Dilley To Wrestle At Marian

Wawasee senior Jeremiah Dilley signed a letter of intent Wednesday to continue his academic and wrestling careers at Marian University in Indianapolis.

Bingo Is Back At Silver Lake Lions Club

Optimists Donate to WEF, IYRF

Top photo: Optimist Club Member Bob Jackson (R) presents a $1,000 check to Mitch Goon, who is president of the Warsaw Education Foundation Board.

Slusser Signs Letter Of Intent With Trine

BOURBON – Triton High School senior Max Slusser has signed his letter of intent to play football at Trine University next fall.

Squire Wrestler Wilson Signs With Spartans

Manchester High School senior Braxtin Wilson will continue his academic and wrestling careers at Manchester University next fall.

Reed To Play College Volleyball In Florida

Whitko senior volleyball player Kaity Reed signed a letter of intent Thursday to continue her academic and athletic careers at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Fla.

Delta Theta Tau Donation

Delta Theta Tau recently held their spring geranium sale fundraiser and want to thank their area community friends who helped make it a success.

Tigers Down But Not Out Vs. Eagles

COLUMBIA CITY - Sometimes X's and O's in a basketball aren't as important as hearts and guts.There comes a time when determination overrules adjustments. Warsaw reached that point against Columbia City Saturday.Trailing the host Eagles by 15 points in the second quarter, the Tigers reached down and pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and eventually garnered a 73-65 overtime win to move to 2-0 on the season. "I feel good about the heart and character we demonstrated," Warsaw coach Al Rhodes said."It came down to gut-check time for our seniors, and they came through with flying colors." Led by six points from sophomore Steve Siebenmorgen and four from senior Andy Plank, the Tigers outscored Columbia City 14-6 in the extra session for the win against a Columbia City team that had demolished a good Whitko squad 70-45 in its season opener.

Grace Beats Marian 3-1

Tiger Tennis Team Takes Care Of Wawasee 5-0 By Jen Gibson, Times-Union Sports Writer SYRACUSE -ÊThe Warsaw Tigers racked up another Northern Lakes Conference tennis win Tuesday night after defeating the Wawasee Warriors 5-0. The longest match of the day came at the No.2 singles position.Wawasee's Kyle Farrell and Warsaw's Steve Slaughter played three sets after splitting the first two.Slaughter came out on top of the first set 6-1, but Farrell came back to win the second set 6-4.In the final set, Slaughter came out on top 6-1 to win the match and the point for Warsaw. The only other three-set match came at the No.2 doubles slot when Warriors Scott Beasley and Seth Beer teamed up to play Tigers Travis Yoder and David Honneffer.Yoder and Honneffer won the first set easily 6-0, but dropped the second set to Beasley and Beer 5-7.In the third set, the Warsaw team shut down Wawasee 6-0 to earn another Warsaw point.

NorthWood Spikers Secure NLC Title

SYRACUSE - You would think Peg Bough would be happier. She just watched her No.8 (3A) NorthWood volleyball team get past Wawasee 15-7, 7-15, 15-5 Thursday.The win gave the Panthers a perfect 6-0 mark in the Northern Lakes Conference plus the school's first NLC volleyball title.And NorthWood continued its record-setting season by upping its mark to 25-3. But Bough was probably thinking about the big picture, and that means the postseason, which opens up in six days. Bough was thinking how the Panthers were outscored 22-12 by the Warriors (17-14, 2-4 NLC) after opening up an 11-0 lead in the first game.Bough was also thinking about how the Panthers' play had become lackluster during that stretch and allowed the underdog Warriors to gain some confidence and play with her talented Panther squad.

Powerful Panthers Oust Warriors

MIDDLEBURY - Like a running back pounding out gains of eight and nine yards per carry, NorthWood's varsity volleyball team got points in chunks and used quick starts in both games against Wawasee Thursday in the Northridge (3A) Sectional to top the Warriors 15-12, 15-4. The Panthers, who advanced to the semistate two years ago but fell in the sectional opener last year, improved to 26-7 with the win; Wawasee, which has played NorthWood in the sectional three of the last four years, ends its season with a 22-11 record. If it were a football game, junior Carol Duncan, listed as 6-foot-1 on last year's basketball roster, was NorthWood's bruising fullback. Numerous times last night Duncan returned the ball to Wawasee's side of the net with sheer power, shots the Warriors could do nothing with.

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.

