Thursday Thursday, Feb. 14, 1991 Sports Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune 19 Local State National International Leaders listed Here are the Kokomo Tribune- area boys high school basketball statistical leaders through games of Feb. 13: Scoring Mike Myers, Tipton, 121 field goals, 73 free throws, 358 points in 18 games, 19.9 points per game. Three-point shooting (minimum 11 goals) John Grume, Tipton, 15 of 28,53.6 percent. Rebounding Doug Winters, Lewis Cass, 193 rebounds in 18 games, 10.7 average.
Free throws (minimum 137 total points) Ed Lopez, Lewis Cass, 49 of 61,80.3 percent. For listings of all the Tribune- area leaders, please turn to the sports Scoreboard on Page 20. Sectional report Attendance and money allotments from the 1991 IHSAA Northwestern Girls Basketball Sectional show almost no change from the 1990 tournament. Each of the five participating high schools received $842 and attendance for all sessions was 2,061. Those figures are only slightly different than the $841 each school received and the 2,070 who attended the 1990 sessions.
This year's ticket receipts show 30 season tickets were sold. Single-session tickets purchased were 256 for the first session, 742 for the second and 973 for the third. Here are the other most recent attendance and money allotment figures from girls sectionals: 1989 Attendance: $576 to each school. 1988 Attendance: $456 to each school. KAT sparkles Several Kokomo Aquatics Team members have qualified for semistate competition.
KAT hosted the Last Chance Invitational last weekend at the Kokomo High School, south campus, pool. It was the last home meet of the winter season, and 277 swimmers participated. Those who qualified for the semistate, to be conducted in Mishawaka Feb. 22-24, are Molly Schmidt, Ashley Beck, Andrea Clifford, Lindsay Reed, Raina Davidson, Allison Overdeck, Breanne Ward, Meredith Neidlinger, Shannon Perkins, Bonnie Phillips, Tatum Ward, Heather Neidlinger, Rachel Martin, Carissa Croll, Tyson Damitz, Craig Hopper, Graham Roe, Joel Hunt, Toby Phillips, Chuck Flasche, Brady Davis, Andy Hopper, Tom Overdeck and Kevin Henry. For complete KAT results from the Last Chance Invitational, please turn to the sports Scoreboard on Page 20.
again MADRID, Spain Leroy Burrell firmly believes that if at first it doesn't count, set the record again. Burrell ran a world record 6.40 seconds in a 60-meter race at Wednesday's indoor meet in Madrid, but the judges ruled he left the starting blocks too soon. After the judges announced their decision, Burrell shouted: 'Mt's run again Usually, there is a 45-minute wait to re-run a race. The judges heeded his request, however, and (he race was repeated 10 minutes -Burrell was a bit slower 6.48 seconds. Neverthel it was good enough to beat the previous world record of 6.50, set by fellow American Lee McRae at Indianapolis on 1987.
is the great moment for me, "Burrell said. Kemper wins MUNCIE, Ind. Ball State University senior Tim Kemper was one of four field-event winners for the Cardinals' men's indoor track and field team in a recent meet with Miami University here. Kemper, a former Kokomo High School standout, won the triple jump with a leap of 44 feet, 6Va inches The Cardinals participate in the Indiana Intercollegiate in Bloomington this weekend. Sycamores triumph TERRE HAUTE, Ind.
(AP) Indiana State got nearly half its points on free throws, including a school record 12-for-12 by Eddie Bird, in a 64-60 college basketball victory over Southern Illinois Wednesday night. Bird, who was only 1-for-ll from the field, reset his school record for free throws in a game by one as the Sycamores (11-13, 6-7 in the Missouri Valley Conference) defeated the Salukis for the first time in 11 meetings. Believe it! Pacers beat Pistons By Harry Atkins AP sportswriter AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) There was a time when Michael Williams thought his basketball world was at an end. Now that world seems to be at his feet.
Williams, who got a look at pro basketball's underbelly after earning an NBA championship ring two years ago with Detroit, scored 21 points to lead the Indiana Pacers to a 105-101 win over the Pistons on Wednesday night. It helped him chase away a lot of shadows. "The worst time was right after Detroit traded me to Phoenix and they sent me to Dallas, where I sat for three weeks. Didn't even learn an out-of-bounds play," Williams recalled. "That was like driving your car down the road, knowing you were going to drop off the end." He was playing in the CBA at Rapid City, S.D., when the Charlotte Hornets rescued him and brought him back to the NBA.
It appears Williams has found a home in Indiana. "After playing with five teams and a stint in the CBA, sometimes that wakes you up," Detroit coach Chuck Daly said. "He did a damn good job. He played very well." Try perfect. Williams never missed a shot, going 8-for-8 from the floor and 5- for-5 from the free throw line.
