The Mail-Journal, Volume 18, Number 47, Milford, Kosciusko County, 9 December 1981 — Page 9
Sports
Wawasee 58 — Tippi Valley 28 Valley falls, girls undefeated
The girls basketball game on Tuesday night that was billed as the battle between two unteams became a romp for the Wawasee girls as they defeated the visiting Tippecanjue Valley girls by the score of 58-28 Undefeated Tippi Valley invaded the Warrior gym to take on Cowboys take two game lead over Philadelphia The Dallas Cowboys took a two gaine lead over Philadelphia Sunday. Dec 6. in the National Football Conference's Eastern Division with a 37-13 dressing down of Baltimore while the Eagles were losing 15-13 to the Washington Redskins Dallas is !l-3and Philadelphia is 95
HAMMANS RECEIVE AW ARDS — Kina and Keeta Himman. daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Robert tlamman. former Syracuse resident*, now of Plymouth, received special awards during the LaVitle High School volley ball recognition program. Kina, a senior, also received honorable mention in the NSC' this year and Krcla. a junior, was on the first team of the NSC'. High school award winners shown above are Lana Kendall, setting award: Sandy Lippert. most valuable player; Kina, mental attitude award: and Keela. most improved award. vmF* I *' mm p mi II w s ' %- ■ l| P Is I ‘ft mm /tJr isl : 111 JIjHF Hk Ift ftftftL ft 1 I A HIGH POINT MAN - Jeff Long. 35. shown above io a crowd of Mhsoleaaco. scored 2d points Friday sight to lead the Warriors' attach. Long was followed closely by feMow classmen Kent Stickler with 19 and Jay Auer with 15. All are seniors. Wawasee defeated Concord 80-0 ha the first conference match of the year. (Photo by Shoroa SOckmnai
the 7-0 Warnorettes and promp tly took the lead The Lady Warriors struggled to gain control of the game and at the 2:12 minute mark Grace Stichter tied the score Seconds later Myra Ruch sank two free throws arid the talented Warnorettes
Wawasee 61 — Concord 36 Lady Warriors win 6th game
By SII VRON STI’CKM \\ she Wawasee girls' basketball team defeated conference rival Concord at Wawasee on Thur sday. Dec 3 The Warriors won 61 36. hitting 24 of 52 for a 46 per cent shooting average, which is
under Coach Dale Brannock were off and running The second quarter began w ith cold shooting by both squads — except for Lee Schacht She was the driving force behind her team's sewing 17 points in the quarter With the Vikings scoring
an outstanding record for girls Concord hit only 10 of 41 for 24 per cent Grace Stichter got the Lady Warnors off to a good start hitting three out of four in the first quarter At the end of the first quarter Wawasee was seven
five Coach Brannock substituted freely to finish out the half in the lead 27-11. The second half began with ragged play and bad passes by the Warnorettes before Stichter finally hit for two points halfway into the quarter
of 11 from the field and led 16-9 In the second quarter four points were made by regulars and the rest were made by the reserve players Cheryl Walker had seven points in the second penod. Sorensen. Sellers and Stump also sewed fw Wawasee and at halftime the score was 3317. Wawasee The Warriors went flat in the third quarter and sewed only six points All were made by Lee Schacht on field goals The sewe was 39-29 at the end of third quarter. The final quarter belonged to Wawasee as Schacht hit seven of eight free throws. Carol Walker. Maude Packer and Stichter are scored for Wawasee On rebounds Wawasee had 37 and Concwd had 2*2 Schacht was leading rebounder fw Wawasee. with 15 and Maude Packer had nine Wawasee is now 3-0 in the conference and6-ooverall Statistics FG FT PF C Walker 4 0 3 Ch Walker 3 1 0 L Schacht 4 9 1 M Packer 5 0 4 M Sorensen 1 0 1 M Ruch 0 1 3 T Sellers 0 2 0 G Stichter 5 0 1 D Stump 2 0 1 NLC Standings The following are Northern Lakes Conference standings for boys' basketball so far this season: * j.. Wawasee — 1-0 conference, overall Concord — 1-1 conference. 2-2 overall Plymouth — 0-0 conference. 2-0 overall North Wood — 0-0 conference. 31 overall Rochester — 0-0 conference. 3-1 overall Bremen — 0-0 conference. 1-2 overall Goshen — 0-0 conference, 0-0 overall Warsaw — 0-1 conference, 0-3 overall
WAWASEE ADULT BASKETBALL LEAGUE Monday, Nov. 30, mi Team Score Record High Point Player Wakarosa Pharmacy vs 11 D Slayton 24 Sylvan Marine 71 D Ravick 20 Merchants vs 71 Moser 18 Fairmont Homes 65 oG. Wright 17 Denny's Barbee Landing vs 61 Rhodes 19 Pilchers 63 D. Cone 14 Monsanto vs 78 D Calhoun 23 Louie's Bar/Grill 49 R. McKibbon 14 Tuesday. Dec. l. mi Love Furniture vs 65 D Beer 24 Hot Shots 70 BOH 13 Quackers Lounge vs 89 F . Knafol 23 Sturon{ac 74 Parrish 26 Syracuse Rubber vs 67 R. Hudson 24 Ace Hardware 52 D. Toppin 20 Quality Carpet vs 105 E Miller 23 Baker Boy's Club 58 B Shaw 21 Wawasee 80 — Concord 69
