in the fan support.The fans, including these two NorthWood students, answered Bough's call for help at Saturday's Wawasee Regional. The duo wore matching outfits, helmets cut out of a volleyball and red capes.They and the other NorthWood fans roared from start to finish as the No.9 Panthers wrapped up the regional championship with a 15-12, 15-4 win over No.10 Mishawaka Marian. "The crowd was great," Bough said."Last week we didn't have a very good crowd.We had people meet us as we got off the bus.The crowd was our seventh person." The Panthers needed that seventh person, because their assigned task was to beat a 26-9 Marian team ranked one rung below them for the third time this season.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Crown Point Slides Past Warsaw

For the first time this year, the Warsaw Tigers girls basketball team found itself in a close basketball game. After dismantling Valley 50-27 and Bremen 63-18, Warsaw hosted last year's state runner-up Crown Point on Friday night.The Tigers lost 34-31 after Sherri Ross' shot to tie the game with less than three seconds to play fell short. "We really weren't tested in our first two games," Warsaw head coach Will Wienhorst said."One of the things that really showed up is that when it really got close and exciting, our girls panicked.Everything that we've been working on for five weeks, we got all excited about." Even though Warsaw made just three shots in 22 attempts in the second and third quarters, the Tigers stayed close, trailing 29-24 going into the final eight minutes.
Jason Knavel, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Warsaw Girls Win Second Straight

New number.Same Seiss. Warsaw senior standout Julie Seiss, wearing jersey No.14 instead of her standard 15 because it has to be replaced, was an efficient 8-of-12 shooting en route to a game-high 20 points Saturday evening. The rest of the Tiger squad was sharp from the field as well in a 61-45 win over previously undefeated Crown Point. Warsaw exploited a weakness in the heart of Crown Point's defense as the Tigers used dribble penetration to create easy baskets. The Tigers jumped out to a 12-2 first-quarter lead and never looked back. Jennifer Scherer, a night after a career-high 13-point effort against Valley, scored six points in the first quarter to compliment Seiss' seven. Warsaw pushed its lead to 27-11 before Crown Point strung together four quick points.Any momentum the Bulldogs had was quickly erased as Tiger junior Danielle DeGeeter nailed a three-pointer as time expired in the second quarter to give Warsaw a 30-15 halftime lead.
DANIEL RIORDAN, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Big-Play Panthers Slash Wildcats

NAPPANEE - When the Whitko Wildcats and the NorthWood Panthers stepped on Andrews Field for the sectional final game Friday night, both teams had something to prove. Whitko had never beaten NorthWood.But the Panthers had no intentions of letting the Wildcats win the sectional championship on their turf. In the end, NorthWood (9-3) came out on top, beating Whitko (6-5) 49-14. The Panthers started the game with Corey Brown returning the initial kickoff 23 yards to give NorthWood good field position to begin the first drive of the night. With 8:24 left in the first quarter, Charlie Roeder conected with Ian Reed for 10 yards for the first Panther touchdown. Whitko was unable to capitalize on its first drive, and NorthWood regained control of the ball with just under five minutes left in the quarter. On the first play of the drive, Roeder broke off a 53-yard run to score the next Panther touchdown and put NorthWood up 14-0.
Jen Gibson, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Warriors Have Rebuilding Task

SYRACUSE - The bad news for first-year Warrior coach Jerry Davis is that he will have a lot of young players to work with this year.The good news is also that he will have a lot of young kids to work with. In his first season at Wawasee, Davis is trying to turn the negative of a lack of experience into a positive of the chance to mold the players into his system as quickly and easily as possible. "I think that is two-fold," Davis said."We have a lot of young kids on the varsity, and they are not used to the system we will be using and have no experience in that.That makes our progress a little slower than we might expect at this time of the year.But the flip side of that is that we don't have to deprogram anybody.
Greg Jones, Times-Union Sports Editor- | July 28, 2016

Tigers Fail To Advance As A Team

FRANKLIN - The Warsaw girls golf teams' hopes of duplicating what the boys did this past spring came to an end Friday. The Tigers failed to qualify for the second day of competition at the 2005 IHSAA girls golf state tournament at The Legends of Indiana Golf Course after shooting a 359. The boys qualified third and outlasted Richmond and Leo to win the first golf state championship in school history and become the first team to win a title at Warsaw since 1991. The girls entered Friday's first day of competition after finishing second at the East Noble Regional behind DeKalb. DeKalb made the cut and sits in seventh with a score of 341.Defending state champion Penn (313) sits in first place with a comfortable 13-stroke lead over Martinsville. Warsaw will be represented today as junior Emily Johnson shot a 77 Friday and is in a tie for ninth-place with fellow Northern Lakes Conference golfers in Northridge's Lyndsay McBride and Concord's Jessica Dooley.
Times-Union Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

