The Mail-Journal, Volume 27, Number 38, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 November 1988 — Page 8

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., November 2,1988

Sports

Cross

By MITCHELL STINSON Sports Writer

It was a day of joy and a day of frustration for the Wawasee Warriors’ boys’ cross country team last Saturday, Oct. 29. They headed to the North Manchester semistate thinking they would have to run the best races of their lives in order to advance to state competition. The Wawasee harriers didn’t run a great race, but their performance was good enough to earn them a trip to Indianapolis this Saturday where they will become the first boys’ team in Wawasee High School history to compete in cross country at the state level. It was a subdued bunch of Warriors that milled around among 128 other runners following the race. They knew they hadn’t recorded those “personal best ” times they had strived for and had thought were so necessary. As it turned out, however, the Warriors clinched the fourth and final qualifying spot quite easily,

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INDIANAPOLIS-BOUND — The Wawasee Warriors cross country team marches in single file to accept their fourth-place award at the North Manchester semi-state last Saturday, Oct. 26. The finish earned the team a trip to state competition at Indianapolis Saturday, Nov. 8. Pictured at the front of the Wawasee procession is Jeff Carey. He is followed by Eric Streby, Steve Eastman and Eric Mock. (Photo By Mitchell Stinson)

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beating out fifth-place Harding by 35 points. “We were a little upset to start off with because we didn’t think we ran that great,” said Steve Eastman, who recorded the Warriors’ third best time. “We weren’t sure if we were going to make it or not, but when we found out you should have seen everybody.” Westview won the semi-state in a squeaker, scoring 88 points to Plymouth’s 90. Maconaquah grabbed third place with 119 and Wawasee scored 166 points. “I thought there would be somebody closer to us behind us and I thought we would be closer to Maconaquah,” said Warrior Coach Jerry Minton. Junior Jason Douglas was the top Wawasee finisher, finishing 23rd overall with a time of 16 minutes and 29 seconds. He said he had hoped to perform better individually, but that he was happy with the end result for the team. “I had two goals going into that race,” he said. “One was to make

it to state and another .was to finish well in the race individually. So one out of two is not too bad.” Senior Jeff Carey, the Warriors’ veteran leader, finished 26th with a time of 16:32. He has seen the team come full circle in the past four years and was a junior when the team came up a little short at last year’s semistate. “It’s kind of ironic how last year we had our best race and we didn’t make it and this year we didn’t run very good,” Carey said, adding, “We ran below average and we made it, but that’s the sign of a good team;” After seeing how far they can go with an average performance, the Warriors are fired up for the state competition at Indianapolis. Wawasee’s harriers hope they can run the “ideal race” that eluded them last week and fulfill Coach Minton’s new goal of seeing the Warriors crack the “top five” at Indianapolis. “These kids have reached every goal that they’ve set,” Minton said. “If they could reach ‘top

Two Warriors named to NIC team

Wawasee juniors Kriss Eisenhour and Angela Kistler were among those honored by Northern Lakes Conference high school volleyball coaches, being named to the honorable mention team last week. The Warrior duo will help to form a strong nucleus for next year’s volleyball squad, which will attempt to make fans forget this year’s 6-23 record. First team selections include: senior Brenda Snyder, Bremen; seniors Elissa Preheim and Rebecca Barnhill, Goshen; senior Kristi Dyck, Kelly Hiatt, Deena Jones, and Joanne Miller, North Wood; seniors Kallie Kilmer and Kari Morris, Northridge ; seniors Lynne Burgess, DeAnna Klinedenst, and Shannda Martin and junior Nicole Kehoe, Plymouth, and sophomore Dana Creighton, Warsaw. North Wood and Plymouth tied for first place honors in the NLC, with identical 6-1 records, and both placed five players on the NLC squad, with one honorable mention selection each. Jan Schrock of North Wood was chosen as NLC coach of the year.

