Winter sports sites: Valley to host girls sectional; Caston, Culver to host boys sectionals

Rochester girls baskeball to travel to Wabash, boys to Manchester

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS

Sports Editor, RTC

Tippecanoe Valley will host a Class 3A girls basketball sectional, and Caston and Culver will both host Class 1A boys basketball sectionals, per the IHSAA Executive Committee vote on winter sports postseason sites taken at its Aug. 26 meeting.

Valley will host Class 3A, Sectional 20 from Feb. 3-7. Valley has won the sectional the last two times it has hosted in 2007 and 2016.

Meanwhile, Caston and Culver will both host Class 1A boys basketball sectionals from March 3-7. Caston will host Sectional 50, and Culver will host Sectional 51.

In other winter sports postseason news, Winamac will remain a girls basketball regional site; meanwhile, Caston was not selected as a regional site for the first time in over two decades.

Also, Rochester will not host a girls wrestling regional, as it did last year in the inaugural state tournament. In addition, the IHSAA has moved the girls wrestling regionals from a Friday to a Saturday. Lafayette Jeff will now host that regional Jan. 10. 

Sectionals and the state finals will remain on Fridays on Jan. 2 and Jan. 16, respectively.

Also, the girls wrestling sectional that included Caston and Pioneer has moved from Western to Hamilton Heights.

And in one last bit of fall sports site news, Valley will host a Unified Flag Football sectional Oct. 4. The six-team grouping also includes Carroll (Fort Wayne), Homestead, Manchester, New Haven and Warsaw.

Here is a list of postseason host sites for all winter sports:

Girls basketball (Feb. 3-7)

Class 2A, Sectional 38 at Wabash: Eastern (Greentown), Lewis Cass, Manchester, Oak Hill, ROCHESTER, Wabash

Class 3A, Sectional 20 at TIPPECANOE VALLEY: Columbia City, Fairfield, NorthWood, TIPPECANOE VALLEY, Wawasee, West Noble

Class 1A, Sectional 50 at North White: CASTON, DeMotte Christian, North Newton, North White, PIONEER, South Newton, Tri-County, West Central

Class 1A, Sectional 51 at Oregon-Davis: ARGOS, CULVER, Elkhart Christian, North Judson, Oregon-Davis, South Central (Union Mills), Trinity Greenlawn, Triton

Class 2A, Sectional 34 at LaVille: Bremen, Jimtown, Knox, LaVille, South Bend Career Academy, WINAMAC

Regionals (Feb. 14): LaPorte, Marion, Jimtown, Belmont, WINAMAC, Lapel, Warsaw, Frankfort

Semistates (Feb. 21): LaPorte, Logansport, Huntington North, Frankfort

State finals (Feb. 28): Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis

Boys basketball (March 3-7)

Class 2A, Sectional 38 at Manchester: Eastern (Greentown), Lewis Cass, Manchester, Oak Hill, ROCHESTER, Wabash

Class 3A, Sectional 20 at Columbia City: Columbia City, Fairfield, NorthWood, TIPPECANOE VALLEY, Wawasee, West Noble

Class 1A, Sectional 50 at CASTON: CASTON, DeMotte Christian, North Newton, North White, PIONEER, South Newton, Tri-County, West Central

Class 1A, Sectional 51 at CULVER: ARGOS, CULVER, Elkhart Christian, North Judson, Oregon-Davis, South Central (Union Mills), Trinity Greenlawn, Triton

Class 2A, Sectional 34 at LaVille: Bremen, Jimtown, Knox, LaVille, South Bend Career Academy, WINAMAC

Regionals (March 14): Michigan City, Logansport, Huntington North, New Castle, North Judson, Lapel, Plymouth, Frankfort

Semistates (March 21): Elkhart, Logansport, Lafayette Jeff, Muncie Central

State finals (March 28): Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis

Girls swimming (Feb. 5-7)

Sectional 4 at Warsaw: Columbia City, CULVER, Culver Academy, Lewis Cass, Logansport, Manchester, Northfield, Oregon-Davis, PIONEER, Plymouth, ROCHESTER, TIPPECANOE VALLEY, Wabash, Warsaw

Diving regional (Feb. 10): at Mishawaka

State finals (Feb. 13-14): at Indiana University Natatorium, Indianapolis

Boys swimming (Feb. 19-21)

Sectional 4 at Warsaw: Columbia City, CULVER, Culver Academy, Lewis Cass, Logansport, Manchester, Northfield, Oregon-Davis, PIONEER, Plymouth, ROCHESTER, TIPPECANOE VALLEY, Wabash, Warsaw

Diving regional (Feb. 24): at Mishawaka

State finals (Feb. 27-28): at Indiana University Natatorium, Indianapolis

Girls wrestling (Jan. 2)

Sectional 5 at Columbia City: Carroll (Fort Wayne), Churubusco, Columbia City, Fort Wayne Luers, Fort Wayne North Side, Fort Wayne Northrop, Fort Wayne Snider, Fort Wayne South Side, Fort Wayne Wayne, Homestead, Huntington North, New Haven, Norwell, ROCHESTER, Wabash, Whitko

Sectional 8 at Hamilton Heights: CASTON, Hamilton Heights, Kokomo, Lewis Cass, Logansport, Maconaquah, Manchester, North Miami, Northfield, Northwestern, Peru, PIONEER, Taylor, Tipton, Tri-Central, Western

Sectional 2 at Hobart: Boone Grove, Chesterton, CULVER, Culver Academy, Hobart, Kankakee Valley, Knox, LaPorte, Michigan City, New Prairie, North Judson, Portage, Valparaiso, West Central, Wheeler, WINAMAC

Regionals (Jan. 10): at Lafayette Jeff (feeder sectionals include Columbia City, Hamilton Heights), at Plymouth (feeder sectionals include Hobart)

State finals (Jan. 16): at Indiana State Fairgrounds and Event Center, Indianapolis

Boys wrestling (Jan. 31)

Sectional 6 at Plymouth: Bremen, CASTON, CULVER, Culver Academy, North Judson, Plymouth, ROCHESTER, Triton, Warsaw, WINAMAC

Sectional 13 at Peru: Huntington North, Lewis Cass, Maconaquah, Manchester, North Miami, Northfield, Peru, Southwood, TIPPECANOE VALLEY, Wabash

Sectional 7 at Twin Lakes: Benton Central, Frontier, Logansport, North White, PIONEER, Rensselaer, Tri-County, Twin Lakes, West Central

Regionals (Feb. 7): at Rochester (feeder sectionals include Plymouth), at Peru (feeder sectionals include Peru), at Logansport (feeder sectionals include Twin Lakes)

Semistates (Feb. 14): at East Chicago (feeder regionals include Rochester, Logansport), at Fort Wayne’s Allen County War Memorial Coliseum (feeder regionals include Peru)

State finals (Feb. 20-21): at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis

Unified Flag Football (Oct. 4)

Sectional 3 at TIPPECANOE VALLEY: Carroll (Fort Wayne), Homestead, Manchester, New Haven, TIPPECANOE VALLEY, Warsaw

Regionals (Oct. 11): at South Bend Adams (feeder sectionals include VALLEY),

State finals (Oct. 18): at Grand Park Sports Events Center, Westfield