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Triton's Cinderella season finishes with 66-49 loss to LLC

KOKOMO -ÊThe Triton Trojans, coming off a stunning 68-59 win over No.1 Blue River Valley earlier Saturday, were one game away from repeating what the Triton girls basketball team did about a month ago -Êwin a semistate championship and go to Indianapolis to try to bring home another state title. Before the Trojans could add to their Cinderella season, they had to face a more experienced tournament team in Lafayette Central Catholic.Central Catholic (21-5) defeated Southern Wells 81-65 earlier in the afternoon. There were a lot of things going against the Trojans. They played a tough, hard-fought game in the second contest against a very good team.Central Catholic had more time to rest, and Central Catholic has won two straight semistate championships, including winning the state in 1998. With all of that said, the Trojans knew they were in for a dogfight.
Craig Helfrich, Times-Union Sports Correspondent- | July 28, 2016

Squires Dismantle Northfield Norsemen 74-46

WABASH -ÊManchester's boys basketball team got back on the winning track by defeating Northfield 74-46 Saturday night in Wabash. After one quarter of play, Manchester had a 15-13 lead, but the Squires held the Norsemen to just four second-quarter points to take a 33-17 advantage at the half.Strong third and four quartes for Manchester helped the Squires finish the night with a 28-point win, 74-46. Lee Shafer exploded for 22 points in the win, while Klay Bechtold netted 13 for the Squires. Manchester is now 8-11 overall and will host No.2 (4A) Marion Friday in North Manchester. MANCHESTER 74, NORTHFIELD 46 Manchester 15 18 18 23 - 74 Northfield 13 4 15 14 - 46 Manchester -ÊBechtold 5 0-0 13, Sorg 0 0-0 0, Bazzoni 1 0-0 2, Frieden 0 0-0 0, Miller 1 0-0 2, Shafer 7 6-7 22, Stoops 3 0-0 6, Kerr 2 2-4 6, Young 3 0-0 6, Lochner 4 0-0 8, Haynes 2 0-1 4, Dale 2 0-0 5.Totals - 30 8-12 74.
Times-Union Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

Kindy Inducted Today

BY JEFF HOLSINGER, Times-Union Sports Writer Walt Kindy coached three years at Beaver Dam, but what a three years those were. He guided Beaver Dam to winning records and sectional titles every season. He led Beaver Dam to two regional championships and two trips to the state finals, the 1932-33 and 1933-34 seasons. He introduced the 3-2 zone defense to the area. Kindy died of cancer in 1984, but he will be inducted in the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame posthumously this evening.The ceremony will be held at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis.Fourteen people will be inducted. "He'd like this pretty good," says Gene Marshall, a forward who played on both teams that went to the state finals."It's just too bad he couldn't make it." He won't, but widow Dorthea and their two boys will, along with former players Marshall and Charles "Chick" Kern.
Former Beaver Dam coach to go into Hall of Fame- | July 28, 2016

Manchester Ends Season In Overtime Loss

WINAMAC - Manchester's varsity boys basketball team dug itself a 20-6 hole in the first quarter of Tuesday's Winamac Sectional opener, but fought back and eventually lost 60-57 in overtime. Though they trailed by 14 after the first quarter, the Squires were within 27-22 at the half and led 39-33 going into the fourth.The teams were knotted at 51 at the end of regulation, and the Apaches outscored Manchester 9-6 in the extra session for the win. The loss ends Manchester's season at 10-11, while Wabash improved to 9-12 and plays Northfield (11-10) in Friday's semifinal game. Jediah Carandante led Manchester with 15, while Jon Cable added 10 and Keaton Patrick nine.Brandon Coldren led Wabash with a game-high 30 points. WABASH 60, MANCHESTER 57 OT Wabash 20 7 2 22 9 - 60 Manchester 6 16 11 18 6 - 57 Wabash - Butcher 2 0-0 6, Webb 0 2-2 2, Dillon 0 0-0 0, Hall 0 6-9 6, Coldren 11 4-7 30, Keefer 2 1-3 6, Fery 1 0-2 2, Stensland 2 4-5 8.Totals 18 17-29 60.
Times-Union Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

