The Independent-News, Volume 106, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 5 February 1981 — Page 8

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- THE INDEPENDENT NEWS - FEBRUARY 5. IMI

ENJOY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS L't Wl Est 4 F ywkVKr* ' & Tj. wMt/> AS I iV* ® A HEtoMK naA AS > AMfat aiJI L --^ * l||t ®|||b( TjerT Sih "~ ■■' '•^ W The RN Nursing Home residents had a very enjoyable Christmas and New Year thanks to the wonderful people of our community. The Tri Kappas, Blue Birds, Webelos, Moose Lodge, VFW Post, 23 Club, Presbyterain Church, Lions Club, Mrs. Herbster and family, the Woman’s Community Club, Knights of Columbus, Jolly Jills Demonstration Club and the School of Bethany Lutheran Church ail helped to make it possible. Thank you all.

Oregon-Davis Just Too Much For Shamrocks By Harn Griffey lhe Shamnxks of North Liberty visited Oregon Davis for the last time last Friday and were handed a 94 43 drubbing bv a fine Bobcat quintet The Bobcats played like a finely tuned machine with their precision passes, sure dribbling and accurate shooting. Good coaching and discipline were evident as the Bobcats crashed the boards with regularity as thev took a decided advantage on the boards. Thev had their fast break work ing almost to perfection as thev would run down the court and find a teammate and then zing the ball to him for a score. Lime and again this happened as the Bobcats scored practically at will. The first quarter was the most even as both team found the range. Ihc score was tied six times before the Bobcats were finally able to pull aw av for good Quarter number two found the Shamrocks making the first basket as Re k Stefaniak found the range but it would be another two minutes before the Shamrocks scored again as Stefaniak pumped in two freebees In the meantime Jim Hast le v and Company continued their show and went into the fixker room with a 41 23 halftime lead. After finding the popcorn stand I got a bag of the delightful delicious whUe kernels of tastv treat I even bought one for mv B W Barbara, but alas and alack, no salt on the corn Quickly 1 got back to the refreshment stand and added some salt so I could finish eating mv favorite ballgame food' Ihc host (tarn picked up where thev le ft off and went to the bucket with regularity as thev scored 20 points all on field goals, while the hapless visitors onlv managed 10 Our bovs just could nt keep up with the Bobcats as thev ran their offensse smoothly I was glad to see the period end even though the Bobcats had increased their lead to 63 U lhe last period started off with a bang also as the Ore gon Davis five reallv came alive and tossed in Ui points Mv onlv question is whs did coach Warkenficn put his superstar hm Hasclv back in (he ballgame with a35 point lead - ' He slaved until there was onlv a munute and 30 seconds left

I must add that after talking to the Shamrock plaversthev all were complimentary of the OD team and fans. In spite of beating us bv SI points thev weren't c<Xkv at all. Mv ow n son said that vou hate to be blown awav but the Bobcats didn't rub it in like a certain other team south of us who shall remain nameless even though thev are rated No. Xin the state The fans were gracious in victors and were not at all antagonistic Thanks. Ihc Bobcats were led bv Hase levs 2’ points, followed bv Btidka and Pulliam with 20 each Dave Egger had 13. Rich Stefaniak put in 20 points while Jeff Donathen had seven. The Shamnx ks fall to 2 11. B-Team Downed 52-44 Ihc Shamrock Bees dropped a very dose game that wasn't reallv decided until late in the fourth quarter. 52 44. Box Score Oregon-Davis fg ft fta p Budka 8 4 4 I fgger 5 3 5 2 Hasley II 5 6 0 Cooper 2 0 0 2 Pulliam 8 4 5 I Aw aid 3 0 0 2 Hofferth 2 0 0 2 M Owens 0 0 0 I TO I AIS 39 lb 20 13 North I iberty Donathen 3 I 25 Franklin 3 0 I 2 Parsons 0 0 0 I Stefaniak 10 0 2 2 Kaser 3 0 0 3 Manual 1 0 I 0 Griffey 10 11 TOI AIS 21 17 15 Score Bv Quarters ■Sorth Libertv 13 23 35 43 <)n gon Dav is 25 41 63 94 North Liberty Rally Falls Short 63-54 Bv Harry Griffey Well folks, here we arc again, another Saturdav night at a ball game And I love it' We arrived just in time for the tip-off of the B leam game which was an exciting c ontest I might add Y<»u mav not believe this but almost three minutes of placing time had elapsed before the visit mg North liberty Shamrocks scor ed their first bucket on a drive bv Rick Stefaniak Ihc Irojans must have watched the 0 D fast break Lridav night because that is what

