Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 11

Wednesday, September 9, 1992 Mattoon (111.) Journal Gazette B3 Green. Wave soccer blanks Blue Mound NEWMAN The Arthur-Lovington Knights had last Friday night off as a result of a forfeit win over Bethany. Because of a scheduling mix up by Newman, the Knights got to see their first action of the year Tuesday when they soundly defeated Newman 34-0 in a game that was supposed to be played Oct. 30. Matt England rushed for 145 yards on 18 carries and scored two touchdowns in his first game in the backfield.

Deric Artis also ran for a pair of scores and Josh Ryan hooked up with Tad Ingles for a 70-yard scoring pass. "We could have got the game played during the ninth week (its original date but it helps to have some game experience," Arthur coach Don McCarthy said. "We won't have as much time to pre- pare for Central but we have already scouted them and have seen their tapes." The Knights (2-0) now have only two days to prepare for their regularly scheduled game with Central on Friday. England, ho was a wide receiver for Arthur last year, also had a 60-yard scoring run called back on a penalty. "One of our goals was trWmie out and be physical and eckd that," McCarthy said.

Jake Dellaan converted on four of five extra point attempts to help the Arthur cause. Arthur 7 7 20 0 -34 Newman 0 0 0 0 0 A- Matt England 4 run (Jake Dellaan kick) A- England 1 run Dellaan kick A- Derek Artis 4 run (Kick blocked) A-Artis 18 run (DeHaan kick) A- Tad Ingles 70 pass from Josh Ryan (DeHaan kick) BLUE MOUND -Mattoon's Green Wave may have been outplayed in the first half, but came back strong in the second half to remained unbeaten ith a 1-0 soccer victory Tuesday. "They were big, physical and beat us up in the first half," Wave coach Tom Oakley said. "I was proud of the way that the team regrouped in the second half. They took control of the game offensively and defensively." After a scoreless first half, Mattoon dented the scoreboard six minutes into the second half when Joe Wyrwas put in a free kick from 40 yards out.

"Joe hit the ball high in the net to the opposite corner and over the goalies head. It was a nice shot," Oakley said of Wyrwas' goal. From there the Wave defense took over. Goalie Jeff Carter stopped all 16 Blue Mound shots on goal and picked up his second shut out of the year. "The defense was the key to the win," Oakley said.

"The guys were hustling to the ball and taking over the game. "Carter kept us in there during the first half and made some key plays in the second half." Mattoon (2-0-1) opens its Big 12 Conference slate Thursday when it hosts Champaign Central at 4:30 p.m. Categorical leaders: STPs: Joe Wyrwas 30. Steals: Kristian Ozsterhuber, Jason Morgan 2. Sampson 6-2.

6-1. DOUBLES: No. 1: Gaskin-Ward (Did. No. 2: Ehrlich-KurthiDld.

Cummins-Yamamoto 7-5, 6-7, 7-6. No. 3: Loren Larsen-Carrie Pontecore d. Nichols-Sampson 6-4, 6-3. Wildcats roll MATTOON Kevin Wilson went 4-for-5 and Josh Virostko had three hits and four runs batted in as Matton's junior high baseball team downed Effingham Central 18-13.

Curtis Burgfeld pitched 2Vi innings of relief to improve to 3-0 on the year. Adam Diepholz had two runs batted in and Ryan Peterson had two hits and a pair of runs batted in. Patrick Key also went 2-3 with two RBIs. Mattoon (7-2) plays at Rantoul today. Name AB Kirk.sa 5 3 1 McBride.p-cf 5 3 1 Diepholz, 3b-p-c 4 11 0 0 0 Burgfeld, p-3b 0 0 0 Virostko, dh 5 2 3 5 14 Peterson, If 3 12 2 0 0 Warren, lb 3 2 2 Allen, lb-p-rf 10 0.

Key.rf-lb 3 2 2 Wick.c 12 0 2 11 Totals 391817 Effingham 205 105 0 13-6-8 Mattoon 157 401 18-17-6 Mattoon pitching: McBride, Diepholz (3), Burgfeld (3), Kessler (6), Allen (6) and Wick, Diepholz (5). Defensive kicks: Wyrwas 57 Defensive heads: Wyrwas 14. Crosses: Shad Huddleston 11 Attempted shots on goal: Huddleston 2 Shots on goal: Morgan 2. Overall Points: Wyrwas 110, Huddleston 77, Morgan 69, Matt Gathmann 40, Robbie McFadden 33, Lexx Collier 30, Matt Mathews 23, John Kuhl 23, Todd Parker 13, Chad Rich 13, Paul Legg 12, Wade Bitting 1 1, Tun Grierson 1 1, David Crites 10, CamBumpus 10, KvleCrews 7, Josh Oakley 2. Lady golfers win BLOOMINGTON ErinShi-nafelt and Mattoon's girls' golf team haven't lost their groove.

