Warsaw On Top Of Both All-Sports Tallies
GOSHEN – The Warsaw Tigers sit atop the Northern Lakes Conference in both boys and girls sports after the final tallies were counted in the All-Sports standings.
Warsaw finished first with 115 points in the boys standings, secured after its runner-up finish at the NLC Golf Championships at McCormick Creek. Taking titles in track, cross country, basketball and a co-championship in baseball, along with a runner-up spot in golf and third-place finish in swimming gave Warsaw big numbers.
Northridge was second at 111 points, taking the title in both golf and swimming. The Raiders were runner-up in cross country, continuing its annual excellence in the three sports.
Goshen started out hot, taking the soccer title and runner-up marks in tennis and wrestling, then coming back to finish second in track. The RedHawks settled at 104 points in a solid third-place finish.
Plymouth, with titles in tennis and co-champs in baseball, were fourth at 95 points with NorthWood fifth at 93 points. Football champion Concord was sixth at 91 points, with wrestling champion Elkhart Memorial seventh at 68 points and Wawasee in eighth at 43 points.
Warsaw and Northridge tied for the girls title at 112 points, with seemingly a meaningless conference softball game actually deciding the girls All-Sport winner. Elkhart Memorial’s 6-5 rally win at Warsaw on the final day of the softball season took two points from Warsaw, which left Warsaw with four points instead of six that would have tied Memorial for sixth place. Instead, the four points for Warsaw and the 14 Ridge got for taking second place in softball gave the two teams a share of the banner for their respective athletic departments.
Warsaw won the track, cross country and soccer titles, all three edging Northridge’s runner-up status. Warsaw also finished second in volleyball, basketball and were third in tennis. Northridge won swimming and basketball titles.
Concord was third with 90 points and golf champion NorthWood was fourth with 76 points.
There was a logjam for the final four spots, with Goshen taking fifth at 69 points while Memorial and Wawasee were tied for sixth with 66 points. Memorial won the volleyball title and were runner-up in the tennis circuit while Wawasee took the softball title, were second in golf and third in swimming. Plymouth was eighth at 57 points despite a tennis title.