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Valley, Whitko Gear Up For TRC Meet

AKRON - Tippecanoe Valley and Whitko got ready for Friday's Three Rivers Conference Championship with a three-way meet with North Miami in boys and girls track action Monday at Tippecanoe Valley High School. Whitko won the boys competition with a score of 80, while North Miami finished in second and host Valley placed third. Valley won the girls competition with a score of 69.5 to North Miami's 41.5 and Whitko's 32. The Wildcats used Monday's meet as a gauge to see where they were at and how they could improve between now and Friday. "We finished the year strong," said Whitko head track coach Ron Cherry."Our depth is something we have to deal with, but I'm happy with the kids we have." Whitko's depth was challenged greatly in the 400 relay.The Wildcats' John Calhoun was forced to sit out due to injury.Cherry hopes for him to be back Friday.
DANIEL RIORDAN, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Warsaw Girls Win NLC Title

DUNLAP - For the first time since 2000, members of the Warsaw girls track and field team can call themselves Northern Lakes Conference champions. On the strenght of two NLC-record breaking performances, the Tigers finished first in the NLC Championships Tuesday night at Concord High School with a score of 132 to Elkhart Memorial's 108.Wawasee finished fifth with a score of 84. The Warriors entered Tuesday's championships as two-time defending champs of the NLC meet. The boys race, as expected, was dominated by Elkhart Memorial, which finished first with a score of 154.Wawasee finished second with a score of 121 and Warsaw ended third with 87 points. Warsaw's girls set an NLC and school record in the 400 relay with Tiffany Shepherd, Rachel Voorhorst, Mercedes Plummer and Karrie Burch running a winning time of :49.58.Their time topped a 29-year old record previously held by Wawasee's 1977 squad.
DANIEL RIORDAN, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Warsaw Batters Have Grand Time In Beating Goshen

With today's 126th running of the Kentucky Derby, horse racing kicks off the Triple Crown season. The Warsaw Tigers baseball team kicked off its Triple Crown part of the season with an 11-0 five-inning pasting of Goshen.Ê After Wednesday's victory over Wawasee, Warsaw coach Will Shepherd stressed the importance of the next three games: Goshen, Fort Wayne Northrop, and Plymouth. "This weekend is important for our psyche," said an elated Shepherd."If we continue to play hard and be mentally tough, we'll be OK." Mentally tough was indeed what the Tigers needed in order to escape Goshen's half of the first inning. After Tiger pitcher Adam Augustine struck out the first two batters, Goshen proceeded to load the bases based in part by a mental error by Warsaw thirdbaseman Trent Martin.
Rick Blue, Times-Union Sports Correspondent- | July 28, 2016

Warsaw Doubles NorthWood 6-3

NAPPANEE - In a baseball game that saw five double plays, two home runs and some out-of-the-ordinary rulings, Warsaw topped NorthWood 6-3 in Nappanee Monday evening. After a 1-2-3 top of the first inning, the Panthers stepped to the plate ready to hit.Brock Doty pounded the first pitch for a stand-up double.Then Todd McDonald hit a two-out single to bring Doty home. With a runner on first, Dustin Potts stepped to the plate and hit a two-run homer to put NorthWood up 3-0 going into the second inning.
Jen Gibson, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Ten-Run First Inning Lifts Warsaw Over Wawasee

Three three-run homers. Eight hits. Ten runs. Two hit batters. Two errors. Not bad stats for a baseball game. How 'bout for the bottom half of an inning? That's exactly what happened in the bottom of the first inning in Warsaw when the Tigers hosted Northern Lakes Conference rival Wawasee Monday night. Warsaw then held the Warriors scoreless for four more innings to finish the game in five innings on the 10-run rule. Things started out well for the Warriors as Dan Milligan hit a single past Warsaw's short stop with one out to get the ball rolling. Brent Doty followed with a single down the right-field line that sent Milligan to third, putting runners on the corners with just one out.
JEN GIBSON, Times-Union Sports Editor- | July 28, 2016