Victory for Warriors is conference win
By SHARON STOCKMAN The first conference game of the season was a Wawasee victory Friday as the Warnors defeated Concord 8049. The Warriors are now 3-1 overall and 1-0 in the Northern Lakes Conference Kent Stichter got the first score for Wawasee and put six points on the board in the first quarter Concord had two men with five points each in the first penod. Swoape and Staggs. Brian Geiger also scored six for the Warriors in the first period and Kirk Stichter and Jeff Long each had two. The score at the end of the first quarter was Wawasee 16. Concord 14. The Warriors pulled out ahead in the second quarter. In that period Jay Auer came off the Wawasee bench and surprised the Concord defense, scoring nine points for Wawasee. Kent Stichter’s shooting was consistent and Long began to find the
The Warrior gals seesawed between moments of glwy and sloppy play but it really made no difference They stayed ahead by 10 points or more in the third quarter The Walker twins started the fourth quarter with some nifty passing fw a fast two points; it was all Wawasee the rest of the game. Bad passing plagued the Warnorettes all evening but they held Tippi Valley, to only two free throws in the final quarter with sticky defense Lee Schacht and another outstanding game with 18 points was the only member of the team in double figures The lady Warriws play their last game before the holiday break when they host the North Wood Panthers on Monday night. Dec 14. at 6:15. Mathews wins trophy at Whitko Cary Mathews won the only trophy of the day fw the Warriors on Saturday. Dec 5. when the junior varsity wrestling team competed at an invitational tourney at Whitko Mathews had the most pins in the least amount of time In all. Wawasee had 13 winners The Warriors had two first place winners. Dave Melendez and Juan Roa Second place winners for Wawasee were Mike Cavender and Chuck Cotton Rob deSomer, Mathews and Doug Gerstner all placed third Jeff Moore and Rod Pippenger both received fourth place and Wawasee had four wrestlers placing fifth: Ted Sheets. Sam Ridenour, Robert Roa and Tim Fraser The junior varsity will be competing m an invitational at Goshen on Saturday ONE MINUTE SPORTS QUIZ 1. In what year did Bobby Orr receive the best rookie award for hockey? 2. Who won this year's Cy Young award? 3. Who won the Michaels Spinks. Vonzell Johnson light heavvweight title bout? 4. Name the pro football coach that recently won his 200th victory. 5. How long has Tom Landry been the Cowboy’s coach?
mark Bv half time Wawasee led 42 to 28 Wawasee got the third quarter tip and Jeff Long made the first three field goals far the Warriors Davis was open to score for the warnors and then Long scored again The Minutemen scored 20 points in the third quarter and Wawasee 17. to end the third penod of play with the Warriors leading 59-48 In the final period the Warriors put together a total teamwork effort and scored 21 points. Concord also scored 21. giving the Warnors the win by 11 points. Jay Auer was injured m the fourth quarter and junior Kevin Smith came off the bench to do a fine job in taking Ins place. Jeff Long was leading scorer for Wawasee. with 20 points, Kent Stichter scored 19 and Jay Auer 15, so the Warnors were well represented on offensive plays. The Warriors’ defense really responded well in the second half when Concord tried to even it up
MB ' . IP \ B pIP» ™ kfl Pfr ft WHOSE BALL? — Wawasee’s Dee Stump. 12. goes up for a shot as two Wes tv lew girls try for the rebound. The Lady Warriors from Wawasee won a thriller, 49-48. over the Lady Warriors from Westview on Saturday. (Photo by Sharon Stucknian>
Trojans lose The Milford Trojans suffered losses in recent basketball games The sixth grade boys suffered a double defeat Wednesday. Dec 2. when Nappanee beat both the A and B teams The score for the A team game was 14-23 and the B team's final score was 10-18 The seventh grade team lost 2628 in a close game with Warsaw Tuesday. Dec 1 The seventh graders were leading most of the game until Warsaw pulled ahead with only 50seconds to go. Leading rebounder and scorer was Harvey Melendez Terry Ryman also turned in a good allaround game Warsaw walloped the eighth grade team 50-16. Notre Dame loses to Murray State Notre Dame suffered its third straight loss Monday at the hands of Murray State. 56-54.
