The Mail-Journal, Volume 20, Number 27, Milford, Kosciusko County, 20 July 1983 — Page 8
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THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., July 28,1983
Sports
A conversation with ... V" Hal Traviolia: All systems ready for Fall
NOTE: Hal Traviolia will begin ■ his third year as athletic director at Wawasee High School. His ’ third year is part of an era when athletic budgets are hard-pressed as ever to spend wisely. With his bandaged foot propped on his desk, a result of a fall he suffered trying to hang banners in the school gym, the former Wawasee football coach talked with MailJournal sports reporter Gary Lewis about the upcoming fall' sports season. LEWIS: How are preparations going for the fall sports season. Does the early start (Aug. 4 for football, Aug. 8 for all others) hurt organization? TRAVIOLIA: I don’t think so. All of our scheduling and hiring of officials was finished before school was out. So, all scheduling of events, use of facilities and officials were all taken care of. LEWIS: Are there any coaching changes for any of the sports this season? TRAVIOLIA: We have two changes. Rob Hanson, who’s returning to us from Western Michigan University, will replace Dave Baumgartner on the football staff. Jim Jones, assistant football coach, is going to take over Baumgartner’s (assistant) wrestling duties. Galen HerCesco announces starting dates Wawasee golf coach Rudy Cesco has announced the starting dates for the upcoming 1983-84 girls’ golf season. All girls interested in playing golf this fall should report to a meeting at 7 p.m.. August 1, at Maxwelton Golf Course. The first practice is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9. The first meet of the season is slated for August 23 at the Rensselaer Invitational.
iiiviuiiiunai. ■ — — — Mvr ————————— a a 1 ■ *** a • a- ~~~ KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN TEAM — Pictured is the Kentucky Fried Chicken Minor League team from the Syracuse Youth League. In the front row are Todd Martz. Craig Martindale. Jason Johnson. Damian Lambright and Jarrod Peace. In the second row are Chris Martindale. Andy Keener, Mike Yoder. Roger Martin and Nathan Ott. In the back are coaches Buddy Martz. Neal Myers and Larry Martindale. » T i W- Jw.-« i ■ !Jr ,?W 1 Rldto' ’ wl - w -CT i AMERICAN LEGION TEAM — Shown above is the Syracuse American Legion team from the Syracuse Youth League. In the front row are Fred Crouch, Jason Sawyer, Tony Hostetter, Shawn Kahle and Brian Talton. In the back row are coach Dick Essig, Dan Stuckman, Shane Holloway, Jay Koontz and John Karesb. Not pictured are Mitch Jones, Todd Wappes, Ron Hosteter and Brian Neff. (Photo by Doug Walker)
shberger has been moved up from freshman to JV basketball coach, and Tony Vermillion is going to be coaching freshman basketball. LEWIS: Any major scheduling changes this fall? TRAVIOLIA: The only change in our football schedule is that we’ll be picking up Glenn High School in place of Northridge. In our other sports, there’s no change. It is basically, year-in, year-out, the same schedule. In the fall, we’re primarily a conference-orientated school, and we participate in some invitationals in cross-country, tennis, girls’ golf and volleyball. LEWIS: Wawasee finished second in the all-sports chase last season. How competitive does Wawasee look in the NLC this fall? TRAVIOLIA: I think we ll be very competitive in crosscountry. Our tennis team was last in the conference last year, but we have several returning letterman back and we hope to improve on that this year. Our football team lost 14 seniors, out of which almost all of them are starters, out of the 22 positions. This is something you should talk to Myron (Dickerson) about than me, but it will be a big task to replace them all in one year... LEWIS: How about funding and equipment. Will everyone have all they want? TRAVIOLIA: I think that’s something where, most of the time, a coach never has everything he wants. But we do have to operate within our budget, within our means, and we have been doing so. I don’t think that any of our squads are slighted on equipment or anything of that nature. Some of the ways we try to cut our costs is we try to eliminate excessive traveling distance and things of this nature.