On The Court Basketball Previews

OREGON-DAVIS AT TRITON (tonight) Tip-off: 6 p.m.Thursday in Bourbon Coaches: Bruce Hirschy (Oregon-Davis), Joe Bennett (Triton) Records: Triton 11-8; Oregon-Davis 8-10 Last Game: Oregon-Davis 43, Westville 31; Triton 57, Culver 40 Last Year: Triton 74, Oregon-Davis 56 Matchup: A 17-point win over Culver last week snapped a two-game skid for the Trojans.Senior forward Brandon Zeider paces the Triton offense with 18.1 points per game.He also pulls down 5.8 rebounds per game.Steven Boyer adds 10 points and three rebounds per game.Senior Brian Klingerman leads the Trojans with 6.7 rebounds per game.Collin Miller leads the Bobcat offense with 20.5 points per game.He also pulls down 10.4 rebounds per contest.Drew Rannells adds six points per game for Oregon-Davis.
Times-Union Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

Tigers Blank Squires in First Sectional Match

The boys track sectionals were not the only sporting events affected by Thursday's severe weather conditions.The Wawasee girls tennis sectional fell victim to the storms as well. The match between Warsaw and Manchester was postponed until Friday evening, but the water works did not stop Friday so the two teams met at the Warsaw Racquet Club. Manchester played a good match, but in the end, Warsaw's experience overcame the Squires as the Tigers earned a 5-0 win to advance to Saturday's portion of sectional play. "This was our first 5-0 win of the season," said Warsaw coach Mike Baber."It was nice to get a 5-0 win.Manchester is a good team, and they have a good group of girls." Warsaw's No.2 doubles team of Angie Suchecki and Tracey Yoder started the eveing off on the right foot for the Tigers.The Warsaw duo defeated Manchester's Allison Ingold and Rachel Bushong 6-1 and 6-0 to earn the first team point of the evening.
Jen Gibson, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Elkhart Central Glides To First Place In Truex

Warsaw hosted the 16th annual Max Truex Invitational featuring some of the most talented track and field athletes in the state on Friday night, and as expected, the cream rose to the top. The No.1 team in the state, Elkhart Central, placed first with 155 points.Concordia, ranked No.16 in the state, placed second with 113 points.Surprisingly, however, Warsaw had an exceptional meet, placing sixth out of the eight teams. The Max Truex Invitational is scored differently than the typical meet.Named for the Olympian from Warsaw who set the national high school record in the mile run in 1954, the meet emphasizes the entire team.Each of the eight schools place two members in each event.The time, leap or throw of those two members are then added up to get a total.Then each team is scored accordingly.
JASON KNAVEL, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Carmel Crushes Wawasee's State Hopes

GREENWOOD - One group of people fueled Wawasee's wrestling team throughout the season. The doubters. Wawasee went 6-0 in the Northern Lakes Conference, but the Warriors were never ranked.Teams they beat, like NorthWood and Goshen, were ranked at one time or another. Not until the Warriors won the season-ending NLC tournament did they show up in the coaches poll, and then they jumped from no ranking to No.14. The Warriors then went out and proved they deserved the ranking.They won the East Noble Sectional.They won the Churubusco Regional.Then they had their biggest win of the year, winning at No.2 Bellmont 31-30 in the semistate. Before you knew it, this group from Wawasee had worked its way into Saturday's state finals at Center Grove. Eight teams were left in the tournament, and when you make it this far, there are no more surprises.Wawasee wrestled No.3 Carmel (28-0) in the first round, and the Greyhounds ended the Warrior season with a 44-15 win.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Colts Players Speak To Tiger Athletes

Troy Walters was too small and too slow to play wide receiver in the NFL.David Thornton was a walk-on at the University of North Carolina who never planned on playing past college.Now the two are key cogs in the recent success of the Indianapolis Colts. Walters and Thornton, who were in town Wednesday night to kick off the Colts' "Make It Personal" campaign, spoke to a group of Warsaw Community High School athletes, parents and coaches in the Tiger Den, mainly football players, about hard work, leadership and faith. "I never thought I'd be here in Warsaw, Indiana talking to you guys," said Thornton."It's such a blessing and I'm here because God had a reason for me to be here." It all started when Thornton met Warsaw assistant football coach Bruce Barlow and his son Trent on a plane to North Carolina in February.
DANIEL RIORDAN, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Tigers Win Third Straight NLC Title

