The Mail-Journal, Volume 8, Number 4, Milford, Kosciusko County, 24 February 1971 — Page 28

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Coach Vernon Zurcher’s Wawasee Warriors could be the team to beat in the 1971 sectional tournament. They have already defeated four of the other five teams in the tournament, losing only to the favored Rochester Zebras ■ v rare* 71 With the school now in its third year of existence Wawasee high school athletes are beginning to come into their own. Impressive seasons have been recorded in football, wrestling and swimming and the basketball team has thus far had its share of victories. They won seven consecutive games on their home floor before being stopped by North Wood on February 12. The Warriors lost their season opener 64-74 to Carroll but downed tough Fairfield 74-62 in their home debut.

Mishawaka's powerful Cavemen stopped the Warriors 78-87 as the two teams met for the first time this year. Concord was a 65-79 victor over Wawasee.

Er® Aj SU «iki IM6 SECTIONAL CHAMPS — Coach Arto Beiswanger led the Milford Trojans to a sectional championship in 1946. Members of the team are pictured here. From left in front are Lewis Speicher. Don Wolferman. Phil Snyder. Don Michael and BUI Speicher. In back are manager Jim Speicher. Wayne Riggs. PhU Beer, coach Beiswanger. Bob Hurd. Jack Klopenstine and Junior Chupp.

dr Jh m w REMEMBER 1945 — Remember the year 1945 when the Syracuse Yellow Jackets were the team to beat! During the 1944-45 season the Yellow Jackets under coach Calvin Beck won 25 games, losing only three including the last game of the regional tournament The team won both the comity and the sectional. They played four games in each tourney to win the double crown. In the regional the Syracuse five defeated North Side of Fort Wayne before losing to Auburn in the finals. The photo was taken after the Warsaw sectional in 1945. From left in front are Rapp. Hoopingarner. Traster. Winegart and StiegUti. fa back with coach Beck are Beck, Beß. Laughlin and Carr.

The Warriors then defeated Warsaw 70-61, Triton 72-67 and Manchester 82-70. In the Qoshen holiday tournament the Warriors fell to powerful Penn 75-62 in the afternoon session and soundly defeated DeKalb .97-73 in the consolation game. Strong Plymouth also defeated the Warriors 73-105 on the Rockies small gym floor. Wawasee then defeated Bremen 69-48. Mentone 81-73. Akron 74-63. Jimtown 90-80 and Pierceton 94-67. Rochester defeated the Warriors 94-68 j <' -T* In a very slow game Wawasee was a 20-19 victor over the West Noble Chargers. Wawasee lost its first home game of the season February’ 12 when the Warriors played host to North Wood and fell three points behind at the final gun. North Wood won the game 66-69. The Warriors defeated Lakeland 88-47 on February 13 to claim their 12th victory of the season

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k Young Team This year’s Wawasee varsity team is a young team with only three seniors — Dave Elliott, Russ Mikel and Mark Thomas Lettermen Tim Blue and John Hamilton are juniors this year as are other members of the team. Kim Cripe is the lone sophomore. Assisting Zurcher in the coaching duties is junior varisty coach Tom Spear who is in his first year at Wawasee. When asked about the Warriors Zurcher stated the defense had been down but they are working on it and on rebounding. Otherwise, he commented, everything is “OK”. The team is now in good physical shape after illness and injuries had sidelined several members of the team. Zurcher’s team has been averaging four guys in double figures and sometimes five. Truly, the W’awasee Warriors are a team to watch this year. L——" y*

SPENCER’S TROJANS — The North Webster Trojans are shown above after they won the sectional tournament in 1953. From left in the front row are John Valentine, N. R. “Nub” Niles, Bob Likens, Doug Bowser, Lewis Neibert, Jim White, Daryl Hill. Sam Popenfoose and Jim Butler, manager. , . .. In the second row are Floyd Baker, coach Sid Spencer, John Nine, John Weimer, Warren Sloan and Jerry Rhodes.

- Farmers Feed Service Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Culver North Webster UJAlaunt TO THE TRITON SECTIONAL TOURNEY Sharp Hardware Milford Warsaw GO WARRIORS - - - Louie's Bar and Grill Lake Wawasee