The Mail-Journal, Volume 14, Number 51, Milford, Kosciusko County, 11 January 1978 — Page 8

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Sports

tsps t >. X W v< B ' iio i jOa t I Jrejfc 1 CAPTURE INVITATIONAL — Four members of the Wawasee Warrior wrestling team captured first or second places at the New Haven Invitational last Saturday. The Warriors finished with an unbeaten record thus far in the season. Above left, are ferry Rinker, first 85 pound class; Phil Beer, first 138 pound class; Wayne Gronendyke, first 145 pounds; and Robby Ladner, second 112 pound class.

Wrestlers second in tourney

By MARK STIFFLER The Wawasee wrestling team was a participant in the New Haven Invitational held Saturday. Wawasee placed second in the eight-team field. The Warriors, the returning champs, put five men in the finals, three of whom are champions. This was the largest total of individual champions but Wawasee still came in second behind Fort Wayne North. North Side was able to place all 13 of its men whereas the Warriors failed to place in one weight class, had an injury in another and didn’t have enough face-to-face matches with the Fort Wayne team in the early rounds. Final Team Points: Fort Wayne North — 187 Wawasee — 173‘z

Sectional at Triton

The 1978 sectional tournament will be held at Triton High School this year with Tippecanoe Valley, Rochester, Triton, Warsaw and Wawasee participating. This is the same as the 1977 sectional site and pairings and is the fourth straight« year that Triton has been chosen as sectional host. The 68th state tournament will have 399 schools contending for the championship. Sectional dates: March 2,3, 4. The regional tournament will be played at Elkhart on March 11 and will feature sectional winners from Triton, Columbia City, Plymouth and Elkhart. Semi-state play will be on March 18 with the state finals being on March 25. Wawasee is the defending sectional champion. Pairings will be made on the evening of February 21 in the Indiana High School Athletic Association offices at Indianapolis. Other Area Teams Other area teams are playing at sectional sites elsewhere in the state with the possibility of three Northern Lakes Conference teams meeting in the regional. In 1977 Concord and Plymouth joined Wawasee in regional play.

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Marion — 168 New Haven — 154 Elkhart Memorial — 152 Homestead — Manchester — 97 Woodlan — 36M> Champions Terry Rinker (8-0) 100 lb. class — Ist round - pinned Curt Silver (Manchester) 1:56; 2nd - dec. Greg Nelley (Marion) 6-0; final - dec. B. Williams (Homestead) 4-2 Phil Beer (6-2X440 lb. class — Ist round - pinned J. Luckey (Homestead) 1:07; 2nd - pinned P. Kisan (New Haven) 4:31; final -dec. D. Warner (North Side) 6-5 Wayne Gronendyke (8-0) 147 lb. class — Ist round - dec. D. Nedburg (Homestead) 114; 2nd - dec. L. Lash (New Haven) .6-5) final - dec. E. Bradley (Marion) 15-7

Columbia City’s line up will feature Central Noble (last year’s sectional winner), Churubusco, Columbia City, Manchester and Whitko. East Noble’s sectional will feature Bethany Christian, East Noble, Fairfield, Howe Military, Lakeland, West Noble and Westview. Elkhart will host Concord (NLC), Elkhart Central, Elkhart Memorial, Goshen (NLC), Jimtown, Northridge, North Wood (NLC) and Penn. At Plymouth the teams are Argos, Bremen (NLC), Glenn, LaVille, North Liberty and Plymouth (NLC). The NLC teams in the Triton sectional are Wawasee, Warsaw and Rochester. Money stolen Jerry Wilson, r 1 Leesburg, Wildwood Drive, repaled between S3OO and $350 in silver money, with seven SIOO bills, were stolen sometime between 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 7 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 8. County Police Lt. Richard Mikel said that thieves pried open sliding doors on the east side of the building.

Runners-up Robby Ladner (4-4) 114 lb. class — won by a pin, a decision and lost in overtime in the finals Hal Hammaker (6-2) 128 lb. class —won by pin and lost 12-7 to the returning champ in the finals in the finals 3rd place — John Beer 187 lbs.; Doug VanLue hwt. 4th place — Larry Germonprez (107 lbs.) sth place — Arnold Garza 121 lbs.; Kevin Marose 134 lbs. 6th place — Jim Glon 157 lbs.; Rusty Morrison 169 lbs. Special instruction released for game Special instructions for fans attending the WawaseeNorthridge game Friday night have been received by Carl Meditch, Wawasee athletic director. Fans are to park on the north side of Northridge High School and may enter through the doors on that side of the building. All tickets for the game will be $1.50. Junior varsity squads will meet at 6:30 p.m. and the varsity teams will play at 8 p.m. Fan buses will leave from Syracuse at 5:30 p.m., and earlier, at 5:15 from North Webster and Milford. Shuttle buses,will run for the Saturday nightLeontest between Wawasee and Tippecanoe Valley at Wawasee. Buses will leave at 6:15 from North Webster and Milford. Junior varsity game will start at 6:30 p.m., followed by the varsity game at 8 p.m. Freshmen teams split with EN Members of the Wawasee freshman basketball squads traveled to East Noble High School on January 3 where they met the A and B teams from East Noble. The A team won 44-42 with the B team being defeated 46-41. Leading scorer for the A team was Tim Butt with 12 points. Butt and Max Grady were leading rebounders. The score by quarters was as follows: Wawasee 12 26 36 44 East Noble 4 17 37 42 The A team now has a record of 3-3. Leading scorer for the B team was Stacy Kuhn. Mike Nordin was the leading rebounder. Score by quarters was as follows: Wawasee 8 14 28 41 East Noble 8 20 35 46 Theß team now has a record of 1-3.

