The Mail-Journal, Volume 20, Number 3, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 February 1983 — Page 11
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Sports ■ J» ’ < - I jf ''. IpIVWA T wr® iHr boL ■ Hr Am* 1 IHr lL3Lau -W JmAuLb iwm I JcaBLY U HHe dr ZjMALL. SECTIONAL CHAMPS — The 1983 East Noble sectional champion Wawasee wrestlers are: front row. Steve Yoder, Mike Hernandez, David Melendez, Juan Roa, Rob DeSomer, Chuck Cotton and DeWayne Turner. Back row: coach Dave Baumgartner. Pat Inks, Tim Fraser, Todd Reiff, Jim Cramsie, Jason Keim. Tony Blackburn and coach Rich Welborn. (Photo by Sharon Stuckman) Warrior grapplers win sectional crown
Wawasee’s wrestling team finished well above second place East Noble Saturday at the sectional to capture the crown. The Warriors had seven sectional champions and two wrestlers placing second, sending a total of nine to the regional on February 5. Sectional champions were Chuck Cotton, Juan Roa, David Melendez, Michael Hernandez, Tony Blackburn, Todd Reiff and Tim Fraser. Reiff and Hernandez won sectional titles last year. Finishing second were Rob DeSomer and Steve Yoder. Duane Turner placed third and will also be able to compete at regional if the second place winner is unable to go. Jim Cramsie of Wawasee also placed third at sectional and Jason Keim and Pat Inks placed fourth. Wawasee’s team score was 180’2- East Noble finished second with 157' 2 . West Noble placed third with 139 points, Westview placed fourth with 50' ■> and Central Noble had 21 1 •>. Chuck Cotton defeated Scott Rhea of East Noble by pin in 55 seconds in the championship found of the 105 pound class. In the final match of the 119-pound class Juan Roa defeated
Roa sets record, wrestlers top Falcons
Juan Roa broke a school record with a seven-second pin as the Warrior wrestling team defeated Fairfield in the final regular
Warrior wrestlers paired for reaional
Carroll High School will be the site of the 1983 wrestling regional competition involving Wawasee wrestlers. Pairings for the first round of the tournament have been released and Wawasee’s pairings are as follows : Wawasee’s 105-pound champion Chuck Cotton (17-6) will face Mike Brunner of Homestead (1210) in the first round. Rob DeSomer (10-8), who placed second for Wawasee at sectional, will face Matt Ehler (15-5) of North Side High School in the first round of the 112-pound class. Champion Juan Roa (15-3) will face Chris Stock (16-5-1) of Bishop Dwenger in the first round of the 119-pound class. Another Warrior champion David Melendez (21-1) will face Todd Sumney (10-13-1) of Northrup in the first round of the 126pound class. The 132-pound class Warrior sectional champion Mike Hernandez (23-1) will face Scott Morris (17-9) of Harding in the first round. Steve Yoder (9-9) of Wawasee. who placed second at sectional, will face J. R. Roemke (23-5) of Concordia in the first round of the 138-pound class. At 145, sectional champ Tony Blackburn (16-6) will face Chad Lakeland Hot Shot contest held The 1983 Lakeland Kiwanis Club “Hot Shot” contest was held on January 29 at the North Webster gym. Winning ribbons in the competition were: Mike Ferverda, Jason Lambert, Scott Jones, Joe Rhodes, Neva Hughes, Kevin Lundy, Jason Mickley, Chad Brower, Jason Hollar, Chris Conkling, Chad Conkling, Kandi Erwin, Pete Bonner, Jeff Carey, Matt Deck, Basil Bonner, Troy Reiff, Mike Eastman and Darin Atwood. The first place winner of each grade participating in the contest will go the the final slated for February 12 during halftime of the Syracuse Junior High basketball game. They will compete against winners of the Syracuse and Milford schools.
season meet last Thursday at Wawasee. The Warrior grapplers lost only two matches during the meet to v
> Jones (21-5) of Columbia City in I the first round. > Todd Reiff (19-5), Wawasee’s t 177-pound sectional champ, will j face Dan Goeglein (22-4-1) of > Concordia in the first round. At 185 Tim Fraser (10-3), Wawasee’s sectional champion, > wilFface Willie Miller (20-2) from Northrop.