Warsaw Kickers Fall

SOUTH BEND - The Tigers knew what they were up against even before they stepped on the field Saturday. The upstart Warsaw boys soccer team was matched up in the first round of the semistate against state-power Fort Wayne Canterbury.The Cavaliers had been mowing down opponents, winning their regional title by a score of 4-0 and having four goals nullified. Warsaw, on the other hand, had come off of a 1-0 win in which the Tigers outscored Angola 4-2 in a shootout for the narrowest of victories. On Saturday, the trend continued for Canterbury as the Cavaliers scored five goals in the first half en route to a 5-0 victory. At 9:16 into the first half, John Presser gave Canterbury the only goal it would need on the first of three assists from Dustin Penn to give the Cavaliers a 1-0 lead.
Jason Knavel, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Trio Of Area Individuals Advance To Semistate

ELKHART - The Warsaw boys and Wawasee girls cross country teams were close, but just missed out on their chances to advance out of the Elkhart Central Regional Saturday at Ox Bow Park. Both squads finished sixth, which just misses the top five teams advancing to the Manchester Semistate. It was particularly frustrating for the Wawasee girls, which tied for the fifth-best team score with Goshen at 129, but lost the tiebreaker of the Warriors' sixth-place runner finishing after the Goshen No.6 runner. "The front of the pack ran well, but my sixth runner wasn't where she should have been, and it cost us a chance to advance out of regional," Wawasee coach Betsy Hoffman said.
Greg Jones, Times-Union Sports Editor- | July 28, 2016

Whitko Drops Season Opener To Columbia City

SOUTH WHITLEY - The road to Hoosier Hysteria started Wednesday at Whitko High School.The Columbia City Eagles traveled to the home of the Wildcats for the bragging rights of Whitley County in the boys season opener for both teams.The Eagles outlasted the Wildcats 63-48. With first-year athletic director and coach Rob Irwin at the helm, the inexperienced Wildcats played good disciplined basketball.Irwin came to Whitko with 10 years of head coaching experience at Carroll High School. "We only had two returning players tonight.We are a young basketball team," Irwin said. The first quarter appeared as though the Eagles would run away with the game.With the Eagles going on a 7-0 run, the Wildcats battled back to keep the first quarter score at 16-12.In the quarter Brian Busz and Jeff Coats each hit a three-point basket for Whitko.
Cliff Tanner, Times-Union Sports Correspondent- | July 28, 2016

To Be Continued

Warsaw sophomore Lindsay Bruick (6) battles Columbia City's Katie Stroup for control of the ball Monday during the first-round matchup at the Huntington North Girls' Soccer Sectional.Photo by Gary Nieter, Times-Union HUNTINGTON - The winner of Monday night's soccer sectional game between Warsaw and Columbia City was scheduled to play Saturday in the championship game. Instead, both teams will play Saturday. No, both didn't advance to the championship game.Monday night's game ended in a 1-1 tie, so the teams have to finish it on Saturday. Both scores came in the second half.The teams played the two 40-minute regulation halves, then played two seven-minute halves in the first overtime.The game came down to penalty kicks for the second overtime, and that's when it was suspended because of darkness. Warsaw and Columbia City played to a 0-0 tie in the regular season, so this low score was not a surprise.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Grace Women Win Hoops Tournament

WINONA LAKE - It's not often that a team can shoot 28 percent from the field and still pull out a win.But the Grace College women's basketball team did precisely that Saturday, defeating Concordia (MI) 58-42 to win the Grace Tournament Championship. Tournament MVP Amber Riffell finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds for back-to-back double-doubles and the Lancer defense held Concordia to just 26 percent shooting.As well, Grace held a 52-38 rebound advantage, including 23 offensive boards that gave the Lancers opportunities to make up for its poor shooting. Grace never trailed in the game and had numerous chances to put Concordia away but the offensive struggles kept the Cardinals alive.At one point, Grace led 46-35 with just over six minutes to play, but the Lancers went cold and the Cardinals closed to within five points.However, Grace scored its final 10 points from the free-throw line as Concordia was forced to foul to try to get back into the game.
Times-Union Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

