The Mail-Journal, Volume 29, Number 40, Milford, Kosciusko County, 14 November 1990 — Page 8

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., November 14,1990

Sports

Warriors to face Fairfield in season opener on the hardwood

By SCOTT DAVIDSON Sports Writer

Relying on three senior lettermen to provide tne experience, while also counting on a number of young players with “potential,” head coach Gary Goshert prepares to enter his fifth season at the helm of the Wawasee boys’ basketball program. The 1990-91 edition of the Warriors will begin the season when it hosts Fairfield next Tuesday, Nov. 20, with junior varsity action scheduled to begin at 6:15 p.m. The Warriors will be looking for a little “revenge” in the season opener, after playing a lackluster game at Fairfield in the second contest of the season last year. The Falcons pinned a 38-35 loss on Wawasee in that game, on their way to a 11-11 season for coach Steve Wiktorowski. While Wawasee is counting on some key returnees to lead its squad, Wiktorowski is looking for the same thing in his fifth season. Senior guard Galen Mast (6-foot-0), who scored 15 points last season against the Warriors, is a key outside scoring threat. Mast, the Falcons leading scorer last year, connected on 44 percent (50-114) of his three-point shots last season. Also being counted on for Fairfield are inside players Lenny Krebs, a 6-3 senior, and Andre Fisher. The 6-1 Fisher knocked in 12 points in the team’s win over the Warriors in 1989. With five players gone from last season’s squad, Wiktorowski will also be

j ■k. - H^^M^WCTWrWWkr w' »» ’ 1 Au* k a .» jA WARRIOR FRONTLINE — The four players pictured above will be manning the frontcourt when Wawasee opens its 1990-91 boys’ basketball season on Tuesday. Nov. 20, at home against Fairfield. The action in the season opener begins with the junior varsity contest at 6:15 p.m. Shown, from left, are: sophomore Mike Ferverda, sophomore Kyle Newcomer, senior Dennis Garland and sophomore Mike Garland. (Photo by Scott Davidson)

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looking to lettermen Carl Miller, Andy Brock and Nick Bontreger to contribute heavily this season. The remainder of the Falcons roster includes: senior Myron Miller, juniors Jerry Murphy, Trent Miller and Thad Warble and sophomore Mark Springer. Wiktorowski, who has a career record of 54-37 in four seasons at Fairfield, looks to have four certain starters in Mast, Krebs, Fisher and Carl Miller, with only the point-guard spot still up for grabs as the season opener looms on the horizon. "We have a solid foundation with a lot of varsity experience, with seniors Matt Haab, Jason Mickley and Dennis Garland. But we’re looking to see who fills in the other spots because we do have a lot of youth,” said Goshert. After losing just two starters (Tim Lilly and Chris Conkling) from last season’s 7-15 club, Goshert will be looking this year to the 5-9 Haab and the 5-10 Mickley to solidify the backcourt, while Garland, 6-3, will lend inside scoring punch and muscle to the middle. Garland returns as the leading scorer for the Warriors after averaging just over 11 points-per-outing during his junior season. Mickley (11 ppg.) and Haab (7 ppg.) will be depended upon to provide firepower from the perimeter for the Warriors. “I think the experience we have this season will really help us in the crucial situations, where we made some costly mistakes last season. The knowledge of our seniors will have to help us in those key situations because I an-

TOP ATHLETES — Honored with Coaches Awards at a recent convocation for fall sports were these eight Wawasee Middle School athletes. In the front row, from left, are: Leslie Garner, seventh grade cross country; Dana Rinehold, seventh grade volleyball, and Jamie Emmert, eighth grade cross country. Back row: Missy Corbat, eighth grade volleyball: Aaron Kryder, seventh grade football; Keith Galloway, eighth grade football; Tad Denton, eighth grade cross country, and Brad Stidams, seventh grade cross country. (Photo by Mark Huffman)

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ticipate a lot of close games again this season,” said Goshert. With seniors Haab, Mickley and Garland having nailed down three of the five spots in the starting lineup, Goshert is looking at a number of other candidates to finish the starting puzzle for the season opener. “With our offense being basically three guards, we’re looking at Haab and Mickley, along with possibly either Jake Lambert (sophomore), Thanh Tran (junior), Mason Robbins (junior) or Aaron Sincroft(junior) to fill out the backcourt,” said Goshert. He noted that sophomore Matt Wilkinson, also a guard, will start out the season on the junior varsity squad, due to a knee problem that has prevented him from practicing with the varsity. With Garland penciled in at one spot up front, the competition will be between “big men” Kyle Newcomer and Mike Ferverda for the final starting berth in the frontcourt. “Only time will tell, but Kyle has some varsity experience and Mike has shown a lot of potential, while Mike Garland has also shown flashes of what he can do,” remarked Goshert. All three of the post players, other than Dennis Garland, are sophomores. “We will have depth in the post spot this season,” the coach confirmed. The “younger” players on the Warrior squad, for the most part, have a limited amount of experience on the varsity level —a fact that isn’t lost on Goshert. “You always have questions about how the young kids will develop and adjust once the

