Baseball
Tippecanoe Valley’s baseball team was swept by host John Glenn, 10-0 and 13-3 in a doubleheader in Walkerton Saturday.

Drew Hartman recorded Valley’s only hit against Nathan Blodgett in game one, a six-inning shutout. Blodgett walked one and struck out seven in the complete-game win.

Jaxon Torpy took the pitching loss for Valley, surrendering two hits with five walks and two strikeouts for three earned runs in 2 2/3 innings of work.

Valley’s lineup collected seven hits but was held to a single run in the first, third and fifth innings, leaving nine stranded on base in the 13-3 capper. Ethan Yates tallied three hits and two RBIs for Valley in that loss, and Adam Myers scored two runs.

Hartman got the pitching loss, giving up six hits and three walks with a strikeout for nine Glenn runs — seven earned — in just one inning as the Falcons responded to a one-run top of the first with five runs in the bottom half of the inning.

Easton Stephens batted in five runs to help his cause on the mound, where he earned the win allowing six hits with two walks and two strikeouts for two earned runs in four innings of work.

Valley slides to 2-10.

The Vikings play a Three Rivers Conference game at Manchester Mondayu.

Boys Golf
Tippecanoe Valley’s boys golf team placed 12th at the Rochester Invitational Saturday.

The Vikings tallied a 447 team score, while Culver Military Academy won the invite with a 329, and Logansport finished three strokes back for runner-up honors.

Cade Brouyette shot 81 to finish in a four-way tie for fourth place. Carter Kistler shot 105, Corey Fincher carded 123, Bryce Madeford turned in a 138, and Billy Gillman shot 140 for the Vikings.

Winamac’s Harley Pugh shot 78 for low medalist honors at the 15-team invite.

Girls Tennis
Valley’s girls tennis team went 0-2 at the Wabash Invitational Saturday, falling 4-1 to Whitko and 5-0 to host Wabash.

Kaleigh Shumaker and Morgan Gilbertson collected the Lady Vikings its only win of the day, a 6-4, 7-6(5) win over Whitko’s Katherine Ousley and Izzy Rayner at 2 doubles. Lea Stouder lost 0-2 to Jackie Werstler at 1 singles in the Whitko match, Makayla Sandbakken fell 2-1 to Natalie Iholtz at 2 singles, and Courtney Randall lost 2-0 to Kayla Schipper at 3 singles.

Tiphanie Hodge and Makenna Bradley lost 4-4 to Jenna VanCurren and Mahkinsey Myers in a competitive 1 doubles match. Hodge and Bradley also took nine games from Wabash’s Alicyn Sheets and Halle Miller before falling 7-5, 6-4. Shumaker and Gilbertson took four games from Lena Cordes and Camille Kugler in the second set of their 2 doubs match, eventually losing 6-1, 6-4.

Softball

Valley had a rough go in its home Tippecanoe Valley Invite on Saturday, losing big to both Fort Wayne Concordia and Whitko.

Concordia took a 2-1 lead into the second inning, but soon found itself up big after a three-run second and eight-run third in an eventual 14-1 victory over the Vikings. Whitko hung a 13-spot in the second inning to rout Tippy in a 20-0 final in game two.

Against Concordia, Ally Betten drove in Sydney Howard to cut the Concordia lead over Valley to 2-1. But behind the monster game from Kennedy Steele and Mariah Perez helped the Cadets regain control.

Steele and Perez combined for seven hits and eight RBIs, including a three-run Steele homer in the third, that blew the game wide open. Concordia had 17 hits in all and benefitted from another five Valley errors. The Vikings managed just six hits in the contest.

Game two was much less of a matchup as Whitko asserted itself early and often, and didn’t let Valley even get started.

Ellie Snep threw a perfect game, striking out 11.

Snep didn’t need much help, but got a copious amount of support. Snep herself had three hits and four RBIs, Emmalee Duggins and Shi Bradley combined for six hits, five runs scored and four RBIs, and Reannon Hopkins had three RBIs.

Valley’s miscues in the field in the Concordia game carried over to the Whitko contest, Valley committing 10 errors in the second game.

Tippecanoe Valley (3-8) will visit Manchester on Monday.