by Gary Andrews

LaFontaine Golf Course in Huntington hosted the girls’ golf sectional Saturday with 11 teams participating, including all four county squads.

The Southwood Lady Knights turned in a solid score of 392 to finish second behind champion Marion and qualified for next weeks regional at Noble Hawk Golf Course. The Lady Knights were led by Abby Houlihan who fired a 94. Danielle Sparling followed with a 98, Dayna Dale 100, Danielle Pegg 100 and Paige Dempsey 103.

Manchester's Claire Barnett and Wabash's Jordan Rauh also qualified for next weeks regional by finishing in the top three individuals that were not on a top three team. Barnett finished 4th overall and 2nd as an individual with an 88. Rauh fired an 89 to finish 5th overall and third as an individual. Barnett and Rauh will join Southwood in the regional at Noble Hawk.

The Wabash team finished 4th, just missing the regional by three strokes with a 411. Manchester had a 437 and Northfield 487.

By Gary Andrews

The Southwood varsity cross-country teams ran in the Tipton Invitational Saturday with the girls team behind individual champion Emily Lehner taking home the title. Lehner won the race in 20:08.

Girls: 1st place team finish, 2nd Hamilton Heights, 3rd Maconaquah

1st Emily Lehner

4th Ellie White

9th Haley Heath

20th Meranda Friend

29th Taylor Heath

54th Kassidy Atwood

73rd Emma Peebles

by Gary Andrews

The Wabash Apache football team traveled to Denver Friday to take on North Miami, falling to the Warriors 21-0.

The game got off to a good start for the Apaches when they executed an onside kick and recovered, only to fumble the ball away to North Miami on their offensive possession. The Warriors would take advantage of the turnover, scoring four minutes later to take a 7-0 lead.

The second quarter would be much the same for Wabash, as the Apaches could not hold on to the ball. Taking advantage of a third Wabash fumble, North Miami scored with 5:10 left in the half to take a 14-0 lead. Wabash would fumble eight times in the first half, digging a 21-0 hole.

North Miami would join the fumble parade in the third quarter, coughing up the ball twice with Wabash recovering, but the Apaches could not capitalize, making the 21-0 score the final.

by Gary Andrews

The old saying "it's not over til it's over" hit the nail right on the head Friday for the Southwood football team as the Knights used some fourth quarter heroics to nip Tippecanoe Valley 34-33 on a 23 yard field goal by Zach Hobson with six seconds remaining in the game.

Hobson would actually score the first and last points for the Knights. Valley would get the ball first, when on the third play Corey Phillipy would recover a fumble. Robbie Cole and the Knight offense would go to work from the 50. Cole hit Danny Goff to the 35 when it looked as though the drive would stall. On 4th and 13 Cole found Goff again to the Viking 20, then Jacob Lloyd yard to the 13. After two incomplete passes, Hobson would connect on a 30-yard field goal to give Southwood a 3-0 lead. On Valley's next drive, Nathan Hollars would pick off a pass on the 24 to stop Valley again. The Knight offense ended up punting and Valley responded this time, scoring from 1 yard out to lead 7-3 after one.

by Gary Andrews

The Southwood varsity volleyball team traveled to New Castle Saturday to play with a slue of 4A schools in the New Castle Invitational, going 0-3 on the day and finishing 6th.

The Lady Knights fell to invite winner New Castle 23-25, 19-25, Penn 19-25, 25-22, 18-20 and Bellmont 19-25, 17-25.

Lexi Brickner led the Lady Knight attack for the day with 18 kills, 5 solo blocks, 1 assist, 1 ace and 10 digs.

Drew Rhamy had 14 kills, 3 aces, 11 service points, 12 digs and 2 blocks. Amy Bowman had 17 service points, 33 assist, 14 digs, 6 kills, 2 blocks and 1 ace.

By Gary Andrews

The Northfield football team was riding high after a win over North Miami last Friday, only to struggle at Rochester Friday and falling to the Zebras 38-3.

Rochester did all the scoring the first 47 minutes of the game. The Zebras scored on two running plays in the first quarter to lead 14-0.

The Norse defense would hold the Zebras scoreless in the second quarter, with the offense sputtering and still trailed 14-0 at the half.

Midway through the third quarter Rochester scored on a 1 yard run, then ran another in three minutes later to go up 26-0 with a quarter to go.

Rochester built the lead to 38-0 when the Norse got rid of the goose egg with Rodriguez field goal with 1:10 remaining for the final score.

The Norse gained 168 yards on the ground, led by Jackson Beery with 43. Alec Wells had 34, Josh Bickel 37, Shane Vigar 24, Drake Richter 21, Jensen Frieden 8 and Carter Frieden 1.

Josh Bickel and Marcus Kroh each had 7yds receiving.

Carter Frieden connected on two passes for 14 yards.

by Gary Andrews

The Northfield volleyball team showed the potential to be one of the favorites to challenge for the TRC and sectional titles Thursday with an impressive 25-8, 25-12, 25-14 win over county rival Wabash.

The Lady Norse quickly defended home turf in game one, jumping out to a 9-2 lead. With Abigail Poole serving, the Norse jumped out to a 4-0 lead aided by a Poole ace. Lyndsie Thomas got the Apaches on the board with a kill before Holly Dyson and Kylie Echard pounded out kills to give the Norse the 9-2 lead. Arie Kennedy would record a kill from the back row as the Norse increased the lead to 13-4. At 14-7 Northfield would score five straight before another Thomas kill made it 19-8. The powerful Norse front row would go to work, as Echard would get a kill and a block that was followed by an Elaina Terrell kill for the 25-8 game one win.

by Gary Andrews

The Whitko Wildcat football team ran for 368 yards and four touchdowns in a 46-24 win over Manchester Friday.

Manchester got off to a great start when running back Jacob Casper broke loose for a 54 yard scoring run just a little over a minute in to the game to give the Squires a 7-0 lead after a Ross Messer extra point kick. Whitko would answer with just 41 seconds left in the quarter a pass play to knot the score at seven after one.

Whitko would draw first blood in the second quarter on a 23-yard pass play to take a 14-7 lead. Two minutes later Messer would connect on a field goal to cut the lead to 14-10. Whitko would answer two minutes later on their first rushing TD, missing the extra point to go up 20-10. Just a minute later the Wildcats would strike again to make it 26-10. The Squires would put together a drive that resulted in a Lucas Schilling 4 yard TD plunge for the final score of the half, as the Squires trailed 26-17.