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The Warriors Begin Building With 20-0 Win

SOUTH WHITLEY -ÊThe Wawasee football team wears T-shirts bearing the phrase "BUILDING A TRADITION" across the back.The Warriors took a leap toward their ultimate goal Friday night when they defeated the Whitko Wildcats 20-0. After a turnover, an interception and several punts led to a first-half stalemate, the Whitko Wildcats stayed in the lockerroom a little too long and earned an 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty to start the second half.The Whitko third quarter went downhill from there. Seth Slater gained 10 yards for the Wildcats on the first play of the quarter but fumbled to give Wawasee possession of the football on the Whitko 45-yard-line with 11:45 still remaining in the third.
Jen Gibson, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Warriors Hire Davis As Basketball Coach

SYRACUSE - Jerry Davis spent four years learning under Bob Knight. He was a basketball manager when Indiana University was the NCAA champion in 1981, and he was a staff member on the 1984 basketball team that won the gold medal at the Olympics. He has coached at South Garland High School in Dallas, a school that continually produces one of the top basketball teams in the country.No wonder the Wawasee Warriors think they have found the man to lead their team into the future. The Wawasee School Board approved the hiring of Davis as math teacher and varsity boys' basketball coach at Tuesday's board meeting.His coaching contract is for two years. Davis, 34, has a career 32-31 record at the varsity level.All of his varsity coaching came at Triton Central High School (506 students), located south of Indianapolis.His teams improved each season - 6-14 in 1993-1994, 11-10 in 1994-1995 and 15-7 in 1995-1996.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Nine Winona Lake Property Owners Led The Charge To Close The Track

While cars were still tearing around the dirt track at the Warsaw Speedway, Robert Fuson was driving a 1912 American La France fire truck cross-country in the Great American Race. Fuson competed in the race, which started in New York and ended in Los Angeles (or vice versa), from 1983 through 1992. Fuson, a Warsaw resident, liked races.He just didn't like them on Saturday nights at the Warsaw Speedway on the Kosciusko County Fairgrounds.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Central, Warsaw Battle For Sectional Title Tonight

In late March Warsaw track and field coach Troy Akers said the Tigers, who were 19-0 over the last two years, did not have "superior athletes" this year and could not expect to just "show up and win." Now it's mid-May, but little has changed this year.Warsaw's boys track and field team posted an 8-0 record this season and finished 37 points ahead of second place in the Northern Lakes Conference Tournament.The Tigers won the NLC title for the third straight year and have won 27 meets in a row dating back to 1997. Akers stands behind his comments and insists he was not intentionally trying to motivate his team through the newspaper. But he may have anyway. "I really think this team had to work harder," he said."When I made that comment about the talent we had this year, I don't know if I pushed them or made them mad or what." Akers will take the results.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Megan Is King For A Day

Pick your cliche - or headline - here. Wawasee softball pitcher Megan King pitched a game fit for a king Thursday evening. Wawasee softball pitcher Megan King was the king of the hill Thursday evening. Wawasee softball pitcher Megan King crowned the Goshen Redskins Thursday evening. However you say it, this much was for certain: King and her nearly unhittable stuff ruled in Wawasee's sectional game with Goshen. King, a junior right-hander, struck out 11 in just five innings as Wawasee beat Goshen 10-0.Goshen ends the season 7-19.Wawasee, 18-11, meets 8-19 Elkhart Central in the Class 3A Warsaw Sectional championship game at 11 a.m.Saturday. King, 7-3, held Goshen to two hits.She faced 19 batters and threw strike one to 15 of them.The Redskins managed to hit two balls out of the infield.The Redskin batters were tardy on the majority of their hacks. The 11 strikeouts are the most in a game this season for King.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Chasing Autographs Often Turns Fruitless

