The Independent-News, Volume 120, Number 38, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 February 1995 — Page 12

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! - THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS - FEBRUARY 2, 1995

BREMEN EDGES FALCONS 56-52 IN KEY CONTEST The Bremen Lions, leading the Northern State Conference, took a giant step towards the title Saturday night as they defeated the John Glenn Falcons in a rematch of a game played 11 days earlier in the Bi-County Tourney. The Lions 56-52 victory all but sewed up the conference crown and dropped the Falcons to 3-3 in the league with only LaVille left in league competition. The Falcons are now 8-8 overall for the season. The Lions outscored the Falcons 29-21 in the middle two quarters to come away with the victory. After being tied at 13 at the end of period number 1, S. Libey, off the bench, tossed in 8 key second quarter points as the Lions pulled to a 29-23 halftime lead. In all, five Bremen players shared in the scoring in this key stanza while Glenn was only getting four baskets, two however for three points from Landon Wiegand. The Lions stretch the lead a little bit more in the third period as a 13-11 advantage in this quarter made it an eight point lead, 42-34, with just eight minutes left to play. The Falcons made an all-out attempt to catch the Lions in the fourth quarter, but found the Lions not panicking and they continued to handle the ball well, forcing a lot of Falcon fouls. In the fourth period the Lions made nine of 14 free throw attempts to hold on to the lead as the Falcons chipped away at Mary Kay has a skin care program designed for your skin , type. All basic skin care products are non-comedogenic and clinically tested for skin irritancy and allergy. ■ ^LMARV KAV FACE4O-MCE BEAUTY ADVICE™ JUDY ROSE 656-4491

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it. The final score was 56-52, as the visitors held on for the big victory. For the game, both teams had good balance for the moderatly scored game. For the winners, Deavel led with 16, getting points in every period. S. Libey ended the night with 11 and R. Libey had 10 for the winners. For Glenn, Brian Lyle took game honors with 18, Landon Wiegand was just behind with 16 and Nick Medich had 10 for the other double figure total. Bremen took advantage of the late Glenn fouls, hitting 15 of 26 while the Falcons only countered with 7 of 11 from the charity stripe. BOX SCORE Bremen fg ft fta p tp Deavel 6 4 5 3 16 Verheaghe 20146 Rowe 0 12 11 Klapp 2 2 4 4 6 R. Libey 3 4 3 3 10 Kuhn 22306 S. Libey 4 2 2 0 11 LaFree 0 0 0 0 0 Steele 0 0 2 0 0 TOTALS 19 15 26 15 56 Glenn Neiswender 0 0 0 3 0 Lyle 7 3 3 4 18 Medich 4 1 3 4 10 < Wiegand 6 11 4 16 < Guseilla 2 2 4 4 6 1 HUI 10 0 12 Slater 0 0 0 0 0’ Walter 0 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 20 7 11 20 52 ; 3-point goals: Bremen 3, Verhaeghe 2, S. Libey 1; Glenn 5, Wiegand 3, Lyle 1, Medich 1 Score By Quarters Bremen 13 29 42 56 Glenn 13 23 34 52 JOHN GLENN JR. VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM DROPS TWO GAMES John Glenn’s junior varsity boys j basketball team sufferd two setbacks this past weekend. Jimtown scored 38 points to Glenn’s 29 as the Falcons fell to 4 and 9 on the year. Saturday night the Bremen Lions came to town and escaped with a double overtime win over the Falcons 56 to 49. Glenn will play Mishawaka Marian this Friday. At Jimtown, the Falcons struggled offensively all night as only

junior Ernie Clark proved to be very effective collecting 18 points in 3 quarters of play. Pontius scored 6 points and Lubelski added 5 while Ruby, Hensler, Goss and Groves managed a basket each. Glenn was also unable to get to the free throw line for their normal 15 attempts per game. On the positive side, the Falcons did have a low of only 11 turnovers in the contest. Corey Rough recently required surgery for a broken finger from earlier in the season and will be missed for an indefinite period of time. Against Bremen, the Falcons fell behind early by the score of 18 to 7 after the first period. Off the bench came some much needed spark in the form of Dale Gross, Dale Groves, Joe Hensler, Ernie Clark and Andy Brinkhoff. This group was ready to play and helped pull the Falcons within reach after 4 minutes of play. Sophomore Hensler knocked in a 3pointer and Dale Groves added a couple of baskets during this as the halftime score was 24 to 18 in favor of the Lions. Glenn came out hungry in the second half and outscored the visitors 25 to 19 to tie the score at the end of regulation 43 to 43. Clark hit the basket to tie the game with 12 seconds to go and was fouled, but was unable to connect on the potential game winner sending the game into overtime. The Falcons also has a last second attempt in this period by Ed Pontius that just missed. In the second overtime, Bremen built a small lead of two to four points and held on to it till the end while hitting 15 of 19 free throws in the game, mostly in the overtimes. Glenn, for the second straight night was nonexistent at the free throw line being 0 for 3. Bremen survived 56 to 49 and raised their record to 18 and 4 while Glenn fell to 4 and 10. Pontius, Lubelski and Groves connected for 13, 12 and 10 points respectively, while Clark added 8 points, followed by Haag and Hensler with 3 points each. Clark and Lubelski pulled down 6 rebounds each and Haag added 5 assists with no turnovers. The game proved to be an exciting

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> and much improved performance । than the night before. I Six Falcon Wrestlers Advance ’ To The Regional On Saturday, January 28, the ' John Glenn wrestling team competed in the LaPorte sectional at LaPorte High School. The Falcons claimed three championships, Chad Ladyga at 126 pounds; Mickey Bowen at 134 pounds; and Jacob Casteel at 142 pounds. These three along with runners-up Bryan Mills at 106 pounds, Daryl Minix at 160 pounds and Shawn Griffin at 215 pounds will advance to the LaPorte Regional this Saturday at LaPorte High School. Also placing in the sectional , were Ryan Gunn, Jeremy Smith and Jeremiah Rizek, all third place, and 4th place went to Alan Bajer, Wes Roush and Dave Wright. । Good job, Falcons! i FREE STYLE WRESTLING CLUB FORMING All area parents: if you have a son born in 1990 or before, and 1 would like to try wrestling, there ’ will be an organizational meeting I for both parents and athletes on 1 Tuesday, February 7 at 7:00 p.m. in the John Glenn High School cafeteria. All aspects of the newly I

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formed club will be explaine including practice, toumamei and costs. If you are tired of that const! wrestling around the house, brei ing furniture, etc., bring them the high school on February If you are not able to make t meeting, please call one of t following: Mike Daube 586-3818; Gayt Marks 936-6343; Scott King 61 4460; Wade and Bonnie Sal; 935-5625; or Wally and Ruth Roi 656-3489. PURDUE STUDENTS HONORED FOR ACADEMK ACHIEVEMEN About 5,800 Purdue Univen students earned academic hon for the fall 1993 semeste. To e academic honors, Purdue stude must have at least a 3.5 semestei cumulative grade-point average a four-point scale. From the area are: Andrea Mfl Johnson, 6235 North 1100 E<fl Groverton, Libera! Arts and Edifl tion; Andrew Phillip Shively, H Madison St., Box 231, Haml Education; Allen Frank Chlufl cek, 7707 E. t. Rd. 104, Wallfl ton, Chemical Engineering; [fl ette Anne Kile, 4368 Brezzy PcH Lane, Walkerton, Liberal Afl| Daniel Ernest Strahm, 9795 Efl 700 North Rd., Walkerton, ScienA Jean Marie Tanner, 9795 East A North Road, Science.