Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 133, Number 52, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 29 December 2011 — Page 5

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Zercher named to All-State team Photo provided North Wood High School’s Ben Zercher was named to the Indiana Tennis Coaches Association All-State Academic Team for 2011. He is the son of Gene and Paula Zercher, Nappanee.

YOUTH BASEBAIi REGISTRATION BEGINS NAPPANEE The Nappanee Youth Baseball League will hold open registration Saturdays, Jan. 7, 14, 21, and 28 at McCormick Motors, from 9 a.m. to noon for children 5 to 12 years old. Fees will be $25 per individual or S4O max per family. Registration will include the fitting of shirts and pants. To learn more call Matt at 574-354-2707 COACHING POSITION OPEN NAPPANEE The 12U star, head coaching position is open and experienced parties are invited to inquire. Resumes and credentials should be mailed to: Nappanee Youth Baseball League, P.O. Box #122, Nappanee, IN, 46550. The position will be filled in January of 2012.

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Bethel Conservative Church 25402 CR SO • 773-3570 Sunday School - 9:30 a.m. Worship Service - 10:30 a.m. Sunday Evening Service - 7:00 p.m. Pastor: Lyle Miller ************ Bethel Missionary Church 63473 CR 7, Goshen, IN • 862-2631 Bible Way Apostolic Church 26148 US6E • 773-7882 Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. Sunday Evening - 6:00 p.m. Pastor: J. L Wyant Brethren In Christ Church 1601 N. Main, Nappanee 773-3365 Sunday School - 9:15 a.m. Sunday Worship - 10:30 a.m. Pastor: Jeff I Williams Calvary Baptist Church At comer of Market & Elm St 574-773-7454 Sunday School - 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship - 10:30 a.m. Evening Worship - 6:30 p.m. Pastor: Darrel Flaming ************ Church of the Brethren 301 Mack Dr. • 773-4044 Sunday School - 9:00 a.m. Sunday Worship - 10:00 a.m. Pastor: Byrl arid Janet Shaver Church of the Nazarene 67136 St Rd. 15, New Paris 574-831-6880 Sunday School - 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship - 10:30 a.m. Pastor: Don Meiner ***♦**♦***♦♦ Compassion of Christ Fellowship 2673 E. Market SL 546-5586 Sunday School -10:00 AM Sun. Worship - 11:00 AM Pastor: Gary Kaaffman *****♦*♦♦♦** First Baptist Church Haney Dr. • 773-4816

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First Brethren Church 1600 N. Main St. • 773-4252 [email protected] Contemporary Service - 8:00 a.m. Traditional Worship - 10:30 Senior Pastor: Tom Shiefer First Church of God Comer of CR 7 & 54, Nappanee 773-7743 Sunday Services - 10:30 a.m. & 6:00 p.m. Sunday School - 9:30 a.m. Pastor: Sam Bennett First Mennonite Church 900 W. Market St • 773-7294 Sunday School - 9:00 a.m. Sunday Worship - 10:00 a.m. Pastor: Rev. Janet (McFall) Brown ************ Grace Point Evangelical Presbyterian Church 1155 N. Main at North wood 773-3773 Connect Service - 8:30 a.m. Prayer Service - 9:45 a.m. Youth Ministry - 9:45 a.m. Worship - 10:15 a.m. Children's Church - 10:15 a.m. Hepton Union Church 9266 W. Hepton Road Church Phone - 574-707-7289 Sunday School - 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship - 10:30 a.m. Pastor: Eric Eickhoff ************ Iglesia De Cristo Elim 475 W. Randolph 574-354-0127 Domngo Culto General -11:00 a.m. Living Gospel Church 302 W. Walnut St • 773-7110 Sunday School - 9:30 a.m. Morning Service -10:30 a.m. Pastor: Mike Raasch ****••*♦***♦ Maranatha Fellowship 9636 W. Hepton Rd. • 7732740 Regular Services Sunday School (All Ages) - 9:00 a.m. Sunday Worship -10:00 a.m. Pastor Michael Paterson *♦**♦♦♦*♦**♦

