BOYS BASKETBALL
Daunte Majors scored 13 of his game-high 15 points in the second half to lead the Peru boys basketball team to a 43-36 win over Rochester Friday.
D.J. Fuller added nine for Peru, and Treyden Curtis hit a 3-pointer that put Peru back up by four points in the fourth quarter right after a Peru timeout.

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BOYS SWIMMING
WARSAW — Rochester’s Mason Beall broke the school record in the 100 freestyle and also qualified for the finals in the 200 and 500 freestyles at the Warsaw sectional preliminaries Thursday.
Beall swam the opening leg of the 400 freestyle relay, the final event of the meet. He swam his leg in 48.82 seconds. The previous school record was 49.28 seconds set by Lance Musgrave in 1982.

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BOYS BASKETBALL
NAPPANEE — Ben Vincent scored 12 of his game-high 20 points in the fourth quarter, and Trent Edwards added 11 to give the NorthWood boys basketball team a 51-45 win over Tippecanoe Valley at the Panther Pit Wednesday.
Tanner Trippiedi scored 15, Parkur Dalrymple had 13, and Cam Parker had nine while holding Edwards under his 13-point-per-game average on defense.

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Boys basketball
The following boys basketball games scheduled for Tuesday were postponed due to inclement weather:
• The Triton-Rochester game has been rescheduled for Saturday. Start time is 1 p.m./2:30 p.m. (JV/Varsity) at RHS. Mini cheer camp will also be held.

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Boys basketball
Triton (7-9) at Rochester (8-9), 6 p.m./7:30 p.m. (JV/Varsity): From Jake Everett to Colton Keel to Austin Davis to Clay Yeo to Grant Johnson to Ross Johnson, Triton has had a legacy of strong big men since Jason Groves became coach in February 2005.

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WABASH — Wabash sophomore boys basketball player Jasper Walter had been receiving the occasional varsity minutes while also playing full-time for the Wabash JV team.

That time on the JV team might be heading to a close after what Walter did to visiting Rochester Friday.

Walter scored 20 of his game-high 26 points in the fourth quarter, and Trenton Daughtry added 20 points as the Apaches beat RHS 65-50.

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FORT WAYNE — Rugged but poised, tough in mind and body, survivors and achievers, Rochester’s Drew Sailors and Zane Gilbreath advanced to the IHSAA state wrestling finals from the New Haven semistate at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum Saturday.

Sailors finished second at 160 pounds. Gilbreath finished second at 170 pounds. The top four in each weight class advanced to state.

BOYS BASKETBALL
WABASH — The Rochester boys basketball team had a 15-point lead after one quarter against Wabash Friday.
They had an 11-point lead in the third quarter. They had a five-point lead heading into the fourth quarter. They had a two-point lead with 6:43 left.

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BOYS BASKETBALL
CULVER — Ian Kindig scored 15 points, Owen Nifong had 13, and Michael Richard had 10 to lead the Argos boys basketball team to a 66-17 win over host Culver and their third straight Bell game win at John R. Nelson Gymnasium Thursday.
The Class 1A, No. 11 Dragons scored the first 20 points of the game, holding Culver scoreless until a Hunter Manns 3-pointer with one second left in the first quarter.

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BOYS BASKETBALL
Alex Ahnafield notched a double-double with 15 points and 12 rebounds, and two other Rochester players scored in double figures as the Zebras beat Southwood 64-57 at the RHS gym Tuesday.
Brady Perez had 15 points, including a two-handed driving dunk in the first half, and Nick Allen had 14 for RHS, who won their third straight game to improve to 8-8 overall and 3-3 in the Three Rivers Conference.

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GIRLS BASKETBALL
LIGONIER — Maddie Schermerhorn scored on a putback with 7.3 seconds left to give the West Noble girls basketball team a 41-39 win over Tippecanoe Valley in the Class 3A, Sectional 21 final at West Noble Monday.
Schermerhorn was fouled on the play but missed the ensuing free throw. Valley’s Sophie Bussard dribbled up the floor but was trapped and her bounce pass was stolen as time expired.

GIRLS BASKETBALL
LIGONIER — There were seemingly two distinct parts to the girls basketball game between Tippecanoe Valley and Lakeland in a Class 3A, Sectional 21 semifinal at West Noble High School Saturday.
The first involved Valley jumping out to an 18-3 lead. The second involved Valley senior guard-forward Sophie Bussard twirling free throw after free throw after free throw to maintain that lead.

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GIRLS BASKETBALL
Manchester 38, Rochester 29
NORTH MANCHESTER — Eva Bazzoni and Kennedy Fierstos scored 10 points each, and the Manchester defense held Rochester to one point in the second quarter en route to a 38-29 win in a Class 2A, Sectional 37 quarterfinal Friday.
Kaitlin Rogers scored 11 points to lead the Lady Zs, who finished 8-14.

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We’ve reached the point in professional football where the quarterback of one of the teams in the Super Bowl is eight years older the coach of the other.
We’ve also reached the point where the Patriots are playing the Rams in the Super Bowl for the first time in 17 years, so it’s crazy to note that the Patriots have the same coach and the same quarterback they did in 2002.

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