Shinafelt was a meet medalist for the second time and the Lady Wave held off Springfield by two strokes Tuesday to win a triangular. Mattoon scored 202, followed by Springfield at 204 and Bloom-ington at 251. Shinafelt scored a 46. "She's beginning to come into it pretty good," Mattoon coach Craig Dixon said. "Right now, we're happy." Mattoon is now 2-0 as Sandy Lawson shot a 48, Holly Horn a 52, Meridith Kruse 56, Darcy Ghere 57 and Tara Bartels 60.

"It was all pretty Dixon said. They all contributed. "We had them grouped and they did well. They went to this tournament last year got demoralized." The difference, said Dixon, wasayear. "The course they play on is a very hilly course," Dixon said.

"Girls are not used to plaving on a iot of hills. "This year, experience has definitely paid. Mattoon plays today in a 10-team invitational at Olney. Tennis team falls DANVILLE Jody Sanders was the only Mattoon girl to claim victory Tuesday as the Green Wave fell to Danville 8-1. Sanders, who was the Wave's No.

1 last year, won at No. 2 singles over Julie Gaskin 6-1, 6-2. "She played a nice match and is working her way back up after shoulder problems," Matton coach Dwight Perry said. The Wave gave Danville a test in doubles. Sanders and Sarah Ramage took Gaskin and Mee-gan Ward to three sets before losing at No.

1. Robin Cummins and Ursula Yamamoto did the same thing at No. 2. "In doubles play we were pretty competitive, but they just have a nice team," Perry said. The Lady Wave 1-1) host the Mattoon Invitational on Saturday.

RESULTS: SINGLES: No. 1: Kathy George (D) d. Sarah Ramage No. 2: Jody Sanders (M) d. Julie Gaskin No.

3: Marisa Ehrlich (D) d. Robin Cummins 6-2, 6-4. No. 4: Meegan Ward (D) d. Ursula Yamamoto 6-4, 6-0.

No. 5: Amanda Kurth (D) d. Kandy Nichols 6-0, 6-2. No. 6: Shoba Rajamannar (D) d.

Kyla KenneU.lb Ippolito.ph Riley, If Montgomery, rf Foreman, 3b Totals 3 0 10 10 0 0 5 10 0 5 2 3 3 4 0 2 1 4 0 0 0 39 611 5 2B: Bryant, Foreman. HR: Montgomery John A. Logan 000 02 1 200 5-8-5 Lake Land 030 010 011 6-11-2 Andrew, Lowe (7), Kelch (7) and Bryant. Williams, Nehouse(9)and Eaton. W-Kelch, L-Williams Lancers recover 10 move xo p-j 9 Lakers Continued from Bl Laker Field against Olney Central.

Aaron Sinner draws the Lake Land AB RHBI Harper, ss 4 0 0 0 Potterff.ph 10 0 0 Gadladge.cf 4 0 2 0 Mette.cf 0 10 0 Isley.dh 5 0 10 Bryant, 3 0 2 1 Diepholz, dr 0 10 0 Clark, dr 0 10 0 Ryan Cox ran his record to 3-0. The Comets are also 3-0. "I'm just tickled to death," Wascher said. Windsor plays Friday at St. Elmo, while Stew-Stras plays Friday at Beecher City.

Stew-Stras 007 204 13-11-1 Windsor 000 102 3-2-5 Pitching: S-S: Cox W), Figgins (6) and Figgins, Cox (6). Eident (L), Sims (4) and Kuntzman. 2B: Figgins, Cox, Spannagel, Price, Carroll, Giertz and Hilligos. 3B: Sims. the Mattoon well," Neoga Neoga 7-15, Neoga next Tuesday.

Lady BEECHER slow and three-set After game, game 16-14. "The the first," "But in the gas." Shannon and two added points and kills. Windsor MILWAUKEE (AP) One hit away from 3,000 and Robin Yount, never one to seek personal achievements, made a startling admission Tuesday night. He's having a good time. "The on-the-field part it is great," Yount said after first-inning single off Cleveland's Jack Armstrong pulled him to 2,999 as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Indians 7-3.

"It's a lot more exciting than I had envisioned. I said all along that it was not any big deal, it's not what you play for," Yount said. "But it's turned into being that the excitement level is turned up a notch or two just trying to get a single hit, which I didn't think all along would happen." Yount was blanked in his final four plate appearances. He flied out in the second, grounded back to Armstrong in the fourth, flied out off Ted Power in the sixth and drew an unpopular walk from Eric Plunk in the eighth. So a spirited crowd of 39,650 fans, many of whom were popping flashbulbs ever time Yount approached the plate, had to go home without the full piece of history.

