By Josh Sigler
jsigler@thepaperofwabash.com

Northfield senior Ava Smith signed a letter of intent Tuesday, Feb. 27, to continue her volleyball career at Albion College, an NCAA Division III school in Albion, Mich.

Smith said the decision was an easy one, and she felt at home at Albion.
 

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Emmanuel Christian’s boys basketball team captured its fourth straight Indiana Association of Christian School basketball tourney state championship on Feb. 24.

Emmanuel defeated Fishers Christian, 77-52, to capture the title. It advanced to the finals with a 66-33 win over Good News Baptist on Friday, Feb. 23.

The team entered the tourney as the No.1 seed.
 

By Bill Barrows

The boys’ basketball regular season is done. Over the weekend, amid all of the flu and other ailments that seem to come around this time of year, there is a certain sickness in the air that only surfaces in Indiana and has done so over 4 or 5 generations for which there is no cure. Hoosier Hysteria is the name and tournament basketball is the game. It all begins on Tuesday night.

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NORTH MANCHESTER -- Two teams and two individuals were inducted into the Manchester High School Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday, Feb. 23, at the Manchester boys home game against Eastern.
 

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The Knights of Columbus had its annual Wabash Council Free Throw Championship on Saturday, Feb. 3, at the Wabash County YMCA gym. 

The annual competition is for all boys and girls ages 9 – 14. Since its beginning in 1972, more than 2.5 million youths have participated in the contest. Last year more than 120,000 sharpshooters participated in more than 3,600 local competitions.
 

Wabash's Noah Cressell works to get an opponent on his back during semistate wrestling action. Cressell finished in the state meet, ending his senior year with a 43-2 record. 

By The Paper staff

INDIANAPOLIS -- Wabash's Noah Cressell capped off a stellar career with a third-place finish at the IHSAA wrestling state championships Feb. 16-17.

The Apache senior competed in the first round Friday, and won a 9-0 decision over Jamari Washington of Hammond Gavit. That win secured three more matches the next day to determine the top eight places.

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WARSAW -- Three Wabash County Schools were represented at the Warsaw Sectional for boys swimming, but nobody qualified for the state finals this weekend.

As a team, Wabash finished in eighth place with 84 points, with Manchester in 12th place with 54 points, and Northfield, with Grant Dale the only Norse competing, coming in 13th place with 28 points.

By Bill Barrows

The boys’ basketball season is down to the final week of the regular season. The sectional draw was Sunday and here is the way it shakes out for Wabash County teams:

In the Single A Sectional 54, at Lafayette Central Catholic, on Tuesday Feb 27th, Frontier plays Tri-Central and Clinton Central matches up with Southwood. On Friday, Northfield will play the winner of Game 1. And Lafayette Catholic will play the winner of Game 2.

In 2A Sectional 37 at Manchester, on Tuesday, Oak Hill plays the host Squires in Game 1, followed by Rochester and Cass in Game 2. On Friday, Wabash plays the winner of Game 1 and North Miami plays the winner of Game 2. Both Championships are scheduled for 7:30 pm on Saturday night.