"I love him as a player," Pacers coach Bob Hill said. "I can't say enough about what he has brought to our team. He makes everyone else a better player. He's just going to get better and Joe Dumars scored 19 of his 28 points in the second hall for Detroit and Dennis Rodman had a career-high 24 rebounds for the Pistons. The Pistons, who were defeated 95-93 by Chicago before the Ail- Star break, never had lost two consecutive games in their three seasons at The Palace.
Detroit is 6-3 since losing Isiah Thomas to wrist surgery and has lost three of its last four games. Just to show the Pistons what a big mistake they made by giving up on him, Williams tore up Detroit rookie Lance Blanks, who finished with two fouls, two turnovers and zero points in six minutes of play. "I said I'd give Blanks a pretty good look," Daly said. "But as you could see, I couldn't keep him in there." But Blanks was only the most visible symbol for what's ailing the Pistons these days. Detroit won consecutive NBA championships because they had a better bench than anyone else.
Without Thomas, that bench has been stretched beyond its limits. The Pacers' bench outscored the Pistons' reserves 43-11. "The guys off the bench were no help," Daly said. "They played poorly right down the line." With Williams scoring 11 points and LaSalle Thompson 10, the Pacers led the Pistons by as many as 21 points in the first half. Detroit got the deficit down to two points with 1:11 remaining.
But Williams scored three of the Pacers final five points on free throws in the last 36 seconds to seal the victory. "We said, "Wait a minute, this INDIANA (105) Person s-13 12 11, Thompson 6 14 4-4 Droll- ing 230 0 4, Miller 4 It 22 10, M.WIIIInmS 8-8 5-5 21, Schrempf 5-11 46 14, Smlts 1-2 00 2, Sanders 511 0-0 10, Fleming 2-3 347, McCIOUd 34 3-4 10. Totals 41 8022-27105. DETROIT (101) Rodman 412 4-7 12, Edwards 8-15 3-5 19, Lalmbecr 8-15 00 17, Johnson 7 13 01 14, Dumars 9 26 8-8 28, Salley 0-4 07 0, Aguirrc 38 34 9, Blanks 00 00 0, Bedford 1-1 00 2, Long 00 00 0. Totals 40 94 18 27 101.
Indiana 32 31 Detroit 70 23 37 3-Polnt 1-5 (McCloud 1-2, Person 0-3), Detroit 3-8 (Dumars 2-5, Laimbcer 1-J, Rodman 0-1). Fouled None. Rebounds- Indiana 49 (Thompson 8). Detroit 58 (Rodman 24). 23 (Schrempf, Miller 5), Detroit 21 (Johnson 9).
Total 27, Detroit 26. Schrempf. Flagrant is a totally different team without Indiana's Reggie Miller said. "It's not our fault. It's not our problem.
But Joe Dumars has to carry a much bigger load. "He's carrying too big of a load for them. He's doing it, but it's tough without Isiah." Practice-time for white team to shine They're called the White Team, and they are the most important players on Kokomo's third-ranked squad this week, according to Coach Mike McCroskey. No, the White Team isn't the starting five but the eight girls who provide the opposition during practice for the Every team in the state practices against its own players, but McCroskey feels Kokomo does it a little differently. By John Dempsey "During the season, we probably practice our first team and second team as units less than most schools in the state.
A lot of nights, I'll pick the teams so they're fairly equal. Other nights, we'll walk in and say, 'Shelly, Misty, you pick the McCroskey explained. "As we near the tournament each year, we then get down to the five or six players who are going to do the majority of the playing. "This year that is the Red Team the starters plus Debbie Benziger. The other eight are the White Team.
That team is very important to us. "We sat down with those kids and told them, 'Over the length of the tournament, you are the most important kids at practice every night. Because you are the kids who are going to make those six kids ready to carry the majority of That's not to say that these players don't get into the games. "Nicole Croddy is getting some decent playing time and Mindy Moore is too. So we're playing eight kids," said McCroskey who at the beginning of the tournament won his 100th game at Kokomo.
"Those two, plus Leslie Stinchcomb, Tina Stiner, Debbie Newberry, Mindy Dowden, Shannon Lovegrove and Stephanie Fischvogt, are in there every night, banging away at the Red Team, making Lhings tough for them and working hard. That has been really significant toward our success." While their role is to prepare the starters for the upcoming game, another is to be ready if they are called on to go into a game. "I'm sure everyone of them would prefer to have a different role. But, I think most of those kids have realistically looked at Although they don't start, Coach Mike McCroskey calls KHS girls basketball players, left to right, Nicole Croddy, Mindy Moore, Mindy Dowden and Lesley Stinchcomb, among the most important players on the team (Tribune photo by Jon Hamill) the situation," McCroskey said. "I feel they have handled the situation very well.