Wawasee 49 — Westview 48 Wawasee squeaks by Westview
By SHARON STOCKMAN The Lady Warriors won their sixth game at Wawasee Saturday when they defeated the Warriors of Westview by one point at the buzzer. 49-48 The game was very physical and at times the officiating was protested loudly by both coaches “Westview played well and was well coached. ’ said Wawasee coach Dale Brannock The winning factor to the game was the 44 rebounds made by Wawasee The Westview girls were credited with only 23 rebounds Os the 44 rebounds made by the Wawasee girls 26 were offensive and eight were put
with fast breaks and held out to victory 80-69 The junior varsity game was another Warrior victory as Wawasee won 40-36 Next Friday Wawasee will travel to Warsaw to face county rival. Tigers, and on Saturday will host Triton Statistics WAWASEE FG FT PF JayAuer 7 1 1 Todd Davis 3 3 0 Brian Geiger 2 4 3 Jeff Long 8 4 4 Kent Stichter 9 11 Kirk Stichter 1 0 1 Kevin Smith 13 0 RonSpunar 10 3 CONCORD Mark Heeter 4 5 2 Wayne Barranca 2 0 1 Pat Ummel 8 0 0 John Plummer 3 2 4 Roy Swoape 5 5 5 Mark Staggs 5 0 4 Jim Zurawski 0 1 2 Jim Abbott 100
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i SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE IT — Wuhuser's Cheryl Walker didn’t believe she actually made a basket in the last second of the game Saturday as the Lady Warriors defeated the visiting Lady Warriors from Westview 4!MS. CheryL in fact, made the final four points for the Warriors to ice the game. She rebounded and quickly scored with only seconds left and then, on a turn over, moved up court and shot with one second remaining. (Photoby SharonStuckman)
into the basket In girls' games, and often in boys' basketball, more defensive rebounds are made that offensive Overall this season Wawasee's girls have a record of more offensive rebounds than defensive and a good percentage of those offensive rebounds have been converted into baskets In the first quarter Wawasee got a four-point lead and by halftime had w idened that lead to seven, with a score of 28 to 21 The girls from Wawasee seemed to really miss the good shooting of Grace Stichter, who had been ill Even though she played she did not score w ell The Wawasee bench was often used throughout the evening and worked well to keep up a total teamwork game The Westview girls were strong on the boards but were held down by strong defense from Wawasee in the third quarter Wawasee scored 11 points but West viewscored 17 and at the end of that period Wawasee led by only one. 3938 In the fourth quarter Westview pulled out for a quick lead and was soon ahead by five. Lee Schacht stole the ball, with little time left in the game Maude Packer got a field goal to put Wawasee within three and the Wawasee defense held the Westview girls scoreless Carol Walker was fouled, missed the shot, but her sister. Cheryl, rebounded and quickly scored putting Wawasee within one with seconds left on the clock Westview turned over the ball and Cheryl Walker moved quickly to the Wawasee end of the gym. With one second left on the clock Cheryl shot and just as the buzzer sounded the bail dropped through the hoop to give Wawasee the one point victory. The win gives the girls an unbeaten season thus far. Maude Packer did an outstanding job on rebounds for Wawasee with 19 against Westview. Twelve of these were offensive and seven defensive. Maude converted two of these rebounds to scores
High scorer for the game was Lee Schaeht with 11 points. Statistics FG FT PF G Stichter 2 0 4 Carol Walker 2 3 4 Cheryl Walker 4 o l L.Schacht 4 3 o D Young 00 1 M Packer 4 1 2 M Sorensen 1 0 1 M Rueh 3 0 1 T Sellers 00 0 D Stump 1 0 0 Team 21 7 14 Advanced sale includes adult reserved tickets A pre-sale of tickets for the Warsaw-Wawasee basketball game at Warsaw on Friday will include adult tickets. Warsaw athletic director Gene Butts reminds Wawasee fans that all Warsaw tickets are for reserved seats and persons are required to sit in their designated seat. The pre-sale will be held in the Wawasee athletic office from 8 am. to 3 pm. for $1.50 for students and $2 for adults. Tickets at the door will be $2 for everyone. The junior varsity game will begin at 6:15 with the varsity game at 8 p.m. There will be a pre-sale of tickets for the fan bus at each of the junior high schools and at the athletic office at the high school on Friday. Tickets are sl. AU students wishing to ride the bus must have a ticket to assure a ride. The bus will leave Milford at 5 15, Syracuse at 5:30 and North Webster at 5:45 p.m. Triton Saturday A pre-sale of student tickets only will be held in the athletic office on Friday for the Triton game at Wawasee on Saturday. Student tickets are $1.25. Tickets at the door will be $2 for adults and $1.50 for students K-8 if accompanied by an adult. The JV game will start at 6:15 p.m. with the varsity game starting at 8 p.m.
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