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Penn an outright winner of the few area basketball teams outright conference did so in the Conference with they beat Elkhart BASKETBALL Central. 49-37, last Thursday. Elkhart Memorial placed second at 8-1 in the league. Knox, New Prairie and Triton shared the Northern State Conference title with 5-2 records. Jimtown could join the mix if it beats Culver in a game rescheduled after the sectionals.

NorthWood gained a share of the Northern Lakes Conference crown with No. 7 Warsaw when it upset the Tigers, 43-40. last Tuesday. Both teams finished at 5-1 in the NLC. No.

10 Valparaiso clinched its seventh straight Duneland Conference championship last Tuesday with its win over Hobart. Winamac SCORING LEADERS By BOB OPPENHEIM Tribune Sports Writer Penn was one girls high school to clinch an championship. The Kingsmen Northern Indiana a 9-0 record when GIRLS NOTEBOOK tp av Sheila McMillen. Rochester 16 353 22 0 Amy Bechtel. Fairfield 20 420 21 0 Amy Feldman.

Triton 18 350 19.4 Zayed Henry. Washington 18 346 19 2 Suzanne Smith. New Praine 18 337 187 Katasha House. Jimtown 16 294 183 Rosalin Campbell, Knox 18 329 18 2 Anika Egir. 17 290 17 0 Erinn Parker Valparaiso 18.

305 16 9 Mary Goodwin, South Central 18 294 16 3 Krista Hennings, Elkhart Memorial 18 292 162 Yen Tran Wawasee 18 286 15 8 Candy Winters Argos 15 236 157 Jenea Skeeters. Mishawaka 18 272 15 1 Melissa Brown, North Judson 18 269 149 Jenny Reed. Bremen 19 283 14 8 Heather Stutzman. Christian 18. 261 14 5 Pam Sass.

M.C Eiston 18 253 14.0 EAU CLAIRE From Page C1 Valparaiso 16-2 2. Warsaw 15-3 3. Penn 16-2 4. Mishawaka 15-3 5. Bremen 15-4 6: NorthWood 7.

Knox 15-3 8. New Prairie 9. Jimtown 13-3 10. Elkhart Memorial TRIBUNE TOP 10 13-5 won the Midwest Conference title outright earlier. in the year.

North Judson shared the Northwest Hoosier title with Lowell and Kankakee Valley. It's their eighth title in the last 12 years. Tippecanoe Valley captured its sixth Three Rivers Conference title in the last seven years. The Vikings can win the title outright if they beat second place Northfield after the sectionals. ALL- TEAM: South Central's Mary Goodwin was named most valuable player and led the list of players named to the All-Midwinter Classic Team.

Teammates Emalee Bailey and Kerri Goodwin were also named to the squad. Regan Holmgren STANDINGS NORTHERN Penn Elkhart Memorial Mishawaka Washington Adams Elkhart Central M.C. Elston LaSalle Clay Riley NORTHERN Knox New Prairie Triton and a pair of last one-point losses to Hartford and Michigan Lutheran. "It's disappointing because we're probably not going to win the Red Arrow title." Etter said. "Anything is possible.

of course, and the Red Arrow is very balanced this season, but with four losses it will be While Etter stresses that the Bisons' offense is very balanced, senior guard Mark Blumberg is obviously the main cog. Despite a mini-slump at mid-season, Blumberg is averaging 17.2 points a game, including 27 in a victory over Watervliet on Saturday. has always been a great shooter, but this season he's stepped up and become more of an all-around player," Etter noted. "The defenses 'are keying on him, but his game is much more aggressive this year. He's doing a better job of taking the ball to the Blumberg is joined in the Bisons' backcourt by senior Ted Neal.

who runs the offense and is also averaging 11 points a game. Darrell Brooks, Greg James, Craig Reitz and George Krueger have all played key roles for the New Buffalo offense. "We're feeling good about things and I believe we'll have a good second half," Etter said. "Beating Watervliet has everyone feeling good and ready to Part of the second half of the New Buffalo season includes a tough Class district at Galien. Included in the tournament are conference rivals Eau Claire, Lake Michigan Catholic, Bridgman and the host Gaels.

in addition to Michigan Lutheran. "I know the Class district at St. Joseph is tough, BOYS BASKETBALL FIELD-GOAL SHOOTING Jim Scarbeary. Dave Pentelow, fgm Jaraan Cornell. Clay 85 Lee Nailon.

