The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 35, Milford, Kosciusko County, 27 August 1986 — Page 8

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., August 27,198®

Sports

Lady Warriors have both talent and experience

A great act is always tough to follow This year’s edition of the Wawasee girls' golf team mayfind truth to that adage. But the Lady Warriors will face it with talent and experience. Gone are Becky Welty and Leslie Reilly, two of last year's top five' golfers. Returning are Heidi Musser, Barb Hostetter, Jennifer Jorczak, Michelle Katsanis and Barb Butler "We certainly have a good group,” said Mark Timpe, who will head up the coaching chores

. « L . 7i>f ■ i u 4’u r / llrTr i I upi 7 ■*» k. B IWif-4 /a /> RETURNING LETTER WINNERS — Pictured are returning letter winners for the Wawasee girls* golf team. From left are Michelle Katsanis. Jennifer Jorczak, Barb Hostetter and Heidi Musser.

Lady golfers sport 3-0 record

The Wawasee girls’ golf team has started the season in much y the same way as last year, cruis/ ing to a 3-0 dual meet record at this point The Lady Warriors defeated Manchester in a dual match this Monday night Wawasee opened the season with a double dual win over Carroll and Goshen at Carroll. Wawasee had 201 strokes while the hosts finished with 211 Goshen had 260 Heidi Musser paced the Lady Warriors with a 40 Barb Hostet ter shot a 47 The meet was held Aug 18 At the Rensselear Invitational on Aug 19. Wawasee finished second with 367 strokes, just nine behind Kokomo, the eventual winner Following the Lady Warriors were Michigan City Elston <374), Michigan City Rogers (374), Rensselear <380), Munster <391). Andrian (395). Lowell '425), Marquette <428), Twin Lakes (429). West Lafayette (433) and South Newton (425). Musser was third low medalist with an 85 Hostetter followed with a 92. which was good for

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this fall. "And their scores are improving. ” As of now, Musser, a senior, is Wawasee s number one golfer while Hostetter, also a senior, is consistently number two. After that, the Lady Warriors look pretty solid with Jorczak and Katsanis handing in strong scores. "It’ll be tough for us to do as well as last year, ” said Timpe. "But we have set out to win the sectional and hopefully place high in the regional.” Whatever the results, Timpe has made sure that Wawasee

ninth. On Aug 20. Wawasee claimed the Northern Lakes tournament at South Shore, out shooting Goshen in an 18-hole match, ,363-446. Musser led the way with an 81 while Hostetter shot an 88 Michelle Katsanis fired a 96 and Teresa West chipped in a 98 Last Thursday, the Lady Warriors placed third in the Kokomo Invitational (Class A) with 400 strokes. Northwestern won the event with 377. Taylor took third with 393. Other participants included Chatard (446) and Delphi (521). Hostetter scored a 92 while Musser shot a 93 for Wawasee. Last Friday. Wawasee placed fifth out of 12 teams at the. Northrop Invitational Homestead w as the eventual winner with 369 strokes. Snider finished second with 378 and Bishop Luers came in third with 386. Northrop, the hosts, placed ahead of the Lady Warriors with 398 strokes. Wawasee had 407 strokes, and was led by Musser, who shot an 86 Hostetter added a solid 92.

plays a tough schedule of tournaments to prepare his team for post-season play. "We wanted to schedule a lot of tournaments early so the girls can establish themselves with some good scores,’* said Timpe, who previously coached one year of high school golf at North Decatur High School in 1977. He has also coached three years at the junior high level. As for leadership: * ‘Some of the girls are showing strong leadership capabilites, ” said the coach. ‘ ‘They seem to help each other. ”

Ladies' golf results MAXWELTON Ladies Day play at Maxwelton Golf Club on Wednesday. Aug. 20. was “Tee To Green.” Winners were: Nine-hole — Harriet Shannon, first; Ann Brooks and. Betty Slabaugh, second 18-hole — June Auer, first; Patty Norman, second; Janet Hayes, third; Rose Mathew. Alice Herbison and Ginnie LaMont. fourth. SOI TH SHORE The South Shore Ladies golf League held its annual awards day and election of officers Tuesday, Aug. 19, at a luncheon. Officers for next year are: Lavonne Garr, president; Jan Maher, vice president; Sandy Wolgamuth. secretary. Handicap winners from 18 holes were: Donna Bevington, first, A Flight; Garr, runner-up; Maher, first, B Flight; Dorian Armstrong, runner-up. Nine-hole winners were: Ann Harter, first; and Nellie Alspaugh, runner-up.

