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HS Roundup: Lady Squire Volleyball Takes Down Northfield In 4 Sets

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HS Roundup: Lady Squire Volleyball Takes Down Northfield In 4 SetsNORTH MANCHESTER – Cierra Carter had eight kills, two aces and 27 digs to lead Manchester to a 25-17, 16-25, 25-19, 28-26 win over visiting Northfield in a Three Rivers Conference volleyball match Tuesday night.
Kendra Auler had 15 assists and 10 digs in the match for the Lady Squires.
Manchester won the junior varsity match 25-17, 25-23 over the Lady Norse.
Manchester will host Southwood in a TRC match Thursday.

MANCHESTER 3, NORTHFIELD 1
N    17    25    19    26
M    25    16    25    28
Manchester: Kills – Cierra Carter 8, Kennedy Rosen 5, Sydney Day 5, Anna Osborne 3, Mattie McKee 2, Kennidy Lauer 1; Aces – Carter 2, Rosen 1, Emma West 2, Day 2, Paige Wagoner 2;  Digs – Carter 27, Rosen 3, West 14, Day 21, Wagoner 12, Emma Casper 7, McKee 2, Auler 10, Halie Wampler 1; Assists – Auler 15.
JV – Manchester def. Northfield
25-17, 25-23
Manchester: Kills – Kara Kline 2, Lauer 1, Lydia Greer 1, Wampler 6, Sarah Pegg 1, Andrea Kahn 1, Greta Auler 2; Aces – Kline 3, Kiera Hatfield 3, Wampler 4, Mackenzie Day 1, Pegg 4, Auler 1; Digs – Kline 3, Hatfield 3, Lauer 2, Greer 4, Wampler 1, Day 2, Pegg 2, Kahn 1, Auler 2; Assists – Wampler 6
Wildcats Beat Panthers
SOUTH WHITELY – Whitko closed out its boys tennis regular season with a 5-0 non-conference win over Prairie Heights Tuesday.
Seniors Cory Hersha and Bailey Platt, normally singles players, teamed up to win 6-1, 6-0 at No. 1 doubles for the Wildcats.
Whitko opens sectional play against host Warsaw on Thursday.

Lady ‘Cats Fall To Northfield
LARWILL – Whitko’s Sarah Walters and Hanna Yohe finished 2-3  in the Whitko Invitational, but Northfield won the team competition 23-38 in Whitko’s last home race Tuesday night.
Amamda Leppek was 11th for Whitko, followed by Elizabeth Foutz in 12th. Manon Sonneville was 14th,  and Angel Moyer 15th for the Lady Wildcats.
The Whitko boys didn’t have enough runners to field a full team. Logan Busz was second, Zack Freel third, Ezra Miller fourth and Caden Compton was 10th in the race.
Lakeland Christian sent four runners to the meet. Trenton Parker was fifth, Sam Turner finished seventh, Sean Gormaly eighth and Rye Stevens ninth.
Whitko opens its postseason at the Three Rivers Conference championships at Tippecanoe Valley Saturday.
Lady Braves Trip Whitko
SOUTH WHITELY – Whitko won the first set, but narrowly dropped the next three and the match 19-25, 25-22, 25-22, 27-25 to Maconaquah in a Three Rivers Conference volleyball match Tuesday.
Kaity Reed had another 25 kills to match her total from Monday’s loss to Columbia City. Kristina Slater had 18 digs, Haley Howard had two aces and Haley Yohe led the Lady Wildcats with 37 assists.
Now 16-9 overall, Whitko travels to Fort Wayne on Thursday to take on Canterbury.

Panthers Trip Wildcats
LAGRANGE – Host Prairie Heights  took an early 2-0 lead and went on to a 6-2 win over Whitko in a non-conference boys soccer match Tuesday.
Whitko will open play against host Fort Wayne Blackhawk in the 1A sectional Oct. 5.

Squires Down Winamac
WINAMAC – In spite of a slow start, according to head coach Dave McKee, Manchester’s boys soccer team downed host Winamac 4-1 in a non-conference match Tuesday.
Noah Terrill scored in the first half off a an assist from Noah Beck. After the Warriors tied the match, it took the Squires less than two minutes to retake the lead when Jake Schannep scored off a corner kick by Brandon Wagoner.
Harley Kruschwitz and Terrill scored the last two goals on assists by Schannep and Caleb Stout, respectively.
Manchester, now 9-3-1, is scheduled to host Three Rivers Conference foe North Miami today.

Cougars Fall To Eagles
WINONA LAKE – Culver Academies had 20 shots on goal en route to a 5-0 win over Lakeland Christian Monday night.
The Cougars, 7-5-1 overall, hit the road to take on Trinity School Friday.

Tippecanoe Valley Falls
ARGOS – Senior Tom Solano scored a match-tying goal, but Tippecanoe Valley fell 2-1 to the Argos junior varsity in a non-conference match Tuesday night.
Senior forward Elizabeth Salazar had a game-tying goal waved off by an offside call in the 78th minute.
Valley (4-11) wraps up its regular season Thursday hosting LaVille.

Tigers Fall At Carroll
HUNTERTOWN – Warsaw’s boys soccer team lost 5-0 to host Carroll in a non-conference match Tuesday.
In the junior varsity match, Jorge Rico scored on an assist by Adam Brown to lead the Tigers to a 1-0 win over the Chargers. The JV improved its record to 9-2 overall.
Warsaw (5-9-2) hosts Northridge in the regular-season finale Thursday.