Clay 129 Mike Kershner. Plymouth 46 Theo Williams. MC Elston 98 Rod Gawthrop, Elkhart Central 34 LeShawn Nailon. Clay 34 Shannon Brown. North Judson 81 Delshawn Pickett.

Adams 84 John Horvath New Prairie 69 David Haverstick. Penn 100 Casey Cook. 48 Nick Wise Plymouth 45 Sherrell Walker. Adams 42 Jermal Thomas. M.C Elston 72 Nathan Eaton.

South Central 55 Kevin Dielman, Penn 56 Matt Taylor, Warsaw 44 Clint Howard. North Judson 39 Jason Ashley. M.C Elston 81 Vince Beasley, Wawasee 88 Micnael Lee. Clay 43 3-POINT FIELD GOALS 1gm Jim Dewaid. Marian 15 Michael Griffin.

Clay 13 Casey Cook, Goshen 14 Clint Beasley. Wawasee Monroe Yoder. Westview 16 Vince Beasley, Wawasee 13 Ryan Gould, Triton 15 Jon Eveningham. Goshen 25 Ryan Bales North Judson 16 Scott Ratalski. New Praine John Payne.

Oregon-Davis Senior By GIL CIPRIANO Tribune Sports Writer Clay seniors arrive on time. In four years as head hockey coach. Clay's Dave Gustafson has worked diligently in pulling together the talents of Corey Dukai, Tim Collins, Matt Proctor, Ryan Gleaton, Brad Loughman and Jeff Haradine. Gustafson's time, effort and patience paid off on Saturday as seniors Dukai. Proctor.

Collins and Haradine combined for four goals and two assists to defeat St. Joseph, 4-2, and win the Michiana High School Hockey League title. The Indians and Colonials tied 2- 2 in a earlier league meeting. In unseating defending champion Riley, Gustafson's Colonials (9-0-2) ended the south siders' three-year stranglehold on the title. Gustafson also got family help from brother Doug, a sophomore, who contributed an assist.

"We're playing more as a team, not as coach Gustafson said. "The team has SPORTS South Bend Tribune a Tuesday, February 1, 1994 0 C3 AREA INDIANA Conf. All 9-0 16-2 8-1 13-5 7-2 15-3 5-4 10-8 5-4 7-10 4-5 5-11 3-6 5-13 2-7 6-10 1-8 4-13 1-8 2-15 STATE Conf. All 5-2 15-3 5-2 15-3 5-2 11-7 but I can't the one we quality games FIGHT a pat on the wrestling match, While the Zech Hoyt and things could But quick rector Joe helped break In addition, Dowagiac's Bob scene and back When the game (in any are right on caused a bad But it could TOUGH scheduling haps no team Coach Don first in the Red But coming ing two very Next week, nesday and Eau Claire for game back. Later in the beaten Centreville So who is the made this Why, Don 26 63.

41 3 14 34 41 2 Shawn Traub. Bremen 13 32 40 6 fga pct Matt Welsh, Penn 31 77 40.3 129 65 9 Chad Hudnall. Clay 29 72 40 3 196 65 8 Corey Reed. Bremen 44 110 40.0 70 65 7 Nate Kulakowski. Marian 10 25 40 0 149 65 8 Joe Maesch.

New Praine A 8 20 40.0 56 60 7 Ryan Watson. Mishawaka 27 68 39 7 56 60 7 Brent Wunder, Culver Military 37 94 39.4 134 60 4 Michael Lee. Clay 9 23 39 140 60 0. David Kieft. Mishawaka 26 68 38 2 116 595 DeMarco Taylor.

Elkhart Central 54 147 36.7 172 58.1 Mitch Henderson; Culver Military 22 61 36 1 83 57.8 Eric Hostetler, Westview 22 61 36 78 577 Joey Eskridge. Knox 25 36 0 73 57 5 Josh Sheets, Goshen DO 25 36.0 126 57 2 Kirk Phillips. New Prairie 25 36 0 98 56 1 Brandon Crittendon Knox 23 65 35.4 100 56 0 Matt Love. Penn 9 26 34 8 79 56.0 0 Kodell Jackson, Washington 17 51 33. 3 70 55 7 Ryan Monesmith, Triton 30 90 33.3 146 55 5 Michael Vessely, North Judson 19 58 32.8 159 55.3 Deabilo Proctor, LaSalle 18 55 32 7 79 54 4 Shawn Lee.

