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Sports Editor Robert Zizzo 457-7711, Ext 136 Sheboygan Press Friday, February 18, 1994 Bl SPORTS 4 I 1 Head Musky knows rebuildin Lakeland's new football coach has experience in resurrection "I believe that you can't let a player, a good student-athlete, leave your backyard." Randy Awrvy new Lakeland football coach on area recruiting call it the new Muskie BalL We're going to do something different that hasn't been done in the past. "I believe that you cant let a player, a good student-athlete, leave your backyard." Awrey said he plans to actively recruit local players first, and then look elsewhere for talent. Awrey inherits a program which is 23-44 since 1987, including a 1-9 mark this past fall. The Muskies have also gone through two head coaches in less than a year, but Awrey said he believes he can put the Muskies program back on track. "I've never been one not to take on a challenge," he said.

"I think this is going to be a good challenge, and I think we can do some of the same things here we've done in the past." Awrey, a native of Upper Michigan, comes to Lakeland from Kentucky Wesleyan University, where he helped turn a small NCAA Division III program into a winning Division II team with more than 80 A running back in college, Awrey said his first priority is to recruit quality student-athletes. "I think sometimes people make football too complicated," he said. "Basically, you start building with good character, good people inside and out. Then I think the wins and losses and all of those things will take care of themselves. My goal is to bring in a good class, to make sure the people that are here are graduating, and along the way we'll have a lot of fun and win some games." Awrey takes over for Fred Reese, who was fired last month after four years as head coach.

Reese was 10-29 at Lakeland. Athletic Director Jane Bouche said Lakeland is excited to have a young, enthusiastic coach like Awrey aboard. "When I read what he sent to me, I knew right away this was a man we wanted to bring in to talk to," Turn to MUSKIESPage B2 By MICHAEL KNUTH OF THE PRESS STAFF He sounded a little like a salesman, a teacher and a preacher, and the topic at hand was indeed the resurrection. The resurrection of the Lakeland College football program, that is. Randy Awrey was introduced as Lakeland's new football coach Thursday, and after years of turmoil and trouble, the Muskies are hoping Awrey is the breath of fresh air the football program has been gasping for.

With the eloquence of a scholar and the passion of a preacher, Awrey explained how he plans to turn around Lakeland's sagging program. "I'm going to personally go out and meet with every football coach, Sheboygan North, South, Elkhart, Howards Grove and so on, and meet with them and explain to them the new program," Awrey said before a small press conference. "You can non-scholarship players. Awrey said he intends to turn things around at Lakeland much like he did at Kentucky Wesleyan. "The experience I've had in the past I think will help me here," Awrey said.

"When I found out about the job and the area, it seemed like a perfect match for me. I was looking for a situation like this. "There is a lot of work to be done, but all the tools are here." Awrey played college football at Northern Michigan University and was a member of NMU's 1975 Division II national championship team. HEAD MUSKY: Randy Awrey is introduced as Lakeland's new football coach. Press photo by Gary C.

Klein Gold-Medal Run LMC title Fatigue blamed asMXJ falters -1 within reac Muskies win 20th, in conference tie By DAVID GALLiANETTI OF THE PRESS STAFF The Lakeland College men's basketball team picked the perfect night for a coming-out party. The Muskies moved into a tie for first place in the Lake Michigan Conference and clinched the first 20-win season at Lakeland in nine years Thursday night with a 91-64 drubbing of --i: Lakeland 91 Concordia 64 Concordia. "Twenty wins is a nice fcr MILWAUKEE (AP) Notre Dame coach John MacLeod came prepared for the complaints and criticisms and offered no compassion for No. 22 Marquette. Monty Williams' 27 points led a refreshed Fighting Irish squad to a 68-58 victory over the run-down Warriors Thursday night.

But the real excitement began after the game when the Warriors complained about Notre Dame breaking a scheduling agreement between the two schools that resulted in more rest for the Irish. Marquette Athletic Director Bill Cords stormed into the interview room while reporters were waiting to speak with both coaches, and grabbed the podium. "I want everybody to understand the responsibility for this game and what happened is right here," Cords said, poking himself in the chest. "What I should have done a long time ago, when we found out that there was a 6-day rest for them and a 1-day rest for us, was either say, 'We're not going to play the game, or "We'd better find another Asked why he didn't, Cords walked away quickly, refusing to field questions. Marquette (17-7), which has played three games in five, days and plays again contends that the Irish were contractually bound to play Ford-ham Tuesday night, the same night the Warriors played at Virginia Tech.

But when the final schedule came out, Notre Dame instead was playing host to Fordham on Jan. 2 and didn't play anybody between Hofstra on Feb. 11 and Marquette Thursday night. MacLeod stepped to the podium carrying a prepared statement giving Dame's version, because I knew this was going to be brought up." MacLeod said Fordham couldn't play Notre Dame Feb. 15, and that the Notre Dame-Mar-quette game was scratched from Feb.

13 so that Marquette could play Cincinnati on DAN JANSEN of Greenfield heads to the finish line during the men's event this morning. Jansen's run of 1:12:43 set a world record and earned him his first-ever medal, a gold, to break an Olympic jinx. ap Jansen ends medal jinx Greenfield speed skater wins gold medal in record time HAMAR, Norway (AP) Dan Jansen, skating in the last race of his hard-luck Olympic career, finally won an Olympic medal today, taking the gold with a world record in the 1,000 meters. "It's unbelievable," Jansen said. "I'm so happy.