When Plunk's 3-2 pitch was high, the crowd booed loudly and then began to head quickly for the exits, and Yount's teammates, who had been perched on the top step of the dugout, went back to the bench. Some fans headed quickly to ticket lines outside the stadium that were forming for Wednesday's game. Others threw baseballs and debris onto the field. tournament and put it together coach Lori Beals said. also won the junior varsity match 15-5, 15-5 over Altamont.

travels to Stewardson-Strasburg Devils lose CITY Windsor started off finished out of gas as it dropped a match to Beecher City Tuesday. a 15-2 whipping in the opening Windsor (2-4 came back to win the second 15-11 before losing the third set second game was much better than Windsor coach Karyn Cole said. third game I don't know what happened. They battled back again, but ran out of Sapp had 10 points, four blocks aces for Windsor. Brigit Bennett seven points, Kim Hancock had six Sarah Heintz put home a pair of hosts Altamont on Thursday.

and Joy yoder had an ace, seven attacks and a Kyra Yeakel had three kills and Christina Seaman had nine points, an ace and two sets. Arthur, 2-0 in the Little Okaw Valley, has another league game Thursday at Areola. "All conference games are big ones," Corn-well said. "You can't take any opponent lightly," Arthur's junior varsity team won 15-4, 15-13. Neogawins NEOGA Stacy Stukamp had six kills, an ace and a block in helping Neoga defeat Alta-mont in straight sets Tuesday.

The Indians, who evened their record at 4-4 and are 1-0 in the National Trail Conference, won 15-10, 15-10. Contributing in the win were Shari Swank with three aces and a kill, Megan Carpenter with two aces and a kill, Mindy Kravel with four kills and two aces, Chastity Alexander with an ace, Julie Walk with five kills and an ace and Gina Walk with an ace. "We were coming off some shaky games at ATWOOD Valerie Cornwell nipped overconfidence in the bud Tuesday. Her Arthur volleyball team, fresh off the Windsor Tournament title Saturday, was down 7-0 to Atwood-Hammond before Corn-well called a time out. The Lancers went on to reel off the next 15 points en route to a 15-7, 15-4 victory.

"I just called a timeout and said they had to get their passes down," Cornwell said. "I think they expected to win and thought that's just how it's going to be. You just can't expect that win. You have to earn that. I think they were still riding on that trophy." Arthur went 3-1 in the weekend tournament, losing to Windsor.

The Lancers are now 6-1. The only complaint I have is that we don't take the floor ready to go," Cornwell said. "Against Windsor, we just played horribly. We weren't the same team at all." Tuesday, Leah Brock had seven points, seven attacks and three kills, Carol Jess had five points and a kill, Michelle Drake had eight points, two aces, an attack and nine sets Stew-Stras powers past Sports Menu TODAY 3 p.m.-MHS girls' golf team at Olney 4 p.m.-MJHS baseball team at Rantoul 6 p.m.- LLC volleyball team at Kaskaskia THURSDAY Nielsen Continued from Bl 117 yards on 10 carries. That beats his last year's average of 5.9 yards per carry that set a Marshall record for backs with more than 100 yards in a season.

Yes, I'm already pining for the chance to use the headline "Panthers bury the Hatchett." Junior fullback Glenn Pedro added 84 yards on 12 carries for a Marshall offense that totaled 453 yards. Pay ton, a 6-foot-1, 220-pound senior, was 11 of 24 for 163 yards with no interceptions and two touchdown passes against Morehead State. Last year he set an NCAA I-AA passing flffipiencv record of 181.32 0 when he completed 64.2 percent of his passes for 3,392 yards and 26 touchdowns. Morehead State, while being limited to 158 yards rushing and none passing in three attempts Saturday, is actually gaining ground on the Thundering Herd, which won last year's game 70-11. Todd Donnan, the son of Marshall's head coach, is Pay-ton's backup and is considered the quarterback of the future.

He, of artaA ujr aamaa lnyt VPJirwhpn Payton was sidelined by illness. Before coming to Marshall in 1990, Jim Donnan was the Cffen-sive coordinator for Oklahoma's 1985 national championship team during a 1985-89 stint. At Marshall, you see the pro set, not a wishbone. Brothers Dave and Willy Merrick share Marshall's place- Jdcking duties, Both kicked extra points in the football game, and both are also members of the school's soccer team. Willy played in Marshall's 3-1 soccer loss to American in Washington, D.C., Saturday afternoon and then was flown back to the football game for that night.

Marshall University Stadium, the site of this year's NCAA I-AA championship game, had 33,116 fans at its inaugural game last season against Bowling Windsor Neoga downed EFFINGHAM Neoga's baseball team came up short against Effingham St. Anthony Tuesday. St. Anthony defeated the Indians 11-1. Brad Short and Tad Mayhall each singled to account for Neoga's two hits.

