Dakota Snapp and Tippecanoe Valley shut out Whitko, 5-0, Wednesday afternoon. (File photo by Mike Deak)

GRACE WOMEN 2, GEORGETOWN 0

Grace’s women’s soccer team completed an impressive non-conference season on Wednesday with a 2-0 win at Georgetown.

The Lady Lancers enter Crossroads League play next week with a sterling 8-1 record and winners of four straight matches. Grace’s only blemish so far this season was a 1-0 overtime defeat at No. 19 Embry-Riddle (Ariz.).

A pair of second-half goals by Anna Kuhl and Flavia Faria lifted the Lady Lancers to the road victory over the Tigers (3-4).

For the match, Grace outshot Georgetown 17-5. The Lady Lancers’ defense held the Tigers without a corner kick, and Georgetown only mustered three shots on goal.

Bethany Blackwood saved all three chances for a 90-minute shutout as Grace’s goalkeeper. The backline of Kuhl, Liz Aalbue, Kristen Bellinger and Aubrey Feipel gave the Tigers trouble attacking.

Grace was on the attack from the onset of Wednesday’s match. Jenni Phillips tried a pair of shots less than three minutes into the game.

The Lady Lancers consistently fired shots at the Tigers’ nets, typically from shots by Phillips, Joana Schimmel and Sacia Hanson.

But the Tigers held Grace off the scoreboard in the first half despite 10 shots by the Lady Lancers.

Grace needed but a few minutes in the second half to find the back of the net. The Lady Lancers earned an indirect free kick in the 51st minute. Allison Vroon set up Kuhl for the eventual game-winning goal at the 50:57 mark.

The insurance goal for Grace came 14 minutes later. Vroon and Liz Van Wormer teamed up on an attack, assisting Faria at the 64:00 mark for the final 2-0 scoreline.

Grace held Georgetown to just two shots over the final 45 minutes; the Tigers had virtually no opportunity to close the gap on Grace in the second half.

Schimmel, Hanson and Van Wormer led all players with three shots, and Phillips and Kuhl each shot twice.

The Lady Lancers kick off the Crossroads League season at home on Sept. 26 against Huntington.

TIPPECANOE VALLEY BOYS 5, WHITKO 0

Valley won its second straight match Wednesday, blanking Whitko in South Whitley.

Building on a home 4-1 win last week against Peru, Tippecanoe Valley racked up five more goals against its Three Rivers Conference rivals. Valley jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first half with goals from Jacob Bailey, Arturo Rosas and Uvaldo Gutierrez.

Caleb Pentgen and Harrison Vining added goals in the second half for the Vikings, which in its two wins have more goals (9) than it scored in its first nine losses of the season (8).

Alexis Hernandez earned the shutout, corralling all four Whitko shots.

Valley (2-9, 2-5 TRC) will visit Lakeland Christian Academy Thursday afternoon.

WARSAW 3, CULVER ACADEMY 1

The Lady Tigers played its first home game since the first of the month, and looked sharp in a shutout of Culver Academy.

Abby Steffensmeier lifted the offense, scoring her first of two goals in the first half off a long feed from Dayle Harvey. Steffensmeier made it two after stealing a Culver pass and working her magic as a forward should into the back of the net.

Audrey Grimm then set up Delaney Taylor for the insurance late in the second half, pushing Warsaw to its ninth win of the season.

Kaylee Patton earned her ninth win of the season in between the pipes, the lone goal coming in garbage time.

Rilee Groninger netted the only goal of the JV match to lift Warsaw to a 1-0 win over the Academy.

Warsaw (9-2-1) will host Wawasee Saturday in Northern Lakes Conference play.