LEWIS: Will any team get new uniforms this fall? TRAVIOLIA: The girls’ crosscountry will have new uniforms. In football, we operate on a replacement, we don’t buy whole new sets at a time. We’re satisified with the way our uniforms look, and consequently we just replace the ones that need replacing rather than going out and buying full sets. When you talk about buying a whole set of 48 to 60 uniforms, you’re talking about a fantastic expense. One thing new we have added is a new video camera and playback machine for the athletic department. We’re talking about almost $4,000 for that. We purchased an ultra-sound machine for our training room, which is another SI,OOO. When you talk about purchasing items of this nature, you’re talking about $5,000 just out of the wind . . . looking at situations where you have to cut corners in other places ... LEWIS: Is that videoequipment to be used only by the athletic teams? TRAVIOLIA: Right. We have this purchased and it should be ready to go by the first football game of the season. LEWIS: What’s your opinion of the early football start? TRAVIOLIA: It cost us money. As an athletic director, we’re
Tickets on tap for all-star game
Tickets for the July 30 Indiana All-Star Football game at Butler University are available from Wawasee head coach Myron Dickerson. Wawasee football star Ross Dahlstrom. who will attend Ball State University and will tryout with the Cardinals’ football squad as a walk-on. was selected as a defensive back for the annual North-South clash. Dahlstrom, who was the War-
looking at a S6OO to SBOO cost to us as share of the jamboree. It just hurt us. The early start is a hurt on the student-athlete. The young men are cutting short their vacation. We’re starting on the fourth and I can remember when I coached we started on the 15th. You’re talking about two weeks there. Bringing kids back in the hottest part of the summer, now, instead of 10 days to jamboree, another five to the first game, we’re talking about getting ready to play their first game in 10 days It had developed problems in scheduling. We had a 10-game schedule with five home and five away. Last year, we played home one week, away the next, and it alternated that way all through the season. Now we have four games at home this year, six away, which makes it lean this year, plentiful next year, but still it is one of those things you have to budget it down, because you’re not the same every year. That’s a problem all the way down the line. LEWIS: Who’s going to hang up the banners for you now? TRAVIOLIA: I don’t know if they’ve found anyone brave enough or not .. but we hope to have them up by the time school starts.
riors’ leading rusher as a running back, was named the team’s MVP and to the United Press International first team. He was named in the Bloomington Herald’s first team for AA players, and was a second-team selection by the Associated Press. 3 Warriors swim in college Three of coach Tim Caldwell’s finest swimmers will get the chance to swim in college. Tim Crum, Andy Wysong and Tony Boyer will be attending college next fall with their eye on a collegiate swimming career. Crum, who set school records in the medley relay, freestyle relay and 100-yard backstroke and was a state finalist his junior and senior years, will attend Purdue University. He plans to enter the swimming program as a walk-on. Joining Crum at Purdue will be Wysong, who was also a state finalist his junior and senior year. He has school records in the medley relay, freestyle relay, and 100-yard freestyle. He, too, plans to walk-on to the Boilermakers. Wawasee swimming star Tony Boyer has received a partial scholarship to participate on the Vincennes University swim team. He has a host of school records, gaining recognition in the 50-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle, 500-yard freestyle and the 400-yard freestyle relay. Another Tim Caldwell product, Boyer was a state finalist his junior and senior year. Olympics By PETE FRICHIE WASHINGTON, D. C. - The stage is being set for a Russian propaganda victory at the summer Olympics next year — in Los Angeles. In this month’s World University Games in Canada, the Russians swept the bars — and in events in which U.S. competitors were once dominant. In these 75-natiori games, the Russians captured eleven of the first' thirteen gold medals in swimming. Os the first eighteen championships decided in gymnastics, swimming and diving, the Russians won all but four — four nations, including the U.S., won one. Not only is Los Angeles, and its smog, one of the worst possible locations for an Olympic meet, the U.S. is handicapped because President Jimmy Carter boycotted the last summer Olympics and didn’t let U.S. athletes who had trained hard and long go. The Soviets, of course, swept these games, and little East Germany (18 million inhabitants) was second. The East German record, considering the country’s population, is more astonishing than the Russian record. At Los Angeles the Russians will run away with the gold medal race. And the communists have national sports programs that dwarf in size and scope what western nations have; they’ve been gaining dominance in the Olympics for twenty or more years.
