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Vikings Don't Like 'Em Light, So Pro Offense In The Offing Knt.nl nf rvnint.s earned riurine the Bra "iJ attfrf niBihni Ifllflli iHi1ri" aP tfUl Bhkb: Tonight's Prep Games Aiken at $1 Xavter Bettid-Tate at Lackland Centerville at Princeton ColeraJn at Sycamore Dayton Belmont at Oak Hills Deer Park at Reading East Central ond at Harrison Finneytown at Northwest Glen Este at Amelia Greenhtts at Indian Hill Lakota at Hamilton Tatt Lancaster at Elder Loveland at Forest Park McNichotas at Anderson Midotetown Madison at Mason Moeller at Flndlay Nortti College HW at Mt Healttiy Portsmouth vs. LaSam at Western Hills PurceN at Norwood Taylor at Ross Turpin at Milford Walnut Hies at Lemon-Monroe WHhrow at Hamilton Gartiekt Woodward at Roger Bacon Wyoming at Mariemont Saturday's Games Columbus Academy at Country Day Hughes at Hamilton Badln Landmark Christian at Lucasvlle Valley Manchester at Summit Country Day Tatt at Gahanna Lincoln season, instead of a per-game average, that would seem to put the Vikings at a disadvantage. But among the perennial contenders for the top Class AAA spot from this area, Moeller plays one out-of-state We, Dallas Jesuit, and Elder plays its last game Thanksgiving Day against Western Hills, after the computer stops counting. So neither of those games will count in the ratings, either. THAT LEAVES only Centerville, which finished a distant second to Moeller in the region in last year's computer rankings.

All 10 of the Elks' games will count, but, as Mancuso points out, "One of us (Princeton or Centerville) would knock the other out" in the first game. And should Princeton defeat Centerville tonight, there's Moeller next week on the Vikings' schedule. "Now I'm not saying we'll win both those games," Mancuso says, "but if we would get by them, both those teams should give us more than enough points" to gain a playoff spot if the Vikings finish with a 9-0 record. APLaaarphoto BY WEBB MATTHEWS Enquirer Sports Reporter Don't tell Pat Mancuso you cant teach an old dog new tricks. After 23 years on the job, the Princeton High School football coach is adopting a new offensive system.

For the first time, the Vikings will operate out of the pro offense, with two wide receivers, as they tackle Centerville tonight at Princeton. "It's a little different for the coaches and the players," Mancuso reflected, "but it's the only thing we can do with our personnel. We Just don't have the big backs." In years past, Princeton always had a good supply of brawny backs. The Vikings would line up in the I-formatlon "and overpower people," Mancuso remembers. But Princeton's biggest back this year weighs only 175 pounds, so Mancuso decided to cast his fate to the wind of a speedy bunch of lightweights.

"IT'S ONE of those nice situations where you cant look back and say, 'I should have done this Mancuso says. "We Just dont have the 215-pound fullback." But then, he may have something a lot better. The Vikings will rotate five players in the two running back positions. Leroy Stenson (152 pounds), a transfer student from Mt. Healthy, and Ken Round-tree (164), a starter at defensive back last year, will be the starters, but Mancuso expects to use Rod Gorley (175), Brian Hilson (162) and Tim Hister (157) as well.

All are seniors. This revolving door in the back-field should help Gorley and Hilson, who will anchor the Vikings' defen-sive backfield. With so many running backs to choose from, Mancuso will be able to rest them while the Vikings have the ball. At the two wide receiver spots, Princeton has Lee Thomas and Robert King, both of whom saw ac PAM SHRIVER, the newest teenage darling of tennis, returns volley in Thursday's victory over Lesley Hunt en route to today's semifinal date with top-seeded Martina Navratilova in S. Open Tennis championships.

Borg Rally Turns Back Ramirez of course, would be a victory over Centerville. The emerging football power among Dayton-area schools, Centerville has won 22 straight games. Mancuso terms Centerville "a very well-coached and well-disciplined football team." He likens the football program at Centerville to the Upper Arlington program of the middle 1960s, when that Columbus school was on the verge of developing into the powerhouse that rolled to 47 straight victories. And beating such a team would stand Princeton in good stead in the computer ratings game which determines state football playoff participants. Princeton plays just nine games this year, and since the computer ratings are based on the cumulative SPEAKING OF Moeller, the Crusaders, who've won the Class AAA state championship the last three years, open their season tonight at Findlay.

Gerry Faust's crew owns a 52-game regular-season winning streak. Taft's game with Dayton Roth, scheduled for tonight at Wlthrow, has been canceled because of a teachers' strike in Dayton. Instead, the Senators will play at Gahanna Lincoln Saturday night. Shriver, a talkative, cheery 16-year-old from Lutherville, will play top seed Martina Navratilova in one semifinal and Turnbull will play second-seeded Chris Evert in the other. Turnbull, a small Australian known as Rabbit for her quickness on court, lost in the final to Evert last year.