season starts, but that’s the fun and interesting part of coaching. All of the kids will get a chance to show what they can do and will have an opportunity to earn their time, ” the coach said. The underclassmen on the squad this season, despite being inexperienced, helped the JV squad and the freshman team to productive seasons a year ago. Coach Kem Zolman’s JV squad posted a 10-10 mark last season while freshman coach Chuck Evans guided the frosh squad to a brilliant 16-4 campaign last year, including the championship of the season-ending NLC tournament. While remarking that the team is looking to “get better” each game, Goshert said that the team will talk about other goals nearer to Christmas. “We just want to go out and play to our potential and key in on every game, but the conference games, especially,” remarked Goshert. The coach noted that areas of concern this season include rebounding on the defensive end, along with passing the ball and free throw shooting on the offensive end of the court. “We’ve worked hard on the fundamentals, but shooting, which we’re looking to improve on from last season (42 percent on field goals and 68 percent on free throws),

Pheasant hunts to be offered at eight DNR sites, including Tri-County

Pheasants will be released at eight Department of Natural Resources for put-and-take hunting this fall, according to Patrick R. Ralston, DNR Director. Put-and-take hunting will begin on Sunday, Nov. 18 with the hunting to continue until the supply of birds (about 20,000) is exhausted in about two weeks. Pheasants will be released at Atterbury, Crosley, Glendale, Pigeon River, Tri-County, Willow Slough and Winamac state fish and wildlife area and Huntington Lake. Hunters will be charged a daily fee of sl2 for put-and-take hunting, and participants will have the opportunity to take two pheasants of either sex. Sportsmen must have a valid hunting license and game bird stamp, or a youth or comprehensive license to participate. Hunter orange must be worn by hunters while pheasant hunting. All hunters must check in before hunting. To save time on hunt day, sportsmen are encouraged to purchase their licenses and stamps before travelling to the property to hunt. A daily quota of hunters has been set for each property. Reservations are not accepted,

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can cover up a lot of deficiencies,” he stated. In addition to Goshert, the Warriors’ coaching staff remains intact, as Randy Aalbregste enters his second season as varsity assistant coach. Zolman returns to head the JV squad, while Evans returns for his second season as freshman coach. The boys’ basketball program is also in very capable and “numerous” hands this season, with a total of 10 managers helping out with the three squads. Team assistants for the 1990-91 year include: Mike Mattix, John Medlock, Randy Smith, Bill Sohl Andy Tatman, Mike Wright and Denise Zuniga for the varsity and JV teams and Pat Maloney, Natalie Mickley and Jason Ross for the frosh squad. “We’re going to have to play hard to be successful, but we like what we’ve seen in the past month and now it gets down to polishing up for the opener against Fairfield next week,” Goshert concluded. More powerful Japanese scientists have developed a type of morphine that is a more powerful painkiller and is nonaddictive to laboratory rats. The drug will soon be tested on monkeys at the US National Institute of Health.

and sportsmen will be allowed to hunt on a first-come, first-served basis. Hunts will begin at 9 a.m. on all properties. Sportsmen interested in put-and-take hunting are encouraged to contact the property they wish to hunt for information on availability of pheasants. Hunter quotas are as follows for the different fish and wildlife areas: Atterbury (250), Crosley

Professor sheds new light on drug use in sports

If athletes don’t care about the health risks, then maybe we shouldn’t be regulating performance-enhancing drug use at all, says David L. Fairchild, IPFW professor and chair of philosophy and president of the Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport (PSSS). “Not one test has definitely proven that these substances actually improve performance,” he said, but athletes think they do and believe that winning is worth any price, including future liver damage and possible heart disease.” Performance enhancing drug use in sport has been the subject of much of Fairchild’s scholarly work for the past couple of years. “People in the sporting world believe that drug use is absolutely rampant,” Fairchild said, “and detection tests are highly sophisticated.” Biochemical technology has improved so much that virtually hundreds of drugs and masking agents can be detected. One of few “cheating” methods that is undectable is blood packing, or blood doping, whereby an athlete reinjects a supply of his or her own blood after several weeks, thereby theoretically increasing the blood’s ability to hold oxygen. Despite a lack of evidence that drugs give an unfair advantage, governing bodies in sport have adopted widely varying policies in dealing with offenders-some of which themselves are unfair. The International Amateur Athletic Federation and The Athletics Congress endorse random, arbitrary drug testing. In season, high-place finishers are tested. Off season, a randomlyselected sample of athletes is tested. The off-season testing is strictly enforced; failure to report to a testing center within 72 hours of notification results in a two-year suspension from