On The Court Basketball Previews

WARSAW AT CARROLL (ALLEN) Tip-off: 6:15 p.m.Friday in Fort Wayne Coaches: Al Rhodes (Warsaw); Rob Irwin (Carroll) Records: Warsaw 14-4; Carroll 10-7 Last Game: Warsaw 72, Huntington North 57; Carroll 77, DeKalb 57 Last Year: Warsaw 64, Carroll 37 Matchup: Warsaw will look to three players for much of its offense.Steve Siebenmorgen, Chris Wiggins and Zach Nelson, the big three for the Tigers, each score in double figures.Siebenmorgen pulls down 4.7 rebounds per game while scoring 12.6 points.Chris Wiggins adds 12.2 points and 3.9 rebounds, while Zach Nelson adds 3.9 rebounds and 11.3 points per contest.Ross Kesler pulls down 3.7 rebounds per game as well.The Carroll Chargers will rely on Gabe Miller and David Mahlen for much of their scoring threat.Miller is averaging right around 18 points per game while Mahlen adds 16 points per contest.Miller also pulls down 7 rebounds per game for Carroll.
Times-Union Sports Staff- | July 28, 2016

Tigers End The Season With Loss To Eagles

Sure enough, Doug Ogle was right - it was different this time around. Despite his Warsaw boys basketball team falling to No.6 Columbia City by 23 in the second game of the season, the first-year coach said the Tigers could compete with the Eagles in Tuesday's first round of the Warsaw 4A Sectional. With sophomore Michael Moore and senior William Knepper in the lineup this time around, the Tigers did just that, taking the Eagles to the wire before falling 45-42 in a game that defined Hoosier Hysteria.
DALE HUBLER, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Pendleton Heights Tops Tippecanoe Valley 53-47

FRANKFORT -ÊAfter the Tippecanoe Valley/Pendleton Heights semistate semifinal game, Brandon Eaton was stopped by a television news team for a comment while the rest of the Valley squad walked off the court.When Eaton walked off the floor with assistant coach Chad Patrick, fans from both Valley and Pendleton Heights gave him a roaring round of applause. Although a 53-47 loss to Pendleton is not quite how he would have liked to end his season, Eaton earned the respect of Viking fans and Arabian fans alike. The Vikings jump-started the first quarter when Anthony Domenico sank a three-pointer at the 6:57 point for the first basket of the game. But Pendleton was not down for long.Traver Griffin netted a layup and Ryan Lee hit a three-pointer to give Pendleton Heights a 5-3 lead. Craig Kuhn tied the score at five with 5:08 left in the frame, and at the end of the first quarter, the score was knotted at 11-11.
Jen Gibson, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Don't Taint The Intent Of The Founders

Remember that judge in Alabama who got in trouble for putting up a monument to the Ten Commandments? His name is Roy Moore.Well, this week he filed an appeal to get his job back. The chief justice was stripped of his position for refusing to remove the monument from a courthouse. In his appeal before Alabama's Supreme Court, Moore said he was following the Alabama and U.S.constitutions when he defied a U.S.District Court order last summer to move the monument. The federal court told Moore, who installed the monument in 2001, that the 5,000-pound stone marker had to go because it violated a constitutional ban on government promoting religion. On Wednesday, Moore told Reuters the district court order was "unlawful and unconstitutional." "I think it is a political persecution, not a legal trial," Moore said.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

What's Up With All This Talk About Nukes?

When I was in grade school, I was taught how to improve my chances of survival in a nuclear attack. Remember that? Remember the round yellow and black fallout shelter signs? Remember people building fallout shelters in their back yards? It was nice not to have to think about that stuff, but lately, I've been thinking about it again. Not because I am worried about somebody lobbing nukes at the U.S., but because of all the rhetoric about nuclear weapons.Lately, the news just kind of conjured up some of those old nuke memories. I thought that we - when I say we I mean the entire industrialized world - had gotten over that whole nuclear thing. I guess not. And frankly, the U.S.seems to be a fairly willing player. I was a little surprised at the language in the White House document released earlier this week called "National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction."The document was delivered to Congress Wednesday.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

