The Game They Played, and Every Ground With Its Course

1931–2026 · IHSAA record as carried in the banked files; school building record; Culture lk-cul-venues

The Lancers' sports changed their shapes around them — a single-class game became a class game, a one-game sectional path became a seeded class tournament — and their grounds are three school grounds and one park, each with a course that can now be stated.basketball — LaVille's first four decades played Indiana's single-class tournament, the game of the 1974 Bi-County championship and the five sectional titles held by 2015; from 1997–98 the IHSAA's class era divided the tournament, and the girls' Sectional 34 crown of 6 February 2024 — the program's first sectional since 2003 — is a class-era title, its class printed in its very name (lk-cul-lancers). Football — the all-in class playoff is the frame of every count in this section: sectional finals and titles are class titles (Class 2A in 2023's Sectional 33 course; Class 1A in 2025), and LaVille stands in 2024–25 as the only Class 1A school in the INSC — a format fact the school itself prints in its preview. Wrestling — the individual state-finals course runs through Bankers Life Fieldhouse, where the 285-pound final of 15–16 February 2019 is the record's fixed point (lk-sports-cartwright). No deeper rule-book course (a named rule change altering a LaVille season's outcome) stands in any carrier reached; the IHSAA rule and records books are the limb's settler, and the evolution prints at the format depth above, honestly. The grounds, one by one: the 1931 auditorium/gymnasium — the old high school's room at 601 N. Michigan St, the town's school-sport and performance room from 1931 and the pre-consolidation teams' home, surviving the 1965 move as the elementary and then the retired schoolhouse that later housed the library branch (libraries file); Lancer Field and the Jr–Sr High gymnasium and fields, 69969 US 31 South — the consolidated school's grounds since 1965, home of every title in this section, Lancer Field hosting the sectional finals of the Hostrawser and Kaiser eras on the athletics site's own game record; the fair-era grounds, 1936–1945 — the Union Township High School grounds in their other life as the county fair's (Culture lk-cul-fair), the school's ground before it was only a school's; Newton Park — the 40-acre given ground at the SR 4 junction, home of LaVille Youth Sports' practices and home games (its own FAQ), of F.C. Indiana's national-league home matches since 2015 at a listed soccer capacity of 1,100, and the announced 2018 home of IU South Bend women's soccer, the seasons actually played there a named gap on IU South Bend's schedule archives (lk-cul-venues). First park, move, final park — the checklist's arc — is here a school's arc: 1931's room, 1965's field, and the park the town's founders-by-gift added beside them.