f Syracuse \ ft Youth I] The Syracuse Youth League will be having their annual awards ceremony for all leagues this Saturday evening at 7 p.m. at Rotary Field. In Syracuse Youth League action last week, Gropps downed State Bank 8-4, and in tournament action, Pilchers edged Rotary 16-15, State Bank topped American Legion 6-2, Gropps defeated Pilchers 5-2 and State Bank topped Gropps 6-5. In Minor League action. Miller Brothers pounded Ace Hardware 13-5, Kiwanis edged Fire Department 11-10, and in tournament action, Fire Department shut out Ace Hardware 12-0, KFC topped Miller Brothers 11-1, Kiwanis shut out Fire Department 15-0 and Kiwanis edged KFC 10-9. The Syracuse Travel team topped Milford 9-4 in a game last Wednesday. In Babe Ruth League play, Wawasee lost a pair of games, falling to Avilla 16-10, and to Wolcottville 7-2. The Syracuse Pony League team split a pair of games last week, downing Milford 10-6, and falling to North Webster 10-8. In a Giris Minor League game, Holly Pari: edged Syracuse Rubber 15-14, and in tournament play, Holly Park defeated Syracuse 11-5, and then topped Sea Nymph 4-3. The Girls Softball Travel team fell to Fairfield 12-1. In T-Ball action. Love defeated Thornburgs 25-17, Sroufe topped T-Shirts 35-24, Quackers topped Bales 20-12, Bales defeated TShirts 28-15, Love topped Quackers 25-17 and Thornburgs edged Sroufe 26-25. Thornburgs finished the T-Ball season with a perfect 10-0 record, followed by Sroufe and Love, each at 6-4. Quackers was fourth at 54-1, followed by T-Shirts at 1-8-1 and Bales at 1-9. o Softball : In CTB Softball action last Saturday, Douglas fell to Vance 13-8, as Gary Vance hit a grand slam homer. On Monday, Douglas scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh to defeat McDowell 6-5, and Woodling crushed McDowell 245. Vance and Kitson both remain undefeated. > Nm Ladies fm Golf BIG BOULDER BELLES Despite the heat the Big Boulder Belles had a good turnout on Wednesday morning and evening league. Winners were as follows: Low gross — Susie Knepp, first place; Evelyn Om, second place Low net — Leatrice Rapp, first place; Ruth Beer, second place Low putts — Ruth Beer, first place; Susie Knepp and Evelyn Orn, second place A scramble is being planned for possibly the first week of August for those interested. The public is invited. MAXWELTON Maxwelton Ladies July 13 golf meet winners were as follows: For nine holes of play, low gross, Rosie Lantz; low net, Patty Norman; low putt, Dot Wysong. For 18 holes of play, low gross, Jackie Wortinger; low gross, three way tie between Doris Sedgwick, Janet Ward and June Auer; low putt, Ginny LaMonte. No different The new wife in the neighborhood said that her husband was an efficiency export. “If we women did what he does in his work,” she explained, “they’d call it nagging.” — Sentinel, Orlando.
B BB > wB ■ W iUW’ fl PILCHER’S SHOES TEAM — Shown above is the Pilcher s Shoes team from the Syracuse Youth League. In the front row are Jason Hart, Danny Gallmeier. Chad Jones. Jeremy Ott, Kevin Manning and Shawn Jones. * In the back row is coach Brian Rensherger, Cuong Reed. Craig Spurting. Vince Koser. Judd Storey and coach Bob Johnson. Not pictured is Nathan Streiby. (Photo by Doug Walker) El g I iki ACE HARDWARE TEAM — Pictured is the Ace Hardware team from the Syracuse Minor Youth League. In the front row are Chad Coy, Ronnie Church. Brian Taylor. Roy Messer and Kevin Leedy. In the second row are Eric Losee. Dave Thaxton. Brian Grothaus and Brandon Lozano. In the the back row are coaches Joe Bartman and Mike Coy. Not pictured is Kevin Schaekel. (Photo by Doug Walker) - \u|A Ji llgjl wH yHBBSB HA OSO i < aBB HOLLY PARK TEAM — Pictured is the Holly Park team from the Syracuse Girls Minor League. In the front row are Paige Price. Alecia Hewitt. Rachel Coons. Sara Kline and Beth Talton. In the back row are coach Margaret Talton. Daphne Byrd. Sylvia Cole. Ingrid Stuckman. Loki Gargett. Lori Stiver and coach Joan Kline. Not pictured are Sheri Broekers and Cassie Summerlot. (Photo by Doug Walker)
Elkhart Fair to feature harness racing Four afternoons of harness racing will be featured at the Elkhart County Fair, highlighted by the Indiana Sired Stakes Saturday with the largest purse in Hoosierland other than the state fair. There will be four events on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. No grandstand admission will be charged during these three matinees.
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