ELKHART -ÊThe Warsaw boys track team continued its dominance of the Northern Lakes Conference Thursday night at the conference championship meet, defeating its closest competitor by 37 points. The Tigers placed first in the round-robin competition by going undefeated (6-0) in regular season matchups and secured an outright NLC title with Thursday's victory.The Tigers won their third straight NLC title with some changes in the regular lineup. "We switched some people up tonight," said Warsaw coach Troy Akers."Greg Seiss normally runs in the 800, and we moved him around a bit tonight.We didn't have our usual lineup out there." Although Seiss did not compete in the 800 run, Rob Peters stepped up for the Tigers and placed first in the competition with a time of 2:01.11. "Rob Peters really stepped up for us in the 800," said Akers."He ran a super race." While the Tigers won the meet handily, the Warsaw squad did not perform as well as usual in the running events.
Jen Gibson, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Wawasee Girls Tennis Team Blanks Manchester

NORTH MANCHESTER - Confidence, Wawasee girls tennis coach Cindy Peterson said Thursday afternoon, is built on winning. Reeling from a loss to Northern Lakes Conference foe Concord, and heading into a critical stretch of the conference season next week with Northridge, No.4 Warsaw and Goshen, the Warriors boosted their confidence with a 5-0 win Thursday afternoon at Manchester. Wawasee picked up the third team point of the match and the win in right at an hour - about the same amount of time it took the Warriors by bus to get from Syracuse to North Manchester on S.R.13. "We're coming off a loss to Concord and we have three big NLC matches with Northridge, Warsaw and Goshen coming up," Peterson said."We came to play and we came to win.Confidence is built on winning.We got our confidence back." The win improved Wawasee to 4-2 on the season, while Manchester, which picked up its first win of the season Wednesday against rival Northfield, fell to 1-5.
DALE HUBLER, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Warsaw Netters Denied By DeKalb

MIDDLEBURY - As a coach for both the boys and girls tennis teams, coach Rick Orban never ended a season before making a semistate appearance. That was until Tuesday night. The Warsaw Tigers struggled in singles action and fell to DeKalb 3-2 in the semifinal of the Northridge Regional. The Tigers were looking to win their sixth straight regional crown.Orban was at the helm of the previous five and also won a regional title with the boys team in his first season as head coach. Elkhart Central moved to 15-0 on the season with a 5-0 win over Bethany Christian with all five matches lasting less than an hour and a half. Warsaw trailed 2-1 with two matches still on the court in No.3 singles action and No.2 doubles. The Tigers' Lauren Piper gave a valiant effort in trying to force a third set against Courtni Gafken in No.3 singles action but couldn't break her in the tiebreaker.Piper fell 6-1, 7-6 (7-5).
DANIEL RIORDAN, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Warsaw Tiger Offense Scorches Kokomo Wildkats

KOKOMO -ÊWarsaw's boys basketball team ended the regular season where it started, in Kokomo. Warsaw, which competed in the Kokomo scrimmage to start the season, wrapped up the regular season by picking apart the Wildkats 78-60 Friday on their homoe floor.Warsaw improves to 14-7, while Kokomo falls to 11-9. So efficient was Warsaw's offense that the Tigers hit 16 of 20 field goals (80 percent) and 16 of 17 free throws (94 percent) in outscoring Kokomo 51-34 in the second half. "One key tonight was our shooting throughout the game," Warsaw coach Al Rhodes said."That meant they were not able to play the zone defense they wanted to play." The zone-buster was Warsaw senior reserve guard Trent Martin.Martin scored a career-high 20 points on 6-of-9 shooting from the field.All six were three-pointers, and he started 4 for 4 as Warsaw built a 24-15 lead with 6:20 left in the second quarter.
Jeff Holsinger, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Peden's Punches Power Squires To Title

MENTONE - You know it's a big game when the phrase heard most often from the dugout during warm-ups is, "It's just another game." Both Manchester and Tippecanoe Valley knew what was on the line Friday night. The Squires came into the game 4-1 in the Three Rivers Conference, while Valley came in at 3-1.If Manchester won, the Squires would win at least a share of the TRC title, along with Rochester, for the first time in the three years of the existence of the team. If the Vikings won, it would place them in a first place tie with Rochester.Add the fact that it was senior night for the Vikings, and you have the making of a tense situation. Thanks to Jodie Peden's big bat, Manchester ran away from Valley 14-4 on Friday in a game that was called after five innings because of the 10-run rule.
JASON KNAVEL, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

