Valley sports briefs: Volleyball beats Jimtown in 3, will play NorthWood next

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS

Sports Editor, RTC

Volleyball

Tippecanoe Valley def. Jimtown, 25-17, 25-18, 25-17 (Thursday): The host Lady Vikings beat Jimtown in a Class 3A, Sectional 21 quarterfinal Thursday.

Valley (14-14) will play No. 9 NorthWood in a semifinal at 11 a.m. Saturday.

In Thursday’s other quarterfinal, Wawasee knocked off West Noble 25-12, 25-15, 25-18. Wawasee will next play Lakeland at approximately 12:30 p.m. Saturday in the second semifinal at Valley.

NorthWood is the defending sectional champion.

Middle school football

Urey 22, TVMS 6 (Tuesday): Brandon Stiles ran for 98 yards and a touchdown, and Wyatt Hart had 29 yards rushing for TVMS in a road loss to Urey Tuesday.

Asher McGriff led the defense with eight tackles, including one for loss. Deondre Hamilton and Stiles had five tackles each, Grady Moriarty had four tackles, and Carlos Gonsalez had a sack.