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No. 2 Manchester Mauls Peru

NORTH MANCHESTER - Peru head coach Terry Heavilon wanted Friday's contest against Manchester to be up-tempo. The Tigers got off 62 shots.They made only 23, however.Their poor shooting and Manchester's consistent play gave the Squires the edge as they toppled Peru 79-58. Early in the game it seemed as though Manchester might be upset on their home turf.Squire center Chris Enyeart, who leads the team in both scoring and rebounding, picked up his second foul with 2:43 left in the first quarter and didn't play the rest of the half. Enyeart's foul trouble gave Manchester a chance to show its depth.Rex Reimer hit two straight three-pointers and scored eight of Manchester's 21 first-quarter points.Along with Reimer, forwards Scot Croner and Heath Simcoe also stepped up big.The two forwards combined to score 17 first-half points.
DAN RIORDAN, Times-Union Sports Correspondent- | July 28, 2016

Panthers Hold Off Determined Jimmies

ELKHART - It looked like one of those games in which one team would dominate another, the kind of game with the score ending up forty points apart.This was a good example of NorthWood and Jimtown Friday night.NorthWood pulled ahead of Jimtown 14-4 during the first quarter, but the Jimmies came back in the second half, narrowing the score within two.Despite Jimtown's comeback, the Panthers prevailed over the Jimmies 49-43. NorthWood's early start was credited to Bobby Brown, who scored eight points, while Aaron Huber had a three and an assist to Brown in the first quarter.
CRAIG LANKFORD, Times-Union Sports Correspondent- | July 28, 2016

Krom Cans Vikings

WABASH - Before the basketball season began, Tippecanoe Valley coach Gregg Sciarra called Northfield the team to beat in the Three Rivers Conference. Before the season began, Northfield coach Chris Keisling considered Valley the one team standing between his team and the TRC title. The two teams met Tuesday night, and the game lived up to the hype.Northfield beat Valley 60-58 on a buzzer-beater shot under the basket by 6-foot-7 senior center Dewayne Krom. Valley fell to 7-5 overall and 2-2 in the TRC.Northfield improved to 8-3 overall and 4-1 in the TRC.The Norsemen control their own destiny in the conference with just two TRC games left, Rochester and Manchester.Every TRC team has at least one loss. Valley changed its lineup and defense for this game.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Fully Out Of Step With The Times

It's official. I am an old fuddy-duddy. Up until now I thought I had retained a bit of youthful edge.But no, it's gone. I came to this realization when a woman dropped off a letter about Tom Green's new movie, "Freddie Got Fingered." In the letter she decried the way members of our society seem to be attracted to tasteless, immoral forms of entertainment.Further, she was upset that those who aren't attracted to it sit idly by and do nothing to stop it. I tended to agree with her letter. Then I noticed that "Freddie" finished at No.5 in the top movies last weekend, pulling in about $7.1 million. We'll see how it does this weekend, but it will probably do OK. All the teen-to-25 crowd who saw it last weekend will tell their friends about it and it will probably have a little traction. It most likely won't be a bomb.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

Warsaw Wins Catfight In The Tiger Den

Warsaw's boys basketball team defeated NorthWood 65-51 in a physical Northern Lakes Conference matchup Friday. NorthWood struck early and scored the first points of the game as Charlie Roeder sank a basket to put the Panthers up 2-0. The Tigers answered with a Chris Wiggins' three-point goal, and the battle of the big cats began. The score seesawed back and forth for the entire first quarter, and when the buzzer sounded at the end of the first frame, the score stood at 19-18 in NorthWood's favor. "They hit a good percentage of their shots in the first quarter," said Warsaw coach Al Rhodes. The Tigers took control in the second frame as Rob Kesler and Ross Kesler teamed up for 10 of the Tigers 20 second-quarter points. With 7:16 left in the second, Rob Kesler nailed a three-point shot to put the Tigers up 33-21, and less than 30 seconds later, Ross Kesler stole the ball from the Panther offense and laid it in the basket to give Warsaw a four-point lead.
Jen Gibson, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