PITTSBURGH - It is four hours before Sunday's baseball game at Three Rivers Stadium between the Houston Astros and Pittsburgh Pirates. The fans here this early before the first pitch are few - less than 20 - but you find them lined up on a sidewalk behind a fence.They carry backpacks and hold things like baseballs, albums and bats. They are the autograph seekers, the ones who have turned the profession into an art and a science.They are the ones who call each other by name because they are together at the park so much. The talk this day is of one Big Unit, one 6-foot-10 stringy-haired, craggly-faced left-hander named Randy Johnson.Johnson was traded to the Astros at 11:54 p.m.Friday, six minutes before the trading deadline, and his flight to Pittsburgh arrived Saturday evening.Sunday afternoon he will make his first start for the Astros. A few of the greener autograph seekers talk about Johnson signing their cards and baseballs. Little do they know.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Girls Golf Opens Fall Sports

The first sport to open the new athletic season for area high schools is girls golf. Practices began last week and now the matches are upon us, even two weeks before most schools open their doors. Here is a preview and capsules of five of the six area girls golf teams. Warsaw The Tigers have the most girls out to play golf in head coach Bob Turner's nine years.The depth will do nothing but help a young Warsaw team this year. "We're extremely young and inexperienced," Turner said."But we have a lot of enthusiasm and it looks like we're going to have some players who can play the game.Hopefully, by the end of the season, we'll be in a position to get out of the sectional." Julie Arnold, Amy Landis and Tricia Suchecki all graduated from last year's 12-5 squad.Coach Turner has 10 new players on the team.
Jason Knavel, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Four Errors Don't Hurt Tigers

They do not have Houdini on their team, nor do they have Copperfield. But Warsaw's softball players may consider hitting the road with a magic act after Thursday's 2-0 second-round win over Concord in the Warsaw Sectional. The win puts Warsaw in Saturday's 11 a.m.sectional championship game against Elkhart Central (9-18), which blanked Goshen (7-19) 13-0 in five innings. The Tigers committed four errors in the first two innings, two in the first and two in the second.The Tigers (21-8) gave Concord (16-14) five outs each inning instead of three.The Minutemen put runners at second and third in both innings. Yet for all their sins, the Tigers didn't have to pay.The Minutemen couldn't handle the gifts, couldn't handle prosperity and couldn't push one run across. The Tigers had one worse game defensively this season when they committed five errors against Valparaiso.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Leonard: Pacers Still Need 2 Players

LEESBURG -ÊBobby Leonard offered his thoughts on several Indiana Pacers and NBA topics.Here is what he had to say: Q: What's your take on all the high school players entering the league? BL: "I wish things were the way they used to be, but the NBA can do nothing about the high schoolers entering the league.It would be a violation of the antitrust laws.If they want to do something about it, the NBA would have to see its lawyers first." Q: When the zone defense becomes legal next season, what effect will it have in the NBA? BL: "The zone defense will be good for teams who have guys who can shoot.But we (Pacers) can't shoot the ball.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Hot Fun In The Summertime

Build it, and they will come. The line, from Field of Dreams, is unarguably the most famous, most often quoted line from any baseball movie in the modern day era.It, of course, refers to a baseball field. A trio of 23-year-olds from Warsaw - Brian Aust, Lincoln Howard and Dave Pacheco - heeded the advice.They built their field in an empty lot next to Aust's house on Old Ditch Road near Winona Lake. On this field, however, the fences aren't 300 feet away.It is 86 feet to the leftfield fence, 94 feet to the centerfield fence and 72 feet to the rightfield fence.That's because this isn't any old baseball field.This is a wiffle ball field, and it was the site of "Wiffle Fest '96," played all day Saturday. The name of the field is Woodward Memorial Stadium.The name is after Howard Woodward, who is still very much alive.He owns the land they built their field on. "It's the least that we could do for him," Lincoln Howard says.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Engine Troubles Slow Jarrett Again

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.- After enduring some tough times during the month of June, Saturday's ARCA RE/MAX Series race at Watkins Glen International looked like a change of pace for 25-year-old Jason Jarrett and his Warsaw-based ML Motorsports team. A special paint scheme, the first stop in history for the series at the 2.45-mile road course in upstate New York, but the third-generation Hickory, N.C., driver came away with the same result. After qualifying fourth and running in the top five all afternoon, Jarrett's engine, built by Performance Technology in Wakarusa, let go with 20 laps remaining.Jarrett completed 43 of the scheduled 62 laps and came away with a 16th-place finish.
DALE HUBLER, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Wins Add Up For Manchester Squires Girls Golf Team