I've waited so long. Finally, it's here." Jansen, of Greenfield, narrowly avoided yet another disaster when he skidded twice through a turn and his hand grazed his ice, but he kept his balance and crossed the finish line in 1 minute, 12.43 seconds, .11 faster than the mark Canada's Kevin Scott set in December. "I guess good guys do win," said U.S. coach Peter Mueller, who tutors Jansen and won the first Olympic 1,000 in 1976. Igor Zhelezovsky of Belarus was second in 1:12.72 and Sergei Klevchenya of Russia third in 1:12.85.

Both skated in the first pair, three pairs ahead of Jansen. No one skating after Jansen came even close to his time. "I don't know what to say," a winded Jansen said moments after the race as his wife, Robin, sobbed for joy in the stands. "It felt so good. There's so many people here behind me, thank you so much." Robin Jansen, who couldn't bear to watch the end of her husband's 500 after Monday's slip, burst into tears as soon as Jansen finished, overjoyed that her husband finally had risen above his heartbreaking past.

"It's over," she sobbed. "Thank God, it's finally over." After Jansen's race, his wife made her way down to the ice and embraced her husband at rinkside. Jansen kissed her on the nose. "All I know is she told me she loves me," Jansen said. "We've waited so long for this." Jansen, who slipped and finished eighth in Monday's 500, skidded again twice in the opposite turn with about 600 meters left, and his hand even touched the ice.

But he kept his balance and won the first medal of his Olympic career. At the figure skating practice rink in Hamar, cheers and applause broke out among the sizable American crowd when the public address announcer gave the news of Jansen's record. Brian Boitano, who was practicing at the time, raised his hands over his head and began applauding. For Jansen, it was the last chance at a medal after seven races over four Olympics in which he came up short. At 28, he had said his Olympic career would end with today's 1,000 meters.

If too much pressure had been his undoing in his previous Olympic failures, there was even more today. He was the overwhelming favorite Monday, and just one of several gold-medal contenders in the 1,000, a race which he had not dominated like the shorter sprint. And after medal contender and 500 silver-medalist Sergey Klevchenya of Russia slipped in the first heat and Norwegian Grunde Njos fell in the second heat, the Turn to JANSENPage B3 milestone since the last coach to do it is kind of a legend around here," said Lakeland coach Craig Jonas, referring with a smile to former Lakeland coach Duane (Moose) Woltzen. "(The Muskies) want everyone in Wisconsin to know we have a good program here in Sheboygan County." The people from Concordia must be convinced. Trailing the hot-shooting Falcons, 21-17, the Muskies (11-3 LMC, 20-10 overall) turned up the defensive pressure and put together a 23-3 pounding over the next 10 minutes.

"We didn't think they would shoot as good as they did from the 3-point line," sophomore guard T.J. Teunissen said. "What we wanted to do in the second half was stop their 3-point shooting. It wasn't really nerves, but we were pumped for the game because we knew what was on the line." Jonas said, "They were really hot and it looked like we were too excited. We finally got focused about what we wanted to do-on the defensive end." Concordia finished 13 of 28 behind the 3-point line, but Lakeland continued its defensive aggressiveness and pushed its lead near 30 early in the second half.

"Our effort was as good as we've had as a team all year," said Jonas, whose team is tied atop the LMC with Edgewood, both one-half game ahead of Cardinal Stritch (10-3). "(Aggressive defense) is very important in keying a lot of the break situations we like to initiate. It gets our intensity going. We really made some intelligent adjustments." Teunissen, a Cedar Grove graduate, finished with seven steals, including a hustling grab that ended up as an assist to teammate Pat Baxter that helped get Lakeland's offensive rolling. "It's my game," Teunissen said.

"If I don't have a couple steals, my offense tends to grind down. When I play well on defense I think it gets the others involved. When we play well Turn to LAKELAND B2 North wins fifth straight conference swim crown 1 Dustin Price, Tim Seipel and Steve Held finished 1-2-3 in the 200 freestyle, with Price beating his teammates by 8 and 10 seconds, respectively. Eric Stempihar and Matt Regan followed with victories in the 200 individual medley and 50 freestyle to give North a 43-point lead over Manitowoc after four events. Although the meet was officially hosted by Manitowoc, it took place at South, which prompted cheers from the home crowd when Ryan Zoerner took first in diving.

Even though North didn't win the By SCOn CREIGHTON OF THE PRESS STAFF Swimmers from Sheboygan North finished first in 9 of the 12 events in Thursday's Fox River Valley Conference meet at Sheboygan South proceeding to leave the competition in their wake as they won their fifth consecutive conference championship. The team of Clay Griessmeyer, Matt Regan, Eric Stempihar and Andy Matthias tied the FRVC and pool record of 1 minute, 45.45 seconds in the 200-yard medley relay. The four won the first event of the night by more than 5 seconds and North never looked back. if 4 J. Turn to SWIMPage B4 SHEBOYGAN NORTH'S Dustin Price wins the 200 freestyle.

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