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JV Warriors whip Plymouth

By MARK STIFFLER Wawasee’s JV Warriors jumped ahead of Plymouth’s Pilgrims Friday night and held off several rallies to win the contest by a 42-38 score. Bart Bowser, a sophomore guard, put Wawasee up 2-0 with a bucket with only 10 seconds ticked off the clock. Plymouth scored its first points of the night with 3:00 left in the first quarter to cut the Wawasee lead to 4-2. The Warriors extended their lead to 8-4 but a last-second shot by the Pilgrims knotted the score at eight at the end of the period. The second quarter saw Wawasee grab a three point lead and then both teams had some troubles as the play got a little ragged. Mark Wagoner gave Wawasee a 21-17 lead late in the half and Mike Kissinger added a basket to give Wawasee a 23-17 halftime lead. Plymouth came out in the third quarter with winning the game on their minds. They erased the six-point halftime deficit by tying the game at 25 with 2:30 left in the quarter. The score was just as close, 27-27, at the end of the third stanza. Plymouth took its only lead of the game at 29-27 early in the fourth period. Mark Wagoner of Wawasee tied the game at 31 with a hoop. The Warriors got ahead for good with 3:50 left. Jay Kaiser and Mark Sumpter strengthened the Wawasee lead by hitting a free throw and a basket, respectively. The Warriors committed several turnovers Finish runners-up The Wawasee Future Farmers of America basketball team finished as runners-up in the District II FFA Basketball Tournament. The annual tourney was held over the Christmas holidays at Bremen. Eleven chapters from District II competed. The Wawasee team posted victories over teams from Culver and Bremen to advance to the final game. They were defeated by Rochester in the championship game. ¥ Team members were Ed Clayton, John Kaiser, Rick McKibben, Ron Aaron, Jeff Hall, Jeff Beezley, Allen Coy, Bill Cusick, Tim Kaufman, Dave Strombeck, Rusty Waugh and Doug Wuthrich. Judy Ferverda, Kay Ferverda and Raetta Clayton served as team statisticians. The group was accompanied during the two-day tournament by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Aaron, Mrs. Florence Shenefield, Mrs. Richard Kaiser, Mrs. Ann Bell, Mrs. Dai Ferverda and Mike and Mr. and Mrs. Randy Warren. New track record set Sizemore Cycle Land’s race team set a new track record at the Michigan International Snowmobile Association’s races held at Gladwin, Mich., January 1. Sizemore Cycle Land is located in the Wawasee Village, Syracuse. Traveling at 76 and one-half mph, three mph faster than the Ski-Doo factory team, Don Kurtz set the record on the half-mile oval. Kurtz, from Bristol, has won seven national and four international hydroplane championships and holds world records in snowmobile racing. The team will be competing in the following races making up the 1978 MISA Triple Crown: January 14, Alpena, Mich., 500 miles; January 28, Traverse City, Mich., 250 miles; February 11, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, 500 miles; and a 250 mile race at Cheboygan, Mich.

that enabled Plymouth to cut the lead to 38-36 with :36 remaining. Jay Kaiser hit two free throws with :16 left to ice the win. Jay Kaiser led Wawasee with 11 points. Mark Wagoner added nine. The Warriors will be in action Friday at Northridge.

Warriors lose thriller to Plymouth

By MARK STIFFLER Wawasee coach Jerry Lambert shuffled his line-up for the second straight game and it almost worked for another victory. Lambert started four big men and one guard to run his offense. The effort fell just short as Plymouth came away with a 5655 win. It looked as if it might be a long game for Wawasee as Plymouth streaked to an 11-2 lead. Wawasee came back, however, to draw within 15-12 with 1:30 left in the quarter. Bryan Smith scored eight of these points and Mark Lantz tossed in the other four. The score at the end of the first quarter was 19-16 Plymouth. Phil Stichter put Wawasee on top 22-21 with a lay-up 2:00 into the second quarter. With the Pilgrims clinging to a 23-22 lead Worth Packer caught fire. He hit two free throws and then two baskets to give Wawasee a 28-23 lead. Plymouth then went on an 82 spurt to take the halftime lead at 31-30. The Pilgrims increased their lead to 37-31 with a 6-0 spurt early in the third period. Wawasee put together another comeback to trail only 41-39 at the end of the third period of action. The contest remained close the rest of the way. The Warriors were finally able to draw even at 49 with 5:07 left to play. Only 32 seconds later Bryan Smith hit