thev did right off Maybe the Shamrocks were tired but they sure were listless When the buzzer sounded we were behind 19-8. Hold vour ears ladies because that loud veiling vou hear is coach (>len Keel chewing out our sons for the lackadasical playing. He let them know in no uncertain terms how slow thev were getting back on defense. Martv Manuel hit the first bucket of the second quarter but it wasn't until 1 01 when Brian Griffev hit the first end of a one plus one that the Shamnxks scored again this quarter. As a matter of fact after Manuel s field goal the onlv scoring done was two freebies bv Stefaniak and two more bv (iriffcv Ho hum. at the end of the first half it was 42 15. Help! Ihc pop corn of the vear award gtxs to I riton as iTwas a two bag night The finest I've had this v car. Whatever coach Keel told his charges in the kxker room. I hope he put it on tape to use again and again. Period three started out much like the previous two with Triton doing the scoring but all of a sudden it happened. Our boys woke up and got out of bed and began to plav ball. At about 3:24 the Trojans had a 36 point lead, but Stefaniak had a three-point plav, Brian Donathen laved one in on a steal followed by three more buck cts by Stefaniak. Pat Franklin strong-armed one in and Griffey drove the lane for one at the buzzer During this scoring streak the Irojanss onlv had two free throws. As the peruxi ended the 36 point lead w as dow n to 23. I hc charged up Shamnxks came out smoking and their defense held I riton to onlv one point in five and a half minutes of plav. The backboards were controlled by the Shamnxks as (iriffcv ripped down eight in this quarter. Ihc “D" onlv allowed one field goal in a nine point Trojan period. When the buzzer sounded the Shamnxks came off the fhxir looking as though thev had won. They did in fact have a moral victory as thev found out they can plav gcxxl ball. Ihc scoring leader for the Shamnxks was Stefaniak with 2b punts. Donathen had nine followed bv Franklin and Griffev w ith six each. Ihc Shamnxks host the Marian Knights next Fndav in Homecoming Culver Military Academy visits on Saturday night and this will be the last home games ever for a Shamrock basketball team. Let's give them a gixxi turnout B-Team looses Ilie Liberty Bees dropped another close one to the Trojans 37-33. B<> x Score Triton fg ft p Bates 3 7 4 Deaton 9 6 3 Koontz I | 3 Carpenter X | 2 Welty 0 0 3 Miller 0 0 0 Montalbano 2 0 4 Stouder I 0 o Lozier 0 0 0 Smith 0 0 0 fOTAIS 24 15 19 North I ibertv Donathen 4 | 2 Franklin 3 0 2 Parsons 0 I 3 Stefaniak 9X4 Kaser 0 2 I Manuel 1 0 0 (iriffcv ) 4 5 TOTAIS IX |b |7 Score Bv Quarters North I ibertv X IS H 52 Inion |9 42 54 b 3 DENTURE WEARERS A major :tdvancement CUSHION GRIP DENTURE ADHESIVE one application holds comfortably yp [q 4