There's Plenty Of Misleading To Go Around

The war in Iraq isn't very popular these days. So, of course, the politicians are all about blaming W and demanding timetables for troop withdrawal and saying the whole thing was a big mistake. Things were very different right before we went to war.That's when the war thing was popular. All the politicians were waving flags and pledging their support. Well, not all of them.But the vast majority of them, anyway. I will be the first to admit the American people were misled about Iraq. We were misled about weapons of mass destruction.We were misled about Saddam's connection - or lack of connection - to 9/11. In fact, I admitted that back on Aug.27 in this very column: (I used to give W the benefit of the doubt. I thought he got bad intelligence.After all, the whole world - Germany, Russia, France, everybody - thought Saddam had WMD.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

Warsaw Girls Outlast Manchester

For most of three quarters, Warsaw and No.9 (3A) Manchester did not play like teams that were a combined 24-6 on the season. However, with three minutes to play in the third period, both the Tigers and the Squires turned it up.The problem for Manchester was that Warsaw played at a higher level over the final 11 minutes and came away with a 53-40 win on Tuesday in the Tiger Den. This game featured a matchup of girls wearing No.44 - Warsaw's Tiffany Ross and Manchester's Megan Eckert.Although the pair did not go head-to-head during the game, it was a chance to see two of the top players in the area. Eckert struggled, scoring just nine points on 3-of-15 shooting and grabbing six rebounds.She never found the touch from the outside, making just 1 of 6 shots from three-point land.Eckert, an 81 percent free-throw shooter, also struggled from the line, making just two out of her six attempts.
Jason Knavel, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Goshen College Downs Grace Men

GOSHEN - The Goshen College men's basketball team shot 60 percent from the field and 55 percent from the three-point line, defeating Grace College 88-83 Tuesday in a game featuring a number of large momentum swings. Grace continued to struggle out of the gate, a trend that is becoming a regular event for the Lancers.Goshen built a 32-19 lead but Grace closed the half on a 13-2 run and trailed just 34-32 at the break. The Lancers continued to build on that momentum, scoring 30 points in the first eight minutes of the second half and building a 63-52 lead.But Goshen answered back with an eight point run that turned the momentum back to the Maple Leafs.
Times-Union Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

Government Keeps Getting Bigger

The W administration has disappointed me yet again. Boy, it's getting tougher and tougher to be a conservative these days. I'm for lower taxes and smaller government, but this administration, while doing OK on the tax side, is really starting to freak me out when it comes to spending. Smaller government? Au contraire. First we got Homeland Security, an enormous expansion of government. Now we get the Medicare prescription drug benefit, an enormous entitlement. And this when we are looking at a single-year deficit of $500 million next year. I just don't get it.Well, I take that back.I do get it and that's what bothers me. On the face of it, the administration would have us believe they are out to help people with this prescription drug benefit. You know, senior citizens forced into poverty because of the cost of their medications. But I think it's more about looking good to senior citizens and winning votes than it is about helping people.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

We Have Lots For Which To Be Thankful

I spend a great deal of time harping in this space week after week. I guess that's just what columnists do.I read many other columnists. They're always harping, too.And it doesn't really matter what side of the political aisle they're on, either.Liberal columnists harp on conservative issues and conservative columnists harp on liberal issues. Moderate columnists harp on everybody. I think if all you ever read were editorial columns, you'd come away with the impression that the United States is a pretty glum, problem-ridden place. Of course, that isn't the case. Fact is, there are some really positive things happening in our nation. There are negatives, too, and those are sometimes the easiest things to write about, I guess. But we really do have a lot to be thankful for these days in the United States. There are lots of times in history when things weren't nearly so bright.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

