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By Bill Barrows

 

The second week of January moves us further into Hoosier Hysteria and actually, the girls’ season is in the home stretch. 

 

The girls’ sectional is only three weeks away. The boys are at the halfway point. This week’s schedule begins with Tuesday night’s action. The Lady Norse travel to Eastern, Eastbrook entertains the Lady Apaches, the Manchester boys host Maconaquah and the Knights will be at Oak Hill for a border battle. 

 

On Wednesday, one game scheduled as the Lady Squires host Peru. On Thursday, the Lady Norse entertain Mississinewa and the Lady Knights host Eastern.

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Members of the Wabash High School girls’ bowling team are (front row, from left) Jaci Gahl, Jessica Dederick, assistant coach Julie Sluss; Coach Clint Sluss (back row, from left) Katie Newman, Olivia Sluss, Madisyn DeBoard. Photo provided

 

By The Paper staff

 

On Sunday, Jan. 10, the Wabash Girls and Boys Bowling teams bowled at Crest Lanes in Marion for Conference Champions. 

 

Both the boys and girls teams won Conference Champions. Both team finished their season undefeated.

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Manchester’s Chase Fierstos launches an 18-foot jump shot in the closing seconds of the Wabash County Tourney’s boy’s’ championship game on Wednesday, Jan. 30. The basket was good and gave Manchester a 52-50 win over Northfield. Photo by Joseph Slacian 

 

By Eric Christiansen

 

The Shot.

 

That was the talk of Wabash County last Wednesday night when Manchester’s Chase Fierstos crushed the hopes of the Northfield Norse with a buzzer beating 18-foot jump shot to lift the Squires to the Wabash County Tournament title 52-50 over Northfield.

 

With under a minute left, the Squires and Norse were tied 50-50 when Northfield’s Austin Trump tried to give Northfield the lead with a 3-pointer that was off the mark. Teammate Jake Schuler grabbed the rebound, but his put-back was off the mark. 

 

Manchester’s Mason Hamby rebounded the miss with 53 seconds left, and the Squires decided not to take a time-out, but rather work for the last shot.

 

“We have our stuff we work on in practice, situation stuff,” Manchester coach Eric Thompson said. “We knew what we wanted to do, we had the ball in the right man’s hands, and we had everybody else around who could do something if needed. 

 

“I thought we were playing pretty good basketball, and if we miss the shot, we go to overtime and try to play the best four minutes we can,” Thompson added. “The right man at the right time had the ball and hit the shot for us.”

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Manchester’s Rae Bedke attempts to dribble around Wabash’s Bailey Yoakum during the girls’ championship game of the Wabsah County Tourney. Photo by Joseph Slacian

 

By Eric Christiansen

 

The Wabash Lady Apaches won their second straight Wabash County Tournament and their eighth in 10 years, but it wasn’t easy.

 

The Apaches started off slow, picked things up in the middle of the game, and controlled the final five minutes of the game to close out a 36-32 win over Manchester to win the title.

 

“The game came down to the end, and I think what helped us is that our kids have been there before,” Wabash coach Matt Stone said. “We have six kids who are back for us who played at the semi-state last year. I told them at halftime ‘we’ve been through bigger wars than this. You know at the end of that game, we can do this’,” he said. “I do think that means something. When you’ve been through something before, that matters, and these kids were pretty gutsy.”

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By The paper staff

 

Northfield’s girls and Southwood’s boys won the consolation matchups of the Wabash County Tourney on Wednesday, Dec. 30.

 

Northfield defeated Southwood, 52-40, while Southwood defeated Wabash, 67-53.

 

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By The Paper staff

 

A 24-5 first half run helped the Manchester Squires turn a tight first quarter into a rout as they topped the Wabash Apaches 67-29 in the first round of the Wabash County Tournament.

 

The Squires led 8-7 midway through the first quarter, but Chase Fierstos hit two straight jumpers, including one 3-pointer to start a 14-3 run to close out the first quarter with a 22-10 lead.

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By Bill Barrows

 

The Wabash County Holiday Basketball Tourney takes place this week at Northfield on Tuesday and Wednesday. The current format was the brainchild of Southwood Athletic Director Tom Finicle. Instead of having the boy’s varsity teams play during holidays and the JV teams as well as the girls tourney basically on a weekend in January, the Wabash County athletic directors worked to create an event that highlights all of the basketball athletes in the same venue for all to see. It has become a competitive celebration of basketball that showcases local talent and Wabash County tradition.

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Northfield’s Cody Holmes rejects a Wabash Apache shot on Friday night, Dec. 18. Photo by Joseph Slacian

 

By The Paper staff

 

The fourth quarters made all the difference on Friday and Saturday nights as Northfield and Wabash boys’ and girls’ basketball teams squared off.

 

Northfield’s boys outscored Wabash, 20-11, in the fourth quarter to post a 65-55 win over the host Apaches.

 

On Saturday, Wabash’s girls outscored Northfield, 24-14 in the final quarter to win 53-46.

 

The boys’ game was actually closer than the 10-point difference. 

 

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