Horvath's 31 and 17 Powers Mishawaka Marian Knights Past La Porte 76-55

Mishawaka Marian beat LaPorte 76-55 Friday, Feb. 27, 2026, as Prescott Horvath produced a dominant 31 points and 17 rebounds and Griffin Ott‑Large countered with 32 points on 10-for-21 shooting for the Slicers. The game was presented as LaPorte’s final regular-season home game and coincided with the school’s youth night celebration.

MaxPreps notes that Horvath “dropped a double-double with 31 points and 17 boards.” That performance extended his hot run — it made it 11 games in a row in which he has scored at least 15 points — and helped Mishawaka Marian improve to 15-7 on the season. MaxPreps also reports that “Mishawaka Marian is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six matchups” and “they averaged 71.8 points over those games.” The site adds that “Mishawaka Marian does not have any more games scheduled as of now.”

LaPorte’s Griffin Ott‑Large finished with 32 points, 6 rebounds and 3 steals and connected on 10 of 21 field-goal attempts, a workload that MaxPreps calculated accounted for 58.2 percent of LaPorte’s 55 points. MaxPreps also recorded that this was Ott‑Large’s fifth straight game in which he scored more than a third of his team’s points. Teammate Sawyer Tonagel chipped in 10 points; as MaxPreps put it, “Another player making a difference was Sawyer Tonagel, who earned ten points.”

The loss snapped LaPorte’s three-game winning streak. MaxPreps summarizes the impact bluntly: “The defeat snapped their winning streak at three games and leaves them with a 16-7 record.” LaPorte’s schedule puts the Slicers back on the floor against South Bend Riley at 7:45 p.m. on Wednesday; MaxPreps notes that “The Slicers will need to watch out since the Wildcats have now posted at least 55 points in their last 14 games.”

GreatNews.Life captured the community side of Friday’s game, reporting that “The final regular season home game was celebrated with youth night… The Little LaPorte Slicers, who are a Pre-K to Kindergarten age basketball team were all honored during halftime. The Lady Slicer Dance crew also performed during halftime and dazzled the crowd!” GreatNews.Life also printed a senior cheerleader reflection: “It’s very bittersweet (Last home game for the senior cheerleaders). We feel like just yesterday we were in eighth grade getting ready to try out for cheer. We’re just so grateful that we’ve been able to stick it up for the four years and cheer with all our teammates!” — Laila Lower and Braylie Bannwart (LaPorte HS Cheer), credited by reporter Charles Beard.

On the court, the numbers leave clear storylines: Horvath’s 31/17 and an 11-game 15-plus scoring streak underline Marian’s offensive surge and 15-7 mark, while Ott‑Large’s 32 points and 58.2 percent share expose LaPorte’s heavy scoring reliance on a single player as the Slicers head into a midweek test against a high-scoring Riley squad.