It's Tough To Have An Opinion On Iraq

This is a tough time to be an opinion writer. I find myself in an unusual predicament.On the one hand, I know Saddam Hussein is a psychotic tyrant who uses innocent civilians as shields during war.He uses chemical weapons on his own people.He defies all logic and reason in his quest to amass "weapons of mass destruction." Saddam scoffs at the authority of the United Nations.He thwarts U.N.weapons inspection teams.He all but sticks his tongue out and singsongs nyaa-nyaa-nyaa-nyaa-nyaa-nyaa to the entire civilized world. There is no question in my mind.The attack on Iraq is justified.If ever there was a leader who invited social and economic disaster upon his people, it is Saddam.If ever there was a leader who deserved to have cruise missiles lobbed into his palace, it is Saddam. There really is no bad time to drop bombs on Saddam. But therein lies the predicament.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

Sectional Title Sweet To Warsaw Girls

DUNLAP - Any and all distractions seemed to disappear once the final horn sounded. Injuries? What injuries.Lawsuits? Who cares.Class basketball? You get the idea. Once Warsaw was celebrating its 67-37 win over Elkhart Memorial in the championship game of the Concord Girls Basketball Sectional Saturday, none of it seemed to matter. "I am excited about setting the tone with the first one (Concord sectional title under the multi-class format)," Warsaw coach Will Wienhorst said."We are one of 16 4A sectional winners.A sectional championship is a great accomplishment, and now we are going home." Warsaw (15-8) is going home because it will face Fort Wayne Snider (20-4) in the Warsaw Regional Saturday. The Tigers' Sectional 5 title was the first sectional championship in two years for a program that had captured 12 such titles and five in the 1990s.
Greg Jones, Times-Union Sports Editor- | July 28, 2016

Wawasee Boys Surprise Columbia City

SYRACUSE - Pop quiz time. Judging by the effort and the outcome of a 48-45 game between Columbia City and Wawasee Tuesday night, which team entered as a 15-4 team and which team was at 4-14? Okay, so it may be a trick question. It was the now 5-14 Wawasee team that outworked and ultimately outscored the 15-5 Eagles' team en route to the biggest win of the season for the Warriors and maybe the biggest win in two seasons under coach Jerry Davis. "Wawasee's kids played hungry," Columbia City coach Chris Benedict said."Wawasee wanted the game.They were more determined through the course of it." Entering this game, it was Columbia City that has been enjoying a rejuvenation this season, and Wawasee that has continued to struggle after a 7-14 campaign last year. But you couldn't tell on this night.This one game, the Warriors put everything together, while the Eagles played basically one quarter.
Greg Jones, Times-Union Sports Editor- | July 28, 2016

Moving Wall Is Really Quite Moving

If you haven't been to Syracuse to see the traveling Vietnam Memorial War, do it. And do it now because it will only be around until this afternoon.A parade is planned for 10 a.m.and a memorial service is planned for 12:30 p.m. There will be speakers, color guards, a 21-gun salute and a flyover, among other things. It's just off Ind.13 on the south side of Syracuse behind the big limestone church. Just look for the crowd. The wall is impressive. I must admit I underwent a bit of a paradigm shift when I saw the wall. I went to Syracuse Wednesday afternoon for the official opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony. I figured, I'd be there for a few minutes to get a photo and be on my way. I ended up staying for a while. I looked at the wall.I touched it.I ran my index finger over several of the names that are inscribed on it.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

Terror Has Changed All Of Us

As we roll up on the one-month anniversary of Sept.11, one thing has become apparent to me: Those people - me included - who said that the nation would be changed are all masters of understatement. I think the nation has changed more than anyone imagined. The more I think about it, the more I absorb my surroundings, the more I realize that we have just lived through a national paradigm shift. A paradigm shift occurs when you think you have a clear understanding of something and then suddenly find out you are dead wrong. It changes the way you view things. And, my, how our view has changed. The world was a far different place when we said "good night" on Sept.11 than it was when we said "sweet dreams" on Sept.10. Many people think of their lives in terms of milestones.Like when you're a kid and you realize the truth about Santa Claus. Like when you graduate from high school or from college. Like when you marry and have a child.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