Washington 28 86 32 6 Michael Edison. Plymouth 32 99 32.3 Kevin Ault. Warsaw 31 96 32 0 Mike Sniadecki, Marian 27 85 317 Michael Delp. Plymouth 37. 120 30.8 Rusty Yoder.

Westview 25 82 30.5 fga pct 28 53.5 25 52.0 FREE THROW SHOOTING 28 50.0 23 47 8 ftm fta 21 42.9 Michael Delp, Plymouth 40 37 43 2 Justin Ward. Wawasee 29 34 36 41.7 Josh Sheets, Goshen 39 47 28 46 4 Ryan Watson, Mishawaka 75 85 57 34 34 43 44 47 1 9 0 Jim Brad Reggie Dewald. Beckman. Edwards. Marian Penn Elston 36 23 20 42 23 25 8838988, leaders key H.S HOCKEY NOTEBOOK more confidence and the seniors have given us strong After the title clincher against St.

Joe. Gustafson said. "That was our best league game this season. "St. Joe dominated the game in the first period: But when we started to get movement (as a team) in the second period, we took the lead (3-2).

"John (goalie John Nowicki) also executed for us. His effort made a big difference for us tonight," Gustafson said. What does winning the title do for the Colonials? "It gives the team more confidence," said Gustafson. "But we still. have a long way to go.

It (league title) is only one of our season's goals. "Our second goal is the (league) playoffs (starting Saturday)." First, Clay must complete its league schedule against Riley at 9:30 p.m. Friday at the Ice Box. The (LaCrosse) and Ailey Lowry (Westville) were also named to the team. South Central rolled past Westville, 69-25, in the championship game of the Tournament last Tuesday.

OTHER NOTES: With its win over Northridge last Friday, Plymouth clinched its first winning season since the 1978-79 season. 13-4 15-3 It's grims games Plymouth mark Northern An when games, their weather. The 2 p.m., game Glenn LaCrosse, 44-33. "I the said a more Etter said. win the A for their er, basketball that broke Niles been by Niles and the fight Vikings' Follett got the bench and the edge.

On been The for a been hit Beavers Arrow. this month weeks. Beavers on in the they'll back-to-back. Claire of course. Brady Bird.

David Artley. Michael Edison Corey Reed. Vince Beasley Monroe Yoder, Chris McGowen. Matt Welsh. Chris Rennaker.

David Haverstick. Hostetler, Joey Eskridge. Andy Stoner. Rusty Yoder, Mitch Henderson. ASSISTS Ryan Bales.

North Michael Lee. Welsh Penn Corey Reed. Marvin Harvell. Kulakowski. Larson, Monroe Yoder.

Sheets. Casey Pfeiffer. Jason Ashley. Michael Edison, Brandon Crittendon. Charles Bonds.

Jeremy Bules. Watson. Lighthall. Brammer, Michael Vessely. Welsh, South for teams tied SITE league last Riley forward MHSHL 100 Berkshire in game average Berkshire the New League.

In a recent the ice dressed players severe played a also the first time the Pilhave won more than nine since the 1976-77 campaign. finished the year with a of 10-8 overall and 3-3 in the Lakes Conference oddity occurred last Saturday Glenn had to play two homes which were cancelled in previous dates because of the in a six-hour. period. Falcons played LaCrosse at and followed that with a against St. Joseph's at 8 won both games, 48-28, and St.

Joseph's, thought we played better evening than in the afternoon," Falcons coach Scott Hostetler. Jimtown 4-2 13-3 Bremen 4-3 15-4 LaVille 2-5 9-9 Culver 1-5 10-8 Glenn 1-6 7-10 NORTHERN LAKES. All Warsaw 5-1 15-3 North Wood 5-1 13-4 Wawasee 4-2 13-5 Plymouth 3-3 10-8 Goshen 2-4 9-9 Concord 2-4 8-10 Northridge 0-6 4-14 competitive district than "It will take two or three title." number of people deserve work at the Niles-Dowagiac game last Tuesday. out involving Dowagiac's High student wasn't pretty, much worse. officials, led by athletic superintendent John Huffman.

quickly. coach Bud Magrane and their players away from the in a hurry. Vikings get together for emotions of players and fans Tuesday, some bad blood much worse. winter weather has caused number of teams, but perharder than Eau Claire. are 7-1 and are tied for are eight games, includ- will face Hartford on WedFriday.

