The Mail-Journal, Volume 28, Number 47, Milford, Kosciusko County, 3 January 1990 — Page 8

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THE MAIL JOURNAL —Wed., January 3,1<w0

Sports

Warriors to face Plymouth and West Noble in hoop action

I By SCOTT DAVIDSON ' Sports Writer With the 1989 portion of the schedule just a distant memory now, the Wawasee Warriors will look to improve on their 3-5 start by- hosting the Plymouth Pilgrims on Friday evening in a conference basketball matchup in Syracuse. Action is scheduled to begin at 6:15 p.m. on Friday with the tip-off of the junior varsity contest. The Warriors fell to 3-5 on the season after losing a home contest 56-50 to Fort Wayne Carroll on December 16 in their last appearance before Christmas break. After starting the year on a

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TAKING AIM — Junior Dennis Garland of Wawasee looks to score during action from the Warriors 56-50 loss to Fort Wayne Carroll earlier this season. Garland and the rest of the Warriors will look to improve on their 3-5 mark when they host Plymouth on Friday evening with tip-off of the junior varsity contest set for 6:15 p.m. Wawasee will travel to face West Noble on Saturday. (Photo by Mark Huffman)

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high note with a 52-50 overtime "victory at Columbia City, the Warriors have struggled to find a consistent winning combination in dropping five of their last seven games. Following the vic- ' tory at Columbia City, Wawasee lost to Fairfield (38-35), Mishawaka (64-59) and Concord (88-59) before posting a 74-60 victory over DeKalb. The Warriors then were beaten by Warsaw (92-57) and defeated Triton (75-48) before losing the contest at home versus Carroll. The Pilgrims, under the direction of head coach Jack Edison, are struggling with a 1-7 mark after dropping a 74-65 contest to South Bend Riley in the annual South Bend Holiday Tournament

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held last week. Plymouth’s lone win of the season came in their second game of the campaign as they defeated Elkhart Memorial. The Pilgrims, since their 1-1 start, have dropped six in a row with losses to Mishawaka. Triton,

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READY FOR ’9O — Wawasee High School’s defending sectional gymnastics champions will open their season Monday, Jan. 8, when they travel to face East Noble and Fort Wayne North Side in a triangular meet. The first home meet of the season will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25, against Lakeland. Shown in the front row, from left, are: Lisa White, Tera Bumgardner and Fantasi Wagoner. , " v . .

Swimmers splash to second place finish in Cass Relays

I By SCOTT DAVIDSON Sports Writer “We faced some high quality competition and I think that overall we did a good job and made a good showing for ourselves,” said Roger Karns, coach of the Wawasee boys’ swim team, after watching the Warriors finish second in their class at the Cass Relays last Wednesday at Lewis Cass High School jn Walton. The Warriors, 5-2 in dual meets, compiled 222 points to finish second in Class A, behind only state-ranked Lafayette Harrison (258). Following the Warriors in Class A were Bellmont (174), Frankfort (171), Marion (151) and Logansport (132). The relays competition, which also included a Class B division with teams from Lewis Cass, Tipton. Western Boone, Western and Maconaquah High Schools, was the first competition for the Warriors since a victory over Mishawaka on December 18 “The team has been working hard during the break and we've been pushing them since the most difficult meets of the season (Penn. Concord and Warsaw) still remain for us,” commented Karns. After competing in the Cass Relays, the Warriors traveled to Indianapolis to practice in the IU Natatorium, site of the state swimming and diving finals, Thursday, Friday and Saturday

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LaPorte, Bremen, Valparaiso and Riley. Wawasee, 0-2 in the NLC, will be looking for their first conference win of the season versus the Pilgrims. The contest on Friday evening will be the first NLC

