VALPARAISO — Young Gavin Van Kley was recently part of a winning team when his seven and eight-year-olds Team Orange won the championship title at The Courts in Valparaiso. Not only did they w…
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DeMOTTE — After seven years as Covenant Christian’s boy’s basketball coach, John Heerema is focusing all of his energy on his full-time job.
DEMOTTE — One Knight and One Kougar were recently named as IBCA/Subway All-State Honorable Mentions. Covenant Christian senior Ben Lins continued to rack up the honors as he and former Knight …
NEW CASTLE — Looking ahead past the current sports shut-down, the 2020 Raymond James Hall of Fame Classic field was announced for the games scheduled to take place on Dec. 29, and Dec. 30 at t…
WHEATFIELD — The eighth-grade Lady Kougars brought the trophy back to Kankakee Valley Middle School this year after losing their own tournament to Rensselaer Central Middle School last year. T…
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CEDAR LAKE — Despite a relatively upbeat season, the Kougar Boys’ Basketball team was one-and-done at the hands of a decidedly more athletic Hanover Central on March 3. KV lost the game by 20 …
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KOUTS — An abysmal third quarter doomed Covenant Christian in the opening game of the 1A Sectional tournament at Kouts, played on Wednesday . The Senators used a 22 – 2 run to overcome a halft…
WINAMAC — Rensselaer Central appeared poised to strike at any moment against North Newton Tuesday.
DEMOTTE — The Covenant Christian Knights honored their three seniors at their last home game of the season. Seniors Ben Lins, Danny Bultema and Cade Walstra were celebrated as the Knights blew…
WHEATFIELD — Playing on the high school floor on Saturday, Feb. 29, the KVMS eighth-grade girls took on their Clark counterparts but fell in both the A-team and B-Team games. The A-team fell 3…
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DeMotte Christian girls basketball finished the season with two championship teams as the 8th and 7th grade teams won their conference championships, capped off with the 8th graders claiming a…
RENSSELAER — As many as five teams will likely challenge for a Class 2A Sectional 37 title at Winamac next week.
WOLCOTT — Less than 20 miles separate Tri-County and Frontier, but the rivals will take the long bus ride to Caston to face off in the first game of the Class A Sectional 52 tournament next week.
DeMOTTE — Two teams capable of pulling the upset at the Kouts Class A Sectional 49 tournament — Covenant Christian and Washington Township — will do battle on the first night of sectional next week.
WHEATFIELD — Less than two weeks will pass before Hanover Central and Kankakee Valley do battle again.
WHEATFIELD — Between the junior varsity and varsity boys’ basketball games on Saturday, Feb. 22, the team took time to honor the contributions of the two senior members of the team – Gavin Her…
Hebron High School recognized the 30th anniversary of the 1990 boys’ basketball team’s sectional championship Friday at halftime of the Hawks’ game with Kankakee Valley. The ’90 Hawks finished…
CROWN POINT — The Kankakee Valley wrestling team had advanced nine grapplers to the Regional Meet in Crown Point held on Saturday, Feb. 8. Three wrestlers earned the right to move on to the Ea…
WHITING — The Covenant Christian Knights traveled to the shores of Lake Michigan to take on the Whiting Oilers and managed to squeak out a tough win despite being down by one point with just 1…
VALPARAISO — The Covenant Christian Knights needed little effort to roll over the Wheeler Bearcats on Feb. 11, beating them 60 – 26, despite the loss of services of senior Cade Walstra. The Kn…
HEBRON — Kankakee Valley coach Bill Shepherd believes his team has turned a corner on the defensive side of the court.
VALPARAISO — The Lady Knights of Covenant Christian should have won their first sectional game handily but happy feet and poor free-throw shooting doomed the talented team. The Knights fell 38…
KNOX — Having the bye put the Kankakee Valley Lady Kougars in one of the semi-final games held Friday, Feb. 7, at Knox. They took on the Wheeler Lady Bearcats and it really wasn’t much of a ch…
KNOX — The Lady Kougars and the Knox Lady Redskins were destined to meet in the finals of the Knox Sectionals and it was destined to be a fairly low-scoring tough game. When the two teams met …