; Sports Comment — ; Side Lines 1 By Gary Lewis
i —— I WAS TALKING TO MAIL-JOURNAL publisher Arch Baumgartner the other day about the M-J sports pages, when the idea came up about a sports column every so often on these pages. He said it would give my sports reporting a 1 personal touch, something that’s been missing from ! The Mail-Journal. After all, with the success Wawasee High School has been enjoying lately, there should be plenty of things to write about. Being in a community for only six months, though, surely doesn’t qualify one to be an expert on local high school sports. So this column won’t be written by someone who thinks he knows more 1 about sports than the rest of the community. It will be written by a reporter, an interpreter at best, who will write about the events and the people surrounding athletics at Wawasee. Hopefully, it will add insight and entertainment for the reader and will benefit the coaches and athletes it recognizes. This is by no means a closed column. It’s open to suggestions and to criticism. Occasionally, a guest columnist will write these paragraphs. It might not appear every week, but it will appear frequently in an effort to improve the sports coverage of this newspaper. So, here it goes,!he first edition of Side Lines: WAWASEE’S BASKETBALL PROGRAM took it on the chin last week, with coach John Wysong’s boys’ team dropping two in a row and the girls’ disappointing loss at Bremen Thursday. But another successful winter sport, wrestling, won a big match last Saturday, winning the East Noble sectional easily with seven champions. A big story was the super-effort senior Todd Reiff displayed. The bruising fullback for coach Myron Dickerson’s football team went out for the sport his junior year —a rather late start for most wrestlers. Battling a 104-degree temperature, Reiff defeated his opponents and ended up the 177-pound champion. He paid the price for his efforts later this
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Phil Evers of East Noble 11-1, and in the championship round of the 126-pound class David Melendez defeated Jon Spaw of East Noble by a score of 7-4. Michael Hernandez won the 132-pound class by defeating Wade James of East Noble in 4.55 in the championship match. In the final round of the 145-pound class Tony Blackburn defeated Eric Ray by pin in 3:14 and Todd Reiff defeated Douglas Roe in the championship round of the 177-pound class 75. Tim Fraser won the 185-pound class by defeating Clint Williams of West Noble 10-6 in the final match of that weight class. DeSomer lost the championship round of the 112-pound class in overtime to Mike Rudolph of East Noble by a score of 6-2, and Steve Yoder lost to East Noble’s Les Nivens in the final match of the 138-pound class by a score so 5-3. Coach Richard Welborn said the Warriors are “ready to go to the regional and give them our best .” Wawasee will wrestle at Fort Wayne Carroll on Saturday.
down the visiting Falcons 56-9. At 98 pounds Dewayne Turner won by forfeit ajjd 105 Chuck Cotton pinned Devon Yoder in 30 seconds. Rob DeSomer won for Wawasee by defeating Jeff Lorenz 8-4 in the 112-pound class. Juan Roa pinned Jeff Simon in seven seconds at 119, and at 126 Dave Melendez defeated Scott Alberson in a 19-1 decision. Mike Hernandez won the 132pound class by defeating Keith Miller 19-5 and at 138 Steve Yoder defeated Lee Evans 15-2. Tony Blackburn, Wawasee’s 145-pound wrestler, defeated Scott Rieth 15-3 and Jason Keim defeated Kirk Maggert 16-7 at 155. The first loss of the met for Wawasee was at 167, when Fairfield’s Rick Marquart
week, and is currently suffering from a doctordetermined virus in one of his lungs. Welborn said Reiff will probably be prepared for the regional this Saturday. “He’ll be back,” said Welborn. If dedication has anything to do with it, then Reiff will return. HAVE YOU MADE YOUR PICKS yet for the girls’ sectional this week? A few weeks ago, Wawasee would have been the hands down favorite to walk away with its second consecutive sectional crown. But a greatly-improved Warsaw team, who upset Goshen, has thrown a kink in picking the “favorite.” But the recent loss to Bremen hasn’t dampned the spirits of head coach Dale Brannock. He still considers his team the favorite, but he knows anything can happen. The first game gets underway at 6:30 p.m. Thursday against Tippe Valley. Valley is the only team with a losing record in the tourney field while Warsaw’s much-improved team faces Triton in the second game at 8 p.m. The recent loss at Bremen brings up a lot of question marks for coach Dale Brannock’s club. But not for Brannock. “It’s a second season,” he said, one that he believes his girls will be prepared for. “We’re going to be alright.” Look for some surprises in tomorrow’s matchup. In addition to a brand-new starting line-up, Tippe Valley may just try to slow things down. Wawasee has been battling the flu bug lately, and as of Tuesday, Brannock was not sure who will have a green light to play. Wawasee demolished the Lady Vikings two months ago, so chances are Tippe Valley will attempt a few tricks to insure that it won’t happen again. Triton’s got Lori Feldman in the 8 p.m. contest with Warsaw, and the Lady Tigers could have their hands full. If Brannock’s confidence is any indication, then the Lady Warriors will do just fine this week and will make another regional trip.
defeated Jim Cramsie 9-3. Todd Reiff won the 177-pound class by pinning Shawn Swartzendruber in 4:49. In the 185pound class Wawasee won another match by pin when Tim Fraser pinned Jeff Anglemyer in 1:41. In the heavyweight division Wawasee took its second loss as Fairfield’s well known wrestler Herb Hofer pinned Pat Inks in 50 seconds. Wawasee’s season record is 8-2 overall and 5-2 in the NLC. The junior varsity, who ended its season 9-1, defeated the Falcons 24-0, with five matches wrestled. Wawasee junior varsity winners were Brad Traviola, Ron Martin, Ned Hunsburger, Don Kauffman and Lance Lantz.
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