"It’s a good idea to take the kids down and let them swifn in the Natatorium because it lets them get used to the surroundings where the state finals are held and it's good for team unity," emphasized Karns. At the Cass Relays, the Warriors captured two first place efforts as Scott Berkey won the 500 freestyle in individual competition while the 400 freestyle relay team of. Berkey, Todd Miller, Casey Kline and Thaddeus Dußois were also winners. .Berkey added a second place /performance in the 200 freestyle ( race while teammate Aaron Dial I was second in the 100 backstroke event. Diver Andy Dunithan took third in one-meter competition while Kline (50 freestyle) and Miller (100 butterfly) also finished third in individual events. In the 200 medley relay race, the Warrior foursome of Dial, Chris Ganshorn, Eric Schaekel and Cory Manning took fifth. In the remainder of the individual races, Warrior finishes were as follows: Manning (eighth), 200 freestyle; Miller (fourth) and Dial (sixth), 200 IM; Dußois (fifth), 50 freestyle, and Doug Free (fifth), one-meter diving. Also, Schaekel (seventh), 100 butterfly; Dußois (fourth) and Kline (fifth), 100 freestyle; Cory Willard (ninth), 500 freestyle; Schaekel (sixth), 100 backstroke, and Ganshorn (ninth) and Brian Grothaus (11th), 100 breaststroke.

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game of the 89-90 campaign for the Pilgrims. The Warriors defeated the Pilgrims 53-49 at Plymouth last season as senior Matt Dick connected for 22 points to ignite the win. Both squads have a vastly

In the second row are: Karen Butt, Sadie Machan, Nikki Marsh and Trisha Hostetler. Third row: Mel Hobbs, Sarah Lehman, Angela Kistler, Darcey Smith, Jliane Karst and Barb Signorelli. Fourth row: coach Tracy Sumpter and assistant coach Niki Prather. Tracey Chivington, not pictured, is manager of this year’s team. (Photo by Scott Davidson)

With plenty of time to hold practices during Christmas break the past two weeks, Karns said that the team has shown improvement. “We’ve put in a lot of

Wawasee teams prepare

to resume competition

With Christmas vacation over and school back in attendance in the area, the Wawasee winter athletic teams will be back into full swing now after many of the squads enjoyed a mid-season layoff for the holidays. The boys’ basketball squad will host Plymouth on Friday evening beginning with the JV contest at 6:15 p.m. The eagers will travel to West Noble for a Saturday tilt. The boys’ freshman hoop squad will put its perfect 7-0 mark on the line tomorrow (Thursday) with a home contest scheduled to tip-off at 6:30p.m. versus Whitko. The squad will then participate ip the Manchester Tournament on Saturday The varsity wrestling squad will be in action at North Wood tomorrow evening beginning at 7

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different look this season as Plymouth lost seven players to graduation off of last season’s team while t|ie Warriors also are missing seven players from a year ago. The key returnees from Edison’s 6-13 club of last season

swimming (approximately 30 miles) during the past couple of \yeeks in practice and the team has turned it up a notch with its performance level,” the coach said.

p.m. in a dual match before traveling to take part in the East Noble Invitational on Saturday morning. The 5-2 boys’ swim squad of coach Roger Karns will host Penn tomorrow evening beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Warrior Pool. The Lady Warriors will take their basketball squad on the road for an encounter tomorrowevening versus No. 2 ranked and

Grapplers compete in Mishawaka Tourney

(By SCOTT DAVIDSON Sports Writer Although the Wawasee wrest), ing squad finished 29th in the team standings of the 31-team Mishawaka Invitational last Friday, assistant coach Scott DeHart emphasized that the team had performed well despite the final results. ,"We had several guys who wrestled well and overall they did a good job against some of the top teams from around the state," DeHart said after the two-day tournament. The Warriors, competing with several squads ranked in the state's top 20 in the latest wrestling poll, fielded a young squad at the tournament, with just three seniors competing in 10 weight classes. The team title in the two-day tournament was captured by 15th-ranked Fort Wayne Snider, who compiled 170 points to outdistance. Warsaw (162'2), Chesterton (158), Bellmont <147). Portage (147), LaPorte (136), Elkhart Memorial (127'>'‘), Goshen (115), South Bend Riley < 110' 2) and Mishawaka (109' 2 >. Other team scores in the competition were: Hobart <108'2), South Bend LaSalle (105), Penn <BB'2), East Noble (70), Hammond Morton (69), Crown Point <6B'i). Prairie Heights (66), Concord <63), South Bend Clay (60),,

are seniors Pat Dragani, Tom Isenbarger, Kevin Combs and Chad Wallace. Dragani paced the Pilgrim attack versus Wawasee last season with 22 points. Face West Noble On Saturday After hosting Plymouth on Fri-

