By Bill Barrows

There are a lot of games on the docket for the Wabash County high school basketball teams this week.

The girls are two weeks away from Sectional play. So it is getting intense for them.
 

By The Paper staff

COLUMBIA CITY – Two Wabash County youth advanced to the state finals of the Indiana Elks Association Hoop Shoot contest.

Haiden McWhirt and Kaden Vogel advanced by capturing first place in their respective age divisions during the District Hoop Shoot on Jan. 14 at Indiana Springs Middle School in Columbia City.
 

By Eric Christiansen
echristiansen@nmpaper.com

NORTH MANCHESTER -- In a back-and-forth tussle between county and conference rivals, Manchester's Kerigan Hatfield hit a 3-pointer as the buzzer sounded to give the Squires a 34-32 win over Wabash.

In a low-scoring game, the Wabash County rivals exchanged the lead eight times with the eighth being Hatfield's winning shot.
 

By Eric Christiansen

NORTH MANCHESTER -- The Wabash swim teams traveled to Manchester and came away with two wins on Wednesday, Jan. 3, with the girls winning 92-74 and the boys team taking a 96-45 victory.

In the girls meet, both teams won six events, but Wabash's depth proved to be the difference.

By Bill Barrows

This year’s Wabash County Basketball Tourney had a little bit of a number of positive things. Other than the teams competing at a higher level, the highlight was an individual achievement by a classy youngster, more on that later.

This is the traditional halfway point of the season. Not every team had success, but every program did, in my eyes .... stay with me on this. Only one team from each gender went undefeated and won the title. But each program sparkled in one way or another.

Players from Northfield and Southwood's girls basketball teams battled for a rebound in a game earlier this month between the two schools. The teams will meet in opening round action of the Wabash County Tourney on Friday. Photos by Joseph Slacian

By Bill Barrows

The 2017 Wabash County Basketball Tourney will be at Wabash High School on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 29-30. The pairings for the entire first round of games pits the same schools against each other in both JV and varsity and in both girls and boys for the first time in recent memory.

At 9 a.m. Friday, Northfield faces Southwood in the girls JV tipoff. That will be followed at 10:30 a.m. by the Northfield boys JV taking on Southwood. At noon, Manchester and Wabash girls JV teams will play followed at 1:30 p.m. by the Manchester -Wabash boys JV contest.