WAWASEE BACKCOURT — The varsity players shown above will be filling the backcourt positions when the Wawasee boys’ squad opens the 1990-91 season next Tuesday against Fairfield. In front, from left, are: junior Thanh Tran, senior Matt Haab and junior Aaron Sincroft. In back are: sophomore Matt Wilkinson, junior Mason Robbins, sophomore Jake Lambert and senior Jason Mickley. (Photo by Scott Davidson)

(186), Glendale (300), Pigeon River (250), Tri-County (270), Willow Slough (200), Winamac (227) and Huntington Lake (325). Sportsmen are reminded that once put-and-take hunting is over, pheasants may be hunted on put-and-take areas free of charge for the remainder of the legal season. The season will end January 15 at 11 state properties

competition-no excuses. Fairchild said that the policy immediately assumes guilt until innocence is proven, and that it has failed to treat athletes fairly. Henry Marsh, an American steeplechase competitor, is by all accounts, a “clean” athlete. Unfortunately for Marsh, the letter notifying him of selection for a drug test arrived at his home while he was on board a plane. By the time he got home and read the letter, the 72-hour grace period had expired. True to the “no excuses” policy. Marsh was suspended for two years. On the other end of the spectrum, Canadian athlete Ben Johnson served a two-year suspension after admitting to long-term anabolic steroid abuse. Johnson was dubbed “the fastest man in the world” as winner of the men’s 100-meter dash in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Not long after his gold medal was awarded, results from drug tests conducted at the Olympics came back positive. Johnson was stripped of his medal and made a has-

? Z - '*’■'*.< ‘Zr 'f “ i I B 1 I ■ ■ J WRESTLER LETTERMEN — The Warrior wrestling team is scheduled to begin its season on November 23 at the two-day Wawasee Classic tournament. Lettermen pictured in the front row, from left, are: Scott Wheat, Clay Rassi and Chris Requejo. In back are: Brian Dutcher, David Antu, Matt Stump and Buster Clevenger. (Photo by Mark Huffman)

and December 23 elsewhere, in the state. State properties with extended seasons are Atterbury, Crosley, Glendale, JasperPulaski, Kingsbury, LaSalle, Pigeon River, Tri-County, Willow Slough and Winamac state fish and wildlife areas and Huntington Lake. Persons wanting more infor-

ty and shameful departure. Later, he admitted to using to abusing performance-enhancing drugs for years. Yet it took only two years for Canadian athletic governing bodies to clear him to compete. A two-year suspension for both the innocent (Marsh) and the guilty (Johnson) is not what most people would call fair. Lack of unanimity in drug policies is part of the reason that drug use isn’t effectively controlled, Fairchild said. Athletes’ concepts of fairness also complicate things. “At the elite levels of competition, if some athletes are using performance-enhancing drugs, the others may feel it is their ethical obligation to follow suit in order to even out the playing field. “Clean” athletes argue that performance-enhancing drugs are giving competitors an unfair advantage, but other factors could be considered unfair. Some athletes have more money and better training facilities. But we

mation on the pheasant hunts should contact the appropriate area at the following numbers; Atterbury (812/526-2051 or 317/232-7535), Crosley (812/346-5596), Glendale (812/644-7711), Pigeon River (219/367-2164), Tri-County (219/834-4461), Willow Slough (219/285-2704), Winamac (219/946-4422) or Huntington Lake (219/468-2165).

don’t regulate that, Fairchild said. Others claim that drug use is simply unnatural. “High-calibre athletes are unnatural when measured against the rest of the population,” Fairchild said. “Their training levels alone are far beyond what physicians recommend for health.” The current recommendation for aerobic exercise is three times a week, 20 minutes a session. A runner who’s logging more than 100 miles a week can hardly be considered “natural” by that standard. Fairchild, a distance runner himself, admits that even his training schedule exceeds those limits. The very essence of high-level competition involves pursuing an unnatural standard of excellence, Fairchild said. Special gun A type of machine gun appeared as early as the 1500 s. It consisted of several guns bound together in a bundle or spread out in a row.