The Warriors will resume the dual meet portion of their season tomorrow (Thursday), with a home meet at 5:30 p.m. against the Penn Kingsmen in what .promises to be a close meet, accor-

undefeated Warsaw. Action is set to begin at 6:15 p.m. in the Tiger Den in Warsaw. The squad will then start a three-game homestand with a* conference contest versus Goshen .next Monday beginning at 6:15 p.m. The girls' freshman basketball team will attempt to improve on its 4-2 mark with a contest at home next Monday versus NLC foe Northridge. Action is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m.

Michigan City Rogers (59) and South Bend Washington < 59). Twenty-second through 31st places in the team standings were: Calumet (58'2), Niles, Mich (55), Lafayette Harrison (47), Elkhart Central (47), North Wood (44), Lakeland (44), South Bend St. Joe (43), Wawasee (40). Mishawaka Marian (21) and Fremont (8) In individual competition for Wawasee. Scott Wheat finished the tournament 0-2 in matches in the 103-pound class. Other Warriors competing on the day were Brian Dutcher (1-3 at 119 pounds). Matt Stump (3-2 at 125 pounds). Rick Weaver (1-2 at 130 pounds), Chad Jones (3-2 at 135 pounds) and Dan Clevenger (1-3’ atJ4O pounds) The Warriors also had efforts from Buster Clevenger (2-2 at 145 pounds). Tony Hostetter (2-2 at

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day, Wawasee will take to the road to face West Noble on Saturday evening beginning with junior varsity action at 6:30 p.m. The Chargers are currently 3-3 on the season prior to a contest at Garrett on Friday. West Noble opened its season with wins over Bethany Christian and Lakeland before a threegame losing skid that included losses to a trio of talented clubs (Northridge, Westview and Goshen) left coach Rick Mathew’s club at 2-3. The Chargers pulled their record to the .500 mark at 3-3 with a 73-71 win at Angola on December 16. ~ Last season at Wawasee, the host Warriors jumped out of the gate quickly and cruised to a 71-55 win over the Chargers in one of the team’s top effort of the season. Leading the cast of returnees for Coach Mathew’s squad are 6-3 senior Doug Targgart who is scoring at better than 20 points per game this season. Also lending experience to the Chargers from last season’s 12-8 squad are seniors Ken Hartsough, Chris Smith, Lambert Beckner and Kevin Hunter as well as junior Mike Becker. The Warriors will reach the halfway point of the season after facing Plymouth and West Noble this weekend and a pair of victories would lift the squad to the .500 mark with 10 games remaining on the docket before sectional time. Wawasee will be looking to build momentum in the next two months before the Triton Sectional is held February 28 and March 2-3.

ding to Karns. “I’m expecting a heck of a meet with Penn because team depth is their strength and that’s our weakness and we’ll have to offset their advantage there,” Karns stated.

While many of the Warrior and Lady Warrior squads are getting back into action this week and next week, one squad will just be starting its 1989-90 season next Monday. The Wawasee girls’ gymnastics team, fresh from last season’s 9-3 mark and fourth straight sectional championship, will look to continue its winning ways with the season opener on the road versus East Noble and Fort Wayne North Side.

152 pounds), Javier Cantu (2-2 at 160 pounds) and Jeremy Doerr (3-2 at 171 pounds). “We’re a young team that still makes some mistakes but you have to expect that and I think that the important thing is that we’re a young team on the move,” commented DeHart. The Warriors will return to dual match action tomorrow (Thursday) with a conference contest at North Wood scheduled for 7 p.m. Wawasee will then partiefjiate in the East Noble Invitational bn Saturday before traveling to face Plymouth on January 11. A lesson The reason a dog has so many friends is that his tail wags instead of his tongue. — Coast Guard Magazine