The Mail-Journal, Volume 20, Number 3, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 February 1983 — Page 13
Sports
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Swimmers clinch second in NLC
Wawasee accomplished one of its team goals last night in drowning Warsaw 77-49. Wawasee assured itself a secondplace finish in the NLC with the win against the Tigers, and coach Tim Caldwell will be getting his troops prepared for the NLC swimming meet next week. Wawasee’s forte is depth, and that 's what the Warriors relied on to defeat Warsaw. Wawasee dominated the meet with nine firsts in the 11 events, four seconds and five thirds. The win over Warsaw will be a good tune-up for Wawasee for the upcoming conference meet next Thursday, Feb. 10 at Plymouth. Winning for Wawasee were Tim Crum- in the 200 medley relay, and 100 backstroke. Tony Boyer in the 400 freestyle relay, 200 freestyle and 500 freestyle; Bob Galloway in the 200 in-
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dividual medley and 400 freestyle relay; Andy Wysong in the 200 medley relay, 50 freestyle and 100 freestyle; Greg Day in diving; and Bret Hite and Brad Overmyer as members of the 200 medley relay team. Also picking up first-place finishes were Hite and Jon Shoemaker in the 400 freestyle relay. Finishing second for the Warriors were Phil Zachery in diving, Crum in the 100 butterfly, Galloway in the 500 freestyle and Todd Smith in the 100 breast stroke. Third-place finishers were Benji Reed, Todd Smith, John Morgan and Rob Green in the 200 medley relay, Brett Hite in the 100 butterfly, Reed in the 100 backstroke and Overmyer in the 100 breast stroke and Green, Ryk Cagne, Reed and Rob Jewson in the 400 freestyle relay.
Athlete of the Week
This week’s Mail-Journal “Athlete of the Week” set a new school record when he pinned a Fairfield opponent in :07 seconds and was one of seven sectional champions at East Noble Saturday. Juan Roa, son of Mr. and Mrs. Amado Rpa of Milford, has established himself as one of the top wrestlers in the 119-pound weight class. A senior, Roa is one of coach Rich Welborn’s seniordominated varsity squad.
Yellow Jackets trounce Whiteman
The Syracuse Yellow Jackets eighth grade boys’ team tuned up for the Camelot Tourney last Wednesday, Jan. 26, by trouncing Whiteman Junior High, Goshen, 64-37. The victory raised the Jackets’ record to 6-3. Coach Tom Jones’ crew led from the opening moments and had put 42 points on the scoreboard by halftime. Tim Mangas led the scoring with 17 points all in the first half. The game turned into a team effort as all 11 players played and nine of them scored. Phil Maish scored 11 points in relief and Scott Robinson, Chris Yoder, Brett Traviolia and Jeremy Corson had six points each. For the year the Yellow Jackets averaged 46 points a game while holding their opponents to a 37 point average. The second round of the Camelot Tourney will be played Tuesday, Feb. 8, with the final game Thursday, Feb. 10. The Yellow Jackets enter the tourney with the third best record behind South Whitley 10-0 and Snowball tourney February 12 The Topeka Jaycees announce the second annual Snowball Softball Tournament, which will be held on Saturday, Feb. 12, at the Topeka Town Park. This will be a slow-pitch, onepitch, double elimination tournament, with a 12-run rule after five innings. Deadline is February 7. Trophies will be awarded for the first, second, third and fourth place teams. For information contact Fritz Helmuth or Tom Yoder of the Topeka Jaycees.
