The Mail-Journal, Volume 28, Number 38, Milford, Kosciusko County, 1 November 1989 — Page 9
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Douglas advances to state but team doesn't
By MITCHELL STINSON Sports Writer What a difference a yeat makes.. Back in 1988. thte Wawasee Warriors' cross country team qualified for state competition by taking fourth place at the North Manchester Semistate. Last Saturday, the Warriors saw their season come to an end at North Manchester, as they
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FRONT RUNNERS — Wawasee Warrior Jason Douglas (108) is shown running'near the front of the pack during last Saturday s North Manchester Cross Country Semi-state. Running next to Douglas is Warsaw’s Jay Hicks (101), the eventual winner of the race. PlyTnotfth’s Larry Boener is shown running behind Hicks. Douglas qualified for state competition by taking third place at semi-state. His time of 15 minutes. 56 seconds set a new Wawasee High record. (Photo by Mitchell Stinson) - Eisenhour, Kistler earn aIINLC honors in volleyball
Wawasee senior Kriss Eisenhour was a unanimous selection to the all-Northern Lakes Conference ' volleyball team while teammate Angela Kistler earned honorable mention merit to the squad, which was announced recently. The 14-member all-conference squad was dominated by the Warsaw Lady Tigers, the 1989 NLC champions, as four members of the team were chosen as allconferenceperformers. Senior Kris Whitehead of Warsaw, along with junior teammates Liza Reed, Dana Creighton and Stephanie Miller, helped the Lady Tigers capture their first-ever NLC championship in volleyball with a perfect 6-0 rtiark in conference action during the 1989 season. Eisenhour, along with Whitehead, Creighton and Miller, were all unanimous selections to the team. Other all-NLC selections are: Amy Trout of Concord, Stephanie Knepp and Julie Miller of Northridge, Angela Swanson and
Warriors, Tigers rule all-conference team
The Wawasee Warriors and Warsaw Tigers dominated the Northern Lakes Conference allconference cross country team, which was named on October 7. Both squads had two runners each. Two Goshen Redskins were named to the honorary squad, while Plymouth and North Wood landed one runner apiece. Warsaw's sophomore sensation Jay Hicks led the list of selections. For the past two years, Hicks has gone undefeated in conference meets. He was joined on the squad by teammates Ryan Long and Mark Snodgrass. The
Three Lady Warriors on NLC team
Wawasee High School's lady Siers fared better in allerence selections than they did during the NLC season. The third place Lady Warriors landed three girls on the honorary team, tying conference champion Plymouth for most all-NLC selections. Mel Hobbs, Angie Garner and Lori Gargett were the Lady Warriors who received conference honors. Sophomore Nancy Alderfer was the Warsaw Lady Tigers sole selection to the team Heidi Boener headed the Plymouth contingent of all-conference runners. The Lady Pilgrim freshman was
failed to earn one of the’fbur state qualifying berths. Z T\ The Warriors cameZnto the meet ranked 20th in the state, and they thought they had., a legitimate shot at qualifying for state. Bull Wawasees harriers finished seventh in the 16-team field, 30 points away from the fourth add final qualifying spot. Warrior/coach-Jerry Minton was philosophical in defeat. "It was
Micki Heckaman of North Wood, Nicole Kehoe, Ju Jin ,Cho and Michelle Wilson'of Plymouth and Rebecca Barnhiiwf Goshen. Players receiving honorable mention selection to the all-NLC squad included Kistler of Wawasee as well as Heather Bradford of Warsaw. Others receiving honorable mention plaudits were Sheri Ingle (Concord). Angie Hislope and Cheryl Breheim (Goshen). Amy Pletcher (North Wood Staci Dempsey (Northridge) and Ginger Jacobson (Plymouth). Rose Kettlebar, coach of the Goshen team, was selected as the 1989 NLC Volleyball Coach-of-the-Year after leading her squad to a third place finish in the conference and a sectional championship The final standings for the 1989 girls' volleyball season in the NLC had Warsaw as champions (6-0 in NLC action), followed by Plymouth (5-1). Goshen (4-2). Northridge (3-3), North Wood 1 2-4). Concord (1 -5) and Wawasee (0-6).