Hartford is tied with RAC, while the Bees are face 9-1 Coloma and unathletic director that has Culver Military 29 35 82 9 Elkhart Central 24 29 82 8 Plymouth 58 82 8 Bremen 91 81.3 Wawasee 52 80 8 Westview 29 36 80 6 North Judson 16 20 80 0 Penn 62 78 795 Warsaw 31 39 79.5 Penn 77 97 79 4 Westview 78 78 2 Kngx 32 41 78.0 Adams 21 27 77.8 Westview 104 134 77.6 Culver Military 50 65 76.9 ta ave Judson 129 8.6 Clay 95 6.8 82 63 Bremen 60 Elston 55 Manan 5.5 Elkhart Central 4.9 Westview 4.7 Goshen 4.7 Warsaw 4.5 MC. Elston 4.5 Plymouth 4.5 Knox 4.4 Clay 39 Triton 53 38 Mishawaka 52 37 Adams 13 47 36 Oregon-Davis 16 58 3.6 North Judson 15 53 3.5 Central 14 49 35 Clay 6-6 in their first meeting. SWITCH: The Riley-St. Joe contest originally scheduled Friday has been moved to Wednesday. UPDATE: Former Jeremy Freid, the top scorer with more goals, is currently leading Prep School of Sheffield.

scoring with a goal a after 11 games. is a Division I school England Prep School prep game, Freid was continously as Berkshire only 10 players. Four reportedly were recovering frostbite after the team game in an outdoor rink. 219-277-6944 Jeff Roberta 50792 U.S. 31 N.

SOUTH BEND, IN 46637 Tribune RYBACK Irish defensive tackle Bryant Young displays N.D.'s "National championship" trophy awarded by the ACFF. From left to right, are co-captain Tim Ruddy, Irish coach Lou Holtz, ACFF president Don Harris and co-captain Aaron Taylor. Irish finally take home title imagine have," to AFTERMATH: back fight a have work Austin up to Chieftains sport), the scene. have MONTH: problems has Flagg's up tough the Bridgman first month, Eau schedule? Flagg Eric Matt Nate Ben Josh Ryan Brian Don Rick for 6:30 1993 than in on from The "official voice" of college football fans has awarded the University of Notre Dame the national championship. Association of College Football Fans president Don Harris presented Irish football coach Lou Holtz and captains Tim Ruddy, Aaron Taylor and Bryant Young with the ACFF's "National Championship" at halftime of the N.D.

basketball game with Cal State Northridge on Monday. "We feel the national championship should be decided on the football field," Harris said. "It was decided on Nov. 13 when Notre Dame defeated Florida State." The ACFF "the only national poll that gives the fans a voice" represents over 300 fans from across the country. Each Sunday during the season, ACFF members call its 800 number, give their official ID number and vote for their Top 20 Division I teams.

The weekly poll is sent out over the AP and is featured on College Football today, a syndicated television show in Los Angeles. Notre Dame received 114 first-place votes to FSU's 92. Auburn, the only undefeated team in the country, received 98 first place votes but only enough total votes to finish third in this year's poll. The sports writers (Associated Press) and coaches (USA both voted Florida State No. 1 following the Seminoles' victory over Nebraska in the Orange Bowl.

Irish still hunting for kicker Where will the next kicker for Notre Dame's football team come from? At this point, nobody's quite sure. It could be Brandon, Miss. Kevin Laird, who missed most of his senior year at Brandon High School because of an injury, is considering coming to Notre Dame this weekend for a visit. The problem is Laird, a punter and a placekicker, has already verbally committed to Clemson. Once kickers Adam Abrams and Dax Langley chose Southern Cal and Georgia, respectively, over the weekend, the Irish were out of luck in terms of kicking recruits.

That's when Laird got the call. This is a similar scenario to last year when Scott Bentley chose Florida State over Notre Dame close to signing date and the Irish had to scramble for a punter. They turned to Brian Ford of Indianapolis for help. However, Ford had already verbally committed to Vanderbilt. Ford eventually came to Notre Dame.

A pulled leg muscle kept Laird on the sidelines for all but three games of his senior season. The right-footed kicker was originally a soccer player. He averaged 40 yards a punt as a junior. His long field goal was 44 yards that season. Most of his attention came from his performance at the Dick Pierce Kicking School, which attracts the best prep kickers in the country.

Brandon is the same high school current Irish offensive lineman Will Lyell attended. Defensive tackle Travis Stroud, one of the most sought-after players of this recruiting season, will wait until 1:30 p.m. Wednesday national signing day to announce his choice of a college. Notre Dame is a strong contender, but Stroud visited Florida State this past weekend. DREW HONORED: Toledo's Archie Fuller was joined by Monica Niemann of Miami of Ohio and Toledo's Dana Drew as players of the week in the Mid-American Conference.

