BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS Sports Editor, RTC The Tippecanoe Valley boys basketball team won 20 games last year with defense. They ranked No. 10 in the state in defensive scoring average, grinding teams into the floor with its physicality. But since then, there has been a coaching change. Joe Luce has left and now coaches Wawasee, and Eli Henson has arrived after a five-year run at Manchester. Henson relies on a much faster tempo than Luce did, and the players are getting adjusted. H

Wise leads with 13, Bussard adds 9 off bench BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS Sports Editor, RTC Girls basketball Dalynne Bussard Tippecanoe Valley 47, Triton 30 (Tuesday): Hadley Wise scored 13 points, and Dalynne Bussard added nine off the bench, and the Valley girls basketball team held host Triton scoreless in the second quarter at The Trojan Trench Tuesday as they won their fourth straight game. Bussard also had a team-high six rebounds. Nine different Valley players scored. Valley he

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS Sports Editor, RTC Izzy Woodruff Malaynie Costello AKRON — The Tippecanoe Valley girls basketball team overcame Hadley Wise’s foul trouble and took advantage of Serenity Nava’s foul trouble to pull away from Knox in the second half and win 67-35 in their Indiana Northern State Conference opener at Rita Price Simpson Court Thursday. Savana Miller scored a career-high 15 points off the bench to

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS Sports Editor, RTC Gaby Gonzalez CULVER — Hadley Wise scored seven of her game-high 14 points in the second quarter, and Gaby Gonzalez added 12 to lead the Tippecanoe Valley girls basketball team to a 51-41 road win over Culver Academy at Fleet Gymnasium Tuesday. Valley also got 17 bench points, including seven from Savana Miller, six from Betty Shepherd and four from Dalynne Bussard. Mimi Smith led Culver Academy with 13 points.  Valley improved to 2-1. Cu

Gonzalez adds 14 BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS Sports Editor, RTC Girls basketball Hadley Wise Savana Miller Tippecanoe Valley 59, Northwestern 6 (Thursday): Hadley Wise hit three 3-pointers and scored a game-high 21 points, and Gaby Gonzalez added 14 for host Valley in a rout of Northwestern Thursday. Izzy Woodruff added six points, and Savana Miller and Betty Shepherd added five each. Valley held Northwestern

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS Sports Editor, RTC Girls basketball The Knox-Tippecanoe Valley girls basketball game has been moved up from Friday to Thursday due to the success of Knox’s football team. The varsity game will start at 7:30 p.m. at Valley.

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS Sports Editor, RTC Boys tennis Tippecanoe Valley No. 1 singles player William Mellott was named first-team All-Indiana Northern State Conference in voting done by the conference’s coaches and released to the media. Valley went 2-2 in conference play and finished in third in the conference tournament. Bremen’s Chase Devine was voted conference MVP. All-INSC Chase Devine (Bremen), Carson Gingerich (Jimtown), Corban VanVuren (Bremen), Maddux Hickman (Bremen),

Wise makes honorable mention BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS Sports Editor, RTC Betty Shepherd Gaby Gonzalez Hadley Wise Volleyball Tippecanoe Valley’s Betty Shepherd and Gaby Gonzalez have been selected first-team All-Indiana Northern State Conference and teammate Hadley Wise has been named honorable mention according to voting done by the conference’s coaches and released to the media. Shepherd had a team-high 216 kills, 10 aces, 31 b

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS Sports Editor, RTC Girls soccer Tippecanoe Valley senior Linday Peterson was named first-team All-Indiana Northern State Conference in voting done by the conference’s coaches and released to the media. In addition, teammate Kherington Craft was named honorable mention All-INSC. Avary Malcom of Class 1A state runner-up Bremen was named conference MVP. All-INSC Lindsey Byrd (Bremen), Isabella Calentine (Bremen), Avary Malcom (Bremen), Taylor Rodriguez (Bremen

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS Sports Editor, RTC Boys soccer Tippecanoe Valley’s Damian Garcia and Pablo Arriaga were both named first-team All-Indiana Northern State Conference for boys soccer in voting done by the conference’s coaches and released to the media. Also, senior Chris Rosas was named honorable mention All-INSC. Garcia led the team with 12 goals, and Arriaga was second with seven. Arriaga also had a team-high six assists. Rosas was second with four. Bremen’s Nathan Schnaibl