Tiger trio helped lead Warsaw to a conference co-championship, tying with the Wawasee Warriors for first place honors. Senior standout Jason Douglas led the Wawasee trio of selections. Warrior teammates EricStreby and Eric Mock were also named to the squad. Rounding out the l()-person team were Eric Solyom and Jason Kramer of Goshen, Kevin Sarber of North Wood and Larry Boener of Plymouth. Tiger coach Chuck Deford was named as the NLC Coach-of-the-Year.
truly a phenomenon, blowing away all competitors and setting an NLC record time of 15 minutes, 34 seconds. She Was joined on the all-star: team by teammates Michelle Ash and Angel Carlberg Other selections included Krista 1 Hall and Beth Nidiffer of Concord, and Lori Miller of Northridge. Despite landing only one runner on the all NLC team. Nor thridges Lady Haiders took second place in the conference with a record of 5-1. Plymouth coach Alien Shockney won NLC girls' Cdach-of the-Year honors for guiding his team to a perfect 6-0 conference record.
just one of those things and there was nothing you could do about it,” he said. On the bright side, senior Jason Douglas put in a superb individual performance for the Warriors, taking third place overall in a Wawasee school record time of 15 minutes, 56 seconds, Douglas ran behind the leaders for much of the race before turning it on at the end. Warsaw's Jay Hicks was the runner that Douglas wanted to stay close to and when Hicks began to pull away from the field, Douglas speeded up as well. Hicks won the race for first place, but Douglas’ spurt earned him third place, five seconds behind Heritage’s Norm Hedges, who passed him down the stretch to earn second. “When I yelled at him and told him he was losing Hicks, he passed up about five guys into second place," Minton said of Douglas. Douglas will travel to Indianapolis this Saturday, where he is scheduled to participate in cross country action at the state level. He earned the honor by being one of the top 10 individual runners not on an advancing team. The boys’ race begins at 11:30' , a.m. at the South Grove Golf Course. “I’d like to see him be one of the top 10 seniors in the meet,” Minton said of the upcoming competition. Westview won the semi-state with a score of 97. Oak Hill took second at 129, and West Noble was third with 137. Rounding out the list of state qualifiers was East Noble at 147. The Warsaw Tigers, co-champs of the NLC with Wawasee, finished fifth, despite Hicks's fine performance. Norwell took sixth, followed by Wawasee in seventh. Warrior senior Chad Jones continued his solid .post-season performance by taking 21st in team competition. The rest of the Wawasee running contingent consisted of Matt Johnson (44th), Eric Mock (49th), Eric Streby (60th), Ryan Shoemaker (70th) and Cuong Reed (102nd). Despite the semi-state disappointment coach Minton says 1989 was a super year for the Warriors cross country squad. The team compiled a 12-0 record while earning conference cochampion honors. “Even though it ended a little quicker than we'd have liked for it too, it was a great season." he said.
Lady Warriors swimming for share of NLC championship
By SCOTT DAVIDSON Sports Writer
After completing the best regular season in Wawasee girls' swimming history, the Lady Warriors will be looking for a share of the conference championship tomorrow (Thursday) and Saturday when they participate in the NLC Meet to be contested in the Warsaw Community Pool. The conference meet shapes up to be a two team dogfight between the Lady Warriors and the Lady Minutewomen from Concord, according to coach Roger Karns. “We feel that we’re in good shape but we know that Concord always swims well in the big meets (conference, sectional) so we're going to have to be faster than we’ve been all season in order to win,” stated Karns. Wawasee finished the regular season with an impressive 12-3 mark in dual meet competition., including 5-1 in conference action. The only blemishes on the Lady Warriors’ outstanding season were an opening meet loss to highly-ranked Penn, a defeat to Concord when the team was not at full strength and a loss to South Bend St. Joseph s in the final meet of the regular season. October 24. Concord captured the regular season championship in the NLC after posting a perfect 6-0 mark in dual meet competition. A win in the NLC Meet would give the Lady Warriors a cochampionship with Concord and would fulfill one of the team's goals for the season, according to Karns. /The girls know that Wawasee has never had a con ference in girls' swimming and they believe that they can get that done this year, although it will be tough.” commented Karns. Since the conclusion of the regular season just over a week ago, Karns said that the team has lightened up on its practice schedule in order to be well rested for the NLC Meet. “We've given the team some rest over the past few days and we have to anticipate that Concord will swim faster than they have all season, so we have to be ready to do the
