The Independent-News, Volume 100, Number 31, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 February 1974 — Page 9

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SECTIONAL TIME IN THE ]1 siei state -ignif.es two different things, one the end of icgular st as n and total play tor the majority of Indiana teams and second the start of one of the nv't t idling amatuer sports events, the deciding of a state champ- n m basketball, a sport that is s.nonymous with Indiana. Over the years there has been as many as 719 teams in the big chase, but though Indiana’s reorgamzat.on program, this year a total .1 420 are at the starting i.ne. INDIANA IS ONE STATE that ti.i .vs all the combatants m one ing Many states have the va c <‘as>es, ranging from two to five, thus putting the Davids and the Goli iths in scjx’rate competition. Much can be said for both md. Ls. Winn.ng is always a cher; .u-d thing and winning a stat* ’.tie has to be one of the great, t thr.lls a pr. son can en. joy. Under class basketball, a larger r mber can share the exc.tement and thrills of Icing the champion. HOWEVER, IN A SINGLE set up. < r e team i.s champion but that real thrill of upset, piaymg the b t whetht < you wan or lose can < m< to anyone. There is a lot to I* said f>r class basketball as Indiana s pattern has ready changed over the years. This is espr.illv true since Wori! War II as the big city schools hive 'taken over" the roll of champers of Indiana To bear this cut. >nly Milan, in 1953, his escaped the b g school domm i. tion .n the past 25 meets, (’on. nersville two years ago was a smaller school than mo t having an enrollment of less than 1,000 but if recollection serves m>- right, that was a three year high set >1 figure, not four grades as mo. t smaller schools. Maybe a cla^ system will lie lictated .n the f i. ture a n>w kt's face it, schools like Glenn, North Liberty. L tVlre and Oregon-Davis are never going to cr-mpte f. r a title and even schools the size of Plymouth, Rochester, Nurthw. od. etc. are not seriou- contender. e.qwc.ally on a year n yea: out buds THE GREAT CHANGE CAME as cat‘..ng and team expand • took place. Instead a vainly and

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1 a B team with one junior high tr im thrown in do play a few games, complex Ireakdowns and schedules w«re ?et up pa.t.cularly in the lower grades to get feeder systems going. Naturally the huge- sch'ols that had maybe 50 or 60 boys playing on elementary and junior high levels had more to choose from than the school that had 10 boys on a junior high team moving up Foi mer head coaches were hired to direct the lower grades and still the small school was “break.ng in" the col. lege boys wanting to enter coach, ing. LOOK BACK PRIOR TO THIS more complex system, say f.oin 1930 and earlier, liefoie the heavy influence of young men graduating from college on the GI Bill. This fb oded the c aching fie! I ai d help d cause the expanded programs plus the fact transporta. tnm and shorter wo. king hours gave the publ c mere time and al lity to bee -me interested in these programs. Then you had champions and runners-up such as M all m, J isper, Shelbyville, Leb. anon. Franklin. Mitchell, Prank. Lt, Muncie Buris, Hunt.ngburg, L gan p t, Martinsville, Wina. mac, Greencastle, Vincennes. Mon. tno i ‘no. Thorntown anti Wingate featured. SINCE THE BIG SCHOOL "t ike< ver” it is Muncie Central, Attu< ks. South Bend Central, Ev. ansv.lle Bosse, Michigan City. In. dianap hs Wash:ngt< a. Ea-t Chi. eago Wa-hingtnn, End Wavne S uth, Lafayette Jeff. etc. play, mg for the title. These a.e big scho< Is with feeder systems and a pi >gram no small schcxd can match. IE PEOPLE AREN’T UNDER the belief that competition in the sr i m I esn't court, forget it. A recent AP article was u ing the unbeaten Rochester team as an example With Rochester at that time 17-0, their ranking was only ‘ ’-m do t- the schedule they p ay which includes the Northern Lakes Conference (schools of 4^o. Bromen, to 1500 plus, Warsaw 1. In the area outs.de the South Bend. Miahiwakn-Elkhart ar.-a, North Jud's n p’ bably plays the str ng. c t teams of any.' They have •Dc-d t- get U tter by playing the best a 1 this year met such