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Four solid runners return to Warrior Cross Country team

Though tough to do. Jerry Minton thinks it’s a reasonable expectation for the Wawasee boys’ cross country team to surpass last year’s 11-3 dual meet record. After all. the Warrior coach welcomes the return of four solid runners: Jeremy Corson. Brian

Jones. Rodney Coy and Jeff Carey In addition. Minton has a talented freshmen class to support the team. “Many of the freshmen are bidding for top run ning spots,” he said "Eric Mock. Cuong Reed. Chad Hoffert’ and Jason Douglas all show a lot of promise. Minton noted that this year’s team boasts as fast as start “as any team I’ve coached in the last six to seven years." “We could do better than last year's team,” added Minton. “It’s certainly within reason.” What gives the coach this optimism is the fact that Wawasee has had "super practices the last two we§|cs.” “But we have some runners who aren’t in good shape vet,” cautioned Minton.

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The Warriors open the season with a dual meet, at home, tomorrow (Thursday) at 4:30 p.m against West Noble. A long break will follow until Sept. 9. which will be a 5 p.m. date with Rochester and Concord, also at home ,f New Faces For Lady Warriors In what is termed as a rebuilding year for the girls'. Minton has just two letter winners returning — Marcie Coy and Susan Rumple The others — Christine McAllister. Angie Keim and Heather Thorson — are new. “It’s been hard getting a team together." said Minton. “But I'd like to think that they can do better than 3-5. like last year. We re a little behind in that area, though.”

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'Confidence' is key to the 1986 Warrior team

Fresh off the tails of an unexpected, but welcome season, the Wawasee Warriors look forward to another campaign on the gridiron — with confidence The question is. will there be as many memories? The Warriors turned what looked to be a mediocre season around in 1985. capping it off with a dramatic five-game winning streak in the playoffs, carrying them to the state finals at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis. Now the defending Class AAA state runners-up have the task of providing Wawasee fans with an encore And Head Coach Myron Dickerson knows it. “W’e didn't look good in the soap scrimmage game (held Wednesday, before Friday’s jamboree at Goshen).” said Dickerson. "There were a lot of penalties and we looked very shaky. We have to take care of those problems immediately if we are going to have any success.” The Warriors may be at a disadvantage already since they lost Tim Carter, a solid defensive player and a senior who lends leadership to Wawasee's underclassmen. “We may lose him for three weeks, at least, because it might just involve more than just a back injury . “ Carter is sitting out as a result from a bruised back he received in practice. Who Will Be Quarterback'? “We would like to take a good look at (Chris) Yoder and (Chris) Cotton before we make a decision on who will be our quarterback.” said Dickerson, knowing he has a big hole to fill since Brad Traviolia graduated. Traviolia was the Warrior signal caller for three seasons, boasting running and passing skills as well as experience to call audibles. “That will change this year, no doubt.” said Dickerson. “Brad had the experience to call those audibles. so we'll just have to do without them and rely more on our running game." Dickerson praises Yoder s ability to execute the running game while he prefers Cotton’s arm. “We’d like to do both," said the coach. “So we ll have to play

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both and look at them more to make a final decision Whomever starts will be the one who can do the most for the success of this team.” Running Looks Solid Wawasee will use primarily three backs, at this stage. Scot McDowell. Mike Meek and Rob McKibben lend valuable experience to a solid ground attack. “The key to that is how fresh can we keep McDowell after playing him at defensive tackle.” Dickerson said “We may have to use someone else if we want him to be stronger on defense." As for the offensive line. Dickerson noted that he will give a host of juniors a shot at starting positions since he wants a fresher team on the field — both ways. “If they come through with some good performances, we'll have a fresher team on the field." said the coach. “If they don’t, we’ll just have to use the best players available and if that means double duty for some people, than we'll have to do that.’’ Line candidates include Rich Freeman (6-0. 190). Bruce Jackson (6-1. 187). Dan O'Haver (6-1. 208). Gary Stuckman (5-11. 158>. and Drew Farr (5-10. 175). Ends will either be Ken Wright (5-11. 167). Sean Anderson (6-1. 165) or Ben Beer (6-0.178) Receivers will either be Nate Rhoades (5 10. 149). Brett Traviolia (5-9. l>i" or Anthony Clark (5-5.127) Defense Could Be Strength Defense carried the Warriors last year. Can it do the same in 1986'.’ Wawasee returns some pretty good talent here “There are now two openings on the defensive line." said Dickerson. “We will try Scott Shoemaker at nose tackle and and we ll also try Louis Siri." McDowell will one of the tackles while the other spot, which would be Carter's, is up for grabs As for linebackers, the Warriors look tough Scott Robinson (5-10. 200) and Troy Reiff (5-10. 190) will anchor most of the heavy hitting Farr and McDowell may also see action from those positions (Continued on page 9)