Valley gets 7 pins, wins at Warsaw

Cumberland, Perkins score in double figures, but third-quarter struggles doom Vikes in loss

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS

Sports Editor, RTC

Wrestling

Tippecanoe Valley 42, Warsaw 40 (Wednesday): Dalton Alber, Ian Becker, Galvin Shambaugh, Drake Montelongo, Darren Crump, Jadyn Virgil and Bazle Owens all won by fall for Valley in a road win over Warsaw Wednesday.

Valley travels to Goshen for an invitational at 9 a.m. Saturday.

IndianaMat ranks Montelongo No. 3: IndianaMat.com has ranked Valley junior Drake Montelongo No. 3 among 120-pound wrestlers that feed into the East Chicago semistate.

The top four in each weight class at semistate qualify for the state finals.

Montelongo was a semistate qualifier last year at 113.

Valley drops NorthWood, adds 3-way dual: The Valley-NorthWood wrestling dual scheduled for Jan. 21 has been canceled.

Instead, Valley will travel to Northfield for a three-team dual at 6 p.m. Jan. 20. Southwood will also participate.

Boys basketball

LaVille 58, Valley 48 (Tuesday): Nolan Cumberland scored 15 points, and Dawson Perkins added 10 for the visiting Vikings (1-6) in a loss to LaVille Tuesday.

Valley committed 18 turnovers. They were outscored 10-2 in the third quarter.

“The Vikings’ turnovers and scoring woes in the third quarter did them in again,” Valley coach Chad Patrick said in a statement.

Leyton Czarnecki scored 16 points to lead LaVille. Andrew Dill knocked down four 3-pointers and had 14, and Bobby Good added 14 points and a team-high eight rebounds.

LaVille led 28-21 at halftime.

The JV game was canceled due to contact tracing within the Valley team.

VALLEY (48) (1-6)

Braden Shepherd 3 0-0 7, Paul Leasure 1 0-0 3, Rex Kirchenstien 2 0-0 4, Nolan Cumberland 3 9-9 15, Dawson Perkins 4 2-6 10, Landon Walters 0 0-0 0, Brendyn Stump 2 0-0 5, D.J. Estep 2 0-0 4, Chase Miller 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 17 11-15 48

LAVILLE (58) (3-3)

Doyle 3 2-3 8, James 0 0-0 0, R. Wagoner 0 0-0 0, Czarnecki 4 7-10 16, Allen 0 0-0 0, Good 5 4-4 14, Dill 4 2-2 14, Plummer 1 0-0 2, G. Wagoner 2 0-0 4, Smith 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 19 15-19 58

Three-point field goals:

Valley 3 (Leasure, Shepherd, Stump),

LaVille 5 (Dill 4, Czarnecki)

Total fouls: Valley 17, LaVille 16

Fouled out: Doyle (LV)

Score by quarters

Valley 7 14 2 25 – 48

LaVille 14 14 10 20 – 58

Middle school boys basketball

TVMS 32, St. Michael 18 (Wednesday)

TVMS 30, St. Michael 26 (Wednesday)

Blain Sheetz and Tristyn Ragon scored 10 points each for the TVMS eighth-graders (3-10) in a win over St. Michael Catholic School Wednesday. Sheetz also had three rebounds. Ian Cooksey dished out five assists.

TVMS (10-4) also won the seventh grade game behind Grady Moriarty’s 10 points and five rebounds. Wes Parker added eight points.