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Mentone 10-2. They will meet one of these teams in the second round if they defeat Pierceton in round one. Mohri, O'Connor officials at Warsaw The Northern Indiana Officials Association has announced the area officials selected by the IHSAA for the girls’ basketball sectionals to begin this week. Ed Christoffel of Warsaw will be at Mishawaka; Jay Smith of Milford at Northfield; Tim Smith of Mentone and Frank DeSantis of Bremen at Elkhart; Fred Mohri of Elkhart and Don O’Connor of Bremen at Warsaw. One Minute Sports Quiz 1. Name the two baseball players recently inducted into the Hall of Fame. 2. Who was named AP’s Female Athlete of the Year? 3. Who won the Glen Camp-bell-Los Angeles Open Golf Tournament? 4. In what sport was Yogi Berra known? 5. What year did Earl Campbell win the Heisman Torphy* Answers To Sport* Qniz ’ZJ.6I S •un&iow IK) T -jouunj aouvj -sip qq»l Z -pipuew u ’ n r pus uosuiqog
Warriors drop two, back in NLC chase Friday
By GARY LEWIS Win or lose, said coach John Wysong, he wanted his team to improve. And as the coach may have forcasted last week, his team showed considerable improvement in one of its best efforts of the season. Unfortunately, it was the most bitter loss of the season. Friday’s contest with Whitko, in front of a jam-packed screaming home crowd, was a sizzler Two great teams battled back-and-forth with some great offensive and defensive plays by both chibs. For a moment it seemed Wawasee would be the winners until an official ruled that he threw the ball off center on a crucial jump ball with :03 remaining. The ruling came after the final buzzer sounded and after an instant celebration by the players and the fans. But two free throws, after ;03 was put back on the clock, ended Wawasee’s bid for a ninth-straight win at 6463. Saturday’s performance wasn’t nearly as perfect, and a slick, fast East Noble squad took advantage of the Warriors’ mental condition with a 66-58 win at the Kendallville Southside gymnasium. Despite the two losses, coach Wysong gave his team a mixed report card with both good and bad marks. “Against Whitko, we played a really good ball game for the most part. We did some things wrong and we made some errors, but with the other parts of the game we could have won it. But we didn’t get the job (tone. We did do some very important things really well. ». It was a different story at East Noble. The Warriors’ biggest asset Friday was intensity and poise. Despite some early setbacks, the Warriors kept themselves in the game with a great deal of patience and poise. “At East Noble, we played hard as usual, but we didn’t have that spice, kick and spunk that we got to have to beat some of these better teams, ’’ said Wysong. Wawasee did not play flat Saturday, but it seemed the Warriors were a bit tentative at times. “Our mental concentration was poor. And perhaps as poor as its been at anytime of the year,” he added. “When you lose your mental concentration, then human nature takes over. Human nature is not making passes crisp, it is poor shot selection. Human nature is putting the ball down on the floor too much, ’ ’ Wysong explained. Despite all of the sins the Warriors were committing Saturday, a stingy man-toman defense kept the game close right up to the end. At Rochester this Friday, the Warriors will battle a team
Whitko 64 Wawasee 63
Whitko’s junior guard Jeff Peters hit two pressure free throws with .01 remaining to give the Wildcats a hardfought 64-63 win over Wawasee. The win snapped Wawasee’s eight-game winning streak and extended Whitko’s record to 10-3. Wawasee had the lead at 6362 after senior Kevin Smith hit two pressure free throws of his own with : 18 remaining giving Wawasee a 63-62 lead. With time ticking away, a jump ball between Jon Vitaniemi and Whitko’s Charlie Dull was called on Whitko’s end of the floor. The official tossed the ball in the air, Vitaniemi
East Noble 66 Wawasee 58
EAST NOBLE — Wawasee evened things up in the first quarter, took command in the second, but lost it down the stretch at Kendallville’s Southside gymnasium Saturday dropping their * second straight and fourth of the season to East Noble 66-58. j The final score gives no indication of how close the game really was. Using an effective full-court press the entire contest, East Noble forced 26 Wawasee turnovers. The Knights’ employed longrange bomber Kevin Lowder to put East Noble back into the lead in the third stanza. Lowder scored eight of his 10 points in the quarter, all from deep in the corner. The Warriors built a 30-24 lead in the second quarter with 1:08 left on a free throw by Brian Walls and owned a 30-26 lead at the break. Six points was the biggest lead the Warriors could get in the contest. East Noble took the lead for good in the third quarter on two Lowder jumpers with about five minutes left in the stanza at 37-35. A lay-in by Spunar put the Warriors ahead by one briefly but the Knights came back to lead by four before the quarter ended. Wawasee played catch-up in the fourth stanza as the Knights’ led the entire final eight minutes. The Warriors came within one at 51-52 by a free toss by Zurcher, but could get no closer as the Knights outscored the Warriors 16-7 the rest of the way. Senior center Ron Spunar left the contest with his fifth foul —a result from an unavoidable collision on a break — with 4:22 to go. In an effort to create some steals, coach John Wysong went with a quick line-up, replacing Spunar with Jeff Atwood, moving Jon Vitaniemi to center. Wawasee overcame a 8-2 early East Noble lead to even things up at 14-14 after the first quarter of play. Wawasee led all the way during the entire second stanza. East Noble’s fine free throw shooting, 20 of 22, kept the Knights in contention from the beginning. Cougill ted all scorers with 15 for East Noble, who won its 12th game of the season. Uhl, who gave the Warriors fits
