WABASH – Tippecanoe Valley junior Alec Craig, Manchester senior Chase Fierstos and Whitko junior Nate Walpole were named to the All-Three Rivers Conference first team Monday afternoon. The trio were also named to the Times-Union All-Area First Team on Feb. 29. Craig averaged better than 13 points and three assists per contest for the Vikings, who won sectional games against Wawasee and Fairfield before falling to host NorthWood in the championship game. After a 1-5 start, Craig and the Vikings finished the season with a 12-13 mark. Fierstos was second in the TRC, averaging better than 22 points a game and shooting 50 percent from the field for the Squires. Manchester finished in a three-way tie for second in the conference at 6-3, and 13-10 overall. Walpole led a resurrected Whitko team and the TRC with almost 28 points and six assists per game. After winning only six games in 2014-15, Walpole and the Wildcats finished in the three-way tie for second in the conference at 6-3, was a sectional semifinalist and had a 14-10 overall record this season. Honorable mention went to Manchester’s Koehl Fluke and Davis McAtee, Valley’s Neil Clampitt and Whitko sophomore River West. Conference champion Southwood had three players on the first team; Alex Harmon, Carson Blair and Peyton Trexler. Rounding out the first team was Maconaquah’s Wyatt Hughes, Brayden Marley and Chandler Pitts, Northfield’s Cody Holmes and Noah Shear, and Tyler Murphy of Peru. Others receiving honorable mention were Rochester’s Alex Holland and Gavin Bennett, Trevor Linn of North Miami, Peru’s Bailey Gardner and Jeremiah Johnson, and Wabash’s Taylor Vigar.
