The Mail-Journal, Volume 21, Number 34, Milford, Kosciusko County, 5 September 1984 — Page 11
Sports
Spikers tip LaSalle in opening match
By TOM CHARLES Sports Editor They looked a little shaky at times, but the Wawasee Lady Warrior volleyballers got rolling in the second game to record their first win of the'season on Tuesday, Sept. 4, at Wawasee. Coach Barb Brouwer’s squad dropped the opening contest to South Bend LaSalle 15-8 and then rallied to take the final two games by scores of 15-7 and 15-11. Wawasee is now 1-0 for the year and travels to Plymouth on Thursday, Sept. 6, for an important conference match.' The Lady Warriors nearly let the match slip out of their hands in the second game. They sprinted out to an early 6-0 lead in the contest, but LaSalle charged back, gained the momentum and evened the score at 7-7. • Then Shelly Harris went to work. The senior hitter put away
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COURT COVERAGE — The Wawasee High School volleyball team opened its season with an 8-15, 15-7, 15-11 win over South Bend LaSalle on Tuesday, Sept. 4. Pictured above, the Warriors set up their defense to cover a LaSalle attack.'.
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two kill spikes to put Wawasee ahead by two and added a beautiful dink to raise the team’s lead to three, points. Christy Speicher followed with a service winner and Wawasee went on to post a 15-7 win. The third game was close all the way. LaSalle moved out to early leads of 6-3, 7-4 and 8-6 before the Lady Warriors could put thejr offense together. Speicher, perhaps the team's most versatile hitter, kept Wawasee close with two kill spikes and two dinks in the middle of the contest. Wawasee evened the score at 8-8 on a Harris kill and evened it again at 9-9 on a Lori Galloway block. Speicher added a well-placed dink for a winner to put Wawasee ahead for good at 12-11. Junior Michelle Harter then finished off the game with three serves, including a service winner for the final point.
Speicher and senior setter Anita Swope lead the Wawasee attack. Speicher completed 24 of 28 spikes with 12 kills and Swope was perfect on 69 of 70 sets. Harris nailed 13 of 14 spikes with 12 kills.* Harter was the leading server, scoring 10 points on the night. Sandy Payne and Greta Hilker lead in passing. One of the sore points for Wawasee was the trouble it had
Golfers lose at Warsaw
All good things must come to an end. For Wawasee's girls golf team, its 15-match winning streak was halted by a group of Warsaw Tigers Tuesday, Sept. 4, at Maxwelton. The Tigers nipped Wawasee 207-208 in the match. Barb Hostetter keyed Wawasee's efforts as she carted a 43 to lead the Warriors. Beckie Welty followed right behind
Pictured blocking at the net are Christy Speicher (10) and Michelle Harter (11). Covering the dink is setter Anita Swope (9). Forming an umbrella to cover the spike are, from left to right, Shelly Harris (4), Greta Hilker (5) and Sandy Payne. (Photo by Tom Charles)
with covering dinks and off-speed hits. “We weren’t really out of position,” Brouwer said. “They just didn’t hit the ball hard. We are going to have to work at being on our toes.” “Some of the kids seemed a bit tentative out there,” Brouwer added in reference to a few shots which nobody covered. “We just have to learn to go after all of the opponents’ shots.”
Hostetter with a 47 and Heidi Musser chipped in with a 56. Other girls finishing for the Warriors were Jennifer Jorczak, 62, and Kriss Gregory, 69. Warsaw was paced by Jennifer Deeter and Brenda Kachlick, both shooting a 48 for the day. Christy Smith and Jennifer Brown added a 56 score to assist in the upset victory.
Sports Calendar Week Os September 5 To September 12 i THURSDAY Wawasee Girls’ Golf 4:00 p.m., at home vs Goshen » Wawasee Boys’ Tennis /, .j"'' 4:00 p.m., at Goshen - Wawasee Cross-Country 4:30 p.m., at East Noble Wawasee Freshmen Football 6:00 p.m., at North Wood V JHSc Wawasee Volleyball m V If 6:15 p.m., at Plymouth Al 1 r Wawasee Girls’ Swimming * 6:30 p.m., at East Noble z Milford Jr. High Football 4:30 p.m., at Central Noble FRIDAY Wawasee Varsity Football 7:30 p.m., at Goshen SATURDAY • * Wawasee Girls’ Diving 9:00 a.m., at Elkhart Central Invitational Z' Wawasee Girls’ Swimming zy -110:00 a.m., at LaPorte Invitational Wawasee Cross-Country yA 10:00 a.m., at Northrop Invitational H Monday Wawasee JV Football 6:30 p.m., at Goshen t/ Wawasee Volleyball 6:30 p.m., at Westview TUESDAY Syracuse Jr. High Football 4:30 p.m., at Pierceton Milford Jr. High Football \ I- / 6:30 p.m., vs North Webster at Wawasee ! V I Wawasee Boys’ Tennis | \\ \ 4:00 p.m., at Warsaw \ |\ ' Wawasee Cross-Country \J \ 5:00 p.m., at Concord vs Concord/Plymouth Wk |S Wawasee Girls* Swimming Lz)r\ 6:30 p.m., at home vs Elkhart Memorial fl (9/
Wed., September 5,1984 — THE MAIL-JOURNAL
Tigers sweep Warrior harriers
The Warsaw Tigers pounced on the Wawasee boys’ and girls’ cross-country teams and scored a double victory in Northern Lakes Conference action on Tuesday, Sept. 4, at Warsaw. The Tigers won the girls’ meet by a score of 22-34 and the boys’ meet by a 20-41 count. The Wawasee girls are now 0-1 and the boys dropped to 1-1. “Warsaw is a tough team because they have so many runners back from last year,” noted Wawasee coach Jerry Minton. “Their kids ran a good race and we just aren’t quite in shape yet.” The overall winner in the boys’ race was Warsaw’s Jerry Rhodes in a time of 16:28. That time established a new course record. Following him were Wheiler (War) in 16:29, Ballinger (Waw) 17:04, Lewis (War) 17:21, Roucti (Waw) 17:26, Fairfield (War) 17:30, Smith (War) 17:35, Henn (War) 17:42, Fuller (War) 17:44 and Minton (Waw) 17:48. The girls’ winner was Warsaw’s Groves who covered the 4,000-meter course in 16:51. Since this is the first time that girls have run that distance, her time counted as a new course and school record. Following Groves were Kleinrichert (Waw) 17:09, Ross (War) 17:10, Bair (War) 17:10, Dalrymple (War) 17:44, Stiver (Waw) 17:59, Clouse (Waw), Coy (Waw), Souder (War) and Sturgis (War). “I thought that Sheila
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(Kleinrichert) ran a good race,” Minton noted. “Her time wasn’t bad and it counted as a new school record.” “Troy Minton and Jeremy Corson also ran well,” Minton added. “They took quite a bit of time off their last race and that’s a good sign.” Ladies' golf results Maxwelton The play of the day for the Maxwelton Ladies* golf outing on Wednesday, Ailgr 29, was “Scramble.” Nine and 18-hole players played Winners were Jackie Wortinger, Kathy Creps and Lori Welty. Maggine Smith, Delight Craig, Mary Jane Knudsen and Ann Brooks finished second. Big Boulder Suzie Knepp had the lowest gross and net scores in Big Boulder Belles’ league play on Wednesday, Aug. 29. Other winners for the day included Evelyn Orn, second low gross and low putts; Barbara Schultz, second low net and second low putts; and Leatrice Rapp, second low putts.
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