swatted it toward Smith but Peters cut in front of the batted ball. Peters shot from the top of the key was off, and for a moment an estatic Wawasee crowd swarmed the floor to greet an equally estatic group of Wawasee players. The celebration proved to be premature, though, as referee George Taylor of Muncie ordered three seconds back on the clock for a re-jump because of his own bad toss. The official timer did not stop the clock because no whistle was heard. Films of the contest later showed that Taylor did not have his whistle in his mouth, resulting in the
when they tried to press late in the contest, ended with 12 followed by Lowder’s 10. For Wawasee, Spunar scored 13, Vitaniemi 13, Walls 12 and Kevin Smith 10. EAST NOBLE (66) — Uhl 4-13 4- 2, Dove 3-5 4-4 3, Geiger 2-8 5- 3, Cougill 6-10 3-3 4, Wolf 2-4 4-4 2, Lowder 5-9 0-0 4, Foster
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THE JUMP THAT WASN’T—Joa Vitaniemi appears te get the upper hand as he swats the ball away from Whitko’s Charlie Dull during last Friday’s crucial jump ball. The referee said he threw the ball up crooked and ordered the final :03 back on the clock. On the ensuing re-jump. Whitko won the jump ball, resulting in two winning free throws. (Photo by Gary Lewis)
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that’s been rather mysterious of late. A winner over Concord Friday (76-59) but losers against lowly Triton Saturday (47-44), the Zebras will entertain Wawasee with a 8-7 record. “I don’t know what that means. The thing we got to do is do other things much better and concentrate better.” he said. Wysong believes his team’s performance is not a total letdown despite the miscues Saturday. “The week end won’t hurt us. It hurts our record, particularly the Whitko game. But it won’t hurt us unless we let it. We should feel like we should play better basketball in the future, which, of course, doesn’t guarantee any wins, but should increase our chances,” said Wysong. Rochester coach Mike Jones has a pair of intelligent guards, led by 5-11 senior Jeff Zent. Six-foot-three senior Rusty Triplett is the team’s leading scorer Other probable starters for Friday’s contest will be 6-1 senior John Paulik and 5-10 senior Mike Marrs. ; Wysong said just about everyone played well Friday, but Saturday everyone was a bit off their game — except for senior center Ron Spunar. Spunar accounted for 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting from the field. (For more details on last week’s games, see related articles before) “I think Ron played a good game Saturday. Ron played up to par but I don’t think anyone else really did," said Wysong Spunar’s performance was even more satisfying when one considers the inability of the Warriors to get the ball inside. Spunar picked up his fifth foul in the latter half of the fourth quarter, and his departure may have been a big key. “It was a key for us at the time. We didn't sit him down with four fouls because we felt the ball game was in the process of being won or lost at the time,” Wysong said. Friday’s contest is one of three NLC battles remaining on Wawasee’s schedule. If the Warriors win at Rochester, the schedule looks good for Wawasee with both Bremen and North Wood scheduled at home. Currently in a tie for first-place, Wawasee needs to win Friday to stay in the chase. Losing a doubleheader can be tough on his young squad, so the Rochester contest will be another test of the team’s stamina. “It would really help us we had a following over at Rochester because right now we re at an important part of our season and its important we play well.' said Wysong. The JV game begins at 6:15 p.m., with the varsity following A sign-up list for a fan bus to Rochester will be distributed all week at the high school. If enough sign-up. students can take a bus to Rochester.
confusing turn of the events. The re-jump was won by Dull this time, and the ball again went to Peters. The shot was off but the official called a foul on Vitaniemi, sending Peters to the charity stripe for the game-winner. The W’arriors bounced back from an eight-point deficit in the first half in the third stanza with six straight points. Vitaniemi’s two free throws with ;07 left in the period put the Warriors ahead 47-46 going into the final quarter. Wawasee seemed to command the early going in the final stanza and led 59-56 with 2. 43 to play. Dull hit a jumper from the baseline and Jeff
2-2 0-0 3. WAWASE& (58> — Smith 1-9 8-81, Atwood 0-2 0-01, Walls 411 4-6 2, Vitaniemi 4-8 5-6 2, Spunar 5-7 3-5 5, Zurcher 4-7 245. Shooting: Wawasee 24 of 52 for 46 per cent. East Noble 18 of 44 for 41 per cent.
Reid took advantage of a Warrior miscue for a 60-59 lead. The teams traded baskets, a pair of Smith free throws and a 15-footer by Peters, before Smith again went to the line. Ron Spunar blocked another shot by Peters, who ended the game with 18, with :09 left, but the ball went out-of-bounds, setting up the wild finish. Whitko’s center, Doug Snep. scored 18 followed by Jeff Reid’s 12. Whitko shot 52.8 per cent . from the field while Wawasee had one of its poorest shooting percentages from the floor in recent weeks with 42.8.
Free throws. Wawasee 22 of 29, East Noble 20 of 22. Rebounds: Wawasee 20 (Smith 3, Walls 4, Spunar 6, Atwood 2, Vitaniemi 3), East Noble 11 (Glenger 3, Lowder 3, Wolf 3, Foster 2) Turnovers: Wawasee 26, East Noble 15.
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