Girls Take 12th In Regional The Lady Warriors weren't saddled with the high expectations that their male counterparts experienced, so nobody was too disappointed with their 12thplace finish in regional action. In fact, coach Minton was quite pleased that his girls finished ahead of Plymouth's Lady Pilgrims, the Northern Lakes Conference champions. The Lady Pilgrims' star runner. Heidi Boener. was hobbled by an injury and finished 85th in team competition. But the victory over 13th-place Plymouth was still a sweet one for the Lady Warriors. "We did about as well as I expected we'd do." coach Minton said. "I think out of all the teams there, we were running against Plymouth the most.” Lori Gargett led the Wawasee effort, taking 39th place in the
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STRETCH RUN — Warrior harrier Chad Jones, left, took the lead over these two opponents during a sprint to the finish line last Saturday. Jones was Wawasee’s second best runner at the North Manchester semi-state, taking 21st place in team competition and 33rd overall. Also pictured are Jason Christiansen (166) of Maconaquah and Mark Miller of Westview. (Photo by Mitchell Stinson)
same thing ourselves.” remark ed Karns. “I'm pretty pleased with the seedings that we received for our swimmers to compete tomorrow in the preliminaries, but they really don't mean a whole lot except they give you an idea of the relative strengths of your squad. " said Karns. The Lady Warriors s have the number one seed in the 200-yard medley relay event, with the team of Krista Guimond. Sherry Payne. Brandee Carlson and Lori Boles. Boles is also the number one seed in the 100 freestyle event. Although the divers in the NLC Meet are not seeded. Wawasee s Julie Gunn (first) and Dawn Firestone (second) are the top two competitors in the event after finishing first and second in all ot the team’s dual meets this season. The other seeds for tomorrow night's preliminary action for Wawasee are: Carlson (fourth). Sara Kline (ninth) and Chris Ridings (10th) in the 200 freestyle, Guimond (third) and Stacy Neterer (eighth) in the 200 IM, Payne (second). Boles (third) and Teresa Chestnut (12th) in the 50 freestyle and Tonya Perzanowski (fourth) in the ioo butterfly. Other swimmers seeded for the squadinclude: Payne (third) and Nabi Matsuoka (10th) in the 100 freestyle. Ridings (fifth), Kline (sixth) and Chestnut (11th) in the 500 freestyle, Carlson (third). Firestone (fourth) and Per-
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team competition, with a time of 16:39. Sophomore Mel Hobbs was 45th and freshman Angie Garner took 47th. Tiffany Titus and Amy Logan rounded out the team's attack with finishes of 78th and 84th. respectively. Although sometimes overshadowed by the boys' team, the Lady Warriors enjoyed a solid season in 1989. They finished the dual meet season with a 7-4 record and beat a lot of good teams at the Elkhart Sectional. The future looks even brighter because the team won't lose anyone to graduation next year. ”1 think they'll be able to compete with some of the better schools in the area (next year)," Minton said. Four of those better schools qualified for state during the girls' regional at Manchester. Fort Wayne Northrup took first with a low score df 45, followed by
zanowski (fifth) in the 100 backstroke and Guimond (second), Neterer (fifth) and Gunn (eighth) in the 100 breaststroke event. The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Kline, Ridings. Chestnut and Neterer is seeded fourth. Action at the Warsaw pool will get underway at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow evening with preliminaries in 10 swimming events. Diving competition will be held, beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, with the consolation and final heats of the swimming events scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon. "Our team had good versatility. decent depth and a lot of really good competitors and I'm expecting it to be a battle between us and Concord, although Warsaw and North Wood both have some quality swimmers who could take points away from us or hopefully away from Concord.” said Karns. Karns commented that with the conference championship meet expected to be such a close competition the only sure thing is that he “may have a coronary” before the meet finishes sometime late Saturday afternoon. “They say that the longer you've coached, the easier that big meets should be for you. but it doesn't seem that way to me. I'm expecting it to be an exciting championship meet on Thursday and Saturday.” the coach concluded.