SHRIVER, A thin, 6-footer, was effusive. "I didn't expect to do well when I came here," Shriver said. "I'm pretty close to the top of my game." She has played Navratilova, this year's Wimbledon winner, just once, losing to her In the second round of the Family Circle Cup in April. But Shriver, who has a big, aggressive, running game said she definitely has a chance. "Ill be loose.

Shell be the one with all the pressure. I think my chances are pretty good. I have a heck of a chance if I serve and volley well." The top seed from Sweden got two service breaks early in the third set. Ramirez got one of his own for 2-4, but it wasn't enough. "I hit short, long, everywhere and I cant beat him," said Ramirez, who has been having a good year and also made it to the Wimbledon quarter-finals before bowing to Connors.

Borg broke right away in the final set, and Ramirez, whose accuracy had fallen off, won only seven points for the remainder of the match. BORG, WHO never has won the U.S. Open, will meet Vitas Gerulaitis in the semifinal. He's been practicing with Gerulaitis for two weeks. Although he has beaten the American in their last five official matches, Borg said their semifinal would not be a cinch.

"It will just depend on who has a good day, because he's been playing very well here," Borg said. NEW YORK AP)-Wlmbledon champion Bjorn Borg beat back a scrambling Raul Ramirez, 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-0, and Pam Shriver, America's newest teen-age sensation, breezed part; Australian Lesley Hunt, 6-2, 6-0 Thursday in the quarter-finals of thl'Unlted States Open Tennis Championships. i'endy Turnbull, a 19T7 finalist, Kathy May in another quarter-final, 3-6, 7-6, 6-3. Second -seeded Jimmy Connors was to take on No. 6 Brian Gottfried Thursday night in the last quarterfinal match.

The winner will play 19-year-old John McEnroe, the 15th seed, in the semifinals. Women's semifinals will be played today and the men's on Saturday. RAMIREZ HURLED good, clean volleys and overheads in the first set and won the tight tiebreaker, 8-6. But Borg fired up in the second, playing better at the net. tion as starters for last year's 7-2 team.

And throwing the ball will be junior Gary Naegel, who "has been one of the pleasant surprises" for Princeton so far, according to Mancuso. ANOTHER PLEASANT surprise, RETIRED CREDIT MANAGER? Notonot Co. needs someone I -2 days per week for phone collection work on professional accounts. Please call Mr. West.

1711621. prap results County-American Volleyball BASEBALL AT RIVERFRONT STADIUM Looms As 3-Way Struggle PADRES TONITE 8:05 Plenty Of Seats Available SATURDAY GIANTS 7:00 It you can attend, hear the game on WIW Radic-7Mjfl cutt said, "and Ann is the team inspiration. She's a setter-spiker." Oak Hills used a 5-1 format last year, with five hitters and one setter, and Northcutt said she may use a 4-2 this fall. "We have two good setters in Ann and Beth," she said. "WE HAVE some pretty good servers and have good blocking also.

We might have some trouble in the backcourt but it's hard to say. When you practice, you can look super, but you don't know what the other teams have." Here are outlooks of other HCL American teams: Anderson Anderson is characterized by good spiking and quickness, but has "no setters as such," according to coach Resort Homes On Our Lee Trevino Designed Golf Course At Beautiful Lake Cumberland Norma Evans. Anderson's returning CROSS-COUNTRY NORWOOD 30, TURPIN 39 Scott Fended of Norwood had fastest time and courl record with 15:21 at MlUcrest Park. McMCMOLAS 25, MADEIRA 33 Brett Meyer turned in the fastest time with a 13:33. HARRISON a.

WYOMING 13 Paul Nolan of Harrison had fastest time with a 14:32 at Whitewater Park. ST. BERNARD 21, SILVER GROVE 34 Homer Hodges of St. Bernard had fastest lime of 14:08 at French Park GOLF NORWOOD 180, NORTHWEST 224 Garry Garret of Norwood was medalist with a five-over -par 41 on the front nine at Sharon Woods. COLER AIN 143, ANDERSON 175 Rick Hagen of Coier am was medalist with an even-par 35 on the back nine at California.

MOELLER 154, PUR CELL 144 Tom Elsbrock and Brian wlttmer of Mooter were co-medalists with two-over -par 37s on the front nine at California. WYOMING 173, HARRISON 174 Jeff Walter of Harrison was medalist with a one-over -par 37 at Carolina Trace. as ALLE 153, WESTERN MILLS 147 Tom Schneider, John Herbert and Ed Niehaus, all of LaSaee, shared the medal with two-over -par 36s on the front nine at Miami Whitewater. BETHEL TATE 152, MILFORD Ml Greg SpMer of Bethel-Tate was medalist with a four-under-par 32 on the front nine at Friendly Meadows. INDIAN HILL 152, LOVELAND 208 Dale Dirvin of Indian Hi) was medalist with a one-over -par 36 on the front nine at CYBannon Creek.