as three South Bend schools, Lo. gansport (ranked 12th when they defeated 4nem), Michigan City Regers, Lifayette Jefferson al ng with the lesser competition <f the area and conference they are in. There is a d.fferent brand of ball played on this level and -v-n the ugh a Glenn or a La Ville c-• other ait a school may be able to dump one huger p wer, game in and game cut, from the com. petition that developes from the Regu.mils on d- wn. it ju-t w mt be able to take the competition EVEN THOUGH CLASS BALL takes that part ot play iway, it make.' everyone a potent.al win. ner in the*, own competition. It would be an exceptional "small" school to ever again tule as the king. I h tve seen at Indianapo. lis such a Princeton, Springs Valley. Loogcc’ee, etc . who s.mply were outela sed although they were v ry strong .-mall -chools GET! ING BACK TO 1974. A very talinced field at La Ville is expe< ted to pi ovide a gi • 1 meet, e-'penally l.om Eriday semi-final action on II the teams could be seeded. Glenn, Plymouth. J ick- . n and La Ville w ■ ild l»e advanced to Ei day's pl i.. Desp.te the tact some actr n will have taken place bet' 'e pres- time, the < mments a:v made well ahead of the play. Nd i'h L iberty, Arg - and Bremen are all very caj tble of upsetting one t< im. but not actually c< nsideied < intenders A healthy Bremen trim may cause sane pn blems. hut it 10-ks like Plym- uth still . by a safe margin the favorite. They have lost ball games to strong opponents this year, in fact ,11 but Warsaw were ranked in the tip 20 at the time Plymouth lost to them. It sh. uld be an exciting meet with tha balance of power distr. uted evenly. SI’CH IS NOT THE CASE AT other sectionals as the luck of the draw deh mines :t At the South Berd meet, stmng A lains : LaSalle < o .■ : । md •;. pnerts with Washington also in their bracket while 4th tanked Mishawaka meets t.rd St J e an 1 then if vicb i ous. the winner of the "loseis". Clay ami Marian. Duwe two have combine* 1 for s wins this year, thiee of them <n forfeits. However, the Satm lay finale should be a dandy along w*th top bracket action. AT WARSAW. THE FAVORED Rochester team and the strong and seemingly improving W usaw Tigers are in oppo ite brackets, in all probability saving the real big one fo r Saturday n.ght If any advantage is given one team over the other. Warsaw has to play on Wednesday and Friday "i.Je Ri Chester doesn't see ac. tion until l-riday should the two favorites advance as expected AT KNOX, DESPITE THE fact that for >ev< ral years North JU'bx.n has clearly been the better team on paper, Knox keepa upsetting the apple cart. Thus year Uw.r classic match will be the first tuurm y game on Wednes. d*y evening. Paired in the same J acket are Culvt. md LtCro-se with Oregon.Davi and Winamac rot meeting until Er day's first game. Th.s could tea dandy de. spite the fact O-D has i much better record. Winamac has been plagued with injuries this year and a healthy Indian team should give the Bobcats a givxl battle It still looks like the Blue Jays will lx- too much despite the fact they only defeated O-D by a very slim margin early in the season. ELKHART IS ANOTHER the meets that has the two real j>»wers meeting before the nnais if things go us expected. Memortal and Penn are both upper bracket teams and should m<*et in a kn<vk.down, drag-out affair Er.day night 'Die bottom bracket should be a "practice" for either of the two powers, who ever advam es. MICHIGAN CITY HAS BOTH Rogers and LaP rte in the b tom ''racket with Elsti n gr”mg the bye and meeting the winner of Westville an I Marquette on Friday night. They weren't sup. jiosixl to w.n last y ir m l they did so Elston pi’babiv w.l! Ie hiving a big giu ige tittle with • '•hir Rugers <r L'Pmti in tio finals. Ai VALPARAISO IHE BIG

FEBRE KRY 28. 1974 — THE INDEPENDENT NEU S

two. Valparaiso and Portage, hit head on in the tourney's lid-lifter. Valpo for years was about the be t .'ectionai bet m the state, but the pa t couple ot years P' rtaghas ahuncei to tie S uth Bend Ri gim il. M rgan f'.'.-p . the vt ■ y sa di 111 ki - .-i ■ it Vdj s> ts <n a 16-3 rci < i at thi- writing but w<<n’t h ve enough t what it takes t c une through thi. c meet. JEMI ING AROEND TO OTHer art as. the Logansport meet should be interesting w.th the p overfill Berries me* ting Peru, featuring the state's leading scorer, in the first game. Also here is strong Pioneer, a loser only two t.mc' this season. One would have to go with Logansp it. but not before some fireworks THE TOP TWO TEAMS IN the state, Anderson and Ham. m nd. both 19-C it th.s writing, meet tup 20 teams in their first g mie j n Anders, i Highland and Hamm nd Clark respectively In fact sh< uld Anders n's Indians go to the state title it w uld be only 1 eating one str< ng 'earn liter in. cher the entire way. The Northwest corner, where Hamm nd is located, i> always rough and >ften they find i .-ier piav a. - th" m.- t i'e level than they d at sr tii nal and reci nal play Ail in all. it shape- up as another gn at In t u. i State bask* ’ all t. urney. N. L. DRIIT BRE \KERS VISIT MKNISIEE FOREST Twenty members of the N r*?. Ldxn'.y Drift-Brerdoms, left "‘^e February s for Frees.’il. M.chigan, Thi. wis the clubs final week er. 1 trip f».*- the season. The weather was in the 30' the snow was 9 iir i-t deep We even hid a light snow early Sat. u' liv morning, and off and on that day. Everything was reailv perfect for u< W rude about 120 miles on our ST' ww bdes the whole week end D rig that 130 miles, we played Si me hide.and- eeking the pine tr> i little t ig, si.me hill chmK ing, and even a couple climbe I tiies. We nxle on the s ind dunes < f Lake Mich gan and a few of the membeis even aw some deer We also got 10-t fiom each other, we had a group of is sleds and ended up in groups of 2's, 4'3, etc. We also d.d a few tow j al», as several of our sleds got stuck All in all it was fun, and you haven't -ern Michigan until you seen it on a snowmobile. It is beautiful and so are the people there Those on the trip were Mr and Mrs Jeuy Knepp, Mr. and Mrs. Audme .Manuel. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sader, Mr. and Mrs. [n n St thly, Mr and Mrs. Gene Pat. rick. Darwin Bercn and Pat Moon, ail i f North Liberty. Mr. and Mrs Ch tiles Lloyd Mr. and Mr> Rog. er Orcutt and Larry Dill, all of Walkerton; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Arnett, of South Bend. SCHOOL MENU Halkerto u Elementars MARCH 4 . x M( >NI i A Y Chili soup with era kits Peanut butter and jelly -a:. 1. wich Co< kie Milk Tl PSD AY Tater tots Butti red green beans Ham salad sandwich Lem< n cobbler Milk WEDNESDAY Bai< ecue sandw. h Buttered nee Mixed fruit Milk THERSDAY Sausage patty Buttered corn Bread and butter Strawberry short cake Milk FRIDAY M * amni and cheese TTarvard beets Peanut butter and jell ysand. w uh Apple sauce M ik North I ib« rtx school MARCH 4 - 8 MONDAY Barbecue on w urn bun 1 . wnvd tater tuts