Panther Track Team Routs Squires 105-26

NORTH MANCHESTER -ÊManchester and NorthWood kicked off the outdoor track season Thursday evening in North Manchester with the Panthers coming out on top 105-26. NorthWood jumpstarted the meet with the 3,200-meter relay team of Jason Meyers, Andy Rummel, Eric Shepherd and Brad Greenlee taking top honors. NorthWood continued to come out on top throughout the meet as the Panthers took first place in 14 of 16 events. Greg Groombridge and David Bazzoni were the two first-place finishers for the Squires as Groombridge tossed the discus 139-6 and Bazzoni completed a 5-foot-10 high jump.Groombridge also placed second in the shot put behind NorthWood's Joe Abel, while Bazzoni placed second behind Bill Mitschelen in the pole vault. The meet was the NorthWood show on the track as NorthWood won every running event and swept the 400, 800 and 1,600 runs.
Jen Gibson, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Tiger Girls Basketball Team One Win Away From State Championship

Ranked second in the Class 4A polls, it's all about being No.1 now for Will Wienhorst and his Warsaw girls basketball team. The team that was ranked preseason No.1 by Hoosier Basketball Magazine and the coaches association, the Tigers can back that up with a win over Indianapolis North Central Saturday. The second-ranked Tigers (26-2) and the fifth-ranked Panthers (22-3) battle at approximately 8:30 p.m.at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis for the Class 4A state championship. Seniors Jaclyn Leininger, Michelle DeGeeter and Holly Durcholz have just one game left in a Tiger uniform, and looking back, all that talk by Wienhorst about taking one game at a time and proving Warsaw is a better team than the team it's playing that night makes a whole lot of sense.
DALE HUBLER, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Bush's Tax Cut Makes More Sense

All right, we've all heard how horrible George W.Bush's tax cut plan would be for the country. So I thought it might be a good idea to find out exactly what Bush is proposing. Here it is: Bush offers a tax cut to every taxpayer, with the biggest percentage cut going to those at the lower end of the economic spectrum. His proposal cuts the bottom rate from 15 to 10 percent - a rate cut of 33 percent for the lowest-income households.For middle-income taxpayers, the rate would go from 28 to 22 percent - a cut of 20 percent.And for the wealthiest taxpayers, the top rate would be cut from 39.6 to 33 percent - a cut of about 17 percent. Bush opponents respond that the wealthiest 1 percent of taxpayers gets most of the tax cut dollars. That's true, but it is also irrelevant. The reason they get the most tax cut dollars is because they pay the most taxes - not because they're getting the biggest percentage of decrease in their tax rate.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

Squires Clinch TRC Title

NORTH MANCHESTER - The Manchester Squires basketball team lost arguably its best player before the season started.The Squires lost starter Steve Fawcett to a torn anterior cruciate ligament halfway through the season.They lost a key senior reserve, Jonathan Price, when he and the team parted ways. Add it all up, and what do you get? You get 18-2 overall, a No.2 ranking in 2A, 7-0 in the Three Rivers Conference and TRC champions for two years in a row. Manchester basketball teams swept the TRC after its boys team beat 3-16 Northfield 61-55 on Tuesday.The Manchester girls basketball team also went 7-0 in the TRC. How and why the Squires won the TRC can be traced back to a meeting last October. Six-foot-two forward Eric Swan, who led Manchester with 13.5 points per game as a sophomore last season, moved to California before the basketball season.More than one coach said Swan was the best young player in the TRC.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Strong Finish Gives Raiders Title

NAPPANEE -ÊThere wasn't a sectional in the state that featured a bigger boys basketball game than the Class 3A NorthWood Sectional.The game pitted No.5 Northridge and No.10 NorthWood at the Panther Pit Saturday night for the sectional championship. At 6:30 p.m., there was a line about a mile long waiting to get into the highly touted rivalry between two familiar Northern Lakes Conference foes.This was the third matchup this season for the two squads.Northridge defeated NorthWood in the Goshen Holiday Tournament, and NorthWood got revenge on its home floor during the NLC game, which helped the Panthers secure the NLC crown. Something had to give.By the end of the night, one of these two ranked teams would be getting ready for a spring sport. In the last meeting between these schools, a NorthWood win, Northridge couldn't control its composure.That was the key, according to Raider coach Steve Austin.
Craig Helfrich, Times-Union Correspondent- | July 28, 2016

Diving Regional

Eighty divers are left in the postseason.There are four regionals, and 20 divers feed into each regional.The sectionals that feed into each regional are listed below.Thirty-two divers - eight from each regional - advance to this weekend's state competition.
Times-Union Staff Report- | July 28, 2016
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