Community

Plymouth steals NLC win

By James Costello SronsEonoß NAPPANEE -r- -Just like we drew it up," said a smiling Plymouth head coach Ryan Bales on his way out of the locker room. John Ruff split a pair of defenders in the lane for the go-ahead layup with under 4 seconds to go, Mack Mercer altered North Wood shooter Jonathan Wilkinson's would-be game changer at the buzzer on the other end, and Plymouth stole a 53-52 Northern Lakes Conference opening win after trailing for more than 27 minutes in a come-from-behind thriller with a championship atmosphere at the Panther Pit Friday night. "On the board before the game we just talked about being persistent," said Bales. "We knew it wasn't going to be easy. They just stuck with it. I challenged them at halftime. It maybe came down to heart. It came down to if it was a win orloss then we've got to be absolutely dead tired from fighting and fighting and fighting. I thought we did that. "It was just awesome. Obviously a great win for these guys here, and I'm awfully proud of them." Plymouth (5-0, 1-0 NLC) ran up a 6-0 lead, in the game's opening 1:12, but North Wood (2-3, 0-1 NLC) quickly responded with its own 9-0 run to take the lead at the 4:48 mark of the first

Ministerios Cordero 558 W. Walnut St • 773-5253 Sunday Worship - 2:30 p.m. Brother In Christ: Mario Duran Ml Tabor Church of God 8424 N 800 W, Etna Green 646-2725 Sunday School - 9:30 a.m. Worship Service - 10:30 a.m. Pastor: Stan Owen Nappanee Church of God 158 E. Centennial St 773-4455 ************ Nappanee Missionary Church SRI9 at CRSO Sunday Worship- 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. Senior Pastor: Dave Engbrecht ************ New Beginnings Assembly of God 901 S. Main St, Nappanee 773-7509 Christian Discipleship - 9:30 am Worship - 10:30 am www.newheginningsassembly. org Pastor: Mick Tomlinson New Life Church 209 S. Main St • Nappanee Sunday School -10:00 a.m. Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m. Pastor: Dean Anglemyer North Main Street Mennonite Church 504 N. Main • 773-4538 Sunday Worship - 9:30 a.m. Sunday School - 10:45 a.m. Pastor: Ruben Chupp Northwood Chapel 28220 CR 52 • 773-7895 ************ Oak Grove Missionary Church Comer of 46 & Beech Rd. 69009 Beech Road 574-633-4517 Sunday School - 9:00 a.m. Worship -10:00 a.m. Pastor: Kerbs Skaggs *♦*♦♦♦♦♦*♦**

period. The Pilgrims tied up the game three times in' the first half once on a Ryan McNeil 3 in the first and two more times in the second on a driving layup and putback by Ruff but never retook the lead as Panthers shooters rained in 5 of 10 3-point-ers to take a 35-28 lead into halftime. "We had some great possessions in the first half and we had some poor ones, and there were not too many in between," said Bales. "Defensively, when we did things correctly we caused deflections, we caused steals, it was one and done. Offensively, when we cut hard, when we posted up hard good things happened. But it was few and far between to say it easy. We had too many possessions where they wanted it more than us, we weren't cutting hard, we didn't demand the ball in the post hard enough. "Defensively, we'd go from talking and communicating, getting stops for two possessions, and all of a sudden we'd go quiet for two possessions. I can't explain that. It's something they're going to have to figure out. It's something we're going to honestly keep' on them about, but I thought they were locked in the second half and found a way to win." The Panthers buried another two triples to jump off to a 6-0 start to the third and open up an 11-point,

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church 458 W. Walnut St, Nappanee Sunday Mass - 3:00 p.m. Confessions - 2:00 p.m. ************ Pillar of Fire 751 W. Market St, Nappanee Sunday School - 10:00 a.m. Worship - 11:00 a.m. & 3:00 p.m. Pastor: Rev. Hershel Anderson ************ New Life Church 209 S. Main St. • 773-5750 Sunday Worship - 10 a.m. Morning Worship -11 a.m. Pastor: L Dean Anglemyer, Jr. ************ Tiirkey Creek Church of the Brethren 72906 CR 13 *773-3700 Sun School - 9:15 am Sun Worship - 10:15 am Pastor: Pastor Roger Eberly ************ Union Center Church of the Brethren 70535 County Rd. 11 773-4295 www.cob-net org/churchj unionctr.htm Sunday Worship - 9:00 a.m. Sunday School -10:30 a.m. Pastor: Jim Davis ************ Union Grove BIC 69954 County Rd. 11 574-773-GROVe (4768) Sunday Worship -10:30 a.m. Pastor: Darin Simms ************ United Methodist Church 301 E. Market •773-4183 Contemporary Worship - 8:00 am. Sunday School - 9:00 am. Traditional Worship -10:00 am. Pastor: Linda Craig ****♦»**♦**♦