Warsaw Beats The Heat To Win Regional

"This is one of the most hotly contested regionals I can remember," said one representative of Homestead High School who was distributing awards after the match."The team play was fantastic." On a course where a 320 is considered a good team score, Warsaw shot a 304 to beat No.4 Concordia by a whopping 10 strokes.Garrett, the third-place team, scored a 315. After the first nine holes, Warsaw and Garrett were tied for the lead at 155 while Wawasee and Dwenger followed close behind with scores of 160.NorthWood stood at 176 after nine holes. But after the final scores were in, the Tigers came out on top of the rest of the field with a 304.Wawasee dropped to a 338 after having some trouble on the back nine.NorthWood finished the day with a 352.

Brown, Stutzman's Return Not Enough For TV

MENTONE - Starters Jeff Brown and Nick Stutzman returned to Tippecanoe Valley's lineup Tuesday evening after serving a four-game suspension. Would they - could they - lead the Vikings to a win in their first game back? Nope. Not against Plymouth, anyway.You know, 17-2 Plymouth, the basketball team ranked No.16 in the state? Plymouth defeated Valley 61-55. A Brian Wray three-pointer broke a 4-4 tie and gave Plymouth a 7-4 lead.The Pilgrims grabbed the lead and drew their line in the sand, daring the Vikings to cross. Valley never did.The Pilgrims led the rest of the way.Their lead peaked at nine points and shrank to two points.When the Vikings closed in, the Pilgrims swatted them away. Going in, the Vikings seemed to have more to play for.They had Brown and Stutzman and their 28 points and 13 rebounds back.A win over state-ranked Plymouth would be big.A win would also keep them from slipping under .500.

Quick-Hittin' Whitko Upends TV

PERU - For Whitko coach Fred Fields, it's the most wonderful time of the year.Fields knows sectional action well, as his numerous sectional titles at Huntington North as the girls coach can attest to.Fields helped the Wildcats to their first sectional win in two years with a 65-55 Tuesday win over Tippecanoe Valley in the opening round of the Peru Boys Basketball 3A Sectional.

Valley Tennis Edges Whitko 3-2

AKRON -ÊAs the tennis match between Whitko and Tippecanoe Valley came down to the third set of the final match to break a 2-all tie, the coaches jokingly compared stress-related ailments. "I'm losing my hair," said Whitko coach Larry Schuh. "I've got ulcers," said Tippecanoe Valley coach Jack Shambaugh. While Whitko swept the doubles competition early to take a 2-0 lead in the team competition, Valley fought back to win the No.1 and No.3 singles matched to knot the at score at 2. The fate of the match came down to the No.3 singles match between Whitko's Brooke Workman and Valley's Linda Weller. Weller won the first set of the match 6-4, but Workman clawed back to win the second set 7-5 to force a tiebreaking set. Weller took the lead early in the third set, winning the first game.Weller continued to chip away, taking a 4-1 lead, but Workman was not ready to give in.

Of Time Zones And Mascots

I must have missed something back when Indiana was debating about daylight-saving time. I thought we were just deciding whether or not to turn the clock forward an hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall. Apparently, I was wrong. Apparently, we also were deciding whether to go on Central Time or Eastern Time. Now there is this raging debate that has the state divided. South Bend wants Central Time to mate upÊwith Chicago. Fort Wayne wants Eastern Time to mate up with, well, pretty much everybody else east and north of us. I sincerely hope Indiana doesn't make itself the laughing stock of the midwest again and go with Central Time. See, before the whole DST debate, most of Indiana was on Eastern Standard Time without observing DST.(We still are, until next spring.) Now that we have opted to observe DST, if we went to the Central time zone we would be in sync with Chicago on Central Daylight Time.

Tiger Golfers Survive, Advance To State Finals

FORT WAYNE - Coaches have been saying it for years during state tournament play, and Thursday third-year Warsaw boys golf coach Ben Barkey said he's a believer in the "survive and advance" cliche. "Survive and advance, I'm a big believer in that today," said Barkey, whose sixth-ranked Tigers advanced from the Homestead Regional at Chestnut Hills in Fort Wayne to the state finals on the virtue of a fifth-man tiebreaker."We played a great front nine, and then we just kind of slipped on the last few holes.I'm just glad we had five scores in the 70s.It was a long day.It was almost as long waiting as it was playing in the heat." The top three teams, as well as the top three individuals not on an advancing team, qualify for Tuesday's first round of the state finals at Legends of Indiana in Franklin.