We've emphasized 'team' all year and I think they understand every win is a team win." Meanwhile this trip is proceeding much better than the Lady Wildkats' previous trip to the Fort Wayne Coliseum in 1985. For one thing, there hasn't been a blizzard this week. "What should have been such a special experience turned out to be a blah experience," McCroskey remembers. "Looking at it as a coach, I remember thinking, 'There are people who have been coaching 30 years and haven't done this. "But, then it snowed every day.
We didn't go to school a single day and there were two days we didn't even get to practice. The team never got any special attention or recognition." A problem caused by the im- mense amount of snow was that Kokomo was unable to get any videotapes of Wawasee, its opponent. Finally on Friday, state police opened the roads and McCroskey and his assistant Mary Madden headed for Columbia City. At 9 o'clock that night, they were able to show the team their opponent on film. The blizzard also caused the boys game with New Castle, which, should have been played on Fri-day night, to be moved to Saturday afternoon.
"We had an OK crowd up there, but people were split because we played at 11 a.m. and the boys played at 2 or 3 (p.m.)," McCroskey said. "It's a little different this time around." (Dempsey is a Tribune sportswriter and may be reached in the newsroom.) Big Ten brass looks at scheduling Penn State PHILADELPHIA (AP) Athletic directors from the 11 Big Ten schools will meet this month to see how soon Penn State can be fit into the conference football schedule. A conference spokesman said Wednesday that when the athletic directors meet Feb. 26 they will be looking at schedules for 1993 through 1996 that would include Penn State.
These would be model schedules for the four-year period, he said, which could be sent back for revision. Penn State coach Joe Paterno said Tuesday he hoped Penn State would have a full Big Ten schedule for the 1993 season. The school needs to know so it can schedule its non-conference games, he said. The Nittany Lions were admitted to the conference last year. Schedules are made up several years in advance, which would, mean adjustments would be essary to accommodate PeniJ State by 1993.
"We have several directions to go, including playing highly visi; ble intersectional games," no said. "But we have a time! block. We need answers quickly if we're going to play them. We can decide our direction as soon as we; get the Big Ten information." Big Ten officials previously said Penn State would be fully tegrated into the conference foot, ball program by the mid-1990s buC hadn't been specific. Kats need win for 2nd place NCC finish By David A.
Kasey Tribune sportswriter In Kokomo's last three regular-season games, Coach Basil Mawbey wants to take one opponent at a time and his goal, as always, is to become the best possible team heading into the state tourney. "We can't worry about much more than our next opponent and the progression of our team Mawbey said. "Since the North Central game has been moved to Tuesday, we have a good tourney warm-up coming by playing three games in just a week's Friday night foe New Castle is 0-6 in the North Central Con ference and 9-9 overall and its down season can be traced back to guard play. The Trojans lost guards' Tim and Darrell Guffey to graduation. "Our young guards, Kyle Fox and Jason Holmes, are improving," New Castle coach Sam Alford said.
"We just haven't received the scoring from those positions and our three-point production is way down from last season." Fox is averaging eight points and Holmes 12. The Trojans' scoring load is carried by center Barry Huckleby. The 6-7 senior is averaging 23.3 points a game. New Castle's forwards are Brandon Riggs (13 ppg) and Brian The Trojans haven't really received much scoring from 'their bench. Their are averaging 64 of the team's 70 points nv game.
The first player off the bench is 6-7 freshman Gary England. Kokomo (13-4) stands at 4-2 in the conference. With the league race coming down to the Muncie Central at Marion game Friday, Mawbey said he would like to have his Kats beat New Castle and finish in a tie for second place. "New Castle has been an up- and-down team the whole season," Mawbey said. "They lost their two leaders in Haynes and Guffey but have still played everybody tough especially the NCC leaders.
They lost to Marion and Muncie Central by less than 10 points." A month ago, the Trojans upsel Carmel 74-65. Mawbey said it would have been really nice to turn the last minute the Warsaw game around. "If we could have defeated Warsaw, it would have given us great momentum heading toward the end of the season," Mawbey said. "Defeating two ranked teams in a successive weekends would have been great, but it just didn't happen. "The key now is to put some wins together and then switch our attention to winning the sectional," Mawbey said.
"We have a big week with the sectional draw- Sunday right between our games on Friday and Kokomo continues to offer good balance offensively. Mondo Fowler leads with a 12.7 scoring average, just ahead of Jason Watson (H.9) and Tim Rayl (10.6). Kevin averages 8.4 points and a team-high 5.1 assists and sophom*ore Donnie Bowling is adding 7.5 points per game. I Hall of Fame invites Kat fans NEW CASTLE, Ind. The Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame! which opened here last summer; will extend its hours Friday for.
Kokomo basketball fans in town see the Kats-Trojans game. Hall of Fame Executive tor Kon Newlin told the Tribune today the building wouli be open from 9-n p.m. The Hall of Fame property is- located adjacent to the high school! gymnasium. Admission is $2 for adults and for children 12-and-under..
