The Independent-News, Volume 104, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 14 December 1978 — Page 12

DECEMBER 14, 1978 THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS

Hot Fairfield Team Too Much For Glenn 82-68 A hot shooting Fairfield team, fresh from a big Northern State Conference victors the night before over LaVille. came to John Glenn's home court Saturday night and dis placed some fine basketball in piling up their fourth straight conference win in this young sea son Ihe F airfield Falcons topped the Glenn Falcons 82 68 in quite a contrast from the game the Glenn team had the night before with New Prairie. Fairfield, who is dropping out of the Northern State Conference, cvrtamlv displased a lot of desire and thev have to like that perch atop the conference standings as thes evidently plan to stay there with the intensity and sound play thev displayed. Over the years of this relationship, the Glenn-Fair-field games have presented the fans with probable the best consistent basketball as the results when these two teams meet is basically a well-played and hardfought game that features better than average fundamental basketball and usually some outstanding individual performances. Saturday night was no different, a good hustling Fairfield attack that featured three quarters of very good play rubbed off on the Glenn boys as they shot well, played hard, and put in probably their best performance of the young season despite the final score. It was a well-played game and one that was

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more enjoyable to watch. The visitors from Elkhart County never trailed and were only tied at 2-2 as they broke fast to claim a lead they weren’t about to surrender On paper, this team was not supposed to be too competitive, but games aren’t played on paper and even with their big man on crutches, they still are a fine team. Randy Kelly opened the scoring with a lav in and Tom Moore brought the Falcons even with an |K hx>t jumper. However, the sharpshooting Falcons from the east, hit three straight baskets with Todd Kidder getting two from about 10 foot while Jeff Miller had the other from 14 foot on the side. Craig Ochs hit a pair of one-point-ers for Glenn, but back came six more fast points, a short lane shot bv Doug Wogoman. two free throws bv Kelly and a lb f<x>t swisherbv Kidder. For a fast minute and a half, the two teams basically traded points but in the final 1:30 of the quarter, five free throws by Fairfield plus baskets bv Rob Kirkdorffer and Wogoman. boosted their lead to 26-14 after one period. The second quarter was more of the same. The Fairfield team constantly took the ball to the basket and also got the good medium range jumpers which they were death on plus some fine 12 of 14 free throw shooting in the first half. They got the first four points of the second stanza, then after a left corner shot by Bob Muncie, bunched four more to move 19 up, 35-16. With 2:44 left in the half they had increased this to a whopping 42-21 score as they had doubled the score on Glenn with their fine shooting.

Strange as it seems, other than not being able to stop the visitors' hot hand, the Glenn boys weren't plaving that badly even though they trailed 46-28 at the main intermission. The third quarter had to be gocxl news for coach Jim Waller and the Falcon fans as well as the players. Ihev proved in this period that to quit was not part of their thoughts trailing bv 18, thev could have gone out and played out the time, but with some very fine shifting and gixxi shot selection of their own. thev got right back in the ball game in this stanza Tom Moore started the half off. He already had 12 points in the first half and he looked like the Moore of old as he confidently fired the ball to the basket. A I" footer bv sophomore hot shot Miller, offset this, but Kris Tuttle, Tom Moore and Terry Anspaugh answered with consecutive baskets. Jerrold Kauffman hit a rebound shot for the visitors, but Tom Moore and Ochs put back-to-back baskets in to trim the lead to 10 at this point. 50-40. Miller cranked up another of his side shots that hit nothing but twine, but again two baskets together for Glenn cut the lead even more as Tuttle and Tom Moore got these two from the outside. Kidder popped an 11 footer but Muncie found range from 18 foot before Kauffman hit one of two from the charity line Ochs scored on al4 footer and after a short side shot was true by Wogoman, Ochs tipped in a missed shot to cut the lead to 57-50. Miller swished another but Muncie converted a rebound into two points and with just half a minute left in the third quarter, Tom Moore canned a 19 footer to cut the lead to five. Miller and Tuttle traded baskets in the last 15 seconds to make the score 61-56 after three. Glenn coming off a very fine 28 point, well-played third quarter. Fairfield got their act back to-

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gether and managed to pull the rug right out from under the surging Falcons as they ended all doubt in the early minutes of the final period. Thev got the momentum back and with their hot hand back on the shcxiting and some scrappy defense combined with gix>d board work, blew the Glenn team out in the first three minutes. A pair of one-pointers started it all bv Kirkdorffer. Then it was Kauffman from 14 foot. Kidder from 11. Wogoman on a lay-in and Kauffman on an IK footer for 10 points without a return in the first 2:48. Tom Moore broke the string, but there was no way the Glenn team was going to get back with this hotshooting Fairfield team. From here on. after Kauffman hit from 13 and Kidder added two free throws, the teams never got more than just two points in a row the rest of the game as the final score moved to 82-68. Tom Moore Hits 26 lorn Mtxire won the scoring honors for the game as he tossed the hall in regularly from anywhere inside of 20 feet. He had 11 baskets and four of four from the line. His only double figure help was from Craig Ochs, with 14. The winners had great team balance, getting a team-high 20 from junior guard Kidder, but they had four other boys total in the double figures as Kauffman had 16. Wogoman 15. Miller 14 and Kelly 10. They also had a fine 22 of 29 from the foul line and Glenn also was very respectable at 12 of 17 from the 15 foot stripe. Glenn's B-Team Wins Fourth The Falcons B Team came from behind in the last quarter to record their fourth win in five starts. A 45-36 final score resulted. Box Score Fairfield (g ft fta p J. Miller 7 0 0 2 Kirkdorffer 15 6 3 Wogoman 5 5 8 3 Kidder 8 4 5 2

Kelly 2 6 6 0 Lantz 0 0 0 1 Kauffman 7 2 4 2 TOTALS 30 22 29 13 John Glenn Tuttle 3 2 4 3 Ochs 5 4 5 1 Muncie 4 0 13 Anspaugh 1005 T. Moore 11 4 4 1 R Moore 2 0 0 5 Hardesty 2 2 3 4 Gratner 0 0 0 0 Smith 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 28 12 17 22 Score By Quarters Fairfield 26 46 61 82 John Glenn 14 28 56 68 LREY TEAMS SPLIT In seventh grade basketball action for the I rev Panthers, a double overtime lose to New Prairie 38-37 dropped the season record to 1-2 for the season The Panthers had a nine point lead going into the final period but couldn t hold on High point man was Dan Huffstetter w ith 12 points and Mike Dill had eight. In eighth grade action, the Panthers won by a score of 46-35 behind the leadership of Mark Jacobson who scored 16 points and Mike Aitken with 12. Their record is 2-2. The Panthers will play on Monday when they host Argos. HOLD WRITERS WORKSHOP The Writers Workshop met at the Koontz Lake Library on Wednesday. December 5, at 7:00 p.m. The assignment was to write about a favorite part of Christmas in essay, commentary or poem. A special guest was Bob Carmichael. former editor of the Index and Review newspapers, who talked to the group about efficient news writing. The next Writers Workshop will be on Tuesday, January 2, at 7:00 p.m . C.S T.