Now 1-2, Neoga travels to Findlay today. Neoga 010 000 1-2-5 St.Anthony 212 105 11-11-0 Coy and Becker; Breeding, Koeing (6) and Flach 2:30 p.m.- LLC baseball team hosts Olney Central 4 p.m.-MHS freshman football team hosts Urbana 4 p.m.-MJHS baseball team at Oblong 4:30 p.m.-MHS soccer team hosts Champaign Central MTHRIFTY DUCKS TOTAL Mattoon Store CINDY HOOD $750 Tuesday following the drawing; Green. Last season Eastern's O'Brien Stadium's five-game attendance total was 3 1 ,600. Before losing to Youngstown State 25-17 in last year's NCAA I-AA championship game at Statesboro, Marshall beat two Gateway Conference teams in the playoffs Western Illinois 20-17 in overtime and Northern Iowa 4 1-13. During the regular season, the Thundering Herd had a 14-3 fourth-quarter lead over I-AA's ninth-ranked North Carolina State.

But the Wolfpack scored a touchdown with 100 remaining, recovered an onside kick and scored a TD with '24 seconds left to beat Marshall 15-14. Why the Thundering Herd? Thought you would never ask. Reading from Marshall's foot-ball media guide, "Thundering Herd is American folklore, as old as the buffalo which once roamed the western plains of this country, as well as the Appalachian area including the hills of what is now West Virginia. The Thunder- ing Herd provided nearly every substance needed for human survival food, clothing tools and weapons. "The Thundering Herd also provided Marshall with its nickname beginning in 1919.

In the early 1920s, the late Duke Ridgely, former sports editor and columnist of the Herald Dispatch, took the name from the title out of one of Zane Gray's Old West novels. "In 1958, the school's student body voted for the nickname Big -Green, but Thundering Herd refused to disappear. In the fall of 1964, Marshall President Dr. Stewart Smith appointed a faculty-student committee to suggest a more permanent nickname which denoted more action. On Jan.

5, 1964, the Thundering Herd became the official nickname of Marshall's intercollegiate teams." I'd comment, but I wouldn't want to put my hoof in my mouth. also doubled and Fieldon Figgins had a double and an RBI. The Comets also took advantage of five Windsor errors in the win. The five errors didn't help us any," said Windsor coach Jeff Miller, whose team fell to 1-4 overall and to 0-3 in the National Trail Conference. They jumped all over us in the third inning and tpok advantage of our errors." I Ieath Sims and Kevin Hilligos were the only two Windsor batters to reach on hits as sophomore 12th in 16:52.

Robinson's boys' team scored 17 points, topping Cumberland with 41 and Hutsonville with 72. Robinson's Chad Rice was the overall winner, completing the three-mile course in 17:05. Cumberland's Duane Hud-dlestun was fourth in 18:02, Je-remyJPeters was seventh in 18:23, Jeff Donsbach was ninth in 19:59, Laszlo Varju was 10th in 20:03 and Matt Freeman was 11th in 20:34. "The boys did real well packing it up in the middle," Miller said. "Robinson was a state qualifying team last year.

We were just hopping toijeaiHutQnyille.l, Cumberland's girls are now 3-0 and the boys are.2-1. The teams run Thursday at Cowden-Her-rick. Wheeler used an 8-iron to hit the ace. Witnessing Wheeler's shot were Dick Wilback, Bill Alwerdt and Ray Schaljo. WINDSOR A seven-run third inning helped Stewardson-Strasburg to a 13-3 win over Windsor on Tuesday.

"I am amazed we scored that inexperienced and you never know what's goingto take place." Jason Spannagel, Jim Carroll and Matt Giertz each collected two hits a piece for the Comets, who banged out 1 1 hits against Windsor pitching. Barrett Price HUTSONVILLE Cumberland's girls' cross country team capitalized on a Robinson injury in winning Tuesday. The Maroons were missing their top runner and the Lady Pirates' Mariellen and Cathy Stout finished 1-2 as Cumberland won 27-29. The meet was in double-dual format, but Hutsonville didn't field a full team. "It was a real close race all the way through," Cumberland coach JimMiller said.

"We were tickled to death that we beat Robinson. "Our third, fourth and fifth runners did a good job." Mariellen Stout won the two- mile race while Gathy Stout was second at 15:15. Kim Gentry was fourth overall in 16:13, Autumn Carrell was ninth in 16:36 and Shelly Nebel was SULLIVAN Brad Wheeler of Sullivan stroked a hole-in-one on the par three, 130 yard fourth hole at the Sullivan Country Club on Sunday. Ycub Fub.il Service ME TT. WALKER'S SUPER FOODS I MisiKRvgia NEXT DRAWING; Saturday JB it CARD PUNCHED? Super Saver-West: $150 Mattoon Store: $150 LAST WEEK'S WINNERS! Super Saver-West BEULAH BARKER $450 Prize must be claimed by 1 2 Noon,.