NORTH MANCHESTER -ÊThree girls golf programs, all lodged in different phases, faced off Thursday at Sycamore Golf Club. Manchester, a team on the rise at 9-2, shot 212 to win the nine-hole match at its home course. Tippecanoe Valley, a team in transition at 8-9, shot 229 to take second. Whitko, a school trying to build a golf program, dropped to 0-10 after shooting 277 to place last. The course was tough on players as 11 scores of 10 or higher were recorded. One player who did not record anything close to a 10 on any hole was Manchester junior Dorey Bungitak. Bungitak, who is to Manchester's golf team what running back Terrell Davis is to the Broncos, turned in her usual performance.She shot 42 on the par-36 course to take medalist honors. Bungitak, one of the best golfers in the northern part of the state, is averaging 41 over nine holes, 11 strokes better than the second-best average on Manchester's team.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Jensen, Duncan Part Of All-Star Game

For Warsaw football coach Phil Jensen, this week is the realization of a goal that goes back to his high school playing days at Penn. For Warsaw graduate Derrick Duncan, it's a chance to see how good he really is. When the annual North-South All-Star football game, which happens to be the longest running football all-star game in the country, takes place Saturday in Indianapolis, both Jensen and Duncan will be pleased as punch to be there. "When I was a player at Penn, it was every player's personal goal," Jensen said."Although I didn't make it as a player, it's a real honor 15 years later." Jensen, who guided Warsaw to a 6-4 mark this past season, will coach the linebackers.It will give Jensen a chance to instruct on the defensive side of the football for the first time in seven years.Duncan will be part of that group as he was selected to play defense, rather than running back.
Jason Knavel, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Goshen Too Much For Wawasee, NorthWood

SYRACUSE - Rewind one year.The Goshen girls golf team was in the midst of an undefeated conference season and a trip to the state tournament with a starting lineup of one senior and four freshmen. Now, return to the present. Those four freshmen are a year older and a year more experienced.Add a new freshman into the starting lineup.Suddenly, one of the youngest teams in the state is also one of the best teams in the state. On Tuesday, the Goshen Redskins flexed their muscles and shot a 188 to defeat NorthWood and Wawasee at Maxwelton Golf Course.The Panthers shot a 209, while the Warriors shot a 237. Despite the 188, most of the members of the Goshen team were not too pleased with the effort.However, Julie Riley, the Redskins No.3 golfer, shot a career best 42 to take medalist honors.After that, Erin Sample shot a 45, Lisa Robertson a 48 and Megan Thomas a 53.Jaime Sarbaugh shot a 55 to round out the Goshen scoring.
Jason Knavel, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Tigers Shoot School Record 169 In Romp

ROCHESTER - Warsaw golf coach Bob Turner is still trying to figure out how good his team is.Thursday, he found out how good it can be. The Tigers shot a school record 169 in dismantling Tippecanoe Valley (205) and Wabash (241) at Mill Creek. "They were surprising me," Turner said."We thought Valley was a pretty good team and 205 is a good score.I told the girls that they better be ready, and obviously they were." As if the 169 wasn't enough, Warsaw's Kari Wrobel just missed shooting the individual school record that Ashley Cooper had just set Tuesday. Before this week, no Warsaw golfer had ever shot better than 40.Cooper shattered that with a 38 Tuesday, and Wrobel shot a 39 Thursday.If Wrobel hadn't double bogeyed the first hole or three-putted the last hole, she could have tied or broken the record.
Jason Knavel, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Triton Wins Class A Baseball Title

