Wawasee Softball: Statement Made
BENTON – Wawasee crushed Fairfield, 13-2, in a five-inning softball game Monday night.
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Wawasee Softball: Falcons Still Tops In Sectional 21
BENTON — Fairfield earned back-to-back sectional titles with a 1-0 win over Wawasee Thursday night at Falcon Field.
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Wawasee Softball: Falcons Soar Past Warriors
SYRACUSE – An opportunistic Fairfield team defeated Wawasee 9-2 in softball action Monday night.
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Fairfield Rolls To Sectional Title
LAGRANGE – In the end it was the cream that rose to the top in the Lakeland Softball Sectional. Four straight days of softball action came to an end as the Fairfield Falcons claimed their second-ever softball sectional title by downing Whitko 11-1. The Falcons started their journey … Read More
Mast, Wallace Lift Falcons Over Wawasee
LAGRANGE – Maybe the expectations were too high. Maybe it was not meant to be. Maybe they just were not ready. A very promising season for the Wawasee softball team came to an abrupt end Wednesday night in the semi-finals of the Lakeland Sectional. Wednesday’s game picked up … Read More
Area Softball Teams Can’t Escape Rain
At least they tried. The softball sectional games scheduled for Tuesday night at Lakeland High School have been suspended and postponed until Wednesday night. Wawasee and Fairfield managed to play two innings before having play suspended. That game will resume Wednesday evening at 5:00 p.m. in the top … Read More
Fairfield Downs Valley In Sectional Opener
LAGRANGE – It was the fight the Lady Vikings needed to put up, but Fairfield fought a little tougher. The Tippecanoe Valley softball team watched its season draw to a close at the hands of the Lady Falcons in the opening game of the 2015 IHSAA Class 3A … Read More
Errors Costly In Wawasee’s First Loss
BENTON – Coasting along for five innings, Wawasee looked like it was settling in for it’s fourth straight win to open the 2015 softball season. Then the sixth inning came along. Two errors in the bottom of the sixth inning allowed Fairfield to plate two runs which were … Read More
Wawasee Has ‘Big Plans’ For Finals [VIDEO]
BENTON – Bob Shea may have become the architect to Wawasee softball’s tournament success. Shea, the author of the children’s book ‘Big Plans’, diagrams what it could be like to make it big through the eyes of a child. As Wawasee head coach Jared Knipper, a kindergarten teacher … Read More
Fairfield Drops Whitko In Sectional Play [VIDEO]
BENTON – It took a little longer than usual, but the Fairfield softball team eventually got the result it was looking for. Whitko played host the Falcons on Tuesday night and after a 65-minute lightning delay interrupted the game in the fifth inning, Fairfield claimed a 4-0 victory … Read More
Fairfield Conquers Wind, Wawasee [VIDEO]
SYRACUSE – Remember when it was 70 degrees in Syracuse? Yeah, crazy how much 24 hours can change things. And with two softball teams returning from spring break, it was 3A No. 7 Fairfield that did better with the acclimation to the declining weather Monday night in a … Read More
Falcons Waste Little Time Stunning Warriors
LAGRANGE – A lead-off triple and a fielder’s choice. Mathematically, that’s all it took for Fairfield to advance in the Lakeland Softball Sectional Monday night. Kaela Miller’s ringing triple leading off the game followed by an RBI groundout by Alexis Zook gave Fairfield all it needed to beat … Read More
Martz Keys Victory Over Lady Warriors
BENTON — It took one swing to completely flip the softball script Monday afternoon at Fairfield. DJ Martz crushed a two-out, two-run double to plate the first two runs of an eventual 5-0 Fairfield win over Wawasee. The double reversed what had been an all-Wawasee game up to … Read More