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five’, that would be great.” The Warriors’ season-long goal was to just make it to state, but now that they have made it they don’t plan to rest on their laurels. The final state rankings for the 16 teams at Indianapolis will be determined by the order of their finish Saturday. The Warriors don’t plan on ending up as number 16. “You just can’t set your focus on being in the top 16,” Carey said. “Anybody can say that once they’ve made it past there. We want to say we were in the top five or better.” Wawasee High School principal Ned Speicher says a fan bus will be making the trip to Indianapolis if there is enough interest. The trip will be confirmed if 30 or more people commit themselves to it. Interested people should contact the school’s athletic department. Semi-state Boys Results Ist-Westview, 88; 2ndPlymouth, 90; 3rd-Maconaquah, 119; 4th-WAWASEE, 166; sthHarding, 201; 6th-New Haven, 201; 7th-Kokomo, 204; BthHuntington, 223; 9th-Fort Wayne Snider, 231; lOth-Eastern, 240; llth-Wabash, 255; 12th-Fort Wayne Northrup, 265; 13thEastside, 267; 14th-Oak Hill, 289; 15th-Warsaw, 291; 16th-Tipton, 299. \ Top Ten Finishers Ist-Ryan Sommers (Maconaquah), 15:48; 2nd-Robert Sommers (Maconaquah), 15:53; 3rdMatt Jones (Westview), 15:53; 4th-Norm Hedges (Heritage), 15:55; sth-Jay Hicks (Warsaw), 16:00; 6th-Jerry Heller (Bellmont), 16:01; 7th-Mark Cisneros (Mississinewa), 16:02; BthNathan Huss (Norwell), 16:02; 9th-Mark Stauffer (Carroll);

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PACK RUNNING — Wawasee Warrior Jeff Carey (no. 171) runs in a pack early in the North Manchester cross country semi-state meet last Saturday, Oct. 26. Carey finished 26th in a field of 125 and the Warriors qualified for state competition with a fourth-place finish. (Photo By Mitchell Stinson)

Kuhn dusts off crystal ball, goes 6-0

By SCOTT DAVIDSON Sports Writer

Derk Kuhn, employee of The Papers, Inc., must have finally cleared the dust off of his crystal ball last week as he compiled his first 6-0 effort of the season and the only “above average” set of picks of any of the panel’s regular members. The capper oh Kuhn’s perfect week was his correct call (he was the only one of the panel to do so) of the Indianapolis Colts destruction of the Denver Broncos on Halloween night. Maybe Derk dressed up as Eric Dickerson to go trick-or-treating and that brought the Colts such an easy victory, who knows?

The only other bright spot (member) of last week’s prediction panel was the calls cast by last week’s guest, Syracuse School Assistant principal Tom Jones, who missed only the Denver-Indy contest on his way to a 5-1 record. The four other so-

lOth-Tim Gorrell (Woodlan), 16:03. Top Wawasee Finishers 23rd-Jason Douglas, 16:29;

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CATCHING A BREATHER — Wawasee Warrior Cuong Reed (in white) catches his breath shortly after the North Manchester cross country semi-state last Saturday, Oct. 26. Reed finished with a time of 18 minutes and 27 seconds and the Warriors qualified for state competition with a fourth-place finish. (Photo By Mitchell Stipfcon)

called expert regulars on the prediction panel all took a beating last week, with myself, The Papers, Inc. employee Homer Miller and The Mail-Journal sportswriter Mitch Stinson recording 3-3 records. The last member of ~ our “illustrious” panel, The Mail-Journal Sports Editor Mark Huffman, dipped to a 2-4 mark with his predictions for last week. The overall season standings for the prediction panel didn’t change much with last week’s results, other than our correct prediction percentages took a dip and Kuhn was able to bypass Huffman and close some ground on the leaders for the season. The season marks, after 10 “long” weeks of so-called expert predictions, show Miller at 45-15 (75%), myself at 43-17 (72%), Kuhn at 38-22 (63%) and Huffman at 36-24 (60%). Stinson, who has participated in nine weeks of predictions, stands at 40-14 (74%) while the seven different guests that we gave welcomed to our panel

26th-Jeff Carey, 16:32; 45th-Steve Eastman, 16:54; 62nd-Chad Jones, 17:10; 67th-Eric Mock, 17:18; 87th-Eric Streby, 17:42; U3th-Cuong Reed, 18:27.

have combined their football knowledge for a very fine 31-11 (74%) overall mark. This week the prediction panel is happy to welcome another guest “expert”, Nappanee Mayor Robert Callander, to our weekly prediction party. Callander, who is finishing up his ninth year as Nappanee Mayor, is married and has three children and 11 grandchildren. Callander commented that he likes to spend his free time playing golf, as well as tennis. The featured attractions for this week focus on four of the high school football sectional championship contests that involve teams in the area. The undefeated Goshen Redskins continue their quest on Friday when they travel to face 7-3 Columbia City. In other Class 4A action the surprising North Wood Panthers, fresh off two impressive sectional victories, square off against Hammond Clark (7-3). The Class 5A sectional championship game promises to be a great match-up, as the 10-0 Penn Kingsmen travel to Fort

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M AND M'S — The Maconaquah Braves finished third at the North Manchester semi-state behind the performance of identical twins Ryan Sommers, left, and Robert Sommers. Ryan placed first overall in the 125-man field with a time of 15 minutes and 48 seconds. Robert placed second in 15:53. (Photo By Mitchell Stinson)

Wawasee looking to win NLC meet

By SCOTT DAVIDSON Sports Writer

“Our goal tomorrow (Thursday) is the same one that we had for all of our meets this season — to win,” remarked Wawasee Girls’ Swim Coach Tim Caldwell when asked what the Lady Warriors hope to accomplish in the NLC meet which begins with the preliminaries at 6:00 p.m. at Concord High School. Caldwell stated that along with his squad, Concord, North Wood, Plymouth and Warsaw all have a chance to win this year’s NLC meet.

