Wawasee Sports Wrap: Dec. 14
Girls Basketball
Wawasee picked up a nice road win Thursday night, 43-38, at Bethany Christian.
The Lady Warriors held Bethany without a field goal in the final quarter, outscoring the Bruins 8-4. Casey Schroeder led the Warriors with 12 points.
Caitlin Wortinger broke out of a scoring slump to finish with nine points and added four rebounds, Hannah-Marie Lamle had eight points and five boards, and Aubrey Kuhn recorded nine points and four assists.
Anya Kauffman finished with a game-high 15 points for Bethany and Tarynn Clark added 11 points.
Wawasee won the JV game 35-14. Rhian Galloway led the Warriors with eight points and four rebounds.
Wawasee (6-5) will host Warsaw Saturday night.
Swimming
The Lego pieces were moved all over Thursday night as Wawasee used leverage in defeating Plymouth in both boys and girls NLC matchups at the Wawasee Natatorium.
Wawasee had some new names atop the leaderboards in the 141-43 boys win. Brett Willaman won the IM in a lifetime-best 2:10.03, Ira Kerlin won his first-ever diving series with a lifetime-best 205.50, Brady Robinson took his first-ever 500 free with a 4:57.55 and Alex Troutman earned his first win of the year in the breaststroke at 1:08.98.
The Lady Warriors topped Plymouth 112-70, using a new school record in the breaststroke from Rileigh Atwood at 1:09.32. Atwood lowered her own mark she set at Concord two weeks ago.
Also notables from the girls win were Ella Park doubling the 200 and 500 freestyles at 2:06.69 and 5:35.46, Belle Brunner swimming a lifetime-best 28.49 to hold off Plymouth’s Leah Smith in the 50 free, and Alyssa Koch taking both the individual medley and backstroke at 2:25.14 and 1:07.89.
Wawasee will now prep for next Thursday in hosting Northridge.
Boys Basketball
In the freshman lidlifter to the Warsaw-Wawasee weekend, the Tiger boys beat Wawasee 42-17 at Wawasee.
Bishop Walters led Warsaw with 14 points. Mason Martz scored eight points and Luke Adamiec had six for the frosh Tigers, who improved to 2-0 in conference play.
Middle School Basketball
The seventh grade boys squad from Milford lost to Millersburg 44-27 Thursday night. Brendan Freeman and Jared Beer each finished with six points for Milford in the loss.
The sixth grade team from Milford and lost both the ‘A’ and ‘B’ games. Central Noble used a quick start to beat the ‘A’ team 43-35, scoring 16 points in the first quarter. Darius Lewis scored 13 points in the loss. In the ‘B’ game, Milford lost on a last-second shot to Central Noble. Nate Miller finished with seven points to pace Milford in the loss.