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41-28 lead over the visitors, but Ruff split a pair of free throws drawing a foul in the lane with 15.3 seconds remaining in the period to cut that lead bade to single digits at 47-36 going into the final frame. The senior forward took a charge at the start of the fourth, and McNeil assisted Kyle Kaser on a layup at the other end to drop die lead to 46-39 with 6:50 remaining. A driving kick from David Lee and comer 3 from McNeil his third and final trey of the night at the 4:45 stop brought the Pilgrims within four at 50-46, and, after Lee came down with the defensive rebound on the other end, the junior point guard pushed tne ball up the floor for a quick transition layup to cut the lead further to 50-48 with 3:23 to go. North Wood's Derek Yoder split a pair of freebies in the double bonus to stretch the lead bade to 51-4810 seconds later, but Lee made another big play with a steal and two free throws off a foul on the ensuing breakaway to leave the Panthers with a tenuous 51-50 lead. Yoder again split a pair of free throws to push the lead back to 52-51, but Ruff knocked down the front end of a one and one with 1:07 on the clock to bring the score to 52-51. North Wood freshman Braxton Miller missed both of two free throw attempts with 26.9 seconds left, and Ruff parted the lane for the

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1. Is the Book of Sadducee in the Old or New Testament or neither? 2. From Genesis 3, whom did Gpd ask, “Who told thee thou was naked"? Eve, Cain, Adam, Moses 3. What did Saul use a couple of times in attempts to k'HI David? Poison, Spear, Mallet, Sling 4. Frojn Judges 8, what city refused to give food to Gideon's army? Succoth, Thessalonica, Tarsus, Gaza 5. Why did David meet Goliath without armor? Faith

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Bethel Missionary Church ' 63473 C.R. 7 • Goshen 862-2631 Sunday School - 9:30 a.m. Worship Service - 10:30 a.m. Sunday Evening Service - 6:00 p.m. Jim Smith, Lead Pastor ************ Bible Baptist Church 205 E. Waterford St • Wakarusa 862-2214 Sunday School - 9 a.m. Worship -10 a.m. & 7 p.m. David Harper, Pastor ************ Holdeman Mennonite Church 65723 CR 1 • 574-862-4751 Sunday Service - 9:30 a.m. Sunday School - 10:45 a.m. ************

game-winner to keep the Pilgrims undefeated in five games. While McNeil led Plymouth a second straight game in scoring with 13 points, Ruff finished with 12 to complement game-highs of six rebounds, five assists and five steals at the Panther Pit. "You know you're going to get plays out of him, whether that's good or bad," said Bales of Ruff. "He's going to try to go as hard as he can, and he's going to try to make plays. Sometimes we've got to pull him out for a play or two, get him settled down. He's an emotional kid: When things are going well he's great tp have around; when things are not going well you pull him out and he takes a deep breath. "The take at the end was under control; it wasn't forced. It looked like the sea was opening there. I thought we had great movement. He finds ways to get to the basket he puts his head down and goes." Plymouth also got strong play off the bench from several players led by senior forward Kyle Kaser, who' finished with nine points, three rebounds, an assist and two steals, as well as junior guard Ike Kastner, who ppUed down a pair of rebounds and dished out two assists while coming away with three steals in nearly 14 minutes of floor See NLC, Page A 6

Wakarusa Missionary Church 202 W. Waterford St • Wakarusa 862-2102 Worship - 8:00 a.m. & 10:15 a.m. Sunday School - 9:15 a.m. Paul Commons, Pastor ************ Wakarusa United Methodist Church 309 S. Elkhart St •Wakarusa 862-2863 Worship Service (Contemporary) - 8:30 a.m. Sunday School - 9:20 a.m. Worship Service (Traditional) - 10:15 a.m. Rev. Ed Geleske, Pastor ************ Yellow Creek Church of the - Brethren 65575 County Rd. 11 • Goshen 862-2672 Morning Worship - 10:30 a.m. Sunday School - 9:30 a.m. ************

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