North Webster Teacher Treated A Bit Harshly

I think Phyllis Roberts is being treated a little too harshly. She's the North Webster Elementary School teacher who "submitted an early retirement" this past week over a remark she made in class. That "early retirement" jargon is a nice way of saying the Wawasee School Corp.is forcing her to retire. Roberts is a 50-something veteran teacher of 31 years. She apparently made a discriminatory remark in her third- grade class.The remark was overheard.As is usually the case in these matters, the superintendent and the school board and anybody else connected with the school - including the teacher herself - wouldn't tell us what this is all about. Even the teachers union was mum about it.They had a meeting where 70 Wawasee teachers showed up.The union representative would only tell us that they "didn't think the administration handled the situation appropriately." Lots of people in North Webster are upset about this.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

Warsaw Girls Lose Second Straight

NAPPANEE - Much like the last time the varsity girls basketball teams from Northern Lakes Conference rivals Warsaw and NorthWood battled, one team made the big plays when it neeed to in the second half to win. This time, however, it wasn't the Tigers, as host NorthWood erased a seven-point Warsaw lead in the fourth quarter and pulled out a 49-41 win Saturday night at the Panther Pit. NorthWood led Warsaw by 12 at halftime of their meeting Dec.28 in the first round of the NLC Tournament, only to have the Tigers fight back and win 60-45. In that conference tournament win, Warsaw junior point guard Julie Seiss set a Warsaw Community High School record by scoring 18 points in a single quarter. In Saturday night's game at NorthWood, however, the Tigers as a team only scored 18 points in the second half.Comparatively speaking, the Panthers scored 22 points in the fourth quarter en route to their fifth consecutive win.
Dale Hubler, Times-Union Sports Editor- | July 28, 2016

Tiger Boys Lose At NorthWood, NLC Title Up For Grabs

NAPPANEE - As second-year Warsaw boys basketball coach Doug Ogle put it, Friday night's Northern Lakes Conference battle at NorthWood "falls in to the category that every dark cloud has a silver lining." While Ogle was certainly disappointed his Tigers fell 56-52 to the host Panthers, losing their second straight conference game and third contest overall, he was overjoyed with the news of victories by rivals Northridge and Wawasee. With Northridge's win over Plymouth and Wawasee's win over Concord, the Tigers are still tied for first in conference play. Warsaw, Wawasee, Plymouth, NorthWood and Concord all have 3-2 records in the NLC.
Dale Hubler Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Conservatives Fiscally Disappointing

While I remain a conservative, I have to say I am highly disappointed with some of what the alleged conservatives have been up to lately. Frankly, the level of fiscal irresponsibility in Washington is shocking to me. Let's talk about the deficit for a moment. Not long ago, the national deficit was nearing the legal limit.Yes, we have to have laws governing how big the deficit can be.How sad is that? But as our nation's deficit neared the $8.2 trillion ceiling, Congress took swift, decisive action.They raised the ceiling to $9 trillion. I'm not joking.They really did that. And it's nothing new.In fact, this was the fourth time they've found it necessary to raise the debt ceiling since W took office. All the while, W has been talking about deficit reduction.When will the insanity end? The "conservatives" in Washington are turning political ideology on its head.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

Well Worth The Hype

SYRACUSE - Love him or hate him, the late Howard Cosell would turn a Monday Night Football game into an event, make it seem larger than life, make you feel you just had to tune in or risk missing something great if you didn't. When Warsaw's girls basketball team faced and beat Wawasee 65-60 Wednesday night, it was more than a game.It was an event. The band played, the cheerleaders yelled and local sportscasters lugged bulky television cameras to the top corners of the gym for this game.Radio personalities who were not calling the game showed up to watch the game.Wawasee Athletic Director Mary Hurley estimated 1,500 people attended, the Warriors' biggest girls basketball crowd in several years. The gym crackled with an electricity normally reserved for postseason games.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

