Girls Basketball

Tippecanoe Valley’s girls basketball team finished out the regular season with a 48-41 win at Manchester Thursday night, leaving the Lady Vikings tied with Rochester for runner-up Three Rivers Conference honors at 7-2 behind Northfield’s 8-1 mark.

Sophie Bussard poured in 22 points with seven rebounds, while Emily Peterson scored 11 points with four assists, and Addy Miller notched 10 points and three steals in the win, Valley’s fourth straight headed into Sectional 21 action opposite Lakeland next Tuesday. The Vikings (19-3) scored at a 19-of-47 (40 percent) clip but led by only two points headed into the fourth quarter and made just five trips to the free throw line en route to the win.

Kennedy Fierstos scored 13 points with three assists, and Erika Kendall scored 11 with six rebounds and two assists, but the Squires (11-11) couldn’t find a third double-digit performance to match Valley’s.

Manchester drew a bye at Sectional 37 and waits to play the winner of Rochester and host Oak Hill in the late semifinal next Friday night.

Valley plays Lakeland in the Sectional 21 opener at Fairfield next Tuesday night at 6 p.m.

Swimming
Tippy Valley’s boys and girls swim teams both earned wins over Pioneer Thursday night, the boys winning by a 95-84 margin and the girls claiming a 91-82 victory.

The Vikings earned wins in 10 of 12 events. Dakota Prater and Daniel Alexander each collected four firsts in the team win.

They were both part of Valley’s winning 200 medley relay team alongside Mason Stephen and Camden Tucker (2:03.03) as well as the Vikings’ winning 400 free relay team with Chase Brower and Stephen (3:50.29). Alexander also claimed wins in the backstroke (1:09.17) and the butterfly (1:03.21), while Prater touched first in the 500 free (5:42.39) and the individual medley (2:31.29).

Brower won the 200 free (1:57.73) and 100 free (51.88), Sephen took top honors in the breaststroke (1:15.16), and
Travis Shull amassed a meet-best 230.75 score in the 1-meter dive.

The Lady Vikings earned wins in only five events, meanwhile, but used their depth to get the win.

Olivia Livengood and Mayde Fear helped their team to four wins apiece. Both were part of Valley’s two relay wins — in the 400 free relay (4:23.34) with Ava Craig and Jerzey Conley and the 200 free relay (2:00.58) with Shelby Baker and Conley. Fear also claimed the prize in the 50 free (28.49) and the backstroke (1:14.43), and Livengood won top honors in the butterfly (1:09.13) and the 500 free (6:03.45). Fear and Hostetler went one-two in the backstroke, and the home team finished one-three in the 400 free relay, the 50 free and the 500 free.

Valley’s girls will compete at the Warsaw Sectional prelims next Thursday at 5 p.m.