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By Bill Barrows

          

The final week of the regular season for the girls is upon us in high school basketball.  Girls Sectional is next week so the action comes to a climax with “Senior Nights” and then post season prep. 

 

For the girls, here is how it shakes out:  Senior night begin on Wednesday as Southern Wells travels to meet the Lady Knights at Southwood. Also, the Lady Apaches entertain Peru. 

 

On Thursday night, the Lady Squires host Tippecanoe Valley while the Lady Norse entertain Rochester, on their Senior Nights. 

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Members of the Northfield seventh grade girls basketball team are (front, from left) Kenzie Baer, Jenna Krom, coach Kramer; coach Adams (middle row, from left), Abby Hunter, Kearston Stout, Kyra Kennedy, Abby Schuler, Emma Hoover, Elise Gottschalk, Addie Baker, and (back row) coach Keaffaber. Photo provided

 

By The Paper staff

 

Northfield’s seventh grade girls’ basketball team captured the Huntington Crestview Tourney on Saturday.

 

Northfield defeated Warsaw Lakeview, 42-6 in the semi-final game, and Huntington Crestview, 19-13, in the championship game.

 

Northfield jumped out to a 4-2 lead after one quarter against Lakeview. However a 20-0 second quarter gave Northfield an insurmountable lead.

 

Coach John Adams said the team used an aggressive 1-3-1 defense in the second quarter that seemed to confuse Lakeview.

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By Eric Christiansen

 

In a mirror of their contest two weeks earlier, the Wabash Apaches stayed close with the Manchester Squires early, but watched the Squires open things up to run away with the game. This time it was a 57-39 Manchester win.

 

With three minutes left in the first quarter, both teams' defenses were on display, and the score was tied 5-5. Then things changed.

 

Manchester's Chase Fierstos scored seven straight points to close out the quarter with a 12-5 lead, and it didn't get any better for the Apaches the rest of the way.

 

"Our guys came in almost ready to play," Manchester coach Eric Thompson said. "Wabash was fired up and ready to go. I like the way our guys finally got into the rhythm of their game by keeping the pressure on and holding them down."

 

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By The Paper staff

 

Northfield’s girl’s basketball team defeated North Miami, 38-30, on Saturday night in a Three Rivers Conference contest.

 

Payton Thomson had 13, points to lead the Lady Norse, while Abby Keaffaber had 13.

 

Northfield defeated Mississinewa, 56-40, on Thursday night.

 

Thomson scored 19 to lead the Lady Norse, while Keaffaber had 13.

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By The Paper staff

 

Southwood’s boys’ basketball team scored 18 points in three of the four quarters Friday night to defeat Whitko, 75-64.

 

The win gives the Knights a 9-2 mark, 4-0 in Three Rivers Conference play.

 

Peyton Trexler led Southwood with 25 points, while Carson Blair had 19 and Alex Harmon had 13.

 

Meanwhile, Northfield defeated North Miami, 53-30 on Friday.

 

The Norse held North Miami to single digits in three of the four quarters to pick up their sixth win of the year and second win in the TRC.

 

Kyle Reed scored 15 points to lead Northfield.

 

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Participating in the Breast Cancer Awareness Golf Scramble check presentation to Parkview Wabash Foundation were (from left) Lana Garber, Ladies Golf Association; Mel Thomas, golf pro at Honeywell Golf Course; Rebecca Ulery, Parkview Wabash Hospital Mammographer ; Lee Ann George and Sue Gray, both of the Ladies Golf Association. Photo provided 

 

By The Paper staff

 

Parkview Wabash Foundation recently accepted a donation from the annual Honeywell Breast Cancer Awareness Scramble. 

 

Proceeds from the 2015 event totaled $4,400 and will be used to provide free mammograms and radiology readings for qualifying, low-income women who live in Wabash County 

 

The fifth annual Honeywell Breast Cancer Awareness Scramble for men and women took place Oct. 4, 2015. The scramble is a fundraiser to raise awareness of the importance of mammograms in the fight against breast cancer. 

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By The Paper staff

 

Wabash girls placed sixth and Wabash boys placed fourth at the Oak Hill Swimming Invitational on Saturday, Jan. 16.

 

Morgan Owens placed sixth in the 100 butterfly for the Lady Apaches.

 

The 200 yard free relay of Alexis Hartley, Mallory Hipskind, Katie Ford and Owens also placed sixth.

 

For the boys, Jacob Bruss placed fifth in the 200 IM and fourth in the 100 yard breaststroke.

 

Meanwhile, the 200 yard free relay consisting of Ryan Davis, Trace Goodwin, Cody Henderson and Bruss finished sixth, as did the 200 yard medley relay of Hipskind, Henderson, Bruss and Goodwin.

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By Eric Christiansen

 

NORTH MANCHESTER -- A 12-0 first quarter run gave the Wabash Apaches enough cushion to maintain their lead and hold off the Manchester Squires in a 47-36 Three Rivers Conference win.

 

Unlike their previous game in the Wabash County Tournament championship game two weeks earlier, the Apaches didn't allow Manchester to get comfortable, but the Squires did their best to stay in the game.

 

Manchester's Ellie Milam gave the Squires their only lead of the game when she was fouled driving to the basket 18 seconds into the game. She hit one of two free throws for a 1-0 lead, but Wabash took control.

 

Sydni Mullett scored back-to-back baskets, followed by a free throw and a basket from Bailey Yoakum to make it 7-1 with 5:11 left in the first quarter.

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