The Southwood and Northfield girls basketball teams left no doubt Friday who was the best two teams in the sectional. The lady Knights opened the evening defeating Frontier 56-27 before the Norse got revenge on Tri Central 74-28. The two teams will now play for the sectional title Saturday at 7:30.
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Lady Norse Roll In Sectional Opener
The Northfield Lady Norse left little doubt who was the favorite in sectional 54 as they opened the tournament with a 79-34 win over Clinton Central Thursday.
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Apaches Suffer Loss To Mississinewa
The Wabash Apaches suffered just their second loss of the season Monday, falling to Mississinewa 70-52.
Things went south for the Apaches from the opening tip when the Indians scored the first 12 points of the game. Jared Holley would stop the run with a jumper before Mississinewa increased their lead to 17-3. Trenton Daughtry would hit the last bucket of the quarter as Wabash trailed 17-5 after one.
Daughtry and Elijah Vander Velden would keep pace with the Indians early in the second. Trailing 29-13 Vander Velden would hit to start a 6-0 run for Wabash to cut the deficit to 29-19 before the Indians answered with 6 straight for a 35-19 lead. Vander Velden would score two more times as the Apaches were down 37-22 at the half.
The Apaches came out inspired in the third quarter, scoring the first 5 points of the quarter. Vander Velden would hit a free throw, followed by buckets from Daughtry and Logan Vander velden to make it 37-27. Mississinewa would increase their lead to 46-31 when Wabash made a move. Holley would hit a three pointer, followed by two long balls from Dereck Vogel to make it 46-40. The Apaches had the opportunity to get even closer but two bogus charging calls stopped their momentum. Wabash trailed 48-40 after three.
Mississinewa would maintain their 8 to 10 point lead until 55-45 when they went on a 10-2 run to ice the game. Wabash fell 70-52.
Scoring
# Athlete Name Pts FG FGA FG% 5 Dereck Vogel (Jr) 12 3 6 50 10 Jasper Walters (So) 3 1 6 17 11 Blake Gribben (Sr) 2 1 2 50 12 L. Vander velden (Sr) 8 3 8 38 22 T. Daughtry (Jr) 13 6 18 33 30 Jared Holley (Jr) 6 2 3 67 34 E. Vander velden (Jr) 8 3 7 43 Team Totals 52 19 50 38 Rebs, Asst, Steals and TOs
# Athlete Name Off Def Tot Reb Ast Stls TO 4 K. Kelsheimer (Jr) 2 1 3 0 0 0 5 Dereck Vogel (Jr) 1 2 3 1 3 3 10 Jasper Walters (So) 0 0 0 1 0 11 Blake Gribben (Sr) 1 2 3 1 0 1 12 L. Vander velden (Sr) 0 0 6 3 2 20 Joe Leland (So) 0 1 1 0 0 0 22 T. Daughtry (Jr) 0 4 4 2 2 4 30 Jared Holley (Jr) 0 1 1 1 3 1 34 E. Vander velden (Jr) 2 1 3 0 1 5 Team Totals 6 12 18 11 13 16 The Wabash junior varsity fell to Mississinewa 54-50.
Scoring : Reed 2, Boggs 3, Walter 14, Leland 19, O’Neill 11, Carmichael 1
The Wabash C team fell to Eastern 41-32
Scoring : Howard 5, Kocher 9, Winstead 11, Wilson 2, Dinkins 9, Learned 2, Dillon 1
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Spartans Top Earlham 83-71 for Fourth Straight Win
NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. – The Manchester University men’s basketball team extended its winning streak to four after topping visiting Earlham College 83-71 on Monday night in a hard-fought battle in Stauffer-Wolfe Arena. With Monday’s win, the Spartans moved to 6-6 in
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Squires Suffer Road Loss At Concordia
The Manchester boys went on the road to Ft Wayne Saturday, falling to Concordia 46-38.
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15th Ranked Apaches Run Away From Southern Wells
The 15th ranked Wabash Apaches flexed their muscle Saturday night, defeating Southern Wells 80-35.
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Manchester 7th At Caston
The Manchester 8th grade girls played in the Caston Invite Saturday.
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Wabash 8th Girls Runner Up At Maconaquah
The Wabash 8th grade girls finished 1-1 on the day at the Maconaquah Invite Saturday.
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Lady Apaches Hold On To Defeat North Miami
The Wabash Lady Apaches picked up an impressive 48-46 win over North Miami Saturday.
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Norse Grab Second Win This Week
The Northfield boys picked up their 4th win of the season Saturday in a 57-41 road win at Caston.
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Patience
After 12 1/2 hours of covering wrestling and basketball and over 500 pictures taken in my 14 hour day it was a much longer night of preparing. We will be publishing Saturday’s results by noon, still making us the fastest source of recognizing ALL the kids.
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Southwood Splits Double Header With North Miami
It was double header night at Southwood as the boys and girls took on North Miami.
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Squires Use Balance To Defeat Valley
The Manchester Squires got scoring from eight different players and won every quarter as they defeated Tippecanoe valley 60-49 Friday.
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Cold Fourth Quarter Cost Lady Apaches
The Wabash Lady Apaches were tied with Whitko after three quarters Friday before being out scored 15-2 in the fourth in a 46-33 loss to the Wildcats.
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Norse Fall In Final Seconds At Rochester
The Northfield boys basketball team dropped a close TRC match up to Rochester 59-55 Friday.
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Lady Norse 7th Top Peru
The Northfield 7th grade girls defeated Peru 25-21 Thursday.
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Wabash 7th Suffers First Loss
The Wabash 7th grade boys suffered their first defeat of the season, falling 39-35 to Peru Thursday.
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Southwood JH Boys Split With Northwestern
The Southwood junior high boys split a pair of games with Northwestern Thursday.
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Lady Norse Clinch Share Of TRC At Rochester
The Northfield Lady Norse traveled to Rochester Thursday looking for a win over the Zebras to clinch a share of the TRC title with Manchester. The Lady Norse wasted no time making that a reality, defeating Rochester 59-27.
The Lady Norse came out of the gate running, leaving a dust trail as they led 22-5 after the first stop. The pace a slowed a little in the second with the lead growing to 33-11 at the half.
The route continued in the third as Northfield built their lead to 50-20 before going on to the 59-27 win.
Kyra Kennedy led with 17 points and 6 rebounds. Ariel Dale had 13 points, 3 rebounds, and 3 steals. Kelcie Thomson added 12 points, 4 assists, 6 rebounds, and 4 steals.
The Northfield junior varsity defeated Rochester 32-22
Emily Pennington had 8 points and Addy Rosen had 8 points.