Drew, a junior from Valparaiso, scored 35 points and had 11 rebounds and 11 assists in two wins last week. Against Ohio she had 23 points and was 10 of 10 at the free-throw line. Fuller, a senior from Anderson, SKI I TUNE-UP SPECIAL $2.5,00 $10 ADDITIONAL FOR BINDING TEST FAST TURN AROUND 259 1000 sports 3502 N. GRAPE MISH. IN BRIEFS scored 38 points including the game-winning 3-pointer in the final second against Ohio University in two games last week.

He also had 16 rebounds, eight assists and four steals in the two games. He had 24 points and 11 rebounds in the 78-77 victory over Ohio. Niemann, a junior from Cincinnati, scored 30 points and had 23 rebounds, 10 steals and seven assists in two victories last week. She tied career highs with seven steals and five assists in one game, then led her team with 18 points and 12 rebounds in another. NEELY HONORED: Former Night Majors league.

BASKETBALL POLL: Talk about gridlock. For the third straight week, the top five teams in The Associated Penn High School star Scott Neely was named Big South basketball player of the week after a 35-point performance against Coastal Caro-, lina. During that contest, the 6-foot-3 guard tied the Big South Conference mark for three-point field goals in a game (11) and set four school NCAA division I records. For the week, Neely averaged 21.7 points and 3.7 rebounds per game while shooting over 47 percent from the field. 'He also averaged 5 made three point field goals per game, shooting over 48 percent from that range.

Neely ranks six amongst Big South scorers with 17.8 points per game, second in three- point field goal accuracy at 49.5 percent, and eighth in overall field goal percentage at 49.1 percent. Neely was awarded the Long Distance Award for December and was the nation's leader in three point field goal accuracy through January 3. I BOWLING: Dick Morrison of Galien, Michigan scored a 737 series, that included a middle game of 300. His other games were 237 and 200. Morrison is of Petersen Graphics at South Bend Turners Monday Press poll were identical to those of the week before, and a meager 14 rating points separated top-ranked Indianapolis Ben Davis and No.

2 New Albany. Ben Davis, the state high school boys' tourney runner-up last year and never lower than fourth in any poll this season, remained No. 1 for the fourth straight week after stretching its state-best winning streak to 16 games. New Albany, which handed defending state champion Jeffersonville its only loss of the season, remained No. 2 for the third straight week after falling out of a firstplace tie with Ben Davis.

Valparaiso, another unbeaten, was voted third for the eighth week in a row. Jeffersonville remained fourth for the fourth straight week. While the leaders were unchanged, there was a new team voted to the No. 19 spot on Monday in the weekly AP poll. Once-beaten Indianapolis Washington joined the Top 20.

Thut, Stutzman lead Bethany Christian GOSHEN Amy Thut and Heather Stutzman each scored 17 points in leading Bethany Christian to a 56-40 victory Monday over GIRLS BASKETBALL Westview. Thut had 10 rebounds while Stutzman and Lisa Koop had seven rebounds apiece. Bethany Christian shot 44 percent from the floor, compared to Westview's 22 percent. Anika Egli led Westview with 23 points. WESTVIEW (40): Teresa Gingerich 0 2-2 2, Amy Lambright 1 0-0 2.

Amy Fennel 0-0 5, Becky Spring 2 0-3 4. Rhonda Mehrley 1 0-0 2. Anika Egli 7 6-6 23. Jenny Vardomon 1 0-0 2, Flowers 0.0-0 0. Totals 10 8-11 40 BETHANY CHRISTIAN (56): Amy Thut 8 1-2 17, Kristin Stiffney 2 0-0 4.

Kris Riegsecker 0 0-1 0. Julie Landis 0 0-0 0. Lisa Koop 2 1-2 5. Joanne Friesen 4 2-4 11, Jill Landis 1 0-0 2. Heather Stutzman 7 2-2 17, Jennifer Mortrud 0 0-0 0.

Totals 24 6-11 56 Westview 10 16 26 40 Bethany Christian 15 30 42 56 3-point goals: Westview 2 (Friesen, Stutzman), Bethany Christian 4 (Egli 3. Fennel). Total fouls (fouled out): Westview 10 (none), Bethany Christian 10 (none) J.V. score: Bethany Christian 27. Westview 17.

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