INDIANAPOLIS -ÊTriton baseball coach Jim Shively didn't go crazy over the state title, settling for jogging onto the field with arms raised.The grin that he always seems to wear was wider, for sure. "Michael Jordan, John Elway and Jim Shively," he said."We finished on top." Triton dismantled Adams Central 13-0 in Saturday's Class A state finals at Victory Field.Shively, who announced he would resign after eight years as Triton coach following this season, leaves winning a state title in his last game. That Triton (24-10) won by a 13-0 count shouldn't have been surprising. The Trojans advanced to the title game by downing No.4 Fort Wayne Blackhawk Christian (22-4), No.1 Washington Township (31-2) and No.3 Madison Shawe (30-5) in their previous three games.In Adams Central, Triton faced an unranked team that closed the regular season with five straight losses and a team that ends the year 20-13.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Hensley Deals Triton Into Finals

INDIANAPOLIS - If the polls have closed, now may be the time to re-open them. Triton's baseball team hasn't asked for a recount, but maybe it should after beating its third ranked team in six days. The latest team to fall to unranked Triton was No.3 Madison Shawe, which lost 1-0 in Friday's Class A state semifinals at Victory Field.The win puts Triton into today's state finals against either Tecumseh (20-11) or Adams Central (19-12). Triton (23-10) may be unranked, but after beating No.4 Fort Wayne Blackhawk Christian (22-4), No.1 Washington Township (31-2) and now No.3 Madison Shawe (30-5), the Trojans are one win away from being No.1 when it counts most: at the end of the season as state champions.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Quiet Bats Keep Tiger Offense Asleep

Pitching and defense, they preach. Get these two things, baseball managers and broadcasters say, and you win games. Try telling that to Warsaw's softball team. Like most games during the regular season, the Tigers got good pitching and defense in Thursday's round two Class 3A Warsaw Sectional game with Elkhart Central. Like several games during the regular season, they did not get enough hitting.The Tigers saw their season end with a 1-0 loss to Elkhart Central. With Elkhart Central's Stephanie Jellison and Warsaw's Michelle Liebsch dealing on the mound, this game had that feeling, that who scored first would win.Warsaw coach Craig Helfrich felt it, and he told his team so during the middle of the fifth inning of the 0-0 game. "One run can win this game," he told his players in the dugout before they went to bat in the bottom of the inning.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Win Or No Win, No. 3 Proves He's Back

In a NASCAR season where family has meant so much - the late Adam Petty becoming a fourth-generation driver, and the battles between Dale Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr.- Father's Day weekend was almost perfect for Dale Earnhardt. Almost perfect. Saturday, Earnhardt's eldest son, Kerry, drove his Monte Carlo into Victory Lane in the ARCA 200 at Pocono Speedway - this just his fourth career ARCA start. Monday, one day after the Winston Cup race was postponed due to rain and fog, it looked as if it would be the Intimidator's day. After a strong pit stop with just laps to go, Earnhardt came off pit road in first-place, with the race clearly in his hands.Or so it seemed. With about a quarter-mile to go, Jeremy Mayfield gave our beloved late-race paint trader a dose of his own medicine, tapping him just enough to send him up high.Mayfield, Dale Jarrett and Ricky Rudd then passed.Earnhardt finished fourth - when it looked like he had it in the bag.
Pole Position column by Dale Hubler- | July 28, 2016

Vikings, Wildcats Fall In Tippecanoe Valley Sectional

AKRON -Ê"I hope the seniors look back at this game and think it was a heck of a way to go out," said Tippecanoe Valley baseball coach Scott Backus."This is the best baseball game I have seen at the high school level.And it's probably the most fun short of winning I have had." It took nine innings, but the Norwell Knights outlasted the Vikings to pick up a 10-9 win and advance to Friday night's sectional final. "It's frustrating to lose," said Backus."But there were not a lot of mistakes.You had a 20-7 team playing a 20-8 team.Both teams were on a five-game win streak.And it took nine innings to decide it." Brandon Cody started the game off on the right foot for the Vikings, pounding a double in his first at-bat.Then Britton Burkhart reached base on an error, putting runners on first and third.
JEN GIBSON, Times-Union Sports Editor- | July 28, 2016
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