Chilled peach slices Peanut butter c okie Mdk TUESDAY E-calloped ch.cken with gravy I .itter' 1 is ,m 1 arrots Shiedde.i v with sweetsour dies, ing L • 1 waea'. m Ai; n Gi .atm ; am.’ Cm e date ; v. ~’e m.lk WEDNESDAY Nu -chool THURSDAY B ike i meat i if IG.-.-y lutteivd potatevs Calico ( -Ie slaw Hot tolls and butter Strawberry ice cream cup Milk FRIDAY Ch.lied orange juice Fish burger on w um bun with tarter sauce H *-hed br< wn p tatoes Cr.-p celery sticks Hot cinnamon apple -dices Milk John Glenn High S< hool MARCH 4 . 8 MONDAY P< rk fritter on bun Butteied rice Peis r relish Fru.t Milk TUESDAY Sp ighetti Butteied green b< ans Apple .-auce Spice cake Bit .d and butter Milk WEI ‘NESI »A Y •P in i era kers or buttered potatuts Tossed aiad ■ r peas Chicken salad sanuwich Ix'mi n flufi Milk THURSDAY Chu kwagon steak ^la-aed p—tatoe.' md gravy Celery and canot sticks Jello Biscuit r bread and tutter Mdk FRIDAY Pizza burger Parsley p .tat'es French fries Spiced apple r.ng Rice k. i pie squate Milk M KRSI! \LL.\T \RhE \»<M I 1 TION MEETS A publ.c meeting of the Mar. shaiiSitarke A>so<. atiou for Re. tarded Citizens w*, held at the K a'z Lake Ebrary o n Tuesday ewmng. February 19. Interest 1 citizen., ii m K; x Bremen CuL . North Judson Gr vertown, Plymouth and Koontz Lake at. tended. Nineteen new members were en. rolled and new officers were elect, ed. Mr. Pat Mali y North Jud. son, was elected president: Ralph Nv.dhnger, Culver, is vice presi. dent, Pun Bales, N rth Judson, secreruyt; and Kathy Quaikm. Itu-sh, Knox, is treasurer. The directors are Na line Ke.p. er, Gruvert. wn, Joe Downs Kn< x; Denny Bevilie Kn x Rita Breiler, Bremen; John My< r. Plymouth; and Mary Jane M inuwal. Ph. mouth. The g; up i! pted their constitution and by-laws and set dues at s x dollars a year Die new rgan.z.i!i n will serve M tr.-mii* and Starke counties as well as uig uuzat-n.s which serve th<- retaided in W k<-rton of St. Ji.'eph ( unty and parts of other counties wnose ch.ldren attend either the Matsh.ul.Starke loeveL pment Center or spec.ul educa. tion clas.-es m the public schools. The 10 member b t: l of directors will meet on Mu h 4 to make plans and initiate the activities of the association. BAHK SHOUEK GIVEN A baby shower was given on Sunday by Mrs Don South hon. (ring Mrs Debra Walls, Febnu ary It) at the N ith Liberty Com. mumty BufkLng Thirty.five guests were present Pink u;d blue cake was seiwe! along with punch i >ffee, nuts and mints Prizes were won by Mrs. Juha I' -< r Mt - Hit . ! OCo: . h Mi Mk' Kn« pu M’ Dar. Raj Hatoey, Mrs Jim M ><. :ij md Mr- Ern. e t Walls Sr I’he Ii n r. ! r- I many u-c. fill and ‘tautiful g.fts

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