Glenn Romps Over Knox In 87-72 Shootout If vou like basketball that is all offense, run and gun and forget about the defense, vou would have liked the Glenn Knox game luesdav night as the Falcons ran awav from a Knox team for their eighth victory of the season After the pathetic showing at Marian Fndav night, the Falcons came back almost to the other extreme as a couple of plavers turned in their best effort of the vear in the 87.72 victory Ihc win boosted the Glenn record to 8 6 while Knox slijqx d to 4 10 on the season. Ihc lack of defense was obvious all the way, including the first three center jumps at the start of the first three quarters In all of these one team or the other scored within three seconds as dropping a man back to protect against the easy lav in never apparently entered anyone's mind. At the start of the game it was Scott Rcinholt getting a solo lay in off the center tap of Steve Bradley for a quick 2-0 lead. It then turned into the battle of lav ins almost as Glenn was putting full court pressure on and leaving the basket extremely unguarded and the Redskins were basically able to beat the press all the time. On the other end. it was run and gun bv Glenn also and with the officials letting the two teams go and plav ball, it was end-to-end action with a minimum of whistles marring (he play The main dis fcrcncc to be was that Glenn was going to use nine ball plavers and Knox had basically an iron man five, with almost no substituting in the game One reserve did enter tn the first half to give Rcinholt a brief blow hut other than that, none until the dying minutes of the contest After the Redskins scored first, the Iwo teams traded points until it was 10 10 with Rcinholt getting Knox's first four baskets on the front end of the break against the press At this point Glenn hit back to back baskets for a 12-10 lead to break the exchange of points. Knox tied it with Bradley's lav in. but the Falcons then ran off three buckets in a row, all lav ins. bv Mike Flkin, Zane Hathaway and .fix- Harness for an 18 12 lead. From here they moved to a 22-17 margin at the end of the quarter, and the pattern had been set that was to continue the entire game. Ihc I alcons erupted early in the second stanza with their running game working to perfection against almost no defense Add to this a couple of turnovers forced bv the press finally, and you had six fast baskets to add to the last one in the first quarter for a 14 point streak that blew them out front 34 IT In this string it was Flkin, Doug Miller. Phil Groves. Flkin again. Brian Parker and Groves once more all from in dose except for Millef's baseline jumper. I his was t»xi much for Knox to overcome, but thev didn't quit, especially with the great athlete. Bradlev. pacing their attack from one end of the fl<x>r to the other We have not seen anv one bov plav harder all over the court this vear than Bradlev. who eventuallv ended up with 24 points before fouling out very late in the game He also hit the boards on both ends, handled the ball in the middle against the press and was the kev man on all their fast breaks and he never even showed signs of wearing down. Knox bounced back with three baskets after the Glenn streak and after Parker hit a jumper, the trading began again as the two teams wound down to a 4b 35 lead at halftime, the Falcons comforta blv in front I he pattern reallv never changed the rest of the wav, it w as lav-ins at both ends as neither team ever was successful at slowing the other down and defense was just a word

not a factor. With this pattern it continued to be almost point for point as at no time after this did cither team score more than four points in a row. It was basically trading basket for basket as it was 61-52 after three and only in the dvmg moments v^hen Knox did put in a few reserves did the Falcons pour it on to get their big final margin of v ictorv. linkev and Flkin paced the falcons with 22 and 20 [mints each as both turned in one of their better offensive efforts of the vear. certainly a different pair than was witnessed at Martan last Fndav Parker added 14 for the other double figure total as all nine Faiions that plaved scored. Behind Bradley's 24 point effort was Greg Mann with 19 and Rcinholt with I as onlv the five starters scored with the guards hardly shooting at all. each getting six points. B-Team Wins Easily lhe Falcon B-Tcam blew Knox awav in the preliminary game but after getting safely ahead and reallv dominating plav. coach Gordon Mos son emptied his bench and gave all his bovs a lot of playing time in a 51 32 victory. Box Score John Glenn fg ft fta p Tinkey 9442 Jacobson 1000 flkin 10 0 0 3 Harness 3 2 2 1 Hathaway 4 0 0 1 Miller I 0 0 () Parker 6233 Groves 2 12 1 Arnett 3 0 0 0 TOTALS 39 9 11 13 Knox Bradley II 2 2 5 Mann 8 3 3 1 Rcinholt B|l| Banks 2 2 2 2 Mclntire 14 6 3 Hunter 0 0 0 0 Grootc 0 0 0 0 TOTAIS M) 12 14 12 Score By Quarters Knox ' 17 35 52 72 John Glenn 22 46 61 X’’ SERVICE NEWS January 21 (FHTNC) — Marine Pfc (ceil ( McKinney, son of Shirlcv A Pasi hen. of Route 3. Box 325. Walkerton, has reported for dutv with the 2nd ( ombat Engineer Battalion, fixated at Marine Corps Base, ( amp Lejeune. N. C. A 1979 graduate of Oregon Davis High School, he joined the Marine Corps in April. 1980. lanuarv IS (FHINC) — Naw Seaman I homas F Nunley, son of lames G. and Sarah F. Nunley of Route L Box 233. Walkerton, has returned from a deployment in the Middle I ast He is a crewmember aboard the command ship USS LaSalle, homeported tn Philadelphia Ills ship has conipletrd one of the longest deployments awav from the U. S in mixlcrn Naval history more than eight years, although crewmembers were replaced at normal intervals, lhe ship has been forward deployed to the Middle Fast as the flagship for the ( ommandcr. Middle I ast Force. During this eight vear peruxi the I uSalle visited numerous ports 111 the Middle Fast and the Mcditer ranean. It is one of onlv two Naw ships to be painted all white' Ihc paint helped reflect the blistering sun of the Middle East. A 19'9 graduate of John Glenn High School, Nunlcv joined the Nav v in October 1979. Red (Toss: Ready for a tie* century. £ PR