Senior athletes Alex Uecker (left) and Liesl Davenport (right) present the North Central Conference All Sports Award to Steve Doepker, Huntington North High School interim principal (center), during the Viking football game on Friday, Aug. 27. The annual award is given to the NCC school that has the most conference championships in a season. Only Huntington North and Kokomo have won the award twice.

Sophomore Isaac Wust notched a "hat trick" of three goals to lead the Huntington North High School boys' varsity soccer team to a 4-1 victory over host Columbia City on Saturday, Sept. 4.

The Vikings got their fourth win in six outings by tallying three first-half goals while holding the Eagles scoreless.

Wust, who has seven goals on the campaign, notched one of his scores against Columbia City of on a direct kick, and another on a penalty kick.

Tayler Johnson aided the HNHS cause by scoring the remaining goal and having an assist on one of Wust's.

Sophomore Robin Karst led another solid pack outing by the Huntington North High School girls' cross country team as it placed second on Saturday, Sept. 4, at the Asics-Marion High School Invitational.

Karst placed seventh in 19:32.27 to pace HNHS to a total of 66 points, 21 behind champion Noblesville and 70 ahead of third place finisher Homestead among 24 teams competing.

Photo by Jessica Williams.

Huntington University women's tennis Haley Neiderhiser readies for a backhand return during her match at No. 1 singles against visiting Goshen on Saturday, Sept. 4.

Photo by Jessica Williams.

Huntington University men's tennis player Augusto Velez extends on the follow-through of a backhand during his match at No. 1 singles against visiting Goshen College on Saturday, Sept. 4.

It was a day of personal bests for the Huntington North High School varsity cross country team as it placed seventh among 37 teams Saturday at the Terre Haute Savings Bank State Preview.

The Vikings' strong showing against some of the best teams in the state came behind six personal best runs in the varsity division. Led by senior Jake Crosley, who placed 30th in 16:46.0, the Vikings tallied 281 points for their seventh place.

The Huntington North High School varsity volleyball team suffered through a tough day at the Logansport Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 4, losing all four of its matches.

Falling to 2-8 on the season, the Lady Vikings fell to Logansport in two games in their opener, 9-25, 9-25, and then did better but still went two and out against Manchester, 22-25, 15-25. They then took both South Bend Washington and Portage to three games before falling.

Liz Conley fired a medalist 38 to lead the Huntington North High School girls' golf team to an easy victory over visiting Tippecanoe Valley and Southwood at LaFontaine Golf Course on Thursday, Sept. 2.

The Lady Vikings' total of 179 was 46 strokes better than Southwood's 225, and Tippecanoe Valley was well off the pace with a 259.

Photo by Andre B. Laird.

Austin Shoemaker rushed for three of his four touchdowns in the fourth quarter to lead the Huntington North High School football team to a comeback 31-24 victory over host Logansport on Friday, Sept. 3.

The Vikings, 1-2, trailed 24-10 entering the final quarter before Shoemaker, who finished with 254 yards rushing, scored on runs of 2, 22 and 34 yards.

Shoemaker notched the Vikes' first score on an 11-yard jaunt.

Logansport jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the first quarter and led 17-10 at halftime.

The Huntington North varsity volleyball team picked up a close win against visiting Fort Wayne North Side in five games on Thursday, Sept. 2.

Scores were 13-25, 25-23, 25-7, 20-25 and 15-7.
Este Stoffel tallied 13 kills and 12 digs for the Lady Vikings, now 2-4.

Alexis Wygant added 11 kills, 19 digs and two solo blocks. Kayla Koch dished out 34 assists, and Taylor Hiers added 20 digs.

For the junior varsity Lady Viking squad, Marisa Kitts picked up nine digs as the home team fell 18-25, 24-25 to drop to 8-2 on the season.

The Lady Eagles varsity volleyball team won a home match with the Fort Wayne Angels at the Salamonie School Gym on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 25-10, 25-14, and 25-20.

Kaleigh Shultz had six blocks, seven digs, 10 assists, 8 kills and 4 aces.

Marina Stoffel had five blocks, five digs, three as-sists, five kills and five aces.

Kelsey Featherston had 10 digs, two assists, six kills and three aces.

