CULVER — Peyton Hiatt iced his wrist after the Culver Academy cross-country regional Saturday.

Of all the physical hazards involved in distance running, wrist injuries aren’t often one of them. But it was Hiatt’s effort in which he hurt his wrist that symbolized what the regional meet meant and how they have grown as runners in their mental game.

And while Peyton Hiatt showed his grit, Mallory Hiatt, Peyton’s older sister, got the glory, winning the girls regional title.

FOOTBALL
BUNKER HILL — Jared Blake, Colin Silvers and Carter Little each ran for touchdowns, and Nolan Kelly returned the opening kickoff of the second half 85 yards for a touchdown to lead the Maconaquah football team to a 28-8 win over visiting Rochester Friday.
The game decided third place in the Three Rivers Conference. Both teams are 7-2.

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VOLLEYBALL
DENVER — The Rochester volleyball team trailed Whitko 9-4 in the first game of their Class 2A, Sectional 37 quarterfinal match when coach Erin Leap called timeout.
If anything, things got even worse. Finally, RHS came back.

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Rochester
7-1, 3-1 TRC North
at Maconaquah
6-2, 3-1 TRC South
7 p.m.
Much has changed since RHS and Maconaquah last met on Oct. 14, 2016. That night, they were playing for ninth place in the Three Rivers Conference.
This time, they will be playing for third place.
Both teams have changed coaches since then, and both teams have employed the double-wing offense.

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FOOTBALL
Three years after making his first career start at quarterback against Manchester, Brady Perez and the Zebras finally beat the Squires Friday.
RHS scored on touchdowns on each of their first five possessions and rolled to a 49-14 win on senior night at Barnhart Field.

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Three years after making his first career start at quarterback against Manchester, Brady Perez and the Zebras finally beat the Squires Friday.

RHS scored on touchdowns on each of their first five possessions and rolled to a 49-14 win on senior night at Barnhart Field.

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CROSS-COUNTRY
CULVER — The Culver Academy cross-country course was soft, soggy and muddy for the sectional Saturday.
That wasn’t going to keep Caston senior Mitchell Rans from making history.
Rans won his third straight individual sectional title, jumping out to a big early lead, extending it by the second mile and crossing the finish line with his index finger raised in the air.

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FOOTBALL
Manchester senior running back Delton Moore is a tough dude.
Back in February, he qualified for the IHSAA state finals in wrestling last year at 170 pounds.
But when he tried to run outside against Rochester Friday, Taylor Johnson gave a shoulder-first decleater that sent the Manchester running back immediately backwards.

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GIRLS SOCCER
LAKEVILLE — Dallas Holloway scored the game’s only goal to lead the Rochester girls soccer team to a 1-0 win over Culver in a Class 1A, Sectional 35 semifinal at Newton Park Thursday.

RHS (9-6-1) will play for their first sectional title in school history at 2 p.m. Saturday. They’ll play Argos, who took down defending sectional champion LaVille 3-0 in the first semifinal.

Hooker: Loss to Valley ‘in the past’; Valley’s Parker out vs. Wabash; Caston seeks first win over Winamac since 2012.

On its surface, the Bell game wasn’t a disaster for the Rochester football team. They outrushed Tippecanoe Valley 217-152, they held Valley workhorse tailback Cameron Parker under 100 yards and committed no turnovers. But Valley had 91 yards passing, including three Noah Miller completions to Jace Potter and Alex Morrison in the fourth quarter totaling a combined 61 yards, and Valley pulled out a 13-7 win.

VOLLEYBALL
Rochester, North Miami
The Rochester volleyball team’s route to a fourth straight sectional title will begin with a match against Whitko on Oct. 11, according to the IHSAA state tournament draw released Monday.

RHS defeated Whitko in their Three Rivers Conference match at Whitko Sept. 10. Their rematch will be in a Class 2A, Sectional 37 quarterfinal at North Miami.

FOOTBALL
AKRON — “It’s back home,” Tippecanoe Valley football player Wes Melanson said to anybody who was within earshot in a mad mass of green-and-gold-clad students and fans Friday.
That came shortly after Melanson hugged teammate Cam Parker. Both were crying tears of joy.

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Brandon Tugmon lived only one year in Rochester.
It was a very important year though.
He starred in football at Rochester High School, where he helped lead the Zebras to a Three Rivers Conference championship. He met the woman who would become his wife. And he met a college football coach who was determined to see him attend a school of which he had never heard.

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