College Roundup

NORTH MANCHESTER -ÊThe Manchester College baseball team swept a doubleheader with Olivet Thursday afternoon in North Manchester.The Spartans won both games by one run, 6-5 and 5-4. In game one, Manchester jumped out to a 5-3 lead after the first inning.Olivet tied the score in the third, but the Spartans broke the tie with a run in the fifth. Tyler Moore picked up the win on the mound, and Craig Hersey led the Spartans with two hits, including a triple, and a stolen base. In game two, Manchester took a 1-0 lead in the first inning.Then Olivet scored four runs in the top of the fourth to take a 4-1 lead.However, Manchester fought back to score four runs and get the 5-4 win. Joel Barrus was the star of game two, picking up a save on the mound and going 2 for 3 with two runs and three RBIs in the game.Eric Screeton and Darren Reed added two hits each for the Spartans.
Times-Union Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

Valley Tops Whitko 4-1

AKRON -ÊAlthough Tippecanoe Valley tennis coach Jack Shambaugh characterizes his team as "young and inexperienced at most positions," the Vikings looked anything but Thursday night against Whitko.The Vikings defeated the Wildcats 4-1 in a Three Rivers Conference competition. In the first match to finish, Valley's No.1 doubles pair of Kyleigh Gast and Kris Sanders took the court against Whitko's duo of Hilari Ayers and Chelsea Grant.Sanders and Gast took a 2-0 lead in the first set, but Whitko fought back to get within two, 4-2.However, the Vikings regained their composure and won the first set 6-2. After winning the first set, Gast and Sanders, who competed in last year's regionals, were in attack mode.They won the second set 6-0.
Jen Gibson, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

Another Late Collapse Leaves Warsaw Without Win

"We are like Chicken Little waiting for the sky to fall," said Warsaw baseball coach Will Shepherd."In the last three games we have given up 19 runs in the seventh inning." Five of those 19 runs came in the seventh inning of Wednesday night's Northern Lakes Conference game with Goshen.The Tigers and Redskins ended the game in a 5-5 tie after seven innings due to darkness. Warsaw jumped out to an early lead after scoring runs in each of the first two innings. But the fifth inning was the most successful for the Warsaw squad.Pitcher Michael Barger helped his own cause by starting the inning with a solo home run over the left-field fence. Designated hitter Jacob Wilson followed Barger's homer with a single.Josh Stork reached first on an error by Goshen pitcher Nick VanderMolen, and a sacrifice by Geoff Walmer moved runners to second and third.William Knepper was hit by a pitch, and the bases were loaded.
Jen Gibson, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

McIntyre Helps Trigger Triton Track Win

MENTONE - As the old saying goes, "Always save the best for last." And that's exactly what happened in the boys shot put event of Tuesday's Triton/Rochester/Tippecanoe Valley boys and girls track meet. Rochester's Dustin Burkett was the last thrower on the list of 20, and his throw of 44 feet, 1/2-inch was good enough to take first place.With throws of 42-plus feet each, Valley's Craig Kuhn and Jeremy Fox placed second and third, respectively. "Those (Kuhn's and Fox's throws) are both personal bests," said Valley coach Terry Screeton."That's usually a strong event for us but not overly strong.Those are pretty good throws for high school." Burkett's throw of just over 132 feet was good enough to give him a first-place finish in the discus too, but in the end it was Triton who had saved the best for last as its total team score of 60 took first place.Valley (4-3) came in a close second with 57 points, and Rochester was third with 50 points.
DALE HUBLER, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016

13 Locals Advance To Track State Finals

BREMEN -ÊOnce teams get to the regional level in track, coaches have one goal -ÊAdvance people to the state meet.Several area coaches reached that goal Tuesday night at the Bremen Girls Track Regional as area competitors from five schools advanced in 10 events. Eight individuals and two relay teams will advance to the state finals in Indianapolis June 2. Three area competitors advanced to the state meet in the high jump.Staci Weisser of Wawasee placed third at the Bremen Regional with a leap of 5-foot-4.However, four other competitors, including NorthWood's Carol Duncan and Triton's Emily Yankovich, advanced to the state finals by meeting the state qualifying height of 5 feet, 3 inches. Seven of the eight finalists in the high jump advanced to the state meet.
Jen Gibson, Times-Union Sports Writer- | July 28, 2016
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