Kaitlin Layman had six digs, and Dana Stoffel had 12 digs and three kills.

Kaylee Johnson added seven digs and four aces.

The Huntington University women's tennis team was stunned 9-0 by visiting Taylor in its first match of the season on Tuesday, Aug. 31.

Haley Neiderhiser and Erica Abel put up the best singles fights for HU at No. 1 and No. 5, respectively, with scores of 6-4, 6-0.

At No. 1 doubles, Neiderhiser and Joni Holsem had the best HU performance with an 8-5 score.

The Huntington University men's tennis team slipped by visiting Taylor in its season opener 5-4 on Tuesday, Aug. 31.

In singles, Vladislav Khudizy and Jose Hungria, both freshmen, and Jameel Brenneman, a junior, each had wins. Khudizy won 6-0, 6-2 at No. 2; Hungria won 6-0, 6-2 at No. 3; and Brenneman won 6-2, 6-2 at No. 5.

In doubles, Khudizy and Augusto Velez defeated their opponents 8-5 at No. 1, and Jameel Brenneman and his brother, Jon Brenneman, won their match 8-5 at No. 3.

A young Huntington University women's soccer team dropped its first game of the season to host Olivet College (MI) 3-1 on Wednesday, Sept. 1.

With 19 of its 25 members being freshman and sophomores, Huntington found itself in a hole quickly, as Olivet scored its first goal in just over a minute and one-half into the game. The Foresters were able to re-cover just over 11 minutes later with a goal of their own by Claire Creasy to tie the game.

The Comets responded with a second goal at the 23rd minute, and net its final goal with just 12 minutes to go to secure the win.

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Parkview Huntington Family YMCA and Zay Leasing and Rentals are proud to announce their first annual Family Fitness 5K on Sept. 18. The 5K event starts at 8 a.m. with registrations ending at 7:45 a.m.

Awards will be given to the top three runners in each age group, including the novice division. The novice division will be open to runners who are competing in their first 5K. A 1/2-mile run/walk for kids 10 and under will begin at 9:30 a.m. All children will receive a reward for participating.

Lady Viking Kelsey Hollowell (third from right) works hard for possession of the ball during the Huntington North High School girls' soccer game against visiting Columbia City on Wednesday, Sept. 1. The Lady Vikings were up 1-0 at halftime.

The Huntington Lady Eagles homeschool volleyball team lost to the Wells Area Christian Home Educators Lady Warriors in five sets, with scores of 22-25, 22-25, 25-23, 25-21 and 11-15.

Kaleigh Shultz had seven kills, four aces and 15 assists to lead Huntington. Marina Stoffel had six kills, four aces, 32 digs and 10 blocks, Kelsey Featherston had 30 digs and seven kills and Kaitlin Layman had 27 digs.

The Huntington Catholic School eighth and seventh grade volleyball teams competed in the Commodore Volleyball Classic on Saturday, Aug. 28, in Decatur.

The eighth grade team finished third overall in three matches.

In match 1, Catholic beat St. John in two sets, with scores of 25-14 and 25-22. Olivia Woolard, Rebecca Teusch and Kenzie Stephan all had six points each.

The tide turned in match 2, when Huntington fell to St. Joe Hessen Cassel 25-21, 14-25, 8-15. Alexandra Kreider had nine points to lead HC.

Another strong pack effort carried the Huntington North High School girls' cross country team to the championship of the Tiger Invitational on Tuesday, Aug. 31.

Athough no HNHS runner placed in the top five, the Lady Vikings took, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 12th places to score only 42 points, 10 better than second place Warsaw.

Becca Goodman led the Lady Viking charge by placing sixth in 21:04.20. Elaine Yahne was seventh in 21:07.00, Natalie Spahr was eighth in 21:08.40, Kayla Patrick was ninth in 21:11.00 and Kelly Ditzler was 12th in 21:27.10.

Photo by Matt Murphy.

Senior Jake Crosley placed second to lead the Huntington North High School boys' cross country team to a hard-fought victory at the Tiger Invitational in Warsaw on Tuesday, Aug. 31.

All five scoring runners for HNHS placed in the top 13 finishers as the Vikings scored 41 points to beat the host school by five. Whitko was just another three points back in third place among the nine teams competing.