No. 1 Bluffton Beats Whitko Boys

BLUFFTON - Any team carrying a 2-9 record does not want to go on the road and have to play against an All-State-caliber player or the No.1 team in the state. That is exactly what Whitko faced on Saturday night when the Wildcats traveled to No.1 (2A) Bluffton (10-1) to face Adam Ballinger, a 6-foot-9 center who is headed to Michigan State on a full ride scholarship next year. The Wildcats had their own big man in Jeremiah Laws, who had 15 of his 22 points in the second half.Down only 37-33 at the end of the third quarter, Whitko had no supporting players and fell 55-43. Ballinger, along with poor shooting, troubled the 'Cats.Ballinger tossed in a game-high 23 points and pulled down nine rebounds, while Whitko shot a dismal 27 percent from the field and hit on only 1 of 11 three-pointers.
RORY SHAFFER, Times-Union Sports Correspondent- | July 28, 2016

Triton Falls Despite Three-Point Barrage

BOURBON - It was just another typical game in what is becoming a heart-wrenching season for the Triton boys basketball team. Once again, the Trojans stayed close for 30 minutes, giving themselves a chance to win it at the end.And once again, the opposition pulled it out. This time it was conference foe Jimtown.The Jimmies have been ranked as high as No.10 in Class 2A, and they showed why in defeating Triton 51-42 despite a spectacular three-point shooting show from the Trojans. Triton made six of its first seven three-pointers on the night and 8 of 13 overall.Matt Savill continued his first-quarter onslaught with three bombs in the opening period.Derek Ganshorn picked up from there with one in the second and two in the fourth.Schuyler Stutzman threw one in during the third quarter, and sophomore Austin Unterbrink nailed one from about two steps behind the three-point line.
Jason Knavel, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

I've Been Taken In By A Little Dog

On the way to Syracuse Wednesday evening to pick up kids at Grandma's house, my wife and I spotted a little Shih Tzu on the road. It was just lying there, waiting to be struck by a car.We stopped and shooed it off the road.On the way back home, the dog was back on the road again.Fearing for its life - and now with two eager kids in the van - we scooped up the little guy. For the next hour, we checked all the houses in the area.No luck.Nobody lost a Shih Tzu.Nobody even knew of anybody who owned a Shih Tzu. Not knowing for sure what to do, we took the dog to Westwind Kennel where we board our dog from time to time. The kennel operator, Angie Wright, graciously offered to keep the dog while we figured out what to do next. When she looked at the little dog, she noted that it was probably old, judging by the condition of its eyes and teeth.It also doesn't appear to hear very well.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

FTs Lift Manchester

MENTONE - With 21 seconds left, Manchester basketball coach Jody Shewman looked each of her players in the eye during a timeout.Each girl extended one arm into the middle of the huddle, like players always do before they break a huddle. "This," Shewman told her players, "is what we have waited a long time for." Manchester entered its Thursday game with Tippecanoe Valley with a 10-4 record.In those 10 wins, Manchester led pretty much all of the way through. This was different.To win this one, the Squires had to come from behind. The Squires chased Valley throughout the evening but caught up with two minutes left.They got a 46-45 lead, their first lead since the first quarter.They went on to win 52-49. "I told them at the timeout, If you believe it, you can get it," Shewman said."They came through for me." The win did two things for the Squires.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

On The Court Basketball Previews

CONCORD AT WARSAW Tip-off: 7:30 p.m.Friday in Warsaw Coaches: Ron Dietz (Concord), Al Rhodes (Warsaw) Records: Concord 2-7, 0-3 NLC; Warsaw 10-1, 4-0 NLC Last game: Concord 52, S.B.St.Joe 42; Warsaw 65, NorthWood 51 Last year: Warsaw 67, Concord 60 Matchup: With a win, the Tigers would be one win away from another NLC crown ...Junior Steve Siebenmorgen leads Warsaw's scoring attack with an average of 14.6 points per game ...Chris Wiggins and Zach Nelson chip in nearly 12 points per game ...Travis Carter paces the Minutemen with 10 points per game.
Times-Union Sports Staff- | July 28, 2016
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