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Wawasee wrestlers 5-0

By MARK STIFFLER The Wawasee wrestling team raised its record to 5-0 with a 4017 win over Goshen Thursday. Terry Rinker, 100 pound class and Larry Germonprez, 107 pound class, got the Warriors off and running with an 8-0 lead. After Robby Ladner lost a tight match Arnold Garza and Hal Hammaker won easy decisions to give Wawasee an 18-3 lead. Ron Heney of Goshen beat Kevin Marose to bring the score to 18-7 but Phil Beer, Wayne Gronendyke and Jim Glon added 13 points to the Warrior total to put the meet pretty well out of

two free throws to give Wawasee a 51-49 lead. Those were Smith’s only points during the last three quarters of the game. Wawasee extended its lead to 55-51 with 2:30 left. Plymouth drew to 55-54 with 1:43 left and took the lead 5655 with 1:10 left. Wawasee had a shot at winning with :10 remaining but Smith couldn’t control the ball as he was driving and he lost it out-of-bounds. Plymouth lost its chance to ice

Warriors downed by Bremen

By MARK STIFFLER The Wawasee Warriors went to Bremen to play the Lions Saturday night and came away on the short end of a 64-56 final score. It seemed like the Warriors might win a laughter as they raced to a 10-4 lead in the opening quarter. Bremen got hot, though, to come back for a 21-14 lead after one quarter of action. Bremen would have blown Wawasee out of the gym if it hadn’t been for the play of Ken Patton. The senior forward came off the bench to score eight pounts and grab 10 rebounds in the second period. The halftime score was 38-37 Bremen. It was the Warriors’ turn to pull away in the third stanza as. the Lions could hit on only one of 12

Goshen's reach. Only two Warriors experienced a lot of difficulty in their matches. Rusty Morrison was pinned and John Beer lost to tough Dave Edland 11-2. 100 — Terry Rinker (W) dec. Randy Gill 20-6 107 — Larry Germonprez (W) dec. Matt Wittig 2-0 114 — Tim Gardner (G) dec. Robby Ladner 2-0 121 — Arnold Garza (W) dec. Dave Chupp 13-0 128 — Hal Hammaker (W) dec. Dan Sink 18-2 134 — Ron Heney (G) dec. Kevin Marose 13-4

the game and Wawasee had one more change. Smith took the inbounds pass with :02 left and his 30 footer rimmed the basket but came back out. Mark Lantz led Wawasee scores with 17 points. Worth Packer played a fine overall game and added 14. Phil Stichter and Bryan Smith each scored 12. Wawasee (55) Lantz 494- Packer 542, Simpson

shots from the field and committed eight turnovers. Wawasee was almost as cold as they could only gain two points for a 45-44 lead after three quarters. Bremen got hot again in the final quarter to overcome the Warrior lead and outscore the Wawasee squad 20-11. The final score was 64-56 Bremen. Wawasee did have balanced scoring. Phil Stichter pumped in 14 points. Patton, Bryan Smith and Mark Lantz each contributed 12. The Warriors will try to put another mark in the victory column at Northridge Friday night. Bremen (64) Zeltwanger 334, Miller 344, Waiterhouse 244, Adams 120, J. Smith 3-10-5, Morton 104, D.

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140 — Phil Beer (W) dec. Dave Richards 11-1 147 — Wayne Gronendyke (W) pinned Bruce Snyder at 3:17 ' 157 — Jim Glon (W) dec. Jon Lehman 8-7 169 — Mark Wittrig (G) pinned Rusty Morrison at 4:48 179 — Scott Moore (W) dec. Brent St. Germain 13-8 '4 187 — Dave Edland (G) dec. John Beer 11-2 Hwt. — Doug VanLue (W) pinned Davy Hire at 1:10 Rinker and Gronendyke are sporting 5-0 records for Wawasee and Arnold Garza is 4-0.

003, Smith 522, Stichter a2l, Patton 001, Carl 001. Totals 19-17-14 Plymouth (56) Pynaert 314, R. Master 403, Menser 303, Beeker 422, Buchanan 313, J. Master 803, Crawford 101, Morris 03, Hileman 000. Totals 264-22 Score By Quarters Plymouth 19-12-12-13 — 56 Wawasee 16-14-11-14 — 55

Smith 230, Fox 162, Kiefer 001. Totals 16-32-24 Wawasee (56) Lantz 365, Packer 005, Simpson 102, Smith 363, Stichter 384, Carl 002, Patton 525, Trobaugh 125, Rassi 001, Sylvester 000. Totals 16-24-32 Score By Quarters Wawasee 14-23-8-11 — 56 Bremen 21-19-6-20 — 64 Swimmers place 4th By MARK STIFFLER The Wawasee boys swim team participated in the Lewis Cass Tourney Saturday, Dec. 31. They placed fourth in the tourney. Fine performances were turned in by Scott Arnold and the members of the 400 meter relay team.