ST. BERNARD 200, READING 203 Tan Allison of St. Bernard was medalist with a nine-over -par 45 on the front nine at Sharon Woods. GREENHM.LS 158, FINNEYTOWN 214 Alan Carlisle ad Ode Karistrom, both of GreenhiKs, shared the medal with two-over-par 39s on the front nine at vVlnton Woods. SOCCER NORTHWEST 0, SYCAMORE 0 Northwest goalie Tom DiNuoscio had sin saves, while Sycamore Doug Soger had IS.

AIKEN 2, MARIEMONT 2 Goals Paul Maurer, Ray Zapf; Dan Vickers, Mike Grau. WESTERN HILLS 4, HAM. AFT 3 Goets-WH. Mark Nichols 2, Scott Nichols. Paf Jo-levski, Mark Bowtey.

Mark Sanderson, HT: Malcom Moore 2, Tom Shanon. LAKOTA 4, READING 1 Goals: Sutton, Perlgo; Geregorson. Estes. COLER AIN 7, FAIRFIELD 2 Stefanopoulos, 2, Wharton, Kleinschmidt; McKinney; Krler. Eagle, Brant.

FINNEYTOWN 3, Princeton 0 Biar, 2, Payne. FOREST PARK 12, COVINGTON CATHOLIC 0 Scoring: Mike Dunn 3, Chris PhMpott 3, Willie Feltner 2, Mark Fisher 2, Rob Campbell, Doug Heisey. GIRLS' TENNIS ANDERSON 3, SYCAMORE 2 No. 1 Sharl Brown (A) def. Usa stacey, 4-1, 6-3, No.

2 Amy Beeden (S) def. Phyllis Zimmerman, 4-4, 6- 3, No. 3 Pam Whitehead (A) def. Sue Hagler, 57. 7-S, 6- I GIRLS' VOLLEYBALL St Bernard 15-15, BatavlaS-IO.

BY CINDY MORRIS Enquirer Sports Reporter When Barbara Northcutt of Oak Hills was asked why her peers in the Hamilton County League American volleyball league elected her Coach of the Year last season, she answered deliberately, "I have no idea." Then, as if to give credibility to the seemingly outlandish statement, she added, "I didn't vote for me." One would surmise that the other coaches' voting was at least partly inspired by Northcutt's 14-1 record. But the record, ironically, is what caused Northcutt to vote for Forest Park coach Peggy Hill instead of herself. Oak Hills, which has won the HCL American five straight years, suffered its only loss last season to Forest Park in the final of the sectional tournament. After two close games in that contest, Oak Hills fell apart and lost the deciding game by a lopsided score. "We just lost our confidence," Northcutt remembered.

Peggy Hill's squad didn't. And although many players from that team graduated, the confidence remains. "We're definitely aiming to be No. 1 this year," Hill said. "WE LOST eight seniors, so this is definitely a reconstructing year.

But they look better than what I anticipated. We have four attackers over 5-foot-9. There's a lot of potential. They work better than last year's team. There's not one superstar." Northcutt's girls are also working well together in this last week before the season.

"We're stronger than last year," she said. "We have very cooperative kids. They're really team-minded. They're not excited about being stars. They just want to be good." Her only returning players are seniors Ann Hunsicker, Chris Moorman and Chris Wilson.

Her other top players include senior Beth Specht and juniors Kim Holmes and Judy Smith. "Kim Holmes is our top spiker," North standouts are Cheryl Applegate, Codi Volmer and Marcia Smith. Northwest Kathy Winters, In her first year as Northwest's coach, is hoping to improve on the team's 6-8 record and fourth-place finish in the HCL National last year. "We have lots of height, experience and enthusiasm," Winters said. Her returning stars are Carleen Stepaniak, Kathy Ashurst, Angie Popplewell and Rhonda Merritt Norwood Chris Cook is expecting Norwood "to have a better than .500 season, which has eluded us thus far." Cook said the team's strengths are experience and power; the "serving powerhouses," Ann Tepe, Chris Laake and twins Chris and Colleen Guy, and senior setter Maria Kothe.

Turpin Turpin lost six seniors and three girls to soccer, coach Sandy Smith said, so Turpin is rebuilding this season. "The girls are enthusiastically working on skills and teamwork," Smith said. Tur-pin's returning standout is Laurie Baker, a 5-11 senior. The other HCL American team which did not respond to a questionnaire from The Enquirer, is Mount Healthy. WjEL.

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