Lancers Win As Moore Returns

WINONA LAKE - After missing three games with a back injury, Grace College junior point guard Matt Moore connected on a career-high six three-pointers, three in the first five minutes of action, as the Lancers hosted and defeated Purdue-Calumet 79-67 Tuesday. The Lancers went 1-2 in the three games Moore missed and also lost the game he was injured in.Grace is 3-0 with Moore healthy. Grace jumped out to a 28-8 lead eight minutes into the action, but Purdue-Calumet cut the deficit to four by halftime, 41-37.Moore and Brian O'Dell hit back-to-back three-pointers to open the second half, and the Lancers weren't challenged the rest of the way. Freshman Matt Abernethy led the Lancers with 23 points and seven rebounds, while Dan Scharlach had a team-high 10 rebounds despite playing just 22 minutes because of foul trouble.Grace outrebounded Purdue-Calumet 44-21 and held the Lakers to two offensive rebounds.
Times-Union Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

No. 17 Tigers Survive 29 Turnovers

ELKHART - Playing at the end of the regular season, Warsaw and Elkhart Central usually learn a lot about their own teams heading into the tournament after matching up against each other. Even though the game was moved to the start of the season this year, both teams still were able to learn a lot about each other.This time, though, it will help for the rest of the campaign. And both teams will have plenty to work on in practice after combining for 53 turnovers in the Tigers' 63-59 overtime win over the Blue Blazers Saturday. "It is a great learning experience for us," Warsaw coach Al Rhodes said."What we can take from this game is tremendous.You usually can't take as much from wins." Warsaw won despite committing 29 turnovers, including 6 in the overtime session.
Greg Jones, Times-Union Sports Editor- | July 28, 2016

With Hoosiers, Questions Are On The Inside

Excitement and intensity are two good words to sum up the attitude of the Indiana Hoosiers at their first press conference for the 1998-99 basketball season Tuesday in Bloomington. The entire squad, with the exception of fiery head coach Bob Knight, came out to entice the media and give the lowdown on what could be an interesting season of Indiana hoops. Their first NCAA tournament victory in five years behind them, the new-look Hoosiers have placed a goal of winning the Big Ten and advancing futher into the national tournament. The question of the day centered around IU's lack of punch in the inside game. The Hoosiers were more than ready to defend their big men. "The front court's been working hard, but if we put it all on our shoulders as a team, we'll do well," said sophomore Luke Recker. "If people think we have a bad inside game, then they're in for a surprise," added freshman Dane Fife.
ORA FREEMAN, Times-Union Sports Correspondent- | July 28, 2016

Letters to the Editor 10-05-1998

- Roemer Responds - Miller Says Thanks - Prime Time Blame - School Costs - Thanks To Phil Tom - Grace Says Thanks - Thanks To Firemen Roemer Responds Editor, Times-Union: I would like to respond to Robert Villa's recent letter.I strongly support tax cuts, tax simplification and IRS reform - and have consistently voted for them. I believe tax simplification and continued tax relief are important for working Americans and their families.This position is reflected in my voting record.First, I have opposed any tax increases.
- | July 28, 2016

Letters to the Editor 03-27-2006

- Supports Coach - Illegals - Tiger Potential - Immigration - WCHS Athletics Supports Coach Editor, Times-Union: After reading the recent article in the paper, "What's wrong with Tiger Basketball?," I was, to say the least, both offended and disappointed.The accusations and negative portrayals of Coach Ogle were not only unfair, but also very inaccurate.After contacting a few of my close friends who had the wonderful opportunity to play for Coach Ogle, the response was very much the same - disappointed.
- | July 28, 2016

Letters to the Editor 09-09-2004

- Politics Of Religion - Try Not To Judge - Christian Democrat - Thoughtful Teens - Congratulations Atwood - Flip Flops - Response To Letters Politics Of Religion Editor, Times-Union: Although I do stand by my letter to the editor, I must apologize for the last paragraph. About Sen.Kerry and John 16.3, the comment was given to me prior to ending my letter and I did not check it out, and for this I do sincerely apologize.
- | July 28, 2016

Letters to the Editor 09-24-2004

- Cost Of War - Thanks For Honor - France - Junk Mail - People In Need - No Democracy - Thanks To EMS - Voter Education Cost Of War Editor, Times-Union: Regarding recent article on Cost of War by Abigail A.Fuller. I yet mourn the loss of about 3,000 innocents on 9/11/01.We must never forget that assault on innocents. The loss of our revenue on the day far exceeded the money spent in the war with Iraq.If we are going to spend $151 billion dollars in prosecuting this war, it will save 10 times that amount; because evil terrorists will continue attacking our infrastructures if we do not respond forcefully.
- | July 28, 2016
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