The NLC standings at the conclusion of the regular season show Wawasee at 3-2-1 in the conference and currently in fourth place, trailing North Wood (5-0-1), Concord (4-2) and Warsaw (4-1-1). The final regular season conference marks placed Plymouth (2-3-1), Bremen (1-5) and Goshen (0-6) in the bottom

Adult Education League completes second week

The Adult Education League entered its second week of play with four games on the slate last Monday, Oct. 31. Dana Corporation, Sturonjac, Sylvan and Augsbergers-Sunbeam-Seyferts all came away with victories. Dan Kryscio scored 23 points in Dana Corporation’s 71-53 victory over Wawasee Nazarene. John Haugh knocked in 21 points in a losing effort. Worth Packer turned in a 29-point effort in Sturonjac’s 98-57

Bowling

The Syracuse Bowling Association will hold its 34th annual men’s bowling tournament December 4 through December 11. This tournament has annually had one of the top percents of team participation of any association in Indiana, usually drawing 100 percent participation. The team events will be held on

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Wayne to tackle 9-1 Fort Wayne North. The last of our high school sectional championship games finds the Jimtown Jimmies (7-2) trekking to Churubusco to face the 7-3 Eagles.

Our collegiate contest this week, as usual, focuses on the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, now 8-0 and the nation’s topranked college squad. The Irish, after playing very poorly in a 22-7 victory over Navy last Saturday, face the winless Rice University Owls this Saturday in South Bend. On the pro side of the picks this week, the Indianapolis Colts, after annihilating the Denver Broncos this past Monday,

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half of the NLC. The overall season NLC champion is determined by a combination of the regular season conference record along with the individual team finish in the NLC meet. “We have a good shot at winning the NLC meet but we have no control over the other things that must take place in order for us to end up as conference champions,” said Caldwell. He added that the team just has to go out and have good swimming and diving performances in the NLC meet and not worry about how the teams currently ahead of them in the conference are doing. The seedings for the NLC meet events, which were announced earlier this week, show two of the Lady Warriors seeded in the top spot of their events. Juniors Sherry Payne (50 yd. freestyle) and Julie Gunn (one-meter diving) are top seeded while sophomore Krista Guimond (100 yd. breaststroke) and the 200 yd.

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victory over Thornburg’s Super Drugs. Norm Van Laningham led Thornburg’s with 21 points. Sylvan was led by Eric McDowell’s 27 points in its 86-69 win over Wawasee Boat Company. Craig Cripe led the losers with 17 points. Al Schlagenhauf scored 23 points to lead Augsbergers-Sunbeam-Seyferts to a 77-48 route over National Cadd-Pro Inc. (N.C.P.1.). Darle Hoover led N.C.P.I. with 14 points.

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regular league nights (Monday, Dec. 5 — county league; Tuesday, Dec. 6 — Milford league, and Wednesday, Dec. 7 — Land of Lakes League). Singles and doubles events will be held on the first and second Sunday in December. A report on the results of this tournament will appear in The Mail-Journal following its completion.

will try to extend their winning streak to four games when they entertain the New York Jets on Sunday in the Hoosier Dome. Well that’s enough of the chit-chat. Here are this week’s guest and prediction panel regulars’ picks. ROBERT CALLANDER — Goshen, North Wood, Penn, Jimtown, Notre Dame, Indianapolis. SCOTT DAVIDSON — Goshen, Hammond Clark, Penn, Jimtown, Notre Dame, Indianapolis. MARK HUFFMAN — Goshen, Hammond Clark, Penn, Jimtown, Notre Dame, Indianapolis. DERK KUHN — Goshen, North Wood, F.W. North, Churubusco, Notre Dame, New York Jets. HOMER MILLER — Goshen, Hammond Clark, Penn, Jimtown, Notre Dame, Indianapolis. —J MITCH STINSON — Goshen, Hammond Clark, Penn, Jimtown, Notre Dame, New York Jets.