Elkhart Central in second place at 83. Angola and Norwell rounded out the list of qualifiers with 113 and 147 points, respectively. Boys’ Semi-state Ist-Westview. 97; 2nd-Oak Hill, 129; 3rd-West Noble. 137. 4thEast Noble. 147; sth-Warsaw, 159; 6th-Norwell, 170; 7thWAWASEE. 177; Bth-Northrup, 188; 9th-Marion, 207; 10thHuntington, 220; llth-New Haven. 256; 12th-Northwestern. 282; 13th-Heritage. 295; 14thCulver Military Academy, 310; 15th-Kokomo. 317; 16thMaconaquah, 320. Top 10 Individuals Ist-Jay Hicks (Warsaw), 15:46; 2nd-Norm Hedges (Heritage). 15:51; 3rd-Jason Douglas (WAWASEE), 15:56: 4th-John Bixler (Wayne), 15:57; sth-Sam Nolan (Harding). 16:04; 6th-Tim Quire (North Miami). 16:05; 7thAndy Gum (North Judson), 16:08; Bth-Larry Boener (Plymouth), 16:09; 9th-Jim Ray (Northwestern), 16:11; 10thBruce Carpenter (Eastside). 16:12. Other Wawasee finishers: 21st-Chad Jones. 44th-Matt Johnson, 49th-Eric Mock, 60thEric Streby, 70th-Ryan Shoemaker. 102nd-Cuong Reed Girls’ Regional Ist-Fort Wayne Northrup. 45; 2nd-Elkhart Central. 83; 3rdAngola. 113; 4th-Norwell, 147; sth-Oak Hill. 147; 6th-Columbia City, 170: 7th-Huntington. 192; Bth-Homestead. 214; 9thManchester. 216; lOth-Fort Wayne Snider. 224; llth-Kokomo. 290; 12th-Wawasee. 293; 13thPlymouth. 302; 14th-Caston. 314; 15th-Maconaquah. 352; 16thWinamac, 442. Top 10 Individuals Ist-Tana Dahman (Fort Wayne Northrupi. 14:45; 2nd-Amy Cole
Turkeys top Squirrels in sixth grade intrasquad football
The annual Syracuse sixth grade intrasquad football game was played recently with the Turkeys notching a 42-28 victory over the Squirrels at Memorial Field. The Turkey squad was led byClint Beasley, Jim Scarbeary, Ryan Schwalm and Spencer Aalbregtse on offense while Matt Logan. Kory Brown and Tony Grlek were cited as the top defenders for the squad. The Squirrel team was led by the scoring efforts of Brad Fisher and Jeff Hodgson while quarterback Hodgson also hooked up on several long pass completions to receiver Aaron Kryder. CaseyStump was cited for his play at center and nose man while Travis Ball Jeff Mullins and Wes Lantz were praised for their defensive efforts.
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END IN SIGHT — Lady Warrior Tiffany Titus, right, and Kokomo's Monica Wilkinson give it all they have at the end of Saturday’s North Manchester Girls’ Cross Country Regional. Wilkinson was 77th in team competition while Titus took 78th. (Photo by Mitchell Stinson)
iFW Northrup). 14:46;. 3rdKarma Geyer (Columbia City). 14:48; 4th-Tina Stetzel (Huntington). 14:54; sth-Kelley Varley (Homestead), 14:59; 6thElizabeth Esteves (Elkhart Cen-
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SIXTH GRADE GRIDDERS — Shown above are the players from Syracuse Middle School who took part recently in the annual sixth grade intrasquad football game held at Memorial Field in Syracuse. Kneeling in front, from left, are Wes Lantz and Travis Ball. In the middle are: Ryan Schwalm. Tony Cilek, Matt Logan. Spencer Aalbregtse and Kory Brown. Standing in back are: Jeff Mullins, Jeff Hodgson, Aaron Kryder. Brad Fisher, Clint Beasley, Jim Scarbeary and Casey Stump. (Photo courtesy pf Kaz Szynal)
tral), 15:00; 7th-Beth Walters (Harding); Bth-Abby Ramer (Lakeland), 15:07; 9th-Kim Lubbehussen (FW North), 15:16; lOth-Missy Mahnesmith (Angola), 15:21.
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